2┃build-planning

[snow sierra]

archmage WILL get nerfed

[pearl sluice]

Dont work as in bugged or as in difficult to utalize

[snow sierra]

and its still way easyier on stormweaver to scale

dont work as in bugged

[vagrant imp]

the slow is bugged on chrono

[snow sierra]

ak dos nothing

[vagrant imp]

everything else works

[fiery briar]

if I have no mana, am I considered low mana?

[snow sierra]

well timefrezz needs a massiv investment to be semi usefull, and both cd reset skills are boderline useless

unless you play the meme hammer build

and that one is just that...a meme

[vagrant imp]

yeah there are like no elemental big cd abilities

[pearl sluice]

Ya I kinda wish there where more big cool down spells to utalize the CD reset thing besides God hammer

[snow sierra]

but with a weapon swap later on you can make timefrezz kinda cool

i have a timefrezz + curse weapon set

[vagrant imp]

we are missing more than half the skills, so there are probably some coming.

[snow sierra]

with 24 skillpoints just spend for timefrezz on that weapon set

[vagrant imp]

I would guess templar/druid are bound to have something

[snow sierra]

i can freez bosses for 15 sec on a 30 sec cd

thats allmost powerfull ^^

Temp chains + duration stack^^

[pearl sluice]

Ya ill think what I want to choose, might still just go chrono and hope there's more options in the future for builds etc

[snow sierra]

but i fear if they nerf detonate death dmg just abit my build is bricked. i have kinda good gear 5-10div...i cant affort better gear

and my dmg isnt omega good

well when new options come i expect a new league so new char

[vagrant imp]

DD doesn't really need gear to do good damage

I'd expect it gets nerfed, but maybe not ASAP

based on PoE1 history they do not like DD, lol

[snow sierra]

Well i can go back to minions if nothing elese

dd feel smoother with the braindead KI but what can you do

[dry reef]

does the damage from fire wall that affects projectiles scale with spell damage or is it static? I can't really tell from the tooltip which damage is increasing

[fiery briar]

if ignite is applied through burning ground and has a set base damage, will "gain" x% of damage as extra fire damage affect the ignite directly?

[snow sierra]

i hope just archemage will get nerfed that will hit the high end detonate death builds too

[tranquil steeple]

Does raging spirits scale with your physical or is it their own

[snow sierra]

their own, if it dos not say minion it dos not do minion

[tranquil steeple]

ok ty

[rapid hemlock]

Hey guys, I'm sure this has been asked ad nauseum, but I wanted to do so just in case recent patches altered it: So Cultist bows dont benefit the poison my pathfinder build is running, yes?

im just a little confused about the difference between chaos v poison, and how they feed into each other

[cobalt ridge]

Why do people say poison builds arent viable? Mine shreds https://youtu.be/JbgX9U9BPGY

[next arrow]

What is the best monk endgame build right now?

[snow sierra]

what poisen is one of the super strong builds atm ?

like a very good bossing build and decent clear

[spring temple]

poisonous concoction and snipe seem to be strong

[spring temple]

chaos damage adds to your poison

poison damage is based on the physical+chaos damage of the hit that poisoned

[cobalt ridge]

check out the vid i just sent mine seems pretty good

[rapid hemlock]

Okay, yeah thats kinda how I thought. I just see a lot of people recommending against using a Cultist Bow because the chaos damage doesnt play into the poison damage or something, so I was searching for clarification

[spring temple]

if you do more chaos damage on your hit, it will increase the poison damage

it's because the cultist bow does no physical damage, and chaos damage is inherently harder to scale than physical

if both types of damage are going to convert into poison in the end, you might as well be using the easier damage type

[topaz estuary]

is there a way to make the non grenade crossbow skill good
it feels like they're all so much worse then the grenades
like they don't even beat the single target dps of the flash grenades

[rapid hemlock]

Ahhhhh, okay gotcha. Thats explains a helluva lot

Thanks so much Doc! ❤️

[rocky pilot]

it depends. Chaos damage does not add to poison. it adds to any skill that uses chaos damage to create poison.

Increased Chaos damage will not increase poison damage.

Cultist Bow increases bow skill poison damage because they convert physical and chaos into poison.
Cultist bow is > than most PDPS bows until around 200-250PDPS because you get both chaos damage and phys.

[desert bane]

Hey peeps, is there any MAGIC bleed builds?

i picked this pretty item up i want to craft up a build for it

[rapid hemlock]

Interesting.... I appreciate it, this was what I was hoping to see as a breakdown. helps my trash-ass brain. Thank you!

[spring temple]

that's a quarterstaff, for hitting

[desert bane]

it SURELY is

HAHAHAHAHAHA

omg

[spring temple]

also i think the "Causes bleeding" mod only applies to attacks

there is some magic bleed support, i think, but i haven't looked at it too much and i haven't seen anyone talking about it

[desert bane]

is there any theory crafting websites?

[rocky pilot]

the physical spells mostly suck and the frost spells suffer from weird weaknesses and a dependency on crit.

If you want to do spell-bleed with anything but a physical spell, you would want to go Blood mage.
But bleed is mostly on a backseat until they come back and add the Reap and Exsanguinate staffs to the drop pool

[spring temple]

nothing good, only build planners as far as i know

[desert bane]

anywhere, where the tree is listed and i can play with it?

[spring temple]

https://poe2db.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/AAAABgEAAAAA

or mobalytics

[twin tide]

would you rather have 25% lightning dmg or 30% lightning pen on charged staff

[frosty arrow]

It depends

It's possible to have too much penetration, wasting it

[next igloo]

here is my poison build in t15 (poison arrow + gas primarily, not exploding build)... clears maps very fast and decent at bosses (about 300k dps on boss)... boss in last 20 sec

[vagrant imp]

Reap is coming back? Do we know for sure?

[delicate flower]

for spark sorcs, is it possible to get the spirit for archmage off only the campaign? or is that not enough and you'd have to roll spirit on chest?

[vagrant imp]

You get exactly 100 spirit from the full campaign

[delicate flower]

oh, so no need for any further spirit beyond that?

[hushed lichen]

Fast Question - Im working on a P.Concoction Pathfinder at the moment and I'm looking into jewels** for a crit setup

Do I want Magnitude of Ailment from Crit hit, or Crit Damage for Attack Damage?

Im assuming the 2nd but not sure

[vagrant imp]

eh, Grim Feast is nice, so some extra wouldn't hurt.

You can always weapon swap for blink

[frosty arrow]

I was trying with my lvl30ish witch to make pure osteomancy no minions thing, as I like the idea. But there's just no damage in those spells. Maybe having twice the points to spend would make something of it, but I don't see anyone playing physical spellcaster much

[light mesa]

I'm at 400% crit dmg at the moment and it has dimising returns after 300% acording to some poe1 post, which is most likely true. But i have Spell crit dmg and "normal" crit damage, how are they calculated? If i have 100 spell crit dmg and 300 "normal" is that fine? Or should i drop crit dmg nodes for something other, like spell dmg?

[light mesa]

hexblast is your dmg spell, you unlock it at level 41?

[frosty arrow]

I was going for a thematic build, bone magic only. As theme builds worked for me so far on other classes I thought it could work. But honestly it's tough

[light mesa]

should work, you need to stack ton of cast speed

[frosty arrow]

There's one bone spell nuke, and it has massive windup. Everything else is mostly utility

[light mesa]

she needs levels to do anything i feel like

[frosty arrow]

I'll probably come back to that idea once I have a higher level witch

[light mesa]

it was pain do the story with her

before hexblast

[frosty arrow]

I think minion witch is alright, she snowballs by the end of normal. But I don't want another minion build

[tranquil steeple]

in regards to rising tempest, would the activation of a herald count as "using" like overkilling an enemy and igniting nearby ones, is that using it? Or does it have to be skills that are activated

[frosty arrow]

I feel like getting power charges is tough if you limit yourself only to bone spells too

[tranquil steeple]

did u manage to work it out

[frosty arrow]

In general I feel like they could've done so much more with charges, overall flexibility of them is lacking across the board

[celest oxide]

I’m assuming it works but I’ve never really confirmed tbh

[crude zealot]

Can a corrupted Ingenuity belt double the number of additional skill gem slots from unset rings?

I suppose it doesn't get to 100% even if it could?

[fiery wave]

@wet mango i was wondering if you know how flameblast is supposed to scale, as you wrote the post on increased/more. it says 200% more per stage but im pretty sure it doesnt give me 2^10 extra damage.

[spring temple]

LOL the more bonuses all add up

[frosty arrow]

That's a good question. I think people didn't have enough time to discover all possible corruption effects. I didn't even try corrupting gems yet

[spring temple]

200 more -> 400 more -> 600 more etc

[wet mango]

Thanks, I can add a note on this topic.
Whenever you have "X per Y", you count up how many Ys you have and you multiply X by that count to produce the final value (for your single modifier). It doesn't mean "an X modifer per each Y".

[hasty nebula]

Ok so the stats for my build are max life, +armor, +%armor, life regen, strength and resists. If I have to omit one or two from a piece of gear which ones are the weakest?

[wet mango]

i mean yes, it's EA, charges exist but they are not really fully fleshed out

[delicate flower]

if i had grim feast + eldritch battery, would the ES gained from grim feast convert to mana?

