2┃build-planning

[fiery wave]

i tried

it was either resists

or just pure dps check i failed

i only have like 6k es now

[spring prairie]

approximately how much % spell damage corresponds to 1 gem level?

[fiery wave]

that question doesnt work kata

[hallow saddle]

anyone know why only one of two slotted spells would activate with cast on freeze? do curses not work with it?

[fiery wave]

gem level is always about 10% effective damage

spell damage is gained damage proportionate to the amount of spell damage you have

e.g. on 500% spell damage 10% spell damage gives you 2% effective damage

wait i made a curve for that!

😄

that 1 is the multiplier

[spring prairie]

trying to buy a +5 lightning spell wand but i was suddenly told that some +4s can be better than +5s for some reason

[stiff hinge]

is this matlab or matplotlib?

[spring prairie]

so now i'm super confused because i have no idea what stats are good on wands

[fiery wave]

just excel

[stiff hinge]

oh. i havent used the excel graph tool in ages lol

[fiery wave]

i mean it can but usually it isnt

[merry bone]

sure a +5 with totally shit mods on it vs a +4 with great mods. Budget is the actual question. Can you afford a GOOD +5?

[viral crag]

Notable impending doom can make curse values go to 300%+ if paired with hexbloom and it spreads while its value is increased I've seen my 70% despair go to 390%
Oh that's cute.

[spring prairie]

this seems helpful, how do i check my overall % spell damage? i can't find it in my character sheet

[fiery wave]

i dont usually use excel a lot but this game made me make 15 spreadsheets

[spring prairie]

i have 7 div so i can afford either lightning rod or a +5 wand

[fiery wave]

easiest way is to make a maxroll replica of your tree

[stiff hinge]

Writhing jar when GGG

[fiery wave]

and then add the equipment in a spreadsheet or text document

[spring prairie]

but idk how much to spend on the wand if i get it

[fiery wave]

i had wanted to make a video about how to calculate effective damage decisions liek a really fast 3 minute one

[spring prairie]

i want a decent one that's an upgrade from my current +4 one but not one that's super expensive for marginal upgrade (like 2x-3x price for small amount of spell damage or mana or cast speed or whatever)

[fiery wave]

what level and ascendency are you?

[wet mango]

Spells are generally around 10% more dmg per level

[wet mango]

incr spell damage works the way you described. The key is incr, not spell damage. + Levels can be directly translated to more (spell) dmg.

[spring prairie]

level 90 spark archmage stormweaver

[fiery wave]

like if you really wanna make a numbers decision you need to make a spreadsheet, where you calculate your damage. but you can do this, pick some equipment that changes spell damage, cast speed, mana asf and see how much you get when you change the numbers a bit. dont need to know your totals. in general flat damage through spell level is good, gained damage is good the first time you get it, cast speed is good, mana is good for archmage and spell damage is okay

crit can be good too if you use it

[fiery wave]

i might not have been technically correct but i have answered the question 😉

[spring prairie]

wdym by the "first time you get it"

is this related to the fact that conversion only happens once

[fiery wave]

every bucket of damage is multiplied

and gained damage counts as one bucket

so you have base damage * gained damage * spell damage * your support gems

so its the same rules as spell damage

[spring prairie]

ah ok

[fiery wave]

if you gain 20% first time you get 20% total more

[merry bone]

I think this is all alot simpler than we are making it. If you have a good wand - go look up what your target wand costs - and dont buy until you get there.

[fiery wave]

but if you gain another 20% you dont get 20% but less

[spring prairie]

that's the problem, i don't know what to look for on a "target wand" lol

[fiery wave]

okay my filter for wand today was

[merry bone]

what do you mean? You dont know what stats you are using to scale your build?

[spring prairie]

i just have this filter for now https://i.imgur.com/l6USTl0.png

but i dont really know what im doing or how people price their items

[merry bone]

thats a low amount of spell dmg you are requiring on a wand IMO

[spring prairie]

case in point lol i dont know what amount of stats i'm supposed to be looking for

[fiery wave]

required: increased cast speed, lightning damage AND spell damage at least 100, lightning spell levels OR all spell levels min 5, and then i did a weighted count between mana, mana per kill and gained lightning damage

[merry bone]

45 div is the cheapest based on those parameters

[fiery wave]

i would drop the mana

[spring prairie]

holy shit that's actually crazy

[fiery wave]

i bought this today for i think 10d

there was a better one for 11d

but i pair it with this focus

[merry bone]

10% cast speed - gross

[topaz talon]

This is an "against the darkness" jewel, how does it give the nodes?

[fiery wave]

because i didnt want to spend a lot and just pair it with cast speed on focus is a lot cheaper

the focus was 1d

this is my mapping setup with out buffs

lvl 94 on a witch

[merry bone]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/jOB0rbbHX

[spring prairie]

is gain as lightning damage better than fire or cold?

[fiery wave]

if you have lightning modifiers yes

[merry bone]

you could go cold for freezing i guess?

[fiery wave]

the gained damage uses your modifiers for that type

[spring prairie]

oh so my % lightning damage modifiers only improve that gained damage if it's as lightning? even though it uses the base which is already lightning

[fiery wave]

correct

[spring prairie]

i see

[merry bone]

here ya go - this will show you other "gained as" that could save you some money.

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/OyYvPZ8SE

[spring prairie]

this helps, thanks

[fiery wave]

there was a really nice wand for 11d with 19% cast speed

[wet mango]

Modifiers apply after conversions (gain as is a type of conversion)

[fiery wave]

but to save money i would either drop cast speed or mana depending on what else yu got going

[spring prairie]

hm it's looking like all half decent wands worth going out of my way to buy are double digit divines

[fiery wave]

probably if you have a half decent one

[spring prairie]

this is the one i have right now https://i.imgur.com/pgqmxPc.png

[merry bone]

such is life when playing one of the top 3 meta builds

[spring prairie]

it's not bad, picked it up for only 25 ex or something

[fiery wave]

you would definitely see an upgrade with any old 5d +5 level wand

[merry bone]

oooh ok - you can upgrade that for sure

[spring prairie]

i can't afford the 11d wand so it's between a 5-7d wand and lightning rod lol

[fiery wave]

how many divs you got to spend or want to spend?

[spring prairie]

7d total budget

[fiery wave]

btw. whats your focus?

before i upgraded today i used this

[spring prairie]

https://i.imgur.com/QWOPraY.png

[merry bone]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/dbBv2gpUJ

[fiery wave]

the focus is nice

[spring prairie]

interesting that you dropped mana from the filters, any particular reason?

[merry bone]

cost

[spring prairie]

ah, so mana is a relatively expensive stat for what it gives on a wand?

[merry bone]

its just you are then looking for perfect 6/6 mods for your build - and that will always be expensive

[fiery wave]

you want a lot of mana because most people run archmage/eldritch bttery/azure amulet

[merry bone]

you could give up cast speed and get mana i guess

[astral badger]

if im using mind over matter/eldritch battery/chaos innoculation, do +maximum life gear stats do nothing for me?

