2┃build-planning

[bronze falcon]

I'm not saying the numbers are meaningless, but they may not always be truly indicative of which skills are your strongest ones

[tranquil ferry]

What is the new best sorc build?

[vestal storm]

archmage

[tranquil ferry]

Kk thanks

[vestal storm]

archmage stormweaver spark build

[tranquil ferry]

I saw that bouncing fire ball build with ice but im guessing archmage spark build is stronger

[fathom plank]

does fiery death work with oil grenade?

[snow sierra]

warcrys are warcrys right not spells for the purpose of spelleech ?

[fathom plank]

meaning it applies to enemies ignited by oil + a detonator

[daring nova]

Anyone playing something pretty non-standard and having a good time? Just finished the campaign with my monk and thinking of trying something like titan minions or something unique like that.

[snow sierra]

what is "non strandard" for you i am playing minion chronomancer thats kinda not standard^^

[hollow perch]

Im playing merc gemling liegionare with 400 str and dual wielding twohanded maces

pretty fun

[reef lantern]

What happened to the one out of 3 skills we select at the very beginning of the game. Are those like tier 8 uncut gems or something where are those

[daring nova]

Yeah that would qualify for me that sounds like a good time

[idle glen]

what does the flask dmg scale off of if you making a pathfinder build? is it strength intellect or dexterity

[snow sierra]

And cant complain i am at t14 maps at the moment and it still works^^

[proud granite]

Anyone know where you can see accuracy stat?

[barren jetty]

im getting 1shot the whole time. Is there a skill or somthing to get mroe tanky?

[daring nova]

Increase your resists for sure

[grave spire]

Is there a way to make unbound fury for inbound avatar chargers faster?

[snow sierra]

ye get resistances

[daring nova]

You got any sort of link to that chrono minion setup? I've got a sorceress at level 25 so it might be something I can try out but I just don't know how to go about it.

[weak knoll]

Hey, when i started (currently lvl 17) i dropped this item, until how far will i be using it in your opinions ?

[marsh oar]

Can witches only gain Spirit through the offhand weapon? Was thinking to maybe play a melee witch build

[vestal storm]

chest plate and amulet

[snow sierra]

No i dont have a guide, just made it myself i can link you the tree if you want

[grizzled geyser]

im not digging my sorc rn should i reroll ranger, witch or monk

[sacred sail]

what class are you ? losing life on skill can be hard for bosses you can lose war of attrition, try to fit in some leech/sustain/flask recovery per second on flask, having lot of dmg make fight shorter though

[gray ferry]

You can get spirit from Scepters (offhand), but also armor and amulets

[coral dew]

Ay question, to yall what got Chronomancer's time freeze skill:

It reduces the duration every subsequent time someone is frozen in time, but does it ever have a "minimum" duration? Will it eventually just be fractions of a second if a boss remains alive long enough (ie. If I'm playing with friends and boss scaling go brrr)

[daring nova]

Sure! I'd be interested in checking it out.

[gray ferry]

Infernalist also grants 1 spirit per 25 max hp as a possible ascendency passive

[weak knoll]

Rn i'm witch but i'm heading towards bonestorm bloodmage

[snow sierra]

https://poe2db.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/AAAABgEBeR5xmi5FWkesTBoilrY0jtSvR9uYJQ3tDQcimH1Yo-FuLZifT7ueoZwaOwB0O_6s36Oxb53olTjUDXP4OdeMuDOMOEPyv8DZdHI4Y9VeZRe_KAKU33zp4KknryhKP4AN72HCjhu12saAmo-UVvMW3meFCufwtRZ5A8T3l8jAzeUbFpHXmq-Xrr0p9uCiBZmIGHoGvaizXh8YW1bDuLhAktojF4NMnQjxkoHY1PmzPbICqsFpgebVECyDuhJ1wbmGvUNN_zC9tXHcveqRz4XIEMeDXz4N3nzVaI6bIKWkB-5imDxvKld5Bac6Ye5jCM5aJta0AAA=

here you go it needs midnight braid for the mom recoup tho^^

[rotund dirge]

im running a basic lighting arrow build and i was wondering which bow would be best to use, idk exactly how having an extra arrow vs +2 split ends up affecting the dmg

[sacred sail]

my advice when you take your ascendancy don'(t take your point until later it make you lose so much life on each hit that it become complicated until you got enough crit but at that level you don't have lot of crit

[boreal dragon]

what exactly works on raging spirits? do the +fire damage nodes work? and is malice useful?

[snow sierra]

On minion stuff

Everything that dos not say minion dos not do minion

[sacred sail]

to be able to use pain attunement you need to always be low life, under 35% life

[wide folio]

would you ever use a non-dualstring bow for lightning arrow deadeye?

[blissful dagger]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1315522093680431106/1317227140344840264/Moments-clip-from-Dec-13-2024.mp4?ex=675deadf&is=675c995f&hm=b7403beca3adc030a376ec36ccd897d07d6c284987701985dad84821b16eb528&

[snow sierra]

its not optimized tho i still testing around whats optimal for my setup

[blissful dagger]

apart from the dfeath that is some big boy dmg ]

cruel mode

[weak knoll]

what is pain attunement ? it doenst have any explanation

[blissful dagger]

at the end btw lol

[sacred sail]

30% less crit bonus damage at full life, 30% more at low life. Useless if you don't crit

[balmy snow]

is the cronomancer ascension good? i dont really see people talk about it that much

[snow sierra]

i like it

[weak knoll]

So i should be keeping this for later right ?

[snow sierra]

And good, but other then a support build i cant see chronomancer beeing the "Most optimal" atm

[weak knoll]

this looks like what a bloodmancer like

[wispy thicket]

Which one as level 40 (just just the 30 spirit from Act 2)?

[sacred sail]

yeah keep it you could try to build around it later but I have no idea how you would do that 🤔

[blissful dagger]

always need spirit

[thorn abyss]

how does boneshatter work when you have crushing blows?

[blissful dagger]

its op

[sacred sail]

@weak knollit's unlikely you will be able too :/

[blissful dagger]

my m8 is titan warrior, he. i have blasphomy of vulnerabilty always on, he cooks and stuns. his stun boosts my dmg even more. vulnerable makes physical 1.5 increase. boneshatter then has 400% increase to crit chance and 300 to dmg. then demon form makes my spel 5 lvls higher.

[sacred sail]

@weak knollthe issue is you can't stay at 1 hp because of the life cost but need to stay under 35% life maybe it would be manageable but with each cast you'll lose life. Idk how to balance it to cast without dying.

[thorn abyss]

i used it for aoe though, and now it isn't that great, so i need an alternative lol

[blissful dagger]

bonestorm is what im talking about sorry

unearth is a good kinda aoe

[blissful dagger]

but if you want pure aoe hexblast

that shit cooks.

[livid yarrow]

When you get caged in by a bunch of sword wielding maniacs

[weak knoll]

tbh its qlreqdy bqrely noticeable i ahve too many hp regen

[rain cove]

is the stormweaver's shaper of winter supposed to replace lightning spells ability to shock or is that a bug?

[sacred sail]

how much regen ? later your spell could cost like 70 life and mana or something

@weak knollif you manage to make it work it would be cool though

maybe I'm mistaken and it's easier than I thought

[weak knoll]

i mean its fixed 5 damage per skill no ?

it ahsnt scaled once since i've been using it from lvl 3

[sacred sail]

oh.. do you know about the blood mage first ascendancy ?

[weak knoll]

no idea but thats what my build tells me to go for

[sacred sail]

mana cost + life cost for spells

you follow a build ?

I see

[blissful dagger]

for all my witches, this is the meta. good luck

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1310331788844994591/1317229970879152190/Moments-clip-from-Dec-13-2024.mp4?ex=675ded82&is=675c9c02&hm=87ceec265639466ff51412b7e751aeb754606508ecc2f018bcae7606e32a4996&

cruel difficulty 54

[thin basin]

chances are srs firewalls a bit faster

[blissful dagger]

i could add firewall into it and do even more tbf

didnt think of that

[real hornet]

tbh I feel minions are actually garbage in comparison to every other option this game has had so far.

[balmy snow]

what sorcerer build would yall reccommend after the cast on freeze nerf?

[molten apex]

Ci mom spark archmage

Assuming it doesn’t get nerf batted into the next century

[gray ferry]

Can you give minions rage? 🤔

[wise falcon]

when we already have a lot of "increased Spell Damage and increased elem Damage" from skill tree, is it way better to stack even more of those 2 on a staff ? like + 60% of each, or to aim for the modifier " Gain 20% of Damage as Extra (elem) Damage" ?

[last patio]

I don't have the command skill "detonate minions" from skele arsonists

it says explosive demise as command skill

[frail sedge]

Is skill speed different from cast speed??

[errant storm]

whwhere can i find reforge waystone i cant find it in my hideout

[twilit cairn]

Guys, how can I see which affixes Jewels can roll ??

[snow sierra]

dam

i found a way to have energy shield with MoM

thats mega wired

not sure what to do with this tho 😛

[finite dome]

how do you know what stats can roll on what pieces?