[wet mango]

regen and maybe str. But note that str gives life as well

[dense bramble]

man i need some help on my sparkmage build, i feel so weak in t15s

[fiery wave]

@wet mango yeah i thought so after some testing its just not super clearly worded imho. im still kinda confused, i rebuild my tree in maxroll and calculateda ll my boni and i should do around 24k damage on a 10 stage blast but in reality i do more like 50k. i dont know where its from.

its either some type of other tick damage or im missing sth

btw. you dont per chance know if anyone unconvered ailment threshold of bosses

[tranquil steeple]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/090211f4-e2db-4909-b415-2349cf1e99a2/builds/8e477f0b-545f-4b4f-aac2-6d5c11b21cf4
(Look at 2nd variant)

Trying to stack effects and damage to make stormwave good, any thoughts on the build? Not aiming for high tier maps just early stuff.

[wet mango]

yeah i thought so after some testing its just not super clearly worded imho.
I mean they can try wording it in different ways but I don't think there's a "strictly better" way, it's always going to be slightly ambiguous. In any case, now you know which of the 2 options it works by.

[fiery wave]

i was doing some ignite calculations and i really need to know ailment thresholds lol

i agree

thanks

but to be fair if they choose a format of like stages * 2 more damage its more clearly than 200% more damage per stage :p but yeah its nitpicky

[wet mango]

unclear, poe2db has it blank, could be unknown
https://poe2db.tw/Xesht%2C_We_That_Are_One#XeshtWeThatAreOneItThatReturned

[fiery wave]

but i also see the whole problem of consistent wording on a giant piece of interrelated systems

yeah i was checking that, too bad ignite would really boost my effective dps but pinnacle bosses are quite hard for me to trial and error

[wet mango]

I mean stages * 2 is not english, it's like half math half english. They probably want a consistent wording in pure prose.

[wet mango]

I mean if you want you can make a thread and show your work and I can try to go through it with you

[fiery wave]

well i already konw that i can boost my effective dps by about 50% but it all depends on my chance to ignite, which is dependant on ailment threshold and apparently max 25%. but without knowing anything about ailment threshold i dont know if my flameblast will regularly or never ignite.

so i can only really test it

[wet mango]

apparently max 25%
true for white mobs, in correct in general

[fiery wave]

oh okay

i read someone else say it

[wet mango]

it's also not really true for white mobs either

so monsters' ailment threshold is generally = their max hp

[fiery wave]

thats great info

but terrible news 😂

[wet mango]

and you can calculate the chance to ignite e.g. from that

from the ingame tooltips

[fiery wave]

the health pool of pinnacle bosses also seems incorrect on the wiki

[wet mango]

well for pinacles and bosses the ailment threshold is a small fraction of their HP

[fiery wave]

because my map bosses have like 2 million now i think

[wet mango]

(so that ppl can actually inflict ailments on them, ever)

[fiery wave]

oh okay

[wet mango]

that's the % we're missing on poe2db

i think for some bosses in poe1 it was like 7% or smth

[rocky pilot]

has anyone tried using Arc with Frost wall on bosses? does it give you more chains?

[hasty nebula]

I think regen is probably important as I’m doing a blood magic build

But I agree str is probably the weakest as it’s just additional life at a reduced rate

[fiery wave]

yeah so im running this flame blast build with capped demonform and its quite stable up to monster level 81 boss level 3 but my single target damage is quite low

like i need 3-4 minutes to kill a tier 1 pinnacle boss

and im trying to improve it somehow without changing the whole build

also i cant really tell if ignite from solar orb (more likely) or flameblast so i would really have to take a run to test

[rocky pilot]

regen in PoE 2 doesn't really exist. It's not really worth investing in. Flat regen can't reach a point where it heals enough HP and max HP is so low that % regen (which does not exist on the witch tree) it can't give you enough to matter

for Blood mage, its pretty much entirely using Spell leech. which does work very well in a build with enough damage. However the life + Mana cost is pretty insane in general as a spellcaster

[wet mango]

it just looks like you're missing a 100% more from somewhere

[fiery wave]

good point

[night surge]

Does anyone know if the fire damage that Cloak of Flame converts would be reduced by heatproofing?

[wet mango]

if you wanted to show/share your work (in a thread perhaps) I'd be happy to go through it with you

[wet mango]

it should

don't see why not

[rain bone]

are there any passives or uniques that combo well with CI+EY on monk? subterfuge mask has been pretty good.

[frosty arrow]

I don't like the idea of split spell costs. It's health or mana, not both for me

[granite hatch]

should i go ghost dance or grim feast

[rocky pilot]

i don't understand. Storm wave is good out the box. its one of the only 3 viable main skills monks have

[rain bone]

grim feast has been really good, it's probably going to get nerfed

feast is better for clearing and dance is better for bossing

[granite hatch]

got it thanks

[fiery wave]

@wet mango but it really finnicky with all the different modifiers. i have around 600% spell damage in the skill tree and thats fire damage, elemental damage, aoe damage, then 33% on gear. but ill keep it in mind and might share something. thanks for the invitation. the base for blameblast should be damage * 20 tho, correct?

[granite hatch]

also how much es should i get before using ci

[tranquil steeple]

bad wording, its good, but I meant like a one button storm wave build

[rain bone]

i switched over at about 2k. ey helps a lot too.

[wet mango]

wdym? the base damage is whatever it says on the gem. Then you have a 2000% more modifier from the skill.

[fiery wave]

thats what i meant

[mellow wigeon]

is there an item that is allowing people to have a high energy shield or are most of them doing that through passive tree?

[night surge]

It should also go through sorcery ward before my hp too right?

[fiery wave]

okay i could formulate a statement how the different modifiers chain and share that

[wet mango]

yes because it's ele dmg

[night surge]

Sounds like a good combo then

Thanks

[rocky pilot]

i don't understand what this build is aiming to accomplish
If its goal is to use Storm Wave as a main DPS skill, why not just grab lightning damage and crit like everyone else?

It looks like its attempting to proc 3 ailments on monsters, but i can't see why

[fiery wave]

ill go through it again and then maybe make a thread

thanks for your help

[hushed lichen]

Fast Question - Im working on a P.Concoction Pathfinder at the moment and I'm looking into jewels for a crit setup

Do I want Magnitude of Ailment from Crit hit, or Crit Damage for Attack Damage?
Im assuming the 2nd but not sure

[rocky pilot]

it looks like an attempt at Elemental Discharge to me personally, which i would say needs Crit to succeed

[hasty nebula]

Idk you can get like 1k life regen/second so I think that’s alright with a 4k life pool…. Maybe it was better in poe1 but this seems alright?!?

[rocky pilot]

1k life regen per second on a 4k life pool sounds like a ridiculously min-maxed setup. where did you see this?

a 4k life pool alone is quite difficult to achieve in the current PoE 2. outside of gemling of course.

[hasty nebula]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/2a93597f-152e-4266-8e96-df63792e4f9c/builds/dbf69316-9096-4b5b-bd98-c71802621583

[vagrant imp]

4k is very achievable on any titan or STR stacker. I'm on 4k hp with my mediocre ssf gear corrupting cry build.

[midnight bolt]

or just equip 3 socket machinachation shield

[rocky pilot]

4k even on a corrupting cry build takes a ton of gear lol. Even steelmage took two weeks to break his 3.5K HP barrier

[tranquil steeple]

It is crit, and it is made to transition into elemental discharge eventually, but I was struggling to make that work early mapping. immo uses ignite get a damage boost on storm wave, overkill should always be happening, so that procs ash and added cold damage freezes with storm wave, which then chills with chilled ground and ice herald which boosts damage further.

Its just stacking damage on storm wave. Eye of winter increases crit chance so supercritical is usable.

[rocky pilot]

to be fair it can help a lot with hulking form but even that is pretty far in

[rocky pilot]

im confused, where in this is it saying 1k life regen?
also the belt is using a mod that doesn't exist

[tranquil steeple]

My goal is to make it so I literally only use storm wave (And charged staff)

[hasty nebula]

https://youtu.be/dK29MZosCpc?si=mAuy6DuzsJB10c9z

Go to gear section, he’s got 4k like and 750 life per sec and he’s got room for improvement. Lvl 92

[rocky pilot]

his video doesn't show 1k

its a good amount of life regen though. he managed ot land high tier life regen on every single item

[wet mango]

room for improvement where?

[hasty nebula]

Ok 750… but still if you wanted to get there you could, it’s probably excessive and unnecessary

[wet mango]

like we salike we said, ridiculously minmaxed

they're giving a suffix on every item for regen

[rocky pilot]

i don't actually think so, i think getting to 1k would be a hard wall.
But its gonna be hard for most builds to even hit this, especially when they're not totems

but it is nice to see this much regen. i was a bit worried RF would be non-viable without buffs. maybe when we get RF it'll have its place

[hasty nebula]

Ok but I am totems.

[vagrant imp]

idk I'm at 3920 life while missing a strength and life affix entirely on one of my rings, I'm not sure how steel was missing so much HP while being able to trade.

[rocky pilot]

it likely was hulking form being missing perhaps

do you have hulking form?

[vagrant imp]

I'm warbringer

so no

[rocky pilot]

oh yeah he's warbringer too.
Are your items like 200 life rolls?

[frosty arrow]

What are the chances of orb of chance destroying the item as opposed to turning it into a unique? Are actual probabilities known, or it's vague?

[rocky pilot]

Actual probabilities are not known pretty sure. if its like PoE 1, it is lower the higher value the item may be

[deft crag]

I need to use a weapon swap bow for only stormcaller arrow and voltaic mark, what's the best bow and quiver combo for this?

Do I just giga max my cast speed

[rocky pilot]

aren't those Attacks?

[frosty arrow]

Is "value" arbitrarily set by the devs? Or it's just pure gold value, or it depends on the market?

