2┃build-planning

[lyric plank]

Nope get fucked

[dawn spire]

You can click on the words to pop them into little movable windows as well

[orchid current]

"hold alt to inspect" is definitely a gamerism that you need to learn

[still rock]

Alt, click underlined text works you can basically pop open an encyclopedia on your screen if you want

[sonic shuttle]

Is there a cap to skill gem levels?

[grave prairie]

Amazing

[fossil reef]

Heyo, building war-
Does zerocrit 100%hit + bleed damage lifesteal work in this game?
Or should I get more creative

[orchid current]

the one time it sucks is in sanctum where you can accidentally click honor and it pops out a tab mid fight

[dawn spire]

I don't think we know yet. It was 40 in Poe1 (but they stopped leveling normally at 20)

[orchid current]

bleed cannot leech

[exotic mantle]

Do staves and scepters have no rune mods?

[orchid current]

i think they're going pretty hard with gem levels in poe2

[still rock]

me when im learning

[torn root]

I really hope stormweaver sorc ends up being good

[dawn spire]

Hold alt over a rune. They can only go in martial weapons

[grave prairie]

Is blind a curse though?

[dawn spire]

Hold alt over curse

[torn root]

I really do not want to focus one element

[exotic mantle]

Yeah but they're not martial weapons right?

[orchid current]

i've seen someone with a +6 staff and my ammy at ilvl 12 has a +(1-2) to all spell skills

[dawn spire]

Hold alt over martial weapon

[orchid current]

+10 gem levels from just crafting gear seems legit (though hard)

[exotic mantle]

Bro I don't need you to tell me to hold alt 😭

[still rock]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Elemental_Conflux

[exotic mantle]

I noticed none of my runes can go into staves

[still rock]

made for you specifically

[exotic mantle]

I was asking if there are runes that go into them

Or they just can't have runes

[dawn spire]

Yes, and you can deduce why by holding alt on a rune and then on martial weapon

Oh, I see

[sleek cliff]

Got a question for the warrior bonk brothers
“Avatar of fire” big node
Can i still use bleed then or is all of that gone?-

[dawn spire]

No, there are no ways to socket nonmartial weapons as far as I know

[exotic mantle]

Fair I guess, they do come with a skill

[torn root]

So every 8 seconds, the buff changes and applies to a new element? Sorry, new to POE and dont have much arpg experience

[tropic steppe]

Anyone playing chayula monk and is doing great ? I need some enlightement

[dawn spire]

You can read an artificer orb to learn that, I think

[still rock]

Yeah seems like they are erring towards giving + levels instead of an overwhelmingly high amt of different sources of increases and conversions and more % and extra. Probably will be easier to balance this way

[torn root]

I just really love the idea of a fire&ice sorc or a fire&lightening sorc. But people have told me to focus on one element and I dont have the insight or long term experience to understand why that may be

[frozen knot]

whats the best single target fire spell atm

[orchid current]

i hear lifesprig gives +3 all

[still rock]

1-3

[orchid current]

ah its a roll

[still rock]

i got +1 xD

[viral notch]

I look in to a build using "Elemental Invocation", but I can´t seem to unlock it. I´m lvl 22, when will I be able to unlock it?

[still rock]

[dawn spire]

For hit, ignite, or something else?

[strong otter]

If you have a minion that doesn't have a particular skill tag (e.g. "AoE") but does have a cast abliity that's clearly AoE, does an AoE support gem affect the skill?

[marble slate]

any merc players that aren't grenade-build? is there anything else viable for mercs

[frozen knot]

hit

[orchid current]

chat what spirit gems should i consider if im already planning on cast on freeze + herald of ice

[still rock]

In PoE it is far easier to bucket your damage types because it's easy to scale just fire damage then it is to scale all three elements due to the availability of just getting one damage type vs three

[dawn spire]

Also, it's been three days. Anyone who tells you that anything is "the best" is trying to sell you something

[inland leaf]

Planning to reroll (to play with a friend + broke last build). Want to try ranged instead of lightning sorc. Anyone can recommend solit builds for ranged?

[still rock]

But they have things like Elemental Conflux to experiment with scaling more than just one

[snow sierra]

Chronomancer feels so bad damit..you might as well not have a acendency...only the "rollback" skill somewhat works as a gloriefied pot

[dawn spire]

I hear that raging spirits is pretty solid

[torn root]

Makes sense. Does POE 1 also have things like sparks picking up fire damage from going through flame wall or is that new as well?

[dawn spire]

Temporal rift is absolutely amazing imo. When you use it right it's basically immortality

[snow sierra]

yes it is carrying me until now

[ornate anvil]

Can anyone help me interpret how poison works?

The base magnitude of Poison is Chaos Ddamage per second, this is calculated using the final damage dealt by the Hit, but not any modifiers on the target that affect how much damage they will take from the Hit. This magnitude is not further affected by any modifiers to the damage you deal.
Modifiers and Debuffs that affect the enemys ability to mitigate damage (such as Shock) can affect the damage the enemy takes from Poison, buty any such modifiers that specifically apply to Hit damage (such as Penetration) do not affect poison damage.
What happens if i apply a poison on a fully broken armour enemy?
Does the poison damage increases because the physical hit will do more damage since theres no armor mitigation?

[dawn spire]

And the recoup+slow make any build insanely tanky

[frosty chasm]

god blood mage is so shit

[snow sierra]

ye its somewhat useable...after spending 100k on respeccing the points and testing i going all in on temporal rift

[orchid current]

chronomancer is definitely the "what if i simply didn't die" mage for sure

[dawn spire]

Yes, that's correct. Poison magnitude is based on the final damage of the hit that inflicted it

[still rock]

Flame Wall has always added extra fire damage to any projectile that passes through it, it's one of the more fun flavorful skills from PoE1 tbh

[gritty knot]

going chrono means you're borderline unkillable so you can focus everything else on damage. it is good.

[dawn spire]

"Dormamu, I've come to bargain"

[ornate anvil]

But what about this part:
this is calculated using the final damage dealt by the Hit, but not any modifiers on the target that affect how much damage they will take from the Hit. This magnitude is not further affected by any modifiers to the damage you deal

[radiant needle]

So after you defeat your first trial you get 2 ascension points, when so you get more or how do you get more?

[orchid current]

chat does it ever make sense to use eye of winter as my freezing skill for cast on freeze over frostbolt?

probably not right

[dawn spire]

Oh. I see. Hmm... What does broken armor say?

[orchid current]

the base damage is quite low

[still rock]

Probably not since frostbolt get freeze magnitude increase

[orchid current]

says its chill magnitude

[frosty chasm]

any1 else on blood mage struggling rn?

[dawn spire]

If you slow down its proj speed hits sooooooooo many more times it's nuts.

[old shuttle]

Got the unique fire quiver for pierce on burning targets. Do I wait til
I can make an actual fire build for it or should I just use that with Chaining + Shock arrows

[ornate anvil]

just this:

[unborn raven]

Is frozen vortex support gem not available right now? Build im following shows it, but i don't see it in any of the support gems available

[still rock]

Oh those are different now, right

[glacial bay]

I did not

[old shuttle]

Yeah it’s rough til ascendancy 2

[snow sierra]

dont take the first point until you have the second one

[frosty chasm]

fuckkkk its so baddd

[frosty chasm]

yeah i had to talk to the hooded mf to refund it

[old shuttle]

Yeah I should to unspec the drain

[dawn spire]

I don't think that counts as a modifier that affects how much they take. I think that would be something like "Increased damage taken" from a mark or something

[old shuttle]

Cast a curse and I lose 300 ho lol

[frosty chasm]

[dawn spire]

But I'm spitballing here@ornate anvil

[orchid current]

i kinda want to see if i can't make my cast on freeze stormweaver also crit (elemental storm is cool) but it feels dire

[still rock]

@orchid current Have you tried doing both ice nova then frost bolt in the same trigger? The ice nova triggers actually give more freeze buildup when triggered from frost bolt

[old shuttle]

I am so keen for infinite hypothermia though

[ornate anvil]

is there a way to get dev clarification?

[still rock]

Order would be frost bolt then ice nova i tink

[frank python]

Can i change the ascendancy?

[ornate anvil]

dunno if asking in support works

or if theres a channel lol

[torn root]

It's one of the more fun early game sorc combos for me personally so I understand. And I think starting out having the spark+fire wall combo and then trying to transition into only one element would be a back step in terms of how enjoyable my build will be to play.

I was thinking maybe if I can work the effects of freeze together with the dps of flame fussilade early on, that'd be a lot of fun. Something like that. But I'm a newbie so idk

[orchid current]

im doing cast on freeze with coldsnap rn

eventually going to pivot to comet

[frosty chasm]

is there a place to voice criticisms about blood mage

[torn root]

Especially when ignite doesn't stop freeze so they literally just can't move and are still taking DOT. Fire and ice sounds fun in theory in that sense

[dawn spire]

I believe a blocked hit still counts as you getting hit

[silent prawn]

feedback forum

[frosty chasm]

thx

[nova basin]

This might be a dumb question but if I am running galvanic shards would i want more phys damage on my crossbow or ele damage?

[still rock]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Frostfire

[orchid current]

spells have really high crit chance but i don't see many crit nodes near on the tree

[silent prawn]

still phys

[dawn spire]

Once you pick an ascendancy, you cannot change to the other one

[still rock]

There seems to be support for playing that way, you'd just have to figure out the rest lol

[steel heron]

does this mean i can use all fire spells and still chill/freeze?

[glacial bay]

So you mean my dreams of being an iron hedgehog are still possible

[azure maple]

Is it worth doing temple of chaos for the second time what do i get?

[dawn spire]

As long as you only fight melee enemies, sure (:

[old shuttle]

In fairness it’s like that in Poe

[torn root]

Hell yes that sounds sick! Thank you.

[old shuttle]

It’s just rough.

[dawn spire]

Two more ascendancy points, I think.

[frosty chasm]

it shouldnttt bee

[snow ridge]

anyone know there's a place with confirmed info for Ailment amounts? I'm seeing conflicting info about ailment durations an how much damage ignite does.