[spring prairie]

based on the direction of this conversation i want to confirm that wand > lightning rod right

because if LR is better this whole convo is moot

[fiery wave]

your base mana regen is 4% of max mana, so you want it for that and 2 you want it for damage from archmage and 3 you want it for ES from azure amulet

you mean staff by lightning rod?

[spring prairie]

i had my eyes on this https://i.imgur.com/JKbU3oB.png

[fiery wave]

good focus + good wand is better than staff but you might save some money looking for a staff

oh

[astral badger]

anyone got me w a quick answer here? sorry - trying to complete a trade

[spring prairie]

if you have CI, + life and life gained on __ are dead stats

[fiery wave]

if you dont use crit and you have wild storm lightning rod will be very good

its about 1/6 damage gain

[astral badger]

ty so much

[spring prairie]

correct, am non-crit with wild storm

so basically grab LR now and go all out for a good wand later when i have more than 10 div since everything below that is gonna be kinda meh anyway?

[haughty dove]

How is ranger for endgame I thinking about leveling a ranger

[vast egret]

whats the easiest way to inflict another ailment other than freeze/chill as a purely cold sorc?

[fiery wave]

the damage gain is (min + 2*max) / 3 - (min + max) / 2 😉

[merry bone]

numerous great ranger builds out there on both ascendancies

[fiery wave]

lightning rod doesnt show on tool tip btw

[spring prairie]

if you're buying helm/glove/boot/focus, you NEED mana on those pieces with that build (hard req to make the build function)

[haughty dove]

ahh ok thank you will do some googleing for find a starter build. What do you recomend just need a term to google

[spring prairie]

oh lol gg

[weary hare]

what determines spell damage on sorceress?

[fiery wave]

i mean you can get lightning rod, youll want to get that anyway at some point

[merry bone]

Maxroll - Gas Arrow Deadeye leveling feels best for me. If you really enjoy Lightning arrow you can stay that route though.

[fiery wave]

basically what im running

[spring prairie]

yeah wand and EG with LR were always going to be my first 2 purchases above 1d, it was just the question of purchase order because i dont know how wand pricing and dps work

[haughty dove]

thank you will look that up hope your day goes well and rng blesses all your drops

[weary hare]

there's a lightning build on youtube for leveling for ranger, I highly recommend it, if you picked deadeye ascendency

[fiery wave]

yeah if you really wanna decide it accurately, youd need to a spread sheet where you compare the gains

[spring prairie]

damn ok

[fiery wave]

and it would take an hour

but theres no need

it is simply game

[spring prairie]

so i guess LR works for the brain off no thinking option

[merry bone]

or just keep blasting and in a few days we'll get POB

[fiery wave]

yeah buying a decent looking +5 wand should work too

[stiff hinge]

This verbiage -> Anything that applies to mana is effectively pointless? Mana flare, damage taken from, etc?

[fiery wave]

afaik yes dust

[stiff hinge]

wack. I'd love to make an infernal flame mana flare burning inscription build. oh well.

Guess it's trigger comets until the instance crashes forever kek

[fiery wave]

@spring prairie i would prolly use a filter like this

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/pOB3vqvC0

and then sort by the top sum

[spring prairie]

ok i'll take a look ty

[fiery wave]

maybe lightning rod is a slightly safer investment because maybe tehy change spark or archmage (they also change delirium payouts so i assume everything will go down)

[merry bone]

they said they didnt plan on nerfs with the upcoming patch - unless its breaking servers - spark/archmage should be safe for a bit longer

[sterile pebble]

yo, pob will be relased today?

[indigo pilot]

killed the breach guy today and he dropped howa, any budget builds that use that?

[fiery wave]

yeah 13th

im interested to see what the hype is about!

[merry bone]

oh are you a POE2 only player? never used POB?

[fiery wave]

yeah

i normally dont even play arpgs

i just like solving problems so i got stuck on this game xD

[sterile pebble]

me also dont never use pob 😄

[merry bone]

nice - all those spreadsheets you created? wont need them anymore

[fiery wave]

#sad 😉

those were most of the fun!

[stiff hinge]

has anyone tried a living bomb or VD build yet?

[fiery wave]

man it took me forever to arrive at this build but now that it works its quite satisfying lol

[stiff hinge]

which?

rather, what>?

[fiery wave]

its just a witch running spark

[stiff hinge]

oic

[fiery wave]

but i was working around capped demon form with flameblast until i exhausted this idea

and i kept switching

but in the end its just mostly a gimped spark sorc just that i use arc lightning for bosses

without buffs

not bad should be around 300k boss damage

[stiff hinge]

makes sense. GGG seems to not have given us a lot of options for interactions which is a little upsetting.

[fiery wave]

ah its just the launch

[stiff hinge]

yeah gotta give it time

[fiery wave]

the reveal today made me even more confident

[astral badger]

if i have a breach ring with 172 max mana, if i max the quality, it will reach 172+50% max mana, correct?

[fiery wave]

like my biggest complaint was that i cant find citadels in 100s of hours and that it takes too long to get to the fun boss fights

and they adressed both

correct infect

[stiff hinge]

it made me slightly less confident because they dodged how zoomy the game got, but im hoping their "rebalance" nerfs stuff tahts too strong and adjusts monster speed/damage/clarity in the endgame.

[astral badger]

gotcha thanks!

[fiery wave]

259 mana 😄

[stiff hinge]

and thats my #1 complaint atm. :B

[fiery wave]

or no

whatever lol

oh yeah about the zoomy part

[astral badger]

and if i buy one with quality maxed, can i overwrite it with mana modifiers?

[fiery wave]

idk i feel they need to make decision on what the intended powerlevel is and were gonna learn about that in the first balance patch

[sterile pebble]

crazy dps

i have now 26k on my la

and i think its high XD

[stiff hinge]

They definitely commented that they have an idea on a baseline power level, but they dodged addressing the people who love the pacing of the campaign and don't like how speedy the endgame is.

[fiery wave]

compared to the one shot builds its tame but its definitely good enough @sterile pebble

[astral badger]

just wanna make sure i can re-do the quality stat if i buy one

[stiff hinge]

my tooltip is horrendous but I like it because I feel like an archer

[fiery wave]

my feeling is they didnt want a big hubub and they gonna nerf the op builds because they want a slower pace

@stiff hinge like psychologically people react worst if you take something form them they thought they had. so its smart to not announce changeups before the new league. and if i look at forums a lot of people dont want challenges, they want drops all day

[plain temple]

Hi guys! So I started a monk and took Ghost Dance, but added precision support gem in, I'm not understanding why it seems to pull the charge up it does and now my spirit isn't being used by anything. Does anyone know what I'm missing here?

[fiery wave]

but yeah its all speculation

[stiff hinge]

there are a few forum posts saying that they need to give them more challenge too but the ratio is off for sure

[fiery wave]

nice shots

[stiff hinge]

I am determined to trying to make this living bomb build work.

[merry bone]

you changed stats and you dont have enough int for ghost dance - or you dont have enough spirt to have precision in Ghost dance- because it adds to the spirit cost

[stiff hinge]

I kind of hate that its built into the weapon though.