[snow sierra]

I think i could do some super strange infernalist stuff with it

[clever belfry]

As a monk what is the best ways to sort of passively gain Power Charges?

[tiny oxide]

Question: What is that purple ring around the players feet?

[snow sierra]

eb+MoM with energy shield lol fun times

[proud granite]

Can i equip an item with an higher item level than my character level?

[pearl orbit]

hit the point where i just don't know where to start putting points

don't need cast speed
don't need more regen
don't crit
can't take life nodes cuz they don't exist ¿

[steady berry]

what ascendancy

[pearl orbit]

stormweaver

[steady berry]

arent the northern mana nodes really good for you then

[patent imp]

do skills that convert physical dmg to elemental dmg take into account physical damage increases from passive tree?

[daring bobcat]

For shock builds mana seems more important. On freeze build it doesn't do much for dmg unless you're actually lacking in mana which would be hard if using your flaks

[steady berry]

all conversion and "damage gained as x" now only scales with the target damage type

so no

[pearl orbit]

not really i have 0 mana issues

actually feel like i've way overinvested into mana regen, without CoF i just stay at full

[steady berry]

start investing in crit then

[daring bobcat]

I'm at a similar point that you are. I had a hard time surviving so I took ES. I'm currently building crit but may change that for energy generation for better EI and CoF

[pearl orbit]

i mean i guess, but then those nodes are literally useless till i do a full respec

[patent imp]

So, storm wave, which converts 80% of physical damage into lightning damage, will NOT take into account "X% increased Physical Damage" passive nodes before converting to lightning damage?

[steady berry]

correct

[patent imp]

Lol what is even the point of Physical damage passive nodes if the skills that convert/use physical damage dont take them into account

[steady berry]

i feel like far too many weapon skills are elemental right now

but most passive nodes are "projectile" or "attack" damage etc

there's not that much pure phys damage on the tree

[molten apex]

There’s not a lot of complexity on how they setup stuff

[snow sierra]

recouped != regeneration right ? for the purposes of zealots oath ?

[odd rain]

How does someones lightning arrow tooltip show 24k with a low Phys bow but my bow with 110-200 Phys bow show like 3k?

[stuck widget]

What is an instant spell vs a non instant spell? Is that based on cast time? Hit scan vs projectile? - Tyring to decide if Effervescent is useable in my lightning caster build.

[north talon]

For ones that deal physical damage?

[distant dome]

There's no way to make bleed stack correct? So bleed will functionally do nothing for Bonestorm, since it's 20 small hits

[pearl orbit]

no cast time = instant

[north talon]

Does bone swarm do 20 small hits? or does it do 1 hit in multiple parts like shotguns do?

[stuck widget]

Awesome, so yes it will be good for my build

[distant dome]

small hits. Each one can incriment Cast on Critical :)

[sweet lichen]

Does Ranger ever need to use the crossbow? Kind of feel I only use my bow.

[patent imp]

Then the wording should be "X% Increase Physical Damage dealt" not just "X% increased Physical Damage"

[real hornet]

maybe try to add mana tank and go to left side then

[north talon]

Perhaps that would make sense, my point was more that there are builds that do care about specifically scaling phsyical damage and not converting it

[patent imp]

Oh yeah, for sure

[atomic halo]

wdym "if the skills that... ...use physical damage dont take them into account"

[mental briar]

chill is actually so bad

[patent imp]

There are passive nodes that say "X% increased Physical Damage" and I was wondering by taking those nodes does that mean that I have more physical damage that gets converted to Lightning damage with my Storm Wave

[mental briar]

idk if it works as intended

but theres no visual cue for when an enemy has chill

[atomic halo]

yeah it doesnt work with convert

[mental briar]

like im testing this ring out with cold snap

[atomic halo]

its for pure phys skills

[mental briar]

but every time I apply "chill" to an enemy

it does nothing

[atomic halo]

they can't be shattered as though frozen?

[atomic halo]

isn't there? when you hover over the enemy, is there not a chill % under their lifebar?

[kindred dawn]

Roil node penalty doesnt affect Essense drain right?

[patent imp]

Yeah, I understand it now, I just feel like the wording for those passive nodes should be "X% increased Physical Damage dealt", as "X% increased Physical Damage" feels like a blanket increase to DPS for skills that convert physical damage to elemental damage

Regardless, thank yall for helping me understand

[atomic halo]

they would have to change the wording of all sources of type-specific damage increases to that then

its just understanding the steps

if that damage is lightning, how does an increase to physical affect it

[patent imp]

because the skill converts 80% of my physical damage to lightning damage

[mental briar]

ok so there is but then how the hell does the ascendancy node work

actual worst node ever

[patent imp]

if i have more physical damage, then by the way the skill works, i have more lightning damage

[atomic halo]

that allows non-cold damage to chill enemies

[mental briar]

yh and Ive fired 100 sparks on this boss

and not a single one has chilled

Ik that because I have cast on shock cold snap

and not a single cold snap has gone off properly

[patent imp]

uhhh

[fringe iron]

So everu deadeye guide i found it requires 100 int to use lightning skills while i barely have over 100 dexterity,what should i do? If i go all int i will have low dext...

[daring bobcat]

Get int items

[atomic halo]

spark is bad at applying ailments

[mental briar]

Basically im theorycrafting a build with cast on shock (socketed cold snap) using this ring to help me shatter the "chilled enemies"

[atomic halo]

because it hits a lot of times for low damage

[fringe iron]

Is there a trading side or sth

[mental briar]

Im wondering how chill even applies

cos even cold skills

only frostbolt consistently applies it

with the ground

[atomic halo]

"All Cold damage above a minimum threshold applies chill. The duration of the Chill is proportional to the cold damage dealt. "

[mental briar]

but not even the skill

[daring bobcat]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard

[mental briar]

I used a comet

and it didnt apply chill

kekw

so whats the threshold

[atomic halo]

can u check the tooltip for chill

[kindred dawn]

does it do cold damage?

[atomic halo]

what does it say

[north heath]

try a frost bolt

[atomic halo]

tbh im not particularly clear on how chill works in poe2

they changed a lot of ailments, idk if its the same as in poe1

[mental briar]

frost bolt leaves a chilling ground doesnt actually chill itself

[north heath]

boss is still chilled tho

[mental briar]

the issue with frostbolt chilling ground is

it can only apply chill once while the ground is up

meaning you have to keep casting frostbolt then cold snap then frostbolt and at that point you might aswell explode the frostbolts

my whole experiment is to use lightning skills to apply chill

so it builds up cast on shock

and triggers the shatter on it

[hoary radish]

As a titan using 2h mace, sunder and perfect shot for big dmg. (wil ditch perfect strike later on)

Is it best to get the passive to equip 2h weapons in each hand or no? DOes it have higher dmg ceiling

[kindred dawn]

do you have chance to chill though?

[mental briar]

lemme find it

[kindred dawn]

I dont think its free

[stone hornet]

do i go infernalist or blood mage if im making a chaos dot build on witch?

[little raptor]

Anyone know if the flask nodes like "chance for flask to not consume charges" can apply to Pathfinder's concoction skills? Those nodes would make a pretty big difference in concoctions..

[kindred dawn]

yeah but do you have x% chance to chill or whatever

in poe 1, you needed proc chance or crit to apply

[steady berry]

i do not believe so

[restive turret]

how does internalist "hand of beidat " work where it reserves 25% of your max health if you have chaos inoculation, it shouldnt because your max hp is 1 right? also how would the interaction work with kaoms heart? if i reserve 25% of my max health for extra spirit, but kaoms heart says "you have no spirit"

[safe owl]

im going to roll a chance orb... what should i roll?? like what is the best unique?

[little raptor]

Ok thanks. I would assume then that none of the flask nodes would apply like the flask effect.

[atomic halo]

"... without requiring an explicit chance to inflict ..."

[steady berry]

yeah it's just a skill that deletes charges from your mana flask

[steady berry]

dream fragments is 700ex right now

[kindred dawn]

maybe the damage is not considered a hit

[steady berry]

neither of those interactions would work in a positive way yeah

the first would do nothing and the latter would reserve 25% of your life for no reason

[atomic halo]

why on earth would it not be considered a hit

[kindred dawn]

idk

[restive turret]

i just wanted to make sure they would do nothing lol ty for confirming

[kindred dawn]

they have weird interactions soemtimes

[atomic halo]

there are hits and damage over time, no inbetween, and nothing you mentioned was damage over time

[steady berry]

actually i think there was a glitch? in poe1 a long time ago where trying to reserve life with CI would kill you instantly

[kindred dawn]

I agree with you, it seems like it should but maybe the programming is weird in how they did it

[restive turret]

im noticing that there a lot of +maximum life nodes removed in the passive tree, how do we stack max life now? stricly gear?