[dawn spire]

But I'm not sure

[azure maple]

loh wow

ok ill do it

[old shuttle]

Ikr but it do

[dawn spire]

Only if it's the next difficulty up

[unborn raven]

Is frozen vortex support gem not available right now? Build im following shows it, but i don't see it in any of the support gems available

its weird..

[orchid current]

wait why are these storm numbers kinda bad???

am i missing something

[dawn spire]

Did you check spirit gems as well?

[still rock]

Yes, should be so. But only for Chill, Freeze build up is separate from Chill

[torn root]

Freeze, frostfire, work on stacking freeze again. Rinse repeat. Fire wall to increase projectile damage in general. Somewhere to start

[lyric plank]

Yes

[silent prawn]

might not work on the skil in question

[mint surge]

Hello everyone is there a website or something i can see or learn how elemental combos synergies work ?

[unborn raven]

Yes its a support gem, doesn't take up spirit %

[nova basin]

Thanks for the reply. How can you tell that phys is better? trying to the learn the game. I know the text says it converts 40% phys to lightning damage. How much of ele damage would hit?

[dawn spire]

Holding alt over keywords is a good start

[unborn raven]

cliked show all available, and its not on the list

[azure maple]

Where the fuck is market actually

ive been looking for so long

[dawn spire]

And saving some uncut gems to read them all

[torn root]

Cold snap is apparently pretty good as well, someone in here told me ab it yesterday

[azure maple]

currency market

[dawn spire]

It might be act 1, actually. Talk to Finn?

[azure maple]

ooh ok

someone told me act 3 earlier

[civic charm]

whaat ascendancy you think would be good for a chaos like dot/explode build

[azure maple]

thanks

[unborn raven]

Yes it is! I'm trying to put frozen vortex on it, but its not showing up in the support gem tree D:

[quartz narwhal]

None of them right now

[civic charm]

Uhmm was going to try gemling but yeah none seem great

[mint surge]

Okay thank you

[quartz narwhal]

I assume GGG will add occultist or a chaos based shadow eventually

[old shuttle]

Probs gem dude. But that sounds like so much effort

[dawn spire]

Chronomancer, witch hunter, gemling, pathfinder, deadeye, titan, or infernalist

[torn root]

Wish I could help but I haven't even socketed my first support gem. Still learning how builds work lmao

[fringe ibex]

i'm assuming the extra damage as modifiers on weapons doesn't apply to chaos dots from essence drain skills

[dawn spire]

And chayula monk. Or invoker

[quartz narwhal]

No

[fringe ibex]

yea

[torn root]

How many free respecs do we get?

[fringe ibex]

wishful hoping i guess

[snow ridge]

yeah apparently multiple people are trying to find it and I havent found any threads about people actually figuring out hwo to get it.
It might not be in the game and only used in theorycrafting atm :[

[civic charm]

Acolyte of Chayula I think has something but dunno guess will think a bit more

[unborn raven]

I think it's a bug, or was left out

[dawn spire]

Dots cannot gain anything from flat damage

[old shuttle]

+1 Pierce quiver -> chain on a wall. This will double hit an enemy yeah?

[dawn spire]

It can, yeah

[old shuttle]

I cool. May f with that then

[lyric plank]

Ngl venders are where its at for loot fuck ground rrops

[wide folio]

does expanse and magnified more aoe area supports stack? im trying it on rain of arrows and see no difference between 1 and both

[silent prawn]

sorry you are in fact correct

[dawn spire]

They stack, yes

[snow ridge]

Full free respecs or respec points? Respec'ing invidiual points is far cheaper in POE2 but I am not aware of any free respecs atm

[unborn raven]

Weird, the IGN video for the build guide shows him using it which came out a few days ago

[snow ridge]

oh that is bizzarre.....

[dawn spire]

Lmao if they're using old footage

[still rock]

The reason you want a higher phys # from your weapon is because there is increased % of phys prefix, but there is not a similar affix for lightning, so you can get a higher number via solely focusing your xbow on phys and then converting it to lighting

[quartz narwhal]

Ed/c style chaos dot is just bad and not supported by any spec right now unless you want to go generic defense in which case Chrono, chayula, gemling are the only real options

[unborn raven]

prolly, its IGN 😄

[quartz narwhal]

Poison on the other hand is fine

[dawn spire]

Titan is also hella beefy

[torn root]

Oh okay okay thank you

[orchid current]

Btw is flat damage to spells gone?

Is this why gem levels are so common?

[dawn spire]

That's a good question. I don't recall seeing any

[torn root]

Understood. That sounds really good. Does frozen vortex contribute to freeze buildup?

[nova basin]

I see, thank you very much!

[civic charm]

yeah maybe ill wait a bit then

[quartz narwhal]

Yeah but tbh traveling to the top right of the tree from warrior is even more aids than genling

I am a chaos dot simp and I gave up on it until future EA updates

[snow ridge]

dont worry about it though. You unlock respeccing partway through Act 1 and it is VERY cheap (like 100 gold a point) at the start and gets more expensive per point as you level to scale with your increased gold gains

[dawn spire]

Doesn't ED dot scale with proj damage?

[quartz narwhal]

No

[dawn spire]

Hmm

[normal fable]

Hows warrior holding up on clears vs other classes?

[quartz narwhal]

The hit portion does but the dot doesn't

[still rock]

If you don't need those attributes then yes

[dawn spire]

By warrior, I assume you mean mace skills. I hear that casters and bows are ahead, but not by a massive amount

[civic charm]

thats interesting lmfao

[quartz narwhal]

ED only scales with +chaos and +spell

[copper finch]

I'm kinda dying quickly if I get overwhelmed, but if I play carefully mobs don't reach me

[torn root]

Oh I see. It's a slow effect not a full freeze. That seems really good. Freeze an enemy with shards+that one moving ice orb move that I forget the name of. Cold snap. Create a vortex that applies chill effect and slows the horde of mobs, rinse and repeat. That seems pretty decent.

[still rock]

The passive bonuses you gain from attributes themselves are mostly negligible, you would be more worried about losing access to another skill or item you have on

[torn root]

Freeze them again while they are moving slowly from chill. Cold snap. Massive damage good stuff

[still rock]

Get more life and resistances

Should pin that somewhere

[dawn spire]

Your biggest issue is that you're resists are absolutely terrible for level 48. Get sockets on your gear and get your fire/cold/lightning res up

You want to get as close to capped (75%) as you can

Prioritize life and resists on gear above all else

[copper finch]

I've been scrapping stuff with sockets, have 10 artificers at this point. Should I just start socketing ele res runes in my gear?

[still rock]

Yes

[last patio]

monk kinda seems like flicker strike is it's only hope, except flickerstrike sucks for bosses and is pretty limited for mobs given the available options

[dawn spire]

That's just incorrect. Mathil posted his monk video that's finished the campaign and doesn't use flicker strike

[last patio]

without flickerstrike you have to basically mow the screen down like a yard, whereas a sorc just takes it out all at once

[brisk hemlock]

Seeing conflicting information. Is every class=any weapon? I mean you could do this in Diablo 2, it would just make you very weak.

[last patio]

i'll check it out ty

[dawn spire]

There are no class restrictions on anything

[dawn spire]

I'm playing a bow chronomancer and loving it

[warm shadow]

did you find out? 😄

[maiden karma]

There is nothing fine about poison, cause for whatever fucking reason they thought that making the poison skills apply it without hitting the enemy would be a good idea

[still rock]

Assuming a class only has one option three days into release is silly, dont get caught up in the negative nancies everywhere

[torn root]

Smacking enemies up close with ice shards while they are standing on the ground effect from the ice orb freezes insanely quickly

[copper finch]

are these items worth socketing or should I look to replace smth?

[brisk hemlock]

Okay okay, ty guys.

[hollow idol]

Guys I don’t feel the build experimentation is there for this game, with it being so punishing due to the content demanding absolute optimization for your build, which would mean using only the select meta choices of skills even during the campaign

[dawn spire]

All of those are terrible except maybe the gloves

[solemn roost]

How often can you upgrade your gems (active skills) or whats the max level?

[loud trench]

If u use lead me through grace on monk, where u turn armor to spirit can u still get spirit from necklace?

[livid hamlet]

So how decent is blood mage witch?

[sterile spade]

can someone help me ? how do i get my crossbow to shoot multiple granade's at once ? currently it shoots only 1 mercenary

[wild stirrup]

Poison doesn’t care about armor right? Saw something saying to get the poison armor breaking for ranger but I thought it didn’t care about armor

[quartz narwhal]

I wasn't aware of this, do you mean like poison is being calculated before the hit portion of your attack and not doing the right damage?

[dawn spire]

Whenever you find a higher tier uncut gem. Highest tier is 20 I think

[copper finch]

Funny thing is that I thought that gloves should go first because of low evasion rating and stuff

[solemn roost]

Thank you 👍🏻

[rapid star]

For monk Invoker, i'm trying to build Cold Strike while using Charged Staff, but how do I consistently shock enemies to generate power charges for the buff?

[dawn spire]

No there are skills like the burst of poison burst arrow that "poison as though dealing X damage"

[static plinth]

Is there any point we're expected to cap our res?

[copper finch]

So are those 200 evasion rating or 100 shield stats not that good?

[torn root]

I think they'll tune it. I think one or two full free respecs would help this. I personally have 7 points I haven't spent on my tree yet because I just got the elemental section and I don't want to waste my gold experimenting. So you aren't alone

[loud trench]

If u use lead me through grace on monk, where u turn armor to spirit can u still get spirit from necklace?

[quartz narwhal]

I completely disagree, there literally is no meta and people are completing the campaign just fine on everything

[torn root]

I'm just going to go until I can no longer contend and maybe by then I'll have decided which way I want to specc

[maiden karma]

No, the dedicated poison applying bow skills just straight up apply the poison without a hit, like flame wall for example

[chrome maple]

anyone got idea why pohx has different nodes?