[deft crag]

Attack speed I mean

[rocky pilot]

if the DPS doesn't matter for stormcaller, can just use a quillrain

[wet mango]

well the mark is neither a spell nor attack

[frosty arrow]

I'm just trying to see if it's worth trying to chance a bunch of amulets, to get the last piece I need for stat stacking build

[rocky pilot]

marks are unarmed attacks

[vagrant imp]

I have great life rolls on my chest and shield, but I have 0 HP on my boots (just strength) and 0HP or strength on one of my rings.

[mellow wigeon]

has anyone used the node (witch hunter) 25% increase to culling strike threshold? Any clue on how to do the math on that?

[rocky pilot]

actually maybe not unarmed

but they're definitely attacks

[vagrant imp]

no hp runes or soul cores socketed

[frosty arrow]

It's multiplicative, so for bosses it goes from 5% to like 6.5 or something

[rocky pilot]

its just 25% increase to the percentage.
5 + (25% of 5) for example

[vagrant imp]

my chaos res is admittedly subpar XD

[hasty nebula]

Ok so back to the original question, in this build, which of the stats would I leave off? Armor#, armor%, life, regen, or strength?

[snow sierra]

ive seens ppl run around with 5k + hp allready^^

[vagrant imp]

Not for lack of trying lmao

[frosty arrow]

There's also one of those on the passive tree. So if you stack them you'll feel it on trash mobs

[mellow wigeon]

ok. not worth the investment. thank you

[frosty arrow]

But on its own it's whatever

[rocky pilot]

i'm not apart of your original question sorry, there was someone else answering you
i don't really interfere with totem builds

[mellow wigeon]

got ya! just looking around passive tree trying to figure next route. thank youi

[deft crag]

so what bow and quiver type do I use? I just need voltaic mark for lightning "susceptible" and stormcaller arrow for lightning exposure while my crossbow does all the damage

[rocky pilot]

you just said life regen is important on blood magic and was just gonna call out its quite hard to stack it currently

[deft crag]

I have access to that unique bow that doubles stats from quiver btw

[snow sierra]

depens highly on your roll how good this bow is

and on you quiver ofc 😄

[wet mango]

5% becomes 6.25%

[wet mango]

read here
#1321237459987726366 message

[hasty nebula]

Ok so back to my original question about the least important stats, given that I’m a totem build on titan ascendancy. Still think strength and life regen?

[wet mango]

i specifically talk about "% stats"

[deft crag]

I just need to know what to put on the bow and quiver that's it

[mellow wigeon]

thank youi

[frosty arrow]

Honestly if you stack it with another 25% from the tree it becomes good for trash clear. Because then you're at like 35% threshold for trash, coupled with decimating strike you basically reduce monster health pool by about half

[mellow wigeon]

As of right now (Level 71) i'm not having any issues with the trash clear. Mapping is fairly easy right now. still low tier (3).

[frosty arrow]

Yeah, I'm around that point too with my grenade Merc. I feel like culling strike goes underused on him, since burst damage from grenades erases trash before it even reaches threshold

[real kiln]

is there any way to be able to use Soul Offering without clicking directly on the minions bodies? I want to just click in their general direction or area.

[wet mango]

is trashing taking more thna 1 or 2 hits anyway?

[delicate flower]

if spark sorc takes chaos inoculation, we can skip out on chaos res mods no?

[mellow wigeon]

I'm running the galvanized elec build and harold of thunder coupled with decimating strike/culling strikes makes clearing a breeze.

[delicate flower]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/stormweaver-league-starter-sanctum?widgets-state=eyJmN2Q4MjEwMi03ZTc3LTRhNDQtYWQyNC0zM2I2N2U4YWU3YmYiOnsiZmlsdGVycyI6eyJhY3RpdmVWYXJpYW50SWQiOiJkZWZhdWx0LXZhcmlhbnQifSwidHlwZW5hbWUiOiJOZ2ZEb2N1bWVudENtV2lkZ2V0Q29udGVudFZhcmlhbnRzVjEifX0 been following this guide, not sure how right it is

[vagrant imp]

Yes you want 0 chaos res

[frosty arrow]

If decimating strike and culling nodes were swapped on Mercs ascendancy tree it would've been amazing. But too op probably

[mellow wigeon]

are you running evasion/armor for survivability?

[frosty arrow]

Culling strike as a mechanic in general is kinda meh. You'd need a build that deals lots of small damage instances quick. If you're bursting you're not using it

[snow sierra]

mhh CI atm counts a low life it seems

lol omen of resurgence pots

[tall adder]

is there a way to increase presence area size?

modifiers

[frosty arrow]

Yeah, I've not been focusing hard on that aspect. I took some evasion and armor nodes on the tree, and my gear is meh. I just started mapping. I'm at like 80% dodge and 60 phys resist. Which gives me enough of a buffer to take one big hit and live, or just don't get hit

I'll invest my points more into defenses from this point, since for grenadier build I'm running out of damage nodes to take

[mellow wigeon]

yeah. i was just curious as to what to do for survivability later on or if there was something i needed to start chasing at this point. dmg feels good, but rarely get the 1 shot death.

[frosty arrow]

I mean, you could go all armor. Take that one keystone, and save points from mixed nodes. I ended up in warrior part of the tree naturally. Lots of armor there

Or if you went up to ranger you can go full evade. Merc has so many options

[mellow wigeon]

i noticed a node on the outside of the tree that would convert all evasion rating to armour and wasn't sure if it would be worth the investment to just go pure armour with high resist.

[ionic kettle]

Are there any good skeletal sniper builds out there?

[frosty arrow]

It could be worth if you have the gear for it. But then double armor/evasion nodes don't give you full value. You'd have to go full armor, while still wearing mixed gear

[vagrant imp]

Armor is pretty bad right now, evasion is better, Iron Reflexes provides no double dipping for scaling both armor and evasion so it's pretty mediocre.

[mellow wigeon]

right because the percentage doesn't go into the armour that was added to the evasion, right?

[frosty arrow]

I think Merc works just fine going mixed

[frosty arrow]

No, the evasion part does nothing

[vagrant imp]

only % armor will scale iron reflexes

you have to scale the post-conversion stat, not the pre-conversion one.

[frosty arrow]

Iron reflexes only takes evade value from gear, and applies armor modifiers to it

[vagrant imp]

Yep

[mellow wigeon]

so if you took previous nodes that added % to evasion and armour, the percent added to the evasion wouldn't go into the armour? Or am i misunderstanding that?

[frosty arrow]

Also, generally from what I see armor gear gives higher raw number then equivalent lvl evade gear. So in the end you're probably not getting as much armor as just going full strength stacking and pure armor

[hasty nebula]

Can anyone tell me why comet builds that actually cast comet dont exist? They all try to use cast on crit or freeze or something , but never cast it itself?!?

[frosty arrow]

No, all evasion nodes are null and void

[astral willow]

1s cast time and high mana costs

[mellow wigeon]

got ya

[hasty nebula]

Cant those both be reduced pretty easily?

[vagrant imp]

Caramel is correct

[mellow wigeon]

Guess i'll go for pure strength and armour with maxed res.

[astral willow]

sure, but it's an easy pick for cast on freeze and your other skills aren't terribly useful when put on CoF

[frosty arrow]

You can just stick to mixed approach. And you can dip into ranger or warrior parts of the tree too to boost them individually

[astral willow]

the other pick would be orb of winter which kinda sucks tbh

[frosty arrow]

I think having like 70%phys resist and as much evasion is better than having 80% phys resist only

[hasty nebula]

Didnt they nerf the CoF though? So would it not be better to just cast manually, with something like blood magic and a massive life pool?

[snow sierra]

is there any pathfinder build that can play with a shield ? there isnt right ?

[vagrant imp]

hybrid evasion armor is fine, there are some VERY good nodes for it on the tree

[frosty arrow]

Extra 8% flat to evade melee attacks is pretty good one

It's so close to start too

Do they still have that thing in poe2 where even with 100% evade you'll eventually get hit regardless as a means of countering immortal builds

[astral willow]

I've been running cold infernalist through levelling and into endgame and I haven't noticed a massive difference even post nerf. Comet-CoF still triggers often, sometimes multiple times on larger packs and explodes my frost walls for massive aoe damage.

[honest condor]

IF im just trying to stack mana and mana regen is this build ok?

[vagrant imp]

Evasion cap is 90% anyways, but yes evasion has both bad and good luck protection

it goes down as you don't get hit and goes up as you do get hit

Effectively*

Backup plan, Leather Bound Gauntlets, and General's Bindings are all very good nodes.

[tranquil steeple]

Does rising tempest stack off heralds or just skills you activate

[snow sierra]

i so want a acrobatics build with dodge cap and block xD

[frosty arrow]

I was curious about those two evade nodes. One boosts evade by 100% if you got hit recently, and lowers by 30% if you didn't. Other one is the opposite. If you take them both do you end up in positives at all times? Wonder what's the math on those

Well, will we get pure dexterity shields? For those awesome spear and shield builds

[tall adder]

anyone know if theres a way to increase presence area beyond the normal 6m?

[hasty nebula]

You have a link to the build?

[tall adder]

cant find any spirit gems of support gems that would

[astral willow]

sec in trials

[frosty arrow]

There's a unique for that. But I can't remember what it is

[snow sierra]

so at the moment a dodge cap acrobatics with only chest, gloves, and boots to use wouldnt be possible ?

