2┃build-planning

[spark fog]

Probably start there

[sonic peak]

Make sure you manage to find a weapon with decent phys% and 'added dmg', ideally also with '+1 to gems'

Cause yeah, for 'martial classes', weapon dmg is really important

Attack speed is also good

Can roll on gloves as well

[floral smelt]

yeah my luck for getting that on ground loot or crafting is abysmal

[sonic peak]

Check the shop

From time to time

[spark fog]

Yeah check shop every level up

[obsidian epoch]

What should i change/improve guyz? Im trying to go a necromancer with as many minion as possible

[spark fog]

That’s when it refreshes

[sonic peak]

Most of my gear came from the shop

[digital axle]

srs?

[obsidian epoch]

Whats the srs "_"

[spark fog]

And you don’t need a yellow. Grab every normal xbow near your level and craft it to blue. Wait until you hit good added physical and extra damage then sacrifice a goat and regal/exalt slam

[sonic peak]

Also grab blue xbows with good initial mods (%, added, speed)

[autumn scroll]

Currently building stormweaver build with lightning, whats a good wand. Cause currently theres no wand that competes with my lvl 6 just because of the +3 levels in skill gems

[sonic peak]

Can also always ✨gamble✨

[obsidian epoch]

oh i see, i wanted a classic necro style with simple bloodmagic and skeletons, is it possible or is the game making us dependent on fire spells to be a proper witch?

[elfin abyss]

Does Charged Staff fire waves from Tempest Flurry or Storm Wave? Or is it only the basic attacks?

[sonic peak]

Sure, but a screenshot would be easier to 'parse' I think xD

[slender bone]

Hello.
How does freezing enemies work ?
I have 120% increase freeze buildup from my nodes, I use Ice Strike and normal mobs get fronzen very hard.
What am I missing ?

[sonic peak]

It is possible, but you'll still want SRS at the early, since those are considered minions and benefit from your passives

[slender bone]

Is the freezing of enemies based on damage more than on more than on freeze buildup ?
At 120% freese buildup I would expect any cold damage to freeze any type of enemy

[floral smelt]

is there any tool i can use to share my character other than manually entering everything on some website?

[sonic peak]

My understanding is that every skill that deals ice dmg has a chance to freeze. If the mobs don't freeze, they gain a 'freeze buildup' debuff that makes it so the next freeze dmg you deal will have an increased chance at freezing them

Some skills are better at freezing enemies

For example, Ice Strike converts 80% of your phys dmg to cold, so those other 20% are not contributing to freezing at all

Doesn't mean you cant use the skill to freeze

[river summit]

That is correct

[sonic peak]

What I don't know tho

Is if the dmg from the initial hit increases that base chance to freeze

[royal hamlet]

Melee builds need accuracy?

[sterile stone]

if youre within 2 Meters then no

[sonic peak]

Like, is the freeze buildup applied before or after the check to see if the enemy was frozen by the attack?

Oh wait, seems like freeze only freezes when the buildup raises to 100%

Ig the base chance thing is for ingite only

And shock

[spark fog]

I looked on the steam deck and you’re right, no base chance to shock listed in the advanced info

[river summit]

Yeah which sucks trying to balance wether you've got enough shock chance or not you really have to just base it off of feeling until someone manages to do the math

Because it's based off of your dmg vs the enemies resistance threshold to elemental ailments calculating it would be a case by case basis dependant on each enemy type

So even a POB wouldn't calculate it very well

[sonic peak]

Well, if buildup is calculated before chance to shock, it won't be so bad with some skills

Idk if that's how it works tho

[river summit]

I have no idea I don't think we have numbers yet on the calculations

[sonic peak]

I feel like it might be 'cause I was consistently getting shocks with 1 lightning attack on my ranger in the early game

And that would be wild if those were all 1%

[river summit]

I would assume it's something like

Base damage vs resistance which gives you a number then that number would be affected by chance to ailment which is basically a threshold of does it ailment or does it not, then finally the number would be converted into a buildup which is then finally increased

[sonic peak]

Mainly with that one shock attack that has inc chance to shock, but still
It's 800%, so 8%

[sonic peak]

Nah, keyword says base chance is 1%

The only question is if buildup is applied before or after the chance to shock

Oh wait

[warped jackal]

Anyone know what skills this guy has on is build? His rightclick is wind blast right? what are his W and E?

[sonic peak]

I'm blind

It literally says the higher the damage the higher the chance

👨‍🦯

[gray jackal]

Hey folks, sorry if this is off-topic. Wondering if anyone has checked - Does "One with the River" only give that 30% increased Defences while wielding a Staff? As in a spellcaster staff, not a Quarterstaff like the rest of this area?

[spark fog]

I know that maps with mob elemental resist are a bad time because the shock takes a lot longer to land

So it is a double hit of lower base dmg and slower to reach bonus damage

Still doable just slooooow

[sonic peak]

It sounds like a typo to me
At the very least I'd expect both staves and quarterstaves to work

But I haven't tested

[river summit]

yeah so its hit dmg and chance vs elemental ailment threshold which applies it and then buildup after but idk wether its x add or some wierd square root garbo

[sonic peak]

Would be wold to put something exclusively for staves behind a shit ton of quarterstaves nodes

[digital axle]

i guess this is only for

[gray jackal]

My thoughts exactly! I only just made this monk so it'll be a while before I path far enough to test it, but if I remember once I get there I'll update ya.

[gray jackal]

That's how it's written, yeah. Seems weird..!

[sonic peak]

Ye u right, my reading abilities went to 0 for a minute for some reason lol

[river summit]

yeah in maps i shock literrally everything but i think sanctum mobs have some extra modifiers because i shot a randm white mob multiple times and no shock so i just ended up killing it before shocking

[river summit]

tooltips are a bit confusing tbh, its a lot easier for me to understand when its turned into maths for some reason

[digital axle]

rechecked and quarterstafs have diff naming so, hard to say if applied to quarterstafs too

[arctic pond]

On a chaos spell, what's the difference between '40% of damage as extra chaos damage' and '40% increase chaos damage' ?

[river summit]

Increase works separately in a different calculation

The way your seeing increase is the keyword more

[spark fog]

I only have my first four ascendancy and will probably wait until I am crushing juiced t15 maps before attempting the second four 🤣

[arctic pond]

So would the extra damage be a greater increase to dps overall?

[river summit]

I was level 75 when I did my 3rd it's ok

[raw thicket]

if a stat is "more x" then is it (base stat * increase stats) * more stats? or is it (base stat * more stat) + base stat * increase stat

[spark fog]

Good to know, that’s my current level

[wet mango]

wdym standard passive gems

[spark fog]

Sadly poe2 network code does not like plane WiFi. Ping is low but I am skipping all over the place

[digital axle]

is there any way to increase armour value for a shield?

[mortal cloak]

the stuff you put in the passive tree

[wet mango]

jewels

jewels are just items, they can have neg effects too

[spark fog]

Lunar are you gemling?

[river summit]

Yes increase isn't that valuable but gain 30 percent of extra is literally

(Final number of all damage) x 0.4 (add this number as chaos damage to the original final number)

[river summit]

I am witch hunter but the only thing I had that affects bosses was cull

I went culling then explode

[arctic pond]

excellent - thank you.

[spark fog]

Ah ok. I have culling off the passive tree and the spirit buff

[river summit]

I can't really explain increase but it comes pretty early in the calculation hence why if you look around a lot in skill tree you will see increased damage literally everywhere but you see gain as extra and more literrally no where or on ascendancies or items

Support gems tend to have the (more) stat

[arctic pond]

I figured as much - just wanted confirmation really. Thank you :)

[river summit]

Yeah, just bare in mind I used to main sanctum back in poe 1 and the thought process can pass over a bit, I had my 4 Support link by the time I ran it though

Bosses died basically in 2 seconds with decent boons

Also remember to try and get decent relics

(Maximum honour) and (honour resistance) are super strong

[spark fog]

I blew through 15 Vaal trying to corrupt a 4 link last night. RNGesus and I are not on speaking terms

[river summit]

Xdd

[spark fog]

Yeah sanctum is a roguelite lol. Still farming relics but that’s the goal

I have also never seen a positive boon. It is always the lesser of evils

I was one of the deranged who liked lab and I miss it

[simple tundra]

What are good sources of mana recovery for attack builds on the Merc side of tree

[wintry ingot]

what website do people copy meta builds froM

[verbal summit]

should i be going armour on a sorc with energy shield? getting shredded by physical attacks

[spiral wraith]

Is there a poe.ninja for PoE 2?