[still rock]

Artificers will be easy to come by later I imagine so using them now to make it through easier in the short term would probably pay off - you need to be focusing on resistance and life as most important stats on every item aside from weapon in early game (I see you prioritized life in these examples but not resistances)

[quartz narwhal]

Oh no...

[dawn spire]

Life and resists are the only stats that really matter for defense. Once you have capped resists then you can start worrying about stuff like evasion and Armour

[static plinth]

Witch vs Sorcerer start?

[chrome maple]

witch

[copper finch]

Ok, I understand now, thx for ur help

[dawn spire]

I'm rocking the campaign with bow chronomancer

[chrome maple]

blood mage

[thin basin]

4l act 5 final boss, literally 1 spell gaming

[fleet blaze]

PENETRATION AND EXPOSURE/CURSE QUESTION:

If mob had 75% cold res and I have 75% cold penetration with hits and I put a cold exposure on the enemy for -26%, how does this work?

[static plinth]

Then those shouldnt be Path of Fire/Lightning/Ice, they should be the phys/minion/chaos nodes

[maiden karma]

And getting the poison chance to actually do it with any other skills completely massacres your tree

[loud trench]

If u use lead me through grace on monk, where u turn armor to spirit can u still get spirit from necklace?

[dawn spire]

Exposure applies first and penetration can't go below 0%. So the mob would effectively have 0% res

[hollow swift]

Can anyone help me understand chaos? What does it actually effect as a witch? Just the auto attack I do with my wand with chaos bolt?

[quartz narwhal]

I guess I'll shelve any plans to play poison bow until they fix that

[timid cipher]

will this affect SRS?

[chrome maple]

yeah right

[still rock]

one sec I'll answer this with math when i get off the toilet

[dawn spire]

Hold alt over the chaos keyword or anything else you're using for more info

[fleet blaze]

Penetration explicitly states it can't go below 0% but exposure does not state this so if you pen their res to 0 and they have exposure is the calculation -26% ?

[pulsar cape]

Got a god rolled staff early on which sucks.

But this staff is unrivaled to everything i have ever gotten.

[dawn spire]

If you have an aura that affects your spirits, yes

But raging spirits is not, itself, an aura

[rapid star]

I tried to follow that for my monk, and now can't even clear the Second trial lol
For melees being able to avoid/tank regular hit form mobs is very important. prob gonna rerun the first trial so i can respec my ascendancy into more tanky nodes

[dawn spire]

Gear is hella important and I feel like people are often misattributing terrible gear as a problem with the class/skill

[pulsar cape]

I agree

[dawn spire]

And it's so hard to make a guide for how to gear up with all the variables

[charred wyvern]

is evasion something I should be looking to increase as a warrior?

[austere forge]

nope

[sterile spade]

what does 20 INT mean ? i have this on gloves and i dont have enough of it ?

[dawn spire]

If you want to, sure. What's your goal?

[pulsar cape]

Evasion is good for all classes

[dawn spire]

Hold alt over int

[maiden karma]

My PF is lvl 42 and quite literally the entire tree so far is just pathing to the poison nodes to get 40% chance, and the other 60% is from a support gem which you can't equip on any other skills

[austere forge]

nvm i was wrong lol

[sterile spade]

ooh ty

[charred wyvern]

Unsure first time not following a build in a game like this so just rying to see if I need to try and make it a priority for a general warrior build

Thanks everyone!

[pastel wasp]

What gems should i use on my arcenists tier 2 support gems available

[dawn spire]

Life and resists on gear will far outweigh armor, evasion, etc

[quartz narwhal]

GGG really needs to add a tutorial or something that explains why attack based builds need weapon upgrades every 5 levels or so otherwise you feel like you constantly flip flop between God mode and terrible as you progress through the game

[still rock]

Let's say you are dealing a sum of 100 cold damage with a hit:

• The mob has 75% cold res
• You give them 26% of cold exposure
• Now the mob has effectively 49% resistance
• You have 75% cold penetration
• Your hit gets calculated at a resistance of 0% since penetration cannot go below 0%
• You deal 100 cold damage

[charred wyvern]

cool that is what I am looking for, thank you!

[still rock]

I ordered it in the way the game would apply those numbers so it is easier to understand for other scenarios

[fleet blaze]

so im overcapped on Pen in this situation

[still rock]

In this particular one yes

[thin basin]

Is all the meta gem bugged? Level doesnt seem to increase any stats while db say they should be getting increased energy per level

[indigo sail]

What are the best sockets to put into armor and weapons for an infernalist fire minion witch?

[frosty hedge]

How tf do you build combos on monk? I cannot use my tempest bell. Level 21 atm.

[dawn spire]

The game is very new. I'd go with something that boosts one of your main skills. Basically whatever you want to make your build do better, pick it

[dawn spire]

Hold alt over combo keyword

[frosty hedge]

Currently not in game, but will that show me which skills combo with each other?

[dawn spire]

I'm not sure, but it definitely tells you how to build a combo

[lucid creek]

so basically, if I have the attributes to wear the gear, as long as it modifiers are good (hp, resists), I shouldn't worry too much if it gives me either armor, evasion or energy shield?

[sand stag]

does anyone know why i keep getting my spirit removed or put to 30 all the time with no way of getting it back to my 150 spirit without restarting

[charred wyvern]

What's the website everyone uses to see what prefixes and affixes can be rolled based on the item base type and ilvl?

[dawn spire]

Exactly

[frosty hedge]

Thanks bruh I’ll look into it.

[maiden karma]

Poe2db

[dawn spire]

Poe2db.tw might be it

[charred wyvern]

Thank you!!

[rose geyser]

Anyone noticing a spirit issue with some of the Life Remnant spirit gems not mathing correctly... I have 20 spirit to use but I can't place my level 3 support gem (herbalism) in life remnant even though it only reserves 15

is this a bug or am I missing something that's creating an extra cost

[copper finch]

ok is this one better bcs of spirit?

[still rock]

Low life roll and no resists

[gilded kiln]

what stats should i be looking for, for a quarterstaff

[still rock]

It's pretty imperative you focus on those two stats

[native burrow]

Can someone giv TLDR on how poison stacks. I'm tempted to put the Envenom support gem on my skeleton warrios, I have 9 of them. If they all gang up on an elite mob for example, I'm expecting a pretty big poison stack

[copper finch]

so I should really be looking for life resist, and only then everything else?

[still rock]

Yes

[little canyon]

Guys, could someone advice where to explore on my sorceress skill tree? Idk where to go (kept just getting nodes from the start since those all seem useful, might refund them if needed)

[dawn spire]

Armor = resistance runes until your ele resists are capped (75%)

[indigo sail]

Tyty.

[dawn spire]

I'd look at skills that seem interesting or fun and pathing toward nodes that support that skill and/or give you defensive layers

[little canyon]

so say I like fire ones a lot, would going here make sense? for a bunch of fire damage buffs

[still rock]

If you would summate the value of a chest armor based on what affixes are on it, you could have the highest tier of spirit, armor%, etc, etc and it would still be worthless until it had a high life roll and at least two decently rolled resistance mods

Those are the bare minimum for an item to be useful outside of particular scenarios you shouldnt be worried about in early/midgame

[dawn spire]

I'd also recommend taking as many useful notables (big nodes) and as few small nodes as possible (you have an unnecessary small node in that little diamond at the top of the starting area and an extraneous elemental node to the left of it)

[pastel wasp]

Im in the molten vailt and i cant kill the boss not eboufh dmg

[dawn spire]

Come back when you have more damage then

[copper finch]

last question, how do I know what area has which type of element on mobs?

[sly jay]

Is mercenary only grenades? I hate that skill, if it is, I'll switch

[copper finch]

so I can know what charm to use, as those give 25% res

[dawn spire]

You can't, really. Just hover over mobs as you go and try to learn

[copper finch]

I see

[dawn spire]

Use whichever is your lowest res, rare monsters can do any element regardless of monster type. I also like freeze or stun immunity

[still rock]

Just by playing you'll see which mob types are in which zones and eventually learn which mob types use abilities that deal certain damages. I would probably wager that most people are just going to use bleed and freeze charms

Because they're already res capped

Stun charm is nice yeah

The resistance charms are there to shore up what resistance you are lacking currently, so if you have, say 50% lightning res, running a lightning charm will help you until you cap that res via gear, then you can use the far greater utility from the other charms

[little canyon]

yeah I didn't know where to go and just got more from the starting area. The extraneous elemental node is 8% elemental damage, sounds like a lot, better respec it still? the ones in the center diamond all seems useful for critical damage/chance 🤔

[dawn spire]

All classes can use all gems/gear. I'd look at the ascendancy nodes and nearby clusters and go off of that

[dawn spire]

Small nodes are beneficial, yeah, but you might hit a situation where you could have a whole extra cluster with a notable if you didn't spend points on the small nodes. Everything is an opportunity cost. They're fine for now, but if you find yourself two points away from a good notable, I'd maybe respec them so you can get it sooner

[still rock]

One particular thing to note: chaos damage from mobs is more rare in the game and thus, chaos resistance is less valued than the three elemental resistances, so some people may run a chaos charm for particular zones that they already know have chaos damage types. Focus on the elemental resistances first, then worry about chaos with less priority

[ornate anvil]

@dawn spire do you know how ailment duration works? Less duration = more dps?

[still rock]

But it's still important

[dawn spire]

No. Unless it's specifically "deals damage faster". Lowering duration on its own doesn't raise dps

[native burrow]

Why is the game so stingy with lvl 1 support gems

[lucid creek]

I might be totally wrong but I feel like so many bosses are fire damage, it's crazy

[dawn spire]

To make them feel more impactful and poggers when one drops I guess.

[native burrow]

im in act 2, getting the Horn and i want to experiment with dumb shit 😂

[ornate anvil]

Hmm so if i increase the duration and make it faster, then it would do more dps?

[dawn spire]

But I also have gotten like 20+ by the end of act 3

[ornate anvil]

Because only increase duration makes no difference right? You just wont need to apply as often

[cinder tangle]

chronomancer or stormweaver chat?

