2┃build-planning

[celest oxide]

Demon Form

Hellhound bugged on console it doesn't work when you're in demon form

[opaque sparrow]

Oh yeah fick demon form lol

[mortal cloak]

So you can run gas/explo nade together with no other detonator or radiant grief

[marble stone]

all i know is theres the support gem

[celest oxide]

I love Demon Form lol

[quartz pewter]

What type of Quiver do you usually go for if you are using Widowhail?

[mortal cloak]

yep but I use it as well

[marble stone]

id try looking for uniques

[fiery wave]

i cant paly without demon form

[mortal cloak]

You need the gem and the 25% from the tree for this to work

[fiery wave]

your eso much faster

[opaque sparrow]

A good one. Other than that,no idea.

[celest oxide]

I feel that

It's just a really fun playstyle imo

[fiery wave]

yeah

[celest oxide]

Would be more fun if I could have my fuckin dog though smh

[quartz pewter]

I imagine one with + levels to bow skills and then something else

[fiery wave]

ive been working on getting capped demon form to work since start

and i think im almost there

lol

[marble stone]

whats ur life regen at

[celest oxide]

I want my damn dog GGG!

[fiery wave]

i only need 27 point sof regen

i think im at 37

[celest oxide]

If anyone on console been able to figure out how to get hound to work in demon form let me know plsssss

[marble stone]

only?

[celest oxide]

I'm desperate

[fiery wave]

yes i cap it

[marble stone]

37% or just 37

[celest oxide]

is flat regen capped at 27 per second?

[fiery wave]

maybe it turned off the ability

[marble stone]

or are you running the 10 max demon flame

[fiery wave]

no my demonform is capped at 10 stacks

[marble stone]

ohhhh

[celest oxide]

It does and I can't turn it back on without a mouse

[fiery wave]

thats why it took so long to buildcraft

to get enough damage somewhere xd

[marble stone]

mhm

whats the advantage of the capped demon form

[fiery wave]

you have more slots for stuff like magic find

you dont have to switch 😄

and i just like not doing the obvious thing everyone already figured out

[marble stone]

i only have to worry about the stacks when im around 290 demon flame

[celest oxide]

I feel like you can get uncapped demon form to last the length of a whole map anyways

cause you're so fast already

[fiery wave]

its probably objectively worse

[celest oxide]

the only meh part is the ramp up at start of the map

[fiery wave]

well one benefit is you wont die to poison

because you have 500 health

[celest oxide]

Does Console poe2 support Mouse and Keyboard actually?

[marble stone]

mhm

[celest oxide]

I might be able to fix this lol

I have so much Chaos Res I never even notice the poison lol

[marble stone]

if you take the node where your life is energy shield it's fine

[fiery wave]

the reserve node?

[short swan]

is this thing any good?

and if so why

[balmy fable]

@thorny token is it safe to assume cannot shock doesnt prevent the lightning damage from freezing w/ three dragons?

[fiery wave]

anyway i do have almost 8k es and a 0.85s cast time on 10 stage flameblast that autotriggers corpse explosion

so breach and stuff is really nice

boss damage is still c+ but maybe if i ever get a +3 levels of flameblast gem it might be a b-

and then im done

and will finish the content 😄

[celest oxide]

I'm fucking devastated I was having so much fun levelling this infernalist, and now my 2nd ascendency is useless (3rd and 4th ascendencies are useless until I have like 12 Divines worth of rubies, too).

[fiery wave]

what are you running right now

did you check if the dog is deactivated

[valid crow]

i have edlrich batter on passive tree but i still have some es left wtf

[balmy fable]

what amulet are you using

[fiery wave]

does it show the circle :}

[balmy fable]

its probably from everlasting gaze

[fiery wave]

ghostwrithe?

[valid crow]

everylasting

[fiery wave]

i have eldritch battery and 8k es

[balmy fable]

that's why, EB doesnt convert the ES everlasting gives you, so it lets you have both

[valid crow]

WHAT really?

[balmy fable]

yes, we dont know if its a bug or not but for now it does

[fiery wave]

i have around 3k mana

[valid crow]

i hoped its a bug

[fiery wave]

i mean if they ever nerf ghostwrithe i might need to switch to mings but i feel they will also nerf writhe + mings

i feel they gonna put it after reductions

[celest oxide]

what do you guys think I should take for my 2nd Ascendency then

I'm eventually gonna go Pyromancer's Pact but that's endgame when I can afford to build around it

[rustic coral]

whats the point of witch hunter. it seems deadeye and gemling are way better for all of its builds

seems like the worst acendency by far

[celest oxide]

Is there any way to click on aura's in skill gem menu on console

[brazen verge]

Guys could you please explain what makes the gemling expensive? Upping gem quality or other things too?

[barren snow]

Any Gemlin flickerstrike out there?

[fiery wave]

btw. if you need a gaze you can still get them cheaply

or try to chance it

the chance odds are not bad

on gaze

i think pyro pact sucks unless you do a es loss buildaround

i got up to 90% fire res and it still was unreliable

it is okay damage

but better to stack mana if possible

its so much investment for a 1,2 mult thats active only hafl the time

[rustic coral]

Wait do this bug make grenade builds S tier again after the over nerf?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9HR4iG6YiM

lol

also why can't i talk in the merc chat

[proud sorrel]

for a warrior using Boneshatter, it says this ability doesn't build stun so would Impact Shockwave be useless on it?

[still rock]

That's weird, gain x% should work before conversion like damage does

probably bugged

[fiery wave]

i cant believe it

i wasted 3 divs failing to vaal one and 3 divs buying an orb

i cant believe it

the frigging omen actually saved

[timid cipher]

do these work together with eldritch battery?

[fiery wave]

the first time

it will probably give you es

and not mana

try it out its 1ex

wait i can try for you

[timid cipher]

theory crafting at work atm haha

[runic basin]

What orb do you use to add more support gem slots to skill gems?

[fiery wave]

it works

@timid cipher

you will get energy shield

[timid cipher]

ohh so it doesnt convert to mana from eldritch battery?

[fiery wave]

nope

[timid cipher]

huh, interesting

[fiery wave]

i mean thats the build half the mana stacking people run

you stack mana as much as possible then u use azure amulet to get es

you get like 500% es multiplier and 30% max mana

i mean from 30% max mana

i run azure and writhe

[neat bison]

Guess my next re-roll is Spark Sorc

Vendor moment

[fiery wave]

problem is market is full, you can get a shiny dollar for that prolly

unless you needed

[neat bison]

It’s SSF

So it’s beautiful

I hadn’t really planned on playing spark but now I have to

[bright pine]

id level one but I'm 99% sure it's getting giganerfed in a few days lol

[fiery wave]

frigg the server booted me i hate losing a juiced map and node

[regal turtle]

anyone know if runes with on kill effects are global for all kills

[rugged kraken]

The witch cant use any spirit auras or her infernal hound while in demon form?

[mystic shard]

**Anyone have Doryanis damage numbers for normal mode, act 3, first time u fight him?

Really just for his crab slam**

anyone know the exact number?

[rapid star]

Time to gove this stupid idea another go lol

Only wish to know if I should Use Ice strike or Flurry

[tiny brook]

hey y'all, I'm running galvanic shards + stormburst rn
I thought of dumping all shock duration and magnitude from my main tree and having an alternate tree with shock nodes + mark nodes for stormcaller arrow + voltaic mark. Single target seems good so far, the wep swap stuff is smooth, but I feel like galvanic shards might be struggling a bit to clear. Does it rely on applying decently strong shocks to clear or do I just need to upgrade my wep ?

or maybe use another clear skill

[mystic shard]

@ me if anyone sees that above, thx.

[thin basin]

poe2dbtw if you want to know damage numbers

also "damage on the crab slam" is kinda iffy as all attack have damage rolls and differnet build have different amount of mitigations and other sources of damage reduction

[tidal copper]

I don't know if they have damage numbers
Go there and tank the slam to test!

[timid cipher]

https://poe2db.tw/Doryanis_Triumph

[boreal hound]

any advice on which one i should use?

[mystic shard]

yeah I can't know if it's accurate but,a nd the slam isn't on there.

the body slam

[mystic shard]

hardcore

[tidal copper]

I...
I fail to see the issue?

[timid cipher]

isnt this it?

but yeah, these are just base numbers anyway and actual dmg will be more

[blissful stratus]

If I was looking to convert my defenses AWAY from armor, what options would I have? I'm worried that if I go ES, despite being able to have a huge ES pool, I wouldnt be able to 1. recharge it and die eventually, and 2. pay for my mana costs upkeep (currently Blood Magic)

[subtle gust]

Is there anywhere to price check an item or 2?