[rigid oak]

Thanks. I refunded it.

[amber lark]

poison and bleed are these chaos dmg ???

[spark fog]

Bleed is physical

[amber lark]

justify this for me then

[snow sierra]

chaos is extrem scary for energy shield and you need do chaos res anymore

[spark fog]

Google is your friend but you should try just rawdogging it. If you hit a wall then go look at builds. Fair warning, GGG may nerf any meta build that is OP. They have done it to a few in the first week already

[snow sierra]

And flys around everywhere in poe2

[timid aurora]

Titan or Warbringer for an Earthshatter build?

[fiery lily]

what should i look for in a quiver?

[spark fog]

Way more chaos dmg in poe2. I am actively trying to cap it like the other three. It is almost exclusively how I die in maps

[snow sierra]

yes totaly scary i am at 67% now too

[dapper dune]

in the endgame, is it better to do a medium amount more damage or increase your elemental defence (not res) by a medium amount?

[snow sierra]

happend way to often with low chaos res

[amber lark]

been at 0 for 4 acts no issues yet

[snow sierra]

i at t15 maps buddy 😉

[amber lark]

ah

oooOOOoOOoo big boi

then help me with this wouldnt poision just kill me instantly as a sorc

id have like 10k engery shield

if not more

[dapper dune]

poison is chaos damage isn't it?

[snow sierra]

yes you would need a solution to poisen as i understand it, but never looked at thoeriecrafting for it since i dont like to play that note

[amber lark]

this is what im trying to find

[snow sierra]

I am not sure there was a poisen change

[dapper dune]

as far as I'm aware, every instance of poison damage is chaos damage

[fiery lily]

i think use charm

[thin basin]

Poison is chaos damage that make it so youre immune to poison

[amber lark]

you know what you right

2 charms 1 for poison and bleed i forgot about charms

[dapper dune]

poison is chaos

[amber lark]

NICE

no need for charm then if you are immue

ill just put a bleed charm on

[dapper dune]

although interestingly, physical will help scale poison :3

[thin basin]

Youre also immune to bleed with tht notable

[dapper dune]

I just read that in a twitch chat, but I don't see how

[digital axle]

how come? 😄

[dapper dune]

is bleed chaos too?

I thought it would be physical

[fiery lily]

how do you get 3 slots

[thin basin]

Because bleed need to do damage to your hp

[snow sierra]

bleed only procs on health with 1 you cant proc it

because you die

[thin basin]

With that node you have 1 hp

[amber lark]

dont know i just have 1 but i see 3 slots

[fiery lily]

i dont think we could get 3 anytime soon. Even headhunter heavy belt only has 1

and that thing costs like crazy

[thin basin]

3 is very very very very…. Endgame

[snow sierra]

ive never seen a belt with 3 so far

[thin basin]

Maybe top 0.01%er

[snow sierra]

or even 2

[slender fern]

why do i have negative resistances?

[main bridge]

im level 50 witch hunter mercenary, ive been lightning bows since like level 3. but my damage feels underwhelming now im in cruel. lachlann keeps bodying me. any advice would be appreciated.
see attached my skills/supports and passive spec tree i currently have points into:
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/hf30b0z0

[thin basin]

You get -10% elemental per act

[uncut jay]

Does this stack, or just gives you "(5-12)% more Skill Speed while you have a Frenzy Charge" for those 3-5 seconds ?

[slender fern]

fuk

[thin basin]

Lok like its just base, no stacking so 1 should be enough

[pearl sluice]

evasion or armour for monk

[thin basin]

Evasion

[pearl sluice]

sheild or health?

[kindred heron]

guys when i complete a map on atlas , I cant go back to that same map ever again ?

[spark fog]

Pretty sure you can, just won’t have the bonus content

[thin basin]

Health but shield a lot later

[robust radish]

Is there a way to see skill tree or items of ladder characters online for Poe 2? Just looking through pathofexile.com I couldn't find poe2 characters

[spark fog]

Health needs some love, shield is once again objectively better in late game

[spark fog]

Not yet

[shrewd vault]

hi, can skeletal storm mage trigger skills with cast on shock?

[thin basin]

Chances are the cast on x needs you to be the one doing the x

[shrewd vault]

oh my

then storm mages are just for debuffs then

[timid aurora]

whats the max ascendeny points we will get in full game?

[spark fog]

8

[thin basin]

You can probably use them for dps if you build for it but no idea how good that would be

[shrewd vault]

do the skeletal storm mage deal aoe without any gems on them?

[wind jetty]

does critical hit chance also affect spells?

even though it doesn't state its for spells

[shrewd vault]

spells have inherent crit chance on them so i guess yet

[proven rapids]

How does flamewall work ? It ignite ennemies based of what kind of magnitude since there's no hit part ?

[thin basin]

Itll need to say critical spell hit chance or something like that

[wind jetty]

so those nodes from the passive tree

that doesn't state its for spell, wont affect spells?

weird, I thought the normal critical hit chance in general was for all

[thin basin]

Look at the nodes on witch/sorc side it should mention spell

[uncut jay]

I have seen someone use this in their build. How does that make sense. Wouldn't you loose half the lightning dmg just to get 25% out as cold ?

[thin basin]

It said on the spell the damage range

[thin basin]

They have any other conversion?

[uncut jay]

they use it with Tempest Flurry to apply some freeze for the build

so they sacrifice some dmg output to get some freeze ?

[hushed mirage]

How does ruthless interact with AP rounds? Is it every 5th reload or every 5th bolt?

[uncut jay]

But if Charged staff is used with "Tempest Flurry" would that "Cold infusion" apply to Tempest flurry as well. This is so confusing

[raw root]

Casters Here:

How much have you all been adding or noticed that a 2nd layer of defense truly helps for T10+ maps?!

Do you all have any armor or evasion? If so, how much? I know armor doesn't truly become effective til 3 or 4k, but is it even reasonable to get that high?

Are you all running MoM or % of Damage to Mana?

I notice most of my deaths are physical projectiles, but debating if it is worth it to lose nearly 400 mana to go strength/int hybrid.

[thin basin]

No that cold infusion is only for charge staff buff hits

[wind jetty]

the overall crit chance DOES affect spells btw..

it doesn't have to state for spells

[uncut jay]

Cold infusion is on Charged staff, but charged staff is used With "Tempest Flurry", so what is actually going on there ? 😄

[proven rapids]

it say ignite as though dealing xx fire damage, but it doesn't say how much fire damage per sec the wall do

[thin basin]

Imagine if it hit for some damage in that range its what itll ignite for is how i assume it works

[lunar sequoia]

Does anyone know where I could get the Lupine Scepter? Is it a drop or a unique item from a boss??

[raw root]

That is the damage. It ignites an enemy 1 time, then that ignites does damage. Then only a higher damage ignite will replace it to do damage before, otherwise the rest don't do anything.

[proven rapids]

ok ty !

[hushed umbra]

For totems, is it decent to go Balistas with Warrior?

[proven rapids]

and do increase magnitude of ignite have any effect on this ?

[thin basin]

I forgor some of those nodes exist yea, just dont take the ones that mention other stuff

[mortal cloak]

Ok so I have a question about mechanics that I need a solid answer to...If you pick up stuff to pierce enemies, and you use a skill that combines the hits from a shotgun to 1 enemy if they hit the same enemy, does the pierce make them not combine?

[wind jetty]

the overall normal crit chance nodes affects everything

fortunately

[mortal cloak]

Or does it effectively double the dmg of each bolt that pierces each time it pierces?

Like assuming I have 100% pierce chance on a 10 shot shotgun skill and 3 mobs are in front of me directly, if all 10 hits hit the first mob does the 2nd and 3rd mob also get hit or nah?

[thin basin]

Yea im saying like dont take those “critical strike chance for melee” or “critical strike chance for fire” if youre not those

[spark fog]

You would probably get more ROI bringing chaos to cap with the other three resists if you haven’t already, instead of armor or evasion

[steel shadow]

anyone knows if having a giga tons of ailment threshold makes u immune to ailment like in poe1?

[thin basin]

They usually mention how many times itll pierce

[proven rapids]

Does ignite magnitude do something for flamewall damage or it's completely useless since it don't hit ?

[mortal cloak]

ahhhh gotcha

[thin basin]

Ignite magnitude should increase the damage and from the wording generic fire damage should also works too?

But are you trying to make a firewall ignite build?