[indigo inlet]

I got them all. Seriously, i think i've dropped over 15 in 20 mere levels.

[snow sierra]

Stormweaver is a saver bet chronomancer is abit waky

[thorn abyss]

why does frost bomb not work with cast on shock? I have 60 spirit...

[little canyon]

I didn't look at ascendancies yet, will stormweaver be good for a fire sorceres? From the name of it sounds like not

[dawn spire]

Increasing or decreasing duration won't affect dps at all. Making it deal damage faster effectively compresses the dot into a smaller time frame of higher dps. If you have a dot that normally does 100 damage per second for 5 seconds:

100% Inc duration = 100 dps for 10 seconds
Deals damage 100% faster = 200 dps for 2.5 seconds

[still rock]

Damage over time is managed via a per tick basis, not a sum total that is divided over the time of the debuff.

[little canyon]

do you have 60 free spirit?

[native burrow]

I'm currently running 11 skeletons with Envenomed. It's beautiful

[hollow swift]

Thanks

[thorn abyss]

yes

[cinder tangle]

seems like it ice and lightning

[copper finch]

Now I don't wanna even think back on how many probably good pieces i disenchanted xD

[little canyon]

shit so I'm fucked then?

I want a fire build

[solemn ledge]

anybody know if "when you cast a spell" would apply to a triggered spell?

[cinder tangle]

yh there is nothing related it fire in the tree lol

[dawn spire]

Chronomancer for life

[snow sierra]

could go witch, or just pick the notes that have general use on stormweaver

[cinder tangle]

its all about chill and shock

[cinder tangle]

why

[little canyon]

damn that's depressing

[static plinth]

Stormweaver still has some fire stuff, but its mostly shock and chill; It DOES let you shock and chill with fire spells though. My friend is gonna try putting Elemental Discharge on Elemental Storm and inflicting all 3 ailments for it to consume

[static plinth]

It does not, youd have to manually cast

[ornate anvil]

so 2nd is better, you would just need to apply it more right?

[mighty wing]

guys would ice infusion be full troll on lightning arrow, it is feeling quite good rn im trying to make a cold build deadeye

[dawn spire]

There are at least four nodes you can use on storm weaver that are beneficial to a fire build. Ice and lightning can make use of more nodes, but you aren't going to end up taking "dead nodes"

[still rock]

Live and learn 🙂

[indigo sail]

What is the best jewel socket in passive skill tree for infernalist witch?

[static plinth]

Every node is useful since Shaper of Storms/Winter let you shock/chill with all damage

[dawn spire]

If your bow has an insane amount of cold damage relative to other damage types (physical included) then it can be a dps boost

[dawn spire]

Fair

[static plinth]

So its just an aesthetic thing on the ailments

[onyx meteor]

somebody send me a good skill tree for warrior thank u

[dawn spire]

Whichever jewel you have. They're rare and being picky isn't a luxury most can afford

[little canyon]

what's a shaper of storms/winter, nodes in stormweaver?

[trim lintel]

Can anyone tell me what weapon I need to use the blasphemy meta gem?

[still rock]

Increasing or decreasing duration doesn't affect the damage per second value, only the duration of the debuff. But things like swift affliction give you a powerful more damage multiplier while lessening the duration, so you have an investment cost of having to apply it more often. You generally take increased skill effect duration elsewhere to account for that.

[snow ridge]

so how much of an issue is stun/ailment threshold endgame for Eldritch Battery builds.

[onyx meteor]

somebody send me a good skill tree for warrior thank u

[static plinth]

Yeah, Shaper of Storms gives 10% of damage as Lightning and lets all damage shock, Winter does the same thing with Cold and Freeze

[dawn spire]

You need a curse socketed in it to activate it

[snow ridge]

im loving my "Pump everything into mana" bulid so far but I worry about how much Freeze and Stun will screw me over when I have so little life and zero energy shield

[trim lintel]

thank you

[static plinth]

But also Witch does have an ascendancy literally called Infernalist so it would've been a slightly more thematic choice, lol

[static plinth]

Oh i was thinking of I Am The Thunder for the damage boost ig

[little canyon]

hmm so basically the best fire elemental char in this game is witch with infernalist? I thought witch was an occult kind of gameplay overwall, didn't think she'd get the best fire stuff

[dawn spire]

Ironically, I think storm weaver is a better fit for a fire mage theme than infernalist

[ornate anvil]

Okay makes sense, so as long as you can keep the stacks at maximum you should always favor faster ailments for dps right?

[snow sierra]

i wouldnt go infernalist unless you have a very good plan

[static plinth]

Infernalist is more demons but it does have hellfire

[fringe cape]

Does anyone know if there is a way to increase spirit in act 2? i've only found bosses in act 1 and 2 that do that

[copper finch]

Anyways @dawn spire @still rock thank you so much for chewing it down for me, you helped me out a lot!

[dawn spire]

Amulets and chest pieces can have spirit

[snow ridge]

yeah its funny how Stormweavers "All hits can shock" "all hits can freeze" actually discourage you from using lightning or frost skills

[static plinth]

Not that much cuz you still have "Hits contribute 300% freeze buildup" and stuff like that on relevant skills

[snow ridge]

i love the idea of having 2 shocks on an enemy at once, but I also love lightning skills

[raven estuary]

what makes you think so im having a hard time trying get a fire witch going

[indigo sail]

Is there an all reesist gem, or just specific resistances?

[dawn spire]

I would agree with this, yeah

[snow ridge]

true

[dawn spire]

Jewels* can roll loads of different mods. Idk what's in their pool. @indigo sail

[static plinth]

Yeah, but with the greater focus on dodging in this game that can be hard if you reduce it too much

[indigo sail]

Sorry I meant runes, not jewel

[little canyon]

any high level sorceress can show their skill tree for some inspiration?

[static plinth]

Ngl, i think im gonna swap to running Infernal Heat on my build, mana is HARD to manage

[still rock]

Again, the length of the duration (not speed) doesn't affect the actual DPS, so you want to focus on increasing the damage value specifically. Swift Affliction was just an example to show that while granting that powerful damage increase, you have to manage a shorter debuff window. Ideally you want the debuff to be as long as possible so you dont have to re-apply as often, but the game has some ways (like Swift Affliction) to force you to shorten it to gain damage per second.

[dawn spire]

Ah, I see. I'd use runes on your lowest res so they're all as high and even as possible

I think they only have specific ones

[normal fable]

Who tf is playing chrono unironically like not for memes or attention

[still rock]

People who like staying alive

[dawn spire]

Yo

[snow sierra]

I had a good plan but it gone to shit, now i play chrono just to stay alive and because i dont wanna reroll

[static plinth]

I probably need a good chunk of Chaos Res before Altered Flesh is worth taking, since chaos deals double damage to ES right?

[fringe cape]

After unlocking cruel, I wish I had picked chrono lol

[dawn spire]

Yeah my chrono plan was ass, so I'm just doing generic good lightning bow build until I can respec into my next hairbrained scheme

[candid venture]

Should we level up our skill gems to max before proclaiming required abilities with support gems ?

[snow sierra]

Time rewind with MoM its kinda hard to die this way 😛

[fringe cape]

What is MoM?

[ornate anvil]

Maybe you can help me with something else:

Take this skill for example - https://poe2db.tw/us/Gas_Arrow

The tag on the Gem is "Projectile" "AoE"

The skill has two parts, the arrow shooting and the gas cloud

Does damage to projectile affects the gas cloud?

[vital hornet]

Anyone experimenting with Demon Form?

[static plinth]

Mind Over Matter, all damage goes to mana before life

[still rock]

My chrono plan is still working okay for now but I don't have temp chains yet so I'm pieceing different things together

[snow sierra]

the Mind over matter note

[dawn spire]

Skill gems and support gems are separate types of uncut gems so I'm not sure why you'd have to pick between leveling a skill and making a support

[torn root]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/d7fbcda0-a6bd-481f-a910-fb039d2fb3a3/builds/738e40aa-d043-4418-80c9-1a73c04de01d#equipment-0

[snow sierra]

Had the slow + temp chains plan too...didnt work out at all and didnt feel strong

[split stump]

What should we do with skill gems? Use them once we get them for leveling up unlocked skills or wait to unlock more skills once we have the prerequisites on our characters? How big is that decision as the game progresses?

[torn root]

For anyone interested in a freeze/chill/ignite setup ^^^

[lime timber]

need help, what substats should I look for my gear for a infernalist minion? Currently lv60 and looking to buy gear

[torn root]

I just found this and it seems pretty good for early levels

[dawn spire]

I'd level your gems if there isn't anything else you want. You'll be swimming in uncut skill gems

[candid venture]

Sorry I meant uncut gems, you are right. Should we first upgrade our existing skill gems or buy new abilities ?

[torn root]

Theres a hotlink within that page that leads to a lvl 20-40 frostbolt/snap combo. Looks pretty legit

[still rock]

I haven't tested this gem specifically but my assumption is that no, projectile damage increases do not affect the damage of the poisons from the gas cloud.

Wait - there's something here that mentions it scaled with attack damage

[dawn spire]

Life and resists on all non-weapons always

[fleet oak]

is it possible to upgrade weapon to 3 sockets?

[dawn spire]

No

Maybe with a vaal orb, but no way as far as I know

[torn root]

Leans more heavily on frost but still includes solar orb for ignite DoT

[thorn roost]

Titan is able to stack the most life of any class right?

[little canyon]

how good is damage recoupled as life?

[snow sierra]

dont forget +1 Minion level on helm and amulett and 40-50 Spirit on Chest +2-3 Minion level on Scepter it makes a huge diffrence

[onyx meteor]

***lf good skill tree for warior build ***

[ornate anvil]

what do you reckon is the "fake hit" of the cloud then?
I'd be able to scale with increases to "Attack", "Area"?
Do you think it would be able to crit?

[split stump]

Even swimming with higher level uncut gems later?