[steady berry]

gear and strength

[atomic halo]

yeah % life is largely gone from the tree

[steady berry]

strength is now 4 times better for max life than in poe1

and int is 4 times better for mana, and dex is useless trash 😄

[restive turret]

i was planning to do a tanky hand of beidat inferalist and take a fuck ton of life but a lot is just gone lmao

[steady berry]

it's very gear dependent

it's still +200ish ES with bad gear though

[safe owl]

what are they? gloves or what? im new to the game

[steady berry]

sapphire ring

[frigid ermine]

So this is a flat increase ?

[restive turret]

so infused flesh is the only real life node right?

[frigid ermine]

And all % inc build on that flat base stat ?

[gray hawk]

Anyone playing gas grenade merc here?

[frigid ermine]

Looks like crit chance on weapon is t0 stat if you want anything to do with crit

[boreal dragon]

does malice work with raging spirits?

[atomic halo]

yes, flat

[fathom plank]

does the physical damage of my crossbow matter if im a mercenary grenadier?

[foggy shadow]

yes

[safe owl]

do the level on rings matter if they have good rolls??

[raven siren]

Path of Build 2 when?

[atomic halo]

ilvl only matters for crafting

[atomic halo]

once they're done making it of course

[safe owl]

so if i chance roll this sapphire ring it wont matter that the ring is level 23??

[atomic halo]

chance roll? like using an orb of chance?

[safe owl]

yeah lol

[atomic halo]

if it's like poe1, it cant roll into a unique with higher minimum ilvl

[raven siren]

someone trying for a dream fragment

[safe owl]

im new to arpgs so idk what that means tbh

do i roll it or wait for a high level base ring lol

[raven siren]

also im pretty sure poe1 removed the min ilvl requirements?

[safe owl]

i guess thats why question

[raven siren]

Send it my man 😛

[atomic halo]

well it certainly still applies for ancients

[kindred dawn]

Pierce penalty makes dot weaker too right? Since its generic less damage

[atomic halo]

wiki says dream fragments only requires lvl 12

so idk send it

[safe owl]

rip.... it destroyed XD

[atomic halo]

oh i didnt realise it wss just tainted mythic now instead of like in poe1

[rapid current]

Any decent end game blood mages around?

[obsidian adder]

Does Minion Pact work with the DoT component of Essence Drain, or just the Projectile? When I put it on, the Projectile tooltip updates, but the DoT tooltip doesnt.

[serene minnow]

is there no way to make Incinerate have more beams ? its not a projectile, its scale abit with aoe

[dusty gyro]

Assuming you are properly set up, what's better single target damage?

Aresenalist or Sniper?

I think Sniper has the higher normally, but unsure if the ability to shotgun basic attacks pushes arsenalisy to the head.

[silver warren]

What's the difference between evasion rating and Evade with Acrobatics node?

[dusty gyro]

Or if gas arrow is so oppressive it doesnt mayter

[gritty marten]

quick question. how much is too much frost buildup? i love it, but don't want diminishing returns...if it even matters

[formal night]

can i hear peoples opinions on using shields on sorcerer? do you guys think its the meta or bait?

[snow sierra]

if you have the dmg without it is good if not its not

[raven siren]

passive block is strong AF now, so probably solid

[hoary plover]

anyone playing gemling strength stack? curious how much hp you end up with

[safe owl]

you shouldnt say that in here... theyll nerf if like they did ice sorc and deadeye rangers XD

[snow sierra]

this is so dumb eb + MoM with energy shield t14 maps

lol

[quick eagle]

Poe1 had minimum iLVL reqs, if you were trying to get a headhunter you actually wanted it below 78 so you couldn't roll Vanguard. Or something like that

[zenith sierra]

Do duplicates of the same “allies in your presence” buffs stack if they come from different characters?

[raven siren]

poe1 removed all ilvl requirements for chancing

not sure why people keep saying that

[daring bobcat]

You don't count as your own ally but yea if you have 2 buddies with increase allies spell dmg you'll get the buff from both

[formal night]

wait eldritch battery doesnt makes me lose my energy shield?

[vestal storm]

how you got so much spirit xd

[snow sierra]

well not with my tech

items^^

[raven siren]

spirit go brr

[snow sierra]

i am even chronomancer so not otes to help

[formal night]

am i bugged?

[zenith sierra]

So if I take the “amulet stats applies to minions” passive and wear a Fixation of Yix then my guys will be able to stack the buff super high?

[snow sierra]

what items do you where, there a few that gives you energy shield

[granite ice]

For why i disconected in map nivel 1 ?

[vestal storm]

how bruh

[formal night]

this is the only unique i have

[snow sierra]

no dosnt stack

[vestal storm]

whole ass 450% extra damage right there for me

[dusk sapphire]

Any monks know if Elemental Expression is better or worse than Unbound Avatar? (Invoker ascendancy)

[snow sierra]

well that is strange. did you confirm the skillpoint and got the mana increase ?

[formal night]

does % increased energy shield on gear not go to mana and stay on shield?

[formal night]

i did it all at once so im not sure

[snow sierra]

check it^^

[formal night]

i reseted my whole tree

will sell it and add it again

im clicking and it does nothing game is not allowing me to remove it

[snow sierra]

stats very strange 😄

[formal night]

i cant remove anything

im bugged i guess

cant change my skill tree

[snow sierra]

relog

[vestal storm]

try relog

[formal night]

oh wait

my game went back in time

wait

i

what

[dusty gyro]

Do we know approximately how much damage +1 Minion level is on say, Arsonist?

[formal night]

my game went back in time and fused my old tree with my new tree

[snow sierra]

i think it was 17% MORE not increased

[formal night]

and now i dont have points

bruuuhhhh

[raven siren]

neck/chest, unique shield can all hit spirit

[dusty gyro]

17%... so better to do an actual damage support unless it hits a breakpoint for spirit where you can get another Arsonist

[formal night]

thanks for making me lose the gold game

[dusty gyro]

Ty

[formal night]

and now i dont have gold to remove them to readd them...

wao

receiving the cast on ice treatment even tho i didnt use the build 😭

[simple fable]

Is "Estimated (Main/Off) Chance to Hit within 2M not impacted by accuracy? Allocated the nodes but that hasn't changed at all

[orchid torrent]

yeh respecs are so expensive, I respeced just a little to try taking a monk ice skill on my ice sorc, and it 1. sucked 2. am broke

this game really wants you to just take the same basic stuff and not experiment

[formal night]

i think they are ok

because u recover your gold when u select the same nodes

[raven siren]

Ive full respec'd like 8 times alrdy how are people struggling on gold?

[formal night]

but i cant do that cause no money cause the game stole my money

[orchid torrent]

what do you mean

[formal night]

lets say you remove your whole tree, when u add the pathings again if u click on pathings u had before u recover the gold lost on them

so most of the gold u recover

[orchid torrent]

ohh, so if I switch between 2 specs, it's free?

[formal night]

wdym

no

i mean

[orchid torrent]

well if you click on it again and you recover the gold wouldnt it make it free

[formal night]

u remove the tree, but you dont click apply

and then u make the tree again

if you click apply you lose all your gold

so u cant have 2 builds for free no

[nimble sun]

guys, do cast on freeze scale with level at all? like do i need to raise the level of my cast on freeze gem or am i blind for not seeing the sscale here

[orchid torrent]

idk why this game makes it that expensive - say I want to test out quarterstaff skil sorc one day and crossbow sorc the next day - totally impossible due to costs

[formal night]

just test them in your brain

[vagrant imp]

It's to prevent people from respeccing for every map mod/boss and to provide weight to your choices

[orchid torrent]

well I tested 1 monk skill today, I respecced for it - in my brain it was good - in the dps tab it shows wayh higher for that skill than my frostball etc. but in reality it sucked

you cant really tell if it works well until you try it

[frigid ermine]

What do you guys think about this order in prio for mods in gear ?
This is for ice strike / charged staff build in mind

[mossy sequoia]

Can arcane surge not work in a cast on freeze from commet?

[severe drum]

is there no flat mana regen anywhere?

[daring bobcat]

it would take a lot of CoF comet to trigger it, uptime would be terrible

[daring bobcat]

Besides passives and gear, no

[frosty pewter]

when an item says "+11% to bleed duration", does that mean more damage or just the same damage spread out over a longer time?

[vagrant imp]

base mana regen is based on your total mana so getting flat mana is effectively flat mana regen

[hoary plover]

how cooked am i

[vagrant imp]

it means 11% increased damage if the bleed runs its full duration.

[sly minnow]

guys pls help i wanted to play lightning warp on sorc and skilled crit chance for spells but when i click on the arrow to show the stats from the spell it doesnt show crit??? do some spells cant get increased crit chance

it also doenst increase the dps number when i increase crit chance on skill tree

[analog gale]

is there any reason to use the increased freeze buildup support vs just dealing more cold damage?

[plain matrix]

gas gren or gas arrow for more boom 😄 ?

[swift aspen]

Is there a way to know how much base HP each different minion has?

