2┃build-planning

[orchid current]

Genuinely great time

[rare crypt]

I heard they're nerfing heavy stuns, is this true?

[strong apex]

means cold+lightning?

[orchid current]

Nope just cold skills

[silent prawn]

cold sorc is great I heard. use cast on freeze Comet and destroy all

[languid kestrel]

So I'm doing a physical crit blood mage. First ascendancy notable is cooking me though. Am I locked into bone shards until I get more points?

[orchid current]

Yeah even the cold snap type before deals big damage

[silent prawn]

stormweaver can choose between cold and Lightning

[strong apex]

nice,,,i will give it a try too,,

[orchid current]

And frost wall is doing big numbers to bosses

[mellow yoke]

Either way about nerfing SRS I gotta say warrior build did at least 10 times the dps of any other build so can’t really compare them tho I also suspect it’s busted

[orchid current]

Genuinely have no idea where the DPS is coming from

[strong apex]

where to go for skill tree for cold,,i didnt see any early on

[thin basin]

Youre locked into bonestorm for the rest of the game im sorry

[silent prawn]

early? probably straight up

[orchid current]

There's some cold damage right above the spell damage line from the start

And there's a big cluster at the very top middle of the tree

[silent prawn]

or unearth

[languid kestrel]

Wait what is there nothing else? No reap later on?

[still rock]

Does anyone know if trigger gems socketed with multiple skills go in order from left-right or simultaneously?

[silent prawn]

no reap yet

[orchid current]

It literally has +1 level to cold gems at the top it's absurd

[tulip tulip]

If you open the passive tree, on the right there is a search field, just type in cold, elemental or spell damage. It will highlight it on the tree where it is

[strong apex]

found it,,thanks,,,

[languid kestrel]

Bruh lowkey the only reason I went this class

[orchid current]

I have a +1 spell gems ammy and my skills are level 12 in act 3 start

[strong apex]

much better,, sry im newb,,not familiar with ui and things,,lot to absorb

[orchid current]

Straight crushing

There's a search function in the top right

[vital hornet]

One big thing I dislike about minions system is that incentivise you to use only one type of minions. You have limited spirit pool and it is too little to spread between several types.

[languid kestrel]

Ok can I see a list of all available skills somewhere? Including weapon skills

[static geode]

what would theortically result in more dps? The 20% physical rune or one of the three 10 flat elemental runes added to a weapon that is already tri ele?

[thin basin]

Yea… i thought exsang and reap was in the game but the bases arent findable on trade so i dont even know if they exist

[silent prawn]

we only have bone spells as physical spells currently

[silent prawn]

PoE2DB

[languid kestrel]

Ok ty

[mellow yoke]

laughs in cleric, arsonist, skeletal warrior and SRS

[agile mortar]

not sure where to put this exactly, but trying to use Cast on Ignite and it says "not enough spirit". It cost 60 to activate and i have 100 spirit anyone know whats up?

[still rock]

We don't really know how high the spirit can get though, as I mentioned above there's a decent amt of sources rn and the affixes I've seen were low tiers for like +40ish spirit on chest armor

[thin basin]

You can still respec into generic crit mage tho

Still pretty good

[silent prawn]

in the preview I believe they have like 500+

[north forge]

How viable is armor/evasion on witch? As there are barely any nodes in the top of the tree, only a lot of energy shield nodes

[still rock]

ilvl 78 chest armor affix goes to 57-61 spirit

[mellow yoke]

Can almost spawn superman with 500

[orchid current]

Unsocket resocket?

Also check if you have other persistent skills running

[silent prawn]

can you show the Allocation window?

Also maybe weapon set?

[vital hornet]

Can I use several gems of same type on different abilities?

[silent prawn]

not supports

only Gemling Legionaire can, twice at least

[thin basin]

Not very i dont think, the nodes are a bit too far down, i mean you can still get them but then half of you tree will be spent down there

[agile mortar]

remvoed quite a few sockets as i have noticed sockets can and will break some spirit spells / spells in gneral - cannot go in demon form if Vitality gem is equipped at alll

[agile mortar]

weapon set not problem wand + sceptre. Should work completely fine

[unborn flare]

Is this any good for lvl 55 ? shattering palm + herald of ice and freezing mark. (+ ofc default tempest flurry and bell) Act 2 Cruel boss
https://streamable.com/xwdkvh

[mellow yoke]

https://tenor.com/view/explode-explosion-boom-gif-10995699325056719109

[humble pumice]

what kind of support do you use for a witch in the beginning? what combos work?

[amber adder]

I could do build planning, if there were actual drops

The current drop system is pepega

[orchid current]

I hear minions are Giga weak early so probably just use spark fire wall

[amber adder]

Could you show me your skills, please? One is Ash of Thunder, but what is the other passive?

[grizzled thicket]

From what I understand, bleed and ignite couldn't stack in PoE1. Poison could though. Does anyone know if it's the same in PoE2?

[thin basin]

Chaos and chaos dot pretty good early for first act ive heard

[humble pumice]

using that yeah..got 5 support gems level 1 and havent used any 😄

[orchid current]

Man seeing monk clips makes me want to play monk, but I'm still not done my campaign on my sorc

[loud summit]

If I respec ascendency points do I have to run trials again?

[orchid current]

You shouldn't

[unborn flare]

like this ?

[grizzled thicket]

You can respec

[loud summit]

Most people going the spirit and phys reduction monk points first??

[amber adder]

YES! Thank you

[gusty cargo]

is anyone able to use Demon Form together with Arctic Armour buff? It turns itself off when i change shape. says i have not enough spirit. but it costs 30 and i have 100 spirit?

[unborn flare]

passives if you want

[orchid current]

Looks like most people gravitate towards tempest flurry as main damage, how is crowd clear?

[loud summit]

I think I want to do damage reduction then the elemental exposure and go tanky cast on crit monk.

[humble pumice]

what class is this..SORC?

[unborn flare]

my main dmg for bosses is bell and flurry BUT for packs shattering palm and herald of ice is ista kill all mobs, lik even all elite packs

[orchid current]

Neat

[unborn flare]

monk

[dusty kiln]

do stats effect dmg, or only requirements and give health and stuff?

[amber adder]

https://tenor.com/view/poe2-path-hof-exile-2-clear-speed-maps-lightning-gif-16877356853764913070

[orchid current]

You plan on Crit later or what

[loud summit]

@unborn flare weird u went ice damage in tree and picked flurry over ice strike

[humble pumice]

that's mostly a melee class?..how is it?
Looks fun that's all i know haha7

[orchid current]

How are the skills shooting out waves is that elemental expression or a different skill

[unborn flare]

flurry is just so fast to trigger bell that ice strike does no dmg tbh

[silent prawn]

only requirements and health/mana/accuracy

[mellow yoke]

Monk is really really strong from the start

[orchid current]

Is it? Off the beach monk feels terrible imo

[woven bough]

where do i get the bleeding rune

[zealous moat]

anyone know a decent sorc leveling build?

[woven bough]

most runes drop from mobs but

this one ive never sen

[loud summit]

@unborn flare ah. How’s tank? Ice build sounds like more my style. I prob should stay the shock wave build while leveling tho for aoe.

[unborn flare]

trials

[dusty kiln]

huh
interesting
so far it seems surprisingly easy to hit all requirements for everything as a gemling once you path down
so perhaps a magic inclined gemling might be neat
guns and spells

[woven bough]

chaos?

yuck

[royal wasp]

No but you do pay a higher gold cost

[thin basin]

There’s 2 type of monks ive seen, one of them use bell and some element and one shot/combo bosses, the other struggle to finish act 1 and ask when do they stop using basic attack

[woven bough]

but ig ill go on

[amber adder]

Monk to bonk

[mellow yoke]

Mopped the floor with the wolf boss at lvl 15 only pressing ice strike and bell

[amber adder]

I only pressed ice strike without bell... :))

[orchid current]

I think specifically low level monk skills kinda stink

[desert hedge]

is this any good for a specific character or is it trash?

[amber adder]

I completed Act 1 in 2 hours...

[thin basin]

Good, u got the concept

[mellow yoke]

Ice strike cracked

[orchid current]

When's that

Lv 1 or 3

[mellow yoke]

3

[orchid current]

Sad

[thin basin]

Mana stacker

[loud summit]

Has anyone gone the spirit gain and damage reduction ascendency nodes on monk? How’s it feel?

[amber adder]

This drains mana, it's bad on monk for sure

[desert hedge]

so maybe an okay item for sorc?

[hard zinc]

is there any good witch non pet build u recommend

[orchid current]

No way they made agnostic a whole ass body armor 😭

[thin basin]

Yea

[humble sedge]

Is critical hit chance useless? I ask this because according to the critical hit chance description it says that its not a 10% flat increase but rather a 10% increase to the base modifier, so if my skill has a base crit chance of 10% and I spec into 100% extra crit chance worth of passive points thats only going to raise it from a 10 to a 20% for all those skill points, all the while you couldve been speccing into getting yourself some guaranteed damage or more survivability, if there is anything im poinint out thats wrong please do tell me.

[thin basin]

Especially the ones that doesnt run MoM

[stuck iris]

okay I just got my first level 7 uncut gem for my explody merc and my options are

• Ripwire Ballista
• Explosive shot
• Glacial Bolt
• Voltaic Grenade...
  any advice?

[desert hedge]

sounds like its a bad armor peace then ? xD

[mellow yoke]

Just use falling thunder until u can get ice strike, and u can take the sorc spell that applies cold exposure too!

[orchid current]

Crit gud... Late game

[stray solstice]

Hi, where can I find build guides? What is the best build for Deadeye, Infernalist and Stormweaver? Thanks.

[orchid current]

It's probably fine but I haven't seen strong enough mana pools to sustain something like this, best to hold onto it ig

[desert hedge]

alr ill keep it in my chest then thx

[humble sedge]

so do higher level skills have a higher crit modifier then? cause right now my Glacial Cascade has no crit chance so does that mean the crit ive specced into is doing nothing for it because there is no base value to work off of?

[thin basin]

The point of the armor is getting as much “damage taken as mana” but not running MoM, while also having enough hp to not get 1 shot, stack mana and mana regen so you can regen back all the dmg taken

[orchid current]

No, it's just that Crit tends to be better with more investment,but early you lack the resources to invest

[junior quail]

What are some good skill gems for flame wall? I know the circle is good, but I’m having an issue with figuring out what the second should be

[humble sedge]

that still doesnt explain what im asking tho

[cold lantern]

ice cube build

[orchid current]

Does glacial cascade have no Crit?

[azure maple]

Is there a way to farm gold fast im at the end of act 3?