[fiery wave]

i forget what living bomb is

but also i only played this witch

[fiery wave]

so i only tried occult and elemental stuff

[stiff hinge]

i have at least 1 of each ascedndancy atm

fully ascended 4/4

[fiery wave]

you know what would be fun

[stiff hinge]

and i have enough gold and items even self found to just keep rerolling stuff

[plain temple]

Oh shiiiiit. I'm dumb DUMB

Thank you so much

[fiery wave]

use liviing bomb with the aoe autoapply aura

blasphemy

[sterile pebble]

someoney who play LA deadeye how much evison you have with acro?

[fiery wave]

living bomb + blasphemy + move speed build 😄

[stiff hinge]

youd still need to trigger or cast it.

and the only way to scale trigger stuff is triggers per second. which stuff like "limit X" is against

i tried the same with firestorm nad 4x trigger setups. They all share limit too

so you cant get around that wording

[fiery wave]

oh it sa weapon spell i forgot

[stiff hinge]

Having +1 limit from supp and +1 from the unique necklace, you can cast 3 firestorms wtih a limit of 3, when I casted 1 firestorm elsewhere it stopped the 2 that should ahve kept going.

which is... frustrating because shit like comet exists.

[fiery wave]

i see

man i used comet as my single target for a little bit

that spell is just fun to cast

you do a little twirl

and make big boom

[stiff hinge]

same w conduit

[fiery wave]

okay im gonna do a bit of mapping

[stiff hinge]

The other problem with firestorm.. does not seem to continue to consume ignites as it continues. So you could pseudo-comet it by consuming ignites for 1 hit, but the tracking of the hit is off, base dmg is lower and crit rate is lower than comet, aoe is smaller too.

tried that too and i literally did a 1-gem swap with comet and performs miles better. but i dont want to use comet, ive used comet to death, so im trying to figure out firestorm. or living bomb. or both.

flameblast is decent enough to do all content in the game at least, but its not super spectacular and scaling ignite (if you saw my complaints earlier) is stupid because its just a big crit and so im basically playing crit flameblast lol

[half owl]

is this worth 5 divine? I can't find anyhting better on the market

[merry bone]

send your search string

[stiff hinge]

#price-check📉

[half owl]

how?

[merry bone]

copy the URL and paste it here

[half owl]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/87ojWwbIV

[thorny token]

why are you looking for es helmet with life, even as hybrid life/es build

you want pure es

and ignore the life roll

[half owl]

oh ignore life?

[thorny token]

yes

[merry bone]

is there a reason you need specifically 40 cold and 40 lightning? or are you just looking for high resistances?

[half owl]

yes my rings are pure dmg rn

[merry bone]

this filter criteria doesnt actually make sense.

[true narwhal]

does bestial skin affect spectral ward?

[thorny token]

no

[half owl]

what part did I miss here

[merry bone]

why are you using a weighted sum of 30 - if you are requiring it to have 40 of each?

[half owl]

I guess I didnt understand how the sum works

[merry bone]

not changing results - but you dont need a weighted sum - you actually need min 40 of each of those. so you dont need that set of criteria

OK - so you want Cold/Light/Int. You ahve nothing in here about how much ES or other Prefixes you may want?

[fiery wave]

you probably gotta pay 5d if you want 80 total res but you could get better payoff with more lose resistance requirements

[half owl]

I want es too but dont know how to filter them other than sorting

[fiery wave]

weighted sum is how much you need of all these combined and weight allows you to say one thing is more important than another if you wanna look at the sum of values

[merry bone]

drop your amounts by a couple so you get uneven rolls and you can save some money

[half owl]

thank you soo much

[fiery wave]

so you basically told the thing you need 40 of both res and then you told it you need 30 of both combined

[half owl]

this is beautiful

[merry bone]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/vO92gpjhE

look for ones that done have runes in them

[fiery wave]

sum is good if you want a more lose search like "i want 80 total res of these three resistances" for example (forget the weight part for now)

that way you can find the best deals for complete loadouts

like you take the most expensive part of the gear and pick whatever res on it and take highest that makes sense to you

[half owl]

thank you soo much for this search, it looks soo much better

[fiery wave]

👍

[merry bone]

never search for round numbers either - searching 38 cold/38 lightning opened up tons of additional options.

[fiery wave]

yeah always search about 20-30% under what youre looking for

[half owl]

thank you sooo much for the tips! looks soo much better on my results now

[fiery wave]

because maybe you get 39% res and 200 mana for the same price

[frigid shard]

hey guys, when looking at Maxroll guides for the passive talents, do you generally follow them as you level since it looks like they change as you get more points or do you just spec for the 121/121 talent points?

[fiery wave]

i think most of them have a levelling build

[merry bone]

some are tagged endgame - some have leveling. you need to read the guide

[fiery wave]

but i only look at guides for inspiration

atlas is best atlas

i dont even know where i am on the map and i havent seen 1 citadel, hoping for that patch soon

i wanna fight arbiter too

[frigid shard]

sorry, very new to PoE, what level is considered "endgame" if you dont mind me asking

[merry bone]

T15+ farming - some people are there at 75 - others will be 90

Their endgame guides typically say "this guide assumes you have a level ___ character, blah balh blah" if not, go here for a leveling guide

[autumn barn]

What is a decent class to play? I'm looking at maybe ranger , does the class get flashy cool high damage skills,

[merry bone]

yes it does - if you tend to like archer archetypes, go for it

[fiery wave]

dont tell me i dropped something on a regular ass map

[autumn barn]

Usually I enjoy rangers, although the monk looks cool too - tried the witch and merc and didn't really like them

[thorny token]

ranger is best crossbow class if you were doing merc for crossbows :d

[viral crag]

Find a skill (or skills) you like the look of, and then find a character that fits those skills well.

[thorny token]

big bait on ggg side

[spring prairie]

https://i.imgur.com/MFlAGJf.png is this a good temp wand for now, picked it up for 4d since every single other one of the same filter was 9d or more

[autumn barn]

Oooh good idea

[merry bone]

Monk is my favorite class - think they delivered everything they wanted and more with the class fantasy, the animations - just everything.

[fiery wave]

looks good to me

what does your tool tip say

new vs old

[merry bone]

Unfortunately most of the builds for Monk right now are very samesy - so you just pick 1 variant of kind of the same stuff - but it plays really smooth and can do good clear and good bossing.

[autumn barn]

I heard melee atm was kinda bad

[merry bone]

Maces are bad.

Quarterstaff has one of the best builds in the game (tri-stacker) - and even non tri-stack Invoker can decimate all content

[spring prairie]

37.5k -> 43.8k

[sterile latch]

does lucidity work with CI or is it just life please ?

it says life but idk if your ES is considered life

[pine stream]

is there a place that shows what essences can roll? Like what are "Attack" modifiers that I can get from greater essence of battle?

[merry bone]

craftofexile or poe2db.tw

[spring prairie]

if you have MOM that node does nothing

[pine stream]

ty

[sterile latch]

I meant CI not MoM

[civic summit]

going spark, and im debating tempo / acceleration / persistence as support gems for leveling

good idea?