[frosty arrow]

If I were to guess it's a belt, or a circlet

[tall adder]

hmmm caus it specifically stats it isnt affected by area of effect modifiers

[slim island]

Is it better to convert all energy shield to mana with Mind over Matter and Midnight Braid ( 50% of all damage taken recouped to mana ) and stack mana regen, or just dabble in both?

The only downside I can see is those mana draining modifiers on monsters, if I were to go all in mana

[tall adder]

thanks! ill look

[frosty arrow]

Because I was looking those up recently, and saw a unique with presence area increase

[lucid wren]

what does withering do? trying to figure out what spirits to use for storm sorc

[vagrant imp]

90% evasion with acro is difficult no matter how you slice it, you basically need tailwind to achieve it

[grand void]

are any of the bone spells any good?

[snow sierra]

ye but what gear would a trailwind deadeye need ? and can it get away with using a ES shield helm

[vagrant imp]

Assuming you're using Subterfuge Mask, yes

[snow sierra]

I wanted to use Artiris disdain

[vagrant imp]

Though I'm not sure if you can truly cap

you can still get very high evasion

[snow sierra]

https://poe2db.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/AAAABgIBdg-TAB50rxa5NgTCG-6y6QWMk3STUV-9yVMgbZJJj8GJ_VPsWfmQjD0vWPQARb7X6zJa6VzgrkL6_vHJlv3xc01_vZM_LiV2-FTyZ-YJkIJWKsDXmTlCL92gOTe2f_u-ha7okmwHMSS96UgMif5Dyfuqq2BH2u31eS1UQsB8Fcod4d3ximWypzXeBoYU6JK7aDhu79tV4CiOD9tj1dl0jDhvO7gz-DlD8r_ADXM41OiVb52s36Oxl0wL0efiwWg-DYNf3nxY_0Rd0xR4ANVojpsdAJCCa2MP3XL4rr0p9iClmDxD1zHZL9lK1NK1AAA=

and do something like that

[marble gulch]

Hello everyone I’ve just defeated the first boss, I was wondering if anyone could tell me if ground slam or molten strike is better for my marauder. Sorry to bother.

[snow sierra]

and use minion for dmg since minion dmg is super cheap xD

And yes this tree is cursed

[marble gulch]

New to the game and discord/ never played Diablo

[vagrant imp]

Minion deadeye is a new one

but yeah you can get pretty good evasion even with shitty helm and acro as long as you have tailwind and wind dancer

issue is when you lose those

[heavy wigeon]

Hey fellas

[snow sierra]

well it will be kinda hard to lose those if you have near block cap too xD

[marble gulch]

Anyone? Help?

😔

[heavy wigeon]

this Ice Strike Monk build calls for a ES ER helmet https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/gav70mha

[indigo tide]

If you use Blackflame ring, does that mean that the ignite scales with chaos damage now, or is it still fire damage?

[snow sierra]

i know nothing about melee

[marble gulch]

Thank you for responding

[vagrant imp]

Chaos. Anything that converts from one thing to another you must scale the thing that it becomes not what it was before the conversion.

[heavy wigeon]

but I feel inclined to use this banger, can anyone glance and hazard a guess as to whether or not this bricks me

[snow sierra]

it would brick you but it will make your ES lower

[vagrant imp]

You will lose a lot of EHP

no ES or life

[tall adder]

looks like it might only be a modifier on scepters

[vagrant imp]

but it won't brick you

[snow sierra]

But if the helm fixes your res still better

[heavy wigeon]

ok I didn't realize the max life was so efficient

ty all

[snow sierra]

well you want to have max res

and then the highst possible hp/energy shield pool you can

[indigo tide]

Thats indeed what I thought. Thing is, my ignites felt really crappy even whilst full chaos, and I just saw a video on an Incinerate Pathfinder (Id post the link but dunno if its permited) using blackflame and he didnt have a single chaos node on the tree, and was scaling fire damage. 😦

[snow sierra]

and often another layer of defense, like evasion or block

[heavy wigeon]

so you're saying chaos the helmet and simply hit max life over mana

[vagrant imp]

Well you're losing actual hundreds from your hit pool with no ES or life considering you can get both which is an important part of hybrid defenses like hp and ES

[vagrant imp]

my man

facts

[snow sierra]

how dos tailwind work dos the duration gets refresht everytime i do something ?

or dos each stack fall off after 10 sek

[indigo tide]

Nvm, I just went to the wiki:

Enemies Ignited by you take Chaos Damage instead of Fire Damage from Ignite: This modifier causes enemies ignited by you to take the ignite damage as chaos damage instead of fire damage. Note that this is not conversion.

Offensively, ignites still scale with fire damage modifiers. The attacker's modifiers to chaos damage do not affect ignite, unless chaos damage contributes to ignite's magnitude.
Defensively, ignite is mitigated as chaos damage, by the enemy's chaos resistance and modifiers to chaos damage taken, such as Withered.

Well, bully, build ruined, time to re-roll xD

[heavy wigeon]

1 chaos

[vagrant imp]

Oh I see, Blackflame does not convert, it simply changes the damage the enemy takes, interesting.

[heavy wigeon]

do I need more than 38 hp I lost a lot of er

[indigo tide]

Yeah, really interesting. Wish I had noticed sooner kinda build around it ahaha. Even went infernalist. If only I could change ascendancies in POE2 😦 not that bloodmage is much better

[vagrant imp]

the evasion was better

that life roll is real low

[heavy wigeon]

🧎‍♂️

[astral willow]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/2czha01i quick and dirty of what I've got so far. Not included is Ghostwrithe, Atziri's Disdain, The Everlasting Gaze, and Doedre's Tenure to give you energy shield while still rocking EB and the gloves to double spell damage

[distant glade]

What’s the max number of poisons you can get ?

I see +2 on tree plus pathfinder is 8

[heavy wigeon]

lose fire res, gained back some er some more life and more rarity

🧎‍♂️

[hasty nebula]

Is this your own build?

[uneven moon]

are there certain efficient paths to the atlas passive tree?

[snow sierra]

yes get the keystone that buffs rares

gives you insanely better drops

[astral willow]

sort of. I used bits off two other builds I found online for inspiration. The mana regen focus to counter MoM from a sparks infernalist and the gems/gearing more or less directly from a perma-demon form build. also to note with this build that I take a lot of flat life regen so you can sit in demon form for as long as you want at 10 stacks

[frosty arrow]

Check Alpha's howl unique helmet. Found it

It says it doubles the presence radius

[hasty nebula]

What is MoM? Also what if you used a blood magic build?

[snow sierra]

alphas howl would be sick for chrono when they fix the note

[astral willow]

Mind over Matter, takes damage from mana before life. And idk about blood mage I haven't tried that ascension yet

[frosty arrow]

I think it's an item for a druid, for future

Will probably scale with whatever primal skills are

Probably more summons, druid shit you know

[snow sierra]

100 spirit on a helm is kinda sick tho

Maybe for my deadeye summoner x.X

but where do i get my ehp then

[frosty arrow]

You don't

Just be squish

[tall adder]

yoo nice! was about to watch a 20 minute youtube video with all the uniques lol

[snow sierra]

maybe ill get that helm when i have the lolol flask 😄

that i will never have

[brittle socket]

Could someone help me explain how dmg conversion work ? Espcially with Avatar of Fire. Lets say I use Incendiary Shot which has 80% physic dmg convert to fire dmg and I also have Avatar of Fire. Does it just convert everything to fire dmg by capping at 100% ?

[dense tinsel]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/frostferno-witch-hunter-fearless-dumbo?weaponSet=set1&widgets-state=eyJmN2Q4MjEwMi03ZTc3LTRhNDQtYWQyNC0zM2I2N2U4YWU3YmYiOnsiZmlsdGVycyI6eyJhY3RpdmVWYXJpYW50SWQiOiJlOWQ3MWY2ZC03MzI0LTRhYjgtOWRmYS00ZDA2NzNhMGFjZDgifSwidHlwZW5hbWUiOiJOZ2ZEb2N1bWVudENtV2lkZ2V0Q29udGVudFZhcmlhbnRzVjEifX0#build-variants-0

I'm trying out this grenade build,
Does anybody have any thoughts on what affixes I should be going for with my jewels?

[frosty arrow]

What flask. Also, are utility flasks completely gone? Kinda wish we had them still. Some keystones don't allow flasks to replenish anything. I would kill for a move speed flask

[tall adder]

well its 200ex lol

[snow sierra]

its kinda cheap

[frosty arrow]

Well, a unique I want is like 50 divines. We can't have everything

[snow sierra]

the hp flask is around that too

[frosty arrow]

I think what will happen is it will take remaining physical damage, aka those 20% and multiply that by 0.75 and add that to your fire damage you already converted to

[lone wave]

So, Titan with Hulking Form (and the small strength boost nodes that path to it) or Gemling with Enhanced Effectiveness (and the attribute nodes preceding that)?
I'd try this weapon on Scion, if we had Scion

[brittle socket]

Oh i see thanks

[rocky pilot]

Gemling is essentially scion to be honest

[snow sierra]

we have scion at home its called gremling

[frosty arrow]

But I'm not sure tbh. Some calcs in this game are hard to understand

[hasty nebula]

I had this exact thought but I wasent sure how well the 10% weapon dmg would scale with strength.

[frosty arrow]

Merc is the most all rounder class so far. Both ascendancies will just work with any build

[lone wave]

Gemling as knockoff Scion is a thought.
Question still stands though, better to make a build built on using Pillar by stacking Strength as Titan, or stacking all three attributes as Gemling?