[cold lantern]

go to cruel mode

:)

[azure maple]

Where's that

[cold lantern]

after act 3

[potent acorn]

Hi everyone, playing titan rightt now and very cofnused about the heavy armor node...Can anyone explain what the Heavy Armor node does? Seems like it does nothing... What does adding strength requirements from other gear to my armor do?

[mellow yoke]

Yes u get a significant amount of gold from last quest

[humble sedge]

it may scale off the Quarterstaffs crit

[azure maple]

oh ok ill try to finish it

[azure maple]

I unlocked the warp door, how long until last boss u think?

maybe im not near the end

[robust wigeon]

Is it crazy to go with a sorcerer with quarterstaff just cause I don´t like the way monk character looks? I was thikning of going chronomancer

[thin basin]

Ur 3 zone away

It is quite long tho

[mellow yoke]

For me it took forever since I am good at clearing the entire map before I find the right way but that is the last thing u do

[desert hedge]

sry im very new idk what MoM is xD , as far as i know this armor piece is pretty bad tho right (for a unique)

[thin basin]

Mind over matter

[unborn flare]

here is how normal gameplay kinda looks like (with that build of mine)
https://streamable.com/3cwmyq

[dusty kiln]

anyone got some good ideas on how to build gemling merc?
so far im lv35 and just beefed up on stats, but i feel like i should have some thing to build towards now, but my minds coming up blank
maybe grab another weapon to build towards?
or just grab defenses?

[neat laurel]

does physical damage to attack matter for poison builds if the way I am proccing poison isnt through an attack that hits

just wondering what I should have on my quiver

running gas arrow

[ivory hill]

How to ascend as monk?

[stuck iris]

is it worth while to keep High velocity rounds for when my gas grenades break armor? or is it not worth supporting gas grenades with the gem that breaks armor?

[pearl sluice]

herald of ice (on) high freeze buildup, enough to instant freeze normal to rare mobs and use it 3-4 times to freeze most bosses, then use glacial cascade for higher damage due to it consuming the freeze, ice strike works for big dps too (herald of ice is for big add clear)

[edgy solstice]

What stat does lightning monk scale on

[orchid current]

Lightning damage,I'd assume

[pearl sluice]

what im running rn, if anyones got suggestions for the next levels let me know!

[tiny locust]

You want all 3 elements ideally what i read yesterday

Dont pigeonhole just lightning, cause later there is resists

[azure maple]

What is the upside of using firewall on wand vs spell?

does it negate spell costs?

or is it just no spirit usage

[edgy solstice]

I meant between dex str int, which do we need for monk

[pulsar cape]

Absolutely broken build.
Im actually praying they dont nerf this

[reef onyx]

Help
FML, just discovered that the Dark Pact|Dark Staff that was supposed to be found in map isn't in the game. Taht screws up my whole game plan and tree. 😐
I really don't know what to play from there as I picked up Blood Mage as a spec intending to cast said Dark Pact.
I tried to play bone storm, but didn't like it as a main skill. I've got no idea how to rotate from there. Most of my point have been going into minion, esp life. a bit of crit and chaos damage.
I don't think playing summoner works well with Blood Mage, but I need some suggestion/help
Currently 80% done with C-Act 3. I can likely finish clearing it with the setup I have, but just has 0 synergy with my ascendency. Looking for an endgame idea, I could figure out the rest of the build most likely

[pulsar cape]

My staff is under leveled for this too.

[pulsar cape]

Im sure you couldve condensed this paragraph alot more…

[reef onyx]

TLDR. Dark Pact out, Blood Mage looking for option, not Bone Storm. End Game

[copper light]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Fireball are there any good Fireball builds

[feral stirrup]

how to generate spirit ? im stuck at 51/80 for hours

[strong apex]

for sorc, it only benefit from cast speed right instead of atk speed? such as freezing shard,,

[peak whale]

im running fireball + frost wall + cast on freeze comet but honestly i feel like blood mage at 4 pts or less is a straight downgrade on some bosses (the ones that are dangerous to be close to)

[reef onyx]

Spirit is a stat, you get some on your gear, 100 point are also found in campain

[strong apex]

and does crit works on sorc? spell etc

[peak whale]

the life costs for the skills gets pretty crazy and 10% leech does basically nothing on single target

[ornate anvil]

If anyone has an idea of how the fuck poison works i appreciate: https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1315683030643376198

[copper light]

How about Infernalist?

[reef onyx]

For real. I tried to play Bone Storm, spent 80K gold at N-Act 3 to repect, felt like shit bleeding myself out.

[reef onyx]

Would have to rr entirely. Can't change Ascen

[median whale]

if you convert molten blast fully into fire, would spell damage count?

[peak whale]

the ability for blood globes to overheal basically never happens in boss fights because the fastest i can generate globes is 1 (healing ~230) per 2s, which is about 115hp/s

[reef onyx]

If the skill is marked as attack, it will always stay attack.

[peak whale]

but my spells cost around that much to cast

[median whale]

Thanks gravity

[scarlet hatch]

Guys I'm new here and feels like I'm dumb as hell but weapon set skillpoints only placeble on +5 attribute nodes?

[soft willow]

guys, does anyone here know, if monk bells get triggered by grenades?

[silent prawn]

everywhere but Gem slots

[silk smelt]

does it make sense to multi-proc cold snap? or does only the first proc deal damage? (for single target)

[peak whale]

i've given up on 10% leech and gone into the 25% incoming damage taken as dot, which allows me to survive bigger hits if i don't overdo the casting, but it still feels very clunky

[reef onyx]

Yeah, and forget casting any curse. 140 life/mana per cast

[scarlet hatch]

thanks, but my game seems to be bugged than 😄

[peak whale]

i noticed that triggered spells don't seem to cost health though, only mana

i wonder if something like cast while channeling comet will help, but i'd need to find the lowest level channeling spell possible so its mana cost (which gets converted to life) is as low as possible

[daring rose]

yo guys what venom did you choose for warrior>

[azure maple]

Do skills on wands have no cost?

[grizzled thicket]

Correct

[scarlet hatch]

also is there any way to know if a node is allocated on the passive skill tree with a normal skill point or a weapon set skill point ?

[silk smelt]

you mean with blood magic or something?

[peak whale]

with the first 2 points in blood mage ascendancy

[silk smelt]

oh im not playing that 😦

[sterile spade]

i'm new to POE and i'm planning to get Mercenary any good builds i can make ?

[silk smelt]

the mana cost on triggers is killing me, why is it even a thing 😂

[thin basin]

https://youtu.be/H7NtheQo0lI?si=oHzEeKVrOkH9NhbA

[sterile spade]

You have any of these for mercenary you would recommend ?

[solemn island]

So running a stun warrior with high armor and looking to raise my elemental resistances, keep getting melted

[peak whale]

wait, cast while channeling isn't even in the game lmao

[grim flax]

Does anybody know how ruthless support interacts with crossbow skills? Will I get the increased stun buildup on each fifth shot if the skill fires multiple shots or only upon the each fifth reload?

[thin basin]

https://youtu.be/HROHH1mSJyY?si=Z08ESyQBWdRxtEEH

Some skills are nerfed tho

[cold lantern]

Me and the bro

[amber lantern]

If I'm planning a lightning-based merc build, should i avoid crit chance due to this?

Not sure if lucky hits or crits is better

[thin basin]

Yes grab that if you dont planning on scaling crit

If you do go crit then dont grab it

[native widget]

The hell does lucky do?

[little apex]

as a witch build, I have enough spirit to allocate for minions but they don't appear for some reason except for raging spirits in tier 2.. anyone know whats up with that?

[thin basin]

Roll twice and takes the higher damage number if its still the same as poe1

[native widget]

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[thin basin]

Very good for lightning because their damage is usually like 1 to 500 or whatever

[still rock]

My assumption is that lucky hits will be better for general clear and without as much investment but crits will be better for bossing or high hp targets and probably higher ceiling with a lot of investment

So first toon, yes most likely better than crit

[sterile spade]

Thank you.

[amber lantern]

Gotcha

[still rock]

Over the fight of a boss the dmg values will even out higher with the higher values from crits but on general clear you'll be doing more consistent dmg against lower hp targets with lucky

Until your crit chance can be effectively really high

[bold garden]

Have a question on what to pair OoS support gem wise for OoS+lightning rod setup

[solemn island]

If going high armour as a warrior, how can I raise elemental resistance?

[amber lantern]

This is the plan so far. Grab all lightning, ailment, and elemental areas. Also grabbed some easy attack boosts along the way and a few evasion/def sections. New to poe tho so not sure how well its gonma scale lol

[fading ether]

chronomancer with recoup life skill and eternal youth seems op?

[amber lantern]

Also grabbed conductivity and voltaic mark from elementalist and ranger which has been nice

[still rock]

Hmm I hadn't considered eternal youth, I might have to once my life value is high enough

[open stump]

My grenade merc feels kind of bricked in act 2 for bosses, anybody got advice?

[fervent void]

Did anyone else struggle with Mercenary at the beginning? I had a much easier time on my Warrior

[amber lantern]

Beginning was heavily gear based to me

[still rock]

I haven't played it yet but from other people's accounts it is "harder" but not sure what they meant specifically

[fluid moss]

can anyone explain how does this work exactly? cause the mobs still show 20%

[amber lantern]

Struggled with my first crossbow but the second i got a better i flew through

[short mango]

curious what peoples paths are for monks atm (chayula)

and main skill choices

[fervent void]

Using my Merc now and killing simple small packs of mobs feels difficult

Also placing grenades is something I’m also struggling with

[fading ether]

you can have zealothos oath too

[still rock]

That's pushing it for my build as of now, the chaos stuff is really spread out as it is

There's def a reason they are on opposite ends of the tree

[amber lantern]

I didnt use a lot of grenades tho the frost shotty skill and fragmentation rounds for packs and high velocty rounds with the triple shot support for single target

[loud trench]

can u add sockets to armor

[quiet quiver]

does Endless Munitions work with crossbows? like, do I spend one extra bolt too?

so if I load a single shot ammo, it doesn't work with Endless Munitions?

[pseudo kayak]

Any builds actually mapping really well?