[proud trout]

I was gonna do this for Monk simply because how dare you have a Flames of Chayula ability and no fire/chaos damage

[severe drum]

cast speed does not apply to normal attacks, right?

or does it

[hoary plover]

i dont think flames of chayula would affect it at all

[proud trout]

It doesn't. The name does though

[hoary plover]

i see

[rocky pilot]

i would compare with the damage of DD. because this could easily be worse than this exact build but with DD instead

[swift aspen]

Now you just need to convince all the mobs to chase you on a very small path…

To be honest I think you’ll find the damage disappointing. I have almost 4K mana and I’ve tried the ignite for 20% mana on my curse and the damage just isn’t something worth writing home about

[rocky pilot]

and im a str stacker with like 539 strength and its only 2,777 HP with above average life rolls.
With really good life like Steelmage i think you're looking at 3.5K mostly

[hoary plover]

so calling it 3k hp I think my spreadsheet puts it at like 2.2k dps lol. sounds viable to me 😛

[rocky pilot]

---

Hello, could i get someone's opinion on using Deadeye for crossbow instead of Mercenary?

Thinking of doing a lightning bolt or Armour break build and take advantage of deadeye's Extra projectile and Far Shot

But i haven't seen a single reference, noone seems to have tried it?

[swift aspen]

But if you go for it, don’t forget you can get improvement to ignite/ailments through jewels, as well

As well as increased chaos damage

[hoary plover]

true

[swift aspen]

I still think it’s going to be very pricey and ultimately not very rewarding

[shrewd oar]

What does Stored Poison imply on the skill Toxic Growth?

[swift aspen]

Have you at least tested the size/duration of the trail

And whether or not AoE increases impact it?

[hoary plover]

does that look like the build plan of someone that does testing

[plain matrix]

any gas arrow player around 😄 ?

[hoary plover]

yes hi hello

[copper idol]

Quick Q about Flash Grenade - If I throw Pin Support on it, with Overpower Support (50% more Stun buildup) does it:
A) Overpower boosts the stun power, which gets swapped to Pin from Pin support, or
B) Pin support swaps the stun power to Pin power, and Overpower has nothing to boost?

[plain matrix]

hey there, gonna thought about gas arrow/gren ... how you level without any gear ?

[hoary plover]

i levled with lightning arrow until 22, then used GA+flame wall until i got the helmet

[rocky pilot]

i feel like Deadeye would be really good

[plain matrix]

ah k

[rocky pilot]

for crossbow...

[hoary plover]

i am deadeye

[plain matrix]

thanks 😄

[tulip tide]

Does anyone know if Grenade Skills are affected by Accuracy?

[rocky pilot]

you're doing deadeye crossbow? im just collecting opinions. thinking i'll try doing crossbow with deadeye

[plain matrix]

deadeye grenadier of rue uses crossbow

[hoary plover]

deadeye bow, using gas arrow not grenade

[copper idol]

Wrong reply target, lol

[north heath]

is there any builds that dont need multiple skills for whites / dont need long cool downs? something closer to poe 1 playstyles

[copper idol]

In-game damage thingy implies they do, though that's not 100% guaranteed to be accurate

[formal night]

this lightning damage works for sorcerers right?

[swift aspen]

Run it with Ancestral Bond and you’re in 🤣

[vestal oriole]

Hello everyone is someone willing to trade a blueflame bracers its seems the peo2 trade site don't work with me

[swift aspen]

Nope. Martial weapons only, so it’s only for attacks.

[formal night]

oh

thats sadi :c

so what gems on sorcerer weapons?

runes*

[swift aspen]

None

They can’t be slotted

[formal night]

a

[swift aspen]

Not currently, at least

[formal night]

always punished smh smh

[swift aspen]

Casters don’t have to budget for accuracy

I’ll take the lack of a rune slot over that any day

[formal night]

:3

noobs failing your attacks

[hoary plover]

4 seconds, 2 meters

[swift aspen]

Tooltip said it lasts 8s

Is something affecting that in your passives

Or is that how long the debuff lasts

[hoary plover]

oh duh im illiterate

[swift aspen]

So nothing increases that radius

[hoary plover]

generic aoe should, its just a rare stat

most is spell or attack aoe

[swift aspen]

Hrmm

[hoary plover]

honestly the biggest first problem is gonna be leveling to 33

[static plinth]

Level as Flame Wall only

[near jewel]

guys, has anyone dropped a unique maybe for totems, like this headgear in poe1?

[static plinth]

Not yet, though Soul Mantle was on PoE2DB for a while

[swift aspen]

Honestly there doesn’t seem to be a lot of love for totems yet

Not many affixes/uniques

Minions are the better play rn

[near jewel]

damn it, im playing totems 😦

[swift aspen]

Totems are fine and they’re fun

[near jewel]

should I reroll?

[swift aspen]

Just not crazy like minions

[north heath]

what determines the strength of this bleed?

[tender oasis]

Look Shockwave totem is acilly good

[verbal blaze]

what are the priority in resistance???
i know Chaos comes in first. what are the next priorities???

[tender oasis]

The hit

Cold is the most important

[north heath]

the physical or all damage?

[near jewel]

so basically I can get swomwhere with totems? not like t3 maps and thats it?

[tender oasis]

Physical

[near jewel]

I love to9tems 🙂

[tender oasis]

Bleed is only physical

[static plinth]

The hit that hit you

[swift aspen]

I haven’t played totems that far in, are you doing ancestral for multiple totems? I think they’re viable

[hexed swallow]

can some1 that has the elemental expression ascendancy snap a pic of the tooltip

[verbal blaze]

cold is more important then fire or lightning???

[static plinth]

Just phys unless the enemy can bleed with all damage ie Ultimatum

[north heath]

any ideas why the bleed does like 1/2 my hp when the hit only does like 1/5

[verbal blaze]

cold has less one shot damage no?>??

[tender oasis]

Getting frozen sucks

[static plinth]

Are you moving

[spiral moth]

Is call of Brotherhood Ring in combination with Archmage viable build path for Cold build?
Or does it not work as I imagine it?

[north heath]

when are you not moving?

[near jewel]

shockwave for armour break, crazy tbh. ancestral with sunder for the guaranteed crit

[static plinth]

When you're bleeding id hope, because that doubles the damage you take from it

[north heath]

how do i remove / prevent bleed then?

[tender oasis]

Shockwave procing earthquake is really good area clear

[static plinth]

Staunching Charm

[tender oasis]

^

[static plinth]

And bleed cant be inflicted through energy shield

[formal night]

if i have this combination does it mean that when i use mana it is only used by half. or do i only recover mana when im attacked?

[tender oasis]

Armor will reduced the hit part of bleed

[north heath]

sdim lvl 2. where i get those

[hollow bolt]

is there a skill gem for spark builds that inflicts lightning exposure? or is it from items only?

[civic warren]

is the attk dmg on gem add or multi?

[static plinth]

Wtf no wonder bleed is eviscerating you. Just keep playing and maybe take off the chest til then

[swift aspen]

There is I think a lvl 3 lightning exposure support gem. Reduces dmg by like 25% but applies exposure. Then there’s another support that enhances exposure by 30%

[modern oriole]

Pls add a stash on both sides of gateway ) :

[swift aspen]

I meant are you using ancestral bond, no limit on totems just 100 spirit per

[near jewel]

nope

[swift aspen]

You can socket ancestral warrior totem with multiple attacks can’t you?

[near jewel]

i have only 100 spirit 😦

[civic warren]

i think using skills wont recover your mana only dmg that u take will recover your mana

[swift aspen]

Just no cooldown

[copper idol]

Anyone know if Overwhelm Support (+50% stun build up) works to boost Pin buildup when used with Pin Support, does the Pin Support remove the convert the Stun buildup first? I tried to test it, but there's enough variance with Flash Grenade that it's hard to tell.

[near jewel]

I will see

[stark yacht]

I was looking at ancestral bond, but it would take some crazy rng to get the gear for it.

No just one attack

[swift aspen]

If totems are your main source of clear, your weapon doesn’t matter too much, so you can go with scepter for 100-200 spirit and it has passives for ‘allies’ which should include totems (I haven’t tested totems beyond 40)

[wooden iris]

armor break is also fantastic with rolling slam + armor explosion and overpower! the armor explosion itself can trigger more breaks / explosions 🙂

[swift aspen]

200 spirit just from a scepter

100 spirit from low lvl chest

[stark yacht]

Does it replace the mana cost?

[swift aspen]

Dunno haven’t tested

I stopped warrior at 40

But I can go back and see

[near jewel]

I am using 2 x 2h mace with +6 to melee gems

[stark yacht]

I am rocking +10 skill right now though

[near jewel]

on t2 maps its oneshotting all

[spiral moth]

Does this combine with Archmage for cold build, or is it not viable to build around?

[swift aspen]

Yeah that’s why I say there’s not a ton of itemization for totem build… scepter has + to minion but not to melee/totem

Same on helm etc

And totems scale completely off of their skill level

[near jewel]

do u thinkit can pull off t15?