[fiery wave]

how is this game even playable without loot filter

[tidal copper]

What about a cloak of flame
Heat proof armour combo and you invest in some max resistances?

[supple jay]

does electrocution comsume a shock?

[fiery wave]

that how my screen looks rofl

on my actual screen is like 2 items

[mystic shard]

any way to duel wield shields?

[mystic shard]

is it? well it must be more, damn I wish I knew.

[blissful stratus]

I could definitely do that, but I feel like if I get an ES setup that works, it would be significantly stronger, and I have access to a possible swap to eS, but I have no idea how to make it work

I am a str stacker, and with a timeless jewel I could get ~400% inc ES

[mystic shard]

does ruin from the trials of chaos kill u

or just make u fail the chaos run?

[gray ferry]

Can you change the annoinment/amulet passive allocation on an amulet?

[empty comet]

Can Brutality be used with Avatar of Fire or will the multiplier be calculated after avatar of fire converts the dmg and brutality ends up cancelling it out?

still trying to figure out the order of execution on combat damage mechanisms

it appears it will zero out the dmg, but im testing

[thin basin]

oh yea i 1 tap +4 corrupted irradiated citadel bosses too

[pearl sluice]

Just to confirm you can have multiples of the same skill yeah, just not the same support skill, like you could have a skill set up as a meta trigger and a manual spell, they'd need different support gems obviously

[astral badger]

i just started using Chaos Innoculation, with 600 mana regen per second and 3700 mana. I keep getting one tapped despite having full mana. why is this?

[empty comet]

confirmed, do NOT combine brutality and avatar of fire, you will do zero dmg lol

[astral badger]

the enemy that did it just now was a random common melee enemy

[cinder timber]

Is there a way to get one of the larger Passive nodes that's far away without connecting the branches to it?

[median kraken]

Instilling an amulet using delirium items

[neat bison]

If you mean keystones like Chaos Innoculation, no. Notables can be instilled onto an amulet though.

[blissful stratus]

Does faster start of ES recharge exist on gear as a stat?

[neat bison]

Maybe on jewels

[median kraken]

At least some pieces. I know you can get it on jewels and there's a chest base with it as an implicit.

[cinder timber]

There is a node on the ranger tree that doubles your Evasion on your body armour. But I am merc and far away from it. Would love to some how get it. Even if it's putting it on an amulet?

Sorry not ES

[median kraken]

Hold alt on it and it'll tell you which 3 delirium things it takes. You need to get those three (easiest way is currency exchange), then right click one to open up.the instilling interface. Put your amulet in, and the 3 items in order, and it'll show you what passive it'll give. If you put the right ones in it'll give you the one you want, click okay to apply it.

[rigid timber]

hi i have a question - i am a chaos innocoulation monk and i equipped these 2 thinking that the 1 on the right would give me more ES but i was wrong. One on the left gives me 3256 ES while the 1 on the right gives 3236. can someone explain to me why that is?

[thin basin]

base arbiter have like 7m hp

1 tapd too

[fiery wave]

i wish i wouldnt drop so many pointless uniques and some more currency

[median kraken]

Simplest guess: you need the dex on the left one to equp a different piece of gear with more ES than the right piece.

You maybe have some sort of passive or other gear giving you ES based on other things. Like Ghostwrithe or Everlasting Gaze.

[proud sorrel]

Would Life Thief work on groups of enemies killed by Bone shatter?

[rigid timber]

i have enough stats to equip all my items. i am not using any uniques. also the evasion rating and ES on the right one should mean i have higher es no?

[barren snow]

So im doing a gemling flickerstrike.
For now i have only used herald of thunder, how can i add herald of ice for more aoe (att stacking)

[rigid timber]

oh wait i am stupid. u were right. not enough dex for other gear. fixed now thanks!

[neat bison]

Cold infusion on HoT, Lightning infusion on HoI, get some cold dmg for freeze or get unique sapphire ring to shatter chilled

[barren snow]

Thanks

[woeful sundial]

did get some kind of evasion penalty for hitting t9 maps

[cinder timber]

Well I'm controller lol. Should be interesting.

I also still find that a little confusing to do as a new player. But I'll take it a step at a time. Really appreciate the information!

[neat bison]

You should get the info with R3 when you’re hovering the node

[cinder timber]

Awesome. I'll check it out. I already have delirium. Still not sure how it work on an amulet.

[mystic shard]

I've heard you need 10x the armour of a hit you recieve to take 90% less damage.

How much for 50% or 10%?

[teal hearth]

Anyone have a good warrior build for campaign?

[radiant crown]

Is resonating shield good?

[glad bone]

yea with archmage scaling

spark is better but arc isnt bad, either requires AM

[upbeat ivy]

Link to a build to use and follow for levelling my ranger?

starting from level 1 want to go into pathfinder

[mortal cloak]

feeling a little tanky finally

[glad bone]

there's countless archmage sorc guides to find on youtube/etc

[golden sky]

Qn: is there a cooldown to jagged ground eruptions? (aka if 2 shockwave totems hits a jagged ground at the same time, does it erupt once or twice?)

[glad bone]

afaik there's only one cluster on the tree specific to spark (projectile speed), so you should be able to adapt any of them. i'd also not be surprised if there's an arc one

[lone wave]

anybody know off the top of their head all the uniques that have attribute scaling

[south rose]

anyone succesfully make a ice-based merc build? been looking around but can't find anything

[cinder timber]

Wanting a bow that loads an extra bolt as explosive shot is my main shot. I'm just not sure what to look for. Still just the most Physical Damage I can get for my budget?

[past cargo]

what happens if i use a tier 1 map in iron citadel ?

[thin basin]

t15+ required

[mystic shard]

are you allowed to use respawn at checkpoint on hardcore

?

as I used it, should be fine right?

[hallow spruce]

What’s best demon form build rn?

Is it just hexblast?

[royal hamlet]

Whats accuracy for melee? I miss way too many attacks

[past dust]

do you guys think they will nerf cold and lightning heralds?

[neat bison]

Probably but I hope it’s still usable

Lots of fun as a combo

[mystic shard]

what ar esome methods for maximum block chance

anyone know?

[gray crag]

does this glove lock your crit dmg to 300%?

[thin basin]

the anvil unique amulet give you 3-5% max block chance

[thin basin]

yes

[lost sable]

is there some sort of breakpoint% needed for ingenuity? i have barely enough divs for a mid roll one uncorrupted not sure if i should go all-in on it

[gray crag]

thanks, was wondering if its an option to use for monk so i can skip crit dmg nodes.

[delicate bramble]

does armor explosion suck now?

[neat bison]

For auto attack explosions you basically require a cultist greathammer now

[cosmic arch]

Is cast on ignite bugged in demon form ??

[median kraken]

I mean, for any given build and gear there effectively is. It's the point where the extra stats it gives you for your rings is better than the stats you get from a different belt (enough that it's worth the currency). There isn't just some universal threshold, though. It just depends on your build and rings.

[delicate bramble]

what about those rapid fire armor breaking rounds for merc??

[valid turret]

Does anyone here play warrior? I have a question about life recoup and blood magic? 🙏 (does the blood magic count as a "hit" for life recoup?)

[neat bison]

No clue tbh, I haven’t touched crossbows yet

[mystic shard]

no runes or soul cores or anything else puttable on a rune slot to give something flat energy shield?

|
I can increase defenses on an item and would like energy shield (and woudl rune slots even apply if it did?)

[mystic shard]

mana use doesn't for mana recoup, so prob not sadly.

[valid turret]

F. thanks though 🙏

[mystic shard]

honestly u can usually laugh off life costs with 1% hp regen and one mana regen item

[valid turret]

oh word, thanks!

[mystic shard]

I guess it dpeends on how much mana ur using though

I usually use pretty low

and im a mage

[valid turret]

you have no idea how long I've been trying to find this out hahaha

Thank you so much lol

[mystic shard]

=D

[wheat marlin]

What are the elite high ES builds? I know archmage spark, any others?

[pearl sluice]

This isn't going to kill me as CI is it?

[honest turret]

where do you see the crit chance of a skill? i can only see crit dmg inside tooltip

[lone wave]

CI sets life to 1. All other life changes should be irrelevent.

[cunning panther]

what build uses death's harp ?

[lone wave]

None of them.
Multi arrow builds use a dualstring that rolled +1 arrow.