[still rock]

Yeah my assumption is that people struggling on merc don't know what a better crossbow is or what mods to look for since PoE local weapon affix values aren't very intuitive to noobs unless you read them closely

I've always said they need to add better wording on local wep damage mods idk why they didn't in PoE2

"This Weapon's Base Physical Damage is increased by %", etc

something along those lines

instead of Increased Physical Damage % which can be misconstruing to a new player

[amber lantern]

That would help too but my biggest issue was just nothing was dropping lol

[still rock]

Yeah rng happens too lol

[modest saddle]

what should i focus on with a monk ice build

[amber lantern]

I got more scepters than anything

[still rock]

Ranged builds traditionally struggle without gear

Because it's so heavily focused on attack damage

and attack skills are % of weapon dmg

[quiet quiver]

anyone is a deadeye with Endless Munitions? 😦 I'd really like to know about the interaction with xbow

[amber lantern]

It was also much harder to go down the defensive side of the merc tree first had to respec to the projectile damage

[still rock]

That's common in the past as well, it's generally the better way to level so you can kill things early better

And then end game you might just eschew the early nodes entirely to save on points overall

[amber lantern]

Yeah when i first started i kept hearing how important defensive skills are so i just went down that path first

Got noob trapped lol

[still rock]

Well considering there isnt any life on the tree the philosophy has to be different

Global defenses dont really matter as much unless you have a lot of them

Life is king but they took our life away 😭

[lapis veldt]

Yeah I got noob trapped as well. Took Dex nodes to skip to some grenade nodes faster and it hurt my dmg

[amber lantern]

I just couldnt get into grenades at the start the first one having such a long fuse time killed it for me

[still rock]

You might consider doing that later when you need the points to get to an important keystone, but early game you generally never do that, correcto

[amber lantern]

Altho the poison nade with the support gem that breaks armor was pretty fun combined with high velocty rounds

[lapis veldt]

You live, you learn lol. Luckily I'm at a good spot now

[still rock]

That's the name of the game

This game is all about experimenting and learning 🙂

[prime ginkgo]

Hello guys, I'm new and I wanted to know where could I find the combat frenzy aura on the game? I'm kinda lost actually :c Thank you!

[short mango]

if i had the spirit for it. it's 60 spirit and i have 30. and that's required for herald of thunder atm.

[still rock]

You'll have more later on

[amber lantern]

Is the only way to get spirit through act 1 and 3 bosses?

[still rock]

Chest affix, amulet affix and implicit from a base type, sceptre affix

[amber lantern]

Ah havent seen any on armor

Wanted to add the +30% mana regen support gem to herald of thunder but didnt have enough

[thick isle]

What’s the most powerful sorc leveling guide right now?

[fervent void]

After seeing you say this, I went and bought a crossbow from a vendor, got a pretty nutty one and now I’m melting everything

[sturdy lava]

Hello there, i never played any poe and im thinking to test poe2 with a warrior/titan hammer of god builds. Anyone have a good build to link ? Thanks all, that could be very helpfull for a noobie like me

[still rock]

If you want a decent way to check what affixes can roll on gear you can use the po2db here:
https://poe2db.tw/us/Modifiers

Click on your base item type and then you'll see the tables that correspond to the possible prefixes and suffixes

[short mango]

but later on doesn't solve the issue of power charges atm 😦

[amber lantern]

Lol yeah most of my stuff is bought rn

[still rock]

Vendors are handing out much better gear in this game

Enjoying that

As a mostly ssf enjoyer

[short mango]

oh that they def do

well poe1 was good too . . . good enough

[still rock]

generally only for finding the right socket #s and colors early, but yeah that's gone now

So I'm glad the items seem better

[amber lantern]

Only struggle rn is having to balance selling stuff and disenchanting feels like i dont have nearly enough orbs to upgrade if i sell or im running out of money if i disenchant

[still rock]

I think that's intended, I've noticed that as well.

[calm geyser]

Whats the difference between Skill speed and Cast speed?

[still rock]

Finding a balance on your currency items and gold

[still rock]

Skill speed effects every skill, cast speed is only for skills with the Spell tag

[pearl sluice]

Anyone got a good bloodmage build going on that can help me out? I don't know how to play my class :/

[amber lantern]

Btw are you not guaranteed ascendancy points when you complete a trial cuz i got my second coin and it didnt give anything lol

[still rock]

Any skill speed stacks additively with whatever cast speed or attack speed you have, so if you say have 20% inc cast speed and 15% inc skill speed then you have effectively 35% inc cast speed for spells

[silent prawn]

needs to be a Higher risk coin with 2-4 floors

[amber lantern]

Oh didnt know the coins had tiers rip

I just want my duplicate support gem skill 😭

[zinc cipher]

How does Attack Speed and Skill Speed affect a Slam skill?

the windup of Sunder is pretty long, so i wanna shorten it

[still rock]

Similarly to my answer above but replace cast speed with attack speed

[zinc cipher]

not sure if i neeed attack speed or skill speed

[still rock]

AS is more commonly found, so generally you'll get that, there's not many forms of skill speed in the game afaik but they help additively too

[zinc cipher]

So both attack speed and skill speed affect how fast sunder goes off additively?

[calm geyser]

Thank you

[zinc cipher]

Ah! i get it now, thank you!

[still rock]

Attack speed and skill speed are additive in relation to one another, then that % affects your base attack time

[polar zealot]

why does bonestorm with scattershot , have a 1 second faster cast time

its like 50% faster

is it a bug?

[zinc cipher]

increase / more , which one is additive and which is multiplicative?

[still rock]

You're probably missing something somewhere in the equation since scattershot should give you less cast speed

[polar zealot]

ive tested it manually

[still rock]

inc = additive, more = multiplicative

[polar zealot]

multiple times

its significantly faster

i guess its a bug

[zinc cipher]

so "more" is better than inc?

[bleak moth]

is lightning arrow just not that good early game? what supports are you guys using with it? Im lvl 25 and been using stormcaller just seems better at the moment, curious what anyone else is doing

[still rock]

At larger levels of % inc, "more" becomes more valuable, so generally yes it is more valued because if you have for example 200% increased Spell Damage, 20% more would give you the same end result as effectively 40% increased

200*.2=40, 200+40=240

[zinc cipher]

aaahhh

and does the "more" multiply only the base? or including the inc?

[severe drum]

okey, it is not possible to make it so the ability from "cast on" to cast from your second set while you charge energy on your first, right?

[spare quartz]

I'm getting the feeling there isn't as much build diversity as quite advertised in this game. For Ranger its poison TG/Firewall or Lightning. Maybe end game changed things

[cold lantern]

https://tenor.com/view/path-of-exile-path-of-exile2-poe-poe2-gameplay-gif-24440335

when

[still rock]

It multiplies the modifier listed, so in my example it multiplies % Spell Damage after the increased is all added together

If that makes sense

[zinc cipher]

so both multiply the BASE of your gear, and then it gets added together

[fringe cape]

Is there something wrong with elemental storm on sorc??? Why in the world does it do 10x less damage for lightning compared to fire and ice

nm im dumb

[autumn willow]

Does the spell being cast from this ignore cooldown of the spell?

[still rock]

Here's a basic example,

• you have two sources of 100% increased Spell Damage
• those both get added together for 200%
• you also have 20% more Spell Damage
• that multiplies the 200% increased Spell Damage to give you 240%
• You have a spell that deals 10 damage base
• Now it deals 34
  (10*2.4=24, 10+24=34)

Obviously in game it's a lot more complicated with the amount of different sources of things, but that's how inc % and more % interact with one another

[zinc cipher]

ah now i really get it, both work with eachtother

thanks ! helped alot

[still rock]

Ofc

[silk smelt]

oh wrong channel

[safe path]

i chose blood mage ascendancy. can i go back to infernalist?

[woven otter]

So we should scoop up every bit of extra dmg we can I guess

[still rock]

Haven't tried yet but I assume it does not

[thin basin]

Rip

[hexed ore]

#Does anyone know how and WHY Sunder for warriors sometimes casts more than once? I have read everything and cant replicate it

[still rock]

ACtually technically I have tried that with barrier invocation, I added the %aoe but adds +6sec cd support to frost nova inside the barrier invocation and it was not able to be casted twice in succession with 2 charges

[jade tide]

Anyone gave a shot at a bow invoker(monk) ? All the elemental buff seem good for a lightning archer

[willow remnant]

can you use CoF twice and will both gain charges on one freeze?

[thin basin]

Yes

[tribal egret]

Do any websites have actual build guides up yet?

[haughty gazelle]

I am not sure on this, does getting 100% chance to pierce an enemy mean you always pierce any enemy, or it stops working after piercing one enemy?

[still rock]

I think Mobalytics has a handful, but not sure about any others

[dawn spire]

All more/less multipliers are multiplicative with all other more/less modifiers AND the sum of all increased/reduced modifiers. I think you can hold alt to read more about it.

Basically, all your increased/reduced mods are additive with each other and become one big "more" multiplier.

[tribal egret]

Eh, was never really a fan of their guides

[still rock]

I think they're sourced out from content creators so quality can vary

[undone mortar]

Game has been out for 3 days and most of those guides were made with leaked data

Which is out of date

[shy rune]

What y’all think is a better grenadier: witch hunter or gemling?

[undone mortar]

You can use them as a reference point but I wouldn’t advise following them

[still rock]

The best place is most likely YouTube and following along as content creators update their builds with successive videos, as you can see their thought process in making different decisions or changing previous ones

[jaunty copper]

hey how is ranger end game?

[still rock]

But I don't really do that much so I don't have any to recommend

[sonic steppe]

Aftershock?

[hexed ore]

I am warbringer with ZERO aftershock stuff

[candid venture]

What exactly is 'Maim' support gem ?

[sonic steppe]

Including support gem?

[hexed ore]

none

[errant storm]

Does wand and focus spell damage bonus% stack?

[fading ether]

for jewels

[woven otter]

At what % damage is generally considered overkill ? Do I get as many passive cold dmg% for example on my frost monk or is there a point where it’s no longer worth

[still rock]

Makes the support attack always Maim, which reduces movement speed and evasion rating. You can hold alt on the gems and then move your cursor over "Maim" effect to get an additional tooltip on Maim.

This works for anything underlined in the game's tooltips.

[cobalt narwhal]

guys thought on them ? could be sellable ?

[obsidian merlin]

Apologies, i know this has been asked before but I keep hearing conflicting answers:
Does anyone know for a fact whether exposure (not penetration) can push a mobs resistence below 0?

[cedar karma]

what are some good supports for herald of thunder?

[still rock]

AFAIK, minimum of 0

Which means it's more valuable later in the game when monsters have higher resistance values

[obsidian merlin]

That was my understanding, but I have heard multiple people be adamant it does go below 0 for exposure....

[still rock]

Because it does in PoE1 lol

[woven otter]

Does exposure apply first?

[still rock]

Different game, people don't read the tooltips and assume it works the same

[obsidian merlin]

and I see a lot of streamers buffing their exposure in passive tree, but I just assume thats due to the sorc ascendancy which does the extra 20% which makes it worth while

[woven otter]

There’s nodes where you can get like 30% more exposure too

If I ignore enemy resistance when they’re frozen, exposure might be doing nothing?