[proven rapids]

no no xd, i'm trying to know if ignite magnitude would work with ignited ground

and was using flamewall as a comparison

[spark fog]

No but now I want to know

[thin basin]

I dont see why not lol unless the mob hit you really hard?

[steel shadow]

i mean

we dont know if theres a cap

lol

[neat fossil]

is there a raw database somewhere for skill tree etc

something i can scrape with python etc

i want to see what type of shit gpt pro comes up with if fed it all

[spark fog]

Feed it to perplexity too and report back

[neat fossil]

is it out there yet though i figured early to ask

[spark fog]

Well the poebuild sites are likely pulling from something. Although I guess they could be crazy enough to hand jam it all

[neat fossil]

yeah i need to find it i dont want to scrape websites need some type of repository

no rush just thought would be interesting experiment

[spark fog]

I am not at my computer but maybe check source code on a build site to see if an api pull is visible

[thin shore]

how does acrobatics work?

[neat fossil]

i found this https://poe2db.tw/

[mortal plaza]

which is better?

[spark fog]

Right

[thin shore]

likely dex because you dont need mana on bow

[spark fog]

But you can also just equip each one with the skill window up and check dps

[thin shore]

19 dex is a lot for that level

[mortal plaza]

ya but its also abt the benefits not shown in dps

kk ty

[thin shore]

main benefit is being able to equip higher dex items

which will become an issue in act3

[spark fog]

Always a good thing to consider

[neat fossil]

The website poe2db.tw compiles data from Path of Exile 2's game files, specifically the .dat64 files within Content.ggpk. These files contain extensive game data without headers, necessitating specialized tools for extraction and interpretation.

[spark fog]

Yeah nothing sadder than getting a massive upgrade and not having the stats to equip

[spark fog]

Is the data not delimited in some way?

[neat fossil]

PyPoE: A Python-based tool that allows you to parse and extract data from .dat64 files in Content.ggpk. It's community-supported and a go-to tool for this purpose.

oh wow im off to the races

[spark fog]

There ya go

[mortal plaza]

im alr in act 3 actually haha

[thin shore]

does anyone know how exactly acrobatics work? what does "can evade all hits" mean?

from what I've seen online people say it makes you be able to evade spells

which if true makes it actually quite strong since resistances are really hard to get...

[mortal cloak]

Is there any way to get a useful reliable freeze as a double xbow build? Without using an ammo reload skill**

[quasi flint]

What witch hunter nodes are considered good aside from culling strike?

[uncut jay]

Can someone help me understand this: Cold infusion is on Charged staff, but charged staff is used With "Tempest Flurry", so what is actually going on there ? 😄 does 50% debuf applies on both skills?

[thin shore]

none

you always go for culling and decimating

maybe sorcery ward in deep lategame to avoid oneshots, but I'm not exactly sure how it works

[quasi flint]

decimating is good?

[thin shore]

for early mapping I guess

depends on your build

from what I've seen on youtube 80+ content is all about avoiding oneshots, but its a long way to get there

[spark fog]

Stupid chaos bs

[old shuttle]

Why does it say witch and sorc start at the top?

[thin shore]

well at least you can dodge it and have a 60% roll chance to not die to it lol

[spark fog]

Start of the passive skill map

[spark fog]

lol. 60% of the time it works every time

[old shuttle]

Ye do they both start at the same point??

[thin shore]

with armor you're dead 100% of the time. armor is so inferior to evasion....

[spark fog]

Hmm I like my 75% armor a lot. I just use a counter chaos charm

[old shuttle]

I mean armor it for phys dmg

[thin basin]

Iirc you can already evade spells, that just make it so you can also evade those big bosses aoe something like that?

[old shuttle]

Not chaos

[spark fog]

But I’m only doing t5 maps and level 75. Unlocking atlas passives first

[thin shore]

yeah you can dodge spells with acrobatics

[old shuttle]

Yeah red attacks / “slams” can’t be evaded

Without acrobatic

[thin shore]

monk, wh and ranger have to build into acrobatics

anyone that uses dex somehow

[spark fog]

Do they? I went with converting all evasion to armor

[thin shore]

with WH you can take both armor and evasion, but its way less consistent than ranger or monk

[thin shore]

how does that help you in any way when most oneshots come from spells?

[old shuttle]

But yeah I’m just trying to make a weird presence based aura bot type beat but I can’t tell where sorcerer or witch start

[thin shore]

I'd rather take the 50/50 dice roll to not die from a spell lol

[spark fog]

I only get one shot from chaos. I can face tank slams just fine

See I hate the dice roll

I would rather have consistent defense

[thin shore]

its just how the game is balanced right now, you either die, or you dice roll lol

[thin basin]

No you can already dodge spell normally arobatic let you dodge those big aoe attacks you normally cant

[spark fog]

Also grabbed the 20% crit dmg reduction

[vestal heart]

does the ascendancy keystone avidity "30% chance that if you gain a frenzy charge you gain your max amount of frenzy charges" work with resonance "convert frenzy charges into power charges". Do you gain max amount of frenzy charges then convert into power charges or does it change the skill that generates frenzy charges into power charges? With that same line of thinking does frentic work with resonance where you have a 5% chance to gain maximum amount of frenzy charges.

[thin shore]

doesnt that mean that evasion is better than armor even without acrobatics?

[thin basin]

Armor also applies to spell now too iirc

[thin shore]

I saw Kripparian building his infernalist heavily into armor

[livid hamlet]

Does Hexblast work of Blapshemy curse ?

[thin shore]

because its not native dex

[spark fog]

Armor is really good in poe2 ….

[thin basin]

Theres no distinction between monster “spell” and “attack” anymore

Its just strikes and projectile

[thin shore]

not if you're a dex class obv, and for merc I think its better to lean into evasion

[mortal cloak]

Anyone? Any suggestions? I've been trying to find something to fit for like a week now and I can't find anything and no one has said anything that would work D=. I really need a freezing skill to fit into a double xbow grenadier/frag shot build.

[old shuttle]

Ofc

[spark fog]

The evasion into armor keystone is right where you’re going already for culling and has passives behind it that are really strong tho

[fallen mirage]

can I use cast when ignite on infernalist minion build focused on rs?

[thin shore]

what's the point?

I'd rather take the 50/50 to not get oneshot

than to get oneshot 100% of the time

[livid hamlet]

Because you're not supposed to get one shot when going full armor ?

[spark fog]

Because you don’t get one shot 100%!+~ the time?

[thin basin]

So you want to freeze but dont want to use the freezing attacks for your archetype?

[livid hamlet]

It's so that you can get armor passives and scale it that way, while still using Dex + Str Gear

because STR gear is too much

because you need also dex for your skills

[mortal cloak]

Not sure what you mean, the only ones I really have are the ammo reload one that I've seen and it doesn't rly work well to combo with frag shot

[thin shore]

if I go down there I'd rather take generals bindings

[livid hamlet]

i.e. swords and crossbows, overall bottom quadrant of the tree

[spark fog]

Every xbow goes south immediately for the reload reduction anyway

[little rock]

conduction vs energy retention on cast on shock?

[thin basin]

I mean youll freeze them if you hit them hard enough with cold damage and have enough freeze buildup somewhere support gems or skill gems

Or tree if you want to waste some points

[quasi flint]

so the witch hunter concentration stuff is a total meme?

[livid hamlet]

Looks like he concentrated on Blood Mage witches, which don't need much effort to Hunt

Actually i'm a blood mage right now so just a crying joke

[old shuttle]

Blood mage feels real good after ascension 1

[livid hamlet]

You mean ascension 2 ?

[spark fog]

To be clear I am not saying you’re wrong or anything. I’ve just had a good time stacking armor with that keystone and it has made progression through early maps painless

[livid hamlet]

I was expecting the leech to be more impactfull

i barely ever overflow with life

[old shuttle]

I like the leech

Very good imo

[thin shore]

didn't take it that way, I think both are viable, but oddly enough it might be more consistent to evade hits

[livid hamlet]

Like, the life leech barely makes up for sanguimancy

i might as well not have an ascendancy right now

[old shuttle]

For me it’s plenty

[livid hamlet]

Maybe it will be better later

i'm still earlly

[thin shore]

even with monk I saw people stacking evasion instead of shield

[old shuttle]

Though I’m using hexblast which his hard AF

[livid hamlet]

just hitting cruel

[livid hamlet]

Hexblast is nice ?