[topaz thunder]

That looks like it could be very useful in some builds. Most legendaries I have seem kinda weak

[swift aspen]

Yeah for sure just need to add in some of your own abilities to enhance clear/utility

[near jewel]

I just cant bear rolling another character 😦

[swift aspen]

Nah warrior is so much fun

[near jewel]

in poe 1 loong ago i had totems chieftain and i loved it, slow but so relaible

[spiral moth]

yeh, Achmage gives %lightning damage to all your spells based on your max mana,
So I'm thinking of using it in my cold build to further boost damage, but I'm not sure if it's just wasted effort because I'm not sure if it is further boosted by + cold damage % etc. or no

[near jewel]

now, in t2, i only use shockwave

if im bored i place ancestral

for guaranteed crit

with sunder on armour broken

[mossy sequoia]

anyone using much damage taken is recouped as mana? Is that pre or post mitigation damage?

[swift aspen]

I do wonder if you’ll do more damage with scepter/shield with ancestral bond

[static plinth]

Post

[wooden iris]

100 %

[swift aspen]

Since scepter can give flat damage to allies

If the flat range scales totems it could be juicy

[swift aspen]

Old faithful

[near jewel]

can u pm me with gems names and this screen pls ?

[mossy sequoia]

How do we annoint atm? Like is there a vendor/unlock? I know I need the delirium "oils"

[wooden iris]

np i can post it here:

• close combat
• martial tempo
• heavy swing
• heft

[indigo cedar]

should I go chronomancer if im full fire mage ?

[topaz thunder]

So cast on crit is pretty good when you get enough crit change and the boss is fat. We need to makea deal with GGG. They can nerf Cast on effect for bosses, but buff them for small mobs.

[mossy sequoia]

probably not

[vague moth]

Wondering if it's worth going "inevitable crit" support with gas grenade, as I've seen that the "impact" of the grenade triggers the critical, I was wondering if it treats that interaction of the impact separate from the "explosion" or does it encompass the full span of the ability guaranteeing a critical on that explosion aswell or am I dumb by wasting crits with the impacts? Just would like to know how those interactions occur.

[indigo cedar]

Why would I go stormweaver tho, its all about storm and ice

[near jewel]

so try scepter + 2h mace?

[wooden iris]

for wave clear i use rolling slam with devestate / overpower / armor explosion

it can chain explode and clear whole packs

[orchid torrent]

any tips for either making respecs cheap or farming a fuckton of gold so you can actually play with say 3 different respecs? Im cruel 1

I want to experiment in the game but the game is discouraging me from doing so very hard

[vagrant imp]

Chronomancer is fine, BUT it is almost entirely a defensive ascendancy. Stormweaver is mediocre for fire unless you're doing something with lightning to scale with archmage/arcane surge

[wooden iris]

and for bosses we have hammer of the gods with inevitable critical, second wind, and fast forward - looking to expand this with super critical next

[near jewel]

Shockwave = close combat, brutality, splinter, inspiration; ANCESTRAL = sunder, overabundance, supercritical

[indigo cedar]

Well if i wanna go full fire what would you suggest? I dont personally enjoy the storm spells and i liek the fire so im running a little bit of cold, but not enough to freeze them.

[devout dew]

so i have my Ice Invoker Monk - trying to find a different ranged class i can have as my 2nd 1

[indigo cedar]

I just think the chronomancers slow/time freeze stuff would go well with incinerate

[sterile stone]

goratha have bloodmage icewall fireball build

[swift aspen]

Would be good science

[cursive kayak]

Hello guys, do you recommend pure energy shield for a witch or a balance between energy shield and armor rating ?

[swift aspen]

And if the damage is better, the next step is to path over to ancestral bond

[near jewel]

I am a noob, mind u 😉

[swift aspen]

Right now all it costs you is one cheap scepter

With decent rolls

[sterile stone]

you dont use ES until you figured how to sustain them, the delay ys 4 seconds

[rugged kraken]

Does event horizon just outright kill you if you have chaos inoculation?

[vagrant imp]

Infernalist has some extra ignite magnitude and generic damage from demon form, but it's rather dangerous. Blood Mage can work, but same issue there. Up to you, I think Chrono is OK

[north heath]

is there any skills like RF or flicker?

[near jewel]

but now I can have 5 totesm out at a time; with bond and 100 spirit septer I can have 2 at a time only = 200 spirit, and alll auras gone

[vagrant imp]

Flicker strike is in the game

[indigo cedar]

what u talking about, i only have stormweaver and chronomancer as an option

[cursive kayak]

ok thanks

[vagrant imp]

They are witch ascendancies, if you're sticking with sorc then Chrono is fine like I said.

[swift aspen]

I don’t remember which those are, but I can confirm that if you use the passive that reduces your HP to 1 but makes you chaos immune, and then use a mana pot that takes 15% of the mana restored from your HP, you will commit suicide

[north heath]

how do you sustain it?

[swift aspen]

Ah then don’t bother going for ancestral

[indigo cedar]

Ye i'm a sorcerress. so if im going full fire and like 1 ice skill, chrono is more worth? sure it's not AMAZING, but better than stormweaver not benefiting my fire at all

[vagrant imp]

idk, haven't looked into it, but I've seen some people get it working decently. Don't know if you can use it for single target though.

[vagrant imp]

Yeah stormweaver doesn't do much for fire if you aren't converting.

[vale heart]

is there sme kind of dmg calculator?

[swift aspen]

This should be fine with the 1 HP talent, as 3% of 1 HP is nothing

[near jewel]

I only use shockwave and ancestral. 2 skills. any idea what else i can use? auras pasive.

[indigo cedar]

bet, ty.

[rugged kraken]

thanks

[orchid torrent]

is there a place to see numerically what type of builds are performing best? I dont want to copy a build but I want to see what's super strong to see if I can incorporate something offbeat from a different class' strong build into mine

[sterile stone]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1hbzwmn/we_turning_the_game_back_into_poe1_with_this_one/ idk how

[drifting cedar]

are there any good ways to make use of int as a blood magic blood mage?

or, if not, avoid needing int for spell gems reqs

[north heath]

any idea where the build is or how it works?

[formal magnet]

hear me out: coak of flame and heat proofing. am i cookin or am i stupid

[drifting cedar]

i mean with how armor works taking 2 hits is better than 1 but

[swift aspen]

What? If you’re full fire are you applying exposure? If so, stormweaver boosts it.

Are you burning through mana? If so, stormweaver prevents that.

Do you want another source of fire damage? Only stormweaver has elemental storm.

Want to add some additional cc into your build? Passively build heavy chill with all damage as stormweaver

[formal magnet]

im running a version of lifestack infernalist for context here

[swift aspen]

How much armor you plan on running

[formal magnet]

haven't crossed that bridge if i'm being honest, very prelimilary plan rn

but since i'm stacking so much str i figure i'll have a lot of armor

[swift aspen]

You’ll have a lot of STR

[formal magnet]

and the ability to equip aforementioned armor by having the str

[swift aspen]

You’ll need to specifically equip high armor

[drifting cedar]

are you going to use a shield though?

[formal magnet]

yeah shield

[drifting cedar]

having no armour in the biggest armour slot makes armour stacking hard

[sterile stone]

i have no idea, i never even make flicker in poe 1

[timid aurora]

Why is mercenary so low on ladder?

no OP ascendenies?

[north heath]

damm, ok, the build / skills used is what i cant figure out

[orchid torrent]

does my sorc auto get int on level ups? If I want to say use e.g. crossbows even when I switch all my nodes to dex I have insufficent dex to wield one, and a ton of int

[sterile stone]

but it seems possible even tho its jank, maybe check Magefist if he already figured it out or not

[drifting cedar]

no auto stats on level ups but health and mana which I think are the same for everyone

[swift aspen]

No

[formal magnet]

so i guess to make this work i just have to aim for really high armor rolls on gear and sacrifice a bit of dps in the long run

[cursive kayak]

other question, do you priorize hybrid armor/evade stats or pure armor, pure evade ?

[orchid torrent]

then where do i have all this int from. I respec'd all int nodes to dex, and even naked I still have more int than dex

[drifting cedar]

theres also just this guy

but that does not help your phys mitigation

[swift aspen]

Assuming you cap 75% fire resist (maybe higher depending on your passives), you’d need 100% armor mitigation to fill that final gap. I don’t know how much armor that is, but I’m sure you could at least get like 40-50% mitigation (10-12.5% applied to fire)

[formal magnet]

yeah that's kind of the thing i'm really going for, just a really stupid tanky minion build with my own slight spin on it

[formal magnet]

i was definitely planning to hit over cap on the fire

[grizzled geyser]

for contagion/ed build is it worth trying to scale through chaos damage or would something like skill effect duration scale my dot damage more?

[obsidian adder]

I have a question about Weapon Set skill points. Cooking a build that uses curses, so naturally, I want to take a bunch of Curse skill nodes.

Can I set my curses to cast with Weapon Set 2, and pick all the curse skill nodes on the passive tree useing my WS2 skill points?

Then set all my other spells to use Weapon Set 1, and pick other nodes using WS1 skill points?

Is that how this works?

