2┃build-planning

[old shuttle]

it depends on the math sometime its weird for when 20% phys or +flat lightning is better

[upper viper]

Was just thinking, i would want to use the 40% conversion from LA skill itself ?

[wet mango]

why?

[upper viper]

isnt that the best, i am probably wrong. As i am mostly a minion dude XD

[wet mango]

best for what

conversion just means changing type right

it's not giving you more damage

if you did 100 phys dmg

and cvonerted 40%

you would do 60 phys 40 lightning

(still 100 dmg)

[upper viper]

Hmm okay, than i am confused as to which bow to really look for

or try to craft at that

[wet mango]

highest damage

[old shuttle]

highest dps yea

• arrows are good. + lvl to projectile skills is GREAT

(if that can roll on bows)

[upper viper]

Okay, i will try

Okay, i pushed from 500dps to 1100 dps

thanks for the insight

[valid geode]

Any opinions on what type of spells are the strongest for demon form ? I can reach around 250 stacks then my HP starts to go down.
I've been playing hexblast but I feel like it doesn't clear breaches fast enough.

[snow walrus]

@dawn spire just wandering were are the nodes you are talking about

[clear sluice]

So no tips for gemling defenses?

[valid hound]

what jewel modifiers should i get for making sunder/perfect strike/HOTG damage go up?

[wet mango]

most ive' seen go right side, evasion/acro

[snow walrus]

Hi how do I make spark bounce off walls, what support gem.do I need

[pale jewel]

Anyone knows if Controled destruction ailment damage boost affects shock? or only damaging ailments?

[vocal yew]

I also have a fairly set in stone idea for a monk build but idk if anyone has tried it before so I can at least get a passives tree to follow.

Flicker strike, chaos damage (poison?), mantra of destruction acolyte of Chayula

[clear sluice]

What did acrobatics do agane?

[snow walrus]

Does anyone here know how to make spark bounce off walls

[clear sluice]

Oh acrobatics is the new spell evasion

Interesting

[vocal yew]

Does acrobatics work on AOEs?

[clear sluice]

Now clue

[indigo stag]

all hits

so if it hits, you can dodge it

[clear sluice]

Can Evade all Hits
70% less Evasion Rating

[iron harbor]

Curses supported by Blasphemy, do they count as Auras? so are they improved by the Aura effect nodes in the Templar area? and do they count as Curses, still? so are they affected by increases of curse effect and area?

[indigo stag]

IE firewall would still dmg you, aswell pretty much any ground effect

[clear sluice]

So that excludes non hit damage which is dot/ailments

But there might be evasion for the spell to land, not sure

I guess it's more in line with ailment defense

My problem so far with evasion and 1500 life, 0% armour is that when I get hit I can get one shot by trivial shit

[indigo stag]

get the unique that gives you 50% chance to dodge death

So when you dont dodge that 1hitting attack, you still have chance to just shrug it off

[clear sluice]

I miss spell suppression 🙂

But I'll test acrobatics for now

[indigo stag]

gonna tank your overall evasion

[clear sluice]

Maybe my ES can chip in

[vocal yew]

Or maybe different question, how ascendancy dependent are the existing flicker strike builds?

Cause I really don't wanna build acolyte, he seems boring AF

[clear sluice]

700 ES atm. Lvl 65ish

[snow walrus]

Can someone here help me plz

[indigo stag]

flicker doesnt really work like it does in poe1

[vocal yew]

I think spark works with the ricochet support gem

You just have to get it from the all gem tab and not the suggested supports

[snow walrus]

@vocal yew Thx

[summer mantle]

anyone know if momentum works on corpsewade

[jagged thunder]

how are people managing dual attribute builds like some gems require str+dex to equip, so your build is investing into both str+dex - but then gear with str+dex means armour+evasion - isn't it hard to balance out this two defense layer? like ranger go full on evasion. warrior full on armor

because the value of base items with dual attribute are also split - so theoretically you're getting 50/50 armour/evasion

[summer mantle]

i mean the only people going that would be merc right now

[snow walrus]

@vocal yew What colour is the support gem

[jagged thunder]

yeah i am planning to build a merc. and not sure yet how to balance out the two

[summer mantle]

it's good with sorcery ward, and you are near enough to both str and dex, hybrid nodes

[vocal yew]

I think it's green

[wet mango]

It would affect shock if shock did any damage :p

[snow walrus]

@vocal yew Thx found it

[wet mango]

@vocal yew Acro makes evasion work on AOE that's the whole point

[summer mantle]

https://youtu.be/g7ptg-eEFN4 ignoring the skill, the defences on this build are extremely good

[jagged thunder]

looks like that's a witchhunter thing. my lvl44 merc is a gemling

[vocal yew]

Uuuuuu

Is a full evasion monk viable then?

[wet mango]

Well the damaging ailments ARE dots. Not s separate category

[summer mantle]

ah well gemling im not sure, the benefit of stacking eva/armour for me was mostly converting it to sorcery ward for a 4k ele shield every 7 seconds

[jagged thunder]

yeah 50/50 investment because of forced str+dex

so merc won't be evade capped right?

[wet mango]

You either go full Eva or full armour (With Iron reflexes)

[fiery sable]

Do you guys know how the affix tier roll works?
For example, bows can roll two additional arrows at item level 82, once a bow has this ilvl and that affix is chosen to be rolled for, will it roll 0-82 and only roll for two additional arrows if the rng returns 82 or does it add the two options (+1 arrow or +2 arrows) to a pool and then it's 50%/50% each?

One way would mean it has around 1% to have that affix and the other mean it's 50% for that ilvl

[jagged thunder]

oh wait i literally took this node in my planner. i'm dumb

you're right kek

ok. my Doryani Prototype build plan is done

[wet mango]

If you're gemling isn't it super easy then you just stack str and use whatever equip you want. Go full Eva acro done

[summer mantle]

nah mine wasnt but it didnt die to anything except chaos on deaths in t15s

having a mix of eva and armour wasnt bad at all, and i was functionally immune to ele

[wet mango]

All mods have weights. We don't know what the weights are yet.

[jagged thunder]

maybe as long as i can meet the gem requirement. i'm planning to do galvanic shard which is a 50/50 str+dex gem

[fiery sable]

This is important because it can decide the odds of a tier to roll. In a less obvious example, if I want to roll for a stat and the ilvl is just shy for it, it wouldn't matter because the odds of getting it is the same as it was a higher lvl.

[hoary ingot]

This ascension is so peak it gave me 50 spirit 💀💀

[wet mango]

Gemling does the thing tho

Where you only need 1 attr

[jagged thunder]

getting more str for the gem. i might not be able to equip full evasion gear

[wet mango]

Raising the ilvl doesn't change the odds. Weights are static for each mod

[jagged thunder]

oh wait. evasion is not an option for me. i'm planning a Doryani Prototype build - need to go full armour then fire+cold res

[sterile stone]

no Ghost?

oh wait doesnt works well with ghost nvm

[fiery sable]

Yes. But I'm leaned towards the hypotheses that rolls are made using the ilvl and not using a pool of possibilities of tiers.

For example, there are some stats that the last tier is pretty low in ilvl, such as projectile speed on quiver. Thus from what I've seen, it's very likely to a high ilvl quiver to have it at a high tier. Opposed to that, tiers of MS on boots are more spread towards higher ilvls, and for this reason is more rare to have high rolls

[sterile stone]

im not playing minion until they fix blocking, pathing, formation and despawning

formation is so unnecessary

[jagged thunder]

the armour is going to defend against lightning with the unique body armour

so my defense is: armour, fire res, cold res.
there's also a helm with negative lightning res but gives "Your chaos resistance is zero". i'll figure out the chaos res later

[fiery sable]

Unless there are simply weights for everything, which sounds too much of work from a programmer perspective

[tired plover]

Question....

What split should I have on my infernalist minion witch for STR - DEX - INT?

I've searched online and in build guides, but nothing

[indigo stag]

int

[fiery sable]

Hmmm

[sterile stone]

just enough to to use whatever you need, generally int

[indigo stag]

you go full on int, get MOM+EB and focus on max mana and mana regen + minion nodes.

[sterile stone]

get int on gear so you can just respec stat on tree for other att

[indigo stag]

You just get enough str/dex to work your needed supports in

[jagged thunder]

if i go full str. my accuracy might be too low. not sure how bad it is for galvanic shards - it's pretty short range though

[indigo stag]

Focus on int as you go, its cheap to rework small attribute nodes in to another attribute as needed

[tired plover]

Thank you both

[sterile stone]

2M just on that line

[jagged thunder]

oof yikes

[sterile stone]

the green part is 1.8m

[eternal raptor]

idk about deadeye for gas cloud(cold version). wouldnt gemling, invoker or witchhunter be better?

tried tailwind, dosnt feel that amazing

[wet mango]

Why

[wet mango]

+1 proj main draw

[eternal raptor]

yea but monke for example has extra dmg and alot more defense

[astral willow]

is it just me or does taking stun threshold nodes result in getting stunned even more ofteb?

[jagged thunder]

oh wait. my build is fixed

alright i think that completes my plan

the smaller nodes also gives % accuracy

[eternal raptor]

"equal" isnt that only a few hundred accuracy at most

oh you are melee nvm

[jagged thunder]

galvanic shards. so there's some range

[sterile stone]

idk how much acc we need on poe2 but 200 is a decent base in poe 1

pretty good for a single notable

[eternal raptor]

its so weird, 90% less on 12m sounds so bad but theres no display for hit chance other than 2m

[jagged thunder]

a crossbow. str+dex so i'm gonna have to put on some dex still anyway... the ascendancy only fixes the gem part

ah poe is so complex...