[still rock]

So penetration has a minimum of 0, but exposure will go lower than 0%

So if you have penetration AND exposure, and hit a mob with less than 0% resistance, the penetration effectively does nothing

[obsidian merlin]

but exposure will go lower than 0% - where do you see this mentioned in the game?

[woven otter]

So pen being a % has huge diminishing returns

[humble saffron]

Any tips on the Trial of Chaos in A2?

I'm a lightning Invoker Monk btw

[obsidian merlin]

Overlevel before going in, simplest way IMO

[humble saffron]

At what level should I go in?

Like what's a good range

[still rock]

The mob icons underneath they're healthbar will be RED when turned negaitive via curse or exposure (e.g. a Red snowflake means they have negative cold resistance)

[still rock]

Depends on what resistance values endgame mobs will have

[fringe cape]

What is the difference between mana regen and mana recovery?

[humble saffron]

It's so hard to upgrade my gear when there's barely anything that's dropping

[woven otter]

I gotta search how the math works

[still rock]

If a mob has, for example, 80% cold resistance and you have 20% cold penetration and 30% cold exposure, then they have effectively 50% resistance before the hit, and then the hit penetrates 20% of that to deal damage as if they had 30% resistance

[woven otter]

Ahhhh ok so the exposure is flat reduction and applies after

[still rock]

Before

[humble saffron]

Also why does my basic attack have so much higher dps than any of my skills

[woven otter]

Early game that seems to be the way it is

[still rock]

Exposure and curse resistance reductions actually lower their resistance values, penetration just deals damage with hits as if they had % less than they have (at a minimum of 0), it doesn't lower their actual resistance values

[humble saffron]

I'm already Act 3 and it's still the case

[low tree]

when it says +30% to defenses, what is considered defenses to be increased?

[woven otter]

So I could weapon swap skills to have cold pen for bosses and not need it for mobs if by freezing them ignore their res

[still rock]

Yeah that could be a good use-case

[still rock]

Armor, energy shield, and evasion

[median oriole]

does +% fire damage also increase minion fire damage?

[still rock]

No

[deep mango]

Leveling a monk but saw this in the store just now. Should I consider buying this just in case I plan to play ranger? Or nah?

[low tree]

ALL THREE??!!

[still rock]

Would be a decent starting bow but no AS hurts

For 4k you might as well if youre ssf

[deep mango]

ssf?

[still rock]

Solo self found

[obsidian merlin]

thanks for clearing that up, much appreciated

[deep mango]

Ahh okay

[obsidian merlin]

just tested the icon indicators under mobs as you said, super helpful to know about that

[still rock]

Yeah that should be explained better somewhere imo

[sullen tusk]

A question for monks... Why does everyone keep saying bell is great against bosses when its DPS is a lot less than my main attack?

[still rock]

Probably will be at some point but early access

[fiery breach]

Anyone managed to make a demon form witch build work? It looks like I deal less dps in it and it doesn't offer anything else that is strong.

[still rock]

Because it does additional damage as you're hitting it and the boss with another attack

So it helps single target

[wintry lava]

Gives + to spells. Increasing spell lvl is a large gain to spellcasters.

[deep mango]

Have you tried it? It's like multiple shockwaves that eminate from it. You want to throw the bell right on top of your single target.

[sullen tusk]

So it triggers while I am hitting the boss with main attack?

[still rock]

If you're hitting both the bell and the boss yes

[dry shuttle]

hey, does someone know, if a passive skill tree node gives me "x% increased Fire damage" if that also counts towards minions, in particular SRS?

[sullen tusk]

I have tried it, I use it all the time... im just not sure if I was actually doing something...

[worn yacht]

Is there any way to tell your crit chance for spells?

[loud summit]

Thoughts on warrior slams vs monk bell? Can warrior achieve near the same dps or nah? Just mega tank man

All I see is monks killing bosses quick. No warrior slam videos lol

[sullen tusk]

I wish this game had target practice dummies

[deep mango]

Whenever I get around to playing warrior, going to go for thorns build.

[worn yacht]

Ty

[still rock]

Click that arrow next to the dmg number to see more details on a specific spell

[still rock]

No

[lunar gazelle]

Anyone know what are the sources for gem quality?

[polar zealot]

on gas arrow , does the poison only increase with physical and chaos damage on gear , i have a ring that gives lightning damage and the dps increases on the tooltip

[hollow idol]

I think we need to play non meta builds to avoid nerfs

[left grail]

anyone happen to know if tornado shot can be stacked on a target for more dot damage with the actual tornadoes? I'm guessing it can't be, but I'd be happy if I was wrong.

[fiery sable]

Can we shoot more than one tornado? In the skill tooltip says the limit is 1

[still rock]

Gemcutter's Prism would be main source, as for other I'm not sure yet

[silent prawn]

there should be Gemcutter orb if I'm not mistaken.

[deep mango]

Issue with that is respecing costs gold and nobody is going to prioritize beinb subopitmal to freely experiment when there's a cost to your time and money.

[hollow idol]

how much is respeccing

[left grail]

limit +1 gem

I just don't know if it'd actually act as double damage or not

[fiery sable]

Good to know

[silent prawn]

depends on your lvl

[deep mango]

There's no flat amount. It scales as you progress through the game.

[hollow idol]

ewww

[fiery sable]

I don't see why it shouldn't...
Btw, what are guys using barrage with?

[lunar gazelle]

Is quality hard capped? Can Gemling Legionnaire reach 30% quality?

[woven otter]

So exposure is not an automatic thing right? Like you need a specific source for it?

[fringe cape]

Is there a reason to level up "Cast on" spells? I have Cast on Shock at level 9 right now, when I hover over to level it to 11 it only shows that it ups the requirements?

[forest arrow]

[trim forge]

@covert fossil cheers, yuzu

[covert fossil]

[rancid berry]

Yes with overabundance

[still rock]

Not sure if it's different than PoE1 - assuming there is a cap somewhere but I haven't seen anyone with a 20% quality gem to confirm or not if Gemli gets above the normal 20% cap from GCPs

I'd hope so

[obsidian merlin]

Currently in Cruel Act3 running it, having a lot of fun with it.
Mind you it took a loooot of thinking it through on how to make it work properly, almost gave up twice earlier on until I figured a few things out

[still rock]

Otherwise that ascendancy is booboo lol

[cloud lichen]

Hey guys

I struggle with the act 2 boss

Don’t even get to the 2nd phase

[sturdy lava]

Hello there, i never played any poe and im thinking to test poe2 with a warrior/titan hammer of god builds. Anyone have a good build to link ? Thanks all, that could be very helpfull for a noobie like me

[cloud lichen]

Lightning sorc 100% to lightning dmg lol

[rancid berry]

More
Damage helps that

[vestal girder]

sorry for ping was doing some searching in here and wondering this same thing, did you ever find out if mantra applies damage bonus to each hit in flicker or only to the very first one?

[still rock]

#2┃new-player-in-campaign-help

[fringe cape]

Does anyone know if there a reason to level up "Cast on" spells? I have Cast on Shock at level 9 right now, when I hover over to level it to 11 it only shows that it ups the requirements?

[hollow idol]

Cold Sorceress nerfs incoming

[still rock]

Increased levels of trigger gems should give increased % of energy

[robust void]

anyone know why i can refund this ascendancy point?

[still rock]

e.g. every level of cast on crit gives an extra 2% of increased energy

[fleet blaze]

found my survivability.

[still rock]

Because you can

[robust void]

lol, i ment cant

it wont let me

[fiery sable]

I need more single target damage in my ranger, I would like to use barrage with a heavy hitter. Is there any?

[still rock]

Hmm odd, I haven't tried yet.

Maybe requires something additional than gold just not specified? Idk

[fringe cape]

Here is what I see

[mild pebble]

Any tips between Infernalist and Chronomancer for a chaos dot caster? My thoughts are:

• Chronomancer stack life recoup
• Infernalist use Demon Form, stack ES and try to sustain the life penalty

I'm concerned about Chrono not having enough damage

[robust void]

hoping someone here knows

[still rock]

On the detailed tooltips you'll see it go up 2%, it's just not in the base tooltip to show the increased energy gain

Try: look at detailed tooltip before leveling and after

compare the % energy gain value

[noble helm]

Life and no weapons penalty*. Demon form currently is not using weapons when transformed (bugged? intentional?)

[fringe cape]

Level 9 vs level 10

you nailed it

[still rock]

Probably should be included somewhere in the level-up UI to indicate that, so far the game has some UI/UX quirks going on but early access

[fringe cape]

ty @still rock

[mild pebble]

Wouldn't the Demon Form damage increase and skill level negate the no weapons penalty?

[still rock]

I'm doing the chrono ed contagion and am having to use all my bag of tricks for damage and thus mana is an issue with self casting curse for decaying hex, but overall I'm happy with the damage output. just about to finish act 3

Havent fully invested into recoup yet but in the next 5-10 levels I will be focusing on that

[civic imp]

How can i get RAGING SPIRIT? Ive finished ACT 1 and didnt found that skill.

[crude briar]

do we have pob for poe2 at all

[still rock]

no

[obsidian merlin]

Be very careful with Demon Form and chaos dots, apparantly some people have reported certain chaos spells cancelling demon form

[woven bough]

can we max the ascendancy tree?

[fiery sable]

Does detonating arrow with stacks works with barrage?

[woven bough]

if there are no more trials i mean

[noble helm]

I'm not a dev and can't answer what was intended or not intended.

If you feel you can negate that without any weapons - go a head man, it's a game for everyone to enjoy

[lavish adder]

Quick question: is there such thing as too much critical chance on a monk? Like... 151! crit chance. Even with the invoker nodes Sunder my enemies and scatter them to the winds?

[nova pine]

Raging Spirits is a "Spirit Gem." Think an "aura" from Poe1. You need an uncut spirit gem in order to acquire it, as it uses a different pool of gems than uncut skill gems. You are guarenteed 1 uncut spirit gem from a side quest in Act 1, located in the Freythorn.

[still rock]

You get 8 points total

[thorn abyss]

does spark shock? Or do i need to rely on OoS?

[nova pine]

I don't believe you can over-crit in this, so the extra 51% chance is probably wasted.
But there are probably enemies that are "Crit resistant" and would lower your crit chance, meaning that the extra crit chacne over 100% isn't completely wasted, it'll be useful in those situations.

Personally, I wouldn't bother, but it's not the worst idea in the world.