[wheat marlin]

Not true, Jung made a build with HOWA + Death's Harp

[quiet mango]

Anyone able to gear review me? somewhat struggling with T11 and would like to get to t15 as a spark stormweaver

[wheat marlin]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/bowa-int-stacker-jungroan

[jaunty flame]

how does the megalomaniac jewel work

im looking at it but i don't understand it

[lone wave]

better, worse, whatever, what do you think is more fun for tri element sorc, stacking cast on ailment's, or stacking heralds

[untold valley]

should my cousin (merc) just say fuck armor/health and path to es/evasion?

he wants to explode stuff but armor blows and he explodes instead

and idk bout pure evasion

[lone wave]

Theres no such thing as 100% evade chance so you need something to prevent the one shot when evade doesn't proc, after all

[untold valley]

indeed. armor is busted so go es?

[lone wave]

For the merc? Over on the opposite side of everything es?
I mean one can stretch to es if they want to, but I'd go the "don't get hit" route

[keen knot]

for any1 running deadeye cast on shock / freeze, ( lighting arrow )how important is pierce ( not the gem but as a stat ) ?

[lone wave]

There's a quiver for 100% pierce chance if you're so inclined

[keen knot]

im just asking how important it is

[lone wave]

entirely depends what skills youre using. Some of them are calldowns, so no pierce, and some are supposed to hit then chain, instead of piercing.

[keen knot]

like wether pierce is needed on ur char and if its very helpful even to have a little pierce chance , im using lightning arrow for mobs

[lone wave]

which chains, but it wont start chaining if the arrow pierced through the enemy instead

actually

it fires off a beam when hitting, so maybe it'll chain and pierce

[keen knot]

hm ok

[vale sun]

Hello is life leech considered as regeneration? Using the zealots oath will give me ES from excessive life leech?

[neat bison]

Not regeneration but recovery

I believe

[glad bone]

no, leech is not regen

you can get excess life leech converted to ES leech using the "soul tether" unique belt, but it is currently bugged and doesn't work on bloodmage or couture of crimson

[marsh river]

has anyone else noticed that eldritch battery and max mana bonuses/max ES bonuses seem bit wonky?

i take passive that gives 40 ES, but my result mana drops, reset it, it stays the same low

[midnight bolt]

isnt this node just dogshit, maybe my numbers are wrong but its 25% to refun 50%, so 1/4x1/2 energy gains, which is ~12.5%, is this even worth?

[neat bison]

EB converts your base ES from gear I believe and conversion happens first in the order of things so if you have a 40% ES node it’s getting applied to a value of 0 ES.

[lone wave]

Indeed. If you intend to use Eldritch Batter, there's no point to having any %energy shield anywhere in your build.

[marsh river]

but why it then lowered my max mana?

[foggy epoch]

Yo people how do i make inearth do damage as a witch im blood i put points into physical and its done nothing

[marsh river]

i know, but it was on way to int

was gonna path through that node to int, but smh lost max mana on way

[glad bone]

respeccing is buggy sometimes you have to relog to update your passives

[glad bone]

your assumption is correct, and that's a pretty large DPS increase for only one notable. i'm not sure if it's additive or independent of the support gem for 50%, so it's either 75% refund with both, OR it could be like 50% half, 18% chance for half, and 6.25% chance to fully refund energy sometimes

[marsh river]

k, whats the best way to pile up some big mana? doesent seem to be many options in passives

[foggy epoch]

Gear, nodes with mana

Shield to mana

[marsh river]

did that, not many mana nodes

[foggy epoch]

Or there is a support gem you put on your main skill that activates arcane surge and put points into that also

I only have 1400 mana and never run out because of the regen i probably can go down to like 1k mana and be totally fine or less

Im tryna make a physical blood witch is hard

[glad bone]

gear, int stacking, eldritch battery

[marsh river]

yeah im trying to create a buffer of mana until i get better gear

[foggy epoch]

Im waiting til ggg fices the bug of my last 2 points

[marsh river]

i dont even actually cast anything with hit

[foggy epoch]

Im at 22 free points and the 24th ones bugged on quest

[marsh river]

odd detonate here and there

[foggy epoch]

Build health use sacrifice minions and detonate dead

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[main spear]

I still never took the first venom draught lol idk what to do for bloodmage

[neat bison]

I believe mages are the only minions ppl are building crit on and it also requires a jewel I don’t know the name of

[torn quiver]

ailment threshold if you dont want mana i believe

[obsidian galleon]

Monk Invoker: is charged staff spammable? i.e is there a way to have 100% or near 100% uptime of power charges required to use charged staff
I love this spell and want to build around this
looks so cool

[neat bison]

Crit reavers might work in the same way I just haven’t seen it

[vale sun]

Life Leech can Overflow Maximum Life. How high can I overflow?

[marsh river]

are reavers special? i dont even see crit stat on arsonists or warriors

[neat bison]

It’s in their info page somewhere

It’s usually a sad base chance

[marsh river]

its not unless im blind

[foggy epoch]

I was on a full chaos build worked so well melted everything was messing with tree to see stuff and accidentally hit apply am fked now

[obsidian galleon]

do you remember the name fo the gem?

[neat bison]

Here I’ve actually screenshotted it before lol

[marsh river]

errm where do you even see stats for fire bomb? i was looking under arsonist tab

ohh the tabs lol

subtabs

my guess is if id take crit increase on 5%, it would be calculated from that tiny 5%, ie 10% added to 5% would be 5.5%

pretty much completely useless since base is so small

[neat bison]

Yep

[hot dew]

Hey all what's the best ascendancy for Monk? Its asking me to choose my ascendancy Yaay

[frail girder]

whats the best endgame minion build rn?

[balmy fable]

@thorny token is it still worth running polcirkeln w/ tri herald setup?

@soft lake so siege cascade is fine, it isnt as smooth for clear as galvanic though

[silver anvil]

i need 5 spirit from somewhere, is there any easy way i can try to get it?

[carmine sun]

is the +minion accuracy node good for skeletal arsonists?

[neat bison]

If you want to risk a vaal on your helmet, spirit is one of the outcomes

[thorny token]

probsbly yea

[neat bison]

No their splash dmg bypasses accuracy check

[upbeat igloo]

Question. If I had the ring that converts all elemental damage to chaos damage, would it also convert my passives aswell?

[thorny token]

no

[ruby oxide]

whats a good skill in CoF? i am trying profane ritual, doesnt seem to do much, or im not noticing the chaos

[marsh river]

i just cant get good mana it seems, not with this armor piece that while gives 100 spirit, removes int bonus mana

swapping it to lower spirit armor however screws everything else up

@carmine sun im not by any means expert, but i think its rather niche, against evasive enemies etc

[neat bison]

Their firebombs are aoe

So no accuracy needed

[balmy fable]

only thing im wondering about is HoI will no longer be chilling right

actually

with three dragons

yeah

the HoI explosions wont be able to trigger it i think

cuz cold damage ignites instead of chills

[thorny token]

ah true. then yea might not be needed

[balmy fable]

idk if its better to run HoI w/ it or three dragons without

three dragons does seem fairly smooth tho

also man plasma blast is so clunky but

so cool

[thorny token]

yea wish it scaled tad more from attack speed

still pretty fun skill imo

[balmy fable]

it definitely charges faster from ias but yeah needs more

i put scattershot on it and it charges so slow LMAO

probably not worth but funny to have 5x rail gun blasts

i think if u want it to play smooth

[thorny token]

well the difference shouldnt be too big because the forced +2s attack time do not changes with attack speed

[balmy fable]

u go martial tempo on it

[balmy fable]

it makes a fairly large difference in the actual charge time it hink

idk how much though

u def need some increased stun threshold or something tho

[thorny token]

well lets say the base attack time is 1s, so any attack speed investment only affects 1/3 of the charging speed pretty much

[balmy fable]

hm

so maybe not worth investing in at all then

idk it seems like the trick is learning exactly when u can release the shot

thing is the damage on it is great and the skill itself is SUPER fun

but yea its pain if u get stunned out of it killing a rare or something

might need some stun threshold somewhere or something

but imo its a LOT more fun to boss with than shockburst rounds

though shockburst is like

objectively more consistent

[thorny token]

well you can use unbreakable and also mobility + momentum as i said before i think

idk how worth is unbreakable tho but i use it on snipe at least

[pearl sluice]

Can you have multiples of the same skill? Like one on a meta gem, one manual cast?

[fiery aurora]

Guys need help:
For the infernal witch build, the alter flesh skill from ascendancy convert my fire/chaos resis to dmg. Is it conversion from the max cap at 75% or my actual total resistance

[trail monolith]

Shockburst Rounds actually firing is a projectile, but are the pulses it triggers on hitting Shocked / Electrocuted enemies also count as one?