[eternal raptor]

not complex its just missing some crutial infos in the character sheet

[jagged thunder]

the sheet is better here compared to poe1. i learned a lot from ALTing in the game

the dps tooltip is also quite useful. i know some conditional stats don't apply but it's still pretty good

[eternal raptor]

i agree but still for accuracy it would be cool to see the % chance to hit for enemies on max range

[sterile stone]

we never meant to look at char sheet

we just do it bcs we dont have PoB

[pearl sluice]

Hi, there's any way that I could see all the unique items? I saw the other day a 2h hammer that applies all minion buffs to the player too, I was willing to see all the unique 1h mace/hammer

[jagged thunder]

i saw a comment from localidentity. it's coming sometime around january

soonTM

i think not all skills will be supported last time he said 40ish out of 200 skills as his current progress

[sterile stone]

one could argue its bad, but you cant really put PoB inside the game

same as they cant put entire wiki

[eternal raptor]

its not that ggg cant do it but there will always be someone who does it for free

[tidal copper]

Half of the wiki will be good
The in game guide they had in PoE1 was a good idea imo

[wet mango]

Sure a few hundred flat accu is quite good

[snow sierra]

is there a super cheap good annoint for your neck ?

[tidal copper]

Yes

[eternal raptor]

thats the point, is it? i'm always at 100%/2m but idk how it scales down

[mortal cloak]

Could one of you math guys explain to me how the % dmg/+#to attacks etc works? Like physical and fire for my grenades...does +#phys get multiplied at all for a fire grenade? or is it a dead stat for a fire build?

[wet mango]

Poe2db

[snow sierra]

is there al list somehow, its kinda tidous to trying to find a cheap one

[wet mango]

Shrug I dropped to 99 the other day and freaked out

[sterile stone]

not really about that, bcs its weird, and its more practical or comfortable doing it outside of the game, same as wiki, browser is better than ingame

[pearl sluice]

Thank you!

[sterile stone]

imagine putting this ingame

[tidal copper]

PoB is the usual solution, right now? Nothing just you against the tree

[sterile stone]

i mean who would even wanna use it ingame if it offer worse experience

[jagged thunder]

sorry i was wrong

[eternal raptor]

if your skill converts phys to fire then flat phys on weapon is good

[jagged thunder]

tree mostly done bois

[snow sierra]

do you know one good for the 1ex distilled things ? cause the looking at every note of the tree and searching if the stuff is expensive is just painfull

[tidal copper]

I know you all believe am I wizard but I couldn't even begin searching if you don't tell me your build

[mild geode]

Do I need accuracy for slams skills and/or shockwave totem?

[snow sierra]

i have a ES based minion build, but life is valueable for me too

[eternal raptor]

but are you?

[gaunt ether]

Is pathfinder basically only poison setups

[tidal copper]

I can take a look in a while
Maybe I have better luck but if you haven't found it the node you can annoint is likely shit

[sterile stone]

i saw a bleed conc build few days ago

[snow sierra]

i thought about some general stuff i havent found maybe there is 1% to all max res or something

i can get

i dosnt have to be super good ^^

[pearl sluice]

Guys, how the unique items work at the damage matter, like, I there's some unique that have a really bad damage, even thought dropping at a high level area? I didn't get it

[tidal copper]

Don't do that please love yourself
Go poison concoction
Or lighting fire
Normal poison or poison snipe too

[wet mango]

It's based on the base item.....

We only have low item bases in game right now

[eternal raptor]

higher lvl areas can drop all lower lvl uniques as well as the better ones

[mortal cloak]

yea im talking about +#to attacks though

[sterile stone]

i think hes asking why his unique is zdps even tho its high ilv area, unique are pretty much fixed doesnt matter where you dropped them

[mortal cloak]

If I do fire grenade damage, does +#Physical To Attacks get added to any sort of multiplier or is it entirely useless for a fire grenade build?

[sterile stone]

same unique will be the same whether its act 1 or t15 map

[eternal raptor]

idk fire grenade does it convert phys to fire?

[mortal cloak]

Yea the grenades all have phys to fire conversions

That's what I wasn't sure, like if you have +#physical to attacks on weapon or rings is it multiplied anywhere or converted at all

[wet mango]

I answered this question I the other channel :p

[eternal raptor]

then +# phys isnt useless

[mortal cloak]

or is it just a flat physical added to your fire dmg with nothing boosted

[pearl sluice]

I think I get it.
So, items like that one https://poe2db.tw/us/Chober_Chaber wouldn't be scalling good to end game?

[eternal raptor]

phys will be converted and then scaled with fire multipliers

[wet mango]

Correct

[mortal cloak]

Only saw you say come here?

[pearl sluice]

Shit, i had a idea that would be working really well with that hammer

[kind vale]

which one of these is better for fireball frostwall build?

[eternal raptor]

uniques are always the same, some lower lvl armour can still be good but weapons especially kinda suck bc of lacking dmg

[mortal cloak]

Ok just wanted to be sure that was the case and it wasn't just added flatly after modifiers, like all the math gets done and my fire grenade does it's dmg and THEN a flat physical is added would make it almost useless

[wet mango]

Did you click the link? It's a permalink to a msg

[wintry flax]

Is there a way to make Monk's Charged Staff become an auto cast spell?
Just started Cruel Difficulty and not sure if I've read about it anywhere
Does charge infussion work that way?

[sterile stone]

the best rare mace in the game can get to like 1000 base dps

[mild geode]

Does anyone know about accuracy for slams or shockwave totem? I don't see anything in the tooltips

[wet mango]

#2┃build-planning message

[mortal cloak]

yea I see it now and it also addresses my bucket question no one has answerd that I asked like 6 times so far lmao

[wet mango]

I think* AOE doesn't need accu. But not 100% sure

[wet mango]

Wait it did or did not address your question

[eternal raptor]

no idea about totems but slams are attacks so you need some accuracy

[mortal cloak]

yea the order you listed is the "stat buckets" I was looking for

So essentially having a base +# range to multiply is FUCKING HUGE

and Phys + Fire will help massively

[wet mango]

The only weird thing is that heft and its cousins go in a weird spot, preconversion

[mortal cloak]

but also a few elemental/fire % boosts are needed to magnify those raw numbers

[sterile stone]

isnt it pretty much every single slam in the game?

[mortal cloak]

but if you're too heavy on % boosts you won't get shit cuz ur raw numbers....0x999=0

[mild geode]

are you positive? I thought you couldn't evade slams, so it made me wonder if it went both ways

[rich pine]

Currently playing the Karen build (corrupting cry) and just realised that Skill Effect Duration doesn't appear to do anything for it? Is this a known issue? Am I just stupid? Is this world just an Illusion?

[deft jacinth]

Would mercenary bow build be good or should i just stick to crossbow

[tidal copper]

This world is just an illusion exile
Screams

[mild geode]

Yeah I was aware of that screen, but wasn't sure if that was just showing because its an attack, and they weren't accounting for aoe stuff

[sterile stone]

im pretty sure all forms of attack needs accuracy

[tidal copper]

As mercenary you start in the strength/Dex zone any weapons of those attributes will do well
Anything outside will be harder

[dense pumice]

If you click the right arrow to expand the skill, you can find the accuracy in the slam tab

And yes, accuracy or resolute technique is absolutely vital for shockwave totem builds

Oops, just realized already answered up there, mb

[dense pumice]

At low enough accuracy, they do miss. You can see they whiffing

[pearl sluice]

To get a 100% fire conversion, on my mace witch I'm using avatar of fire, but it'll only get me 75%, how do I make it for the 100%? With fire/elemental damage nodes? Or there's another way?

[mild geode]

I also saw that, and wasn't sure if it was hitbox jank or accuracy 😅 thanks for the confirmation though

[eternal raptor]

whats your base dmg? there are some items which convert 100% by itself

[dense pumice]

I heard if you are using a skill that already has partial conversion to fire like molten blast, they add up. Don't quote me on this tho!

[uncut bay]

if my skill says "converts 70% of physical damage to cold damage" and my weapon has high physical damage and "leech % of physical damage as mana", will I leech mana? do I even deal physical damage with that skill?

[eternal raptor]

without any other info, yes you deal 30% of dmg as phys and this portion leeches mana
however check the gem overview its displayed there

[pearl sluice]

Of the mace? I don't know how to see it, i'm on console, tho, the damage is displaying 57-80 but i have physical damage nodes

[uncut bay]

ty

[lucid wren]

does cast speed work on hammer of the gods?

[gusty minnow]

what does Heroic Tragedy do

[eternal raptor]

yea nevemind i was wrong anyway
i dont know about a conversion item which ENDS in fire dmg

[pearl sluice]

Ok, thank you for trying to help me

[mild geode]

Is hammer of the gods an attack or spell?

[eternal raptor]

probably a spell attack

[silver warren]

anyone know why Azak Bog is still highlighted and doesn't display reward?

