2┃build-planning

[soft lake]

I don't see why it wouldn't work

[frosty arrow]

I'm just having a lot of ice res pen on my monk. And I'm thinking if it's worth for the amount of points it takes to get it from the tree

[static plinth]

No, you'd get 23% and 46%

There's an amulet which gives you ES based on your maximum mana; EB doesnt convert this cuz yknow, infinite loop

[soft lake]

Oh, right, yeah - scratch that @somber pendant, it won't work. I forgot it's a conversion now

Grim Feast will give you ES, but you won't have any ES (unless you use that amulet) so it'll be useless

[wheat pecan]

is there a way to tell distance in game>? trying to decide between extra damage within 2m, or further than 6m

[somber pendant]

ah darn

[alpine mural]

does elemental ailment threshold increases ignite damage? or just the chance

[somber pendant]

ty for the info!

[gray ferry]

ailment threshold is for chance

there's a separate stat for damage - ignite magnitude

[karmic lion]

Complete noob here. Are the classes just the ascendency and where it starts on the skill tree? And aesthetic

[frosty arrow]

Use an aoe ability with known radius to gauge roughly

[gray ferry]

yes

class determines where you start on the shared tree, and your choice of ascendencies

[soft lake]

If you've got an easy way to apply exposure or resistance reduction then dropping the penetration investment is probably worthwhile, yeah. Although it can depend how clunky it feels, too - penetration is "always on" whereas curses and exposure obviously require you to use more skills to apply them, so they might feel worse for that reason

[wheat pecan]

fair enough

[vestal heart]

Hey does anyone know if hand of chayula can only function if you use one weapon in thinking of using a staff as well

[wheat pecan]

trying to decide if the within 2m or the further than 6m is better for archer

[frosty arrow]

Would probably feel a bit clunky. Not sure yet. I'm just finding my damage output on bosses lacking on frost monk. Amazing for clear since everything is frozen, but this vault boss in act 3 is pure DPS check and I'm struggling to beat it so far. I'm leaving him at like 10-15% health, and I'm giving it all I got

[silver warren]

Does anyone know what this passive works with/what conditions activate it's use?

[soft lake]

Spell Echo / Unleash

[soft lake]

Yeah, that fight is a nightmare for low-DPS. Well if you're cursing already then dropping the pen investment for %increased damage/attack speed/crit/whatever could help

[frosty arrow]

That's the thing. I'm not cursing. I just got a lot of pen. But like half my points at this level went into getting it. I'm considering if somehow applying curse and spending those points into more damage elsewhere be better. I just really like this build for clear, but it's obvious it's not the best for bosses

[desert bane]

Is there a way to see annointment formulas

[soft lake]

Hold alt and hover on a notable

[sick timber]

Is it true that deadeye works better than merc ascendancies for crossbow skills?

[desert bane]

i must have a hideout first huh?

[midnight obsidian]

for specific shotgunning skills yes

[sick timber]

I see…

[soft lake]

Curses are very expensive, mana-wise, so they're not necessarily meant for melee builds, which is the issue. But it's certainly easier than spending half your passives on pen. You could always drop some pen and invest the points elsewhere

The exposure support gems exist also, but they're not great until the patch this week hits

[fickle yew]

does hand of chayula cost to apply the curses/marks in it?

[astral badger]

if im an ice sorc, whats the difference between using a staff vs a wand?

[wintry condor]

does momentum work with flicker strike?

[atomic halo]

you can test ingame, momentum makes a green flash around ur char when it activates

[distant canopy]

why do i go to 1 health 0 energy shield when i reach max stacks of infernal flame?
i have 27% fire resist. shouldnt i have at least a quarter of my life left?

[gray ferry]

huh that's weird

[frosty arrow]

Well, wand allows you to use off-hand focus as an extra stat stick. I don't think one is necessarily better, it will depend

[sullen dagger]

do I need to worry about fireball refreshing my SRS too quickly? it feels like theyre getting overwritten before they even reach the enemy

[icy creek]

any idea how to sustain mana costs? im attacking too fast for shockburst rounds and reloading too often

[rigid oyster]

hi can i get someone to look at my build please 🙂 ? Im new to POE and am having a hell of a time on the act 2 boss. Im lvl 35 and it took me 20 mins to get him to half hp lol

[rigid kindle]

How do you guys deal with survivability on ranger/dex characters?
Evasion doesnt help against slams and even with good elemental resistances and + max HP on my gear i end up getting oneshot by physical attacks. Should i just put some points into strength to get some armor on my gear?

[gray ferry]

mana leech maybe?

[icy creek]

no, nowhere near enough

i have 1k mana and 168 cost every 0.7 seconds or so

[kind jasper]

@rigid kindle Acrobatics would solve that no?

[granite grove]

what happens if you brick a unique with vaal? turns into a rare?

[kind jasper]

It's gone

[calm forge]

if i take this node with ci, do i essentially nullify 20% of all phys damage?

[static plinth]

Yes

[rigid kindle]

It would help against slams (would also make stacking dodge a lot harder) but even with high evasion i get to roughly 87% dodge chance so if i get hit by a strong physical attack i still die 13% of the time.

[kind jasper]

50/50, you die or you don't xD d

[calm forge]

do you know if pyromantic pact can be taken as well or would it kill me

[rigid kindle]

feels pretty bad, MoM + EB on sorceress is much more comfy

[valid hinge]

Hello! Would anyone know if font of rage on Pain Offering will affect minions? The DPS meter doesnt increase over time so im not sure if the minions are getting affected by the rage build up

[static plinth]

You can take it, it's the same as if you didnt have CI

The fire damage doesnt bypass ES

[calm forge]

interesting, so with 1 max hp, the 10% max hp hit doesn't round up to 1 damage?

[static plinth]

It does

It just goes to your ES

[calm forge]

oh gotcha. doesn't work that way for the flask effect

[static plinth]

Thats cuz its "remove from life" and not actual damage

[calm forge]

makes sense then

i'm starting to think witch sucks for a curse build but those may be my best options then

[static plinth]

Welcome to the party

[calm forge]

what would be better? i really wanna use the impending doom support and cursed ground support interaction, with decay on another curse. am i better off going chronomancer?

[static plinth]

Wait does ID CG work in 2?

[calm forge]

yeah i figured i'd try it and it definitely works

[static plinth]

That didnt work in 1 damn thats good

[calm forge]

when a mob or boss steps off the ground it seems to count as expiration

[static plinth]

You want to go Stormweaver i think

[calm forge]

i've been using it to clear mob packs like crazy

[static plinth]

Impending Doom scales off your maximum mana as does another node in Stormweaver

Alternatively, Gemling, but thats hard to path for

[calm forge]

frick okay. maybe i jus completely reroll my stormweaver then

but i have no gold and def no gear for it atm

i'm guessing i would want to use drain ailments with like heavy snow or smth right? and chaotic freeze on like profane or smth?

[spiral hornet]

Ayo am on act 2 merc,what skill should I get with VII

[static plinth]

Chaotic Freeze Decaying Hex on Despair

[spiral hornet]

Should I just skip it cuz I see nothing appealing

[calm forge]

oh that works?

[static plinth]

It should yeah

Id make Enfeeble your cursed ground

[calm forge]

oh shoot you're right. chaotic freeze is for dots not hits

that's actually such a good idea

i can jus go withering presence and despair easily

[knotty spruce]

Really hope to see mantra of deatruction buffed next patch. Currently working on my chaos monk and it seems quite underwhelming

[calm forge]

well, ig i leveled this witch for nothing then. ty i'm jus gonna reroll my sorc then

i'll jus make it a blood mage and maybe revisit it for the infinite curse duration

[brittle cave]

whats the best early game sorceress skill?

[bitter gull]

can u use gear with higher item level than ur character level?

as long as required level is equal or below its fine?

[wet rain]

Can culling strikes proc Herald of Ash? Since it's based off overkill damage I'm not sure and just wanna check

[calm forge]

somehow this is better than my frost build even before respeccing or changing gear. ty for helping me cook a build i'll really enjoy

with hexblast this is amazing

[still rock]

Cull is 0 overkill, effectively

It makes it dead = 0

[green solar]

I have 181 spirit and 146 intelligence. My cast on freeze says that I dont have enough spirit, but I should have enoug spirit anyone know what to do?

[still rock]

Check if a spell youve socketed inside is set to a particular weapon set

common bug rn

[still rock]

yes

[green solar]

You mean this? All my spells are like this

[still rock]

Yes, make them both checked

then resocket

[green solar]

Ah ok

[sharp vapor]

does anyone have experience with how a mana flare spark build would look like tree wise

[green solar]

Same thing once i try to activate it says not enough spirit

[sharp vapor]

id imagine it would take all damage can shock + cast on shock flame curse while getting the mana regen if you shocked on top of the usual eb+mom sparchmage pathing but would love to check existing builds

[still rock]

So make sure both the Cast on X is set to both weapon sets and the skill inside and also that youre not supporting the skill with something that raises the overall spirit value

Further than that im not sure

[unreal girder]

Does this mean I cull whites from 60%?

[rugged lion]

Anyone have advice on how to improve this passive tree? https://poe2db.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/AAAABgoCgUN0HcXZO_ofzvRKGkPWcrG8Rj5nnIR_q8-dYEfa7aqrVPJ_vWfmAJAJkIJWKsDXmTlCL919t6A5N7Z_-76F3g9wo22M7EAf3QCyEsYBUJG48eH8H-8--tUxQ32bZGSgiIw99ACE3y4xpyp6yVP3e8MdZlRE8hhJ60Le9C7d8iH5eLmX7_qMD5GpnxoEmIpFvu8M9XktVELAfBWm_pM7xctlc9yFyh3h3WWypzXeBoYUQ9fStTHZL9lK1DJ949l8ziF52NOVwjW0FIk_7xZH7RSgRV8BY9VeZSLMNY8Mg3dijn-PqsBEOYVTWPYIhbmc5lFUrlRy4HyQhfyVR_SgH89bdwAA

I use 3 heralds and spam storm wave for clear and ice strike/bell for bosses, but I'm super squishy. Also seems a bit meh

[frosty arrow]

Unsocket it, then put back together. Then go outside the hub area, to some location. See if it works. I had this happen to my heralds. Try restarting from character screen

It usually happened to me if I temporarily didn't have enough spirit or stats to activate it, but then it doesn't realize you do again

[calm forge]

@static plinth unfortunately decaying hex doesn't seem to work with blasphemy

[green solar]

I left the town went outside a hub area. Relogged and put the socket back in and it still doesnt work unfortunately

[still rock]

It should, mathematically (afaik). Try it

[lament elk]

does flask duration mean same amount of recovery just longer? like 124 mana/s over 3 seconds on flask with 50% inc flask duration = 124/s over 4.5 seconds? also how does flask effect work? multiplier to life/mana recovery from flask?