[thorny token]

projectile damage still scales those as well

[pearl sluice]

Can you have multiples of the same skill, not a support skill, like one on a meta gem, one manual cast?

[thorny token]

sure

[hollow idol]

Guys I need help. It’s been 3 weeks and I’m still in act 2 normal due to choice paralysis with builds.

I’m always afraid of GGG nerfing skill interactions constantly, and it’s preventing me from progressing in any meaningful way as I keep rerolling new characters

[thorny token]

builds do not matter that much in acts anyway so just level whatever

on asc that can play bunch of stuff

[trail monolith]

get a Gemling Merc since they can basically spec into anything, sell every loot and amass hundreds of thousands of golds for rerolling 10+ builds

[silver anvil]

how much worse is a pathfinder concoc build without quiver bonus jewels?

[hollow idol]

I want to get to endgame but I’m always fearing of bricking my build long term

[thorny token]

not much worse

[placid tree]

which is better i cant tell honestly new to this genre

[peak slate]

Anyone here playing icewall fireball blood mage?

[high lance]

what does offerings have 30% reduced maximum life mean?

[balmy fable]

worth trying yeah

is it possible to do triherald w/ a lightning skill for clear? idk if im gonna ultimately stick with siege cascade or switch to galvanic

havent decided

[alpine cloak]

does whispers of doom make hexblast do double damage?

[iron harbor]

No

[thorn cargo]

Should I buy this to replace this?

[cinder river]

Is recoup considered mana leech?

[balmy fable]

no

[cinder river]

Is Recoup life considered regeneration for Zealots Oath?

[thorny token]

no

[rare mulch]

Do you need Accuracy Rating if you take Resolute Technique?

[peak slate]

anyone palying blood mage ?

im playing icewall fireball build, im level 81 3rd ascendancy and i feel like my class is slow in clearing any other fun op builds ?

[fervent yacht]

is there actually any cold sorc build that can compete with sparkchmage

[past dust]

omg I jest discovered the power of weapon sets

[iron slate]

Hi Can you help me with normal build for Witch Blood Mage ?

[zenith palm]

Guys I am new playing from poe1. And now I am following one build at mobalytics and don’t understand one thing. Attaching photo. What does it mean? Am I blind but I can’t see these at passive tree? So these something different? Could someone help me to figure out?

[balmy fable]

@thorny token i think enduring is it

erm not enduring

unbreakable

lul

makes it feel so much nicer

[thorny token]

yea unbreakable is great

[balmy fable]

well before i couldnt get it off

would get stunned mid charge

with unbreakable i magically never get stunned lmao

[balmy fable]

means youre taking those nodes on the tree for leveling

[rare mulch]

Uh. Wide Barrier didn't drop my armor at all, despite the 25% reduction in Global . Is that a bug?

[zenith palm]

You mean in general? Looking for those who adds what is asking?

[sweet cradle]

i have mana issue on my lightning strike slayer

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/KuroYuuKii-0656/characters

care to have a look>?

[balmy fable]

this channel is for poe2

[sweet cradle]

oh

oopsie

[thorny token]

i think some knockbakcs can still interrupt you but yea

[pearl sluice]

Hey man, I'm playing a fire mage titan too, and as you said, I'm learning more into hit

[scarlet cipher]

can somebody help why im getting so low damage at level 84 I have also flat damage on rings and gloves and also jewels socketed in skill tree,

[zenith palm]

Still can’t catch it 😦 those are not at a passive tree or am I blind?

[indigo pilot]

@zenith palm the passive tree has a search box that might help

[rare mulch]

Wide Barrier didn't drop my armor at all, despite the 25% reduction in Global Defences. Is that a bug?

[mystic osprey]

is fireball a good single target spell?

[lethal pawn]

how much spirit could i get on a invoker built for spirit

[median kraken]

It's okay if you combine it with frost wall and extra projectiles to shotgun the explosions. Bad by itself unless an enemy's right next to a wall.

[fast wind]

Are you able to use multiple cast on skill of the same type?

[median kraken]

Yes

The main thing with fireball frost wall for single target is that it's kind of super inconsistently. It's best with wildshards and the nodes on the tree that give extra proj and depends on frost wall positioning, so sometimes. You get tons of projectiles and all the explosions overlap and it nukes things, but sometimes you get unlucky or place the wall wrong or the enemy destroys the wall before you fireball it and it feels bad.

Also, even with fireball, I tuink the best way to scale it is still.Archmage right now

[fast wind]

I tried to put another one on and it said that I already have one equipped

Nvm I figured it out

User error

[past dust]

how do curses work? The enemy has 40% fire res, I have 50% fire penetration on my weapon and I use Flammability, will the enemy fire res be 0 or -35%?

[median kraken]

Flammability will lower the enemy fire res, then if they still have any fire res left penetration will let you ignore it and treat it as 0

Penetration doesn't lower enemy resistance, it just let's you ignore a certain amount of resistances but can't go negative (unlike PoE1), so it's not super useful if you're already lowering enemy resistances by a lot with things like curses or exposure

[lethal pawn]

can i get any signifigent spirit on the invoker monk or is it not worth it i need somthing like over 500 spirit

[dawn spire]

Idk the node, but you can check the conversion rate and see how much you can get on chest pieces on the trade site and do the math

[past dust]

I know how penetration works and that curses can get enemy res below 0 I just didint know in what order do they apply

[dawn spire]

Penetration is always after resistance reduction

[lethal pawn]

am asking before i decide to make the build

[past dust]

what about exposure?

[dawn spire]

Yeah, and I'm saying you can check the invoker node that gives spirit and then see how high the pieces of gear can go on the trade site and what they cost

[dawn spire]

Exposure is a type of resistance reduction

[median kraken]

Curse first. The curse lowers the enemy's resistance, while penetration applies when damage is being calculated (against the enemy whose resistance is already lowered). Same for exposure or any other resistance lowering effect.

Think about it this wag: the curse changes what their resistance is. Penetration changes how your damage is calculated based on how much resistance they have. It wouldn't make sense for penetration to apply first.

Penetration doesn't lower resistance, it ignores it

Granted, switching the order would be a say to buff penetration since it seems kind of weak now.

[crystal storm]

Rules of resists updated right, so curses and exposure can get mob below 0% but resist pen doesnt right?

[delicate hawk]

So I'm trying out a Spiral Volley Deadeye right now; I currently have the +1 pierce to arrows at the bottom right of the tree but I noticed that other similar builds do not use it, while in my mind it was a no-brainer. Spiral Volley chains when it consumes frenzy charges, but I guess that doesn't happen on pierces; is that the downside/it's bad enough to not want pierce?

[tribal hound]

whats the max evasion % you can have ? 75% ?

[median kraken]

Right

[balmy fable]

ya now this feels like an actual build

siege cascade + plasma blast

bit weird and scuffed but

very fun

only issue is i have to reload my siege cascade after every shot and it costs 1/4 of my mana LMAO

i was going to go shockblast or whatveer it is but

plasma blast so fun

[dull spade]

Hey guys, does Zealous inquisition scale with % damage?

[vast moth]

is it possible to use the same gem in 2 different skills?

[balmy fable]

not unless ur a gemling

[vast moth]

gemling?

[thorny token]

well theres also helmet for that right

[balmy fable]

uh maybe? not sure

man im honestly tempted to drop 3 dragons for blueflame bracers + polcirkeln

though 3 dragons is also quite nice

[dawn spire]

can you freeze/shatter/proc Herald of Ice on frost walls you attack?

[zenith palm]

it helps man ! thx

[dull spade]

Does anyone know if zealous inquisition is scaleable through % dmg increases?

[dawn spire]

what is zealous inquisition?

[dull spade]

witch hunter ascendancy

[mossy wave]

does conservative casting help reduce life costs for blood mage spells?

[wary wave]

Sometimes I feel like the game is trolling me.. why is light radius an attack modifier

[dawn spire]

yes, it scales with your global physical and area damage

[wary wave]

essence of battle gave me light radius

[dawn spire]

it comes with accuracy, which affects attacks

[median kraken]

Because it also gives accuracy. But yeah, it's a bad hit for that essence

[wary wave]

yeah

it's just so fucking troll

[median kraken]

GGG doesn't like deterministic crafting. They want bad mods in there as possible misses

[wary wave]

I also feel like I never have issues with accuracy

or maybe I just don't notice it ?