[frosty arrow]

I'm doing pillar build right now, been running it from zero

Doing gemling

[void barn]

Can you not add more sockets to pathfinder concoctions?

[snow sierra]

Gemling is by far the best statstacker

[unkempt trellis]

What are the good single target options for a grenade-based merc?

[vagrant imp]

Gemling higher ceiling, titan simpler

[frosty arrow]

Also using black sun crest, and for now that armor that boosts str, but lowers other stats. Once I'm later in the game I'll just leave black sun crest, and hope to get unique amulet with +100 all stats

[lone wave]

The Gemling nodes give 3% attributes, Titan nodes give 4% strength, so if you're only stacking strength one owuld presume Titan's better

[tall adder]

has anyone used the gravebind rope cuffs? they state " enemies killed by anyone in your presence count as being killed by you instead" does that mean you need to be by the killer or by the enemy being killed? the killer right?

[snow sierra]

Gemling has the note that doubles gain from attributes

[frosty arrow]

Merc just has super easy access to that bunch of nodes with +%all stats too. So on Merc you can level with pillars build no problem. On titan it's rough early

[snow sierra]

that seems just to good to pass if you stacking them

[hasty nebula]

Why is this? The inherent stat bonuses doubled? What qualifies as inherent?

[frosty arrow]

And yeah, amount of health you get from gemling str stacking is absurd

[snow sierra]

if i understand it right you get 4 life for 1 str

[lone wave]

Enhanced Effectives doubles the bonuses of the attributes, but not the attributes, so I would guess that EE doesn't help scale Pillar

[snow sierra]

yes but dmg is not the only thing a build needs to solve 😉

And Gemling can transition into HoWa way better

[chrome zenith]

anyone know if theres a way extend headhunter passive durations

[void barn]

Anyone playing poison concoctionm

[astral willow]

iirc the ascension gets to both use its highest stat for all stat reqs, AND doubles the effectiveness of stat contributions for 1str = 2 life kinda stuff

[chrome zenith]

i am

[void barn]

How do you add sockets to it

[chrome zenith]

you gota level up

get 5th socket at 90

last socket

[void barn]

Ah ok

[hasty nebula]

Oh so you just stack str, and satisfy all gem and equip requirements right?

[lone wave]

You'' have to remind me what HoWa refers to.

Oh you know what though, Gemling has easier access to Quarterstaff cluster in passive tree,
and of course the titan would have to wear Jarngreiper

[snow sierra]

Hand of Wistom and Action

You kinda want that if you want to scale a statstack build into lategame

[lone wave]

Seeing as the cheapest one is listed at 7 divine, I'm inclined to consider that item as one that doesn't exist.

[snow sierra]

Well if that is to expensive for you, you should maybe reconsider doing a stack stack build

[lone wave]

Mate half the point of doing a build where you scale up one weapon forever is to not need to spend as much money on gear, so you can save up currencies for other characters

[snow sierra]

i doubt a stat stick build will carry you into cheap farm

but you do you

[chrome zenith]

anyone know of anyway to increase buff duration

[hasty nebula]

Well it’s scaling dmg , attack speed, and aoe. The attack speed is maybe the most important but idk, which is why it needs to be tested.

[snow sierra]

yes ? i am not saying you can not level easly with it

[stark lance]

Can someone explain to me how weapon set points work it says 24(24) but I can only use 4?

[lone wave]

weapon set points are not bonus points. they are a setting for your regular points. which you spent already.

[snow sierra]

But when you start endgame mapping gear with Stats + Res + Life + Rarity will get insanely expensive

And i doubt you can farm pinnicle Bosses without items like Hand of wistom and action

[marsh sparrow]

hi

[lone wave]

Naturally they main reason for doing any build should be liking the build, finding it fun and all.
Sooner or later the build you want is just one that doesn't cost any currencies to make so you can actually earn currencies in the first place.
Pinnacle Shminnacle I just want to look at trade and not have every item worth buying be above my paygrade

[marsh sparrow]

does anyone know the best place to farm for gold mapwise

need respec badly

[lone wave]

whatever the farthest content you've reached is, is the best place for you to farm gold

[marsh sparrow]

i see i see

was just thinking of treasure rooms and whatnot

went full armour on my warrior and its cbt

ahhhh

[astral willow]

if you're struggling at your level you can go to a zone 4 levels below you before it starts drastically dropping loot quality. But generally best places to farm is the highest level zone you can kill things quickly in

[night surge]

damn Cloak of Flame + Sorcery Ward + Heatproofing actually works pretty good, i reduce physical dmg by a lot now

[chrome zenith]

does anyone know if prolonged assault increases headhunter duration??

[near girder]

Does anyone know what each point of quality does for Raging Spirits?

[snow sierra]

press alt

[near girder]

I’m on ps5

[snow sierra]

you see what quality dos there

[atomic halo]

is it skill effect duration?

skill effect duration will not affect HH, only "increased duration of buffs on you" or something to that effect

[chrome zenith]

it says buffs exire 10% fslower

[snow sierra]

well press all you buttons until you find the more skill information button

[near girder]

Ok

[atomic halo]

i believe it should.

[snow sierra]

i cant wait for the chrono slow note to work

[atomic halo]

according to a video i saw it worked

[snow sierra]

dosnt seem that way

[atomic halo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ISuQ5tRu4&t=366s

[snow sierra]

intresting

maybe its just slow, it feels like its not action speed

[delicate flower]

what venom draught does spark sorc take on act 3 cruel?

[fossil moss]

hi im level 34 stormweaver im not doing any damage which makers me wanna quit the game anyone has knowledge on stormweaver and can help me please correcting my build

[snow sierra]

good thing i have 20% slow maginute gloves too

doubt its you build

mostlikely gear and bad luck with gems

[fossil moss]

what can i do

[snow sierra]

34 a "Build" dosnt do mutch, its just gems you use and gear you have

what skill do you use ?

[fossil moss]

spark
mana tempest
orb of storms
frost bomb
arc
flame wall
conductivity

[snow sierra]

ok do you have a good staff ?

[snow sierra]

urg thats bad

like check your vendor

[fossil moss]

i thought its good

im currently going after this build :
https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/empyrian-temporalis-spark-sorc#passive-tree-0

[atomic halo]

that is a 1 modifier item

[snow sierra]

No its terrible, half the stats are borderline useless for you

[atomic halo]

your entire mainhand weapon slot is granting you one modifier

[fossil moss]

sorry im new to the game what do you mean by modifer and what is it

[snow sierra]

Look at your vendor, do you see a item with +1 to lighting spells

the stats on your item

your wand is so bad you might as well not use one

[atomic halo]

you see left, i see right

[sonic peak]

He means stuff other than spell dmg is bad, which is not entirely true

[fossil moss]

Oh, what modifiers should i get

[snow sierra]

look at your vendor, do you see a blue staff, or wand with + level to all lighting skills

[atomic halo]

spell damage cast speed lightning damage + level to all lightning skill gems

[sonic peak]

That said, yes, that staff is really bad. Staves can roll Cold/Fire/Light spell dmg, +lvl to spells, cast speed, etc

[mystic shard]

**I heard 95% the cap on evasion at highest levels of play, what u need is 118k.

For 90% only 27k.

Anyone know what you need for 80%?**

[atomic halo]

its a wand but yeah

[sonic peak]

Crit dmg/chance is better than nothing, but at the point you are it probably won't change your dps that much

[fossil moss]

no just one with +2 choas

[snow sierra]

Dam you could gamble maybe...so what you want is + level of the element your main skill is

you seem to use lightning so you want that

[fossil moss]

yea spark

[snow sierra]

after that, lighting dmg, spelldmg castspeed you take all those when you can get them, but gem level is rly important for you dmg

[tranquil steeple]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/ltk20lro How do I scale this past early endgame? Whats upgrades I should aim for

[void barn]

What weapon are you using for your build also

[ionic venture]

hi, currently playing a monk and wondering how ice strike invoker perform in t10+?

i personally like the freezing build but not sure about the potential as Raxx himself has not brought this build that far yet

[pastel valley]

in your opinion, what's the strongest build / ascendancy for sorc at the moment?

[snow sierra]

The Teleporting Sorc with the 1 mirror body

[mystic shard]

Do you know how much it'd be for 80%?

[tranquil steeple]

loosely following his guide to and I dont see how it scales that far into endgame but I could be wrong, like not ice strike but his build specifically

its very cheap and easy to use but idk what kind of big powerspikes itll have

[ionic venture]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/gav70mha
this is also an ice strike build and seems... decent? but they haven't showned how good it is against pinnacl ebosses

[ionic venture]

yeah mayeb not a bad build to follow for cruel content and early mapping, but some investment can't be easily tuned off so..

what's the op build rn for invoker? flicker?

[haughty dove]

what jewels do yall recomend for witch minion. I want them to have more health

[snow sierra]

Block

Block % is rly solid on a minion build cant recommend it enough

[haughty dove]

yeah I sheild is all most 8k

[snow sierra]

kinda nice that that shield happens to have alot of block^^

i love it

[haughty dove]

Yeah useing that with the tattered robe and gase amu

*gaze

[snow sierra]

Tattered robe is a base^^

[haughty dove]

Yeah its great and my amu was the best div I could have spent

[real mural]

How does increased % evasion on an amulet stack? Is it on the total base value?

[snow sierra]

the one with + fire skill level ?

Or what amu you mean ?

[atomic halo]

global

ammy has no base evasion stat to modify

[haughty dove]

https://poe2db.tw/us/The_Everlasting_Gaze

this one

[snow sierra]

thats bad....