[old shuttle]

Loving it

[livid hamlet]

I'm trying to run Phys witch

[old shuttle]

So much damage

[livid hamlet]

And it's okayge i guess

[spark fog]

I’ll be sure to try it if/when I hit a wall in progression. I have a respec rainy day fund now after watching the great CoF culling lol

[old shuttle]

It’s bossing is a touch awkward. But I have the 200% boss dmg helmet to make up

[livid hamlet]

Have you considered running Burden of shadows @old shuttle

[old shuttle]

And a quick switch staff for the power zone thing

Burden?

[livid hamlet]

It's a name of a unique

that's seems primed for Blood Mage

[old shuttle]

What’s it do. I probs looked at it

[livid hamlet]

25% increased Cast Speed
Skill Mana Costs Converted to Life Costs
Skills gain 1% of Damage as Chaos Damage per 3 Life Cost

[old shuttle]

Hmm maybe. But also ow my hp bar haha

[livid hamlet]

I mean you already convert skill mana cost to life tho

as a blood mage

or at least gain it

i'm not sure if it doubles the cost

[zinc vortex]

yo what does maximum quality is 50 percent mean on a ring?

[livid hamlet]

it didn't in PoE1

[thin shore]

pretty sure for 95% of content stacking armor is totally fine

[old shuttle]

So from 1:1 it’ll be 2:0 maybe idk

[livid hamlet]

it justt removed mana cost in PoE1

[thin shore]

there's just these 5% where damage is so high you can only evade lol

[livid hamlet]

and hell, you want to stack mana cost as high as possible

[old shuttle]

Hmm I’ll buy it later and see

[livid hamlet]

like i would use that shit with archmage if i could

[thin basin]

Means you can quality it up to 50% when its normally cap at 20%

[livid hamlet]

but alas not enough spirit for archmage and minions

and soul offering is just so

so

so

insane

[thin shore]

wudijo is stacking armor on his merc, seems to work fine for him

[spark fog]

And what’s the other 5% or are you just referring to using ES in late late game

[thin shore]

spells you just can't build enough resistance against

[spark fog]

Psh what does wudijo know

[thin shore]

wait I'm dumb nevermind

[spark fog]

As said earlier …. lol yeah

[thin shore]

I guess you can still go for sorcery ward lol

[clever monolith]

hi any ideas about best runes to use for gas bomb witch?

[livid hamlet]

Armor should be good enough to cover you through most of the game if not all of it

especially now since bosses are more skill based

it's the random small bullshit that you need to worry about

throngs of it

[thin shore]

I'm not sure how good armor is when using sorc ward

tbf

[spark fog]

I have stares at the counter surround passives multiple times since that is the main source of random small bullshit

[polar zealot]

does anybody know if the bonuses from this is additive to the bonuses gained from quiver on the skill tree

[livid hamlet]

Hmm, i never even considered sorcery ward tbh

[polar zealot]

im guessing it is but theres a chance its multiplactive

[livid hamlet]

if the passives also say increased

than yes

increase/decrease are additive

more/less are multiplicative

[polar zealot]

ok yeah thats what i thought

[thin shore]

the real problem I see with merc is that going for both armor and evasion seems just... awkward

[spark fog]

You naturally get it with str/dex gear

[thin shore]

not enough evasion to be consistent, not enough armor to survive everything

[spark fog]

All the evasion converts to armor

[polar zealot]

does poe 2 round down always if its do with skill amount

[thin shore]

I mean if you dont take that node

and focus on both

[polar zealot]

if i have 5.6 projectile skills , does it go to 6 or 5

[spark fog]

Oh well yeah of course

Hybrid defense is always scary

[thin shore]

like I feel like you need to go for either evasion or armor stacking on merc, but mixing both is bad

[spark fog]

Have to commit to one

[thin shore]

I would lean to evasion stacking simply because I use xbow/bow

[forest bison]

is there an easy way to respec +5 attributes on the tree?

[spark fog]

Yes, go to the respec window and right click

[forest bison]

10x

[spark fog]

Should be able to change stat

[fringe iron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgkYYNZRpGw&t=65s&ab_channel=Fubgunso im following his guide but im doing zdps in cruel difficulty anyone able to help me please

[spark fog]

Most streamers have a discord. You would have more luck figuring out the issue with their specific build there

There are a ton of build videos out there proclaiming to be op while showcasing video of them clearing a map that they are 10+ levels above

[thin basin]

Get a better bow/quiver

[fringe iron]

🥲

[thin basin]

P sure all the dmg scales from the bow dps

So if your bow is zdps then the build will do zdps

[thin shore]

yeah thats the main issue with builds rn, most are just flashy glascannons

the real endgame is optimizing evasion/armor to not die and lose xp lol

[warped jackal]

For the people who use wind blast, what support skills are you using for it?

[clever monolith]

guys whats bis runes to socket for gas bomb witch?

[spark fog]

When does xp loss on death kick in anyway

I haven’t noticed it yet

[silent prawn]

Does Gas arrow and gas grenade stack their dmg over time? or is each their own poison?

[thin shore]

I think people said something between 70's and 80's

dunno Im far away from that lol

[buoyant thistle]

does momentum scale gas arrow - for example, i fire arrow, it creates cloud i move, does cloud damage increase on next poison application?

[last patio]

frost bomb vs hypothermia on monk?

which is better?

hard to distinguish between cold exposure and cold resist

[mortal cloak]

Yoooooo this straight up dropped like this for me 😮

[spark fog]

That is an absurd xbow for the level lol

Congrats

[tiny wedge]

what's a good sorc build i can base around this staff?

[livid hamlet]

Any

It's not a particularly good staff either

[mortal cloak]

Yea it's almost a copy of the one I had except better in every way lmao

[hushed flame]

should I go Warbringer or Witchhunter for bleed crossbow?

[thin shore]

depends on if you can armor break or not

if you dont have consistent armor break culling strike is better

[hushed flame]

Armor Piercing Rounds breaks big armor

[tiny wedge]

got a better one at that level?

[spark fog]

Culling strike is ❤️

[thin shore]

well the problem is that dex is kinda a dead stat for warbringer

[spark fog]

Oh true

[summer knoll]

which support gems for spark ?

[hushed flame]

the reason I would consider Warbringer is for armor below 0 for bigger hits therefore bigger bleeds

[mortal cloak]

Went from this one to @spark fog

[spark fog]

Your old one wasn’t bad at all but you’re going to steamroll now

[thin shore]

I mean I def see it working well

[mortal cloak]

Yea and I have a slot for another affix on the new one still

[spark fog]

Exalt slam! Do it!

[mortal cloak]

soon as I get one haha

[hushed flame]

yeah in theory it sounds like it should work

in practice idk

I've never been one for making my own builds I always just follow a guide

[mortal cloak]

I'm only level 52 but all my equipped stuff has max affixes, been selling stuff to get more exalted, and I got all my skills +1 skill slot as well

[hushed flame]

but I wanna try this

[spark fog]

I play normal like I am in ssf lol. No trading only slamming

[thin shore]

you can also build ballista totems as warbringer if you go down that route lol

[spark fog]

I’ve burned at least a hundred exalts

[buoyant thistle]

is deadly poison bugged?

[urban raft]

Does anyone know if Ghostwrithe and any other unique that gives you reduced maximum life stack additively or multiplicatively?

[spark fog]

I like that the drop rate was increased but I would probably increase it slightly more specifically for regals and exalts if GGG really wants us to craft

[mortal cloak]

any suggestions for a dual xbow grenadier+frag shot build? Working towards the Ranger passives next for more movement speed and attack speed

[spark fog]

Go get xbow reload passives asap

[thin shore]

merc also has armour breaking nodes I just saw lol

[buoyant thistle]

whats the point bro, let bis drop from each mob in act 1

[spark fog]

Merc is awesome

[thin shore]

those ones

[tiny wedge]

what's a good sorc build for level 16?

[spark fog]

?

[buoyant thistle]

loot is already overbuffed

massively

[burnt chasm]

I wish so hard this game had some sort of in-game ability to mark and path out nodes on the passive tree...

[thin shore]

theres one major problem with that build tho... you can't get the real scaling nodes, like %attack speed per dex or %damage per int

[spark fog]

An hour of t4 juiced naps got me around 5 total Regals and exalts. That’s what, 1-2 crafts, wouldn’t call that massively oberbuffed

[buoyant thistle]

t4 juiced? how did you juice them if you didn't have currency

[livid hamlet]

i mean it;s fine for start

but alter you want +lvl

[buoyant thistle]

i get like an exalt a map maybe every 2 maps max

[fiery lily]

where can i find this passive skill

[spark fog]

Alchs and vaals, which I don’t use for crafting?