[thorny token]

noone does really

[wary wave]

last question

is there an essence that gives a "critical" modifier ?

[thorny token]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Essence

no

[wary wave]

ah okay

then I'll just have to keep using "attack"

[hoary ingot]

i need this for dual curse on my blasphemy right

[thorny token]

that or the + curse ring

[wary wave]

Is there a way to control the tiers of mods ? Does higher item level increase the probability of having higher tier mods or just the highest tier mod we can get ?

[thorny token]

just the one you can get

[hoary ingot]

right now i have 5 25% curse area increase jewels, these bullshit nodes and these 2

if thats not enough for what i want i need to go to this jewel too

[rugged lily]

What's a low-investment way to apply shock as a minion build? Ball lightning+lightning warp to create shocked ground? Or just switch one of my minions to storm mages?

[mystic osprey]

life recoup nodes dont help the lost life that's coming from demon form, right? I've seen a guide that took recoup for the damage and several guides tells that your fire dog decreases the life loss from demon form. but "lose life" in tooltip says life loss is not damage

[pearl sluice]

Is it worth to get like 4-5k armour on an ES build? How much phy reduction does that give realisticly in endgame?

[thorny token]

its just waste of time

get pure es bases you will be tankier

[potent hearth]

Am I missing a support gem to increase shock application ? Trying to swap to LC

[dim rune]

does "gain damage as extra" work for dots?

[neat bison]

Conduction should be what you are looking for

[frail pollen]

is infernalist witch still good after the nerf? so far Ive found it 100X easier than my merc and have flown through act 1

[potent hearth]

Thank you!

Not sure if orb of storm would be enough to apply shock, maybe I'll play elem storm

[viral yarrow]

Why there is absolutely no good chaos build everything I saw yet is ultra struggling with bosses etc. so did you found anything good?

[prisma echo]

Does anyone know how people fire 3 Storm Waves at once? Someone said to use scattershot sup gem but it doesn't allow me to socket into storm wave

[thorny token]

chaos outside of poison has barely any support in this game (one of most unfinished archetypes so far)

[hallow flax]

I don't suppose there is a tool similar to D2 Armor Picker in Destiny where you can find "perfect" setups based on a given stat you want (like trying to get to a 75% resistance threshold on all 4 types)?

I find it very difficult to know what exactly I should swap with to balance things out as I approach the max negative modifiers.

[thorny token]

but there are some very strong poison builds

tht you can make

[thorny token]

nope

there is pob for poe1 and there will be pob for poe2 eventually

[potent hearth]

Path of more building 2 electric boogaloo

[quick urchin]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/archmage-spark-ci-animeprincess
can someone help please?
which weapon is the secondary ( i think a staff with sigil of power) and is the green lines meant for the wand and shield because or the staff because they are for dps and i think the curse durations are for staffs because thats the secondary?

[potent hearth]

Oh interesting build tyty

[pale oak]

hello guys

[hidden hound]

hey, anyone know if the quality % to skele arsonists increases their normal damage or just their Special attack? as it only shows under the command tab

[pale oak]

what support gems should i use on unbound avatar

[tidal copper]

Is 1% life regen worth a point in the tree

[snow sierra]

quality dos nothing for arsonist, compared from multiple sources

[hidden hound]

ah ok ty

[fiery loom]

Yo if i take this and refund it, it doesnt give u the spirit back.

💀

[thorny token]

you made your choice now live with it ez

[fiery loom]

make no sense but ok.

[thorny token]

yea its a bug try to relog or change zone

[hoary ingot]

thoughts on this recoup/slow on enemies with blasphemy + temporal chains? jewels will have ES increase and 25% curse area increase will have 4 of them, recoup effects from ascend points and 20% moe slow on emeies that get close.

the goal is to slow everything as much as possible and if i get hit i will be tanky/regain the lost hp, mana and ES back immediately

open for any suggestions

[static spade]

Does damage from ignite get affected if I increase fire damage and fire resist penetration?

[snow sierra]

The problem with recoup is, you have no way of getting your lifepool so high that you dont get oneshot, so recoup is usless on the count of life beeing not rly useable. The slow is kinda great, but using blasphemy is a insane premimum solution. With Selfcast Temp chains you get way higher slow magitute and with hexbloom on breaches its great. Also you have the benfit of just doing a weapon swap for curses, where you can, if you want include timestop

[hoary ingot]

you know i wanted it to be active at all times without pressing a button

[snow sierra]

yes but it cost spirit, makes your slow worse, and dos not allow you to outsource the points to a second weapon set

so premium

[hoary ingot]

well instead of recoup i guess i can get more ES and CI

i have everlasting gaze in my stash sitting

[snow sierra]

i used recoup for progress and leveling that was very nice there. but later on it was useless. So it came to full ES build, then ok now i have to spend the asc points somewhere. Ok Timestop...timestop is usless without investment. ok timestop weapon set. Might asswell put curses in there

[hoary ingot]

but i REALLY want shit to be slowed down so they cant move at all

with time stop i had a lot of problems

[snow sierra]

i tested blasphemy alot, it felt allways super weak for me

and not worth it

because it nerfes the curses to hard

[hoary ingot]

honestly since i play witch a lot rn i have equipments with a lot of spirit

[twin orbit]

guys what do people charge for exaulted orbs? says they only trade orbs for orbs on the site for me haha
Image

[snow sierra]

^^

i have 452 spirit on my chrono

And this one in a second weapon set that has the 24 points min maxt for duration

makes timestop feel rly good

But maybe your buiild can make the investment you need to have in blaspemy worth it, or you need it anways because you plan on playing hexblast

But cant move at all status with this gonna be hard

[snow sierra]

use the ig currency exchange if you want to trade around currency

[static spade]

Does damage from ignite get affected if I increase fire damage and fire resist penetration? I wanna use Blackflame gloves which makes ignite have a higher magtitude but faster duration and turns it into chaos damage.

[midnight geode]

guys did the change the support crit chance gems (the one that gives 25% every second, and the one that gives 40% and adds a cooldown)? I'm 100% sure they used to be additive and now looking at my skill information tab, they're both multiplicative. The 40% one only takes me from 5% crit chance to 7%

[upbeat ivy]

Anyone got a good ranger guide to follow whilst levelling?

[dawn spire]

I don't think either of those were mentioned in any patch notes

[dawn spire]

Lightning rod + orb of storms
That's the only guide you need

[midnight geode]

that sucks.. This literally bricks my entire build..

can't get frenzy charges with snipers mark on my deadeye

[upbeat ivy]

Is deadeye or pathfinder better

When I get to ascendancy?

[dawn spire]

Orb + chain + persistence/overabundance

Lightning rod + martial tempo + conc effect for bosses

Lightning rod + lightning infusion + magnified effect for trash

[dawn spire]

For what?

[dawn spire]

Snipe is a guaranteed crit with perfect timing, if you can slot that in

[midnight geode]

my build works by throwing rain of arrows or tornado, mark with snipers mark to gain charges and then one shot the boss with snipe + barrage

if I use snipe for charges it'll take me forever to reach 6

[sharp warren]

Is there even a good endgame monk build thats not some cold damage shit but pure lightning?

[midnight geode]

and can't rely on the low chance to get max stacks right away

[thorny token]

most of these builds just get charge duration and come to boss with charges already being ready

just grab combat frenzy to generate them passively and thats it pretty simple

[midnight geode]

I could slot in the pin gem and use battle frenzy, I think it's called, to get charges but again I'd have to change my whole build, as rn I'm using weapon swap and ice shot for clearing maps

ughhh why would they do that

[wispy stratus]

Bros … increase elemental dmg on weapon is it prefix or suffix?

[last arrow]

id assume pre, b ut you can look that up on poe.db

[thorny token]

they did nothing

that is how the supports alway worked

and that is how crit always worked too

[midnight geode]

I'm positive the 25% one worked additively on my titan cuz I used it on hammer of the gods

[thorny token]

it didnt

[brisk oxide]

are there any fun sorc builds that dip over into the merc tree for cooldown reduction?