[civic imp]

I have a UNCUT SKILL GEM , i click it but i dont see the "Raging spirit " skill

[civic imp]

I have a UNCUT SKILL GEM , i click it but i dont see the "Raging spirit " skill

[nova pine]

Because Summon Raging Spirits is not a skill. You need an "Uncut SPIRIT gem."

[civic imp]

oh okay, i have a lvl 4 is that ok or i need a lvl 1?

[still rock]

Crit chance increases the base crit value by a percentage, so if the attack skill itself has a 5% base to crit and you have 150% increased crit chance then you have a 12.5% chance to crit
(5*1.5=7.5, 7.5+5=12.5% chance to crit)

[still rock]

Ah, my bad, thanks for clarifying

[civic imp]

oooh i see... the ragingspirit is for sorceress

im a witch, thats why im not seeing that

[red stone]

Where can i find some builds? i''m looking for a Witch one

[sacred sail]

guys what wheel or node you like as a warrior (titan) ? any powerful you can think of

[proper drift]

This is the build I’m doing

For warrior

[nova pine]

Okay, so, hear me out. Sesmic Cry resets its cooldown if it doesn't hit an enemy under heavy stun.
So if I support it with Pin support, it won't be able to stun anything, ever. I can then support it with something like Corrupting Cry, stack a fuckton of Strength, and just run around shouting at people until the bleed to death out of their ears. Probably Titan with the 50% increased small node for additional strength (with some Warcry Damage nodes for good measure)
Should work?

[lavish adder]

Oh, that makes sense. was trying to free a few points on my build and i thought i was going overboard with the crit chance. Doesn't seem that way though. Still, 102 points do seem like a lot...

https://shorturl.at/1UcU7

[sacred sail]

thank you ! I some nodes seem more powerful than mine 😅

[still rock]

Attacks will use your weapon's crit value, so you'd need to have that value to know what your crit % would be for attack skills

[proper drift]

Unfortunately the titan subclass node that increases the passives by 50% does not work on the attributes

So no bonus strength from it

[nova pine]

Well, I'm glad I asked!

[proper drift]

Yeah it kind of sucks. I hope they fix that because it’s kind of bad node since it doesn’t buff those

[gaunt ether]

Is triple stat requirement the only downside to giants blood?

Like do you attack slower

[proper drift]

It would have been really good if it did

[nova pine]

I mean it'd effect some ofthe strength nodes on the tree I assume (like the +8 strength nodes next to Beef) but that's probably not worth it.

[lime flame]

if you have eldritch battery, you dont need nodes that increase recharge speed of energy shield correct? just realized i have 4 points invested in that

[proper drift]

Yeah it buffs those but none of the travel modes. The +5 ones

[trim forge]

There's a 30% less from gems if you're dual wielding

[signal finch]

Guys, is there a best monk build or it's up to preference?

[gaunt ether]

Wym

[still rock]

Probably to curb it being the defacto ascendancy for attribute stacking builds (assuming they will eventually exist)

And that'd be too strong in those cases

[trim forge]

Check your slam/strike gems

[nova pine]

Then I guess I just go warbringer, skip the pin support nonsense, and take the "warcries have no cooldown"

Thnx for the help!

[gaunt ether]

Ohhhh. Is it not a overall gain in dmg tho since you have 2 stat sticks?

[tropic river]

I quickly made this for you, it's the same amount of points as you have but simply spent better imo, significantly more damage and extremely comparable defense

[bronze moth]

I would like to use Herald of Thunder. but i need spirit? how do i get spirit?

[abstract grove]

Wondering if I should respec my 2h mace build to a 1h mace + shield. Thoughts?

I never really use the shield actively, but damage wise I absolutely overkill everything.. defensively, even with stacking armor, is a bit lacking.

My original plan was to go for giants blood 2x 2h mace, but I have no idea how I'm supposed to satisfy those attribute requirements, I'm barely keeping up as is.

[sacred sail]

damn thanks a lot, I was struggling

[trim forge]

Sure, but it just doesnt seem like an efficient payoff since you also basically need flat strength from gear. And so far there isnt an essence that guarantees that

[tropic river]

here's a larger version with some more clusters and nodes that are close and I think are strong

[nova pine]

You gain 30 spirit from a quest in Act 1 that gives you your first spirit gem. Presuambly other quests later on give additional spirit.
Spirit is also a mod that can roll on chest pieces (starting around level 35ish), and all Scepters also come with 100 spirit (to support minions, which also use spirit)

[trim forge]

You also need other attributes as well on the off-chance you need them for supports like martial tempo

[sacred sail]

I was taking accuracy nodes but the keystone may be better for now

[gaunt ether]

Ok thanks

[tropic river]

this is even better actually, yeah I think the keystone is very good unless you are running crit synergy, main crit synergy people are running is probably sunder with armour break, don't take the keystone if ur doing that

[sacred sail]

I'm playing without armour break, find its annoying to proc it

[still rock]

What tool are you guys using for planners rn? I need one lol

[gaunt ether]

Is it fine to just equip weapons based off how high the dps on skills go

[rancid cipher]

Hey all, a bit new and trying to make my melee sorc a bit better. I have the damage but my survivability is pretty terrible. I just got out of act 1 and the boss wasn't too bad since I can dodge attacks a bit easier, but random enemies just do so much damage and I die almost every single pack. What should I be focusing on for survivability? My initial thought was to focus on a build that centered around evasion and energy shield, but I wasn't sure.

[tropic river]

yeah that's fair, sunder has 100% crit chance against fully armour broken enemies so that's why I mentioned it, you'll see that I've taken two nodes in an armour-break cluster to the right close to mercenary, but those 2 nodes just give a ton of increased physical damage and the armour break part can be ignored

[safe path]

is there any plans to be able to revert ascendancy choice?

[radiant yarrow]

if I have increased lightning damage (I think it's gonna be about 150%), will it work on flicker strike if I use crackling staff? If it did would it be better than storm wave if I generate lots of power charges?

[frigid ermine]

Hello! Is there a consensus on lightning vs frost monk ?
I just passed act1 with glacial and bell combo and red that it falls off.
I didn’t like the killing palm for stacks gameplay. When can I play dark maul style with lightning flawlessly ?

[trim forge]

You can play with the +2 hammer for a bit

[gaunt ether]

So +skills > stats like phy increase

[radiant yarrow]

act 2 probably, with siphoning strike + tempest and storm wave, it does good shock if you add the shock support

and herald of thunder

[sacred sail]

maybe the 15% phys dmg prevented recoup isn"'t that good

[trim forge]

Ideally you also want phys inc and phys flat. But its just the better choice out of the two you had shown.

I'd take a %phys and flat phys if they're together over +2

[spice solar]

hi how do you see your ascendancy points after trial

[still rock]

Not to be too rude but if you're just starting out I'd recommend against a niche build like that. The classes have a much smoother playstyle that they are mostly tailored towards while you're still learning the mechanics. That being said, all this depends on what points you're investing in and where they are on the tree, and also what gear you will be wearing which will be affected by which attributes you're going to be using for skills.

[thorn abyss]

what's a good 4 link for spark?

[gaunt ether]

Phys flat is like “2-7 physical”?

[trim forge]

Yes, as a modifier

[gaunt ether]

Ty sir

[trim forge]

But not that low ofc

[gaunt ether]

Yeah js as a example

[rough folio]

anyone have a good Witch Summoner starter build thanx

[tropic river]

it should be really good and scales even better into lategame, also this totem node is really strong to path down to if you have either shockwave totem or later get ancestral warrior totem

[sacred sail]

maybe arctic armour ? idk if it adds any defense. You may need armour or evasion like as much as you can

[woven otter]

How significant is 30% added extra damage late game? Is that not huge?

[sacred sail]

i'm playing just slams x) but I"'m thinking of a way toi make stampede works I have plans

[spice solar]

does any one know how to see your ascendancy points after trial

[trim forge]

Passive tree > center

[spice solar]

ahh ok thanks\

[sacred sail]

@rancid cipherdon(t feel bad experimenting it may be harder though

[tropic river]

if you're playing slams you want to get these 3 mace nodes soon

[still rock]

If a large portion of your damage is from hits it is a significant amount of damage since it is calculated last

Extra damage doesn't work on DoTs

[sacred sail]

it's just 10% right ? so it's a 10% increase dmg

[frigid ermine]

What is the most well made guide for monk atm for you guys ?

[trim forge]

Game just got into EA 2 to 3 days ago cant tell xd

[sacred sail]

huh nevermind % doesn't correspond that what it bring real time in game, it good actually only 3 points and you can pop off sometimes

[frigid ermine]

Im following this one atm https://youtu.be/PPKjBGW0ZpU?si=hcLu6VHuKhhRF2xM

Is it decent ?

[trim forge]

Its alright. Don's a good content creator

[rancid cipher]

Yeah, I knew it would be a disadvantage but I still wanted to try. I appreciate the warnings haha. Just trying to figure out what I can. I'm currently trying to make a build work with quarterstaff skills and increased shock chance nodes in the passive tree for eventual power charges. As for gear, I'm not sure since I'm just getting what I get. I was mostly just trying to figure out if I should prioritize one defensive stat over another for now.

[sacred sail]

if you play maces skill you may need to go armour/es I think

[frigid ermine]

I red that frost fall of vs shock

[sacred sail]

because you will path left side

[trim forge]

Just a PSA a good way to think about attribute related skills is sectioning off the tree. Strength to the left, dex on the right, int at the top

Anything bordering is having both

[stuck iris]

I could really use some help with what to take for my first level 7 skill gem for my wannabe explody merc...

• there seems to be a 50/50 split on if explosive shot is any good
• and I haven't heard anything about Glacial Bolt, Ripwire totem or Voltaic grenade...
  I am feeling like the combo of permafrost and Frag rounds is starting to fall off even with current gear, and it only ever seems to freeze one mob at a time. for clearing gas and explosive grenade are starting to feel good, but act bosses are becomming more of a struggle...

[rancid cipher]

I'm currently trying to focus on quarterstaff skills at the moment.

[sacred sail]

what class are you ?

[rancid cipher]

Sorc. Ideally aiming for a build that focuses on the lightning skills, shocks, and power charge generation. I do decent damage at the moment (still just in the beginning of act 2), but I take SO much damage. hah

[tropic river]

no it's 10% more damage, are you familiar with "increases" and "mores" in this game, EVERY SINGLE "increase" to damage stacks additively, regardless of if it's conditional or to your weapon or attacks or physical damage or whatever, they all get added up, which means they get less and less valuable, especially once you get to multiple hundreds of %, and, EVERY SINGLE "more" increase stacks multiplicatively with your increases and all other "mores", this node is an actual 10% boost on average, which is really good

[sacred sail]

I see

[sacred sail]

I'm disappointed with leech 😒

very naughty node

[still rock]

I haven't gotten too far into learning the differences of defenses with PoE2 tree vs PoE1 but traditionally it is better to have a stacking amount of different layers of defenses since they all have some sort of diminishing return or negative aspect that would have to be covered by another type of defensive layer. So focusing on two for now is a good idea, like you said initially.