[spark fog]

Bottom of the map

[last patio]

does cold damage cause chill?

or do you need chilled ground effect?

to influence enemies with chill magnitude

[fiery lily]

oh that's pretty far

[spark fog]

Yeah not really viable unless merc. Maybe ranger.

[buoyant thistle]

so you can sustain alchs which are rarer than exalts to juice your maps but you can't find exalts?

interesting

[spark fog]

The atlas passives in the bottom right get me enough yellow keystones usually. I plug in an alch map when needed

Guessing you’re higher than me in maps though

[thin shore]

not really either because you take tailwind

[spark fog]

Good point

[buoyant thistle]

did you take the increased rare monsters and twinned rare monster node? that one adds a lot of loot to each map

[spark fog]

No I went for the increases stones and rarity of stones and am getting chance for higher level stone next. Though I don’t know if that’s better than your idea of stacking mob quantities

[hoary plover]

whats the deal with skills from items, they get more sockets at higher ilvl? or player level?

[shell phoenix]

Hi guys, some1 is going merc with lighting?

[spark fog]

I’m only on the 10 t5 map quest so not a lot to work with yet

[hushed flame]

https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1316101106429857803

[shell phoenix]

Ty

[buoyant thistle]

i think the rare monster nodes are very powerful. Waystones nodes are good adn will get you more waystones on average but because you can always kill boss map and they seem to drop 2-3 waystones of high tier i don't think they are worth prioritizing

[spark fog]

I get that, I got map starved a couple days ago which is what sent me this direction. I noticed a lot more maps last night though so maybe there was a behind the scenes buff. Or RNGesus.

I’m already annoyed at slogging through low level maps for atlas passives so running out of the maps I need for the quest is insult to injury

[shy mesa]

heyo does DPS rating for the Dualstring Bow take into account the damage from teh additional arrow?

[digital axle]

can someone smart explain why this skill ignores weapon damage?

[buoyant thistle]

it scales off armor on shield

[undone mortar]

It explains right there how it scales

[wide folio]

any tips on how to build defences on lightning arrow deadeye? how important is evasion compared to hp/res

[spark fog]

Keep elemental resists near your level

[fringe cape]

I have 805 shields, 919 mana... when i get the eldritch battery perk that says it converts all shield to mana i only gain 200 mana... any idea why?

[limber rivet]

Does anyone have any ideas on trying to build a POE2 Widowhail focused build? I got a 250% roll and am thinking it might be fun to try and optimize around it. I believe this was something people did in POE but I didn't play enough to know how best to go about it?

[dry haven]

does spell echo work with hexblast? cannot see any echos

[mortal cloak]

I don’t really reload. Frag shot is for clean up and culling only. Later I might add life leech to it. But I have the reload on stun support gem and the skill to auto reload so if it needs to be reloaded it almost never happens manually unless between pulls of trash.

[digital axle]

so it means that it has base 30 phys damage and it only deals 44% of that?

[undone mortar]

Yes. Plus the extra based on armor

The 44% is a multiplier to the entire skill’s damage just like it is with any skill

[digital axle]

i guess this skill is a doo doo then, i thought somehow it scales with wep and shield as offhand damage as other skills

[orchid torrent]

does exposure + strip away support gem (increasing exposure by 30%) + stormweaver passive for 20% more exposure stack? so e.g. incinerate gives 70% lowered res for both you and allies?

it's impossible to see the numbers in the game anywhere to check

[spiral walrus]

doesnt exposure on a mob show with a percentage as a debuff?

[undone mortar]

Hit a monster and look at the their debuffs

[orchid torrent]

how can I look at their debuffs? when I try to mouse over it, it no longer shows them since im not moused over the monster

[undone mortar]

Fight a boss

[north zinc]

Has anyone tried to make a perma demon form infernal witch? I'm new and clueless but i love that skill

[undone mortar]

They have a big health bar

[spiral walrus]

exposure should show as a percentage inside the debuff

[undone mortar]

Hit em with the shit. See how much exposure they see

[orchid torrent]

but you cant mouse over or see the number? im trying right now

or what's the trick

you just see icons

[undone mortar]

The icon shows a number in it

When you apply exposure

There’s a debuff like if you freeze or shock them

[orchid torrent]

yeah but im trying now and I cant see a number

[undone mortar]

Are you exposing?

[orchid torrent]

like the icon just disappears when you try to mouse over

[dusty bear]

Since ailments don't directly scale with %increases anymore, if a skill says "ignites enemies as though dealing x damage" is that a fixed ignite that you can't scale by any means besides magnitude?

[undone mortar]

It scales with magnitude

[dusty bear]

and besides magnitude?

[orchid torrent]

is one of those the exposure?

[undone mortar]

Fire damage if its ignite

[dusty bear]

this is exposure

[undone mortar]

Yes the -33%

That’s the exposure icon

[heavy sundial]

Hey can anyone help me understand why combat frenzy + Resonance is not building power charges for me? I respected for this combo and its not activating, feeling like the build is bricked right now

not even a single charge has been generated, something must be wrong

[dusty bear]

are you sure it works?

[undone mortar]

Ignite deals fire damage. Fire damage increases should increase the damage. Yes.

Unless your increases are only to hit damage or something

[dusty bear]

no that's been reworked in poe2

[serene matrix]

How does %increase elementar damage in attacks work on a almost pure Phys warstaff. Which damage gets to 80% converted?

Does the increase target after the converting?

Therefore a Monk with converted damage needs a high phys with a high %increase in elementar damage to attacks?

[undone mortar]

Conversion happens first

[dusty bear]

ailments don't get increased by damage modifiers besides magnitude, they just scale off the final pre-mitigation hit admage instead of the base damage then increased

[rough widget]

If i have 5 modifiers on my rare wep and want to use an exalted orb for the 6th modifier. Is there still a small chance it will modify/replace stats it already has? or will it just add a new modifier

[undone mortar]

It just adds an affix

[undone mortar]

That doesn’t make sense

[serene matrix]

Therefore a weapon with both stats are far more valuable then a pure phys weapon. Roger

[undone mortar]

I mean it does for non damaging ailments

[undone mortar]

Well no. Depends on what you’re doing

[rough widget]

I just got this godlike staff and im scared if i exalt the last stat its gonna change something by chance.

[dusty bear]

that's exactly how it works now, read an ignite or poison tooltip

[undone mortar]

All it does is add a modifier

[last patio]

is it possible for a monk to be strong without power charges?

[undone mortar]

Both those deal a type of damage. Adding damage of that type should scale the damage of the ailment. The initial HIT will also scale the magnitude

[last patio]

feel like I'd rather use herald of ice or wind dancer over power frenzy

as I'm already using ghost dancer

[hoary plover]

you can't "double dip" on damage.
if you hit for 100 fire damage, you get a 20 dps ignite.
if you get 50% increased fire damage, you hit for 150 and get a 30 dps ignite. the increased fire damage only applies to the hit, which indirectly buffs the ignite. ignite only directly scales with magnitude

[undone mortar]

Oh right I see

[unreal girder]

are there any good lvling uniques for lightning Xbows?

got like 8 exalts dunno what to spend them on

[hoary plover]

what level are you

mist whisper crossbow + grip of winter gloves carried me pretty far when i started an xbow guy. they're cold damage but it still works with lightning skills

[undone mortar]

Oh I guess you can scale ignite damage with things like shock

[steel shadow]

yo, i asked Travic, he said it wont work it seems, i havent tried it yet tho

[timid aurora]

Can someone please give me act 1 warrior build

this is like dark souls difficulty mod

[steel shadow]

pair rolling slam+earthshatter

just play slowly it'll work with it

[timid aurora]

and when does it becoem fun?

[steel shadow]

if u have support gem throw in more dmg/speed if u felt annoying about it

uh

around 41+smtg

[timid aurora]

like not feel ilke ass

[steel shadow]

refer to steelmage corrupting cry build

[timid aurora]

im trying to do a earth shatter build

[steel shadow]

oh i know nothing about it

[timid aurora]

i guess it gets good after like 100 hours?

[spiral walrus]

it's fun from the start, just try to upgrade your weapon

[timid aurora]

oh who does that

right now its a nightmare

[spiral walrus]

melee really only needs a good weapon

[steel shadow]

if ure running your first run, might take like 40-50+ hrs depends if u really immerse the game

or just rush lol

[spiral walrus]

and then you dodge stuff and do some big slams

[steel shadow]

this^

[spiral walrus]

i would recommend investing in stun

[timid aurora]

i usuallyl die b4 i get to mobs lol

they are these quills shooting stuff at me

[hollow bolt]

Extra projectiles on Spark can't shotgun and won't really affect my single target DPS right? Is it worth spending 5 passive points for 33% at 2 extra projectiles?