[lime timber]

alright tysm for the help guys

[deft mirage]

where do i get the token for the chaos temple ascendancy?>

[lime timber]

is there other ways I can get spirit btw?

[dawn spire]

Depends entirely on your build. If you think a new skill would help, I'd go with that. Since the next gem you find is going to level your gem up to your current cap anyway

[ripe lark]

how do you go about fixing mana issues without EB

[stable lagoon]

Hello, how can I check what is my chance to shock?

[mystic venture]

Which Supp gems for Ice Strike ? Got 3 Slots for it and up to lvl 3 supp gems

[snow sierra]

there is spirit on Amulett, and there is a unqiue shield that gives spirit. But i wouldnt recommend picking up spirit on amulett unless you are very ritch +1 Minion level is more important on amu

[thorn roost]

does titan small passive node give +8 per small node or +7?

[dawn spire]

I'm in cruel act 1 and did basically a full respec/experimentation and I just used up my last t12 skill gem. I have at least ten more tier 10-11 ones as well

[still rock]

Okay so I might be wrong here based on the poedb tooltip, there's a value that shows attack damage % for the cloud itself. One easy way to test is to get a shit bow with low damage, pull up the detailed tooltip to see how much damage the poison cloud does and then equip the shit bow

[candid venture]

Interesting. Thanks!

[fleet oak]

can i remove rune from a weapon socket?

[still rock]

As for the "fake hit", I don't think it would crit since it says Does not hit

And poison is a DoT and cannot crit

[lime timber]

alright, tysmm

[sterile spade]

which one is good ?

[ornate anvil]

oh theres a way to see the damage it does? i only see the percentages

[dawn spire]

They can all be good depending on your build

[still rock]

Next to the box where the damage would be there is a little right facing arrow

[split stump]

So then I feel like that you’re supposed to use everything as you get it whether to buy a new weapon with gold, or level up a skill or roll for stats with an orb, no point in hoarding stuff or overthinking in poe2 right?

[still rock]

Click that

[ornate anvil]

Perfect let me check

[fleet oak]

can i remove rune from a weapon socket?

[real fractal]

is there any good demon form witch build ?

[quartz narwhal]

My assumption is, proj damage will apply to the "fake hit" portion of gas cloud

From reading everything in the tooltip

[dawn spire]

Well, overthinking is going to happen no matter what. And I wouldn't be too heavy handed with the artificer orbs if you're going to be replacing gear soon. And alchs, chaos, regals, etc are pretty valuable

[quartz narwhal]

It looks like it scales off your weapon so the increases to damage should be calculated prior

[dawn spire]

No

[quartz cairn]

No I don't think so, once used they're stuck

[dawn spire]

Yeah, hover over a rune and read it

[quartz narwhal]

Buuuuuut, it could also be one of those things where only the weapon values matter and the gas cloud is a separate thing from the arrow projectile

[radiant yarrow]

is chaos inoculation going to be any good, like is there high energy shield gear later on?

[still rock]

Yeah, after taking a second look I think I agree but that's an easy one to test

[still rock]

Also possibly true

[fleet oak]

what is the max amount of mods that i can have with exalted orbs

[dawn spire]

We're not sure yet. I'd imagine you can get way more es than life with the right gear

[split stump]

Damn this game is giving me headaches I have no idea what’s good and what’s not

[dawn spire]

Rare items can have up to 6 affixes.

Jewels can only have 4, though, I think

[fleet rune]

Probably the millionth person to ask this by why is the base damage on ball lightning so bad compared to spark/arc?

[quartz narwhal]

Can't wait for the pob crew to gather all this data on interactions like this

[dawn spire]

Welcome to a 3-day-old game

[still rock]

The ultimate way to test if specifically projectile % increases affects the gas cloud is to unallocate a node with only % inc proj dmg and then check the gas cloud dmg, and then re-allocate and check again..

@quartz narwhal @ornate anvil

[silent prawn]

In regards to what?

[thorn roost]

@dawn spire Do you know if the titan ascend node that increases small passives 50% makes the +5 stats turn into 7 or 8?

[fleet oak]

so if i have six already, exalted orb will delete random one and give new mod?

[snow sierra]

When in doubt SRS lol

[radiant yarrow]

bet, and I'm guessing there's no crafting later on, just getting lucky with rolls from orbs?

[dawn spire]

No idea

[quartz narwhal]

Chaos orb

[thorn roost]

ty

[dawn spire]

No, that's what a chaos orb would do

[split stump]

Gear, skill tree, skill gems and all that. Haven’t played Poe before

[ornate anvil]

im not sure if i can trust this dps checker, adding deadly poison*decreases the poison damage instead of increasing it somehow lol

[quartz cairn]

Secret is.. everything is bad, except the stuff they nerfed, which is now bad 😉

[silent prawn]

There is some crafting from endgame systems

[fleet oak]

i have 6 mods tho on my crossbow and still can use exalted

[dawn spire]

It won't let you exalt an item with full affixes

[still rock]

I think that might be because it says deals damage as "through hitting them"

[radiant yarrow]

is that after act 3 or 6?

[still rock]

So it's reduced by the deadly ailments

[dawn spire]

You have six lines of text, but you have 5 or fewer affixes. Some affixes are multiple lines long

[silent prawn]

After act"6"

[sacred sail]

damn this point seem solid

[radiant yarrow]

ight

[still rock]

That's a really weird scenario, what a interesting skill lmao

[fleet oak]

ty i dont have any more questions.. for now

[quartz narwhal]

If I were in game I would help you test this out but I'm at work today

[ornate anvil]

It works

just tested

atleast the dps says it does

+10% projectile damage, 862 to 916

[quartz narwhal]

Are you looking at the dot portion tho

[chilly mauve]

So from what i understand if i get 100% increased crit chance from nodes it just doubles the crit chance from equipment yeah?

[ornate anvil]

Looking at damage per second

[quartz narwhal]

Nice

[still rock]

Also - side note: magnitude of the poison doesn't affect this gem at all because it's not a normal poison that is applied via a normal hit, it's a skill that "poisons" (so it scales with chaos dmg, etc) but takes the damage from your attack value rather than the poison magnitude itself

That's my assumption

[dawn spire]

No, it doubles your base crit chance (from your weapon or skill)

[last kite]

if I have some sources of inc. elemental damage and some sources of inc. lightning, are they multiplicative with eachother?

[woven bough]

how does uniques scale

.

[ornate anvil]

lemme test

[last kite]

e.g. 50% and 50% would result in first damage multiplied by 50%, then by 50% more

[dawn spire]

They don't. They do what they say they do. I'm not sure I get your question

[woven otter]

My main complaint rn is why would they lock cold exposure behind 1 spell and critting?? My monk is not pleased

[woven bough]

9-18 dmg seems low

[dawn spire]

No, all increased/reduced modifiers that can apply to the same thing are summed up into one big additive modifier. Then THAT is multiplied by other more/less modifiers.

You can hold alt over the increased keyword for more info

[still rock]

Yeah I guess that this works because the projectile dmg increase is calculated before the attack damage % and is then included into the damage

[woven bough]

does it still do enough damahe? normal weapons have the level req near them

[dawn spire]

Uniques are just that, unique. Some of them are absolute garbage

Unique doesn't mean good

[woven bough]

i see

thx

[last patio]

what is the advantage of recoup over life regen?

[still rock]

So I think they added this hilariously complicated line of "Does not Hit, but Poisons enemies as though Hitting them" to make it so it's more intuitive to scale proj and attack dmg and it just work without having to worry about it being separated

[sacred sail]

as a warrior what are your favorite ability to stun ?

[dawn spire]

Recoup is usually available in much, much higher quantities

[dreamy tree]

does a ring with %increase fire dmg buff Raging spirits for Inferno Witch?

[dawn spire]

No

[ornate anvil]

862 with 10% magnitude
862 without 10% magnitude

dude

[still rock]

Yeah so my guess was right

[chilly mauve]

i see. thank you. 🤝

[last patio]

ok ty

[still rock]

It's bypassing the magnitude portion of the poison damage calculation

[dawn spire]

I hear boneshatter is satisfying to use

[radiant yarrow]

if I'm going for a full lightning monk build, is it better to focus crit hit and bonus or inc skill/lightning/attack damage, max crit chance I've seen is 50% with 100-200% crit bonus, but damage total I've seen is always 150-180% inc, ele damage sounds better but idk if I'm missing something

[ornate anvil]

Do you think thats by design?

or its bugged?

[still rock]

Yes (by design), for this reason: #2┃build-planning message

[modest basin]

Given the line I would assume it's a bug

[sacred sail]

maybe I could use it 🤔

[near forge]

Hey guys I’m playing monk lvl 35 doing a lighting build but all my attacks are chilling people do you know what I’m doing wrong?

[still rock]

That's my guess at least. Makes it simpler if you just scale attack dmg and see the number go up rather than wonder why it's not working together

[orchid current]

Staff probably has some cold damage on it

[near forge]

Will that cancel out the lighting?

It does in fact

[last patio]

what's the coolest chronomancer build you've seen so far?

[dawn spire]

Not only can you scale crit chance, you can also scale crit damage. That's what makes crit so absurdly strong with enough investment. In poe1, most crit builds excluded crit entirely while leveling and getting their skill points, then did a massive respec when they had enough points/gear to make crit worth it

[still rock]

And perhaps done as a preventative measure so that this skill is only used in reference to a build that's scaling hit damage and not a proj skill that ignores the hit damage completely (like how some other PoE1 proj DoT skills work)

[little canyon]

forget the skill tree I just got this

[dawn spire]

I haven't seen any but my own. And it's basically just lightning rod + orb of storms with temporal rift and 20% slow

[woven otter]

Are all uniques known at this point?

[ornate anvil]

I think overall you get too much magnitude nodes anyway if you are looking for more stacks and stuff (or the pathfinder ascedency, you get 24% there that is just being ignored)

Maybe better to use poisonburst arrow then

[open tinsel]

Do chance to ignite passive nodes also increase my skeletal arsonists chance to ignite? Or only my spells?