All that being said, life and resistances are the most important and always should be prioritized aside from life with CI builds.

[tropic river]

it only gets good when you have a lot of flat leech from other sources, if you have over 5% damage leeched as life then those nodes are pretty good but not really if you have less

[river terrace]

New player to the PoE games here. I'd like to do a Witchhunter Galvanic Rounds build with this current setup. Would this be even close to something suitable? Genuinely ignorant to what to prioritize.

[sacred sail]

got a 5% life leech on weapon

[tropic river]

well then those nodes are decent, but probably not worth it right now imo, they get better lategame when you deal a lot more damage

[thorn abyss]

does anyone know if spark can shock? I want to use a cast on shock set up

[sacred sail]

I tried to focus on sustain as you saw, I'm still in paper xD

[thorn abyss]

there's nothing that says it can or cannot shock in the description

[still rock]

#2┃build-planning message

I wrote a simple example to explain this

Might help

[tropic river]

those regen nodes are pretty ass and dogshit tbh, these nodes that buff your life flasks and armour/defense are much better for surviving

[neat scroll]

Could someone please tell me how to get ascendancy poitns beyond the first 4?

[pseudo condor]

keep playing! after you beat act 3, you can start over at a higher difficulty

[neat scroll]

I did, I'm in cruel act 3, did complete djinn trials with level 57, didnt get any

[lavish adder]

Anyone knows what's the point of the Strike Through node? How exactly does it work?

[static plinth]

Anyone have suggestions for solving mana issues? I need to constantly curse and spawn Dark Effigy, and while i can just spam mana flask while mapping that doesnt work on bosses

[sacred sail]

wondering if rage is that worth it with slam, don't think so

not like I'm stacking ton of hit and bosses die fast

probably good in endgame

[scenic dawn]

Any able to help me decide which ascendancy I should pick honestly unsure of which I’d benefit from more

[dry marten]

Hey there all dont know if im supposed to ask here in this channel but does anyone know a loot filter for the witch ? i dont know how to make one for it. Or if there are multiple builds for the witch.

[stable turtle]

Anyone know if minion damage passives contribute to raging spirits damage?

[trim forge]

Definitely not for slammers since rage wants you to build up rage quickly

[scenic dawn]

I’m currently running mercenary and prioritising building my ice skill/permafrost bolt and getting damage off that, would gemling be better as I can increase the quality or?

[trim forge]

And maces arent exactly quick

And axe masteries point towards rage based builds

[mental briar]

Can’t rn

[worn kelp]

are the stormweaver tempests any good? going cold on mine but haven't unlocked ascendancy yet

[mental briar]

According to Google

[sacred sail]

let's go, need to farm gold for respecing points, lot of them

[stable turtle]

Anyone know if minion damage passives contribute to raging spirits damage?

[desert hedge]

can someone pls explain to me the differences between the Mercenary ascentions?

[still rock]

Yes

They are minions

[loud summit]

Anybody tried a phys damage monk? So life/mana leech actually works? Like a stun based monk build?

[brisk hemlock]

Does this game heavily penalize you for building the wrong skills? (Better off just starting a new character)

[still rock]

Skills? No. Passive tree? Somewhat, but far less than PoE1

[sacred sail]

you can farm gold to respec anyway unlike poe 1 where you just screwed until you get to endgame

[still rock]

This game has a rather fluid skill system tbh I'm v happy with it aside from my luck in getting more support sockets lol

[trim forge]

You can respec with gold on poe1 btw

[sacred sail]

yeah I forgot 😅

[pseudo condor]

there is no gold in PoE1??

[still rock]

There is now

[tropic river]

here's a new tree I made for you if you want to copy it with same number of points as you have, it should have both better damage and survivability than your original tree, less damage than the first tree I posted but much better defense than it, as you can see it's a single point away from the keystone, so you get that next level, having a single point in rage is kinda nice imo just because that alone can fully stack rage, but it can be skipped

[sacred sail]

they just added it

[pseudo condor]

ohh. weird, I guess testing for PoE2

[scenic dawn]

I’m currently running mercenary and prioritising building my ice skill/permafrost bolt and getting damage off that, would gemling be better as I can increase the quality or?

[serene thicket]

Hello !
Hope everyone is enjoying the game !
I got a question regardless the Blasphemy meta skills gems.
It say that it convert curse socketed inside into an aura around you. Ok so, can we support the curse inside the meta skill gems ? It doesn' seems very understandable to be honest unlike Poe1... I tried several support gems like 'Expanse', 'Magnified Effect' or 'Heightened curse' and it change nothing beside the reservation while you got 'Heightened curse'... Why and how ?
If someone got the answers, greatly apprecitaed !

[brisk hemlock]

Diablo 2 at the start had zero respecs. You misclick the wrong button your character is ruined forever.

Some games have insanely expensive respecs

[trim forge]

Gemling sounds like an endgame scaler imo

You want your ascendancy to benefit you immediately

Considering how hard campaign is atm

[still rock]

Assuming Gemli gets 30% gem qual

Which I hope is true

[frigid ermine]

What is the earliest guaranted gem that I can make to CoS for my monk ?

[trim forge]

That's a big possibility yes

[frigid ermine]

Is it in act3 only?

[burnt cairn]

Does anyone know if the aftershock passive are bugged? They are not increasing aftershock chance

[trim forge]

But nobody's really taking gemling atm, peopel are speedrunnign to maps to grind currency to eventually get money to test things around

[thorn abyss]

anyone know if using spark and then a cast on shock + arc would work? Or does spark not inherently shock anything

[still rock]

Which passives

[sacred sail]

thanks a lot. I just got a crazy shield and a crazy one handed mace 😭 game is evil

[sonic shuttle]

Do we lose fire, cold and lighning resistance like in poe 1?

[prisma blaze]

10% per act yes

[pseudo condor]

thank you! I couldnt find that in game, but I knew I was missing some...

[sonic shuttle]

what, I didnt realise that, so if Im act 3 ive already lost 20%?

[prisma blaze]

yep

[young tendon]

can someone explain power charges?

[still rock]

Sorry to repeat a question from earlier but what planners are you guys using atm? I'll use PoEdb for now but would rather have access to saving the sheet as a named file somewhere on an account or something

[burnt cairn]

Split the earth and mace aftershock chance

[pseudo condor]

I know they modify some abilities! Like Bone..channel.. whatever it is will consume them and get a lot more powerful

[burnt cairn]

Split the earth and mace aftershock chance dont seem to do anything or reflect on aftershock percentage

[wind tulip]

@dawn spire do you think a melee chronomancer could somehow be pulled off right now? Maybe not easy being limited to maces but I don't know. And if so, which melee skills would make sense there? Maybe combine it with lightning warp (though I see no good synergy there)... maybe freeze hybrid?

[deft mirage]

does anyone know if you fail ascendancy on hardcore it counts as dying?

[wind tulip]

not sure if something similar existed in poe1

[still rock]

Can you show detailed tooltip of skill before taking the passive and after?

I'm assuming you are using a mace

[shrewd hazel]

Im fairly certain power charges do nothing unless you have something that says it uses power charges.

[tropic river]

after the keystone I'd get these 4 nodes at the start, then whatever you want, good luck!

[polar pike]

guys does any 1 know aobut the support gm leverage?
is this a 50% inc crit chance? or 50% flat crit chance?

[reef viper]

50% inc, so if 5% base, 7.5% is the result

[young tendon]

how can i check i got power charge? or how can i get them?

[sacred sail]

thanks ! too bad we can't generate endu charge

[rancid cipher]

Are there any nodes in the passive Sorcerer tree that convert mana to some form of shield? Something that would allow my mana to absorb some of the incoming damage. Trying to look but it's just so massive and the keyword "mana" pops up a ton. hah

[polar pike]

ty

[still rock]

Correct, charges don't have inherent bonuses anymore. Those bonuses were reworked into a persistent buff called Charge Infusion

They are also used as a resource for some skills

[burnt cairn]

beofre and after

Same aftershock chance and I am using maces

[tropic river]

if you want a really easy way to guaranteed generate them on command you can use Magma barrier, it's a spirit gem, it's pretty slow though but you can read it urself

[burnt cairn]

If this is a bug, where would I report it

[still rock]

Are you using aftershock support?

[dry pagoda]

Does toxic growth work with Lacerate? Does the explosion count as a "hit"? Mobs die so fast and it´s only a 30% chance I have a hard time seeing it

[burnt cairn]

Im not sure what that is

[lime stratus]

guys is cold cast on freeze comet the best possible build?

[burnt cairn]

if its a support gem I do not use it

[lime stratus]

i saw sorcs runing it but i realized u can run it on monk also but it isnt very monk like

[noble scaffold]

Do skeletal arsonist inherently do fire damage with their bomb throws?

or is it physical damage

[upbeat flicker]

Any suggestions for herald of thunder support gems?

[still rock]

Are you getting it from Earthbreaker (the passive from Titan)

[dawn spire]

Imo, hammer of the gods has potential. My original bow idea came crumbling after I respecced into time snap (tldr getting frenzies for barrage is hard).

But time snap refreshes all uses, so pondering second wind hammer of the gods or some kinds of grenadomancer

[burnt cairn]

The 20% that I have is from earthbreaker yes

maybe it doesnt stack??

[dawn spire]

But yeah, melee chronomancer sounds sick. It's so ridiculously tanky with recoup + 20% slow + temporal rift.

Bonus points if you use blasphemy temp chains

[still rock]

Assuming from the tooltip, if you're using Aftershock Support or Earthbreaker, you get 20% static chance to aftershock, these passive nodes for mace nodes are not "increasing" that value, only adding a flat static amt from 0, so if you take out Earthbreaker you should theoretically have an 18% chance to aftershock with mace attacks.

That's my assumption, at least

This would work differently if it said "increases"

[burnt cairn]

Oh gotcha. I understand. That sucks that it doesnt stack like that

[sacred sail]

@rancid cipher here you go some talk about melee sorc

[swift aspen]

on monster resistances... can you bring them below zero? does cold exposure have any effect if the monster has zero resists?