[eternal raptor]

did you get the spirit from her?

if yes its a display error

[jagged dune]

What are people doing for t6+ merc survivability. My buddy is getting popped rn. I haven't had a chance to look at his stuff but he is almost res capped. Not sure if he is going for evasion hoping to go for acrobatics or just straight armor/life

[silver warren]

idk because I'm going back thru the campaign to collect what I missed

[pearl sluice]

How can I scale my damage to end game? Like I'm using a full fire infernalist, but I know if I invest only onto fire damage and fire nodes, by the endgame I'll not have enough damage, so it'll be worth it to invest into critical too? Or there's another option?

[eternal raptor]

not that hard to find out
how much do you have without items

[mild geode]

To answer your question fully, look at the tags on the gem (it should be grey words right under the name) if one of them is "spell" then yes cast speed applies

But I just double-checked and it doesn't have that tag, so it doesn't apply, it's just an attack. You would want reduced skill duration to make it fall fast from when you call it down or attack speed to increase how fast you call it

[silver warren]

100

[eternal raptor]

thats max

[lucid wren]

ah okay, itsn an aoe, melee, slam, duration. so even though you cast it cast speed wouldnt help? would attack speed?

[mild geode]

also attack, see above, but right under the name it says attack and not spell

I wrote up more for you in my message above

[lucid wren]

ah okay so duration and attack speed would be best

im already using fast forward on my time of need, so i cant use it on hammer.. too bad

[icy quiver]

Is there any option to spread flamability with contagion?

[minor sedge]

Does firestorm spell applicable with echo support gem ?

It says that only 1 firestorm can be casted at a time

[pearl sluice]

crit hexblast blood mage, im trying to get way more dps as i feel like im super lacking enough crit and or spell damage for now, i wont be able to max crit chance till at least uber trial. any recommendations? i have decent crit chance % on all gear i possibly can

just any sort of damage tbh

survivability is fine i just want more dps to hold me over till uber trial

jewels are all crit chance % and curse area %

[feral flame]

is melee good ? i heard the recent nerfs basically brought it down to pre rework poe 1 melee which is kinda bad

[mild geode]

they nerfed melee?

[feral flame]

at least some of the videos i watched recently , the comments kept on saying that

thats why i am asking

[mild geode]

I'm not aware of any melee nerfs, and I read the notes pretty closely. Anyone else heard of this? I'm trying to find what those commenters were talking about

[inland pelican]

aight, honestly, can this be a decent combo?
I'm already invested in that helmet and have a rather fitting build (also plenty of %-based life regen)

lvl 79

[feral flame]

i think they mentioned somehthing related to armour explosion ?

im not very sure since i havent played melee at all

[tidal copper]

Looks fun
Keep going

[mild geode]

Fixed a bug where the Explosion from the Armour Explosion Support could explode inanimate objects.

Fixed a bug where the Explosion from the Armour Explosion Support could trigger itself recursively.

Are they talking about this maybe?

melee isn't great, but they've only buffed it as far as I can tell. Bugfixes aside

[feral flame]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDpq20O9uKM&t=95s the comments im seeing are mostly from this , and also a few more videos here and there but they were few and far in between , mostly from here since this was a dedicated melee video

[feral flame]

i see , would you reccomend any good melee builds ? i was thinking of trying out flicker strike but not sure exactly what to play or pick

[mild geode]

monk anything seems best, that or shockwave totems, but totems take a while to get online

I haven't played a monk though

just a few witches and the shockwave totem

[feral flame]

yeah i was thinking of monk as well , or maybe something like a warrior build with giants blood , dual weilding two handed weapons or something

[mild geode]

You can get a +17 shockwave totem dualwielding two-handers lmao

[feral flame]

currently i have only one character , lightning damage merc . but i wanna experiment more

[mild geode]

or higher, technically, but +17 is more reasonable

[feral flame]

what exaclty is a +17 ?

tbh im still in act 3

[mild geode]

Just try things out! A lot of folks will tell you exactly what's good and bad, but if you're only in act 3, some advice isn't relevant since you're not deep into the endgame

[pearl sluice]

If there’s a way to mitigate ele damage with block and or armor I’d say go for it

maybe want to mitigate about 20-30% of ele damage to compensate for no resists

[feral flame]

fair , i tried making my lightning merc without looking at guides so it took a while to get it right

[mild geode]

I was referring to gem levels, you can get +7 gem levels on a max roll on two-handed weapons (on a high ilvl weapon), so two of them would give you +14, and with an amulet and gloves you can get +17 gem levels

[feral flame]

ohh okay

[muted charm]

I don't think i've had to make a stupider looking passive tree

[mild geode]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK29MZosCpc If you want to try swt

[muted charm]

in my entire time playing poe

but ignite sorc did it

[coral knoll]

i need help fixing mana issues with bosses, im elemental so leech is doing jack all

[feral flame]

imma take a look into it thanks

also i remember seeeing a build with totmes that kept on sumonning animals

which was funny

or rather "spritis"

[inland pelican]

how, specifically?

[mild geode]

that's from the other warrior ascendency, the video I sent goes titan, but warleader or whatever it's called is good too

[pearl sluice]

Idk dawg there’s a couple uniques and passives from poe one that mitigate ele damage via armor but im not sure if there’s any in the current version of poe2

[inland pelican]

I'm wondering if this can be a fine addition

[feral flame]

i see, yeah i was thinking maybe going titan too

[feral flame]

oh youre playing merc , can i ask how important is sorcery ward , and going the full tree with it

[sand geode]

made an unethical quiver, any builds that care about flat phys and cold?

[dawn spire]

If the elemental damage comes from a strike or projectile, then block already negates that

[dawn spire]

My ice shot chrono would certainly love that

[jaunty ferry]

Lightning arrow, heralt of ice, Deadeye build would be killer with that quiver

[sand geode]

Oh nice so theres quite a few builds that would like that quiver

[inland pelican]

I have no idea, just got it... I just need more defense in my build that's all

[jaunty ferry]

@sand geode
It's a french video but his game is in english so may understand
https://youtu.be/rsDmAK_uEFg?si=mEUfEvTkn_RlhP4e

[sand geode]

I don't mind if its french as long as I can see gameplay the gear and the skill tree lmao

[pearl sluice]

how does Coc work actually? is it good apply curse / mark? how often does it trigger? its hard to understand the description

[feral flame]

oh i see lol tbh i have only the damage boosting points in my tree , the one on the far right is such a good map clearer

[left matrix]

Like... all of them right now?

[remote narwhal]

Question.

How many cast on can u have going??

[sand geode]

I got no idea boss I've just been playing spark

[remote narwhal]

Like I wanna run cast on shock then cast on ignite

[sand geode]

as many as you have spirit

you can do that

[remote narwhal]

Yea then cast on minion death XD

[sand geode]

you'll need a bunch of spirit for it but yeah works

[remote narwhal]

Yea gonna have a shocking experience going

[remote narwhal]

I already have a new sorc with decent crt chance. Only prob is I shred life out (helm does blood magic)

Probably going to get a dustbloom for that problem there.

[crisp star]

can snake bite's +1 poison be vaal'ed into +2 poison?

[fiery ice]

If I took the Ancestral Totem and put Sunder in it and picked Avatar of Fire, would the Sunder from Ancestral Totem deal physical damage or fire damage?

[remote narwhal]

Fire I believe

You would have to test it.

Just choose a weak area. Should show that it is.

[fiery ice]

I wanted to adapt this build but use Magma Barrier for Ignites alongside Resonating Shield and use Sunder to get perma crits. And I'm not sure it's possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IVWSQKxlgs

[remote narwhal]

Tbh don't

Forget sunder

If ur going that route

There's a way to consume armor breaks for 50% more dmg

[fiery ice]

Why? I'm not casting it. Totems are, the long castime does not bother me.

[remote narwhal]

Oh ur dmg is from totems not blocking.

[fiery ice]

Wanted to go Armor Explosion on Resonating Shield with sprinkle of Magma Barrier

Get Svalin to cast Flamability on block

[remote narwhal]

Do splitter, armor explo

If u do that

[fiery ice]

and then on bosses, totems would explode the full armour break from Resonating Shield

[remote narwhal]

Splitter will increase resonates armor break

[fiery ice]

which would then be reapplied via Resonating Shield to explode again

and consumed again via totems

I scale fire damage fully

since armor explosion is fire as well

[remote narwhal]

Well u could set the consume to magma and scale file dmg.

And make magma deal a shit ton of dmg that way

[fiery ice]

Wouldnt Magma deal still less than a 100% crit Sunder?

[remote narwhal]

Yes

But your consuming the armor break for 50% more dmg instead

[clear sluice]

What's the requirements to make iron reflexes valuable as dex main?

Will stacking dex and evasion provide more armour than armour 🙂

[fiery ice]

So the question is - what does more damage - 3 Sunder totems with crit or 50% magma barrier.

[remote narwhal]

One of the gems has to consume armor break for more dmg. Idk if it's viable on sunder

Well that all depends

Aoe id say magma would be better

[clear sluice]

Exploit weakness don't work in sunder iirc

[remote narwhal]

Ty

[fiery ice]

Sunder consumes armor break to crit

so the loop works?

[remote narwhal]

No

That's what I was just asking to make sure

[fiery ice]

Consumes Fully Broken Armour on enemies to guarantee a Critical hit

[remote narwhal]

Yes sunder would do more.