[vagrant imp]

there's also node bottom left that gives you max fire res for uncapped fire res

[green minnow]

it says not enough spirit when i have 95/95 free

[vagrant imp]

unnatural resilience

[green minnow]

someone help me pls?

[rocky pilot]

Yoo its actually real

[obsidian grove]

Try taking the gem out and putting it back, may be a bug

[rocky pilot]

did you try with a gem inside to cast?

[swift aspen]

Evidently armor mitigation caps at 90%, so if you were to top that out you’d sit at 22.5% fire mitigation, meaning you’d only need 77.5% to hit 100% (if that’s how they math it—it could be that you reduce the leftover damage by 22.5%)

[green minnow]

that fixed it

thank you guys

❤️

[pearl sluice]

are there any support gem combos with that one passive in monk that inverts your charges for auto power charge gain

[formal magnet]

pathing there could pose a problem, have to go a long way around

[nimble sun]

guys, what happens if i use mind over mater with adverse growth? do i get a flat 20% damage reduction for free?

[formal magnet]

guess my best bet is to just stick with it and see how it goes

[rocky pilot]

only freezing enemies with Combat Frenzy or using frenzy charge mark.
its mediocre honestly but some people swear by it

[formal magnet]

even if it's janky it seems like it might end up working to some extent

[pearl sluice]

hmm, alright, i just ask because i need power charges every 26 or so seconds for upkeep on charged staff yk

[vagrant imp]

Could anoint it

[snow ridge]

if I apply a curse with a weaponset with +curse effect skill nodes, then switch to a set without it, does the curse keep the increased effect?

[chrome swan]

is %armor on str gear local or global?

[vagrant imp]

local

[atomic halo]

if it's unconditional and doesn't say "global", it's local

"#% increased Armour" is always local on str equipment

[chrome swan]

I got an amulet with 30% armor, is that global then?

[atomic halo]

that is always global

[pearl sluice]

grey or white, not modified by local modifiers, blue means it is modified by local modifiers, not a way to know right now wether its local or global tho

[atomic halo]

because there is no local stat to modify

[crimson basin]

noob question, how does crit damage interact with simple damage increase nodes. do the two stack or are they seperate?

[chrome swan]

I see

[atomic halo]

i think you're mixing it up with the stats line on the item (the parts that show the local stats) grey/white = not modified by a local modifier, blue = modified by a local modifier. currently, there is no reliable way to tell if a modifier is local/global except by knowing rules and experience.

[chrome swan]

so what about %spirit on sceptre? it's global no?

[atomic halo]

it's local because it's modifying a base stat of the item.

[azure meadow]

Crit multiplies your total non-crit damage. It stacks

[formal magnet]

huh, didnt consider that

i'm gonna go all in on this jank and see how it goes

[crimson basin]

cheers, thanks

[pearl sluice]

oh, thanks sorry for not knowing

[chrome swan]

my max spirit stat with the sceptre equipped/unequipped says otherwise tho

[atomic halo]

i find that very difficult to believe

with the #% inc. spirit modifier, the part at the top of the sceptre that says how much spirit it grants changes accordingly, does it not?

exactly the way it does with any local modifier?

[chrome swan]

no sceptre: 110 max spirit
with 20% qual 32% spirit sceptre: 302 (110*0.32+158) max spirit

this is where I'm getting confused too, how to tell if a modifier is global or local? do I just need to know how it works for every piece?

[chrome swan]

yes it does

[atomic halo]

combination of knowing the rules and experience

although your current experience seems to contravene all known rules and experience

[chrome swan]

way to complicate things lol

[swift aspen]

I wonder if this 7% mitigation affix works with your passives… if not, you can at least find 800+ armor shields for cheap

[atomic halo]

you can check the poewiki.net page on it to see what's already been written

[atomic halo]

flat pdr is a really good stat, it adds to pdr from armour

[formal magnet]

saving that so i know what to look for if i take this that far

[drifting cedar]

it makes normal armor much more effective by reducing large hits and allowing armor to more effectively cover the leftover

[formal magnet]

it's either going to be a really dumb ultratanky build with zdps, or a failure lol

[fleet shadow]

are people still using pob for poe2 or?

[chrome swan]

https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Sceptre

Sceptres also grant base spirit and can roll modifiers affecting spirit.

pretty empty so far, but thanks for the pointer

this isn't anything specific yet though

[rain dust]

The skills for maces seem really underwhelming

[atomic halo]

i meant for local and global modifiers

[vagrant imp]

Do totems care about my attack speed despite using their own weapon? It says they use some of my stats. I'm wondering why so many nodes give attack speed on totem summon if they don't benefit from it so they must, right?

[atomic halo]

pretty sure your modifiers to attack speed still affect them

just because its not ur weapon doesnt mean they arent still inheriting your offensive stats

local atkspd on ur wep doesnt apply of course

[chrome swan]

I see, my bad

[azure meadow]

Yeah the "not your weapon" just means that for example you can't Leech from totem hitd

They still share all your combat stats but they are a different entity

[drifting cedar]

totems are weird in poe 2

[wooden iris]

why need skills when basic attack do trick 🧌

[drifting cedar]

for example, some totems require crossbows but still do not benefit from %crossbow damage nodes or two handed damage nodes

however, they do benefit from two handed attack speed

[mossy turret]

What direction are Chronomancer / Sorcs going? Frost doesn't feel good and not a fan of the Hammer Of Gods route. Any suggestions?

[rain dust]

Because skills are more fun

[vagrant imp]

And lastly totems would break armor for me if I took the armor break warbringer node? It simply says hit damage, not MY hit damage.

[drifting cedar]

I have a quarterstaff chronomancer that is quite fun

[swift aspen]

I think my lightning bolt is lvl 28 now 👀

[drifting cedar]

its just liek a monk but tankier with only a bit less damage

[wooden iris]

fair enough 🙂

[paper vine]

is Chronomancer bad? Not finding any resources for it

[drifting cedar]

It is probably the least popular right now

[azure meadow]

How does chronomancer tank? Recoup?

[swift aspen]

I’m using a lightning build that I love. I’ve heard new meta has to do with spark and maybe CoS but I went a totally diff route

[drifting cedar]

big recoup and the big slow aura is a strong debuff

[azure meadow]

Monk seemed way tanker to me but I didn't try chrono

[drifting cedar]

also any war of attrition is a breeze if you can reset health

[swift aspen]

Keep in mind CoF is still super strong for bossing

[hollow solar]

anyone know the best way to get power charges as monk ? killing palm is trash

[mossy turret]

I was thinking of going light, I heard some good about fire too.

[azure meadow]

Combat frenzy + frenzy into power charge keystone

[swift aspen]

Fire seems fun, honestly the sorc is still in a good place

Tons of overreaction imo because people got used to sprinting through a map

I think Uber geared folks still do lol

[azure meadow]

Poe feedback this week is only teenage overeaction

I hope things calm down a bit cause I like reddit but the poe subs make me sick

[swift aspen]

I wouldn’t put an age limit on overreaction, especially on the internet 😂

We are all capable of it

I haven’t checked the Reddit subs for the game

[drifting cedar]

the poe 2 sub seems fine

[swift aspen]

I didn’t play poe1 so this is all new for me

[vagrant imp]

idk if that many young people play PoE tbh

[drifting cedar]

the poe 1 sub is not loving poe 2

[vagrant imp]

poe1 sub thinks poe1 will be dead in favor of poe2 so they're super reactionary

[twin ginkgo]

Could someone help me with a Detonate Dead Build as infernalist for HC?

[sonic blade]

Does anyone have a build for Minion Gemling Legionnaire?

[swift aspen]

1. Get lots of spirit
2. Get lots of minions
3. Get +1 and 10% quality on skills (gemling passives) for even more minion

4.???

[azure meadow]

Saw a comment on poe 1 saying streamers say game is good but you can see in their eyes they are lying
How did it come to this

[swift aspen]

And you know 5

[vagrant imp]

Is The Baron still a unique?

[sonic blade]

Is +1 to all skills better than going for STR stacking and taking Adaptive Capability?

[royal hamlet]

do melee builds need accuracy ?

[azure meadow]

Yes or resolute technique

[loud kiln]

Damn normal mobs dies at 67,5% HP with the "Culling the hordes" passive skill. I even ruined it already with my rune

[cobalt parcel]

There a link to the spark sorc build?

[swift aspen]

You can get adaptive still

[sonic blade]

I didnt think id have enough points.

[cobalt parcel]

Have been playing with spark flamewall sorc a bit

[swift aspen]

8 passive points = adaptive, potential, implant, and one more

Either efficiency or thaumaturgy

The latter makes more sense

[native burrow]

What exactly does this mean? Ignite chance is pretty meaningless to me, but just how much would this affect Ignite damage

[swift aspen]

But would be obv last asc

[swift aspen]

Hold alt and click on the dotted text to learn more

[vagrant imp]

if you have high infernal flame you can inflict ignite with non-fire damage

[sonic blade]

Yeah I dont know if I would need efficiency unless I was stacking auras

[swift aspen]

You won’t because your spirit is for minions

[native burrow]

I'm running fire and minions. Skeletal Arsonists, Houndm all fire spells etc

[twin ginkgo]

I want to do a defensive Detonate Dead Infernalist

[sonic blade]

Im currently running SRS and Wither but idk if its worth running Wither

[ashen crypt]

quality is a multiplicative modifier

100 * 1.32 * 1.2

[vagrant imp]

Then it's pretty mediocre

[sonic blade]

thats basically what im doing as merc, just no hound obv

[atomic pier]

Am I missing something or is this support gem bugged? It says 50% increase so should be from 6m to 9m, instead it only increased it to 7.4m, a 1.4 increase instead of a 3m increase?