[burnt cairn]

there are not many aftershock nodes so I was hoping this would work

[still rock]

Yeah idk, I'd have to play with it in game but that's just my assumption from the wording

Does kinda suck

Probably in there for if you aren't a titan or not taking that node

[serene thicket]

Quick question
Does this skill points work with Blasphemy meta skills gems ?
Curious to know and don't mind share a link where you find the info. Thank's and happy gaming

[burnt cairn]

Understood, yes that makes sense. Thank you for the help.

I was really confused lol

[dawn spire]

Blasphemy curses are still curses. All curse aoe still affects them

[serene thicket]

Yep but it says 'radius' not 'area of effect'

[prisma blaze]

Has anyone been able to figure out if penetration applies before or after effects like flammability/the other curses and exposure?

[serene thicket]

"The curse is now an aura around you with a base radius of 1 meter."

[worn kelp]

is Tempest Caller any good for a more cold oriented sorceress? just ascended

[dawn spire]

All areas of effect have a radius

[still rock]

Radius is just the measurement of your area - area of effect increases will increase the radius

[quaint python]

best element for merc?

[cedar charm]

What should dps be at lvl 15 and how do I raise it?? I’m at like ~100 barely 😬

[dawn spire]

The game is 72 hours old. If anyone tells you what the best anything is, I'd be highly skeptical

[serene thicket]

Thank's ! I'll keep the answer and try by myself then !

[dawn spire]

We don't have dps benchmarks and might never have them. Try to upgrade your gear, put runes in stuff, and make sure you're using supports that benefit your goal of the build

[radiant yarrow]

if I have increased lightning damage (I think it's gonna be about 150%), will it work on flicker strike if I use crackling staff?

[wind tulip]

sounds like fun, thanks for the input

[quaint python]

thats fair but its fairly easy to look for synergies between skill tree and ascendancy nodes and whatnot. i just started a merc so i want hoping some merc mains had some insights

[wind tulip]

whoops you're here, sorry for the tag

[worn kelp]

is Tempest Caller any good for a more cold oriented sorceress? just ascended

[still rock]

(I've experimented this already and it does increase the radius, btw - as does support gems inside blasphemy supporting the curse also inside blasphemy)

[dawn spire]

Flicker strike (and all attacks) use the base damage of your weapon. If your weapon does lightning or you convert to lightning, that increased lightning damage will apply

[wind tulip]

hm, would you bother making a quick concept of the skill tree for melee chronomancer? not sure if you could do a rough idea in 1 or 2 minutes or if it's too much work lol

I'm a complete beginner when it comes to making my own builds

[cedar charm]

Thanks, are runes easy to come by later? I haven’t found many and have been nervous to put them in low lvl gear if they can’t be removed

[polar zealot]

does having 1% quality instantly give me 100% extra poisoning damage , this description is pretty confusing

[dawn spire]

Merc has generic elemental damage very close by. Mercenary is close to pretty much everything but minion nodes (and even still has a cluster nearby). All classes can use all gems and gear. I'm playing a bow chronomancer and just picking up projectile and attack nodes. The nodes on the tree are very generic in most cases and can support loads of different skills

[warped berry]

Does charge infusion count as consuming a charge for the passive nodes that give me bonuses if a charge was consumed recently, cause perpetual charge doesn't support it so I'm worried it doesn't count

[dawn spire]

Runes are plentiful, sockets/artificer orbs are not. I recommend picking up all gear with sockets so you can salvage them for artificer shards

[serene thicket]

Wow thank's !
So, how interact support gems likes 'Expanse' which increase area of effect but add cooldown ? Does the aura has a cooldown ?

[dawn spire]

I'm on mobile at work, so not anytime soon lol

[zinc cipher]

Where do i see how much stunt treshhold i have?

[still rock]

@serene thicket The radius is basically inherited from the curse, so without any investment it is very very low so you're kinda forced to invest into inc AoE% for blasphemy to be useful outside of melee

Expanse does not work

[tropic river]

you didn't ask me and I don't have a tree, but 99% likely you just want to path to monk's part of the tree right away and do a "normal" melee monk quarterstaff build from there, but with chronomancer instead

[dawn spire]

Read the yellow text on that gem, I believe it'll say something about what types of skills it can support

[still rock]

I don't have any indication as to why it does or doesn't work, but it doesn't from my experiment.

[wind tulip]

hm, is that where you'd get recoup from?

[still rock]

Although, Magnified Effect does

[zinc cipher]

how comes it dont show me how much stunt treshhold i have?

[still rock]

My guess is that cooldown supports cannot support auras so it cancels it out

[upbeat flicker]

Would anyone have some suggestions on support gems for herald of thunder?

[sacred sail]

any cool unique for slam ?

[dawn spire]

It replaces the text already on the gem, essentially. 20% quality would be 110% of poison damage. 1% quality would do nothing (since it goes up by 1% damage every 2% quality)

[vagrant surge]

Does anyone know if life regeneration rate work on recoup now?

[strange stratus]

Ok new atm and just realized iv been running a witch build on sorc after I completed the trail for asendecy is thier a way for me to buy skill gems to switch builds😭

[wind tulip]

would that also be your idea? head towards monk and go for some kind of a quarterstaff build?

[dawn spire]

The character panel seems to be a work in progress.

[wind tulip]

ah no, I'd actually like to use a mace, not sure if that works

[serene thicket]

Thank's @dawn spire and @still rock for the answers !
Hope it will be usefull for others ! It was very clear for me so thank's and good luck !

[zinc cipher]

ahh, gotcha

[wind tulip]

('d like to use a sword but... :x)

[austere forge]

you can go back to a previous map and farm a bit to drop them

[polar zealot]

so at 0% quality it already does the 100% additional poison damage?

[fringe cape]

Does anyone know if you can stack the arcane surge passive in ascendancy with the gem that gives arcane surge?

[dawn spire]

Nah, I'd probably go hammer of the gods if anything. One hander and shield with some kind of way to build power for HotG and weapon swap to a meaty two hander for the nuke

[still rock]

No, they are identical buffs and do not stack

[fringe cape]

ty

[sonic shuttle]

When do we get higher level support gems?

[dawn spire]

Or, if I'm not going cooldowns, I'd probably have to check the skills. I haven't read any melee skills except HotG tbh

[old fox]

is there any way to socket multiple auras into one skill slot row?

[dawn spire]

I got tier 2 around the middle of act 3. I'm in cruel 1 and still t2

[tropic river]

making mace melee chronomancer work is unironically going to probably take a minimum lv 80 character, it could be good, but you're better off playing a normal sorc build untill endgame and then expirement, and I'm assuming you don't have a lv 80 sorc but maybe you do in which case good luck

[old fox]

otherwise spirit seems incredibly useless

[sonic shuttle]

Hmm okay

[tardy bobcat]

Do the Forking Projectiles and Split Shot nodes inherently cause shots to fork? Or do you need something to cause the initial fork first? I assume the latter because of the wording, but I can't find any notables that enable forking in the passive tree so I wasn't sure

[dawn spire]

Correct

[sharp sable]

does anyone know if the font of blood gem works with demon form?

[wind tulip]

hm, haven't played around with weapon swaps at all yet, sounds like you'd play 1h+shield and automatically swap to 2h for HotG? I know that would work if it's a skill that's directly on the weapon (is it?)

[quaint python]

I keep hearing that focusing on Freeze is a good idea. Might give it a go. Thus far, I have focused only on Lightning

[wind tulip]

if it's from the skill tree I'm not sure how you make the character swap weapons

select 2nd path only for hotg?

[dawn spire]

You can assign skills to sets manually. Go to dps and check the marks at the bottom.

[wind tulip]

oh I see, thanks

[dawn spire]

Helps me immensely for using orb of storms with my cast speed staff

[still rock]

The 9 given skill slots is intentional for that reason - there is a ring base type called Unset Ring which gives you an additional skill slot to balance the investment cost of wanting to run many skills

[dawn spire]

And then raining lightning rods

[wind tulip]

unfortunately not lol

[old fox]

thats so BROKE

[wind tulip]

I feel like sorc is struggling a bit when it comes to build diversity

[civic charm]

are totems allies?

[old fox]

Invoker Monk is built around combos and Auras

you can barely fit enough skills for the measly 6 skills on the action bar

leaving you with 2 auras

[still rock]

Early Access rn just means a low amt of gems to use so this is certainly just a temporary thing.

[old fox]

each costing like 30/60 spirit

[humble nebula]

Does Pyromantic Pact increase my fre spell damage or just replace the mana ?

[dawn spire]

I'm so confused by this. You can take any build and do it on chrono as long as it's not dependent on specific ascendancy nodes. And chrono will just be way tankier, basically

[old fox]

even after linking them with worthless support gems i have like 100 spirit left over

[still rock]

There's 13 on PC with ctrl modifier

[wind tulip]

yea but it seems like stormweaver is just what everyone is going for because it's... better?

[dawn spire]

Hold alt and hover over totem and/or ally

[wind tulip]

if you're a good player you can probably play with a lot of builds but the game is hard enough already

[rough crystal]

Did they invert tier for modifiers? I found t1 to have lesser stats than t8

[wind tulip]

so people would graviate towards the "meta builds" I guess

[manic helm]

guys were can i find titan sunder slam build? im new to poe

[dawn spire]

People that think storm weaver is better haven't unlocked the art of temporal rift usage

[old fox]

i have like 50 skills on world of warcraft, and i use all of them

this game is for brainlets or what

spam 5 button

[still rock]

Also, auras don't have to be on your action bar, you toggle them from your skill window

I think you're just misinterpreting the game's mechanics tbh

[dawn spire]

Poe is a game about figuring out which 5 buttons to use and how to support them out of hundreds of options. The gameplay is almost certainly easier than high end raiding in wow

[still rock]

PoE2 has a far greater engagement in combat with multiple skills vs PoE1, to be fair

[brisk hemlock]

@still rockMain reason being, names are so hard to come by, so I'd rather avoid remaking the same character/class

[old fox]

i have 9 skills

[civic charm]

I see , I want to to do a warbringer totem build but dunno if Ancestral spirit is a minion allly or a totem

[old fox]

idk how you have 13

[wind tulip]

poe caters to the masses though, mythic raids do... not, and normal+heroic in WoW are a complete joke

[dawn spire]

Ah, I see. When you ascend you can hold alt and read them before you ascend, if that's any consolation 😛

[still rock]

Hm?

[proven umbra]

iam playing srs infernalist but my cast on death isnt activating flamewall, any ideas why?