[still rock]

you dont have a skill in it

[green solar]

Oh

[still rock]

[green solar]

Im restarted

ahahahha

[still rock]

Cast on Nothing he says

[frosty arrow]

Cast Abra Kadabra on freeze

[still rock]

No, unlike DoT effects in PoE, flasks are a sum amt recovered divided by duration

[mossy wave]

should I even bother with trying to make a witch / bow build? It feels like going with anything but dips in sorceress is pointless (witch class as base), tried making a witch / monk hybrid but couldn't come up with anything that could probably be done better with sorceress abilities instead

[still rock]

Focus on a skill you want to interact with and find its synergies, dont look at class until you find what you want to do with skills

[frosty arrow]

I think once all weapons and ability categories released we will have a lot more classes with funny weapons and builds

[still rock]

My Bowbringer is working pretty well rn 🙂

[green solar]

Thank you guys for the help

xd

[untold valley]

should invoker try and manage light (shock/electrocute) cold (chill/freeze) AS WELL AS fire (ignite) to get the ignite damage bonus nodes or

[still rock]

That's a very loaded question tbf

[untold valley]

should i just do light/cold

[frosty arrow]

Maybe right now bow witch doesn't sound feasible, but with druid abilities which dip into int part of witch it may work?

[still rock]

Depends on what you want to do - find that answer first and then the rest follow

[frosty arrow]

Although, who chaos bow is for. What are the builds utilizing chaos bows rn

Does it synergize with poison?

[still rock]

Yes because chao damage increases poison

[untold valley]

i mean im doing the lightning skills but also trying to have enough cold damage to proc chill, but wondering if i should add some fire damage in my weapons sockets to proc ignite

[still rock]

and also is needed for its magnitude (or phys, but if you increase phys you dont increase the poison dmg itself)

[still rock]

Most of the time you don't want to spread yourself too thin, so focusing on one or two elemental damage types is a good idea

Especially because fire damage and ignite nodes are on the opposite side of the tree from Monk

Its thematically working against it (even though you could do it if you wanted to)

[mossy wave]

the main thing though is beside the poison skills, it feels like when I look at a specific bow skill and think of how to synergize it with witch skills then it seems like "oh it doesn't do anything significantly more than the <element> equilavent in a more friendly dip tree", not sure if this is because going from magic user => weapon user is harder than vice-versa

[teal kiln]

how can i increase my survivavilty what nodes should i get as ranger

[untold valley]

yea i wouldnt focus fire just literally enough to proc ignite to gain bonus damage from a passive skill point

[mossy wave]

but I get getting out of the idea that I HAVE to make a x class / x class hybrid and instead just focusing on what the actual synergies are.

[untold valley]

i just dont know how much flat fire will reliably proc it

[still rock]

You'd need to invest in ignite chance to make that consistent/worth it

[untold valley]

rgr that ty

thats what i was thinking

[candid bronze]

Hi, starting today with PoE2. Any good witch hunter builds without the overuse of grenades? I like them as a tool, but not as a whole kit. Anyone got a fun build I can follow?

Anyone?

[still rock]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-there-gif-12260777168301868199

[crisp star]

so uhh if i take the double curse keystone. does that mean if i pop double curses with hex blast it's basically a 100% more multiplier for it since 2 curses are popped?

[still rock]

Hexblast only consumes one curse at a time

[crisp star]

i see, does spell echo work on it?

[mossy wave]

what exactly do you mean by don't look at class? like don't think about bow unless a synergy is actual clear from the witch skill I'm interested in synergizing with

[still rock]

Work on Hexblast? It should

[crisp star]

aight thx. lemme try

[still rock]

Yes, focus on the skill(s) you want to use first and then format the build around that and its synergies

Much easier then focusing on a class or a damage type

[frosty arrow]

Wait, you can't have a crossbow with a shield with giant's blood, do you Is it just swords, axes and maces?

[still rock]

Correct, though that sounds sick and I want it

[still cloak]

can i transfer gear to another character i have?

[mossy wave]

gotcha, I've been really focused on "chaos / freeze" or "chaos / ignite" as the basis of build exploration which might be harder to use as a seed.

[still rock]

yes in your stash

[frosty arrow]

Stash is account-wide

So convenient

[still cloak]

ty ty

[rotund tartan]

does profane ritual not work with sacrifice? i've got sacrifice on, and i can summon zombies straight from the skeletons, but profane ritual won't work on the skeles. when I think about it this is probably on purpose but i figured i should ask - is this a bug or a feature?

[still rock]

Chaos / Freeze can work but you have to focus on the applicators to see if that concept is viable (it is through Chaotic Freeze support and Contagion, bread crumb)

[frosty arrow]

But also, messy if you don't splurge on tabs. Fills up quick

[still rock]

They have to be reviving

[crude zealot]

Which support gems to run on skeletal storm mages to maximise their shock uptime?

[rotund tartan]

what do you mean? skeletons are reviving yeah

[still rock]

They have to be dead and in the reviving state

[still rock]

Lasting Shock adds duration

[rotund tartan]

lol what ok that's really specific

[still rock]

Yeah it's awkward imo but w/e lol

[rotund tartan]

classic poe pedantry

[crisp star]

ok so i think it doesn't work

but aoe does increase

[still rock]

Sadge

[crisp star]

spell echo just basically increasess aoe for dmg bonus lol

[crude zealot]

I feel they don't shock frequently enough in the first place, anything to make them shock more often?

[crisp star]

for hexblast

[still rock]

Increasing their damage will increase their shock chance

[crude zealot]

so stuff like lightning penetration?

[still rock]

More lightning dmg = more shock chance

[mossy wave]

yea I saw that, it just was a tier 3 gem so it was far off for me. I was trying to use barrage + escape shot for high freeze rate + movement utility but it was cubersome and cutting into APM too much for it to be worth it compared to frostbolt plus ended up trying to use cold snap to gain usage out of the freeze which was spreading the build too thin

[still rock]

No, penetration determines how much of a hit goes through resistances, which is separate from the calculation for chance to shock, you want more raw dmg if that makes sense

Make hit dmg bigger

[crude zealot]

I see, that makes it clearer. I'll try to stack more dmg then + more chance to shock. Thanks.

[still rock]

You sound split between spells and attacks, I'd focus on one or the other since your freeze buildup is reliant on the actual amt of cold damage you deal

[crisp star]

ok so how will I be able to scale radiant grief's damage along with blackflame ring? only through chaos damage and chaos resist reductions? or i can do that as well through fire damage and ignite magnitudes?

[still rock]

Blackflame actually scales with fire damage

Weird wording there

The mob takes chaos damage from ignite but you deal fire damage as ignite

if that makes sense

[crisp star]

lol

ok

so in a sense i can double dip then?

scale both fire and chaos to increase the damage scaling?

or just fire alone?

[still rock]

No, Blackflame ignites don't scale with chaos damage but the mob would take increased chaos damage with effects like Despair

[crisp star]

ok so wither and despair that lowers chaos resist still works

[still rock]

Correct

[frosty arrow]

So boosting chaos damage won't do anything?

[still rock]

% increased chaos dmg would not, no

[crisp star]

ok so lets say i put in a chaos an envenom on my essence drain

[frosty arrow]

This is such a weird mechanic

[crisp star]

how does envenom scale on which basis?

chaos damage and spell damage?

or only chaos?

or does it scale at all?

[patent hound]

is the ranger lighting build still good ?

[still rock]

Only chaos because Poison is an ailment not a spell, but it deals chaos damage

[frosty arrow]

What's the difference between poison and just chaos dot, in terms of damage calc

[crisp star]

is the damage per second of poison based off of the initial damage of the spell?

or does it have other factors it considers?

[still rock]

As long as the wording doesn't specify non-ailment chaos dot then there is no difference (other than the Spell vs Ailment thing mentioned above)

[still rock]

Yes

[crisp star]

cause i'm checking right now and if i put envenom oon hex blast it has like 2x the poison damage per second on it compared to essence drain

ok cool

thanks for confirming

[dark oriole]

Hello guys, do you have a guide for ice strike monk ?

[frosty arrow]

So non ailment dots are poison and bleed, right?

[still rock]

No those are ailments

Non-ailment chaos dot = Essence Drain, Contagion, etc

[frosty arrow]

Ah

Bruh, their damage system so convoluted. I know it leads to solid complexity and build variety, but trying to wrap your head around it is pain sometimes

[patent hound]

i butcherd my first witch sum build to the ground in act 2 is it just worth to reoll a new char my ranger has managed to be like 5x faster than my old sum build was or was it just bad gems and gear ?

[still rock]

It's abt the same complexity as learning D&D, it just takes time, dw. A lot of the things are in the weeds and you dont need to worry so much

[frosty arrow]

But is there physical component to poison? Will boosting physical part of a hit that applies poison boost the damage?

[still rock]

Yes, poison magnitude (the thing that determines the poison dps) can only come from physical or chaos damage hits

[snow wasp]

is there a way to transfer gear between my characters?

[still rock]

stash

[snow wasp]

it carries over?

[still rock]

yes

[snow wasp]

cool ty

[still rock]

That being said, the poison dps itself after the hit is scaled by chaos damage, so it's more effective to scale via chaos damage hits, but there aren't very many sources of that for attack builds since weapon bases are mostly physical, so attack poison builds generally focus on physical hits

[left matrix]

Hey guys,
Theory-crafting a bleed-bow build and struggling to decide between ranger and Merc-Witch hunter.

I am definitely going to grab Spiral Volley for mapping as soon as I am able to, but I am super curious about the performance of Barrage, for single target, compared to casting Snipe multiple times.

[oblique arch]

Is the movement speed penalty from attacking considered slow? Can you move at normal speed while casting if you take Relentless Pursuit as Pathfinder?

[still rock]

Barrage is a buff in this game, you empower the next bow attack you cast with an additional arrow plus an additional arrow per frenzy charge

[still rock]

In PoE1 you didnt move at all so in my eyes it's fast

But yes that node seems nice in general

[oblique arch]

Has anyone tested it at all

[still rock]

idk about moving at normal speeds or not

I haven't personally used it

[oblique arch]

I am looking for info to consider using Channeling skills

[still rock]

You dont move at all while Channeling, good note

[nova ember]

So did anyone see/ play good deamonform witch build?