[real mural]

Yeah, I meant like total base value of all combined gear

[snow sierra]

sell it

for minion builds is so bad

[fossil moss]

just gabmled and got this is it good enough ?

[clever mason]

anyone can help me decide which is better? I'm doing crit build ice strike, the slicing gives more dps but the gothic's insane atkspd seems tempting

[haughty dove]

what would I replace it with then

[snow sierra]

its a bit better then your old one but still not great

[fossil moss]

should i upgrade it or find another one

[snow sierra]

with a amulett with 30-50 spirit +2-3 minion level and rarity 30-60% ?

[snow sierra]

dont upgrade it

do one level and check your vendor, you dont spend currency unless it has spelllevel

[kindred juniper]

What are some good shields to use for dual wielding shields?

[haughty dove]

do amulett come with 50 spirty

[atomic halo]

you cant dual wield shields

[kindred juniper]

I can

[snow sierra]

you could buy a good want for 1ex in the marked if you have a ex

[kindred juniper]

Maybe its a special skill only my character has access to

[atomic halo]

seems legit

[snow sierra]

yes and minion level is super important for your dmg and rarity is super important so you can farm

[fossil moss]

i upgraded it and got 39% incerased spell damage

[atomic halo]

@chris wilson ban this fool

[sharp vortex]

The non time one

[kindred juniper]

Im building my skill tree for dual wielding shields. What nodes should i keep in mind

[atomic halo]

shield ones

[sharp vortex]

I forgot name ok

[sharp vortex]

Too bad armour is bad

[kindred juniper]

Block > armor

[snow sierra]

that dos not make shields bad

[sharp vortex]

Gl though

True

[snow sierra]

Like if i could i would for sure equip 2 shields :x

[kindred juniper]

Is there an item or skill gem i can use that can activate fire breath when attacked while blocking

Or shoot a meteor

[graceful atlas]

Hey im trying to build around my demon form and right now i cant get more than 30 spirits how do i get more in demon form? if that makes sense?

[snow sierra]

yes because your weapons despawn

at the endgame you have 100 spirit from your char and can get it on amulett and body armor

[kindred juniper]

You need more spirit on your gear or from node

[graceful atlas]

like on my clothes?

or weapon?

[snow sierra]

weapons despawn in demon form

[distant cypress]

armor/evasion feels shitty on my grenadier merc. is going full evasion a good idea?

[snow sierra]

Like i said you can roll it on body armor and amulett

[snow sierra]

yes

Armour is kinda meh, so nothing lost there

[kindred juniper]

Amulet and body armor

[snow sierra]

and just to be complete, its possible on helm too lol

with a corruption

And there is a 100 spirit helm

And 5-10 spirit rings that are insanely expensive too

And insane exenspive gems for your skilltree

[regal turtle]

anyone know if skill gems scale past level 40?

[snow sierra]

what do you mean ?

there is no possible gear to get any skillgem this high i think

[regal turtle]

you can get like 44 max with two-handed maces and giants blood

[snow sierra]

Ah right forgot about that, as far as i am aware there is no limit of gem scaling

i only got my unearth to 36 tho :x so no first hand expirence

[median kraken]

Yeah, offhand I can think of a way to get at least 43

For a melee fire skill

[atomic halo]

in poe1 its a hardcap at 40

probably same in poe2, check poe2db

[median kraken]

And I wouldn't be at all surprised if I'm forgetting something that lets you go higher if there's no hard cap

[regal turtle]

poe2db has it hardcap at 40 so most likely

[pliant cobalt]

Is there any attack that doesn't scale from weapon damage (like elemental hit in poe1 for instance)?

[median kraken]

Totems and unarmed monk attacks

Maybe others, those are the ones I know offhand

[snow sierra]

And pathfinder conc or ?

[median kraken]

I think so

[pliant cobalt]

I got a 290% widowhail and am trying to figure out a build around it (not spark)

[snow sierra]

pathfinder conc is good with it

But the low is a bit low for it to be rly good i think

[median kraken]

Are there any bow totems or only crossbow and mace?

[regal turtle]

no bow totems currently

bow does have some skills that aren't added yet though

[snow sierra]

you need 304% or something like to hit the level breakpoint to get more skill level from your quiver, but dont rember what the number exactly wars

[atomic halo]

ballistas are similar to, but not the same as totems

[median kraken]

Maybe also some sort of bow HoWA stuff you can do with Widowhail

[median kraken]

Oh, they don't count as totems in this?

[untold valley]

My cousins doing merc, I think grenades. What kinda weapon should I look for for him (he's 46)?

[atomic halo]

nvm ballistas count as totems

[untold valley]

Just phys until later or?

[snow sierra]

do level cap 46, limit ex and sort by phys dmg

[atomic halo]

grenades means there's probably also fire

[atomic halo]

scales down to 100%

[distant canopy]

does this extra 8% actually do anything or is it same as 100

okay cool

[frosty arrow]

It multiplies your lightning damage, then converts to cold

Or does it scale down?

[median kraken]

I think the only case where it would ever do anything is if you also had other conversion competing with it.

[untold valley]

Do they bother increasing fire damage nodes and such?

[median kraken]

In PoE1 it would not do this. I don't know if it's different in PoE2.

[atomic halo]

grenades convert a lot of phys to fire

so fire is probably much better

[untold valley]

rgr

on weapon looking for flat/elemental as well as phys?

[atomic halo]

phys and fire yes

stuff like area dmg and dmg with 2 handers is also good

[frosty arrow]

Getting full armor brake and having zero phys resist to deal with is easier on Merc than penetrating or lowering fire resists though

I've not taken any fire damage nodes on my frag nade Merc yet, but I'm still trying things out

I'm early in mapping still, early to tell

[subtle ingot]

hey super quick whats the attribute stat requirement for level 20 skill gems

[atomic halo]

does that not depend on the skill gem in question

[subtle ingot]

oh

[warm delta]

Do guild stashes have permissions yet? Or can new members walk off with all of our currency after joining?

[atomic halo]

you can check poe2db.tw

[subtle ingot]

idk for level 18 they're 178 int across the board for me

[snow sierra]

around 204 for most i think

[subtle ingot]

ok thanks

[untold valley]

do mercs go hard into crit or nah?

[subtle ingot]

205 int thanks

[frosty arrow]

I don't think so. There's not a ton of Crit around the start, you'd have to venture out into the passsive tree to get good nodes

[subtle ingot]

is 48% chaos resistance good enough for end-endgame?

i dont think i can squeeze out any more

without losing other resistances

[atomic halo]

its okay

but not ideal

[snow sierra]

highly depends on your build

[subtle ingot]

actually so
image below

should i overcap by another 5% for resistances or add 8% to chaos

[snow sierra]

like its doable with a high life build but with a ES build you wanna have more

[subtle ingot]

for reference blood mage here with 1854 life 3686 es (and then double it with passive skills)

[snow sierra]

thats..kinda low

atleast for endgame^^

[median kraken]

For those defenses I'd probably want more

[tight zenith]

is it possible to stack 10 grand spectrum rubies for 200% increased max life ?

[subtle ingot]

more what

i only have two choices

[atomic halo]

doesnt grand spectrum have a limit of 3

[median kraken]

More chaos

[snow sierra]

like more life, more es

and more chaos ^^

[tight zenith]

aw nuts :(

[atomic halo]

yeah, it does

[subtle ingot]

oh right so i will be getting more ES on skill tree, +80% as i level

[median kraken]

I'm saying 40% chaos sounds low for end endgame with about 5k EHP with mostly ES

[tight zenith]

i was like yes ! i can finally make blood mage playable !

[subtle ingot]

but for resistances i'm just looking at slotting for either overcapping elemental resistances or chaos resistance

[median kraken]

Playable? Apparently Detonate Dead Blood Mage is a super strong build right now

[snow sierra]

dont know where you are but at t16 maps you wanna have near 3k hp and 4-5k ES for compfy

[median kraken]

I'd lean chaos, personally

[snow sierra]

there is a bonestorm bloodmage too thats more then playable, if you looking for a non meta build

[subtle ingot]

with life remnants my hp is 3708 and with grim feast my shield is 7372 and i'm rapidly recovering both

[tight zenith]

its clear is not great and i dont think its very fun ;(

[snow sierra]

i like it dd

[subtle ingot]

i know chaos deals double to shield but thats still 7394 ehp

i did a t16 grasping and survived

[snow sierra]

still not alot ive seen bloodmages with 4k Hp and 6k ES ^^

[hallow spruce]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/ff597db9-2433-4591-8f8d-b5b279d15ef3/builds/b15511da-920e-4233-b554-596f58a7fd93

Has anyone tried this?

It’s an archmage demon form build

Looks dope

[subtle ingot]

i one shot most bosses in t15 maps with detonate

[viscid radish]

DD bro XD

[subtle ingot]

once my skill tree is done i think i'll have like 4.5k es?

and a little more hp from strength

[snow sierra]

still i would want higher hp

for scaling the crit on bloodmage too

[viscid radish]

BM built right is super tanky NGL

[woeful sundial]

does trading work well on console?