[native burrow]

I'm trying to understand how much it affects the magnitude, I swear this game has the most complex DoTs ever

[swift aspen]

Are you able to see health pool of minions?

I’m curious how much HP each one has at same level

[sonic blade]

Uhh hold on

[chrome swan]

110+(100 * 1.32 * 1.2)=268 yet I end up with 302 spirit ingame, which exactly equals 110*1.32+158, 158 being the value shown on the sceptre at 100 base spirit, 32% added spirit and 20% quality

[vagrant imp]

Could you press alt on "contributes" for me?

What does it say

[main jetty]

does attack speed affect reload speed on crossbows?

[ashen crypt]

huh, the mod is global now?

[chrome swan]

certainly looks that way

[sonic blade]

How would I see the health pool?

[swift aspen]

No clue I don’t play summons, that’s why I’m curious

[native burrow]

So since im doing fire damage anyways, this doesn't really do anything for me right

[swift aspen]

Like how much HP does the hound have baseline, and how much does it increase per level

[vagrant imp]

It may be in the details of your skill menu. the little arrow to the top right of the skill.

[ashen crypt]

This shouldn't be the case if it's already applying to the base spirit on the sceptre

[swift aspen]

Yeah most likely there

[ashen crypt]

I would submit a bug rep

[vagrant imp]

Yeah if you're fire focused already it won't do much aside from little flat damages here and there, not much worth an ascendancy.

[ashen crypt]

listings on trade indicate it's supposed to apply locally

so sounds like a bug

[chrome swan]

welp more spirit than is a plus for me

[native burrow]

The Ascendencies kinda suck ngl, Demon Form unequipping Scepters, and the rest of the nodes just convert other damage to fire damage?

[upbeat seal]

Any poe2 hc builds anywhere? I cant find shit

[chrome swan]

it's when to apply global/local which is confusing this way tho

[native burrow]

I also spent all my gold (close to 30,000) respeccing out of chaos into fire. Like i can't do that again man

[sonic blade]

Arsonists 387 at 9 +5%

[ashen crypt]

right now it looks like it's double dipping the %inc spirit mod

[vagrant imp]

I saw Kripp was running double hp small nodes rather than a notable lol. Not sure what's good or bad for minions though I don't play.

[ashen crypt]

that's a bug

it can't both apply locally and globally at the same time

[chrome swan]

also true

[swift aspen]

Barf lol

[native burrow]

The demon form is genuinely really damn cool. But it unequips your weapons. So that -100 spirit from the sceptre. That really hurts

[sonic blade]

And I have no points in respawn time yet

[cinder briar]

Can anyone post their infernal witch skill tree?

[native burrow]

i wish we could get an item that gives you a full respec

[obsidian adder]

LOL I think I found a pretty funny bug. If you spec your curses into negative application delay time, they lose their AoE component entirely and just cast on a single enemies at a time. This can't be intentional right?

[native burrow]

even if its just during the EA

[swift aspen]

Give respect token once per weekend, it’s EA, after all

[swift aspen]

You beat the game

[sonic blade]

Id love that lmao

[static plinth]

...Youre right that both ascendancies arent great but have you actually read Infernalist

[swift aspen]

I think I spent 300K yesterday in respecs

[static plinth]

None of the nodes convert your damage to fire and only two nodes kind of do the same (the two that come after Pyromantic Pact)

[native burrow]

The other nodes arent amazing either. Demon Form could be good if not for losing spirit, the Hound is kinda cool but nothing amazing. The other nodes are alright but not exciting

I don't really feel like im Ascending much. Demon Form was the only thing that is actually cool

[cinder briar]

Can anyone post their infernal witch skill tree?

[static plinth]

Yeah, at least i think they said they planned on patching Demon Form

[native burrow]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/ Just look at it here @cinder briar

[cinder briar]

Thank you Rainy

[native burrow]

That would be really big

[fervent void]

Are grenades the only decent form of Mercenary build later on?

[late laurel]

Corrupted Uniques are good, I'm tempted to roll a Blood Witch now but idk with what

[fervent void]

I only see videos of high level Merc’s spamming grenades and I don’t really like that playstyle

Kinda sucks

[delicate plaza]

I’m sure you can do archmage

[late laurel]

Grenades are just the easiest, Bolts are also viable with Merc/Crossbow if you can set it up right, but Deadeye is arguably better for it

[fervent void]

I would like to enjoy grenades but they feel really awkward with a controller imo

I was having a ton of fun levelling with Galvanic Shards but now I’m at the point where it’s not as good as it used to be

[mystic shard]

how m uch dmg can a shield take before ur staggered, or is it not an amount of dmg at all but just a certain amount of hits?

[static plinth]

Its based on your stun threshhold

Which is based off your maximum life and some other stuff

[ocean lion]

Do I unlock Bloodmage right away or wait?

[burnt cypress]

do totem attacks count as attacks? or slams

[smoky pendant]

Anybody have ideas for pair of synergistic coop builds for a 2-player playthrough?

[mystic shard]

what it's % of maximum life with 0 stun threshhold.

Also OOOHHH THATS STUN THRESHHOLD right.

[mental briar]

What’s the best boss for testing

Close to tp etc

[twin ginkgo]

Can anyone help me out with a Detonate Dead Infernalist tree?

[mental briar]

Don’t coop GGG have made coop hell😭

[thorn cedar]

Chaos isnt a Hitting skill right? since it does damage over time?

[hoary bolt]

Chaos is a damage type

it can be a hit or damage over time

[thorn cedar]

ahh thanks man

[mental briar]

Tried doing a trial with someone and got slapped 2x more damage health and damage reduction on enemies

[rancid frost]

they say anything yet about giving us a free respec?

[mental briar]

No they’re being too quiet

[late laurel]

Depends on the ability. Generally speaking, DoTs are not hits, but things like Gas Grenade apply chaos damage as though it were a hit

[hoary bolt]

Damage types are Physical, Fire, Cold, Lightning, and Chaos

[rancid frost]

rip

[thorn cedar]

im talking Essence Drain

[mental briar]

I spent 150k cos I don’t expect it anymore

[native burrow]

Depends on the spell, Essence Drain for example Hits then does also does DoT

[mental briar]

Pretty annoying

[hoary bolt]

essence drain has both a hit and a DoT

[thorn cedar]

Okay perfect

[rancid frost]

yeah - at least you have the cash; lot of peeps softlocked behind a gold grind

[formal night]

is this a free chaos?

[hoary bolt]

free vaal orb

[formal night]

if i vaal this can it get worse in what aspect

[hoary bolt]

can reroll half the mods

[formal night]

oh... lets just... not do it

[hoary bolt]

to random ones

[mental briar]

I didn’t for so long💀

[smoky pendant]

I have a coop buddy and I'm obligated to do a playthrough with him. Just trying to find some fun/powerful builds that work together.

[green minnow]

sorceress and warrior are insane together

[mental briar]

Grinded 10k here and there and finally got enough but my new build ain’t complete yet

[green minnow]

especially chronomancer

u freeze time and spam cast, he can do all his long charge ups

or u can go chronomancer and play with heavy greataxe yourself 😄

[smoky pendant]

Specific ascendancies or skills? What's the synergy there?

Oops just read

[green minnow]

while enemies are frozen in time, your mate can do all the long and extremely powerful wind ups

or chronomancer + monk

to make monk even more absurd

[smoky pendant]

Perfect. Might try one of those then, ty.

[green minnow]

whatever feels fun works tho

id just suggest to not both go melee

both ranged is fine but not both melee

except monk 😄

[topaz thunder]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hdr2hp/cast_on_crit_is_poorly_balanced_right_now/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Made a comparison video on CoC against mobs and bosses

[final mountain]

i have seen mercs with crossbow skills with double the amount of bolts per reload. how do you get more bolts per reload?

[topaz thunder]

Thoughts?

[orchid torrent]

I just made a meme build of making my stormweaver cast only Incinerate - for extra exposure to fire damage, have raging spirits on it, and then only fire minions and minion passives who then destroy everything exposed. It works. Spent all my gold to respec to it after TC-ing it.. but now my screen is just full of them and the whole playstyle is walking with right click flametrhrower on

I think I outplayed myself

[analog gale]

it might be the circumference its increasing maybe?

oh wait

is it the area thats increasing?

seems interesting

[graceful stag]

that's legit going to make me make a build

i had a thing for darkpact, but the poedb page lied it doesnt exist

[analog gale]

if the gem is grey its most likely on a staff or a wand

huh

nvm maybe its datamined or something

[fleet oak]

my screenshot was living in ur head rent free I see

[analog gale]

that or theres none on the trade site idk

[graceful stag]

i can't find that on the trade site

theres shit that's just not tehre like a few supports

they could just b shit that releases on full launch

i saw a lot of very abusable stuff in there so idk if it made it to final but there's a lot of broken mechanics

[true gulch]

is this shield good for MoM archmage? would have 62% block with this

[bright needle]

any reason why my charged staff never gets charges?