On single target

[feral halo]

anyone know how to fix a key on a keyboard without taking apart the keyboard? my w key barely works anymore like 1 out of 3 clicks it works tried shaking the keyboard blowing air into the key took off the key cap the more i press it the more better it works, anyone have a cheat?

its a pretty expensive keyboard

[clear sluice]

What build are you planning for the keyboard

[feral halo]

profile picture checks out

[fiery ice]

So for bossing - sunder setup with 2 2handers on Giant Blood and for aoe clear maps go with magma barrier. The only question is - does Avatar of Fire do the fire conversion for Sunder from totems.

[pearl sluice]

What support skills you guys recommend for a burst strong fireball?

[glad tapir]

is there any build in the game that uses 2 handed lightning mace ?

i wonder if i can use it for anything

[rocky sinew]

do i understand it correctly, that brutality does not affect the actual explosion, only the skill i attack with, right?

[clear sluice]

Tri herald crossbow but replace crossbow with slamming.

[rocky sinew]

here is the explosion

[clear sluice]

But would need something that escalates damage on hitting shocked/ignited enemies

[remote narwhal]

You could get call of the brotherhood and turn the lightning to cold dmg.

Get that shit 1h mace have giants blood and make all ur hits do freeze build up.

[clear sluice]

Hehe I'd prefer the fire to be cold in that case

[remote narwhal]

Can do both lol

[clear sluice]

Sure

[remote narwhal]

But I'ma stick with my mega spark build.

[clear sluice]

I'd look at the ailment conversion helmet im using for Xbox for this

Three dragons

[remote narwhal]

Lots of cast on

[sinful herald]

Hello, I’m new to Path of Exile 2 and could use some help understanding how the numbers work.
I recently learned that modifiers with "increased" are additive, while "more" modifiers are multiplicative. However, I’m still unsure about some things, especially when it comes to figuring out where certain numbers come from. Here are my main questions:

1. How do I determine my damage base?
   For example, if a skill shows "103% attack damage," 103% of what? Is it based on my weapon's base damage?

2. Interaction between Melee and Slam tags:
   I’m playing a warrior, and the skill Stampede is tagged as both Melee and Slam. Since Slam is a Melee attack, does taking a perk that increases Melee Damage apply twice—once for the Melee tag and once for the Slam tag—or do they simply count as one?

3. Perks like "XX% Increased Damage with [Weapon Type]":
   If I’m using a mace and melee skills, does this kind of perk provide a global increase to all my melee skills? Or does it only affect specific things?

I’m trying to wrap my head around how to read and apply these numbers properly. Thanks in advance for any guidance!

maybe someone has a link haha i dunno. Cant find much info about it online

[clear sluice]

I believe Shockburst as an idea would build with such a hammer

But id prefer max phys + high tier lightning to get the numbers up

Three dragons helmet turns lightning to freeze

[remote narwhal]

Oooooo ty for the idea

[clear sluice]

Just need a reason to hit something frozen

[remote narwhal]

But doesn't flame wall change too

[clear sluice]

Shockburst escalates with explosions against shocked target

Ye all of it 🙂

But big hits = ailment applied

[remote narwhal]

Yea I couldn't with my build sadly.

[clear sluice]

I just want to see ice crash in-game 😦

[remote narwhal]

I'm going for a weird way of doing mine.

Several sparks on cast on

Flame wall for ignite

Basically have a loop going.

[clear sluice]

I was mostly talking about the hammer linked above 🙂

[remote narwhal]

Ah

[clear sluice]

I mean all I said was hammer time

[distant stirrup]

i need a skill gem lvl 5, i cant trade until i gets to lvl 25, are u able to craft them somehow?

[grave spire]

Can anyone advise on what a good amulet enhancement would be for a frost monk?

[iron harbor]

Curses supported by Blasphemy, do they count as Auras? so are they improved by the Aura effect nodes in the Templar area? and do they count as Curses, still? so are they affected by increases of curse effect and area?

[remote narwhal]

Well that mace I suggested he can wield with giants blood.

[rocky steppe]

What's the best class in the game and build ?

[remote narwhal]

And do freeze and keep the shock then.

Nobody really can say what's the best

It's all preferences

[rocky steppe]

For aoe and bossing rn

[vale heart]

does this combo work?

[remote narwhal]

^

You'll have to test that

I mean it's ea. If you think it might. Try it.

[vale heart]

ah it does not work 😭

[vapid basin]

Anyone ever try mace with the monk?

[remote narwhal]

Yea

Not worth it.

[vapid basin]

I’ve managed to like roll through 15 levels with it - stuck now though

[remote narwhal]

Now I did try armor break whirling assault monk tho

[vapid basin]

What level were you?

Did it work?

[remote narwhal]

69

[vapid basin]

What weapon?

[remote narwhal]

Quarterstaff

[vapid basin]

Was it lit?

[remote narwhal]

Depends on lit. I'm still working on the build

[vapid basin]

I want to build a melee style monk

Less elemental

[quartz cairn]

So, which scale better into endgame.. skills with flat damage(elemental expression says it deals 6-159 for example) or skills with a percentage(like 177% attack damage)? Or does it depend entirely on skill tree/weapon?

[remote narwhal]

I need some instant leach to actually 100% make it viable.

[vapid basin]

@remote narwhal Can you send me your skill tree?

[remote narwhal]

Sadly no. I'm ps

[urban vessel]

does 2 shocks effectively dbl it's effect?

[vapid basin]

What’s the goal with armor break whirling assault?

[remote narwhal]

Armor explosion

I might try something else with it since I wanna consume armor break to keep the cycle going.

[quartz cairn]

You can shock up to 20% and you can increase magnitude of shock but I don't think you can double shock @urban vessel

Unless something says you can apply shock twice specifically

[remote narwhal]

Would exploit weakness work on whirling assaults

I mean to break armor, consume then do it again

[vital plume]

whats the best overlay thingie for checking prices?

[remote narwhal]

Nvm got my awnser.

Gonna drop that bitch on tempest bell tho.

[clear sluice]

Best way to find out is to try and put it in the gem 🙂

I have run boneshatter with devastate on primed targets and use exploit in hammer of the gods

Just noticed the description about armour explosion, is changed I think my setup is broken 🙂

I use either sunder or hammer of the gods depending on rare/boss to consume the broken armour

[urban vessel]

theres a skill tree node that double shocks

so wld it effectively double the magnitude

[clear sluice]

Seismic cry as well

[opaque sparrow]

Can someone better describe to me what Soul core of cholotl does?

Like if I got an item that requires 100 strength, does that mean that it'll reduce the str req to 80 and require 20 dex too?

Or does it still require 100 str and give me passive 20 dex?

[dawn spire]

You you ss the core description?

[grizzled geyser]

Is poison ranger or lightning ranger cheaper?

[swift cove]

yo chat,

how come i can orb of chance these gloves... im trying to snipe the unique posted beside.

i get this message

[shut crow]

i think the base type is wrong , according the DB you need "furtive wraps" , dunno if they can drop easily or at all

[swift cove]

So i need the exact type of gloves to chance the legendary

and even then it might break or be something else

EEEEEEESH

[shut crow]

i mean the unique is expensive for a reason

[swift cove]

But thanks for the clarification i wasnt aware the exact piece was needed

[shut crow]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Hand_of_Wisdom_and_Action is what you are looking for , under "base type" is the item you need to combine with the chance orb

its interesting that the trade site has no offers tho , maybe everyone is insta buying them as soon as they go online or the base type doesnt even drop , i dont know that tho

[low salmon]

My Corrupted results... I'll take it! changed 5% Cold Damage into 14% spell damage and that'll work better for my Charged staff!

[noble helm]

Anyone knows if there's any items/jewels etc. Scaling power/frenzy charges available? Something similar to screenshots attached

[quiet nova]

Quesiton about the passive: Pressence Present. It says: 35% increased Attack Damage while you have an Ally in your Presence. Does this mean that as long as you have an ally, you get 35% increased attack damage, or does it mean you gain 35% per ally in your presence?

Looking for someone who's tested this, not speculation please.

[fringe cape]

If you distil an passive onto an amulet, can you change it later?

[void pewter]

Hey All, got my Monk to 75 and am at Tier 4 maps. Thinking of changing characters for a break before coming back to get to the higher tiers. Would Ranger or Merc be the better choice? I have that Three Dragon Mask in my stash as well

[maiden kayak]

Im guessing its only one 35% regardless of total amount of allies.

[quiet nova]

Has anyone tested the passive?

I'm a witch, and that passive is pretty hard to reach for me

It's more south of the passive tree

[maiden kayak]

According to what I've read from people who have used it, presence = nearby which is 8 meters. And only applies one 35%

[gaunt ether]

Jewels can have 4 lines + corrupt yes?

[quiet nova]

I was aware of the base radius of presence, but wasn't sure of the mechanics behind this passive

I want to know for sure that it's only one stack of 35% increased attack damage as long as you have an ally near you

or if it's per ally near you

I want to see facts and proof though

[maiden kayak]

Well in your question you asked "Does this mean as long as you have an ally, you get 35% increased attack damage?" which makes it sounds like youre asking regardless of distance. And if you want facts/proof, youre probably going to have to test it yourself. But if it was per ally, that'd be wayyyy to op for minion builds

[quiet nova]

Yeah it would lol

I was then gonna lead with that amulet goes to minions

[maiden kayak]

I highly highly doubt its per ally, otherwise people would be all over that by now. People have used it and I'm 99% sure they would have noticed if it stacked

[indigo stag]

while you have AN ALLY in your presense

Its just once

[maiden kayak]

He wants proof lol

cold hard proof

[low salmon]

showing all the Pros v Cons

after corrupting these babies

[maiden kayak]

but ya i agree with you

[quiet nova]

Can you get above 75% block chance max?

maybe another passive?

or a unique

[maiden kayak]

hard max is 90%

[quiet nova]

How do you get above 75% max to 90%?