[oblique arch]

Wut. Ok

[oblique arch]

It is off the table then

[left matrix]

Ohh! So you can Barrage cast before the Snipe cast and each arrow fired will count as perfectly timed if the initial cast is precision cast?

[still rock]

Yes its nuts lol

For bossing at least

[left matrix]

Thats awesome for ST then.

Is it a spiritcost maintained aura or a cast-before-cast buff-to-next-cast only effect?

[oblique arch]

Are you thinking the same things as me? A Snipe Barrage Phys Bow Pathfinder?

[still rock]

It works as an empowered attack buff, similar to the empowered slam buffs from PoE1 if you come from that game

[thorn bone]

any monk experts cna tell what why his thunder strikes have big aoe ? cant be herald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jhyKXXJoac&t=126s

[still rock]

No spirit required, just a cast time and then you get the buff for a duration to use the additional arrow and consumes frenzy charges if you have them

[left matrix]

I am 100% stacking topend and chance to apply bleed with ailment mods here.
Really want to dig into the bleeds,

Witch hunter gives you exploding corpses and a super strong cull, so with Spiral Volley you clear entire maps in a cast or two depending on how many frenzy charges you can generate

[left matrix]

Okay perfect so you cast it first then cast Snipe, but dont need to budget for spirit maintenance

[still rock]

Correct

[left matrix]

Thank you so much for the insight!
So excited to play this.

Which bow type is recommended for top end weapon damage?
I dont see much information on wikis and assume that not all weapon types have been released?

[oblique arch]

Someone already beat us to it

[left matrix]

I saw JayTX running wild with his Spiral volley build, He's capitalizing on the Witch hunter version, was curious to have a look at the ranger version instead

[still rock]

Depends on the utility you want on the base type, some base types have faster attack time and lower flat damage and some have the opposite while some have alternative utility like chance to chain or have an additional arrow

[dusk notch]

Im trying to respecc from infernalist arsonist to demon form build and it costs so much gold 💀

[still rock]

At the end of the day you want the most throughput damage and if you're looking at bleed you'd want all phys damage, but the base type matters for what youre trying to do specifically

Chance to chain (warden bow) is very nice for spiral volley from my experience rn

whereas additional arrow (dualstring bow) isnt as impactful for spiral volley

if that makes sense

[left matrix]

Definitely does, I'd likely have weaponslot 1 for Spiral Volley and weaponslot2 for bossing with sniper barrage.

I definitely think the chance to chain is a must have for Spiral volley, and additional arrow is insaaaane for sniper barrage.
Those are awesome recommends, this information for instance isnt on the wikis yet >.<

[frosty arrow]

So if I have base damage on the weapon being part physical part fire, only the phys part will scale poison as I understand. Its not total damage of a hit, it's just the phys part. I see

[still rock]

Correct

[still rock]

Yeah most of this is legacy knowledge, some of us have a decade of experience to lean on

[left matrix]

Follow up question here, regarding the generation of Frenzy charges, the aura states, on hit, does this apply to, for instance, poison arrow's gas cloud damage ticks as well?
Or Lightning arrow's chains?

Trying to see which early ability I could lean on for generating charges before consuming them all with Spiral Volley, I saw JayTX running Pin Down on auto attacks with a very high chance of pinning enemies and guaranteed charges from doing so, the utility of cc + guaranteed charges seems really strong, but wouldnt there be a better medium to transfer this than auto shots, like the poison or electric arrows instead? - Maybe they dont apply the effects at all

[glass forge]

where would I go to ask about leveling a HC warrior

[still rock]

If you're referring to Combat Frenzy, it's only Freeze, Electrocute, or Pin that need to be triggered to proc the frenzy charge generation.

Cold damage inherently has freeze buildup (can be increased by modifiers), and lightning damage inherently has electrocution buildup (also increased by modifiers), but physical damage does not have an inherent buildup to Pin, so if you want to effectively generate charges with Physical damage only I'd recommend using the Bushwhack unique boots which allows your physical damage to inherently generate Pin buildup.

[silver anvil]

how good is the decimating strike node on witch hunter? Only works on full life sounds kinda bad especially for rares and uniques?

[stuck iris]

so I have been playing and enjoying the mercenary but been curious about either warrior or monk... any recomendations?

[left matrix]

Would combat frenzy be the best way to generate frenzy charges?

[still rock]

I think a mix of combat frenzy and sniper's mark are the only ways atm

afaik

I'm hoping the frenzy generation gets increased in this next patch cause I'm building up a spiral volley/snipe warbringer rn

From my exerience the issue is moreso that spiral volley shouldnt use all your frenzy charges on cast, it'd be much smoother if it only used one at a time lol

[left matrix]

Yeah, the dependancy on the 33% chance to not use charges is too great

[still rock]

35%, but yeah it's a 130% cost multiplier support that doesnt add any damage

feels bad rn

so hopefully they figure out the kinks

but in general my build is surprisingly decent aside from the frenzy interactions being hit or miss

[cinder eagle]

Any op monk here could help me with a build?

[left matrix]

For bossing its okay that barrage uses all our charges because thats extra arrows and more hits, and with Mark being more viable to use in single target its fine especially since snipe provides guaranteed crits, - although I assume that the Mark will get consumed on the initial hit and provide no bonus for the rest, but the multiple hits dealing physical damage might allow further generation of charges with pin mechanics, especially if you apply the pin support gems to something like rain of arrows and use that without/between frenzy charge generation - to generate more. - if thats how it can work.

[left matrix]

Check out the support for increased chance to pin based on distance from enemy, its been hella effective for JayTX

[still rock]

For the Mark portion - yes, correct. once its consumed from an instance of critical hit its gone until you re-apply the mark

For the pin generation - there is an internal cooldown on Combat Frenzy so it only generates once every time that cooldown is up

[glass forge]

can someone help me to understand why shield charge is NOT working?

[still rock]

I've bypassed that by using Bushwhack, might explore options in the future to use better boots but this works for now

[left matrix]

The internal cooldown is a base of 6s iirc
Which is terrible for charge generation from pins :/

[still rock]

C'est la vie

All we have rn

I'm interested to see the patch notes since they specifically mentioned frenzy generation

[left matrix]

Definitely need to look at getting the Bushwack boots asap, thats a really big pointer, thanks.

[still rock]

They're cheap

[buoyant basin]

Monk 100% you nuke ur screen every second, early game sucks though

[mortal swift]

anyone know if my freeze buildup contributes to my totems freeze buildup?

[left matrix]

They cut down so many builds with energy generation nerf recently for cast-on effects
I would be really sad to not see frenzy generation being fixed a bit since it promotes active gameplay rather than passive spamming

[oblique arch]

You can use pin support instead

[still rock]

Yes but that takes a support gem 🙂

[knotty spruce]

Wonder if mantra of deatruction would work with flicker strike. Would it only work on 1 strike or the whole thing

[still rock]

The opportunity cost of me using Bushwhack vs me losing a support gem favors the former

[glass forge]

where do I go to ask about the warriorr? thank you..

[calm forge]

if a mob is cursed and it dies, does the curse expire?

[left matrix]

Especially for a bleed build, where you just want to apply top end bleeds - and crits defeat the purpose of bleeding at all almost, and get guaranteed crits from your boss toolkit already

[still rock]

Support gems are always high priority on the skills you want to use for damage, so just taking a utility support to enable an effect that can be enabled in other means is generally not optimal

[left matrix]

There are inherent caps on available slots for sure, and costing them toward something you can sacrifice something like crit chance for, is definitely a bad trade...

[still rock]

Everything is contextual on the skill and effect in question, but this one in particular is easily solved with boots that you can get 30% MS or two sockets with a good corruption anyways so whatever

[white vessel]

Is it possible to allocate jewel sockets with weapon set passive points?

[near jewel]

Guys, is anyone using Ancestral Spirits on Warbringer???

I cant find any use forvthem and 4 slots for gems serm to be a wate

[still rock]

Not sure yet, but Wooden Wall is too good even if Ancestral Spirits is ass

[near jewel]

Yeap, dmg reduction seems big

[dapper fern]

is there such thing as having too much resistance pen/shred? right now one of my spells has 65% fire pen, also a curse for -36% fire reduction and also 26% fire exposure. is this all too much?

[still rock]

Probably, since pen cant go below 0

You want to find a happy medium where pen covers the leftover difference from resistance reductions

[dapper fern]

do we have any idea what amount of resistances mobs and bosses have in maps? 🤔

[west forge]

I wanna try Acolyte monk how bad is it?

[left matrix]

Is there a limit of divines you can use at the same time?

[static dove]

Is there a reason Lingering Illusion doesn't work while Wind Breaker is active?

[still rock]

No but pen isn't ever bad, it will help with the occasional rare mob with high resists or map mods. So up to you on how to optimize

[still rock]

wdym same time

[west forge]

What ascendancy points do i wanna take for acolyte monk?

[left matrix]

Serpent's Egg - Extra Charges
Ryslatha's Coil - Top End damage

Seem really strong for the bleed bow too, I am not sure if Bushwhack counts as a divine or if there is even a cap on them

[still rock]

Wind Dancer?

[static dove]

That's the one

[still rock]

Maybe the illusions can evade? I haven't tested but that's my initial guess

[left matrix]

Acolyte is currently far inferior to Invoker iirc. Mainly because of the impracticality of darkness vs spirit limit with available buffs, you sacrifice a lot of survivability to have to run around and pick up orbs every 5 seconds to be able to gain more damage, its just impractical

[static dove]

It's not that the illusion isn't generating charges, it doesn't spawn in the first place

[still rock]

Oh weird, make sure they're both actually active in your skill window first

[static dove]

They are

[west forge]

what if i dont take that?

[left matrix]

Your alternatives are inferior to invoker,
Crits ignore resistances allows you to build anything elemental and not worry about enemies that are resistant for instance..

[still rock]

Quick Google seems like it might be a bugged interaction:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3601543
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3617857

Shame

We are the QA testers

[static dove]

Yeah that sucks, probably shoulda started with a google search lol, my b

[still rock]

NP

Bump those posts at least for your own sake if anything

[left matrix]

Oh ok no cap on equipped divines.
Just budget I guess?

[still rock]

Yeah sorry I don't really get your question on divine caps

[left matrix]

Maybe I am misunderstanding, the red named items arent divines?