[pearl orbit]

if cast on freeze is 10 energy per freeze per power
and white mobs are 1 power
why am i gaining 4-6 energy off of a white mob?

did they just fuck up the implementation on top of nerfing it?

[white lantern]

for monk/mercenary should i be focusing on dex?

[north talon]

Are there any other realistic defensive layers for warrior beyond Life, Armor, Resists, Block?

[unkempt nexus]

high magic find builds are all pretty squishy, right?

[drifting cedar]

totem warbringer can shift damage onto totems, stun i guess

warrior/bottom left also has a few sustain options which is often more important than 1 shot mitigation

[north talon]

I could invest into regen I suppose. Could also path for more max res I guess. 79% max all res is not super hard

[mystic shard]

How do the "main hand/offhand" set passive points work.

Is it j u st extra passive skillpoints? as ive tried to use them and cant.

[drifting cedar]

regen is pretty nice to have tbh

[north talon]

I have some atm, but I am not super invested. But I am close I guess

[gray ferry]

Max res is great to have too

Maybe recoup too?

[north talon]

I do have some recoup, but not sure how much vaule it has in PoE2

[gray ferry]

fair

does life gain on block exist?

[north talon]

yes, and I will be getting some while capping block

[drifting cedar]

its waay rarer and lower values than poe1 though

at least that I've seen

[north talon]

is the 20 restored differnt than the 6 gained nodes?

[drifting cedar]

im not sure where that is tbh

[north talon]

Those two nodes

One is recover 20 life on block, the other is 6 life gained on block

which is an intresting differnce in wording that I am not sure the difference of

[drifting cedar]

I would assume its the same thing and just bad standard keeping to be honest

[north talon]

That is what I am thinking, but sometimes subtle wording difference just mean different things in PoE :(

[analog gale]

oh nice

svalinn is in poe2

[mystic shard]

u may aswell just get life regen, screw life on block

[drifting cedar]

oh boy cast on block

[mystic shard]

I want that one!

[round arrow]

any monks out there, what good defense options are there

[mystic shard]

How do the "main hand" set passive points work.

Is it just extra passive skillpoints? as ive tried to use them and cant.

[gray ferry]

So Volcanic Fissure says it converts 60% Phys -> Fire, would you be able to use Blueflame Bracers to convert that Fire -> Cold?

[drifting cedar]

ghost shroud + wind dancer + blind is pretty dope

[olive sapphire]

is it viable to make a tank shotgunner merc?

[tough swift]

are there any unique which scale with stacking attributes?

[drifting cedar]

pillar of the caged god, hand of wisdom and action

you can use them both together as well as howa is now a glove

getting those 2 + astramentis is a personal goal for me but the amulet is crazy pricey

[round arrow]

let me give that a try thanks

are there any point of leveling up lingering illusion, i don't see any stats change on the skill screen

[tiny cairn]

anyone know of a way to have WarCrys consume Broken Armour? Support Gem or Passive?

[drifting cedar]

chance to get a 2nd charge when the illusion dies

goes up to 96% at lvl 20 + 20% quality

[unkempt nexus]

can anyone tell me how tf ppl are getting like 6-7k ES at lvl 50?

i dont get it at all

[lofty stag]

Anyone know how foxshade quilt works with CI

[north talon]

isn't that a unique that adds ES based on max life + bloodmage? At least the massive ES ones I have seen

[astral badger]

so ive been running pure cold for like ten or so levels (im now level 41). I just got my next spirit gem and can unlock 'cast on' skills. Should I choose cast on freeze even though it got gutted? Or should I choose another one in preparation for a respec?

[gray ferry]

Cast on Freeze might be rough without investment into energy gain

[drifting cedar]

Grim feast?

[astral badger]

i really like my cold build, but im not sure if its a good fit longterm

since COF got nerfed

[drifting cedar]

lets you effectively double your ES

[astral badger]

Hmm this is why idk what to pick

[unkempt nexus]

that would still mean you ahve like 3-3.5k ES which is nuts x.x

[cobalt musk]

hinder caused by elemental storm doesn't count as myself inflicting the hinder right?

[gray ferry]

You could still manual cast skills I suppose if you like cold spells

[lofty stag]

Patient barrier adds a ton of ES

[gray ferry]

Cast on freeze is for automating

[lofty stag]

%60 I believe

[astral badger]

I def do. If I choose COF now can i change it later?

[gray ferry]

You can change skills whenever you want no? As long as you get uncut gems

[astral badger]

Oh got it.

[unkempt nexus]

whats that? o:

[cedar solar]

Who should I prefer scattershot to arsinist or fireball?

[lofty stag]

Open skill tree and type that into search, slower start to es Regen but increases max es by a ton

I'm running EY Pathfinder so IDC about the reduced Regen

[north talon]

Is what I was thinking of

[lean horizon]

Would grinning immolation (on infernalist) kill me if I had CI? It says take 15% of life

But what does poe treat as 15% of 1?

[gray ferry]

So if you take Pyromantic Pact is your mana flask just useless? Or is there a way to use the mana flask for something else? Since you no longer have mana

[lofty stag]

In Poe1 this would not kill you

Not sure in 2, I'd assume not

[lunar flume]

Does anyone know if the Pain Offering buff/aura also buffs the Raging spirits?

[hoary plover]

what are people using the fire to cold conversion gloves for?

[frosty arrow]

are infusion support gems affect minions? I'm putting cold infusion on my skelly but nothing changes in their stats. Will they have extra cold damage and ability to apply chill?

[gray ferry]

It says you take 15% of life and energy shield as fire damage per second, so I imagine it's taking the total of your life and energy shield, determining 15% of that, and then you are dealt a an ignite DoT of that value

but ignite doesn't go through ES does it

[lofty stag]

Oh ya it's 100% fine then

[gray ferry]

only things that should be going through ES is poison and bleed, but bleed requires a hit to health and poison is chaos damage

[hidden isle]

Anyone running monk got a decent build for level 41?

[mystic shard]

ive not clue how weapon set poinst work, keep trying to use em and does nothing, even on like fire dmg places with fire weapon

[errant veldt]

Is there an issue with CI survivability? Nothing budges my energy shield at all and then I just pop randomly and it says “You have committed suicide”, and it happens almost every map- then I unspec out of it and my energy shield goes back to not budging and I won’t die

[mystic shard]

oh wait nvm I get it, so its not MORE points, just options.

right?

[solid flume]

Infernal Flame?

[errant veldt]

Not running that

I’m a Chayula Monk

[solid flume]

oh

[quick axle]

Think this will still sell? Would've been great pre-cof nerf lol

[gray ferry]

Yeah

It's something like the last 24 or so points you can have 2 different versions of

[solid flume]

are u using lifetap?

[gray ferry]

It's not extra points

[solid flume]

something with ur build / gems is killing you if the death message is “You have committed suicide”

[errant veldt]

Yeah the problem is that nothing in the build changed between before and after maps except getting more attack damage on the tree

[solid flume]

how many life do u have?

[errant veldt]

And the deaths only happened in maps

[solid flume]

maybe something with chaos damage killed you

it goes through ES

[errant veldt]

I have CI

[solid flume]

hmmm

[mossy sequoia]

I'm trying to run a cast on crit commet build, triggering with spark + call of the brotherhood, playing bloodmage but struggling with mana sustain, any ideas?

[solid flume]

not sure...

[errant veldt]

Are there any mobs that somehow force a bleed?

Even though energy shield ?

[lofty stag]

Don't think so

[orchid torrent]

if you play witch spells and you go e.g. skeletal snipers are you expected to be spending most of the time clicking gas arrow - I cant tell if they cast it anyway and i just aim them with it, or if I need to keep casting it or ignore it

[solid flume]

no, if the message is “You have committed suicide” its something with your setup

[errant veldt]

Hmm I’ll check again to see if I’m missing something silly

[faint wraith]

if im using elec crossbow skills (galvanic/plasma/shockburst) is it better to put phys runes on my crossbow or the soul core that gives 30% increased elemental damage?

[gray ferry]

maybe reduced skill costs / mana refund on trigger nodes on tree?

[lofty stag]

What are your flask mods? Specifically on your mana flask

[gray ferry]

idk if mana leech will work with spells like spark

[static plinth]

It treats it as 1, but also its an ignite; It does not bypass your energy shield

[lofty stag]

I think there's a mod that removes HP bases on mana recovered

[errant veldt]

Oh my god

[mossy sequoia]

mana flask

[errant veldt]

You got me

[lofty stag]

Babahaha