[subtle ingot]

idk where i'm getting more hp

lmao

[snow sierra]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W7rUAvS5eI

like look at this

totaly insane this dude

4 days ago

dont wanna know what he runs now

[viscid radish]

I'm at 1.5k HP and 2.5k ES... Can prolly boost those numbers by 50%, but dunno how I'll climb higher

[subtle ingot]

i hope dd doesn't get nerfed... 😦

[snow sierra]

i hope so too

i hope it holy hits archemage

playing dd chronomancer atm

[viscid radish]

Same, if I have to respec again I'm making a trip to GGGs HQ

[dawn perch]

Are there any good builds out there that can stack a lot of increased rarity

[hybrid saffron]

Yeah for me the ice nova + bigger aoe is working well, I put freeze build up gem for ice crystals. But now im confused what to put in comet skill, it doesn't hit very hard. XD

[snow sierra]

any good build can

and any build should stack rarity

[dawn perch]

Some builds are certainly constrained by uniques so I don’t agree with you

[snow sierra]

Well then its a shit build

[midnight bolt]

does proccing spells from meta gems counts as casting yourself?

[snow sierra]

atleast for now

considering how good rarity is

[dawn perch]

Yes very helpful thank you

[tranquil steeple]

Is there anyway to make it so storm wave can build up combo for tempest bell?

[snow sierra]

detonate death dos not need alot of stuff

Minions can fit alot

both are not very fast tho

not full MoM

there are some jewels that transfer dmg to mana

[snow sierra]

i am running a DD build atm with rarity in every slot that can roll rarity. But i think something like a deadeye build just optimized for monster clearling would farm better

Spark is kinda ok too, but you would lose a neck slot on that

[snow bear]

Are there any caster mods inherent to ES gear other than the Focus that are essential to get? I'm doing a Phys Blood Mage Witch (Bone Spells) and taking a lot of Strength nodes. PoEDB.tv doesn't list any and mana isn't limited so I can't think of a reason to not use Armour gear over ES.

[snow sierra]

ES Gear scales better into endgame

but no reason not to use armor at the start

[frosty arrow]

Reason is armor sucks pretty bad right now, and ES stacking is best way to build a large damage buffer

[snow sierra]

ye but armor can carry you into endgame still

And then you switch

[frosty arrow]

The later in the game you go, the lower the effect of armor will be

[dusty lance]

what should i be looking out on jewels for minion witch?

[sonic steppe]

NO.

[snow sierra]

Block %

[snow bear]

Okay, thanks.

[edgy sage]

is there any items/prefixs that do x extra dmg to cold/frozen enemies?

[sonic steppe]

Poe1: armour sucks
Poe2: thinking GGG will improve it, but NOPE

[frosty arrow]

I was thinking they wouldn't make it worse

[sonic steppe]

ES strong in poe1. Still is in poe 2. And limited max life nodes in poe2. GG to warriors

[frosty arrow]

It's just any other form of defense offers something against all types of damage in a way. You could argue if you stack armor you stack health too, but STR to health conversion ain't great unless you're gemling. And it doesn't stop others getting almost as much STR as armor stackers, while having dodge or massive energy shield on top

[snow sierra]

The missing max life notes just hurt

[frosty arrow]

The fact that there's no %life nodes on the tree is annoying. There's like...6% total or something

[snow sierra]

And Armor isnt helping too

like i played life based summoner all of poe1...but well es is just too good if you want to feel tanky

[frosty arrow]

If each point in armor also scaled to some health it would make things better. Maybe 0.25 health per armor point or something

[open fjord]

could someone help me with my build?

[snow sierra]

that would be a bad idea

[sonic steppe]

The 2nd 3% is at the far north.

[snow sierra]

they should just fix armor, no stat should be dmg reduction and health pool at the same time

Armor beeing bad, and heal not having notes are two totaly seperated issues

i rather they fix armor, nerf es, and make mobs hit for less

[drifting sail]

does accuracy rating help lightnin arrows

playing shock ranger

[thorny token]

armour will stay shit even if they improve it, its garbage 1 dimensional defense, they had the right idea when they changed how evasion works

stuff like this was solved in poe1 by also giving left side a lot more max res on tree but they didnt do it here either for whatever reason

[snow sierra]

if armour works like res it will be very very good

[supple jay]

can you put runes on the empty sockets of corrupted items?

[snow sierra]

yes

[obtuse shard]

Mings heart useful for monk?

[thorny token]

maybe try being more specific

[rancid cipher]

What is the base amount of mana recovery per second? Is there a flat percentage that characters start with?

[thorny token]

but also unless you are specifically CI its usually not good idea to grab it, and even then debatable

[obtuse shard]

Been playing as an ice strike

[thorny token]

4% per second

[thorny token]

due to how scaling now works not good idea then

[frosty arrow]

Anything that is a strike or projectile is affected by accuracy

[obtuse shard]

Had put it up for trade and was getting blown up so I figured it was useful

Just a noob 🤷🏿‍♂️

[thorny token]

it is but its not item you just equip randomly

better to sell and buy something thats more useful for you instead

[obtuse shard]

I was thinking polcirkeln ring

[thorny token]

yea good choice

op ring if you run hoi

[obtuse shard]

Been using brotherhood topaz

[obtuse shard]

Hoi?

[thorny token]

herald of ice

the ring makes it self chain

[obtuse shard]

Ahhhh thanks

[eternal birch]

hey y'll, question about ranger bow.. been doing some reading and it seems that Dualstring bow is the way to go? Is Advanced Cultist Bow OK if it does more damage? I already have the endless munition skill so it shoots an extra arrow

[thorny token]

more arrows are always better

but if you are just buying bow there is also explicit for extra arrow on bows

so you can look for both

and just compare dps

like if you are ranger extra arrow for something like rod would be around 25% more damage

not even mentioning the clear improvement

[snow sierra]

lol freezing enemys with chrono for 15 sek is so fun, like you kill the boss in 5 sek and he just forgets to die for 10^^

and you have 10 sek left to do the you are allready dead meme

[eternal birch]

hmm, II see - thanks for the info!

[sour pendant]

Sek?

What's that

[past dust]

is scattershot a good Idea on grenades? the extra projectiles dont boost the DPS, no?

[frosty arrow]

It's a very good idea

[sour pendant]

When I played merc with nades I think i always had scattershot on main grenade

Helps a lot with clears

[past dust]

why is it good?

[frosty arrow]

Because each grenade will deal damage

Having 3 grenades shoot out isn't as good as 5

[honest turret]

hi! what stats can i realistically get from a mahuxotl worth 1 div? or is it even worth buying 1 div ones?

[thorny token]

the grenades can also overlap

[sour pendant]

How much reduced damage does scattershot give?

[past dust]

20%

[frosty arrow]

Like 20%< not much

[thorny token]

but most crossbow skills behave like barrages with extra projs

[frosty arrow]

It's totally worth having more nades

[thorny token]

so if you arent playing pure grenade build

[sour pendant]

So if you go from 3 to 5 nades u get a 66% damage boost

[thorny token]

i would put scattershot on one of those

[formal magnet]

assuming you're rocking 4 socket explodey grenade, what do you guys think would be the best 4 gems for it? i'm leaning into payload/scattershot/fire pen/execute

[sour pendant]

Are you using explosive grenades or gas grenades ?

[formal magnet]

explosive

[frosty arrow]

If I wasn't playing grenade build I'd put scattershot on gas grenade, make it break armor, and give explosion on armor break

[sour pendant]

If you get deaths radiance it's much more comfortable playing with nades

Gas

I think it's called deaths radiance?

The helmet that ignites enemies

[formal magnet]

is that the auto-ignite hat?

[thorny token]

radiant grief

[formal magnet]

yeah i already had that i swapped off any gas related so i could snag extra stuff on helm

[sour pendant]

[frosty arrow]

My grenadier is pure big explosions lineup. Gas, oil, frag, explosive shot. Stun for CC. That's it

[thorny token]

but if you arent playing pure grenades doing that is waste

[formal magnet]

im going pure explosive shot + explosive grenade + flash for the most part, with oil and fire curse thing for bossing

[thorny token]

if you are doing explo shot you should have scattershot on explo shot

[frosty arrow]

I don't think that's good idea

[sour pendant]

Nah

[frosty arrow]

Explosive shot is a grenade trigger, it's damage isn't great

[formal magnet]

seems like having the extra nades is more helpful than the extra bolts from explo shot

[sour pendant]

Why

[past dust]

"When a group of multiple Projectiles is fired from the same source at the same time, only one Projectile in the group can hit each target unless otherwise specified." - doesint that mean that if your nades are hitting the extra projectiles dont matter?

[formal magnet]

i'm also doing this on deadeye for the extra proj, just doing a funky little self-built thing

[thorny token]

it has 437% de per projectile

[formal magnet]

snagging as many extra projs as possbile pretty much

[thorny token]

you should probs look at the tooltips

[frosty arrow]

It matters, because I can see 5 instances of damage on the boss when 5 of my nades blow

[thorny token]

its pretty good damage skill

grenades do aoe, the aoe can overlap

projectiles fired at same time cant and thats about it

[past dust]

so the tooltip is lying to me?

[sour pendant]

Explosive shot deals ok damage but I don't think it's justified putting scattershot on it

[thorny token]

pretty simple rule

[frosty arrow]

No, because grenades while being projectiles don't deal damage by hitting the enemy

[thorny token]

it does more damage than explosive grenade and its also bigger damage boost because you are going from 1 to 3 projs instead of from 3 to 5 grenades

[past dust]

I want to believe you

[sour pendant]

I dunno i can't argue that I haven't tried it

[frosty arrow]

I tried it. I just prefer more grenades. More consistent clear

[west river]

Real talk on stormweaver. Does lightning warp even good? I got a mixed feelings on this skill

[gloomy jackal]

Trying to find anything good to use up my last 30 spirit, currently using blink and clarity, and Archmage is on weapon swap. Any ideas? I'm lightning caster
Was thinking mby Arctic armor but what would be good supports besides Glaciation/Bludgeon?