[dawn spire]

Some skills are "in use" in the background, like auras. They're still skills, though

[civic charm]

Yeah guess will see Its but dunno what its actual tags are does it scale with totem or minion nodes, dunno how strong that "minion" from spirits are

[old fox]

i know how the game works, im almost level 70

the game is just horribly designed in relation to skills

[brisk hemlock]

In regards to respeccing vs making a new character. Someone called as you responded to me earlier

[radiant yarrow]

do you know how it compares to charged staff with both at 7 power charges? It can use all strike on a single enemy for just a boss right?

[dawn spire]

Does holding alt over the minion tell you anything?

[swift aspen]

what don't you like about skill design? I appreciate how everything is tagged so it indicates what will be affected by things

[still rock]

3 on top, 5 on bottom, the bottom 5 change to another 5 with holding ctrl = 13

[vital hornet]

I'm starting to hate Wall of Fire. It is great for spawning SRS, but the fire clutters the screen so much. I wish we had more options for minions besides SRS.

[ashen roost]

This finally made my build feel strong XD

[dawn spire]

Not a clue. I'm but a humble level 50 chronomancer texting away furiously at work

[muted lynx]

any general guidelines / tips for a leap slam build? ty!

[radiant yarrow]

all g, thanks anyways

[civic charm]

not really guess ill see what happens later on

[manic helm]

guys i need help pls

[old fox]

thats nonsensical what you are saying, i can socket 9 skills in the skill menu

[wind tulip]

yea that's just gg

and I feel like sorc is REALLY dependant on that stuff

[old fox]

why do you count the empty action bar slots as skills LOL

[ashen roost]

It started as a magic item with the +4 skill

[still rock]

Ah, yeah I'm not quite sure how easy it is in this game to respec an entire character yet since I haven't gotten that far but traditionally (PoE1) if you're doing something wildly different with a different build it's better to create a new character entirely. That just depends on how much you're changing from the intial build

[manic helm]

guys were can i find titan sunder slam build? cant seem to find any currently

[old fox]

i think gemling legionnaire is the only playable class in this game, because you get extra skills

[swift aspen]

well casters don't have to worry about accuracy or weapon damage, but they're very reliant on skill level and sustain

[dawn spire]

Chrono can have three ascendancy skills, plus you can have two from your weapons. 9+5 = 14
Checkmate atheists

[orchid current]

you do not need the extra skills lmao

[radiant yarrow]

is there any way to take off your basic attack, like mine is quarterstaff strike but I have no need for it

[quaint python]

afaik youd just want to farm up some gear for the swap, spend the gold to respec, and done

[swift aspen]

click the skill and change it on bottom right

[still rock]

Because there is an item to increase that number and you also get skills from your weapon, and some asendancies gain skills from their passives

[dawn spire]

Left click the button it's bound to and replace it

[radiant yarrow]

yeah but I need the slot in the menu

[swift aspen]

but it'll visually always be there when you press G because it's granted to you

[ashen roost]

I was considering the left side of blood witch but the idea of having infinite duration curses seems really good compared to the last two on crit blood path

[brisk hemlock]

I was thinking I might want to be prepared to just ditch characters as complete failures since the respec would be too expensive

[swift aspen]

you can't have that slot in the menu

[radiant yarrow]

damn

[swift aspen]

it's not yours!

[wind tulip]

not a huge fan of them removing weapon dmg from wands that would scale with spelldmg because that just makes you super reliant on spelldmg mods

[orchid current]

if you're actively rotating between more than 9 active skills your build either deals insane damage or your rotation sucks

[dawn spire]

Oh, the weapon slots don't take up actual skill gem slots, so it wouldn't help you anyway

[quaint python]

i dont think we have enough info on how easy goldfarming is in the endgame to say for sure

[brisk hemlock]

We don't even have swords in the game yet, so they might make completely different builds

[rough folio]

looking for a good Witch summon minions starter build thanx

[vital hornet]

You mean base crit chance becoming 15% ?

[solemn island]

Is it a unique or a passive that let's you do splash damage with single target skills?

[solemn roost]

dumb question but do the passive health regen skills work when you dont have health regen mods in your items ? ... like "Extreme rejuvenation" and the other life regen passives (10% health regen) ?

[ashen roost]

Yeah. The ability to put lightning res down + enemy dmg down on a boss once at the start (they drain mana and HP by a lot to reapply)

[dawn spire]

There are some mace base types that make your strike skills deal splash damage, I think

[strong frost]

are there any levelling uniques I should be trying to get? I am a sorceress level 15

[dawn spire]

It depends on what the node says.

"Increased life regeneration" goes off of existing regen and does nothing on its own.
"Regenerate X% of life per second" gives you regen

[solemn ledge]

anybody know how Zealot's Oath and Eternal Youth stack? Does the "energy shield does not recharge" from Zealot's Oath also affect Life Recharge too?

[still rock]

Don't all melee attacks inherently do an area of effect by the nature of the attack's animation? Or is this additional splash dmg on top of that is what you're asking

[swift aspen]

anyone know how monster resistances works? specifically can we inherently drop them into the negatives, or if they're at zero does elemental exposure have any effect?

[dawn spire]

Hold alt and hover over "life recharge" on eternal youth

[pastel coyote]

you can shred res beyond 0 yes

[solemn roost]

thanks, i wasnt sure about that

[orchid current]

from some half assed testing reducing below 0 works but you cannot pen below 0

[solemn island]

From what I saw, sounds like additional splash damage, like a 360 thing instead of weapon path

[orchid current]

which makes stormweaver kind of insane because i can easily get exposure to be -66% res

[still rock]

#2┃build-planning message

#2┃build-planning message

[pastel coyote]

this is confirmed from one of the interviews pre-release, so dw your testing went crazy

[vital hornet]

Fair enough.

[orchid current]

ah i didn't have time to see all the interviews

[solemn ledge]

Yeah it says modifiers to recharge rate and how fast it starts also applies, but is "energy shield does not recharge" effectively just a 0% rate multiplier? Since it doesn't specifically say rate im not sure

[still rock]

Penetrate stops at 0% in PoE2, so it depends on the monster's resistances if it's valuable or not. Exposure and curse reductions always work, though.

[orchid current]

that does mean that pen and shred are kinda exclusive ways to boost damage

because if you shred below 0 then you get 0 pen

[pearl sluice]

What is a "during a flask effect"? I took a node that increases damage "during a flask effect". I assumed this was while drinkning a flask, but I have the "show flask effect icons" checked in options, and don't get any buff/effect while drinking flask. Am i misinterpreting this?

[ashen roost]

I seem to be critting enough for the blood orbs already to drop so I'm thinking that double curse + inf duration might be more impactful

[small ember]

there isn't any way to change ascendency?

[orchid current]

nope

[ashen roost]

Yes. New character

[cedar river]

gas arrow vs gass grenades, which playstyle is less clunky?

[vital hornet]

I think it is for spells with low base crit chance.

[dawn spire]

I would wager it would entirely prevent life recharge, but that's a good point

[still rock]

Yes, but later game bossing pen will probably still be useful since they'll (most likely) have more resistance than you can possibly remove via exposure and curses

But not against normal mobs

[ashen roost]

My main boss move is arc and I use inevitable critical gem on it

[neat laurel]

does this apply to poison damage, its on a quiver ?

[dawn spire]

Flat damage cannot get added to poison damage (or any dot for that matter). But flat physical damage on a hit will help you inflict poison of a greater magnitude

[orchid current]

idk man i'm in act 3 with -98% res from frost bomb + frostbite

unless overcapped resists are a thing on mobs

[neat laurel]

and if the way I inflict poison is without any hits ?

I use gas arrow

[still rock]

Multiple sources of exposure don't stack

It takes the highest value

[orchid current]

curse is not exposure

[pastel coyote]

thats exposure + curse

[still rock]

Ah word

[azure maple]

What do i do with the mushrooms in act 3?

[still rock]

Yeah maybe pen just sucks ass then

[dawn spire]

I don't know how gas arrow works off the top of my head. Read it and see how it inflicts poison. If it says something like, "Poisons as tho dealing X damage" then your base damage doesn't help

[orchid current]

nah i think its just stormweaver going crazy lmao

[vital hornet]

Huh, I think my Witch is the opposite. Infernalist with Fire/Ice. Ice Bomb hits like a truck.

[orchid current]

i think the 20% extra shred is before exposure modifiers

[pastel coyote]

pen feels useful for me on monk

[still rock]

I like penetration being a decision, though, rather than something you always slap on

[dawn spire]

Find the witch with a cauldron in the same zone

[pastel coyote]

or especially rn bc i cant actually fit a -res curse

[forest ravine]

Yeah flat phys makes gas arrow do more damage

[pastel coyote]

so i have exposure + pen getting res down to 0 rather than playing for pure negative

[forest ravine]

With it's poison

[azure maple]

I forgot what zone do u remmber

[dawn spire]

Apex of filth I wanna say, but I'm not sure. You should see a little icon on your map (U) of a cauldron or a mushroom to tell you what zone

[azure maple]

oh yea thanks

[still rock]

Yeah true, depends on the investment cost and how much availability for -res there will be in the future. They went kinda off the deep end with it in PoE1 towards later patches

[orchid current]

cauldron/hag spawns in the top left of the region

[ashen roost]

I use unleash on ball lightning to throw out three orbs then spam warp on them then I'm able to execute warp spam any stragglers. About 1k DPS per warp at the moment so a quick 3-6k aoe

[still rock]

As of now it's useful if you're not Stormweaver, ig

[dawn spire]

Yeah, exposure/-res always happens before pen is applied

[orchid current]

we remember sap of seasons abuse

the fact that ggg had to cap it to 200% pen should be an indication that something was amiss

[still rock]

PoE2 is a culmination of all the pitfalls they learned from PoE1 that they couldn't realistically change due to its scope

[orchid current]

in the meantime i need another spirit gem to get herald of ice

ggg plz buff drop rates

[still rock]

I have extra if you're on trade

[orchid current]

im not at home and im out for lunch so its fine

im mostly complaining in chat

[grave prairie]

Whats the effect of blind? Or how to check?

[dawn spire]

Hold alt

[orchid current]

blind should have hover text (actually so useful)

[still rock]

I've been unlucky with the support gem socket currencies so far but I'm not far at all

[grave prairie]

Ack

[orchid current]

nah jewelers are kinda rare not just you

[dawn spire]

Can we get a "!alt" command or something

[azure maple]

Is hideout/grand exchange out yet?

[still rock]

They should add it to some tooltip when you create a new character on how to work the UI because it was only instantly obvious to me because I play a shit ton of Paradox games

[grave prairie]

Oh shit, ok so if I press alt I can get info on highlighted words. Game changer 🙂

[dawn spire]

There a currency exchange in act 3 I wanna say

[azure maple]

at the hideout?

[sonic shuttle]

This is so op