[still rock]

Uniques

[left matrix]

Ahhh

[still rock]

Divine Orb is a currency item that allows you to randomize the affix values within its tier

[left matrix]

Gotcha! mbad

For clarity, there is no cap on equiped unique items then? I dont see anything suggesting so

[still rock]

And no, there's not a cap - just an opportunity cost in taking a lot of them since they generally dont have high life and resist rolls

[left matrix]

I see.

The three mentioned then,
Serpent's egg, Ryslatha's coil and Bushwhack Lizardscale boots, definitely seem worth the sacrifice given the strength of their unique effects

[median kraken]

Uniques are usually niche, not necessarily strong. Most either do something specific that's good for some builds or are just good leveling items, while rares can be mroe well-rounded

[still rock]

Yeah, just depends on how you round out the rest of your build with rares and what slot the unique is taking

[left matrix]

Right,

[still rock]

In your case, sure that sounds like a fair tradeoff for uniques

[wintry prism]

What lvl do you have ?
I want to play Demon later on. I'm not sure if i can sustain it currently.

[dusk notch]

Im lvl 60

For now u can spec into the limit of 10 demonflare until u get enuff gear with hp regen and hp on kill, hp regen passives etc. to sustain high stacks

If u do wanna play it now

I tink I got like 60hp regen rn ? Not sure

[wintry prism]

I'm lvl 38 or so and need to do the trial for more points to cap the demon. Is 10 stacks noticeable?

[dusk notch]

U can also take mind over matter so that if u get dmged its not yer hp and stack energy shield

[lyric creek]

Complete beginner here, playing Sorceress and probably going for a frost mage. I'm allocating point to my passive skill tree without guides, is the game forgiving when it comes to going blind and exploring the choices you have? Or is it like, if I fuck up, I should make a new character? I'm still super early though, level 10.

[dire rivet]

you can respec them any time, it costs gold and the higher lvl you are the more it will cost. Right now its kinda high late game but not impossible, with the new patch they are making it somewhat cheaper aswell so yh you could wing it and respec later

[lyric creek]

Oh that's actually pretty nice. Cause I kinda wanna go blind for now, and if I fuck up reaaally badly I'll respec.

[dire rivet]

yh you'll be fine dw, the early points wont be that much different anyways, just make sure you type in the type of passives you want top-right so you can somewhat plan to go somewhere

[lyric creek]

Awesome, thanks for the tip!

[dusk notch]

Its like 20hp drain per sec I tink? Not that bad

Also for energy shield u can use this unique

[uncut jay]

% increase for armor (like 20% to energy shield) only applies to that item? It doesn't stack together with all other items ?

[still rock]

Yes that's a local mod

[uncut jay]

How to know what is local and what is global ?

[still rock]

As per MarkGGG:

A local mod affects that property of the item, as opposed to a global one which affects it for your character. Thus a local mod can only occur on an item with that property, and conversely, global mods will not occur on such items.
So, purely for example, "% increased physical damage" on a ring, can't be local, because rings don't have base physical damage. "% increased physical damage" on a weapon is local, and affects the value of the weapon, rather than you. You'll see that the damage values on such a weapon are blue, rather than white, to show they've been modified by local mods.
The global version of a mod will (almost) never spawn as a random on something that it could be local on. You can get global crit mods on weapons, where they could have been local, but only as implicit mods (daggers give global crit chance, and thrusting swords give global crit multiplier). In those cases, to prevent any confusion, the global mod is specifically labelled "Global" so you can see it isn't local.
So, if you see an "% increased armour" mod on a helm, that's local, not global, and the armour value of the helm will be in blue to show that that's a modified value. If you see "% increased armour" on a ring, that's global.

[uncut jay]

That makes sense I had a item with small energy shield, but huge %. Was wearing it for a loong time thinking it's BIS.

[still rock]

That's really old but the point still stands lol

[uncut jay]

so if it can be applied locally it is local, unless stated otherwise ?

[still rock]

Correct

[ebon glade]

what would be the easy class\build to start/play for new player now? allmost seduced my friend to try PoE 2

[uncut jay]

I find the currency in web trading quite weird, seems that 90% of items usually costs 1 exalted orb. I haven't seen anything cheaper. Or is there even option to have it cheaper ?

[crisp star]

there any way to generate your own corpses atm?

for detonate dead and decompose?

[still rock]

It's either one of two things:

1. it's actually just 1 ex
2. someone is listing it as 1ex without intention to sell, so that other people price checking think its worth that much and sell theirs for less than its worth so they can buy it and resell

Depend on the item tbh

[tidal copper]

Storm weaver or ranger LS
Maybe ranger poison to avoid nerfs

[still rock]

Aren't any atm

[uncut jay]

The browser-trading does seem quite convoluted, I find it strange that there isn't "in-game" auction posting system developed in 10y that poe has been out.

[tidal copper]

You and me too

[still rock]

Welcome to trading in PoE

Half the reason I went SSF many year ago

[tidal copper]

BUT
I mean every PoE player worth their salt will have path of exile craft of exile 3 trade windows and discord open
So I feel it's almost better to have it there

[uncut jay]

Ideally i would post/buy the item and just have it "teleported" to my stash. Guess it's not a priority, thou with po2 it would be cool if they improved it. Can you even trade using gold, or just currency ?

[still rock]

I actually had a friend get into the game abt 5 yr ago and quit solely because he got scammed on a lvl4 empower -> lvl 3 empower swap scam (still give him shit for it to this day)

[still rock]

Currency - gold is only for vendors and respec

[tidal copper]

Classic
The market is literally Vaal street and there are wolfs and sheeps

[still rock]

You learn to live with it tbh

It's not that bad once you get used to how it works/how people use it

[crisp star]

is chronomancer tree slow similar to temporal chains slow? extends debuff durations?

or it's actually just another variation of chill?

[still rock]

Latter

[tidal copper]

It's chill ? On my chronomancer?

[crisp star]

wow

ok that's a bummer

here i was making it with the idea it would have been extending debuff durations

[still rock]

Stacks with other forms of slows though, with temporal chains, hinder, some form of chill, its a surprisingly effective defensive tool

You can just run around for fun

[crisp star]

ye it is funny to see em turn slow

[mossy wave]

If I deal a bunch of dots with 100% spell damage boost weapon and then switch off that weapon to another weapon, do the dots all deal less damage...what about totems?

[crisp star]

but are there any buffs we can use then?

i feel like atm the only buffs worth extending are charged staff and the one for the bows

idk what other buffs there are

archmage is a persistent buff

most buffs are hidden in ascendancy trees

[still rock]

Your increased dmg modifiers are not snapshotted with the debuff, they carry over dynamically, same for totems

[still rock]

Eh the buff duration increase isnt really why you take Chrono IMO, but it works with arcane surge or charges etc

[silver warren]

Why is maximum energy 300 on my Cast on Freeze with Lightning Conduit?

Shouldn't it be 100 since 1.00 second cast time and .1 multiplier?

[still rock]

+1 second to total cast time line adds something in the equation there

Intentionally added for meta gems

That and comet

[night wagon]

on crossbows is the best trait to have is + to levels of all projectile skills?

[crisp star]

ye i can kinda see now why lol i'm really just trying out some memes with this. charges aren't really worth extending imo cause they'll get expended anyway. how bout skills with cooldowns?

for spells afaik it's only really frost bomb that has cd

[static eagle]

are these 2 skills broken?

[crisp star]

and a few other elementals

[static eagle]

My shield doesnt adjust when I do have it

and when I dont

[still rock]

I've seen people do HotG chrono but idk about its actual efficacy lol

I took chrono for recoup and slow like a true chad defensive caster

[agile meteor]

Please tell me how to get 3rd ascendency trial of sekhana? I am lvl 66

[static eagle]

maps, and you get a drop with 3 trials

[tidal copper]

You wouldn't like to know

[agile meteor]

Maps you mean end game nodes?

[static eagle]

its not too bad though

[still rock]

Atleast area level 60 and 3 floors

[static eagle]

yes I mean the end game stuff

[agile meteor]

Ok

Thank you guys

[crisp star]

lol i might have a look into the hammer of the gods thing then

seems fun

[tidal copper]

The secret trial behind in the chaos doors requires you to do ultimatum 3 times right?

[still rock]

I have 0 leads for you other than that, GL lmao

[static eagle]

this but higher level

[agile meteor]

Also i have question what Jewel you suggest for infernalisy witch. I didnt put any for now?

[tidal copper]

Fire DMG?

[still rock]

Entirely depends on your build

[agile meteor]

I need fire dmg of fire dmg from allies

Arcanisy witch infernalisy

Fire dmg or fire dmg from allies

[still rock]

[agile meteor]

My fire dmg scales with Minions ?

[still rock]

No

Only damage that minions get is things that say minions or allies

[agile meteor]

Ok

[still rock]

(Aside from auras)

[agile meteor]

Thank you

[tidal copper]

So you doing ignite?
There are very neat mods for ignite
I like ailments deal DMG faster

[unreal girder]

Is cloak of flame worth it for Sorc Ward builds? Or do you lose too much defense

[still rock]

Cloak of flame is pretty nice but youll want to get +max flame res to really enable it further

[unreal girder]

We dont have lightning coil righg

[tidal copper]

No

[unreal girder]

Sadge

[still rock]

No but we have
https://poe2db.tw/Doryanis_Prototype

Not exactly the same obviously

[slender fern]

level 51 Ice Invoker looking pretty good so far

[tidal copper]

Nah nothing to do with lighting coil

[still rock]

Fair, but kind of similar

slightly kinda maybe

[tidal copper]

It is similar sure both are lighting themed

||just like a tomato and a strawberry||

[still rock]

They're like the same but opposite

Yin and yang

Feng shui

[mossy wave]

if I get building toxins which allows targets to get affected by 2 poisons at the same time, does that count technically as 2 seperate debuffs or just one supercharged one

[crisp star]

if i proc poison through a skill does it count now as skill effect?

or it's still it's own thing?

[still rock]

It's one debuffed stacked twice - what interaction are you asking for specifically?

[crisp star]

like if hex blast has envenom it's now considered skill effect right?

[still rock]

No, ailment duration is a separate thing from skill effect duration

[static spade]

Hey guys, got a question about "Cast on X" spirit skills. If you have 2 or more of those, do they share the same energy or they have their own independent energy pool?