[cobalt narwhal]

jesus

[pearl sluice]

So i tried es/eva and failed around lvl 83

Stacking just es seems much stronger

Maybe it works on monk.. idk

[rigid sage]

Take crossbows are considered two hand right? For the passive DMG for 2nd weopns

[thorny token]

yes

[thorny token]

its best when you are pathing to right side, what were you trying that setup on

[pearl sluice]

yeah, i was trying on phy projectile bloodmage

[thorny token]

ah, lol

[pearl sluice]

but i lose dmg with that pathing and its better to just go all out on ES probs

[thorny token]

yea that doesnt sound great

[cobalt narwhal]

u dont need that much ES, 3k is good, have resistance and immune to chaos

u good to go

use grim feast and u good @pearl sluice

[marsh river]

guyz, i was looking into poe2 builds on youtube but somehow ran into diarrhea???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPO2qQZ-jr4

😄

[thorny token]

very ironic

lul

[marsh river]

balancing act between content creation and diarrhea he says i think

[rare mulch]

Do I need to actually have armor from Scavenged Plating's active buff for Clarity/Herbalism/etc. to work? Or just have the ability turned on?

[pearl sluice]

yeah im going like that i guess

[cobalt narwhal]

u just need 75+ and its easy life

[wary wave]

Is it a good idea to switch off from CI ? (I could only stack 2k ES as an invoker).. I found this which satisfies my spirit requirements. It's really hard to stack stats and just thinking of having to stack chaos resist on top of needing to stack rarity feels bad

[marsh river]

i really dont like ES, i tried it, probably the issue wasnt my ES tho, but gear and resists in general

and im not fucking getting any gear, just nothing useful ever drops

[wary wave]

ah and life too

I'd need to stack life if I don't do CI

[marsh river]

like i vendor 99.99% of that crap

"rares"

[wary wave]

I drop decent gear I think but it's always with a fucky mod

[marsh river]

very rare and very garbage

[wary wave]

tier'd rares are good though imo

[tame goblet]

Guys. I have a question. So I play Storm Wake invoker, I use Combat Frenzy + Resonance. Why is it that I am not getting ANY charges when I am mapping?

[wary wave]

usually excited about unid-ing them

[tame goblet]

I am not using the aura that consumes them either

[marsh river]

yeha i mean hope hasnt died yet, im looking for resist jewelry for alt

then she might actually start working

[wary wave]

are you also an ice strike invoker ?

[marsh river]

witch

[tame goblet]

I was an ice strike invoker

[wary wave]

should I pull a switch away from ES?

[marsh river]

minioneer

[broken sluice]

hey guys, does bleed scale only by one fragment in Fragmentation Rounds or does it scale with the total damage done by the entire hit on an enemy?

[wary wave]

it's easy for you to stack ES

[marsh river]

i cant say you to, i mean people preach ES, maybe im just bad at the game

[thorny token]

frag rounds clearly states the damage is combined into 1 hit

if they get hit by multiple fragments at once

[wary wave]

grabbed all the +x% to ES nodes and it still yikes

[marsh river]

i went MoM and eldritch battery, it would be fine i think but my gear just doesent carry it

[broken sluice]

i see it, thanks!

[marsh river]

i can run some t4 maps, thats the ceiling

~

one of the reasons i dislike grim feast, is it kind a puts you too close to danger

fragments pop "near you" but i dont want to be near them

[trail monolith]

Is there a way to make both my crossbow shots (running 2x crossbow) just all left click? I find that it auto switches my weapon when I shot because only the crossbow shot of the 1st weapon is mapped to left click

[sacred nova]

What else can be socketed in gear?

I've only socketed runes so far. Are there other items? I watched an endgame build guide and there were what seemed to be red gems in the sockets, but it was not explained.

[wary wave]

soul cores

you drop them in ultimatum trials

[thorny token]

just put crossbow shot on left click and then switch ammunition as needed?

[wary wave]

usually the reward before a boss I think?

[marsh river]

exsctly, you can hotbar the different types of shots, like galvanic, regular, explosive whatever and then crossbow attack with em

[trail monolith]

Im using that crossbow that has additional projectiles just for grenades. Also, Im running different meta skills between the 2 weapons

[gaunt quartz]

Why do MoM builds go ES instead of Eldritch Battery? Stun Threshold? Does something bypass MoM?

[marsh river]

eldritch battery adds ES to your mana pool

[storm willow]

is it possible to reach 75% block chance and 75% evasion rating on the same build? at the same time?

[marsh river]

so you get bigger buffer

[gaunt quartz]

Right, so how do they have ES (or rather... why)

[marsh river]

from gear?its like a side product, they dont, it goes away into mana

but you probably get some ES form gear you use, and you funnel it into mana for mom

[thorny token]

you can also bypass EB

[marsh river]

passives that increase ES wont help you tho, they would modiy 0, after youve taken MoM

[thorny token]

with amulet

everlasting gaze

so they can have both EB and also ES on top

[gaunt quartz]

Except they actually have ES

[marsh river]

thats not MoM build then?

[thorny token]

it is

[marsh river]

hmm interesting

it comes from special gear or smth?

[thorny token]

yes amulet

[gaunt quartz]

Okay, so you are saying Everlasting Gaze just bypasses all of it and becomes real ES?

[marsh river]

yeah ok i dont have it anyway

sounds like a cheat to be patched out tbf

[thorny token]

yes due to how conversion works, it happens all at once so you cant have both mana converted to es and then that to be converted back to mana with EB

its not cheat it follows the game rules perfectly

[pearl sluice]

guys can every arrow chain if it does not pierce?

[gaunt quartz]

And it's worth using that for 3k ES over an amulet with like +3 spell levels and 12% increased mana?

[thorny token]

yes

[marsh river]

3k woukld be non trivial for me at least indeed

[thorny token]

at least your mana wont be drained constatly by getting hit into it so its much better

[marsh river]

id be oke with low mana, i dont cast really, i jsut want bigger mana pool

but the stupid armor i have has 100 spirit, but it removes all bonus mana from int

[gaunt quartz]

That seems really bad

[marsh river]

yeah but spirit is really important for minions

id have 2 less, thats like a lot less dps

maybe ill switch to other armor, i have some, but itll be less spirit still

if id get like 1.5k/2k mana id be happy i think

so back to grind, at least its somewhat fun to solve problems

[brisk oxide]

Im not at my pc right now.....do most spells have projectile properties? Im thinking bout a dumb build id love to try

[marsh river]

its just bit frustrating since loot table pool is so big, chanches of getting what you want are small

[naive mural]

How much hp do we gain for each level ?

[marsh river]

there are attacks, projectiles and aoe i guess

[brisk oxide]

Im thinking about a spellcasting titan that dips heavily into the merc tree for cooldown reduction

[cold oak]

Poisonous Concoction or Gas Arrow for a casual Andy that will not have Divine stacks for a long time? I like Pathfinder and poison/gas builds. 🙂

[brisk oxide]

Its dumb but i think itd be fun if i can work it right

[marsh river]

which spells you have in mind, hammer of gods?

[brisk oxide]

Most the sorc spells actually imma just act like a spellcaster

[marsh river]

but why titan then

for tanky?

[brisk oxide]

Double passives

The amount of cdr in the merc tree with titan is silly

[serene minnow]

Seismic Cry : "Empowers the next Melee Slam Attack you perform"
does this empowers shockwave totem slams ?

[marsh river]

i dont know how valuable it would be i havent played much elemental

[brisk oxide]

Appreciate the help though. I know merc deals with projectile damage so im considering my options

[marsh river]

basically if you look at specific spell, it has tags of what it is

ie attack, aoe or projectile

or strike or slam

i wouldnt even call poe2 stuff spells, they all atatcks of some kind

[fiery wave]

man only thing i wish was having 2 shapeshift weapon sets

[snow sierra]

dos nothing happen if you press the weapon swap button in shapeshift form ?

[marsh river]

wut shapeshift

[snow sierra]

@fiery wave works for me so you can have weapon sets for the purpose of swapping skillpoints around

[sterile stone]

im trying to roll ranger but damn leveling with rod and storm orb doesnt really feel good, is this just the best way to deal damage in lightning setup

its like storm rain with extra steps

[thorny token]

yea

its not enjoyable at all

but it does damage :d

[fiery wave]

it doesnt work

its a different set

you have 3 sets basically

[sterile stone]

should i just roll for good ol poison pathfinder....

i wonder if its viable to conc right after 1st ascendancy

[thorny token]

it is

[fiery wave]

like right now i want to keep flameblast for breaches but keep arc lightning for bossing, now i dont mind being on foot on bossing but i want demon form when mapping

so all options are bad! 😂

[thorny token]

but deadeye is overall much ebtter asc in this game

pathfinder sucks nuts

[ashen copper]

question, when there is a piece of gear that reads "% increased", does it only apply to the piece itself or your total? for example, I notice that when my gear with energy shield rolls %increased energy shield" that the value on the equipment itself is increased. but is my total energy shield also affected?

[elder mural]

Curses are considered a Debuff ? If so, slow magnitude would apply to temporal chain curses with more magnitude ?