[thorny token]

if you want clear then instead of equipping ignite helmet equip three dragons and run hoi + hot, explo shot alone is also very good clear because the aoe is so big

[frosty arrow]

I mean, just try it. When explosive shot triggers grenades they blow up with slight stagger in time. Not all at once. You can see them dealing damage individually

[thorny token]

do you have ES

[gloomy jackal]

no, also non crit so dont like remnants

[hasty nebula]

There is a node called ricochet, and then there is another called iron reflexes. They look different on the passive tree. Are there different names for these types of nodes?

[thorny token]

assuming your dex is low as well, otherwise alch boon is good

but yea not many great options

and arctic armour is just waste of socket ngl that thing is so bad

idk why it doenst at least do aoe damage then it would be somewhat useful

[gloomy jackal]

aw its not aoe? Guess I could just stick to low lvl wind dancer then

[thorny token]

you need martial weapon for wind dancer unfortunately

[gloomy jackal]

ya I have

[thorny token]

and yea arctic armour just hits the enemy that attacked you its so funny how bad it is

[thorny token]

ah ok then just go wind dancer its best option

slap maim and some shit on it

[gloomy jackal]

nice

[frosty arrow]

Arctic armor is like thorns, but for 30 spirit

[gloomy jackal]

what about for boss, can AA maybe chill it? lol

since its 1 enemy and wind dancer doesn't seem great for boss

or not gonna chill without cold investment

[thorny token]

not gonna do much without investment

its just 1 single hit

[gloomy jackal]

right

[thorny token]

also for boss you can just slap cull on wind dancer as well then it will be at least useful sometimes there :d

[frosty arrow]

I think it can apply blind though

[thorny token]

it can but blind is useless if you arent eva build anyway

[west dove]

you can think of it as having 2 parts
say i take a sword and swing at you, you can dodge this
but if my sword hits the ground and causes 5 explosions, they have nothing to do with the initial sword swing

[frosty arrow]

Which is pretty good, basically compensating for the fact that you lose a bit of evasion

[gloomy jackal]

😄 yea could do if I find nothing else to slap cull on

ye sadly 0 eva

[west dove]

so when you take projectiles on a grenadier, the damage isn't from the grenades hitting, it's from the 2nd part, which is them exploding

[past dust]

I get it but no way thats whats how the devs intended for us to understand that

[frosty arrow]

Why not

[thorny token]

that is how devs intented it

[west dove]

as in, you think the wording's horrendous?

[frosty arrow]

Lots of skills have multiple stages of damage

[thorny token]

that is how it alawys worked in poe1 as well

and that is also how overlap skills are balanced

(also why some skills fire in sequence to go around the proj multihit rule)

[past dust]

no way

this IS how it works

[rancid cipher]

If I increase by base mana regeneration of 4% by an additional 98%, that would be 7.92 mana per second. Does the game round that up, down, or does it just store everything that's not a whole number until they eventually become one in future ticks? Do you happen to know?

[past dust]

ive been shooting 3 grenades at a time this whole time

[thorny token]

game never rounds up

a lot of stuff is rounded to 2 decimals afaik

[frosty arrow]

I mean, some people prefer 3 nades and have scattershot on something else. As mentioned previously. But I like 5 grenades

[thorny token]

but always down if tht even happens (but it can handle decimal recovery and stuff just fine its not stored for future)

[frosty arrow]

Also, it's possible to gain 1 extra nade from corrupted crossbow. So bombard crossbow could shoot 2 extra grenades

[rancid cipher]

Ok got it, so I assume then it's kind of the third situation? If I regeneration 7.92 mana per second the first tick gives me 7, then the second tick would give me 8 since I'd be at 8.84?

Since I assume it can't just give me fractions of mana. hah

[thorny token]

it can it just wont be visible

[rancid cipher]

Got it, thanks for the help.

[heavy wigeon]

I rolled a nice fire staff, is there a build that takes good advantage of it?

Any class

[frosty arrow]

Yes, there's the one that you can make yourself. Since only you know what the staff is

[vale sage]

is ci es mom viable to t15+ maps? been seeing some videos for sparkmage where they stopped running ci

[rancid cipher]

Are there any nodes that reduce the duration of debuffs? Maybe a keyword to search so I can find them myself?

[gloomy jackal]

stuff like this

it's not as good as reducing duration of debuffs tho, can't get it to have no duration

its also a jewel mod iirc

[subtle ingot]

once you slot in a skill tree node on an amulet with a distilled emotion set, can it be removed or changed out later or is the amulet permanently stuck with it, like how runes are?

[delicate flower]

ideal venom draught picks for spark sorc on act 3 cruel?

it's attribute/chaos res/slow i think?

attribute is the least appealing but it seems like the best one so that i don't have to sacrifice attribute nodes for support gems

[gloomy jackal]

haven't tested yet but pretty sure you can just put new anoint to overwrite the old one

as long as item isn't corrupted

[thorny token]

attributes best imo, as far as suffix value goes chaos res and attrs are about the same but its better to die to chaos than not be able to use gems and items :d

also a lot of top side builds want to go CI eventually anyway

so chaos res will stop mattering at some point

[delicate flower]

yeah this is also what i was thinking

so chaos res seemed worthless

even though that's usually the no brainer with other classes

[thorny token]

i picked attribs on everything

[delicate flower]

o

[subtle ingot]

we sure about this?

[wet mango]

the explosions can shotgun. This quote is talking specifically about the proj part

[subtle ingot]

i feel the permanance of every other action i take in this game

rune slots are driving me insane

[wet mango]

i mean many of them do. That proj part (the bonk) can't shotgun, but the explosions can

[thorny token]

runes not being overwritable is just bad design imsure they will change that at some point

[gloomy jackal]

it looks like it's letting me do it. Not gonna test ofc :p

[subtle ingot]

okay cool thanks

[wet mango]

yes, attr travel nodes, small nodes, notables, keystones

[subtle ingot]

my amulet is kinda cracked so i didnt want to hate myself for picking the wrong skill tree node

[wet mango]

The "tick" is not per second, it's continuous. so like 1/30 or 1/25 * 7.92 for each 1/30 of a second.

[sharp tangle]

Anyone got a good ice strike monk build that can do most content? I've been following bens guide but since he died I dont know how to scale further

[echo yoke]

how much rarity is considered good for farming

[indigo cedar]

What're some good support gems for mana drain and cold snap ?

So far for mana drain i have mobility and arcane surge, cold snap I have cold penetration and execute.

[elder spade]

i notice most of the streamers wears this, is this really op?

[indigo cedar]

I wanna say only if u stack it to farm for drops

[elder spade]

useful in mapping?

[indigo cedar]

if u stack it

people stack it up to the hundreds

[elder spade]

whats ur overall rarity items found?

[indigo cedar]

I don't run it cause like i said I personally don't think it's worth it unless you stack tons of it

[thorny token]

thats not true, the first % of rarity are actually most useful

[wet mango]

It's very strong yes

[thorny token]

even if you dont want to stack ton of it few affixes arleady do a lot

[elder spade]

whats ur overall rarity items found?

[indigo cedar]

whats a good % to have ?

[thorny token]

and if the formula is any similar as in poe1 then the diminishing returns are very harsh

[wet mango]

Like 60%, 80 on bosses and rares (from gold charm)

[elder spade]

does this increase droppable like exalts and divines?

[thorny token]

it upgrades currency so technically yes

like lower tier currency gets upgraded to higher tier one with rarity etc

[wet mango]

In poe2 yes, it's why it's so strong

[thorny token]

(which was incredibly dumb decision to make but yea)

[wet mango]

(and many believe to be a mistake)

Lmao the parenthetical shade

[elder spade]

any monks here? whats the real price of this quarterstaff? im a sorc

[elder spade]

thanks

[thorny token]

not a channel for price checks

[elder spade]

only have 42% rarity 😭

[wet mango]

Good enough

Grab a gold charm if you can

[frosty arrow]

I've ran %rarity charm for a while now and can't say I feel much difference

[thorny token]

to put how the formula worke in poe1 to perspective, 50% rarity could easily be equivalent to half of power of someone with 200

[vagrant imp]

20 by itself for a singular mob will be hard to feel

[thorny token]

because of the harsh diminishing returns

[frosty arrow]

I mean, if you gotta have a little bit it might as well just be a charm. Because boosting discovery for rare and unique mobs seem to matter a bit. For trash barely

[fluid tide]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/5a6250bc-c400-4dfa-bd63-ef42219ffb6f/builds/aa172406-451e-4c6c-a8d4-57f1a4b7e6ad#skill-gems-0 thoughts?

[vagrant imp]

I think, and don't quote me on this, the diminishing returns are much less harsh in poe2 because of the way it interacts with currency.

[thorny token]

well that wouldnt make them any less harsh, just higher value as baseline

[frosty arrow]

But honestly if your build already steamrolls content you play then there's no reason not to have rarity on some of your gear

[vagrant imp]

Yeah. Little goes a long way over 100 maps

[midnight bolt]

saw people saying hourglass works on meta gems and ignore cd, is it true and is it intended? sounds busted

[frosty arrow]

Usually leveling gear I save for my new characters has rarity. It just helps find better stuff as I go through the game. And throughout campaign you don't need to minimax anything anyway

I mean, my warbringer is literally negative resistances in cruel rn. Doesn't even matter

[wet mango]

"skills you use yourself"

Triggered skills are not used