[crisp star]

dangit

ok

[mossy wave]

i'm currently supercharging dark effigy, and right now spam vine arrow when I go on the defensive, I have envenom on that skill, so currently it can help proc 2 attacks per sec from dark effigy (one from chaos over time and one from the poison). If I get the poison doubling would it proc 3 attacks per sec

[still rock]

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[neat bison]

Should I even bother getting the reserved life for Spirit node on Infernalist? I am not running ES at all so I’m doubting that it’s worth

[still rock]

So, from what I understand from some others testing, each stack of poison does give an additional Dark Effigy orb but I really need to break it down slow motion style to see if it's really working that way.

[static spade]

It doesn't look too rewarding to be honest, specially the spirit one.

[still rock]

But hypothetically I think it works

Just hard to test in a controlled environment

[neat bison]

Yea I’d have no problem speccing it if I was using the busted ES stacking but I went with armor/str

[static spade]

I can't tell you for certain since I'm not infernalist yet but yeah, I wouldn't use em it at all. Demon form is the only reason why I wanna go infernalist in the first place

[rugged panther]

Anyone running Chayula Monk into high T15+?

[neat bison]

I might try playing around with infernal flame but it looks like I just might be using my remaining 4 ascendency points on 3% life lol

[lunar latch]

is it possible to have scattershot and Martial Tempo on Skeletal Arsonists?> whenever i try I cant slot the second green gem, ive got it to 3 support gems too

[neat bison]

You need an extra 5 DEX for every green gem

[lunar latch]

Ahhh

Thank you!

[last patio]

who's excited to start over their ice monk builds?

[pearl sluice]

the acrobatics makes me lose 70% of my evasion rate, but lets me evade all hits, that means that the enemys accuracy just doesnt matter anymore right?

[pearl sluice]

im sure it wont be too bad right?

[last patio]

to be fair I was full screen 2 shotting with monk with chain freezing

[still rock]

No, it means that you can use evasion to evade aoe effects as well as projectiles and strikes

[last patio]

it's just gonna be painful feeling my character crippled

[green minnow]

Hybrid Monk has the highest sustainable dps right now right?

[pearl sluice]

would it be good to take it?

[last patio]

hybrid as in es/er?

[green minnow]

As in Ice/Light

[still rock]

From what I hear it's a good node if youre solely stacking evasion

[rugged panther]

Can you evade all AOE with it?

[still rock]

Anything that hits

[jovial crag]

What type of jewels should i be looking to socket for infernalist minion witch ?

[neat bison]

Sapphires mostly. Can roll minion/energy shield etc

If you are going armor/str you could get some good rubies for defenses

[jovial crag]

Ah yeah I’m going the armor route
So rubies it is, thank you 🫡

[still rock]

Completely dependent on your build and what skills you're using

[jovial crag]

Arcanist/raging spirits shenanigans

[stoic geyser]

for ice witch, why is staves > wand + focus? (since you can get more resistance and buffs)

[wispy light]

Hey the maximum amount of rarity you can get is 100% right?

[kind timber]

if a skills base damage is fire, and that skill gains % damage as fire, does an increased fire damage boost the damage twice?

[still rock]

Most likely minions attack/cast speed, minion dmg, then whatever defensive you fancy

[violet geyser]

Does increase lightning damage and increase elemental damage do the same thing for lightning spells?

[still rock]

No

[still rock]

Yes

[lament trail]

Hey guys, I'm making my own "monk" build which has been working great so far. I've got a lot of health on kill, critchance/damage and attack power. And all my attributes are on STR. I'm using a 2h mace with pretty much just mace skills and killing palm + contagion. And my spirit ability is Herald of ash. Basically, I prime them for stun, then I stun them and they all explode and die. So far, super strong, super fun, life's good.

Now comes the time to pick an ascendancy and I don't know which one to pick. The dark one would seem the best but it disables spirit, and as it stands my build essentially revolves around herald of ash overkill explosion and the fact that with a 2h mace roided on damage and crit it clears the whole map after I kill 1 guy. The elemental one seems to revolve around elemental damage (duh) which I deal none, and I'm all in on STR so I don't have the IQ to grab the better elemental spells. What do you guys recomend?

[rancid thicket]

Not as far as I'm aware. 100 fire damage base. gain 25% of damage as fire only adds 25

[still rock]

Uhhhh no?

Im not aware of any cap to rarity

[wispy light]

Okay cause when I checked my skills of items dropped for enemies slain it seem like it was capped bit ill check again and get another 46% rarity

[kind timber]

yea was asking if you took that 125 damage, and applied a 10% increased fire damage afterwards if you would end up with a total damage of 135, or 137.5

[still rock]

The latter

125(1+0.1)

[frosty arrow]

It's the fire part that gets multiplied

I guess

[still rock]

Assuming its 125 fire damage

[rancid thicket]

Hard one. Chayula has some decent nodes that may work. Into the Breach which gives you life, mana, and gain bonus chaos damage on top of your damage, the node after doubles these benefits. There's a "Gain X% of damage as chaos damage" node so you get a chunk of chaos damage added. There's also a chaos resist node that will double your chaos resist.

I'm unfamiliar with invoker, but I believe that's very lightning/cold oriented?

[dapper fern]

is there any reason to pick ignite chance in skill tree when fire wall, solar orb and infernal hound are all guaranteed sources of ignite application?

[frosty arrow]

What exactly is the point of avatar of fire though. Is it just to double dip into any damage nodes on the tree and get all damage boosted by them? Or it doesn't work like that

[agile meteor]

how much is worth divine orb, compare to exalted orb?

[still rock]

If you want to proc an ignite with a larger source of damage that aren't those three things that could potentially give you a larger source of ignite dps

Because ignite is based on the hit dmg

[rancid thicket]

It's so that you deal solely fire damage so that you only need to boost fire damage. Putting all your eggs in one basket basically

[lament trail]

Yeah it's hard indeed ;/

[dapper fern]

solar orb seems to have a weirdly high ignite damage, thought its not the best to apply in aoe

[still rock]

There's no double dipping, it's just if you want to use some effect that isn't fire damage but as fire damage.

[rocky pilot]

Does this work with chaos DoT? like Essence Drain?

[still rock]

Yeah I'm not sure about the efficacy of normal ignite sources from hits rn but it answers your original question as to why you would want to build ignite chance.

[still rock]

No, click on leech

No worky with dot

[rocky pilot]

can't click on a picture, thats not ingame

but i see

[frosty arrow]

Would that make it possible for frost spells to freeze and apply ignite dot at the same time? I'm understanding there's potential, just a bit confused

[still rock]

Leech doesnt work with DoTs anyways

just realizing thats from the pictures they made for the ascendancies

lol

[surreal iris]

On the ascendency node "sunder my enemies" for the monk it reads "critical hits ignore non-negative enemy monster elemental resistances", if I have ele pen and crit do I ignore their res and then my pen would count it as being negative? for example, they have 100 res, I crit and ignore it, I have 100 pen and then they would be -100? or would it just count as being 0?

[rancid thicket]

No, freeze requires that you deal ice damage

[still rock]

No, you need a source of cold damage to contribute to freeze buildup unless you have an effect elsewhere that explicitly states otherwise

[frosty arrow]

I think ignore part comes after all the pen and reductions. Otherwise sounds broken

[mossy wave]

would leech work with totems?

[still rock]

Not for leech on you

[mossy wave]

lmao I guess there's still a bit of a purpose then...

[surreal iris]

Aah okay, I'm playing a cold monk so I already have a bunch of cold pen so maybe it wouldn't actually be super useful?

I guess I could just drop my cold pen from tree and spec fully into crit instead

[crystal holly]

yes that is what u should do.

[frosty arrow]

My cold monk build is in limbo, I'm tearing it all down because I feel like dozens of points that were spend on getting all that ice pen could go to just damage. Because on bosses I feel like damage is super lacking

[rancid thicket]

Pros and cons. Pen is always active, but you're not and won't ever be always critting (Afaik)

[agile meteor]

How much is worth 1 divine compare to exalted orb? I want to buy armor on Poe market

[cedar fossil]

Does anybody know for certain if heft does anything on lightning rod, and why

[rancid thicket]

Check currency exchange. Last I checked it was 8 Exalt for 1 Divine

[cedar fossil]

it increases the DPS but not by 30%, though from what I understand maybe it shouldn't do anything at all?

[agile meteor]

Where i can check that ?

[rancid thicket]

Check the gambling NPCs in cruel acts

[agile meteor]

Thank you

[neat bison]

It should, my arsonists convert phys to fire and heft does work on that

[surreal iris]

yea I think getting super high crit seems to be difficult but I think if i respec I could get maybe around 50%? and I'd also have a bunch of crit damage which I believe is a multi so it would probably be more damage overall

[tidal copper]

How is that 30% more DMG???

[still rock]

Sign me up for the 30% more dmg club

[mossy wave]

do these two synergize at all?

[rancid thicket]

Because Lightning Rod converts phys to lightning. Heft increases maximum phys hit of any physical attack. So your base is 100, heft makes the ceiling 130 (As every attack randomly deals damage within a range of values)

[still rock]

No, lose effects like Event Horizon don't count as damage in any way

[cedar fossil]

AH ok that makes sense

[tidal copper]

It's on average or for your DPS 15% more I'll guess

[cedar fossil]

thanks for explaining it @rancid thicket

[rancid thicket]

Correct

[tidal copper]

Unless you get lucky hits which is near the ranger area

And I recommend

[cedar fossil]

lightning rod passive wouldn't interact with heft though right?

[swift aspen]

Increased poison duration does not affect total damage, correct? It just has it lingering longer

Tick rate adjusts based on poison time

[cedar fossil]

or maybe it does...

[still rock]

If it's converted from phys to lightning then yes it interacts with that

[cedar fossil]

nice

[still rock]

Bad wording - yes it technically affects "total" damage since the sum total is larger, but it does not affect the DPS of the poison

[rancid thicket]

From what I can tell, yes it will. The burst aspect of it, that activates after it's been chained to, is the part that is phy to lightning converted

Usually I'd say no but the gem doesn't have an "Impact" aspect to the skill so it must be the burst

[swift aspen]

So a standard 2-second poison does X damage over the duration; if I get 50% increase to poison time, that same poison now does 1.5x more?