[tidal copper]

You can get an anvil as a necklace and I think that increases the max

[quiet nova]

an anvil?

[winter gale]

Does anyone play the engergy shield explosive shot build?

[quiet nova]

Ahhh

[tidal copper]

Not an anvil
The anvil

[quiet nova]

I can see that being spicy with:

95% increased damage

at 95% block chance

75% normal cap, increased by 20% from the anvil amulet

[maiden kayak]

90% is hard cap

[tidal copper]

20% block chance
3-5 increased max block

[maiden kayak]

So at most that amulet would gets yours to 80%

[tidal copper]

81*

[maiden kayak]

How?

[tidal copper]

Corruption can increase the roll up to 1.2
I think there are double corrupts too that would be 82

[maiden kayak]

I was more so talking about as is

[fast skiff]

Does "chance to inflict ailments" benefit freeze? Or does it do nothing because freeze already has 100% chance to build up based on damage dealt?

[pearl sluice]

Hey, what the chance to ignite does with spells like fire wall?

[fast skiff]

well, all of fire wall's damage is just ignite damage, so for fire wall it's 100%

[indigo stag]

100%

[maiden kayak]

freeze is an ailment

[pearl sluice]

But the chance to ignite will do nothing in this case?

[indigo stag]

Beaware that using cast on ignite with firewall will result in you suddenly not having any mana

[fast skiff]

kind of the same question I'm asking about freeze

[pearl sluice]

And how it works when I'm using a firewall and perfect strike? Which ignite will be on effect? Or they'll scale?

[fast skiff]

right but does chance to inflict ailments make any change to non-rng ailments or is it only for stuff like poison and bleed?

[pearl sluice]

Thanks for the advice, I'm doing a infernalist battlemage and I'm trying to get a good synergy lol

[static spade]

Guys, I found a way to continuesly activate a Cast on X skill with very minimal effort, I'm not sure if I'm the one who discovered this but I only figure this out on my own. I haven't even invest any points for Energy on my passive yet

[graceful haven]

Which of these 3 wands for Archmage Spark?

[fast skiff]

equip em and compare spreadsheet dps

[honest ingot]

Are there any cool unique items that interact with bleeding? like the bleed gloves in poe1?

[graceful haven]

I’m looking to buy them so can’t equip

[fast skiff]

well, at a glance I would go with demon bite for the higher lightning damage bonuses and the +3

+spell levels is huge

[graceful haven]

Thanks!

[dawn spire]

I'd say demon bite is likely the worst due to lack of cast speed. But if you're struggling with sustaining your mana, maybe cast speed is a bad thing

28-30% cast speed is massive

[fast skiff]

right but aside from cast speed those other wands are ass, and you can get a decent amount of cast speed from passive tree I think?

[brittle jetty]

cast speed is really hard to get in passive tree, nodes are like 3%

but +spell lvl is huge

[feral flame]

https://poe2db.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/AAAABgkCg6h78clRXpDWlsnyFZ8PRO7qCwmXvcwzGa49H5zmlKD6qjrB-fgm4v3wLzgEaKKlCvtgrTm-wRW8AAQtOvhhQGS27knr8hhC3vQul54YVg-bMBf6d93yIfl4ufqMD5HIiNLNMDEUrxdJ1ZMsM77Orhblvtn6APT488yCoNMZxI31k4cjPFyW028OhU4erY4blqiTQSi8CYRffBOChxgiy53UCnLaD84iq8X_32z31Q5MZBOpnx1mVER7w1P3lxYm8HrJpyouMYTf1sivhMYNk7XEZX4tOYTy6Yw9oIhkZHpx2Gh2pKRRfZsxQxoEmIqO9G7SOpW68H8xynEjzDWMY6mv1SD4-PQAAA==

doing a lightning merc build can anyone tell me if this would be a good passive tree ?

[lunar totem]

Hey, does this work like I think it does?
No Ele res, but now my reulsting Phys Reduction % will apply to both phys and ele damage?

[spark oriole]

How the hell do i tell which timeless jewles are which? i want Circular teachings and varona jewels vary in price from 12 - 50 divine

[clear sluice]

Are seeded jewels in-game ?

[clear sluice]

What's it supposed to do?

[worldly axle]

Does anyone know if shock is capped at 100% or if you can go higher but it doesn't display?

[maiden kayak]

i believe its 100%

[sacred sail]

do you know how to make incendiary shot work ? maybe a specific gem set up, dmg seems low and clear bad

[shrewd roost]

Yes, armor should apply to elemental damage from hits, but I’d warn you that elemental non-hit damage, such as effects like fire walls could potentially ruin you since armor only applies to hits. Neat idea though

[restive solar]

is there something that gives ES a chance to start recharging on kill? Or did I imagine that

[shrewd roost]

It seems like explosive shot out performs it so hard I’d just go with that

[sacred sail]

I wanted to level up a merc but every ability I want to use is bad :/ obviously grenade is very good or galvanic shot ak 47

[lunar totem]

Really? But it only says "Elemental Damage", not "Elemental Damage from Hits", what makes you say that?

[sacred sail]

I have the op cross bow unique so I'm not struggling maybe it will get better with time

[maiden kayak]

Is there a better way to get power charges for monk?

[sacred sail]

I just hope merc isn't just either use grenade/lightning ak 47 builds or it sucks

[indigo stag]

multiple ways

[maiden kayak]

I need help with that

[indigo stag]

it all depends on your build really

Do you shock or freeze or both?

[maiden kayak]

Id like to do both but rn shock

[peak whale]

the damage reduction formula for armor relies on the magnitude of the incoming hit, i.e. if there's only damage over time then i don't think armor will work

[shrewd roost]

Armor only applies to hits, physical degen effects aren’t hits. Making armor apply to elemental damage won’t change the fact that it only applies to hits. It would need to say that

[lunar totem]

@shrewd roost Ah, okay. Similar to how armour doesn't affect the other phys DoTs, i guess that makes sense.
Hmmm okay, maybe I'll test it anyways and see how it goes.

[twin zenith]

Anyone know... if Contagion and Essence Drain kill a target, does jump to other targets count as "triggered skill"

[peak whale]

i'm 99% sure the jump is not a triggered skill

you can tell because when you trigger a skill you still have to pay its mana cost, but when contagion jumps you don't lose mana

[restive solar]

^^

[twin zenith]

aaaah, ok i get it now, ty

[winter gale]

can i change an oil on an amulet when there already is one?

[peak whale]

yes (unless it's corrupted, i think). i've reanointed a bunch of amulets over the past few days

[shrewd roost]

Yeah the shotgun effects are hard to make good, sadly. Grenades, lightning, cold, or explosive shot+multiple projectiles work though

[sacred sail]

even went into my ranger to try to skil I wanted to use since a long time ago, Plasma bolt. The charge time.. Idk if you can make a build out of this in endgame I'm quite disappointed but I'll see !

you can get lot of pierce on the tree for the shotfun effect so I think it improves as you level up

[shrewd roost]

Yeah it’s a cool idea, especially for a life stacking gemling build that might have enough raw life and regen to get away with dot vulnerability. Just go in eyes open

[fast temple]

how can u get rain of arrows to do chaos damage so it applies withered?

[lunar totem]

Currently I'm doing it for this. And I'd take the Progenitus passive, but I really want to take both the Spell Leech and the Spell Crit Base 15%

Playing armour Blood Mage basically

[dawn spire]

Off the top of my head, use a cultist bow

[shrewd roost]

Life stacking crit blood mage. Interesting! Yeah go for it. If that doesn’t work, you might try dropping the helm and using Koam’s heart for a sweet 1000hp

[shrewd roost]

Plasma is pretty darn cool, but that delay plus the narrow beam is gonna be rough. Maybe there’s a good combo for exploding bosses though

[feral flame]

basically lightning mercenary , dealing damage with bolts instead of grenades

[lunar totem]

Can't, I'm playing Blasphemy Hexblast lol
But you're right, this setup doesn't actually have anything to do with my Chaos damage, it would be fine to use with a full ele skill setup
I'll probably try full elemental if Blasphemy Hexblast gets boring

[sacred sail]

merc seems like warrior awesome but no good clearing except maybe one or two option, anyway I'm lvl 19 anyway idk what I'll be able to do later on

[clear sluice]

i am gemling shockburst atm with triple herald, three dragons helmet. tree is close to mine, ish.

[feral flame]

ooh i see , can you share what youre tree is like ? im going with a witch hunter tho so im not sure how different it would make the builds

[shrewd roost]

I do like that combo though. How is does your aura range feel? Does it feel to upclose or fairly comfy?

[coarse dome]

Whats a good level to invest a little currency into my alt?