[fiery wave]

what are people using thiefs torment for?

i regret all the chance orbs i use on emerald rings now that i dropped it lol

[merry bone]

bossing set ups - only source of mana on hit

[fiery wave]

i see

so its a monk bossing thing

[merry bone]

an anyone bossing thing if you need mana

[fiery wave]

its quite cheap too

i guess if you use 2 of them ingenuity you get around 70 all resists 100 magic find

[merry bone]

cant use 2 of them

[fiery wave]

what

[merry bone]

disables other ring

[fiery wave]

i thought other rings included not the same ring

pff

😄

anyway time to sell it for 110

[frigid shard]

thanks man, appreciate it

[merry bone]

I find newer players often try and swap out of leveling builds and into end game ones far too early (and when they are far too broke) and inevitably struggle hard becuase they cant put all the pieces together for the end game set up

[stiff hinge]

i dropped one in campaign and chanced 2 others 😄

[fiery wave]

yeah i sold a guy 6 emerald rings and 7 stellar amulets for 200ex before

i see people wanting to sell 3 stellar amulets for 1d

it can be worth it to chance astramentis man

i chanced two gaze thats about it

gaze has a pretty good hit rate

[craggy yew]

what is the difference between mana regeneration and mana recovery?

[frigid shard]

kinda what im looking at now, im 77 and not really enjoying the SRS/aronist build with all the fire circles around blocking ground effects

[atomic halo]

mana recovery describes all the ways you can get mana back, be it regeneration, recoup, mana flask, etc.

mana regeneration is regeneration only

[stiff hinge]

cries in self found

naw jk. game hands out plenty of shit, hope ggg maintains balance around self found and lets trade be an afterthought

im surprised nobody asked GGG what the motivation was to putting skills on weps that we cant obtain via gems

[merry bone]

the motivation was to make weapons feel different - think they covered some of that in the initial release conversations

[woven vine]

hey guys I am having an issue with my Meditate not giving me double my energy shield can someone help me figure out why?

[stiff hinge]

Maybe the quality not working on caster wep granted skill is a bug.

[plucky aspen]

does chance to inflict ailments increase freeze buildup ?

[orchid acorn]

Anybody got a link for that monk build with pillar, charged staff and bell?

[merry bone]

maxroll - waggle

i think snoobaes been playing it on monk actually. waggle was on gemling

[fiery wave]

alright i apparently underpriced the stupid torment

idk about ssf i have palyed a few hundered hoursa nd have found 0 lvl 20 gems

today i found my first +5 wand

i feel they need to make crafting better for me to play ssf

[orchid acorn]

Can't find anything about it

Could you share a link?

[stiff hinge]

ive never been one to say no to grind, as a ruthless player 🙂

[merry bone]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/068600zo

[orchid acorn]

Tyvm

[spice tree]

What build should I roll with a 100div budget? Got lucky with an adorned.

[merry bone]

what build do you want to play?

[spice tree]

No clue. I’ve played minions and Explosife Shot Deadeye so far.

I want something to take out all content.

[merry bone]

well your 2 other builds can do that already. If youve not played anything on quarterstaff Id suggest that.

Can go the full attribute stacker gemling pillar/howa if you want - or just a simple invoker

[stiff hinge]

My recommendation with 100div is to buy a ventors gamble and use divs until you get something you like, or until you're out of divines.

[fiery wave]

its not even good :<

i think wanna try gemling next

i just wnated to beat all the challenges on this guy

but i cant find the challenges xD

[stiff hinge]

its not a temp league there doth be no chall/mtx to give.

if you mean achievements im guessing its wip along w the rest of campaign

[fiery wave]

no i wnated to beat all t4 bosses

but i havent found 1 citadel

audience is super rare

and simulacrum too

plus i bought some simulacra and died

like i usually play souls games or tactics games or mobas

i just wanna do all the boss fights xD

but this game got its grips in me somehow

and im acutally grinding

you guys think icebreaker is mandatory on ci before fragments?

[pseudo coral]

Is attack speed better than + to melee skills?

[atomic halo]

it's just math, it depends on the magnitudes and the context

1% atkspd (assuming local) is 1% more damage, +1 to melee skills is like 6% more damage (depends on skill and level, check poe2db for exact numbers)

[pseudo coral]

Thank you

[empty roost]

question , does lightning dmg on passive skill tree increase the galvanic shards ?

[distant tendon]

is the devouring diadem any good for minion witches?

[merry bone]

meh - better to just get a real helm

[distant tendon]

cant afford it

[pearl sluice]

u cant afford a +2 minion helmet?

its literally 1 exalted

[distant tendon]

i need the ES

[merry bone]

i mean - just afford ANY helm - that one really doesnt give you much

[pearl sluice]

^

[merry bone]

What level are you? because Devouring is like a 50 es helm

[pearl sluice]

theres only like 40 es on it also yeah

a complete junk roll tiara is like 100 if its level 70ish

[distant tendon]

mines 78% increased es

[stiff hinge]

thats on the hat fam

[pearl sluice]

yeah thats the hats stats it doesnt go to you

[merry bone]

that is local to the helm though - so it takes the 30 that is on the helm and increases it by 78%. Its not a global modifier

[distant tendon]

wait what

[pearl sluice]

its got 40 es increased by 80%

thats why it says 51 es on it

[distant tendon]

ohhh

[pearl sluice]

the helmet is garbage

[stiff hinge]

not the same as something like this

[pearl sluice]

99% of uniques are terrible

[distant tendon]

that hurts lmao

I used that

Not good at all

[stiff hinge]

eh diadem can be good

its basically cannibalism aura in a hat at lvl 10

which is ncie to level alts with

[fiery wave]

this looks kinda interesting

[merry bone]

Diadem is quite good

[distant tendon]

i only got 240 hp so the circlet is terrible for me

[fiery wave]

i had wanted to try life stacking and use the reservation part of my tree

[pearl sluice]

if youre leveling its way better to just buy a +2 minion helmet

[stiff hinge]

now if they buffed diadem to do life, es, and mana? sheeeesh.

[fiery wave]

but its scuh a task to switch gear

[pearl sluice]

the dmg increase is absolutely massive

[merry bone]

what level are you that you have 240HP?

[stiff hinge]

he could be using 2x mings and a ghostwrithe

🤣

[merry bone]

as a minion witch?

[quiet mango]

Any cast on dodge temporalis autobomber on? I feel like my dmg is extremely bad and have some questions. Can share my screen

[fiery wave]

1 mings ghostwrithe and ingenuity is enough if you didnt take the campaign boni

[distant tendon]

can helmets not have %+ to max energy shield?

[merry bone]

not global

[distant tendon]

campaign boni?

[stiff hinge]

rare hats atm dont seem to be able to, no

[fiery wave]

the health boni +20 health and +8% health

[pearl sluice]

1 ex already league better than the unique

[atomic halo]

global % es is on ammies

nowhere else (for non-uniques)

[distant tendon]

except its level 65

[empty roost]

question , does lightning dmg on passive skill tree increase the galvanic shards ?

[atomic halo]

very funny, i haven't heard that one before

[atomic halo]

does it deal lightning damage? if so, yeah

[empty roost]

yes it does... but some people say it doesnt so i dunno which it real

[pearl sluice]

if youre going to buy a unique to level with buy an etheral oakshield

[merry bone]

anyone who says it doesnt is an idiot and never listen to them again

[atomic halo]

it has 40% phys -> lightning convert

so if your crossbow has phys damage it's dealing lightning as well

[empty roost]

so both physical and light dmg up also increase the dmg right ?