[modest basin]

Magnitude seems to be the way to scale poison

[dreamy oracle]

full ice dmg monk is crazy op imo

[modest basin]

so I'm sure it's an oversight

[last patio]

Oh nice. I'm trying to make a meme slow build. I want to slow everything in the game to the max possible

[dawn spire]

Minions only benefit from things that specify minions (or support gems linked to them) or things like auras that affect "allies in your presence"

[dawn spire]

Then you probably want some kind of curse effect stacking chrono with temp chains and chill as well

[fringe lagoon]

if I have a very good magic jewel, should I make it rare with a regal orb or are there better lategame orbs to use?

[still rock]

I'd be interested to see how magnitude affects poisonburst arrow since it has that same line about hitting but not hitting

[dawn spire]

Regal is the only way to add a mod to a 2-mod magic item as far as I know. Let er rip

[ornate anvil]

oh its the same line

fk

[unique sluice]

Guys what website so far has builds i can use as a start? im. not good in building my own 😅 about Mercenary

[dawn spire]

Try YouTube, max roll, or mobalytics

[still rock]

Although poisonburst arrow doesn't do dmg from your attack value % like the gas cloud does, it seems to be more similar to like poisoning an enemy via hitting them with a normal attack

[cold lantern]

GGG "were are nerfing monk we see that he is too powerful" 😭

[west pumice]

Im liking this setup with my new warrior. Earthquake and then pop Infernal Cry before it explodes. Able to tank while waiting

[past swallow]

⁉️ Class/Build advice help for disability - Hands are working but limited use. I need builds that auto aim. Think Turrets, Minions, GOD DH in D3. I can aim in general directions but can not precisely. Also the less buttons to mash the better. Any recommendations other than going Minion? I tend to always play minion for this reason but like to try other fun powerful builds that dont require a lot of dexterity.

[graceful stag]

is there a PoB out? i have a gr8 idea for a meme buidl

[dawn spire]

Nope

[dreamy oracle]

fr tho games ez mode now

[cursive totem]

How do people run Archmage considering it uses 100 spirit? the sources of spirit are extremely lacking

[dawn spire]

This server will almost certainly have a post in news if a pob becomes available

[dawn spire]

Amulets and chest pieces can have a fair amount. A chest I found in act 4 has 50 on it

[still rock]

@ornate anvil If you care to try the magnitude test for poisonburst arrow I'd be interested to see, since that would rule out that line specifically because if:

• Gas cloud doesn't get damage from magnitude but
• Poisonburst arrow does get damage from magnitude

Then it's moreso related to the gas cloud being scaled innately by your attack damage % and not the "Does not Hit, but Poisons enemies as though Hitting them" line

[cursive totem]

yeah but it means im pretty much forced to run +spirit on chest and amulet almost on max roll just to run it?

[ornate anvil]

let me see

[main geyser]

what do you guys think about freezing shards with chain, arcane tempo and glacifiaction? heard a lot of people say pierce is better than chain but I feel like chain is much better for clearing packs (and frostbolt costs too much mana)

[cursive totem]

theres no other pieces of gear?

[trail lynx]

cant wait to play pob2

[dawn spire]

I have yet to see any other pieces with spirit

[still rock]

We're in here doing it already apparently xD

[dawn spire]

There's also an amulet with implicit spirit

[cursive totem]

oh true

[ornate anvil]

DPS for Arrow
906

DPS for Poison Burst
1266

Adding +10% Projectile damage

DPS for Arrow
961

DPS for Poison Burst
1346

Projectile damage works

checking magnitude now

Doesnt work

[wind tulip]

something I'm missing about mind over matter? seems like once you're out of mana flask charges you're screwed

[topaz talon]

Flicker Strike is very weird, isnt it? Did anyone commit on it?

[ornate anvil]

same damage @still rock

adding 10% changed nothing

[still rock]

That's really funny considering the quality from poisonburst arrow gives magnitude (unless it's referring to it as local magnitude or something weird, who knows)

[ornate anvil]

dude

no wonder my character is completely busted

[still rock]

Very odd interaction

[solemn roost]

where does negative resistances come from ? i just noticed in my character sheet -10% fire and -10% lightning res.

[ornate anvil]

it makes no sense

like, what skill are you supposed to use to make use of magnitude then?

[azure maple]

Anyone got an actual use out of life steal yet 🤔

the spell life cost is only holding me back

[ornate anvil]

Just any phys/chaos skill that truly hits?

and just work with your % poison chance?

[azure maple]

bonerush or whatever is good

[quartz narwhal]

Do you have enough mobility/dexterity for something like totems?

[still rock]

Yeah, I'd guess so

[quartz narwhal]

If so I would check out the build zizaran is running

[frosty chasm]

yo which draught did yall take

[dreamy oracle]

[sacred sail]

damn as titan with 3 points and the 50% more value of nodes, you can get 14% life recovered per endurance charge spent

[near forge]

I took all cold damage off my weapons and I’m still chilling mobs not shocking 😭 can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong

[past swallow]

yeah, If its just dropping totems. Totems to me are like sentries/turrets

[fleet oak]

[reef viper]

ya can try this, sunder 1x to full clear a wave, and place 2 totems -> wait for totems to break armour and sunder

[dreamy oracle]

what lv?

[ornate anvil]

Think i'll create a bug thread on forums just to be sure this isnt something overlooked

[still rock]

and I'd guess that this line from Poisonburst Arrow is specifically referring to the magnitude of only this specific poison that is applied from Poisonburst Arrow

Additional Effects From Quality:
(0–20)% increased Magnitude of Poison inflicted

[fleet oak]

im 54

[dawn spire]

You lose 10% per act

[dreamy oracle]

im 39

[past swallow]

thanks will look it up

[ornate anvil]

Like the one stack only that it procs, any other the magnitude wouldnt help?

[still rock]

Well according to your test, it didn't

[ornate anvil]

ye

ffs

[reef viper]

my crosshair half of the time wasnt even on the bos

[ornate anvil]

no way thats not bugged its so backwards

[reef viper]

lmfao

[solemn island]

Can you dual wield shields?

[quartz narwhal]

I haven't looked into it much but in general yes the play style would just be dropping totems and they do big soes around them to hit stuff. I'm not sure how many other buttons you need to press to support them though but if you want something other than minions I would check out zizarans stream. It's a build I'm somewhat interested in trying myself

[fleet oak]

show avarage dmg per use

[still rock]

So that would make me believe that either:
A. it's bugged, or
B. It's referring to the magnitude of the poison from poisonburst arrow only

Which is really odd

and not intuitive

[ornate anvil]

dude i think i have 12 or 14 poins that is doing nothing

no wonder i feel like i dont do damage

[dreamy oracle]

ice monk go bonk bonk bonk

[fleet oak]

i mean raw stats

[stark river]

just curious, are there any builds that take advantage of the whole weapon set swapping thing?

[still rock]

There's a small chance actually that the poison isn't included in the skill sheet damage

But there's no way for you to test that

[quartz narwhal]

I think for the most part you will use weapon sets for switching between mapping and bossing sets

There will absolutely be big brain builds that use weapon swap tech too

[stark river]

ah okay

im still not super sure how it works

[dreamy oracle]

g

[still trout]

Does anybody actually like that respecing costs gold? It seems to only discourage being creative and makes it more tempting to just follow some premade build.

[quartz narwhal]

I haven't fully developed anything yet but I want to in the future

[stark river]

but like could you use different skills from different weapons that work together?

like that bell thing looks strong from monk

[stark river]

idk if can play a ranged class

and spam attacks on a bell

after putting it down

[dreamy oracle]

ur 15 levels higher im glad u do more

[quartz narwhal]

The answer is yes, but only testing is going to show you how all these things interact

[stark river]

ah okay

ty

the other examples ive seen have been from like

partyying with people lol

so like i put down my bow lightning rod

[quartz narwhal]

I messed around with bow/xbow a bunch while leveling before pivotimg to a spell build

[stark river]

and my ally with lightning attacks procs it repeatedly

but hes not a bow

[stark river]

ah i see

im still big noob

[fast veldt]

yall. i can not gauge yet whats good or not. can you tell me if those are any good?

[stark river]

but i am excited for the cool build ideas

[ornate anvil]

Yea i've created a bug thread, if they answer with "dmg is hidden it correctly applies" its fine

[cunning creek]

How does "damage as extra X damage" scale ? Let's say it's extra lightning damage, would it benefit directly from increased lightning damage or does that come before the extra

[quartz narwhal]

No worries, testing and theory crafting is one of the most fun things in this game

[stark river]

i am still very new

so idk what is what

[thorn roost]

does cool down recovery or attack speed affect reload speed?

[rough folio]

for Unearth Brutality or Minion Pact

[stark river]

just keep getting stunlocked in character create

got to act 2 with witch and 3 with ranger

[still rock]

Lmk when you find out I'm curious since I mostly play DoT builds lol

[stark river]

and i think i might rolla new guy

[tender oasis]

you guys are getting uniques?

[stark river]

lightning arrow ranger defo felt more interactive and fun for me personally than minion witch

maybe it changes later

or mabye i was bad at controling minions

[still rock]

Just out of curiousity, were you also incorporating chill and hinder? That's my ultimate plan through a hodgepodge of stuff

temp chains, chrono, chill, hinder, encumbrance

big slow

🦥

[rough folio]

anyone Brutality or Minion Pact

[snow sierra]

No i didnt, only the temp chains aura with chrono, didnt feel strong at all and 60 spirit investment for nearly nothing hurts

[chrome cove]

God this looks miserable to try on Warrior lol

[tender oasis]

yeah the spirit gemsspiritcost is un manageable

[dreamy oracle]

jst stun and bonk i freeze bonk warrior stun bonk

[still rock]

im also utilizing temp chains for dots so the slow magnitude should act as an effective duration increase

if it works well

[fringe lagoon]

how does Mana Recovery Rate differ from Mana Regeneration Rate?