[still rock]

No

[swift aspen]

It does 1x over 3s

[cedar fossil]

so all the hits are the same, when you fire the arrows and they land that is just the first "burst"

[still rock]

Yes

[cedar fossil]

and then the chains are additional bursts

and yeah its 100% phys to lightning

[swift aspen]

So it doesn’t affect total damage

As damage maintains 1x

[rancid thicket]

Correct. So heft would affect it at all stages

[swift aspen]

Other than any interactions in your build obv

[still rock]

Assuming you maintain a full uptime of the debuff with 0 gaps, no it doesnt not affect total damage, but if you count for the duration of both affects without re-applying, it increases total damage. But it does not increase the DPS

Capiche?

Increasing duration maintains the same damage per second

total damage =/= dps

[swift aspen]

Well not really, if I do X damage over 2s and the same over 3s, I’ve reduced my DPS of that ability, but the opportunity cost is the ability to do other concurrent damage for an overall higher theoretical DPS

The poison DPS goes down, utility goes up

[still rock]

Poison DPS never goes down over increases of duration

[swift aspen]

If I do 100 poison in 2s

That’s 50 DPS

[wet mango]

It does, the DPS of the poison is fixed, so longer = more damage

[swift aspen]

If I do it in 3s that’s 33.3

[still rock]

No

That's not how it works

lol

[tidal copper]

Yesnt

[swift aspen]

Okay that was my question

[ocean cipher]

Yo

[swift aspen]

Is it the same overall damage per poison application

[tidal copper]

Me

[swift aspen]

Or does the poison damage scale higher with longer duration

[wet mango]

Yes

[swift aspen]

So if the hit of phys/chaos is 100 on application

And standard is 2s

[still rock]

When the poison is applied the dps is calculated based on the magnitude of the hit and then any increases of duration or decreases in duration maintain that fixed DPS rate

[swift aspen]

Extending it to 3s now does 150 damage

And ticks are every second? How often are ticks?

Or is it a constant

Is extending 2s poison to 2.2 worthless due to lack of tick rate

Or is tick rate constant

[long parcel]

guys can you not quality skills from asc? its not letting me use a prism on my life remnants (blood witch asc aura) but it says it has a quality effect, 10% increased chance of dropping blood orbs

[wet mango]

Papa you have the right understanding but I think your answer here confused everyone.

[wet mango]

It does 1.5X over 3 seconds, maintaining the same dps

[swift aspen]

And I’m assuming tick rate is constant, so even 2.1s will have a 5% increase (1.05x)

[wet mango]

It's not a skill gem

How could you quality it

[still rock]

Sorry, just trying to clarify that increase in duration is "more" total damage, but no more DPS

[wet mango]

Yes

[long parcel]

idk you tell me, it says it has a quality effect

how do i get the quality effect

[wet mango]

Yeah X dmg over 2s, X is a damage number not DPS number

[long parcel]

its a really good quality effect too i really want it q_q

[still rock]

Yeah, need to clarify the values, didn't mean to misconstrue

Because dots are generally valued in DPS not total damage

[wet mango]

So they way it's worded, it feels like heft shouldn't interact with the pulse or CL from shockburst or galvanic. But apparently in game it does :shrug:

[rocky pilot]

theres a possibility its a bug, or its increasing base physical damage now instead of the same calculation as % more does

[wet mango]

This sorta implies that heft (support gems in general) work before the skill innate conversion? But I'm pretty sure primal armaments applies to skills after their innate conversion, otherwise it'd be massively useless (and it's not)

[rocky pilot]

but yeah heft is increasing before conversion

its only heft from what i've seen, specifically maximum phys

[wet mango]

Right

Very wierd

I guess "% more maximum (X) damage" is a special kind of modifier as you say, and not the same as "% more (X) dmg"

And is implemented differently

% more/incr can be applied to a specific damage roll, but % more maximum kinda has to be done first? Because it affects the range/distr

[still rock]

I'm pretty sure it applies to physical damage range before conversion, just based on socketing and unsocketing and comparing values on skills that convert 100% phys to elemental

And it does add damage in those cases (quite a bit)

[rocky marsh]

Quick Q. Does anyone know how much elemental resist enemies have? (Cold in particular. Need to know how much value cold pen nodes have)

[worldly trail]

Question about cast on shock. The support gems you socket to that gem, will they only affect the "cast on shock" or do they apply to both the skill being procced AND the cast on shock gem?

[rocky pilot]

noone really knows right now , but it isnt really a hard question since pen doesn't go below 0 and %s are not ginormous.

If your build does not use exposure or curses, then pen will always be valuable. as pen on tree is only around 30% in general anyway.

If your build uses exposure and or curses, you generally have a large amount of negative res. almost 50% . So pen does not have value as its likely most mobs are going to be at 0 or negative res

[rocky marsh]

Fantastic. Thanks very much for your answer.

[rocky pilot]

i don't know. this is easily testable by putting a skill and thne putting a More duration gem in there and checking the arrow to see if the skills duration went up.

my answer would be most likely yes it applies to the skill inside, as thats how it works with things like Withered support and more duration.

[rancid thicket]

It's because you have a range of damage before conversion, and heft is applied to that range passively. When the skill does damage, it rolls the phys damage then applies the conversion. At least that's my understanding. The flow is usually:

Base Damage Range > Heft Increased Damage Range > Roll Phys damage > Conversion

Since you need the damage range first for any of the rest of the calculations, basically.

[still cloak]

i've been using a level 3 weapon and i am level 16 now. is that fine or do i get a new one by buying

[rancid thicket]

Depends on what your skills are

[still cloak]

i am playing witch with minions

[rancid thicket]

Using a sceptre I assume?

[still cloak]

yes

[rancid thicket]

In which case you don't need to worry. Always check the Vendors for better gear though

[ebon wave]

How much elemental res do mobs have normally? Does it scale with levels? Trying to figure out how much frost pen i need..

[rancid thicket]

But your damage isn't dependent on your weapon (Besides Allies in Presence modifiers or Spirit)

[tidal copper]

Do you know what mods to look for though?

[rancid thicket]

Depends on the mob. Some have innate weaknesses, some have Frost resistant modifiers. There's no one value

[still cloak]

ty ty

[pale jewel]

Anyone knows how to do the Three Dragons - Dexterity on Mainhand+ Lightning Ball Offhand gem setup Tech?

[ebon wave]

How would i go about figuring this out? Seems hard to know if 15% more pen is good if i allready have like 40%

[rancid thicket]

You'd need to look at monster variety then average out all of their resistances to find a sweet spot. How you would do that is beyond me.

It's a hard question to answer really. Penetration can't make resistance go below 0, HOWEVER we do know that capped resistance is 75%. So really if you wanted to cover all cases then 75% is your go to. If you want to generalise without the above effort, go with... 37%? Nice middle ground

[ebon wave]

Yeah its a tricky one, especially since it does nothing vs mobs without res

[tranquil fractal]

LA deadeye or spark stormweaver faster for mapping?

[ebon wave]

Is there any place to find monster stats?

[rancid thicket]

Hmm, not a clue. poe2db maybe? Only guessing

If you're going to attempt to find an average for monster res, don't forget to filter out any negative values!

[silent prawn]

If I start as a Sorc, and want to play Lightning bow, can I just scale the dmg with Lightning passives or should I path over to Projectile dmg?

[rancid thicket]

I'd have said either would work? They'd both scale the damage, the only caveat is the difference between Spell and Attack scaling nodes

[thick herald]

With this passive, if my spell penetrates 20% cold res and lets say enemy has base 50% cold res, does that mean that enemy will get hit as if it had 0% cold res or -20%

[rancid thicket]

Unless there's a component to the damage scaling for the Bow Lightning stuff, you can do either. I'd probably do both, just be careful as Bow is Attack and not Spell. Also consider that a fair few of the skills convert phys to lightning, so get decent phys on your bow

[wet mango]

You are just confirming/elaborating my stab at an explanation here? Or are you contradicting it?

[wet mango]

The little icons beneath their health bar

[rancid thicket]

If you have 20% pen and they have 50%, then it's 30% I believe.

If I'm misunderstanding your question, just know that Penetration cannot make an enemies elemental res go below 0%

[rancid thicket]

The former

I think

[wet mango]

You will ignore their res (i.e. treat it as 0). Then you will apply pen to that value, so your final value is 0% resist.

[thick herald]

I wonder what happens if I have the passive from screenshot on

[silent prawn]

ok thanks 😄

[wet mango]

I also think haha. Well, 2 heads can't be wrong 🤓

[wet mango]

Does the lightning bow convert 100% to lightning? If not, then incr light dmg will be less than 100% effectiveness (since it won't apply to the phys part)

[rancid thicket]

Oh sorry, I misread what you were asking. lasagnaman is correct. Just as 0 with the passive you're showing. Penetration can't make elemental resist go below 0

[shy dagger]

anyone know a good website to plan out builds on?

[thick herald]

so is there point in going elemental pen at all with this passive?

[cold cipher]

Hello. I have a question about node :"1% increased damage per 1% block chance" This is global dmg and works with minions?

[rancid thicket]

For sure. The passive applies only if the target is Frozen. So penetration will help you freeze the target (As Freeze Buildup is determined by the cold damage you deal. More cold damage, more freeze buildup). Once they're frozen penetration is no use. It atleast gets you there faster.

[thick herald]

makes sense, thanks

[muted charm]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/913808010416123954/1318525516403179520/image.png?ex=6762a414&is=67615294&hm=426a141514bb2a80b6bbd87c9d758d79968be95418b9b7623d7a756e6c781124&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

@woven inlet

It looks so disfigured

[rancid thicket]

No. Rule of thumb tends to be unless is specifies "Allies in Presence" or "Minion" damage, it doesn't affect minions.

[rancid thicket]

maxroll and mobalytics have planners. As far as how good they are is opinion based

[shy dagger]

@rancid thicket right on thanks

[cold cipher]

Thanks for the answer

[left matrix]

Sorry for the necro reply catching up,
Dynamically makes sense, but are they updated on weapon swap, duration refresh/increase or on the next tick? and how does the API track the update? Unless its embedded to communicate and recalculate debuffs on weapon swap itself, - which would make combat suuuper glitchy for builds that use debuff -> weaponswap -> Ailment application

[pearl sluice]

how many quests give me uncut spirit gems?

[still rock]

That's a little too deep of swap mechanics for me to answer definitively tbh lol. But AFAIK in the past when you get a dmg "buff" it reacts accordingly within the same tick to your dots

[worldly trail]

there is not negativ res multiplier for enemies, sure hope that counts for the players aswell

[pearl sluice]

no we can get neg resist multipliers it happened be once i think

i had like -12% fire res

[wet mango]

Doesn't say minions, Not with minions

[thick herald]

doesn't exposure basically count as potentially negative res?