[atomic halo]

physical will not apply to the % that is converted

and the beams convert 100%

so i suggest only get stuff like atk dmg, generic dmg, dmg with 2 handers, dmg with crossbows, ele dmg, projectile damage, and lightning dmg

[empty roost]

ok noted

[wide shadow]

im at lvl 40 with spark im struggle insanely bad with every act boss so Is there a build I can switch to where bossing is just easy mode? like most braindead standard op popular build where bosses becoming ez?

[pearl sluice]

spark is gear reliant

[thorny token]

in acts all you need is half decent weapon

[atomic halo]

spark is literally the most standard op popular build

[empty roost]

well

the passive skill tree so big i dunno how to build

@_@

[atomic halo]

one step at a time

[pearl sluice]

i can send you a leveling guide it will probably help

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/build-guides/spark-archmage-stormweaver-leveling-guide

[wide shadow]

what do I have to buy to get archmage ahead of time

[pearl sluice]

twink gear is in there

[wide shadow]

cuz Im only using gems I pick up

[thorny token]

you cant do anything to get it at level 40

[wide shadow]

is it possible to just buy a skill gem that lvls up my spark to a rly high lvl on trade for example?

[pearl sluice]

early its mostly padding stats with uniques if u want an easier time leveling

[thorny token]

just use mana tempest and qual it if you can

[pearl sluice]

no you cant just buy gems out of your level and use them

[merry bone]

not beyond your character level

[thorny token]

its plenty for whole acts

[wide shadow]

I have 30 spirit unreserved but I wasted my buff gem lvling up arctic armor so im 30/60 what lvl spirit gem do I have to buy to get mana tempest

[thorny token]

mana tempest is not spirit gem

read the guide that was linked above

[fiery wave]

now this map has a lot of things on it

i should try for a multi breach map with this

i really like vaaling a sa form to save bad maps

[echo yoke]

is 59% good enough for ingenuity

[merry bone]

its a simpel math problem - how good are your rings - multiply them by 1.59. How good is your current belt - is your belt better than the bonus you gain from your rings

Is the difference between those 2 things worth the cost of the 59% to you?

thats the final stage of the problem

[fiery wave]

just buy the cheapest none corrupted one

you hit over 60 very fast

but i foudn the sweetspot around 25d where youget like 73-75

which you can get a low roll for 19d

so you have 6 tries

but i like security xD

[viral crag]

Having a lot of trouble deciding.
Without mom, I have about 20% extra "shield" (stuff I lose before life)
But I'm also burning through mana pots now lol

Turns out big mana pool is nice for regen.

[silver root]

Quick question about Deadeye Ranger:

When choosing between Point Blank and Far Shot, how does it determine the point of origin? I'm using a gas arrow/flame wall build. Does the 3.5meter buff start from my character or the explosion epicenter?

[sage tulip]

anyone up for reviewing the build I just came up with. It is a stat stacker build but I put my own little twist on it. I just havent put the skill gems into it yet.

Though the gear and passive tree is just about done.

[merry bone]

link it up

[sage tulip]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/92f06c16-8ed9-49bd-8b2b-ff6278e3ed43/builds/a526c90c-b523-4774-accc-0bce7ae29e20

that one should work

[merry bone]

wrong helm in there i think

oh i see where you mention the swap

[sage tulip]

ahh so should have the end build helm in the slot ok

[merry bone]

not sure if builders lets you - but that morior is the incorrect version - doesnt match your notes

[sage tulip]

the builder doesn't allow the change I tried

[merry bone]

if your notes section is directing people to maxroll planner anyways - why not just build it in maxroll?

Drop the pathing nodes to Flash storm and just take the attribute nodes on the path maybe?

Losing Polymathy and Jack of all trades at the bottom feels like a significant loss

[sage tulip]

hmm fair point

[merry bone]

why are we taking resonance?

[sage tulip]

I guess we will be gettting enough attributes to scale lightning damage to the point we don't really need shock bonus.

[sage tulip]

thanks for pointing that out we don't actually need it

[merry bone]

you have an estimate of how much str you'll have to scale ES?

these uniques have very low flat ES on them that is being scaled

[sage tulip]

I will do that I never really did the math on that or said how much STR to put

[merry bone]

your flat ES is like a few 100

even with like giga ES boots - your base ES that you are scaling is like 500ish?

yea witht he uniques you have to use, its like sub 250 flat es with perfect rolls - quality of course will come into play at that point - but still like 300 from those - and then your boots.

[pearl sluice]

On the note of maxroll it’s an easier planner to work with I suggest it also

[sage tulip]

ok I will make the swap also where is jack of all trades and Polymathy I can't seem to find them

[merry bone]

the wheel at the bottom near the timeless straight below merc start

[fiery wave]

polymathy si bottom left

[rancid cipher]

"Cold Damage from Hits Contributes to Ignite Chance and Magnitude instead of Chill Magnitude". Does this mean I can still chill enemies with ice attacks, I just can't increase the magnitude?

[merry bone]

no

if you wear that - you need to do lightning dmg to chill/freeze

[pearl sluice]

No it means your cold does ignite instead

[rancid cipher]

Got it, thank you.

[pearl sluice]

lol WTF did I type

[vernal falcon]

if you wear that and the painters gloves. Does that mean you just do every ailment

wait im dumb

you would do so with just gloves

[merry bone]

yep but you dont need the helm then 🙂

[vernal falcon]

esp with the upcomming buff to the gloves (well argueably buff)

[dry carbon]

Any invoker double herald storm wave / tempest flurry monks have some insight on elemental weapon dmg with attacks affix? Trying to decide to buy a staff with 200dps more than mine physical but losing 100% WED

[pearl sluice]

I know a bunch of uniques are getting buffed hopefully we see some more playable ones

[vernal falcon]

ngl the new buff to the painter's gloves might make me run them if i find a good roll

[pearl sluice]

So far not to many outside of I’m leveling campaign and want something

[merry bone]

ive heard people say that DontheCrown created some spreadsheet to help calculate it - maybe check his twitch/youtube/mobalytics guides

[dry carbon]

ok thanks

[floral helm]

Can anybody with a just cosmic size gigabrain Tell me what the hell these are for aside from I don't know self Sudoku?

[rancid cipher]

What if I were to use this? Would this override that and allow me to chill + ignite with cold damage?

[atomic halo]

i can give you one use

temporal chains

[merry bone]

should

[atomic halo]

makes other effects expire slower, including buffs

so you can self-curse that and get longer effective duration of your buffs

[sage tulip]

ahh thanks for the catch Onjoast the Heroic jewel was turning them into somthing else I didn't even notice that thank you

[floral helm]

Okay fair, that's more uses than I thought they had lol

[atomic halo]

it was a thing in poe1, really strong if used correctly, not sure if there's a good way to use it in poe2

[floral helm]

Yeah cuz, granted I haven't played every class or anything like that. But I don't know of any buffs that would be worth not only going out of your way to run temporal, but also using your glove slot for literally just that ability... At least not yet anyway.