[dreamy oracle]

takes time to recover after hits 0 mana regen is when u got mana

[sullen jolt]

Does Herald of Ice give cold damage to your attacks?

[orchid current]

What's your ascendancy plan?

[snow sierra]

I had 2 big slow maginute effects on my tree when testing it

[still rock]

Damn

[orchid current]

Other nodes you plan to take?

[tender oasis]

ah you went for damage first

[old oriole]

wait.... does have no defence and 100% enough to beat the game? i meant dodge and so

[snow sierra]

But maybe you feel diffrent, for me it was totaly not worth the investment

[tender oasis]

he probly goin the defence nodes

[still rock]

Well I'll let you know how it pans out with chill and hinder incorporated

[dreamy oracle]

im glass cannon iv not spent a single point into and dmg reduction or res

[orchid current]

I think big DPS is the way to go

[rugged isle]

What supports would be recommended for high velocity rounds phys crit/bleed build? Brutality double barrel... What else? Not sure if scatter shot hurts the bleed DMG

[orchid current]

Roll is pretty good for bosses

[tender oasis]

that defense node tho on invoker

[dreamy oracle]

i 1 tap everhting kinda made game boring hope gets harder act4-end game

[still rock]

The taiwanese method Just Dont Get Hit 4Head

[dreamy oracle]

nothing hits me its prema frozen

[left ledge]

How low can enemy resistances go? I’m planning for a total of 96% pen + 55% from exposure. This is not taking into account for gear but can I print the enemies resist to -100% or -200%?

[orchid current]

Personally thinking about lightning invoker considering I've already got a cold sorc

[rugged isle]

0% is lowest afaik

[orchid current]

You can only pen down to 0

You can drop res below that

[dreamy oracle]

i went ice cus everyone was shock dmg wanted mix it up

[still rock]

I kinda want to do a lightning bowvoker eventually

[orchid current]

Me trying to absorb everyones builds in order to make quarter staff monk

[quartz narwhal]

It really feels like GGG over nerfed dots and damaging ailments which makes me sad because I also am a dot build lover

[loud trench]

Is there a maximum level to skills or should I always have + skill level in all gear?

[left ledge]

So if I pen 96% there no reasons to stack exposure bc it won’t go below 0 yes?

It is a penitly to the monsters resistance themself not just penetrating it

[dreamy oracle]

qs monk op

[tender oasis]

im surprised gg hasnt nerfed the bell yet

[orchid current]

Max skill level is unknown but Poe 1 had a cap of 40

[still rock]

Yeah I'm having to use like ED, Contagion, Despair with Decaying Hex, Dark Effigy doing poisons caause why not poison everything, and then even sometimes profane ritual on top of all that for rares

[tender oasis]

wuts the highest phys damage on gear in poe1?

[little apex]

What support skills should go on raging spirits?

[still rock]

Feels like a lot to get the damage values I want

[orchid current]

DoT is at design odds with Poe 2 fights

[atomic tinsel]

how can I take advantage of Power Charges? can someone give an example?

[pearl sluice]

ghost dance is kinda good on like literally any evasion build right

[tender oasis]

yes

[pearl sluice]

as long as you have as much es as it recovers

[still rock]

The damage is good so far but it's a lot of management

And contagion aoe spread radius is pretty bad

[void barn]

Does spell damage leech only work with hit damage or will it leech dots

[orchid current]

The action investment for dot is inherently lower, making fights less intense

[opal perch]

is there any point to buying this? i'm currently running a lightning/shock build

[orchid current]

Dot cannot leech

[azure maple]

it should be capped at 500 or something

[still rock]

That's what recoup and regen is for in my build

[orchid current]

Yep

[still rock]

but its' running my tree really thin tbh

since chaos stuff is all over the place

[orchid current]

Trying to get some recovery on my stormweaver myself

[quartz narwhal]

I think the trend I'm seeing so far is GGG wants to encourage more busy builds like this which I personally kind of enjoy

[tender oasis]

are you manily converting phys to lightning then yes

[quartz narwhal]

I'm personally doing a tri elemental ailment spell build for leveling and I love it

[still rock]

It'd feel better if Despair with Decaying Hex didnt cost a third of my mana lmao

[orchid current]

The gameplay is definitely better but imo the lack of skills really shows

[stark river]

ooo

[quartz narwhal]

Curses are awful on mana

[stark river]

tri element souns fun

[opal perch]

not sure how to tell if i am or not, but i'll see what i can find. thanks!

[fresh tree]

Do you guys have tested the warbringer node that can take the armor below 0 ? It seems good but I think there's a limitation on it, right ?

[orchid current]

They cost like a third to cast it's insane

Curses are Giga nerfed

[still rock]

I wanted to run Blasphemy to skirt that issue but apparently it doesn't carry over the decaying hex support capability when you use it as an aura

So I'm losing a portion of my dot dmg

[quartz narwhal]

Oof

[orchid current]

Not to mention halved effectiveness

[velvet cobalt]

Hey folks, if you have two weapon sets, and your inactive weapon set has a bonus like +5 STR, do you still receive the attribute bonus?

effectively making it a stat stick?

[tender oasis]

it has to be active

[void barn]

Does hexblast count as a hit for leech

[remote lagoon]

Mechanics question, fire exposure and flamability stacks right? And can go below 0? And makes pen useless in that case?

[orchid current]

Yes

[still rock]

Yes

[still rock]

Yes

[orchid current]

Stormweaver is silly with it

Waiting on a level 2 support to drop so I can add strip away onto my frost bomb

[near forge]

Guys please take a Quick Look at this I need help on why it’s chilling and no shock is applying

[dreamy oracle]

ur weap adds cold

dmg

[near forge]

Watch the rest of video please

[orchid current]

Looks like it's shocking fine?

[near forge]

It’s applying cold damage tho

[tender oasis]

itsshocking but its low shocks

[dreamy oracle]

embrace the ice

[ionic veldt]

Any storm weaver that can tell e how good elemental conflux is

[quartz narwhal]

Basically I'm going to eventually go chayula monk for the sustain and defense benefits. I'm running frost bolt, flame wall, and spark to apply chill, ignite and shock and then using solar orb and ember fusillade for single target.

My sources for ailments will change as I get further along but the idea is to rotate through ailment applications to get the damage buffs from nodes on the tree and then nuke with fusillade

[still rock]

You need more shock magnitude and the lightning damage value needs to be higher so it applies a higher value of shock

But it is applying just very tiny

[near forge]

I’m getting plus 50% right now I can work on applying more

[frosty linden]

Hey guys is it worth getting death harp or are there btter choices? It's pretty low on dmg...

[tender oasis]

drop the cold damage if yoiu can

[near forge]

Thank you

[still rock]

It's mostly the lightning damage value, cause magnitude works off of a % of the hit

so if you are hitting with very little lightning you are only ever going to get little shock

Baseline I think magnitude is 20% of the hit itself

[near forge]

I can get that thanks but why does it still chill enemies?

[pearl sluice]

i feel like they need to rework damage conversion a bit

[still rock]

If you just want the effect of the shock you're probably better of finding a way to get shocked ground which is a flat 20% dmg increase

Unless you want to invest into lightning dmg

[pearl sluice]

its really weird that on any conversion skill you want to scale generic damage/crit over the damage types unless its full converted

[still rock]

Do you have I am the Blizzard from invoker

Or any other source of extra cold damage

cold damage on gloves?

[azure sandal]

i'm super late to this but i feel like it has to just be a bug that this doesn't work, the supportable skills list even says it works on the shockwave totem's slam

[hoary plover]

man, really? that blows

[cunning scroll]

Hello - does the addition to phsyical damage on this bow affected by the conversion to fire damage on merc's grenades? or is it a dead stat since they are converted to fire damage

[near forge]

I do not I have invest into lighting damage heavy

[still rock]

Yeah was a huge bummer kind of making me have to rethink my endplan

[near forge]

No cold anywhere

[still rock]

It's hard to tell from the video cause the resolution is low, I don't think that's chill, that's the icon for shock, no?>

[fervent void]

Any Mercenary players have any tips on how I can make my explosive grenade more potent?

[near forge]

Those are ice shards

I think

I’m new if I’m just being dumb that is possible

[gilded kiln]

me when i slot brutality into tempest flurry then procede to struggle for 2 hours on dreadnought

[zinc cipher]

Anybody here didnt give up on their warrior cos its difficult early on? I finally managed to make Titans Blood work. I am using a 2h Mace and a Shield same time, near unkillable and i absolutely smash packs AND bosses to bits. So satisfied, my class fantasy got realized perfectly, cant wait to see how far i can take this. So happy with my first PoE2 build. Right now I am just sundering from afar, kills everything. Or i leap into boneshatter, kills packs. And vs rares and bosses i use Perfect Strike and it chunks their health. Stacking blockchance and defensives and synergising that with stuff that increase dmg if im wearing a shield. Have these passives that increase dmg by 2% for every 1% of block. Think i got another 60 or 70 passives to go, this is gonna feel great, hope i get a unique that fits at some point.

Trying to wield 2h and a shield was rough to achieve tho, keep that in mind if u trying to do it too. I stacked so much strenght that i have tons of line and theres even passives that increase dmg per strght.

Overall im super happy with PoE2 so far. I got tons of currencies and loot cos i been looting and disenchanting everything(the extra 20 inv slots from titan helps), i jus wanted to share my experience cos boy am i happy im a warrior. (didnt feel like that during the trials tho)

[cinder ingot]

what lvl r u and how long does it take to kill Act 3 boss

[still rock]

Unsure, I'd have to see more like your entire build and gear, but it shouldn't matter if you're chilling or not that doesn't have any effect on the shock portion

[cinder tangle]

tldr but yes i swtiched off warrior at lvl 20

[zinc cipher]

no clue im in the middle of act 3 rn, ill find out soon

[calm mauve]

rolling my 2nd blood mage :S but playing this one like a paladin/war

[near forge]

Alright I’ll just keep trucking . I really appreciate all your help dude thank you

[stark river]

damn that sounds cool

[boreal hound]

which wand should i use for my blood witch?