[clear sluice]

many witchhunters use the sorcery ward which i dont get as gemling so i experiment a bit. hold on

[dawn spire]

Impossible to say. Whenever you want to play your alt instead of your main

[coarse dome]

To be clear, i'm talking about level of the alt. But yeah just not sure if it's worth like "getting ahead of curve" at 12, or when the best time to do so would be

[shrewd roost]

My first merc went explosive strike+multiple projectiles and stacked reload and attack speed for comfort with a bit of increased aoe. A bit of a glass cannon, but it trivialized content all the way to tier 10 or so

[feral flame]

i actually am not sure exactly how sorcery ward works lol

[sacred sail]

nice :p I'll be to play around with all his abilities and gems support leveling up

[feral flame]

i was planning on going the sorcery ward route at the end tho

[lunar totem]

Despair - 5.7M
Enfeeble - 5.2M
Lvl 18/19 Gems
I've currently got 2 Sapphires with >20% AoE of curses, though I think maybe the more general "Increased Area of Effect" on Rubies may be sufficient

[feral flame]

mostly just focusing on decimating strikes the zelous inquisition

[dawn spire]

Oh, you mean when it's worth spending currency on upgrades? That's basically up to you and how impatient you are with leveling. Whenever you're progressing too slowly for you to tolerate, buy an upgrade

[lunar totem]

It does take some effort to get the area. Oh, and I'm taking the Curse area nodes

[coarse dome]

Ty, i can work with that 😄

[lunar totem]

I'll lower the area later as I see fit basically

But 5+ meters feels pretty solid, I don't think you'd need over, say, 5.8M

[analog finch]

can someone guide ,me i am using spark stormwaver pls someone ,,

i dont know which passive skill point use

[shrewd roost]

Yeah that looks pretty comfy

[lunar totem]

In looking at the nuance, I don't know if "Area of Effect" would affect both the curse AND Blasphemy's +1 area increase?
In which case it may be better to take, as that would affect Hexblast trigger and explosion areas, AND the area of your Sceptre
Lots of testing that I am too lazy to do

[clear sluice]

going into the same crossbow parts as WH eventually, just experimenting with defence since i kill everything at my map tier

[shrewd roost]

A lot of people are running that as a mana stacking build, but you need to be lvl 58 before it fully comes online. I’d definitely look up some info on it and consider a respec in act 6

[zealous grail]

Why it says "you cannot use this item" on the secondary quiver? when I change weapons it does not say it

[feral flame]

yeah these are quite similar thanks a lot tbh

[analog finch]

i am in act 3 end of it and my dps is 510 only

[analog finch]

@shrewd roost

[clear sluice]

when i get enough evasion ill try acrobatics

[feral flame]

maybe your weapon is shit ?

[fast temple]

yeah, that would be the play but im using widowhail :\ any thing else? i know its possible just cant figure it out

[feral flame]

also 510 dps on what ?

[clear sluice]

41% evasion with acrobatics wuaa

[analog finch]

spark

[shrewd roost]

Worth testing, but unlikely since it didn’t do that in poe1. There are plenty of subtle changes though so possible. Increased aoe increasing hexblast also seems like the play, but increased curse aoe tends to have higher numbers to compensate

[analog finch]

weapon should be good for now

i dont know if its normal dps for now or its should be more dps

[ebon cedar]

How long does it take to kill things?

[analog finch]

2 sec

or 3

[ebon cedar]

I don't think anyone else can give you an exact number what dps you should be at but how fast you kill things

Just remember its gonna take longer as you level up so you gonna need to get new gear

[analog finch]

i dont know also what gear should i focus on

[ebon cedar]

All?

[analog finch]

or what i am missing

i sow

i saw pepole scalping mana with arcan with gear

so i dont understand this

all yes

[ebon cedar]

The thing is that level 5 spark or lightning bolt do you use that for your main spell?

[analog finch]

no i use skill

[sour grail]

What would be the better item here for my ice strike monk? I'm currently rocking the corrupted staff but unsure about this one that dropped? I still have one more iron rune to put on the staff to make it a total of 40% increase Phys.

[ebon cedar]

K, cuz yeah those skills on staff are already falling behind

[analog finch]

weapon have week skills

still i dont know what i am missing

i could use somehelp i can

[zealous grail]

Quick question, sorry to bother, but which one is better for mapping?

[analog finch]

If possible

[sand gull]

mapping?

doesn't look like you're in cruel yet

[shrewd roost]

For mapping, both seem super weak

[indigo stag]

neither, you are not even half way to maps with gear like that

[zealous grail]

for clearing maps I mean sorry, currently not in cruel, just on act 3, pretty new to the game

[maiden kayak]

what does mapping mean?

[shrewd roost]

Mapping refers to post act6 content. For act 3 either are probably fine

[analog finch]

we are noobs 😂

[zealous grail]

thx!

[indigo stag]

its what you do after the acts. You craft/roll maps and then run them

[maiden kayak]

Im still waiting for your help with power charges! lol

[indigo stag]

oh right 😄

Well, currently on my monkish build i use cast on freeze to proc profane ritual which grants power charges

[maiden kayak]

I tried the passive skill + res but i kept getting endurance instead of power

[indigo stag]

you have the resonance passive then

try to generate frenzy charges and it turns to power charges for you

[hoary ingot]

What is used with cast on minion death?

[indigo stag]

nothing, it sucks compared to the others

[analog finch]

@opal plover can i use your help for m pls

[maiden kayak]

I tried that but it was generating endurance charges instead

[indigo stag]

you have resonance passive

[austere vault]

hi all ,im currently running a cast on freeze bloodmage , however it is bad for bossing , iwas thinking of adding cas on shock to the build .
1- does having cast on shock - cast on freeze together, nerf their effects
2- how do i make frost spells shock targets

[hoary ingot]

Cast on crit?

[austere vault]

no cast on freeze and cast on shock

[maiden kayak]

Yaaa. So my power charges were turning into endurance

[indigo stag]

yarp

[hoary ingot]

I mean you can try cast on crit

It could be much better

[austere vault]

but it need too much spirit lol

[hoary ingot]

Bloodmage is focused on dealing big dmg with crit dmg right and you need crit rate for it

[shrewd roost]

I thought the nerf pretty much bricked all the cast on X skills 😅

[austere vault]

but having 2 cast on buffs does not nerf each other right ?

[indigo stag]

all the nerf did was make summoners actually use some skills 😄

[hoary ingot]

They dont

[indigo stag]

no more feedback loops for auto summoning raging spirits :/

[spring temple]

they cant both run impetus so that might be a bit worse

[shrewd roost]

Glad they’re still seeing use. I did some cast on ignite testing with pretty terrible results, but never invested into it

[hoary ingot]

How many minions dying trigger cast on minion death?

[opaque sparrow]

I use profane ritual

[tawny skiff]

Need a break from struggling as witch. Should I go monk or ranger.

[opaque sparrow]

Witch is way easier than monk 💀

[worldly axle]

Does anyone know if shock is capped at 100% or if you can go higher but it doesn't display?

[hoary ingot]

I use 5 reavers in my army rn and they die after like around 20 seconds when i use their ability

[austere vault]

and why is my skills showing chill modifier although it is a shock skill , how do i see the shock chance

[hoary ingot]

I was thinking of making a synergy with that

[vague trench]

Question: If I put Fast Forward (30% less duration) into Frost Bomb, will it explode faster and leave a shorter cold exposure duration? Or will it only explode faster? Thanks a lot! 🙂

[shrewd roost]

If you don’t have a build idea, ranger deadeye is more forgiving. Or merc.

[opaque sparrow]

No need. Run raging spirits + flame wall

[tawny skiff]

I’m lv48 now in cruel 1 with all decent gear trying to follow a build and damage is just bad. I can survive but the fights take way too long

[shrewd roost]

Summoner or caster focused?

[hoary ingot]

I already have that too but like i was thinking reavers dying and something dealing huge damage would be stupidly funny

[tawny skiff]

Summoner

Was trying to follow ruse_cruise reaver build

[shrewd roost]

Yeah, summoner kill speed... are you using raging spirits?

[dawn spire]

I think there's a node on the tree that adds a % of your damage as chaos

[hoary ingot]

I used fire wall + fortress gem with gas arrows + scattershot until act 2 cruel end ngl

[opaque sparrow]

I'm running infernal legion, minion instability, and feeding frenzy on mine 🙃

Then I have 3 arsonists with scattershot

[hoary ingot]

Honestly i only like infernal legion + minion instability on my fire spirits

My reavers have 9k hp and dont die at all

[tawny skiff]

How many archers were you using ? And with raging spirits ?

[hoary ingot]

Raging spirit yea and 8 archers with 6 skele warriors iirc

I traded for high spirit items and had a cracked sceptre

192 spirit from that alone

[opaque sparrow]

Crazy

[hoary ingot]

The one i have now has 211 spirit lol

[opaque sparrow]

Well monk is miserable up until you get charged staff. But it's definitely a you issue

[tawny skiff]

I’m definitely a bit short on spirit for that

[opaque sparrow]

Storm wave is decent tho

[opaque sparrow]

Discipline 🤢

What's that do again? 🥴

[hoary ingot]

Energy shield on minions

I got this for 5 exalted and rolled increased dmg + minion life increase

Then slapped quality and corrupted

[balmy knot]

what venom drought should i go for demon form? mana regen?

[hoary ingot]

Rn i have this monstrosity

[hoary ingot]

If you use infernal flame mana regen wont matter at all

[opaque sparrow]

Nbnb

[hoary ingot]

Because you wont have mana

[balmy knot]

im not using it

but maybe i should hold off in case i change my build

[hoary ingot]

Then you should be good go go

Anything mana regen related becomes useless when you use infernal flame

[opaque sparrow]

The funny thing for me is, I spam like crazy on my witch and I don't think I've ever seen her mana move xd

Monk on the other handdddd

[hoary ingot]

Mana is a HUGE problem for me

Im so hungry for it

646 mana and my skills cost hella too much for me

+4 minion skills from equipments

+1 from support gem on my reavers

[pine sleet]

whats the base life of raging spirits?