[atomic halo]

it's supposed to be a challenge to build around

they give us the tools, we have to figure out how to put it together

[floral helm]

Oh yeah I totally get that. It's like the witch doctor I finally finished yesterday.

Literally the most unique take on a witch I've seen since EA.

[pearl sluice]

def better to just use other gloves esp since es stacking is the way it is

theyre buffing a bunch of uniques this patch also

so maybe we'll see more useful ones

[tidal copper]

1. How does elemental DMG in weapons interact with your DPS? Is it just increased ele DMG?
2. Attack speed modifiers multiply with the attack speed of your weapon right?

[whole bobcat]

pc?

[merry bone]

#price-check📉

that bow is extremely easy to price

[tidal copper]

Weapons are pretty easy to price*

[whole bobcat]

what does that mean ?

[tidal copper]

Yet You can make 10 divs flipping weapons

[merry bone]

means go follow the guides where i linked you - and go price check it

[whole bobcat]

and i dont have access to the price check for some reason

[tidal copper]

It's a Poe 1 channel which is mildly infuriating

[merry bone]

#1308715317375270952

[tidal copper]

It happens a lot
There are guides pinned in #2┃crafting-advice and in #1308715317375270952

[sage tulip]

@merry bone SO I looked at the market and it possible to make shoes with energy shield up to 450 would this be enough to have with the other items to have a base value of 500 if then added with all the boosts from strength ?

[merry bone]

how much str are you getting? So based on boots with 450, your total base ES is 1000 - and then scaling it with the % that is converted by Str.

would be good to understand how much ES/Mana you are going to have to know if you can actually survivte hits

[sage tulip]

was thinking about 300 strength so that with MErc enhanced efffectiveness that would 300% increase

[merry bone]

I dont have it up anymore - are you going Eternal Youth? And im guessing Grim feast?

[sage tulip]

yes and yes

[merry bone]

yea with overlow im guessin you just do enough dmg to everything that you barely get hit. If i was reading your notes correctly - the jewels for this build are like 150+ Div?

[sage tulip]

total for all the unique jewels but sometimes you can find people just selling them for like half the cost just cause they don't want them

[gray ferry]

what's some advice for mana sustain if you're running archmage and MoM

[sage tulip]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/je1cj02j here is the revised passives tree based on your suggestions

[civic summit]

Any leveling build for sorc that isn't horrid? I'm willing to dump like, a div into this character

But I want to kinda speedrun into effectiveness, spark is just trash tier weak at the start lmao

[merry bone]

just get a Pillar set up for leveling and spec everything to Str - then re-spec when you hit maps

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/y21h6901

Or Havocs speed run set up - but its Spark - https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/eq1wn0zp

[daring willow]

anyone know any good support gems for flammability? rn ive got cursed ground and expanse

[merry bone]

heightened curse

[sage tulip]

Thanks for the help @merry bone I revised the passives tree and I think it is better

[civic summit]

I'll try the spark speedrun build, if that doesn't work I'll pick up a pillar and maybe juice with some other items

Ty ^^

[merry bone]

dont forget as soon as you open up trial of sekhemas you can buy a full 4th floor ascendancy clear for like 40ex in TFT - make level 20+ very easy 🙂

[daring willow]

also, do you think its worth using a skill gem to upgrade the curse? it doesnt seem to do a ton, but it increases the cost of mana by double

[sage tulip]

also isn't there something that removes the 2second wait before energy shield starts recharging ?

[merry bone]

in general you gonna keep em low unless you have the mana

[daring willow]

awesome thanks👍

[merry bone]

if you take Eternal Youth - recharge applies to life not ES

[sage tulip]

ahh right so what then applies to it replenishing does life regen apply to ES instead then ?

[merry bone]

not unless you get zealots oath

your flask recovers your ES and grim feast

[devout valve]

where can i see my minion crit chance??

[sage tulip]

ahh right which we can't use now cause of the changes we made.

[merry bone]

summon them and then click the arrow in the skill menu to expand the skill panel

[spring prairie]

is it just me or does having cast speed greatly increase the price of a ring?

[merry bone]

it does - its a huge stat

[sage tulip]

fixed it, now we have Zealot's Oath as well just had to move somethings around.

[merry bone]

are you using From Nothing for that or did you path there?

I dont think From Nothing allows you to allocate the keystone itself - just the nodes around it. I dont have one to confirm

[sage tulip]

path there, you can't pick the node itself but it is still a good From nothing since you can get 75% attack damage without pathing those nodes

[dusky shadow]

Hey guys, newish player here. I got one character up to endgame, cold sorceress with stormweaver ascension, level in the low 70s. The more and more I play, the more it just seems like ice can't really hang. Does anyone here play cold sorceress? I'd love to get some build ideas

[sage tulip]

curious since I have zealot's oath, do I need eternal youth since the flask healing would overheal my health of 1 and apply directly to my es or would I still need eternal youth to allow the flask to heal ES ?

[merry bone]

well even with Zealots oath - where are you getting life regen from?

i didnt think about it when you asked the quesiton - i just sort of answered

[sage tulip]

OHH right I have 1 hp so vitality reserv wouldn't work in this case shit.

[jaunty vector]

Spell damage vs Cast speed on weight? 1 spell damage = x cast speed?

[merry bone]

right so you just have eternal youth - and your life flask gives you back ES instead

[merry bone]

dont think it works anything like that

[burnt cairn]

do skills scale past level 40?

[merry bone]

sorry - let me say that more clearly.

Given each spell has different base dmg, and cast speed - without specifics of your build (other gear/supports) - there is no way to determine the weighting you are looking for as to how it impacts your dps

[dawn spire]

You can go on poe2db and check the tiering for those stats and get a rough idea

[jaunty vector]

Just wanted to find out the ratio between them for weight sum market item search

[sage tulip]

ahh I can put it on my rings and have eternal youth this would completely cut out anything health related since health is 1 anything to health is completely worthless.

[merry bone]

i wouldnt suggest putting 2 mods with very different purposes in a weighted sum like that.

[sage tulip]

ha This is why I like talking to someone else when making a build it helps solve issues that I don't see alone

[merry bone]

i dont think id sacrifice eternal youth for the little bit of life regen youd get on rings

[sage tulip]

I meant like getting both Zealot and Youth nodes

I wouldn't sacrifice Eternal Youth I meant getting both to be able to apply both to ES

[merry bone]

Nah Life Regen on rings is a suffix - you need that for resistances or attributes

scrap zealots IMO

[sage tulip]

though point taken since the health regen would be very little and no reason to sacrifice jewel slots for Zealots and true

[merry bone]

if Flask / Grim Feast / MoM isnt enough to keep you alive - there are bigger issues

[sage tulip]

ahh I am going to need mana recovery rate too from MoM

ohh right duh I was going to use shock siphon

also mana leech

I need sleep I will see you all tomorrow before I am brain dead cause mana leech is for physical damage not lightning

[charred hazel]

How does 1 gain an endurance charge

[dusty rock]

I put resonance on my monk and now I cant figure out how to get power charges

[merry bone]

Combat Frenzy - spirit gem

[dusty rock]

How do you get spirit gems

[tidal copper]