[spiral walrus]

it's is really strong against bosses, work up towards getting the stun bar full > boneshatter to force it (consider armor break on heavy stun support) then warcry + some kind of slam

perfect strike is quite nice as well

[timid aurora]

im lvl 9

[spiral walrus]

if you struggle you could try to farm some levels in some of the more calmer zones

like the farmlands or something

but in the end you'll need to get used to the playstyle of trying to dodge and timing your attacks

until you can tank some hits

once you get the hang of it is genuinely really strong, you can absolutely demolish all bosses (in the campaign at least)

[timid aurora]

my merc did like 10x dps this is weird. ill try get weapon somehow

[spiral walrus]

whats ur ign?

i just ided a decent 2h weapon i could give you

[vestal verge]

is this not insane

[shrewd vault]

what does quality % do to caster 2hand staff

[vestal heart]

does hand of chayula by pass the cooldown of socketed mark

[viscid dragon]

When it comes to armor break, do the % increased nodes break armor all by themselves? Or they still need a source like the warbringer 10% node to get started?

[spiral walrus]

needs a source

[viscid dragon]

Ok tyvm

[scarlet oasis]

I saw someone on twitter drop a op belt from king of the mist, is it the same king of the mist that's in freythorn

[spiral walrus]

probably the end game one (ritual)

[dark adder]

anyone know if hex only blows 1 curse at a time? or if you have 2 curses on it blows both?

[scarlet oasis]

Very likely. Thank you

[frosty arrow]

will chaos damage nodes increase damage of poison cloud made by skeleton snipers? How would I even test it, damage doesn't show in their stats

[thin shore]

isnt poison physical?

[frosty arrow]

I thought poisons were chaos, i don't know

[thin shore]

from what Ive seen poison is physical

[unreal girder]

39

[analog gale]

poison deals chaos damage

but scales off of phys and chaos hits

[thin shore]

ah okay, wasn't transparent to me

[hoary plover]

the tooltips are actually pretty informative

[vapid viper]

Is radiant grief fire aura a detonator? How are we using this?

[gilded nova]

I am really struggling with Jamanra Act 2 as a Deadeye Lightning Arrow.
I deal no damage - meanwhile when Cast on Freeze was working, that same fight was 3 seconds long at level 35.
So what am I doing wrong? It can't be this bad...can someone help?
I am following Raxx's build.

[hoary plover]

if you're talking about gas arrow/grenade, its not a detonator on its own in the same way as like explosive bolt, but it ignites enemies which ignite the gas when they touch it

[mighty lance]

Does % increased phys damage on your weapon affect your base physical damage? i.e. does it contribute to "gain % phys damage as extra x damage"? Or is that mod doing the same thing as % increased phys damage from other sources?

[graceful stag]

if i have 100% reduced damage does having any increased counter act that? idk if it still keeps your base value or it does it in a progressive manner

[drifting cedar]

if its the same as poe 1, increased directly subtracts from reduced

for example, you could have 100% reduced effect of curses, but an enemy with 20% increased effect of curses would apply their curse at 20% total effect

[graceful stag]

okay ty u just salvaged my build idea ❤️

[drifting cedar]

alternatively, if you had 100% reduced reflected physical damage taken, but took 20% increased damage, you would still take 20% reflected physical damage

[valid plover]

My warrior lvl 26 is hard stuck on bosses with multiple build changes. Anybody recommend a new class?

[drifting cedar]

shouldn't be hard stuck as warrior, but they are a bit more gear dependent than others. Spell builds in general may have an easier time leveling

when my first warrior started falling behind I invested a bit in shockwave totem since it has its own weapon

[thin shore]

chronomancer, its funnily enough tankier than warrior lol

[drifting cedar]

that let me do enough damage until my next big upgrade

[minor lynx]

do you lose resistance

[valid plover]

My gear is not great… it’s okay. I’ve been grinding for hours for new gear with no luck on my warrior. 40 hours in lvl 26

[drifting cedar]

your weapon is the most important gear slot

[minor lynx]

do you lose res at certain levels AFTER maps? I've been in maps for awhile, just ran a t15 map and suddenly I'm at 65/65/65 instead of res cap

[drifting cedar]

should be able to transmute + socket a decent weapon pretty reliably at lvl 26

[valid plover]

I’m running out of potions even though in dodging everywhere. It’s a basic shield 1h block slam build for act II

[analog gale]

you can hold alt and hover over stuff to get more info

[drifting cedar]

yeah 1h block has damage issues, and if you don't have good sustain its an even bigger issue

you can either go for more damage or spec into enough regen or leech to not need to rely on potions

[valid plover]

When you say transmute you mean using my collection of orbs to change rarity and add stats?

[minor lynx]

is anyone else having issues with resistances changing/lowering WITHOUT changing your gear???

[drifting cedar]

yeah, I mean really just going to the vendor, identifying the best base weapon for your level, buying that weapon, and transmuting + augmenting a few until you get one with decent stats, then adding a socket to it with artificers orb if it doesn't already have one

[valid plover]

I did try 2h first but block was recommended with 1h shield at low level I guess for sustain health

[drifting cedar]

I honestly think block is much worse until much later

dual wield or 2h will probably treat you better

dual wield mace strike in particular is pretty nuts

[thin shore]

damage is a much bigger issue early on

[valid plover]

Maybe I’ll hit the books again. Been build crafting for a few days trying to figure it out. Any build recommendations?

[minor lynx]

is anyone else having issues with resistances changing/lowering WITHOUT changing your gear???

[sonic peak]

a question about damage calculations:
let's say a character without any passives allocated uses a bow that deals 100 chaos dmg
you then get 100% inc projectile dmg, thus you'll deal 200 chaos dmg
what happens when you take 100% inc chaos dmg? you'll deal 300 or 400?

[drifting cedar]

for warrior, or another class? if you want less gear dependence, you could try a fire infernalist

this is the mace I built in act 1/2 on my first warrior that got me through act 3

[valid plover]

I have read you do lose resistance the higher up you go in Acts.

[thin shore]

well for mace the main classes are sorceress and warrior

[drifting cedar]

idk if I would call sorc a mace class

[thin shore]

sorc takes somewhat longer to get good

[thin shore]

chronomancer that is lol

[drifting cedar]

you mean for chronomancer hammer droppin? yeah

[thin shore]

but I dunno if thats recommendable to "new players"

[minor lynx]

I've been in maps for awhile.

[rancid cipher]

Was the nerf to the "cast on x" abilities tied to the frequency of the cast or the power? I'm not actually sure what changed.

[empty ledge]

How do I traverse the passive tree best? I'm trying to make a contagion build for the witch.

Just target chaos damage nodes only or are there other things?

[valid plover]

Being new to POE I might lean towards less gear dependence with more passive skill tree practice on my first go. Or I’ll have to figure out my gear issue.

[thin shore]

I really don't think warrior is a bad choice for that

[drifting cedar]

VERY GENERALLY, spell builds need less gear to succeed in path of exile

because their flat damage comes from the spell, and not their weapon

[north gull]

where does it say it increase my spirit
i cant use my ability anymore even tho it still 30 spirit

[drifting cedar]

this is LESS true in poe 2, but the trend is still there ime

[empty ledge]

A support gem increases the spirit req by 10

[thin shore]

I feel like POE2 is dex dominated

[drifting cedar]

I think that is partly because dex builds go fast and people in poe 2 feel slow

[north gull]

how do i get more? armor? skill tree?

[drifting cedar]

but yeah, quarterstaff and bow both pretty fun

[sonic peak]

body armor or through side quests

[empty ledge]

Usually from side bosses

[thin shore]

I even build my merc heavy dex

so it goes faster

[drifting cedar]

you need the accuracy?

[valid plover]

I’ll post my gear one moment I

[north gull]

ive done every side boss so far and ahvent gotten any

[sonic peak]

you only get more on act 3

[north gull]

i have no idea what accuracy does, im assuming itll make my lighting hits land more often

[drifting cedar]

it makes attacks less evadeable, thats it

and it does

less at close range

very long range attacks need accuracy, warriors can almost ignore it

[north gull]

gotcha

[drifting cedar]

does absolutely nothing for spells

[north gull]

is crit a big compenent in lightning monk?