[worldly trail]

oh wait, thats true, I have it on my char right now haha. But I dont think it applies to the enemies, Im pretty sure I read it somewhere

[pearl sluice]

btw do you know how many quest uncut spirit gems we get, its kinda torture going like halfway through act 1 multiple times

[worldly trail]

Im not sure, but I think last time I checked into it its just a fixed negative ress debuff (wich dosent go below 0%), one for norm enemies, and one for elites/bosses

[versed wharf]

can you increase spirit on amulets with a Catalyst? if so which one?

[thick herald]

Isn't the point of applying exposure onto enemies to get their reses onto negatives?

[thick herald]

hmm

interesting seeing how much people on sorc builds put big pressure into stracking exposure effects

[left matrix]

Hmmm, How the dots get updated dynamically would be valuable information for clever use of game mechanics... especially for PoE due to how ailments scale with highest of x magnitude hits applying x number of ailments. Theres a win/loss between increasing tick rates at the cost of less ticks, unless you can somehow make use of the interaction for the dynamic updates on the dots and use it to your advantage.

[livid hamlet]

How would you guys build defenses on a blood mage ?
Idea is of course crapload of life with leech
I will try to get loads of crit with Atziri's acuity as well

I'm just wondering what other defences to go for

[potent swift]

Do you have to invest a lot in RS if you're going for a fire sorceress? I don't plan on taking minion nodes, will it still be a nice dps increase without those?

[left matrix]

Specifically, knowing what does and does not get dynamically updated.

Weapon 1 has +30% ailment tickrate -35% duration, - Apply ailment,
Swap to weapon 2
Weapon 2 has +50% ailment duration and a different stat.

Would the swap circumvent both modifiers or only one of them, for instance, if the weapon is not capable of using the skill that applied the debuff, would it update at all, would you gain no effect from swapping or partial effect, like, %dmg is a common one to get dynamically updated to avoid exploitation, but other mechanics in the way ailments calculate damage might not be as fullproof :>

[snow sierra]

If you mean srs, you have to invest in minions for them to be rly usefull, but it you have the spirit you can just use them for fun and maybe catch a few hits

[potent swift]

Oh okay, thanks. Yeah I'll stick to pure spells then

[snow sierra]

And spamming your fire spells will respawn them quick so they never able to attack

[wet mango]

I'm not sure what you mean by this

[wet mango]

Own thing

[viral yarrow]

wtf why i cant putt spell echo on my cast on freeze?? this is what i should do there??!

[obsidian grove]

cant support remote skills

[mystic shard]

What stats does each class get on level up? cant find info.

But I know it's different.

[dry shuttle]

does someone know what leveling blasphemy does? It doesnt seem to do anything

the reduced effect on curses also dont change

[tough whale]

Is everlasting gaze not worth anything anymore? Used to be 100ex now only 3 lol

[mellow yoke]

Do axe passives count for maces?

[crisp star]

uhh have u checked your eyes recently? cause that's not 3 ex lol

[snow sierra]

its 2 divine obrs

[crisp star]

it's at least 2-3 divines

[snow sierra]

thats like 80 ex

so its gone up alot

[tough whale]

You are right

I just see 3 and didnt look at the words after

[viral yarrow]

this dude is playing spell echo as well on cast on freeze

[sharp urchin]

Is there any way to automate Raise Zombie with one of the "Cast on" gems?

[zinc smelt]

Hi guys. I wonder if anyone here plays warrior. I'm about lv 81, full 75 resistance. I'm about 2100 health and 7500 armor. When I go to tier 9,10 maps, monsters hit me very hard. If I don't play carefully, I only need to get hit 4,5 times by ranged monsters or rare monsters hitting me twice and I will die immediately. I've tried to upgrade notes like leech, life regen but I still can't get stronger. Is it because my total health and armor are still too low?

[snow sierra]

2100 is kinda low for a life stacker

[olive sapphire]

should i bother getting two handed nodes if im planning to go for a mix between crossbow and 1h/shield as a merc?

[snow sierra]

like i have 1,7k as ES build + 1,5k MoM^^

[tidal copper]

You need to deal with both elemental and physical hits
I will bet the issue is elemental hits

[snow sierra]

ye res should be capped and chaos res should start to build up

[zinc smelt]

I have full 75% resit 🥹 what should I do now?

[tidal copper]

Get 80% of course

Like non even sarcastic

[zinc smelt]

75% is cap , can't get higher

[snow sierra]

more life, but you still will get oneshot here and there i got oneshot with 20k ES 1,6k MoM and 600 life ....with 76% to all res

[tidal copper]

There are max resistance nodes around the tree as a warrior you should be pretty close

I actually don't know other elemental mitigation
We used to have spell suppression
4th vow corrupted soul but not much of that exists yet

[livid hamlet]

I mean he probably need to work on his health as well

i have 1700 as a witch

and i'm still in acts

and he has 2100 as a warrior on tier 10 ?

[zinc smelt]

so 2k1 is low. How much do I need to be little more tanky, like 4000 ?

[tidal copper]

It begs the question what is he doing with the stat points? At 5 strength per node your bar should effortlessly raise

[snow sierra]

4000 will be hard

but it should be 3k-3,5k

[tidal copper]

Can we get a screenshot of the tree?

[livid hamlet]

I'm gonna guess low rolls on the gear

[livid hamlet]

Like a decent belt but one you can still get for 2ex is 150 Life right ? That's 25 levels in STR passive nodes alone

[tidal copper]

Alright who is remaking the tree in max roll?

[livid hamlet]

I barely made my own KEK

[zinc smelt]

I think so too. I just want to know what I need to change to buy things because things are so expensive.

[livid hamlet]

Just buy generic health and resists item

[mystic shard]

how do u get this? I can't find any resists really in the passive tree, at least nto "all resists" is it all just gear? how much of it is gear roughly.

And how much of it is passives?

[zinc smelt]

resit in all my gear

[tidal copper]

100% gear when you get to maps is relatively easy to get everything but chaos

[livid hamlet]

Hell it;s easy to get it even before maps

[tidal copper]

I don't believe there is a single ele res node

[livid hamlet]

you should get like 20ex from campaign probably

maybe 10

[snow sierra]

that should buy you a decent starter gear yes

[livid hamlet]

that's enough for 1k life on gear and decent resists

[muted charm]

this gme set up looks so dumb in practice

but it works so well.

[mystic shard]

level are u?

[livid hamlet]

I wonder how good life recoup on blood mage is

[snow sierra]

88

[livid hamlet]

i think i'm like 58 and i have 1700, and that's with me being cheap as fuck

[snow sierra]

just do something like that

[tidal copper]

Don't take every point in the wheel just because they work on your build
If you take out small nodes of damage for max resistance the build should feel much better

[snow sierra]

and sort by the sum

[muted charm]

life recoup is trash rn

[snow sierra]

and but the best you get for 1 ex with biggest life

[muted charm]

we'll ahve to see what happ;ens after dots get nerfed

[livid hamlet]

yeah i wonder about that, it's nice with progenesis, because it's basically 25% less damage taken

well from hits

[tidal copper]

The attack speed wheel is suspicious too is that worth while?

[mystic shard]

a level 100 armour item, that is say, yellow or blue, how much armour would it have?

Does armour like lessen in % with each level you rise? meaning u gotta up it?

Or is it static? Like say if 100 armour is 10% at level 10, will it still be so at level 90?

[muted charm]

its 25% less recovery needed

in 4 seconds

which is really good with hybrid

[zinc smelt]

like these notes?

[livid hamlet]

Item level doesn't directly impact armor numbers @mystic shard

[tidal copper]

Yes yes yes

[muted charm]

that's ranger/monk area?

[livid hamlet]

it just allows better modifiers to roll

[muted charm]

please for the love of god never take max resist on ranger anymore now that evasion applies to everything

I promise you

evasion will win out

[night wagon]

what do i need to add another socket onto this, tried a greater jewler orb doesnt work

[zinc smelt]

yeah warrior atk and skill scale with atk speed.

[tidal copper]

I think I can count 6/9 points in the tree that you could use in max resistances that might be enough to withstand the maps

[obsidian grove]

I think it’s called a perfect jewelers orb

[zinc smelt]

okey thank you. I'll try these. Hope it make me more tanky 🥹

[mystic shard]

I mean character level

[obsidian grove]

Does “+1 to maximum cold resist” even raise your resist?

[tidal copper]

Your call, but if it isn't working try something new get me?
There are lots of options for defense and DMG in the tree
Max resistance is one solution

[livid hamlet]

you mean how much armor you should have in the end game as a armor based character ?

[night wagon]

thats weird then because i can add the greater to a skill with already 3 sockets and it lets me make a 4th

[mystic shard]

|

like is 150 armour (lets say it's worth 20% less physical dmg) when you are level 17

If I get to level 90, will that 150 armour still reduce physical by 20%?

[livid hamlet]

if you are overcapped yes

[livid hamlet]

no

Armor % reduction decreases as the size of the hit increases

[tidal copper]

No
It raises the max
The difference between 78% and 75 is a lot
And you could do math to prove it

[mystic shard]

ok so it falls off as you level, I'm gussing 75% is the armour percent cap?

How much armour do you need for 75% resistance to physical.

at level 100

[livid hamlet]

it doesn;t work like that

it's not based on your level

but on the content you are running

i think it caps at 90%

[mystic shard]

ok then at end game content

[livid hamlet]

at least that's how it did in PoE1

And to cap a hit by 90% you had to ahve about 10x the hit value in armor

i don't think people did the math in PoE2 yet

[mortal tiger]

Guys is 40% increased effect of Arcane surge on you (touch of the arcane node), does it mean instead of 10% cast speed it will be 50% or is it 14% instead?

[mystic shard]

ah I see makes sense, so what u see in ur character pane is just estimated.

|
What do you think the highest single phyiscal hit you can take end game is roughly?

[livid hamlet]

14%

[tidal copper]

Oh and I don't know if you catched it but your equipment is probably missing 500 health
You can ignore the health if you have strength instead in which case I'll recommend some extra strength % nodes

[livid hamlet]

Dunno didn't get there yet

[wild seal]

Whats the strongest 200-300 exalt build?

[mystic shard]

guessing its like early game, prob about 5000? as a lot of stuff early game can pop ur shield to take ut o like 20% with one attack.