Hardly
There is a notable in the tree that will give one when you heavy stun an enemy
A support gem that'll give one whenever you break armour
And if you use the keystone to change one charge for the other I believe power charges will give endurance? Maybe frenzies double check that@charred hazel

[dawn spire]

Buy them or find them as random drops

[merry bone]

Couple of places they come from in the campaign for sure - Freythorn in A1 - Azak Bog in A3 - Azak Bog in A6

[dawn spire]

Resonance converts frenzies to powers and powers to endurance, yeah

[dusty rock]

Oh i found it thanks

[tidal copper]

I have read that 50 times but I still need to double check

[merry bone]

use the support that causes it to give you 2 charges sometimes

[dusty rock]

Yeah i dont have the spirit yet so just refunded the passive

[thin basin]

ive been spoiled by spark clearing

cuz other stuff not feeling as good

[merry bone]

always play trash builds, and they always feel good becuase you dont know any better

[charred hazel]

Yeah its either i pick frenzy or endurance with resonance. Haha i wanted to do all 3 charges

I meed lots of str to armor break with armor breaker

[merry bone]

Just to confirm you know - Charges dont provide any inherent bonus

[charred hazel]

Armor piercing rounds dmg seems weak

[tidal copper]

Endurance when you break armour doesn't sound too bad actually as you can "regenerate" their armour with some abilities

[charred hazel]

Yeah im trying to figure out fir my charge infusion haha

[signal sky]

if i only add dex and int as a monk will i still do dmg going higher lvls

[merry bone]

dex and int dont directly give you any dmg so no

[signal sky]

so i gotta add str?

[merry bone]

OHH lol - no str doesnt add dmg either

attributes fulfill requirements for gear and skill gems - they have small innate bonuses - and can sometimes be scaled by different items

If you dont have skills that need STR and dont scale it in anyway - you'll need very little if any

[signal sky]

ok bet

[narrow shuttle]

hey im confused on the point of the chance to poison nodes in the passives. if you are doing a poison build you are going ti be using skills that auto poison. im trying to make a proc poison build w other skills. but it doesnt seme like its worth it

[merry bone]

why would you ahve to use skills that auto poison? Any chaos skill or physical skill can contribute to poison dmg - but youd need to provide a way for them to cause a poison

[narrow shuttle]

have you seen anyone make a proc poison build

the way is the poison nodes lol

[merry bone]

Huh?

You are wondering why the chance to poison nodes exist - becuase you are assuming, everyone will use a skill that auto poisons.

[narrow shuttle]

no im not. lol im saying it just makes more sense

[merry bone]

Thos nodes exist because you can create a poison build - that doesnt auto poison

[narrow shuttle]

im trying ti make a proc poison build an dit seems to be less good

[merry bone]

It doesnt make more sense - its a different build completely

[narrow shuttle]

so im ASKING if yall know

[thin basin]

they need to remove these ice walls particles, 2 cast and my fps dipping massive

[narrow shuttle]

any build

[merry bone]

Someone was discussing their Hexblast Poison Pathfinder just yesterday

you could make a quarterstaff poison build using the phys only skills on qstaff. You could create a Spiral volley poison build. Plenty of things you can do with Poison

[dawn spire]

If you're using doing a skill that auto poisons like gas arrow, those nodes are useless, yeah

But if you're inflicting poison by actually hitting, then they become useful

But the notables on the tree with poison chance might still come with other benefits that make the node worth it for auto poison skills

[tidal copper]

Snipe poison is where my stocks are though

[mellow shell]

Is poison damage considered chaos damage? Does it increase when you increase chaos damage?

[pearl sluice]

hi i am new to the gemling build, how to use charged staff with combat frenzy ?

[merry bone]

You need the keystone Resonance as well

[sacred plaza]

Prism of belief took them from 31 to 34 but didn't change anything in the stats page for them. Does anyone know if the level actually caps or it is a visual bug?

[pearl sluice]

Hi, is it in the passive tree, or is it a socketed gem?

[merry bone]

passive tree up near monk area by the crit nodes you can use the search in passive tree - Resonance

[supple jay]

are the "increased damage per chance to block nodes capped at 75/65%?

or if your actual block chance is past capped does that still increase dmg

[pearl sluice]

Hi, i was playing the Mercenary Gemling build with the staff, and I saw some people with their staff glowing. I was wondering if there's another way to achieve the charged staff with some items or anything?

[floral helm]

Here's a little clip of my witch doctor build. It's still a WiP. But it's quite fun to play.

[merry bone]

No - charged staff is a skill that consumes power charges to give you a buff. So you need to generate power charges. One of the main ways to do this is to use Combat Frenzy (which gives you Frenzy charges when you freeze/shock) - and Resonance (which makes it so when you gain a frenzy charge, you instead gain a Power charge).

You could use an alternate method to try and gain power charges if you prefer - Killing Palm. Profane Ritual. But Combat Frenzy/Resonance Combo tends to be the smoothest

[abstract mortar]

MoM dont work with energy shield? im CI and im getting damage directly on energy shield instead of mana

[static plinth]

ES -> Mana -> Life

MoM only redirects damage from life

[abstract mortar]

sadge, ty

[abstract mortar]

what was the thing that makes life potions work in energy shield? cant recall it

[merry bone]

eternal youth

[static plinth]

Or Shavronne's Satchel belt

[abstract mortar]

tytyy

[pine quarry]

guys anyone can recommend a end game invoker monk crit build?

my friend recommended me using Elemental Invocation for monk idk if that's a good choice

[mellow shell]

Does chaos damage affect poison damage?

[vital quail]

Does elemental resistance effect the Witchunter's Sorcery Ward? Like how much damage it takes? I might experiment with the fire mines in the Sekhmas and see if there's a damage reduction from fire resistance on the Ward...

[vernal falcon]

Yes it should

[pearl sluice]

the reverse isnt true tho

[mellow shell]

So increasing chaos damage, also increases poison damage?

[pearl sluice]

if it says effects poison dmg then it wont make ur chaos spells hit harder

[vernal falcon]

Yea

Kinda makes me wonder how a chaos damage poisoner works. Cause shouldn't that double dip?

[mellow shell]

Seems like a poison/crit witch could be fun🤔

[vernal falcon]

Obv can run corpsewalker for mapping, then maybe a hexblast crit blood witch?

[mellow shell]

I thought of using poison skills, already have a hexblast witch

[static plinth]

It does

Any and all DR you have affects the damage

Ward is just another health bar

[vital quail]

nice thx

[vernal falcon]

Ngl I kinda hope they add a flask timer. They showed a charm timer so I hope it also works for flasks

Not knowing when my flask stops is annoying for my build

[compact tulip]

Does anyone know if "increased damage against stunned enemies" increases the damage of the hit applying the stun?

@vernal falcon They have that but it's currently bugged and just not working. Go into interface settings and you'll see "show flask buffs" option

[gloomy jackal]

Hmm I'll make a Quarterstaff proj build and I can't decide between Invoker or Deadeye (or mby something else). Like if I kill everything with heralds anyway, won't deadeye be better for speed? Was my idea, any thoughts?