[hoary ingot]

Honestly i have no idea

[indigo stag]

summon raging spirit and check the stats for you...

[pine sleet]

checked multiple times nothing there

[indigo stag]

Or give us ALL the minion life affecting mods affecting you and lvl of raging spirit

[pine sleet]

unless im blind

[indigo stag]

you need to be in a map and summon the raging spirit before it shows up

[hoary ingot]

I wonder if using flammable curse on enemies make arsonists deal more damage

[indigo stag]

its low tho

it does

[hoary ingot]

Damn

I actually didnt know that

[pine sleet]

nvm found it

[hoary ingot]

[pine sleet]

big thanks @indigo stag

[shrewd roost]

I wonder if eldritch battery would help with mana and make you a bit tankier. Might be worth a shot

[delicate aspen]

Idk if this is the right channel but I have two builds I’m struggling with. One is mana on my acid grenade merc, can’t get through a boss fight without running out. The other is my acid arrow pathfinder which is just a trainwreck lmao

[hoary ingot]

What is that again?

[delicate aspen]

Does anyone know an easy solution to my grenade merc’s mana issues?

[graceful stag]

Yes

[signal jacinth]

ES converts to mana

[hoary ingot]

Oh nah hell naw

[shrewd roost]

Turns you energy shield into mana, combine with the other one where you take damage from mana first, end your mana turns into a defensive barrier

[hoary ingot]

Id like more mana regen rather than lose my es

Its easier to stack

[shrewd roost]

Use both- now your es replenishes even if you’re getting hit and you have way more mana regen

[opaque sparrow]

Is mine good?

[delicate aspen]

Thanks 😂

[shrewd roost]

If not, a bit more mana on gear should be pretty easy at your level

[hoary ingot]

Would energy shield replenish modifiers help that at all?

[hoary ingot]

+3 skills and 199 spirit is peak

[opaque sparrow]

Yurr

[shrewd roost]

If you convert your ES into mana, ES modifiers from the tree have no effect. You stack mana instead

[hoary ingot]

Making you take dmg to mana reduces mana regen 50% tho

It might be a really bad move wasting points

[opaque sparrow]

Mmmm is there a use life as mana node around you?

[shrewd roost]

Yeah but look at how much more mana you have. 6x more mana /2 equals 3x more mana regen

[hoary ingot]

But in the end it would be something i deplete every time i use

[indigo stag]

that would be good if it just had ally dmg roll of >50. So close to greatness

[shrewd roost]

It’s a big change though. Getting a couple rings with 150+ mana and adding some regen would also help fix your mana issues for less trouble

[opaque sparrow]

It's for a level 40 witch 🙃 I'll wait a little bit before worrying about "perfect" items

[indigo stag]

that should carry you easily to maps

[hoary ingot]

I absolutely cant change one of my rings 💀 it has huge fire res and 13 chaos res tho will see

You gave me an interesting idea

I tried CI but it doesnt pair well at all with any infernalist ascension

[nocturne rock]

Hi, do you have a guide from T1 to GOD ( skill tree, gear) for a Totem Warbringer

[shrewd roost]

Probably better to google a build guide

[hoary ingot]

If i were to use CI and everlasting gaze amulet id lose 100 spirit minimim

[hardy hawk]

Hey, question. Is it better to have a mix of armour and evasion or to focus purely on a single one?

Right now I've built my merc with a mix of both and I have 50% armor and 57% evasion, but I'm taking a look at the iron reflexes in the tree and I was wondering if it would be a good idea to try to aim for 90% armor instead

[hoary ingot]

That's at least 3 reavers from my army gone

[burnt rune]

is this worth it vs what i have now?

[shrewd roost]

Also good luck getting everlasting gaze cheaply unless you already have one

[hoary ingot]

I dont have one too yeah

Also im broke on ex so hard

Updated my equipments after a while

[spare quartz]

What is Gaze selling for i think i found one yesterday

[shrewd roost]

I know that life

[hoary ingot]

And had to test shit

Around 40 ex

[spare quartz]

Solid. Didn't think much of it as most unique seem to be trash as of now. But I'm sure they get jacked up in the full release

[shrewd roost]

Last I looked I think it was around a divine

[hoary ingot]

I legit dropped 25 ex on an amulet with 50 spirit and +1 minion skill

Im committed on my minion army 🗿

[spare quartz]

Good. I bought a bow for 1 divine last night after refreshing the page for an hour looking for the stats i wanted, then a minute later a much higher DPS version dropped 😂

But I'm only in t4 mapping and this bow is one shot wiping stuff so it'll last a while no need to cry

[vague trench]

Quick question, appreciate any help: If I put Fast Forward (30% less duration) into Frost Bomb, will it explode faster and leave a shorter cold exposure duration? Or will it only explode faster? I wouldnt like the cold exposure duration to shorten.. Thanks a lot! 🙂

[shrewd roost]

Oof. I wouldn’t recommend dropping more than 5 ex on any one thing till 80+, when you’re looking for forever upgrades

[hoary ingot]

Does minion cast speed buff effect arsonist bomb throw speed?

[graceful stag]

I'm pretty sure it'll shorten all

[spare quartz]

Some good advice thanks. Getting there, 76 atm

[vague trench]

Thanks Smarmy

[hoary ingot]

Helmet with resistance energy shield minion skill cost me a div 💀💀💀💀

Im absolutely shredding everything tho

[dry spruce]

anyone got an archmage gemling planner ?

[shrewd roost]

The cost difference between god gear and good enough is just insane right now. On the bright side decent is dirt cheap

[hoary ingot]

I have lvl 19-20 minions at lvl 73🗿

Absolute peak

[hardy hawk]

Hey, question. Is it better to have a mix of armour and evasion or to focus purely on a single one?

Right now I've built my merc with a mix of both and I have 50% armor and 57% evasion, but I'm taking a look at the iron reflexes in the tree and I was wondering if it would be a good idea to try to aim for 90% armor instead

[vast folio]

How does Charge Infusion with Resonance work? Or should I ask, how does charge infusion even work? Does it auto stack power charges?

[shrewd roost]

Heh, that’s what I’m running right now. Gotta wait till 68, but pretty fun after

[alpine pecan]

anyone know what the str req is on end game str armour bases?? ballpark values

[dry spruce]

can you share image of the tree

ty

[opaque sparrow]

I completely forgot that all my tempest monk problems could be solved with a pair of gloves 🙃

[sacred sail]

@shrewd roost hey again :p I thought of a funny interaction. Gas grenade with corrosion => armour explosion. If you use the ring that make ignite deal chaos dmg it's funny like the gas grenade proc it's explosion itself which can proc ignite and stuff which scales with chaos dmg like the gas grenade. I think it would be bad though

just playing around with gems

[shrewd roost]

Can’t sadly, not at home. Mine went straight down to the %increased stat node, then around the left on the quickest route to the important notable, straight right to eldritch battery, then up into the mana notables, then the lightning ones nw of there. You could go around the right instead if you want, but I like having shield nodes to block with

[dry spruce]

im level 79 so its fine for me 😄

[shrewd roost]

You should be good then. Quality your archmage ASAP. Also arc if you go with that over spark

[opaque sparrow]

Completely related to my build.... but when is ggg gonna port more mtx to poe2? 👀

[shrewd roost]

Hah, worth trying just for the black flames aesthetic. Go full edge lord

[opaque sparrow]

(I promise it's related to my build, just lemme come up with a convincing lie first)

[shrewd roost]

Yeah gonna be a while. I ended up getting a pack just so I didn’t look like trash

[opaque sparrow]

Noooo 😭

[opaque sparrow]

Me too tho 🙃

[sacred sail]

this lvl 20 armour looks nice

nothing fancy

[burnt rune]

is this fine for lvl 34?

[pallid knoll]

Does Shaper of Winter lets all damage freeze as well, or is it just chills?

[opaque sparrow]

Seems really good

[shrewd roost]

Yeah I like that one too. Only a matter of time till an upgrade bricks your look though 😅

[sand gull]

I was using a lvl3 quiver halfway into cruel, it doesn't really matter

[opaque sparrow]

Lmao

[ionic bobcat]

Does PoE2 have %life on block anywhere?

[sacred sail]

sadly there is no black flame astehetic

[indigo stag]

think this is best we have out of passives

[burnt rune]

what carried you? i just got to act 3 and feel weak

[ionic bobcat]

yeah I noticed that as well, thats why I was asking

[shrewd roost]

Damn I must be thinking of something else. I could of sworn there was a unique that turned your fire black

[indigo stag]

Then again 20 life on block can turn out to be quite a lot if you are swarmed by small enemies 😄 You just raise your shield and get to full health

[sand gull]

what are you having issues with, bosses or mobs?

[indigo stag]

that sounds like skill MTX

[burnt rune]

well i used to 1-2 shot mobs
now it takes 3+ so idk

[ionic bobcat]

I'm currently dual wielding 2handers for +7 to melee skills with a molten strike totem build. Just starting t15s and certain waystone mods are really rippy, so I'm theorycrafting switching to shield (which would come with a significant dps loss)

[shrewd roost]

I guess my inner edge lord imagined it. If I ever pony up the cash to make a unique, I guess I know what it’ll do

[indigo stag]

Have we got any info on if we are getting all the MTX that are currently unavailable but showing or will some of em drop out?