[sonic peak]

at the same time, if you're using a bow or xbow you'll already need dex to equip weapons, so in general pure accuracy = bad

[drifting cedar]

can be.

quarterstaves have high base crit

[thin shore]

depends how you set it up, a lot of people run hybrid

[north gull]

crit chance or damage

[drifting cedar]

both or neither

[north gull]

hybrid as in lightning ice?

[thin shore]

I run ice strike with charged staff

[remote path]

what scales more elemental or spell damage

[drifting cedar]

thats not really a good question

[north gull]

im running lightning charged staff with tempsted flurry and bell
finding it hard to start rolling in aoe packs tho and drop bell

[drifting cedar]

do you mean, which should you focus on if using an elemental spell, or does elemental have more scaling opportunity than spells in general, or..?

[north gull]

does cast speed affect monk skills too? (glacial cascade, falling thunder, tempest flurry etc etc)

[drifting cedar]

because if using an elemental spell, both do the same thing

[valid plover]

This is my current 1h

[drifting cedar]

sir that is an armor and a glacial rune

[eager helm]

why my molten blast req 10 dex as basic , while it skill description it shows only str req ??
from where this 10dex comes from ?

[thin shore]

I wouldnt hold your chainmail in your hand

[valid plover]

here is my 2H

lol oos

[drifting cedar]

yeah, i would focus on upgrading those

[remote path]

witch has more scaling opportunity's in general i do use cold spells

[valid plover]

what do you recommend me gathering. I do have orbs.

[drifting cedar]

too broad a question, I don't understand. take both as you find them available

[drifting cedar]

I recommend focusing on salvaging socketed gear to get some artificers orbs

[valid plover]

ahh.

[remote path]

fair enough idk how to explain this

[next cipher]

Did they change something with resist calculation? 1 h ago i had 73% fire and cold, now with same stuff 61%, it's in endgame

[drifting cedar]

If you can get a couple of iron runes into a mace with flat physical damage on it your damage might literally triple

[valid plover]

where is a good way to grind for Socket gear to salvage to get resources to upgrade in Act II. Is there like a grind spot people do?

sorry im new to POE

[drifting cedar]

Not really grind spots early campaign. you can buy stuff from vendors, and just make sure you pick up everything with sockets off the ground

[remote path]

and will do pent

[quartz pewter]

If I take Eternal Youth, does any modifiers that are applied to ES shield recharge now apply to Life?

I'm guessing no

[valid plover]

so goto lower level zones, kill everything, collect Socket gear. Salvage, upgrade and buy all socket gear from vendors and salvage too?

[drifting cedar]

I mean, you can

Sounds like it will work

[north gull]

pent how knowledgeble are you with monk builds overall

/what works and what doesnt

[drifting cedar]

Not very

[north gull]

im trying to find what im lacking in mine

alright all g thanks

[drifting cedar]

I mean I've done a monk and it worked

what do you have going on?

[sonic peak]

there's no way to show dmg numbers on non-unique enemies right?

[main geyser]

guys for sorc cold build, what are your thoughts on going freeze buildup + cast speed and just spamming comet kinda build?

[sly minnow]

hi do 2 one handed weapons add up???

[main geyser]

idk if with enough cast speed if comet will be spammable as main skill

[north gull]

im running this

• bell with magnified and overabundance
  herald of thunder
  temptest flurry with martial tempo

[sly minnow]

like each has +3 lvl to all melee skills is it then +6lvl overall?

[north gull]

on count grenor

[sonic peak]

most melee skills indicate how they interact with dual wielding in their description

[sly minnow]

i mean their stats

[sonic peak]

their mods?

[sly minnow]

ye

[sonic peak]

or the atk dmg?

[drifting cedar]

what level are you?

[north gull]

17

[sonic peak]

yes, if you're dual wielding you'll get mods from both

[drifting cedar]

yeah you need to replace that staff

[sly minnow]

ye like every stat of the weapon

[drifting cedar]

your damage comes from your weapon

[north gull]

this is also my current skill tree

[sly minnow]

even the plus 3 additional lvl on skills?

[north gull]

wdym? my m1?

just regular attack?

[sonic peak]

sure

[drifting cedar]

all of your attacks

[sly minnow]

thats op

[drifting cedar]

are directly based on your weapon damage, which is low

[north gull]

how can i up my weapon

buy? craft?

[minor lynx]

I just finished a t15 map and now in my hideout it shows my resists are 10% less than they were before. is this a bug???

[drifting cedar]

yes

[north gull]

reroll?

[drifting cedar]

go check out the martial vendor

they might have one that is better

also, once again recommending artificers orbs + damage runes for early martial damage problems

[sly minnow]

what is better tho two handed or one handed dual wield weapon ?

[sonic peak]

it depends on your build

[north gull]

who is that

renly?

[sonic peak]

you can also dual wield 2h weapons

[drifting cedar]

yeah renly in act 1

[north gull]

i struggle to understand when to give up a gold for a grey or blue

[sly minnow]

yooo what

thats more op

[sonic peak]

you need this node

[drifting cedar]

hit G, if your dps goes up trust it

[dark wigeon]

Hi 🙂
Does corrupted gems can be lvl up or not ?

[lavish wedge]

Do the same effects stack? so if I have a support gem that says 30% extra fire damage against ignited enemies, and a node in the passive tree that says exactly the same, do I then get 60% extra fire damage against ignited enemies?

[north gull]

quarterstaff dps? all skills?
what about armor?

[sonic peak]

I'm pretty sure they can, but haven't tested it myself

[drifting cedar]

@valid plover I have a stupid mace you can use if you want it, it might help you while farming at least

[sly minnow]

i see, so when i dual wield a two handed weapon, which passive tree buff do I go then? increased dmg on one handed or two handed?

[sonic peak]

pretty sure corrupted in the context of gems only exists so you can't corrupt them again

[north gull]

it went down by 60

do i make it blue

[drifting cedar]

yeah, you try

it might not become better

[sonic peak]

I would assume 2h, but I haven't tested/checked it

duel-wielding nodes should also work tho

[drifting cedar]

also did you get a better base?

[north gull]

better base?

[drifting cedar]

I think wrapped quarterstaff is literally the lvl 1 base

there should be other staff bases with higher base damage

[north gull]

i have humming wrapped quarterstaff

ty for the help btw

ohh like a baseline staff that then changes and adds modifiers kinda like regular flask grand life flask etc etc

[drifting cedar]

yes

very important for weapons

[north gull]

i might of? but sold them becaue they were worse at first?

same thing with armor

idk

there are other ones that deal more damage but dont have the lightning buff but i can roll that with crafting things

do i just goi for the one iwth higher dps

humming did 1-9 lightning damamge but had shit dps

[drifting cedar]

do you have an artificers orb? you could honestly just throw a storm rune in your current staff if you want

yeah thats not worth switching then

just saying in general, if your attack based build feels bad, look for more attack damage which generally comes from weapon

[north gull]

renly had this

[drifting cedar]

yeah so, that's a better base

but it doesn't have significantly better mods than your old staff

you'd have to socket it, gamble with a regal orb

[north gull]

no artificer orb

would you gamble it?

[drifting cedar]

probably not

pretty bad base mods

[north gull]

i also ahve this

[drifting cedar]

also pretty bad

[crisp arrow]

Anyone working on any Demonform + Lighting build? Trying to figure out what defensive layer to go, thinking either MOM or stacking EB

[thin shore]

you can bin this one

[north gull]

so then what do i do to my current staff? storm rune?

[drifting cedar]

yeah that would help a lot

[wet mango]

ziz put out a video recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cItMbFcLdqg

[drifting cedar]

flat damage runes are much better early on

[north gull]

i alr have a rune in it

hwo do i remove it

[thin shore]

lightning rune is def the best one for leveling

[drifting cedar]

you dont

[north gull]

uh oh

[drifting cedar]

you can get an artificers orb via salvaging and put another socket in it

I would just collect white / blue staves and transmute / augment them until you find something better

also obviously ID rares and check vendors

[north gull]

artificer orb will just remove the iron one?

[drifting cedar]

no

staff can have 2 slots

[north gull]

gotcha

[thin shore]

I dunno if I would use 2 orbs on a lvl 11 staff lol

[drifting cedar]

yeah you get to the point where you have a ton if you have a higher lvl and are good about salvaging

[north gull]

salvaging as in disenctahning?

[thin shore]

no

[drifting cedar]

no, as in salvaging

there's a quest in act 1 to unlock the salvaging workbench

[north gull]

oh i got it

ty

[north gull]

so should i go back and farm bosses or something?