[sterile stone]

when does it starts to feel good, this is so ass... is it possible to do gas explode then swap

[thorny token]

its only played because PF is mandatory for poison builds but you are basically 1 node ascendancy

[snow sierra]

Ah i see there is a shapeshipt skillpoint window and while the weapon swap in the inventory still works he takes the shapeshift points

[fiery wave]

exactly

[thorny token]

sure

[fiery wave]

which makes sense

but it sucks in practice

it sucks with the capped node

[sterile stone]

gas explode just feels like the best way to level it got damage and only 1c helmet to make it smooth

[thorny token]

well it wont do nearly as much damage as rod but at least its not ass to play

[sterile stone]

was it 1ex on 1st week?

[thorny token]

just classic poe experience, the best leveling skills are also the most unfun ones

[thorny token]

for a bit then it got pricier then went back down

[sterile stone]

well next league hope i can get it cheap

[tame goblet]

Hello. I have a problem. So I recently changed my build from Ice Strike to Storm Wave, and since then, my unbound avatar charges take like half a map to get to 100. Why is that? What's the problem in regards to it? When I played ice strike, charges went up faster, like in a few packs, I'd have 100 charges already

[sterile stone]

unless they fix minion blocking i might just roll minion 1st

[snow sierra]

Isnt radiant grief like 1-2ex atm

[sterile stone]

yeah its 1ex, was wondering how much it was on 1st week

[snow sierra]

I am just gonna level minion on a new league. its a guarteed smooth expierence^^

[sterile stone]

theres no way they dont fix blocking right... right...

[snow sierra]

surely cope

[sterile stone]

we can kinda do gas explode but that shit cost so much mana its insane

[elder mural]

Curses are considered a Debuff ?
This passive would increase slow magnitude to Temporal chain or not ?

[thorny token]

it should yes

[snow sierra]

yes it dos

[elder mural]

Ok thank

[snow sierra]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2oHOc9sxMc

with selfcast you can make enemys not move at all with chrono 😛

Unpraktical and way to mutch investment but picking a few of them up for a weapon swap set works very well

[quick relic]

Anyone know if herald of ash and monsters exploding when they die both procs? Or is it one or the other?

[hushed umbra]

Why does dual-wielding apply 30 % penality twice?

It reduces weapon base damage by 30 % then average (combined) damage is reduced by another 30 %.

[marsh river]

nice, a broken map, 1 monster left, but its not anywhere

[dawn spire]

Both occur

[dawn spire]

But it's still 140% of your base damage (assuming the weapons are equal dps)

[shadow lynx]

Question. physical damage crit focused bloodmage, what if any skill would be worth a cast on crit?

[snow sierra]

detonate death

[hushed umbra]

It should be yeah, just that final value seesm to be reducd by 30 % in the UI not in game tho.

[dawn spire]

Eye of Winter shards apply critical weakness on hit, getting those for "free" might be nice

[shadow lynx]

I have eye of winter on now and I’m
Not sure if it’s worth it because I don’t really see a difference in how fast mobs/bosses get clipped.

[shadow lynx]

Considered this.

[dawn spire]

What are your main damaging skills?

[shadow lynx]

Cage then needles.

[dawn spire]

Bonestorm?

[shadow lynx]

Yes indeed.

[dawn spire]

Do you poison? If so, contagion to spread poison might be nice

[shadow lynx]

Trap em then tap em. That’s been working beautifully so far lol.

Nah. It’s strictly phys damage.

I hadn’t even thought about adding dot to it

[dawn spire]

Bonestorm is a lot of little hits, so poison might not help that much

Maybe frostbolt with scattershot just for the chilled ground as a defensive layer

[snow sierra]

scattershot has to be one bonestorm

its the most important support for bonestorm

[dawn spire]

Does it? How many projectiles does bonestorm use by default?

I have never tried it

[snow sierra]

He important thing here it reduces the cast time to max stack drasticly

and enables the no castime tech

[dawn spire]

Oh, you charge 3 at once with scattershot?

[shadow lynx]

Currently I have scatter, arcane tempo, considered and brutality (which I’m considering taking off)

Something like that

Fully charged I have like 11-15 lol

[dawn spire]

Are you using anything in your CoC currently?

[shadow lynx]

Eye of winter

[dawn spire]

Maybe you might be better served with a Herald or something

Or put that energy gain support in it and just go all in on eye of Winter

[shadow lynx]

Energy gain support is also on

If I go herald I may be able to stack that with wither

[dawn spire]

Maybe a blind or chain support on it then? The goal is to just hit a bunch and not care about its dps

Or deceleration

[dawn spire]

What does wither do for you? Just the slow?

[shadow lynx]

Actually. I wouldn’t need that because it’s just for chaos damage

Unless there’s a way to convert phys damage to chaos on the storm itself

[dawn spire]

Not easily, no

[shadow lynx]

Then it’s gone lmao

[snow sierra]

you can get alot of chaos dmg with a scepter tho but there are problems with it

[dawn spire]

If you shoot a bonestorm projectile through a flame wall, will it do any extra damage if it also has brutality support?

[snow sierra]

Look at Scriblets channel if you want to see his experimentation with that, and he has a very nice low budged bonestorm build for progression to t15/16

[shadow lynx]

Will do.

[shadow lynx]

No clue I’ve literally only done straight up physical damage.

May be worth a test though

[dawn spire]

Do you have anything that breaks armor?

[jaunty owl]

Is Armour still worthless in 2? I was hoping while building a duel wield 2h that it'll be different this time around

Feel like I'm dropping going into act3

[snow sierra]

tbh in the very late endgame its kinda in a bad stage worse then in 1

[jaunty owl]

Ugh guess I will respec

[snow sierra]

but if you feel like you are dropping in act 1 its a you issue not a armour issue

[thorny token]

no molten shell = armour useless :d

[snow sierra]

because armour is very strong while progression to said endgame

[jaunty owl]

No I'm dropping going into act 3

Act1 I breezed thru and most of act2

[snow sierra]

the endgame i am talking about is t15/16 maps

armour works very well until then

[jaunty owl]

Roger that. I'll look at my gear then

[tidal carbon]

What's the best build for blood mage?

[snow sierra]

detonate death

atleast the best found so far

[craggy harness]

flat cold damage or cold damage percent better?

[dawn spire]

Depends on how much of each you have

[craggy harness]

soo just balance it out?

[dawn spire]

And if it's more or increased %

[potent hearth]

I'm lost in the skill tree just like I was in POE, what are the neat nodes I should go after for a lightning caster? So far I do lightning damage and ES nodes with some mana but I don't know if there's good nodes further I might want (playing on console so looking everything up is pain)

[dawn spire]

If you do 50 cold damage and have 100% increased cold damage, then 10 extra cold gets you 20 more damage whereas 10% increased cold damage gets you 5 more damage. You gotta math it out and balance it in a way, yeah

The more you have of one, the more valuable the other becomes

[craggy harness]

kk thx

[sterile stone]

lightning pen are nice, since its ignores monster res by the amount you have but it cant go below 0, which why scaling exposure can mean more damage but you have to do it manually

[potent hearth]

Have yet to find light exposure lol

[sterile stone]

theres elemental damage & ele dmg while monster affected by ailments, cast speed, spell damage

[sterile stone]

really close to the starting point

[dawn spire]

1. Take as many notables as possible (the bigger nodes with distinct names).
2. Take as few small nodes as possible.
3. Focus on damage, primarily. I'd remove your energy shield nodes if I were you.
4. The lightning nodes get better (mostly) the farther north you go from the sorceress start. So head that direction as a general guide.
5. Respeccing isn't all that expensive, try stuff out if it looks interesting to you

[sterile stone]

just go here https://poe2db.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/

[potent hearth]

Ty ty

Removing ES nodes ? Oh my lol

[sterile stone]

ES node are useless if you dont have flat ES source or no way to recover the ES esp very early

[dawn spire]

You should be prioritizing life, resistances, and movement speed on gear. Armor/evasion/energy shield are luxuries you can't really build around in the campaign for the most part

[potent hearth]

I have the lightning node with chaining but I'm going to ditch that one for the top north one once I swap out of arc

Life? I didn't find any increase to life lmao I'll look for those

[peak talon]

Hey is anyone on ps5 having problems with herald of ice or thunder staying active?

[dawn spire]

Not on the tree. Life and resistances are what you prioritize on your gear mods

[sterile stone]

oh btw this one better https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/

[dawn spire]

Like they get disabled in your gem menu?