[sand gull]

it's was a bit of an up and down for me until crue or so after which I ramped into absolute fuck and started killing everything in an electrocute stun

keep your support gems up to date and get OoS for bosses it really helps a shitload

[burnt rune]

whats OoS?

[sand gull]

orb of storms

[burnt rune]

these are my skills atm

[sand gull]

slap down an orb and spam rod against bosses it melts

[burnt rune]

ooh that

i need Int

[sand gull]

for me normal mobs it was always between spammming LA and spamming OoS + rod, sometimes one was pulling ahead and then the other one did

yeah I respecced a bunch of dex nodes into int to get it at some point

[burnt rune]

i need 61 int
i have 20

;d

[topaz cove]

does stormweavers "all damage from hits contributes to chill magnitude" let my non-cold skills FREEZE as well? or only chill?

[sand gull]

idr what the lowest level OoS was but I think it was lower than 61

but you'll eventually need 95 int for CoS ball lightning which will make the same strat 10x more ridiculous

[indigo stag]

Are curses and marks counted as same? Do i need to increase max curse if i want to apply both a curse and a mark?

[burnt rune]

ah 61 for lvl 8

well i aldready respecd and have 65

should i get a lvl 8 OoS?

[sand gull]

get the lowest level, it does no damage on its own anyway I think

[burnt rune]

ah

[sand gull]

can keep the int, you'll need it eventually anyway

[burnt rune]

ok

[tulip fog]

does physical modifiers like these affect thorn damage?

[hoary ingot]

You look familiar ngl

[burnt rune]

im in your walls

[hoary ingot]

I think i saw you somewhere else before

Explains

[burnt rune]

im guessing hell divers 2

[hoary ingot]

[burnt rune]

what kind of supports should i put on it?

[sand gull]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/fubgun-live-starter

[burnt rune]

ty

[delicate aspen]

What are the gloves with +1 instance of poison called?

[snow bear]

Does anyone know if Frostbolt will trigger Echoing Frost? If not, I need to put in Eye of Winter.

[burnt rune]

i dont understand this skill can someone explain?

[sacred sail]

@shrewd roost I'm wondering if 40% global defense increase is very strong, I guess not really right ? not at the price of running a unique

[indigo stag]

the skill gathers stacks as you dont cast it, and upon first cast it triggers all the gathered stacks worth of that spell

IE you slap it to fireball, wait until it stacks and then cast it once and it shoots 3 or so fireballs

[burnt rune]

ohh nice

[indigo stag]

i use it on my merc with the monk skill that turns corpses in to power charges. Instead of getting 1 power charge, i get 3 each cast

well... 3 which each have chance to instead grant my maximum power charges

[marsh oracle]

Question/ on witch why do i have 2skele automatically if setting every spirit spending to 0? Using scepter with skele warrior so guess its coz of it? All others by my spirit seems +

[indigo stag]

sceptre skills dont cost spirit and in case of minions it summons 2

[marsh oracle]

2 coz its based on some spirit max or its “2”?

[indigo stag]

its 2

[marsh oracle]

Im only 20, a higher lev scepter gives 2 aswell?

[indigo stag]

good way to get freebie skellies to yeet on spikes 🙂

yarp

dont know about some lvl20 skills but atleast to like lvl18 or so, it gives 2

[marsh oracle]

Yea it was so confusing i was setting tab1 and tab2 spirit costs for half a day to find out why my summon nr is weird 😄

Realised today if i cost 0 its still there so must be this :p tx info

[orchid hatch]

Is there such thing as a rune you can use to add INT to an armor slot?

[viral dagger]

Nope

[orchid hatch]

Thx! But 😦

[viral nexus]

hey, there is some valid build for leveling monk? i tried storm wave and tempest flurry but on act 3 it feels super clunky
act 3 on normal, ofc

[graceful haven]

Whose Archmage build do we think is more legit right now animeprincess or captain lance? Or other?

[upbeat crow]

hey guys so im going the spark build,l and i got my first venom and what should i pick as my first one? mana reg?

[muted charm]

I'm t rying to set up an ember fusilade cast on ignite set up

Has anybody looked into what mechanics work with cast onx and which dont

[maiden kayak]

Im doing tempest flurry and im on cruel rn. Which guide are you following?

[cedar solar]

Do we have a page where we select nodes or two and it shows the shortest possible route?

[worthy hinge]

Hey, Is there anyway to reduce the cooldown of minion commands like gas arrow?

[snow sierra]

Is there a dmg skill that profits extremly from having a long skill duration ?

[worthy hinge]

Fire storm I think

[frosty arrow]

Maybe the chaos dots

Although, I don't know how it interacts with it. Will it spread out total damage over extra duration lowering the DPS, or just add extra damage ticks

[snow sierra]

chaos dots like duration but i dont think they can do something with over 200% ^^

[frosty arrow]

Contagion maybe, since you don't use it for damage

[ornate wind]

What do you folks think about manually casting flame wall+RS vs doing cast on minion death? My main concern is that aiming the flame walls allows them to buff the arsonist projectiles so I like placing it myself.

But idk if that matters

[snow sierra]

well dosnt help me if i spend half my skilltree getting duration^^

[frosty arrow]

Why did you do that then

[snow sierra]

well i trying to get a few ideas for chronomancer...and if you wanna use time stop you gotta have duration

My Minion chronomancer starting to get boring^^

[snow sierra]

cast on minion death dos not work anymore everyone selfcasts now

[frosty arrow]

I see. Well, you gotta experiment I guess. Maybe spells that leave elemental surfaces. Would duration increase surface duration

[drowsy girder]

guys, how do I apply Gemcutter's prism to P. concoction?

[snow sierra]

you dont

level

gives you support gems

[neat bison]

Ascendency skills technically have quality modifiers but you can’t actually use it

[vestal idol]

aoe increase in size does it affec gas exlosion i cant see any in tooltip

[neat bison]

It’s weird

[ornate wind]

Haha oh ok ty

[snow sierra]

but i guess i should more likely spend my time rerolling nice synergies with chrono seem rare atm

[jaunty flame]

Ive been playing lightning witch hunter and getting my ass smoked through my 1k shield with the fire robe that makes phys become fire damage

[celest oxide]

Should I push into endgame with this explosive shot deadeye (Level like 66 rn), or start a lightsaber monk

I can't decide

[bright crypt]

Is there any mechanic that ignores movement penalties from armour in POE2? unique item or skill maybe, similar to poe1 art of the gladiator

[peak estuary]

can somebody please explain me the Defense stat? what does it mean? where I can check/read about that? like raise defence with shield, or raise global defence

[frosty arrow]

What movement penalties

[spiral moth]

Do we have attack speed / cast speed break points in this game?

[azure granite]

What's the website to look for gear?

[bright crypt]

from heavy armour

[worldly grail]

for the soul cores that give reduced int/srt/dex requirements-- does anyone know if that mod is local, or is it global?

[native burrow]

Altered Flesh seems kinda crap for big Ascendency node

[sacred sail]

there are a lot of wheels for herald, but you can't really make a build out of them right ? you couldn't kill any bosses or rare

[shell night]

if i were this i will only need chaos resi on other gear? so i just need to reach 75% armor wearing this?

this map dropped 5 unique btw xD.

[neat bison]

It’s pretty strong defenses, especially if you combo with cloak of flame.

You basically end up reducing phys damage more than armor will

[tulip fog]

does anyone know if this node on titan affects thorn damage when you have this passive?

[sacred sail]

no, only small ones

[tulip fog]

what do you mean only small ones?

[peak estuary]

where u get this info, can u please link it? i try to find defense stat

[frosty arrow]

heh, I never even paid attention or noticed that this is a thing. I guess just have movement on your boots and it solves a problem

[sacred sail]

the one I show is a small passive node.

the one of the left is a travel node

so it doesn't work

the big notable at the end doesn't work

[tulip fog]

did you even read /view the screenshots provided?

[sacred sail]

saw the screen, read too fast

xD

ppl ask so many times the same question

anyway

[bright crypt]

from the wiki

[fathom frost]

Só gays l need bild warrior,does anyone have a suggestion?

[sacred sail]

idk really, could work

[sacred sail]

I wanted to make a thorn build too !

didn't have the time

[tulip fog]

i hope it works because without it thorns feels WAAAYYY undertuned, like completely useless

[native burrow]

i fee like its only good if you have maxxed fire resistance but not other resistance and maxed chaos resistance, otherwise as an energy shield enjoyer id rather take the physical damage instead of chaos which does double to shields

[tulip fog]

we are talking sub 200 average damage with perfect thorn rolls on gear

without modifiers from passives

[sacred sail]

maybe it's only viable when you invested a lot into it, some build are only okay after a certain point

[true viper]

What you guys think of this

I’m tempted to try corrupt it see if I can make it any better

[sacred sail]

if you have a backup

you can do whatever you want

[neat bison]

Well, they kind of expect you to have beefed fire res considering infernal flame is a mechanic (even though it sucks.) I think the entire right half of the tree aside from hellhound is very poor in comparison.

[urban vessel]

what do i instill on amulet as lightning mage

[sacred sail]

maybe it can work