[stray bloom]

how good is Queen of the Forest Smuggler Coat vest for gass arrow?

[drifting cedar]

are you hard stuck? if you are hard stuck, maybe

[north gull]

nah i can kill greneor

[drifting cedar]

otherwise, just push on and keep an eye out for weapon upgrades and and weapon bases that you can throw transmutes at

[north gull]

gotcha

[drifting cedar]

upgrading your weapon is something you should always be looking for

[north gull]

transmute upgrades your weapon from white/blue blue/yellow

augment adds modifiers?

[sonic peak]

it's a good chest piece, but it doesn't really do anything special to poison builds

[drifting cedar]

transmute goes white > blue

augment adds +1 mod to blue

regal goes blue > rare

exalt adds +1 mod to rare

[sonic peak]

ig you can save a few points in the tree by not getting mov speed

[north gull]

tyvm

[drifting cedar]

don't burn all your currency crafting low level weapons

[sonic peak]

but there's not a lot of stuff you can get in the passive tree that boosts poison

[stray bloom]

@sonic peak following this build https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/48466d3a-f846-4da6-97a1-7580acd85c0c/builds/ea6dff15-9bf2-451b-b062-358ef1b861bf

[north gull]

only ones that are worth it

[distant canopy]

what happens when you cast essence drain and a dot is applied that is enhanced by consuming a debuff with ailment drain but then you cast another essence drain and it doesnt consume a debuff? does the less powerful DOT overwrite the currently existing enhanced DOT?

[drifting cedar]

yeah, in all honesty if you can find any 2 socket quarterstaff and put 2 storm runes in it, youll be in pretty good shape

[sonic peak]

ah, it's a gas arrow explode builds

that shit has been nerfed

not sure if this build is from b4 or after that

[stray bloom]

but still good

[north gull]

ty

i havent found a quarterstaff with sockets yet

[stray bloom]

Updated on
Dec 13, 2024

[north gull]

ive only been able to add them

[dry haven]

I'm going hard into the meme, ignite/freeze hexblast low life, this can only go well

[rugged kraken]

Does herald of ice explosion stack with Load fragmentation rounds? they both explode frozen targets.. wondering if they stack

[distant canopy]

step 1.) target is poisoned
step 2.) target gets hit with essence drain supported by drain ailments support which makes the dot portion do 35% more damage
step 3.) target is no longer poisoned
step 4.) target gets hit with another NON-enhanced essence drain
step5.) does the newer weaker essence drain overwrite the previously existing empowered essence drain from step 2?

[sonic peak]

can't say for sure, but most damaging debuffs in PoE only take into account the 'most damaging one'

in truth, both are affecting the target, but only 1 deals damage

[drifting cedar]

I'd say thats almost definitely the case

[distant canopy]

oh so what is left of the stronger one will do its damage and you will lose a few seconds/milliseconds of the weaker debuff

and then when the stronger one fades the weaker one will take over

[sonic peak]

|----------     |  <- high dmg one
|     ----------|  <- low dmg one
      ^ still dealing dmg as if the high dmg one was active
          ^ now swaps to the low dmg one for the remainder of the time

enjoy my ASCII art

that's how it works in PoE1, prob how it works in 2 as well

[distant canopy]

the bottom line functionally doesnt exist until the top line ends essencially wasting part of the bottom line?

[crisp obsidian]

why do i feel so squishy? i have capped res, 2.5k hp and 60% phys reduction, and i feel like i get 2 or 3 shotted by anything

[sonic peak]

so like, let's say each 5 - are 1 second

that mens that timeline has 3 seconds, and each debuff lasts 2 seconds

[drifting cedar]

this is some high effort build planning help, nicely done

[sonic peak]

1 second in, you applied the 2nd debuff

the target will keep taking the highest damaging one until the first debuff falls off

then the dmg from the 'low dmg one' will kick in for the remainder of the duration

[distant canopy]

but i am correct in assuming part of the low damage one will be lost

the part that would have done damage while the high damage one still exists

[sonic peak]

between second 1 and 2 yes, the low dmging one will not be dealing dmg

because it always considers the one that deals the highest dmg

[sacred sail]

recoup isn't counted there right ?

[sonic peak]

the game always says you only have 1 debuff on the enemy, but on the 'backend' you can actually stack infinite debuffs, each with their own duration
the game only 'ticks damage' from the one that deals the highest dmg

[drifting cedar]

its a good system, because it means that your 800 damage debuff with .1 seconds left doesnt keep you from applying a 700 damage debuff with 10 seconds duration, and it means that the enemy doesn't suddenly stop taking damage despite recently applying a new, lesser debuff

[grim lion]

does this means that if my attack does 1000 damage, it will do 1020-1031 damage with the ring?

[distant canopy]

that's neat because the method i play essentially results in both empowered and non-empowered essence drains being active at the same time always so it just always ignores the weaker one in favor of the stronger one

[sonic peak]

yeah

[drifting cedar]

if you do 1000 damage before any increases or reductions, yes

this acts almost exactly like weapon damage

[grim lion]

thats garbage then

[drifting cedar]

no it isnt

because you dont do 1000 damage before any increases or reductions

[grim lion]

oh now i get it

[sonic peak]

the only debuff I don't know if that's how it works anymore is ignite

[proven harbor]

Theyre answering you in an obnoxous way

[sonic peak]

because idk if you can build ignite buildup while an enemy is ignited

[proven harbor]

more likely you have modifiers for attack/melee/etc that enhance the 20 damage to be more

[drifting cedar]

Sorry I thought my wording made that obvious, was not trying to be obnoxious

[real kiln]

is there any possible way to make wildshards happen 100% of the time or close? or at least more than 20%

[sonic peak]

don't think so

well, technically casting the spell multiple times with spell echo-like supports will make it procc more often... but I don't think that's what you were after xD

[real kiln]

yea i already have spell echo lol

as of now its just RNG but i was trying to make it happen more often

cause i find myself spamming the skill during boss fights and sometimes it just doesnt happen

and i run out of mana

[sonic peak]

ah, actually

I think there are some passives in the tree with the same effect

and iirc they add to each other

[real kiln]

oh nice

[sonic peak]

(as in, you can't procc both at the same time)

let me check

[rugged kraken]

Does herald of ice explosion stack with Load fragmentation rounds? they both explode frozen targets.. wondering if they stack

[sonic peak]

it's another effect :/

there are 2 clusters like that tho

[abstract grove]

what is "prevented"? does that apply to armour/resists, and block?

[real kiln]

ty

[pearl sluice]

Any thoughts on ice which build?

[sonic peak]

I'm guessing yes

def need a keyword definition tho

[frosty arrow]

would evading a hit count as preventing it

kinda curious now

[sonic peak]

prob not

given that node is near armor nodes

[abstract grove]

def needs a keyword lol

[unique sparrow]

anything here i can make my build around? im in act 1 at executioner and i really want to make a build around a unique item

im noob

[frosty arrow]

you can't really have much of a build in act 1. There's simply not enough skills available, and most of the perk tree is simply not accessible yet

[pseudo jewel]

Can anyone give me advice on a solid build/class that starts out strong, and will survive into the current endgame? My friend got PoE, and he has a weak beginning focus, so I'm hoping to give him a strong starter that doesn't end up useless by act 3.

I don't need some hyped OP build that's going to get nerfed in 2 weeks. Just something solid. Any ideas, please?

[sonic peak]

all classes are solid, they're just dependant on gear

the ones that aren't are the ones getting nerfed

[snow sierra]

classes dont get nerfed

builds do

[sonic peak]

yes, that's what I meant

[snow sierra]

And normaly the nerf of one meta build dos not mean the class is bad now, if you are not a youtuber that is

[sonic peak]

as long as he doesn't try doing anything too offmeta he can take whatever he wants
I'd recommend against warrior, but that's a bit of a biased opinion

[pearl scroll]

How does this ring brick my charged staff anyone know?

[snow sierra]

I recommend minions, minions are allways the way 😛

[static thicket]

is there a deli oil calcualtor like there is for blight?

in poe1

to find out what all the nodes you can get are

https://blight.raelys.com/ like this

[sonic peak]

prob not yet

[pure fox]

what is better for gear, % physical attack or straight points in physical attack?

[sonic peak]

points in phys attack?

you mean points in phys attack gems?

or added phys attack?

[cunning carbon]

Do you know how Resonance and Lust for power work together ? I'm running combat frenzy so i'm gaining power charges instead but will i get maximum Endurance charge instead of maximum power charges with lust for power ?