But I get the feeling 50,000 armour isn't possible....soooo, welp shrug

[slender fern]

holy shit

[tidal copper]

Connor is playing hammer of the gods ignite I don't think they are nerfing that one

[wild seal]

whos connor?

[livid hamlet]

That's pretty cute

[zinc smelt]

okey thank you

[wild seal]

sorry for my ignorance

[livid hamlet]

I wonder if want to get that for my Blood Mage, but i think i will go for leech direction

[golden sky]

If I were to switch from arsonists to frost mages, what would be the recommended supports on hellhound since it would no longer need to apply fire exposure?

[livid hamlet]

Life Recharge isn't as good as ES since ES is easier to come buy in total numers

[tidal copper]

A build guider in YouTube
He makes ultra late game builds

[wild seal]

ahh , ty lady ill peep it

[tidal copper]

The type of builds you want to spend 1000 exalts in

[snow sierra]

200-300ex can get you kinda insane stuff if you have abit of luck with selfcrafting^^

[livid hamlet]

Isn't selfcrafting all luck now ?

[snow sierra]

yes but buying good things is even more insane it feels like

[tidal copper]

In the extreme late game you can touch up items smartly and cash a few hundreds exalts

I think maybe I'm not at that point

[slender fern]

it might not be good but its my first rare item without any huge debuffs

[snow sierra]

i craftet allmost all my high value items myself from the start, way cheaper so far

[tough whale]

Trying to gamble to make everlasting but where do you find white azure amulets?

[snow sierra]

for 2 ex on the marked xD

[tidal copper]

Craft how keep going

[livid hamlet]

Isn't everlasting 1ex ?

OOh it's 2div

[mystic shard]

welp looking up the online auction house, the highest chest armour I seen with highest armour.

Was 902.

So wagering from this, item wise, if u decently stack armour on all itmes, I'm wagering the most you can get from items before any passives or whatever, is 3000.

And the most u can prob stack armour to is 10k with passives.

So the most something can hit with a physical attack must be capping at like 2k, if not, well, tanking physical attacks is fucked.

[snow sierra]

Like for Rings for example, i did buy blue rings that would fix my res, and then craftet them, if they bricked no biggy still rings to fix my res if not sell for 10-20ex^^

[golden sky]

Other than prisms and gemling, any other way to get more skill ql?

[tidal copper]

Ashes of the stars

On more serious news you could corrupt the gem it might go up to 23%

[shadow tinsel]

Lightening arrow ranger is safe huh

Or does the changes to electrocute kill it

[long parcel]

https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1318289853284094013

[long brook]

does heavy swing work on tempest bells shockwaves?

[mossy wave]

do the explosions from bonestorm do anything against single target bosses?

[slender fern]

is corrupting an item worth it?

[slender fern]

try it

[elder plank]

I have heard somewhere in a random yt vid i watched (can't remember which) that Iron Reflexes works differently in PoE2? Does any1 know how?

Also do nodes like 80% increased armor from body armor etc. work when taking Iron Reflexes?

[long brook]

not at home right now, so sadly cannot try it.

[void forum]

any ranger full poison players?

[native burrow]

Are the "10% increase to life regeneration rate" nodes useful or are they a noob trap? I can see the usefulness of the "regenerate 0.5% of your max life" nodes but I'm on not sure about the other ones

[elder plank]

also is there truly no other way to break armor besides armorbreaker/warbinger asc./armor shred rounds?

[whole sonnet]

anyone know if skill effect duration effects electrocution?

[elder plank]

if it says "rate" then it refers to the time if takes for life to regenerate from life regeneration, not the actual life that is being regenerated

so basically it speeds up the regen, afaik

[native burrow]

The poison arrow and corrosion combo. From skeleton archers or maybe a ranger attack too, haven't played ranger

[native burrow]

Ahh, my initial understanding was that if I picked up a 0.5% life recovered per second, then that would effectively increase it to 0.55%

[elder plank]

hence why i said if the node truly says "rate" then it refers to the speed of the regen. i alsways double and triplecheck those , because i also fall into that trap :D

[atomic ruin]

hey just wanted to ask is apex of the moment like something i need to activate or does it not show up as a debuff on enemies

bcause ive activated the node and like its not workin

[native burrow]

When you see speed of the regen, what does that actually mean? Like how long it takes to starts regenerating. Unlike energy shield life doesn't recover automatically without affixes from gear or passive skill points

[native burrow]

For example these two, I'm on my laptop and don't have discord. Apologies for the phone pics

[stuck vault]

Does anyone know what Timless Jewel i need to get for the Dex and Int Keystone?

[elder plank]

i was just looking at the tree myself - yes. so usually life is regenerated per second, and my estimated best guess (based on how this works on Energy Shield), means that the amount regens faster than 1 sec.

[native burrow]

Hmm those three nodes add up to quite a lot than, might be worth getting after all in the future. And when I get hulking form, that 30% would become 45%

I only just hit Act 3, so still pretty early. My build is hilariously bad but it's all about that class fantasy. Mace/shield with a lot of survivalibilty. Killing slowly but surely 😂

[mortal gate]

Hi guys

[native burrow]

Hey Fran, good morning

[mortal gate]

Good morning

[chrome matrix]

Hey guys, im playing a witch infernalist build.
Is that exotic item better/good for my build?

[mortal gate]

I have a question, if someone knows the answer, thank u before hand. Im a warrior and im using giants Blood with a Two handed and shield. Is singular purpose stacking with Giants Blood? Because SP said that increase the damage with two handed weapon but i im using it in one hand

[dusk plank]

What does the blue text mean for spells?

EG: In this case, Fireball is listed to have 10,000 DPS. However, the explosion also lists the 10,000 DPS but the Radius is blue.

[mortal gate]

Is a two hander category tough

[native burrow]

Do you use demon form? currently demon form unequips your sceptre so you lose minions. If you're trying to stay in demon form as long as possible then no it isn't good

[noble linden]

Is this good for the lvl ?

[dusty bear]

Is there any way to recover ES outside recharge and eternal youth+spamming life flask?

Ligurium is an option but idk where to get enough life regen to make it worth it, any ideas?

[chrome matrix]

No i dont play Demon form. So you say its good/better/perfect fitting then my old?

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/life-stacker-infernalist-kripp This is what im trying to build

[native burrow]

I don't know you build, ultimately depends on how useful minions are to you

The 50% faster revival is the real selling point on that

[chrome matrix]

very, its my main damage

[native burrow]

Then it looks to be really good. Just keep the old item in your stash and try out the unique

Minions also have a lot of health generally so the energy they gain should help a lot with keeping them alive, but yeah 50% revival speed seems really good

[chrome matrix]

So the low lvl requirement doesnt have impact on an item?
And can i add other stats to an exotic item as well?

[twilit cairn]

does totems need accuary rating or do they always hit ?

[sweet vector]

guys, gravebind rope cuffs work with rarity of items?

[native burrow]

It doesn't have an impact on the unique effect but will on the things like energy shield . I'm pretty new to the game myself too, I think there are some rules with what item level unique items drop that someone else can answer.

If you hold Alt (on pc), you can see the tier the modifiers drop as (T1, T2 etc). The unique effects should be labelled as unscaled so for example the 50% revive rate shouldn't be any faster if you picked up the item at the peak of engame

[unreal girder]

using this on merc with cull+decimating strike and herald of thunder and it's literally onetapping whites

lol

[silent basin]

Inmortal build is fun lol

[distant glade]

Any decent warbringer builds besides the only shout build ?

[snow sierra]

Totem bonks

[native burrow]

In trying to do something similar 😂 it really is a lot of fun. Magma Barrier is so damn cool. What's your opinion on the life regeneration rate nodes? Still newish to the game and someone helped me understand how they work but I'm not sure about how effective it is in practice

[tidal copper]

I think dreamcore was playing warbronger frost wall

[spare quartz]

Is there any type of soft or hard cap on evasion? My Ranger is sitting around 70%, possible to get it higher?

[slender fern]

why isn't orb of chance working on anything?

[snow sierra]

cause the bases are the component that cost you

when chancing stuff

[slender fern]

Im using it on normal items grey ones

[snow sierra]

its not worth it on most bases

so the bases that is worth on using are expensive and more limited then the orbs thats why the orbs are not more expensive

[slender fern]

I see

GM muted me for 24 hours because of the character name and they told me that they will give me a rename option and now 1 hour is more left until mute and still haven't received that rename thing

[tidal copper]

What do you do Vs elemental DMG this days

[last atlas]

does anyone know how the new resistances will work?

It says "Maps no longer have additional elemental resistance penalties inherently applied at Tier 6 and Tier 11 or higher Maps. It is now consistent across all of the Endgame."

[snow sierra]

i would assume its 20% more res for us all

[last atlas]

would the character info if I'm in "endgame" be accurate"?

or is it that + 20% ^

[snow sierra]

not sure its not clear it could mean every character stats with -80% res on maps or its only -60% now

[noble linden]

Anyone using an archer build?

[snow sierra]

But well if its -60% i can sell my 123 res sum ring^^

[last atlas]

💀 insane stuff ppl be doing

[balmy gull]

Hello mates. I hope someone can help me. How to put GCP to Elemental Storm? In skill i see quality 0-10, but can't apply gems...

[runic shadow]

is this good

[tidal copper]

Yes

[wet mango]

You can only apply gcp to skill gems. ES not a gem

[runic shadow]

thank you goat

[balmy gull]

Yeah, but how to this:

[tidal copper]

Can't qual it? Even outside the skill menu?

[balmy gull]

It's passive, not a gem/.

[rancid thicket]

Gemling legionnaire maybe?

[tidal copper]

So interesting!
What if you have to GCP it on the tree?!

Or the weapon

[obsidian knoll]

anyone knows how much ele resist does monsters have?

wondering if speccing into ele pen is worth it

[balmy gull]

It's not work. I think beta has no enhance gem. It is possible way to scale quality like in PoE 1

[tidal copper]

I heard up to 75%

[muted shard]

Playing monk, how much life should o have entering tier 1 maps? Seem to be getting one shot a lot and struggling to complete any maps

[wet mango]

You cannot apply gcp

[finite yacht]

hey guys! someone have a guide do play blood mage hex ?

mobalytics dont have 😦

[dusk notch]

Should I just use a random staff if I wanna go perma demon form cuz it removes weapon anyways

[untold summit]

this is just converting some of my dmg into chaos or it adds chaos dmg equal to the % ?

[tidal copper]

What's the hex node?