[still rock]

Ah yeah shock is in the middle, you're right that was chill.

[zinc cipher]

Im goin a heavy stun build rn as a titan. BUT the warbringer armour breaking sunder build seems really good too

[pearl sluice]

early warrior strat is abuse the absolutely busted skill Mace Strike

[zinc cipher]

man i love that u can stuff bosses in this game

[still rock]

what skill/damage type are you focusing on?

phys spell?

[calm mauve]

my first blood mage, is mainly chaos,,, but i do like ability that does phys dmg and summons skeleton dog things

[boreal hound]

im running contagion, ED, unearth as core with flame wall and bonestorm combo and skelton snipers, reavers, and minions

[still rock]

Cast speed probably going to benefit you better now than the crit chance so # 1 imo

[dawn spire]

That's very odd. It says "cast" on the gem so I'm guessing that's the nail in the coffin. Everything aside from that one word implies it should work.

[boreal hound]

yeah thats what i was thinking i like the cast speed thanks!

[zinc cipher]

what happens to my mana flask if i get that passive that lets me cast with HP? isnt it just wasted chillin there?

[glad granite]

Does all flat damage to attacks scale the damage of the gas cloud explosion?

[still rock]

Yes @glad granite

[azure maple]

Are hideouts in game yet?

[dawn spire]

Kinda yeah. Unless you have some kind of other benefit that procs on flask use or something

[polar wraith]

why would you want to slow down projectiles?

[urban oracle]

good? worth anything?

[zinc cipher]

i cant run 2 health pots?

[hoary plover]

so something like ball lightning is in range of enemies for longer

[dawn spire]

It can be situationally good. Eye of winter, for example, always goes a set distance and it shoots secondary projectiles as it moves. Slower proj will make a single cast shoot more projectiles overall.

[dawn spire]

Nope

[azure sandal]

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Astral_Projector the poe 1 item it's based on specifies spells so i'm not really sure
i'm hoping it's just bugged and is able to be used on shockwave totems in the future lol

[polar wraith]

gotcha thanks!

[still rock]

Some skills generate more beneficial effects for them being on the screen for a longer amt of time, this heavily depends on your skills in your build

[glad granite]

Ty

[snow harbor]

Anyone know if Earthbreaker stacks with split the earth? Tooltip doesn't indicate a change but I don't know if that's just a visual bug

[wind tulip]

one skill point into breaking point (10% inc. duration of elemental ailments/30% increased magnitude of non-damaging ailments) trivialized viper napuazi boss where I was hard stuck for 12 tries... how is a normal person supposed to figure that stuff out

[nova pine]

So Increased Duration doesn't appear to affect the Corrupted Blood inflicted by Corrupting Cry.
Also decreased duration doesn't appear to affect it either, So Swift Affliction appears to just give it 35% More damage without any downsides (Well, it decreases the duration of buffs applied by the warcry, I guess.)
Likely a bug? How does one report those?

[wind tulip]

that was like a 20-30% dmg increase, no joke

[dawn spire]

I would bet it's working as intended and the bug is with the tool tip/description

[summer vessel]

Needs plus skills

[still rock]

It doesn't, someone asked earlier

[snow harbor]

Oof, thanks

[still rock]

#2┃build-planning message (assuming that this is intended)

[dawn spire]

Duration tool tips have been known to be wrong. I've had several skills definitely work with it, but didn't show a difference in the tool tip. Be careful

[nova pine]

aaaah, the tooltip might be wrong. Good to know. Should still be a DPS increase, but I'll do more testing to verify either way.

[maiden karma]

Certified poison moment

[still rock]

Get out the stopwatch

[void barn]

What's the best ascendency for an ED/contagion build

[maiden karma]

None

[still rock]

I'm doing it as chrono atm

[maiden karma]

All are equally useless for it

Just get the tankiest one

[still rock]

I wouldn't recommend ed/c atm though, I've had to really push the limits to get decent dmg

[zinc cipher]

How do i refund ascendacy passives?

[soft stag]

Does anyone know how infernal flames works with mana specific nodes or stats would archmage still work or are the calculated as 2 different things

[still rock]

lots of buttons

[humble panther]

Gas Arrow's explosion tooltip says it converts physical damage to fire. Does that mean that to maximize damage from the explosion, I would want to focus on physical and fire damage modifiers? Do projectile damage modifiers affect the explosion damage at all?

[still rock]

Yes, yes

[gray ferry]

Anyone made something cool with Quill rain yet?

[maiden karma]

Same way you do normal passives

[zinc cipher]

thats what i thought but it dont let me

i have enough gold too

im clickin but nothin happens

[dawn spire]

For that chest node, I would make sure it's empty and relog

[void barn]

Sad

[zinc cipher]

makes sense!

[tender pecan]

does Fragmentation Rounds Crystal Explosiuon deal the same amount of damage as hitting a frozen enemy?

[still rock]

Someone mentioned not being able to refund the same exact node earlier, I reckon it's something to do with what Byron mentioned

[dawn spire]

Yeah I think relogging fixed it for them, too

[zinc cipher]

if im playin Titan, this node is a MUST right? like theres no discussing if its good or not for whatever build im doin?

[dawn spire]

I don't know if there are any "musts"

[slim path]

if i use a jewellers orb on a skill i get from a weapon will i go back to 2 slots if i change the weapon out?

[zinc cipher]

i mean me too but that says everysingle small node youve picked gets 50% bonus

[still rock]

I'd assume the ice crystal counts as frozen but no way to test that

[dawn spire]

You cannot use those on weapons

[zinc cipher]

thats a metric ton of stats

[dawn spire]

Weapons gain slots at certain ilvl thresholds. Not sure what they are

[still rock]

Doesn't work on attributes, just a fair warning

But it does sound good

[slim path]

ah ok ty

[hollow idol]

Hoe about after Campaign

[round marten]

5% seems too low to be worth it, am i crazy?

[dawn spire]

In Poe1, explosions on kill were very good, even with a 5% chance.

[still rock]

Depends on how high density is in endgame, I'm not there yet and havent watched much of it so unsure

[round marten]

yeah im heading in that direction for my fire sorc, if its bad ill just refund xD

[quartz narwhal]

No idea, I haven't cooked anything yet. I'm just going to run spells until they become zdps

[still rock]

If it's packed then 5% is good

[dawn spire]

That 10% base damage scales with your fire and area damage, I think.

[still rock]

It should

[solemn ledge]

Would life conversion happen before or after Chaos Inoculation? If I have “50% of maximum life converted to energy shield” will that convert 50% of 1 (0) or 50% of what my max hp should be without ci? I assume the answer is the bad option

[azure maple]

is there ANY blood mage here who has an idea what he's doing ?!?

[still rock]

The former

[snow harbor]

Tested 100 slams, got exactly 70 single aftershocks and 30 double aftershocks, small sample but I'll add the other 8 percent small node and see what happens

[still rock]

CI just makes your hp 1 no matter what

[dawn spire]

Idk, can you hover over the convert keyword with alt?

[still rock]

Would be interested to see if it's a tooltip bug or not

[dreamy stag]

Anyone tried Exploit Weakness and multi hit skill? Does the first hit just consume, and then nothing ?

[dawn spire]

In Poe1, you were able to still have things like your stun threshold based on your "phantom life" so I'm not sure

[still rock]

True

[solemn ledge]

“Converting stat A to stat B applies the base value of stat A to stat B instead. The converted stat scales with percentage modifiers to stat B, but not with percentage modifiers to stat A.”

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[fringe cape]

Is all fire sorc viable?

[dawn spire]

Yeah, seems like it's a guess.

[still rock]

Allocate CI and see what happens then unallocate the 50% of max life to energy shield and see if theres a change

Easy test

[solemn ledge]

Ill throw some currency at it and see

[dawn spire]

How do you propose we measure viability three days after a game's release?

[fringe cape]

As in has anyone tried it and beaten the first few acts? done cruel?

[still rock]

How well it gets 50 people to ask how to get Raging Spirits a day

[fringe cape]

I'm wanting to try it out but with respeccing costing so much gold I would rather hear form someone who has tried you know

[dawn spire]

Builds are far more dependent on your skills than your class. If you take random nodes and use terrible skills, you won't be able to beat the campaign. But I think you can build basically any main skill to beat the campaign

[quartz narwhal]

Spell builds as a rule of thumb have really no issue doing campaign

[still rock]

I'm going to safely assume that you can clear the campaign with any ascendancy and any combination of damage type, you just have to know how to utilize them

[zinc cipher]

does this apply to dmg AFTER theyve been knocked down? or AS theyre being knocked down? (by knocked down i mean, when u use up that white light with an ability like boneshatter or crushing blows)

[fringe cape]

That and I noticed infenaralist seems to be the "fire" spec so I thought it was pretty fair to ask

[dawn spire]

You can do a fire build on basically any ascendancy

Infernalist is just the most thematically congruent

[quiet mesa]

I have this thing that spawns skulls if I use my fireskill, but I got a new fire skill called incinirate (its like a flame throw) and it does NOT spawn my skulls. Is that a bug or intended?

[quartz narwhal]

I think I might do a write up on my generic spellcaster that will work on any top tree start

[still rock]

Stormweaver fire damage with using both stormfire and frostfire support

New build just dropped

[dawn spire]

Is it a channeling skill? If so, read the tool tip for raging spirits and see if it allows for channeling skills

[still rock]

Scouring Winds actually sounds busted for any damage type yeesh

Stormweaver fire could be nutty tbh

[worldly condor]

Anyone know if mana regen makes you lose demonflame faster?

[still rock]

Just looking at it

[worldly condor]

Pls and ty

[dawn spire]

The spark is triggered, so it cannot be cast manually

[worldly condor]

Maybe you don't have enough stats for spark? Or is there just no option

[zinc cipher]

does anyone know if this dmg increase is applied before after a stun or as you stun?

sounds like after, but wanna make sure

[still rock]

Shouldn't, as far as I'm aware, the only trigger is that your hp hits 1, no?