[potent hearth]

Yeah I'm doing both es and life like I would a hybrid witch during leveling in POE.. Kinda

[peak talon]

I have them checked off with the weapon set but for some reason it not activating @dawn spire

[sterile stone]

arc is bugged with chain & more damage thing, it does nothing other than giving you +1 chain which isnt much

[dawn spire]

Well you can try it, but without a way to restore energy shield it's going to be a pretty mediocre defensive layer. If you really wanna try it, you can get grim feast from a spirit gem which might help

[potent hearth]

Playing on my steam deck on my mom's couch while watching TV wasn't great theory crafting though lmao

[dawn spire]

Console is weird for this sort of thing, are they active? Like, is the icon swirling on it?

[potent hearth]

Ah!

[dim gulch]

what other builds use dream fragments?

[peak talon]

No it not showing any swirling is it like that on pc?

[potent hearth]

I grabbed faster es recharge start nodes, it's OK ish

[peak talon]

@dawn spire

[rigid falcon]

yo need some advice and opinions , should i sell perfect orb to buy lvl 80 gears or should i make 5 link , im running archmage spark the usual and the damage rn is 10k base . i just hit 80

im running lvl 65 gears rn with magic find the whole shabang

[limpid moss]

what is stat for monk ?

[velvet trout]

Does the top ascendency row (mana leech tech) have any notable use for a chaos caster Acolyte of Chayula? Hand of Chayula is the only strike in the build and IDK if it's enough benefit or not.

[dawn spire]

I've seen screenshots of the console gem screen and I honestly have no clue what to look for or check

[dawn spire]

what do you mean?

If you mean str/dex/int, then you don't prioritize any of them and just get enough to equip your gear/skills

[analog panther]

Does anyone know if Time Freeze from chronomancer works with ignite? I am doing an incinerate based ignite build and am about to get my ascendancy and I was wondering if I should get that or take stormweaver for its passive buffs.

[snow sierra]

chronomancer can just do what other classes can do but worse, as i am aware there is nothing only chrono can do that is worth doing atm

It has a few nices gimmiks tho^^

As for whats better with ignite no clue, i not aware of any ignite build atm

@fiery wave you did some ignite testing didnt you ?

[mystic osprey]

which fire spell is good for single target?

I tried fireball but I thinj it lacks single target damage, I might be wrong

[dawn spire]

fireball + ice wall is strong I hear

[hushed umbra]

God hammer?

[snow sierra]

its a meme build

[hushed umbra]

Survivability really good

with rewind time

[nimble hound]

It wont let me talk in Church of Merc

am I banned

[hushed umbra]

Have you tried it?

[snow sierra]

And so dos any other build that not totaly griefs your clearspeed^^

[hushed umbra]

how is it a meme build?

[dawn spire]

as a chronomancer using ice shot/snipe, I feel pretty invincible so far in ssf. Only at t8 maps so far, but still

[snow sierra]

Because its just bad, it trying to force something to work that is not worth making it work

[hushed umbra]

works fine 🤷‍♀️

[dawn spire]

if an ascendancy can solve your survival completely, I'd say that's pretty neat

temporal rift is also nuts with ES stacking

[hushed umbra]

get few skills with cooldown and just go nuts

[dawn spire]

grenadier chrono seems wild. Just spam nades

[snow sierra]

yes its nice byron like i said, gimmiks

[hushed umbra]

lol

[dawn spire]

how is temporal rift a gimmick?

[hushed umbra]

Becuase it deals no innate damage which means gimmic

obviously

[dawn spire]

I don't wanna put words in their mouth

[snow sierra]

because i dont need it 95% of the time

[dawn spire]

you also don't need a bossing skill 95% of the time, so what?

[snow sierra]

and it dos not help you make your build work 95% of the time

[hushed umbra]

You don't need 80 % crit muli from blood witch either?

like most ascenceies are uselss for non-bosses

[snow sierra]

well blood witch helps atleast scale your dmg easyier

[dawn spire]

it's a way to restore energy shield, life, and mana on a very short cooldown. I don't see how that's a gimmick

[hushed umbra]

and that thing makes you not die

Recover few thousand hp in a single button is useless?

[jaunty owl]

Avatar of fire with herald of ash on a armor breaker build?

[snow sierra]

No but any other survial mechanic is better like 20% less dmg from bloodmage, i didnt say useless, i said gimmiky

[dawn spire]

how do you break armor with avatar of fire?

[fiery wave]

im gonna run out of support gems everytime i switch off the dog in my tree i lose 5 gems rofl

i forget to put them ou tand they just disappear

[jaunty owl]

I said it wrong but not what I meant 😅

[dawn spire]

20% less speed of nearby enemies, insane recoup, temporal rift, time freeze... I'm seeing chrono as an insanely tanky ascendancy

also, temporal rift is one of the only movement skills in the game

[analog panther]

If you are selling it. Then you can buy it back from the merchant and get the support gems back.

[snow sierra]

that would be true if the only problem in the endgame wouldnt be fking oneshots

[feral crater]

What is a good sorc lvling build?

[fiery wave]

alright i turned my witch into a terrible sorc

[hushed umbra]

Your build just sucks then

[snow sierra]

lol

[dawn spire]

slowing enemies by 20% helps you avoid a lot of one-shots

[snow sierra]

no it dos not it makes it 20% less likely

but it will happen at some point

[potent hearth]

You still have to pay mana for spells invocations right ?

[dawn spire]

giving you more time to react is an invaluable way to deal with mechanics

[fiery wave]

i cant make the game switch whats on my left and right click when i switch weapon sets right?

[potent hearth]

Does the tempest buff does anything to an orb of storm?

[nimble hound]

what level do i get the 4th link again for ascendeny skills? or 4th support

[snow sierra]

90

[nimble hound]

oh i meant the one before that

[snow sierra]

uff sorry dont know off the top of my head

[dawn spire]

I've had my third socket on temporal rift since at least level 72

idk when I got it tho

[timid cipher]

does ghostwrithe apply before or after eldritch battery?

[nimble hound]

i know the first one at level 40

[snow sierra]

after

[timid cipher]

dang, wanted all that extra mana haha

[quaint prism]

sick of getting one shot by random things as merc, how are people raising their armour so high?

[potent hearth]

Dodge topkek

[quaint prism]

also have i invested into too many gem nodes? am playing rapid shot witch hunter

[timid cipher]

armor is garbage, the mitigation is horrible for 1 shots

[quaint prism]

so i absolutely should not waste my time with armour at all and just go evasion?

[snow sierra]

armour is super unreliable later on

[dawn spire]

most people aren't using armor as a main source of mitigation, I thought

[snow sierra]

and so is evasion

[quaint prism]

so armour and evasion is completely pointless?

[nimble hound]

evasion + ES is good I heard

[marsh river]

learn to shoot bows with a shield

[snow sierra]

no but its bad as a main defense

[dawn spire]

I feel confident my ice shot chrono is safe

[timid cipher]

es or giga hp regen is what i see most running

[nimble hound]

Evasion with ES and that one chest and two nodes

[quaint prism]

ES is out of the table because merc doesnt have these nodes

[quaint prism]

which nodes?

[snow sierra]

you could try stuff like cloak of flame to make armour work longer

[dawn spire]

east of ranger/monk start

[quaint prism]

lmao im not getting that, merc

[snow sierra]

but on big hits armour mid just suffers immensly

[dawn spire]

yeah, so? I'm sorc and I have the bow cluster

You get a lot of points

you can make it there

[marsh river]

i can only comment that evasion plus max block pkus mid armor feels ok

[quaint prism]

im not getting close to any of thhose nodes as a merc

[dawn spire]

why not?

[quaint prism]

whats the name of thhe thing?

the node im looking for

[quaint prism]

i might try going into cloak of flame

[feral crater]

What is a good sorcerer build to level with?

[dawn spire]

subterfuge mask and spectral ward

[quaint prism]

thanks ill go take a look

[dawn spire]

idk enough about ice invoker to know for sure, but I think the interaction with multiple bells and them proccing each other will likely go

[dawn spire]

lightning rod + orb of storms

[snow sierra]

there is a helm that gives you flat dmg reduction too, i dont know mutch about merc builds tho or whats worth using

[thin basin]

Wow seeing this shockedground lc chrono build

[nimble hound]

and ghost dance,

[quaint prism]

for now i'll just try getting ward and mask and then gear related to eva/es

[snow sierra]

Or use artziris destain helm

thats kinda free ES

[thin basin]

Balllightning -> lightning warp preboss -> timestop -> spam lc -> profit