[vernal falcon]

Yea I have it on and thought it maybe was something different, glad to hear it's only buggdd

[lapis cedar]

we have intergrated AOE into the blockchain

not even max damage

Omega cocka build

[burnt lance]

when i use chaos inoculation, is it considered as low life too?

[static plinth]

No

Full Life only

[burnt lance]

i see, thanks!

[static plinth]

You'd need to be at 0.35 life to be low life

aka dead

[cinder river]

Does Zealots oth work with Thiefs Torment Ring, the one that gives life on hit? So you would charge your energy shield from life on hit?

[static plinth]

No

It only affects regen

[foggy bloom]

which is the best skill planner on the internet?

[steady breach]

path of building (thats not yet released for poe2)

[tidal copper]

Supposedly it's coming today

[midnight bolt]

has anyone tested olroth resolve+eternal youth?

[vernal falcon]

Yknow I forgot that flask existed I'll give it a try

[midnight bolt]

i saw bug reports it doesnt work with eternal youth, gives 0 guard

[vernal falcon]

Hmm. Might be interesting to test. Rn my 2.2k life flask gets juiced to 10k a second so if I pivot more flask charge recovery I could meme

Hmm tho I would have no real way of proccing my barrier invo

There's nothing that really interacts with guard tho huh

[scarlet oasis]

Is jagged ground time to exploded changed with skill duration?

[old oriole]

is this guy to be trusted? are his builds good?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n96PFKn60w

[sharp thorn]

Need a little bit of advice. How does armor and something like fire mantle work together? Does armor applies after conversion or before?

[scarlet oasis]

Did one of his builds, dmg on bosses wasn't crazy but was alright for merc

[old oriole]

wasn't crazy as didn't kill in 5sec?

[scarlet oasis]

More like didn't kill it in 2 minutes

[old oriole]

it's not the same build i linked right?

[scarlet oasis]

Nah was the one he did before that

[tidal copper]

We have sadly realised the formula unlike in PoE1 is against the player armour applies first

[scarlet oasis]

Just saying the build he shows is what you'll get

[old oriole]

ok cuz as you see in the first few secs he showcases his boss damage at xecht +4

[thorny token]

idk why would you do shockburst on witchhunter over deadeye, its just way weaker

[narrow trench]

So as a warrior of I go with energy shield and evasion

Energy shield only

Evasion only

Armour only

Armour and energy shield ?

And other than resistances what stat would be favourable on my gear

[sharp thorn]

So, no need to invest into armour at all. Ok, thanks.

[old oriole]

if the mobalitycs guide only name these lines should only care about these lines and not stuff like how much phy dmg?

[pastel heron]

anyone thought of a spellcaster titan build? im thinking something involving impending doom and titan. if anyone is interested in brainstorming with me, lmk 🙂

[fervent glen]

Hello i'm looking for a Necromantle please

im not sure it's the right place to ask lol

[heady garnet]

if a skill has instant cast time does that mean that cast on x has no energy requirement?

[floral helm]

Does anybody know if these two items would work together? Or has anybody tried it?

[cloud sparrow]

Is there a way to check the stat requirements for a buff at certain levels without having a spirit gem?

[spring prairie]

is a 550 ES chest worth 1 div?

[static wind]

how do i get my character link from online?

[raw forge]

Is lightening rod the best clear option for sorceress as a distilled emotion?

[mystic shard]

the talent calculator says 122 ppoints down from 124, what happened to the other 2?

[thorny token]

there is 123 max points so neither of the 2 numbers make sense

99 from leveling 24 from acts

[spring prairie]

for non-crit spark build, yes

[gloomy flax]

what is the quickest way to level up as a monk?

[thorny token]

pillar

[mystic shard]

be nice ifu got an extra point at level 2 or something

to make it 100 points for 100 levels

[normal pumice]

What's a well scaling spell for a caster Titan?

[cloud sparrow]

Anyone know the int level requirement for a level 10 buff skill?

[sharp thorn]

I think it's like the ideal crossbow in this case. Looks like that someone posted a build with the best tiers of every desired modifiers on that. Probably they meant that you need to prioritize these for the build.

[midnight geode]

if I proc ignite on an already ignited enemy does it just reset the timer or does the dmg stack?

and is it the same for bleed and poison?

[thorny token]

it do not resets any timer, you will just have 2 ignites on the enemy and the highest damage ignite will be doing the damage

[midnight geode]

not what I was expecting lol

ty

[maiden parcel]

yo guys does anyone know how to get a from nothing diamond with iron reflexes? you can select to search for them at the trade side but nothing shows. is there just none to buy or is it bugged?

[sharp pelican]

is there any build that is like icenova archmage in poe1 like a high dps mid range and tanky

[thorny token]

archmage spark lul

[sharp pelican]

oh i will try that one out then

is it a bit tanky ?

[thorny token]

it is yea

[hybrid ocean]

Does momentum work with channeled/continuous abilities such as incinerate, rapid shot?

I'd obviously assume not

But seems worth checking

[thorny token]

why would you assume not

its literally what the gem is made for

so yes it does

well with incinerate at least, rapid shot is not channel

[hybrid ocean]

Oh, right

Well, here I was thinking it was just for skills that actually move you themselves

You know, flicker strike (first part is a dash), any of the palm skills, gathering storm, etc.

[turbid patrol]

anyone know a good build from gremling using crossbow/bow ?

[tidal copper]

Gremling >:)

[old oriole]

why tf does mobalitycs not say which attribute i choose for the node?

[tidal copper]

It's to leave you the flexibility and play with your equipment to find an optimal path in your particular situation
I'll guess

[normal pumice]

What's a well scaling spell for a caster Titan?

[tidal copper]

What useful stats can it give you for spells?

[tame hamlet]

Hello, can anyone explain if minions inherit any of the players stats? Also for example if i use a skill on my bar to command a minion, does said attack use their stats or mine? Fire/elemental passives spell out damage 'YOU' inflict wich should be very obvious but its also unclear how the minions work, making me wonder if despite the wording they DO benifit from player stats

[pearl sluice]

no

[bold remnant]

Someone plays lightning warp?

[hybrid ocean]

You can always browse through poe2db and see if any skills have outstanding benefits from level or quality

Flash grenades come to mind

You may also enjoy stormblast bolts with magnetic salvo

[small axle]

Do you still need to follow builds / use PoB for PoE 2 or is it more lenient?

[hybrid ocean]

And Falcon Dive/Technique become much more valuable when you can focus on pumping Dex because of adaptive capability and enhanced effectiveness

[pastel heron]

aoe, aoe dmg, physical damage, fire damage

edit: im working on concocting a caster titan than uses hulking form and crushing impacts to permastun with spells. ive considered scaling bone blast or w/e cuz physical dmg. struggling to work that out now tho

[hybrid ocean]

Is there any meaningful way to scale ballistae?

[midnight geode]

hey guys, I put together a build just now in maxroll and I'm wondering if it'd work for very endgame content. The idea is to use snipe with barrage for bosses (this part I know will work since I basically copied it from a build I saw, and that guy was literally one shotting t17 bosses), and ice shot with cast on crit and herald of ice for mapping, and utilize barrage here too mostly for rares. I'll use combat frenzy to get frenzies from freezing enemies. What do you think? I'm a bit worried about the survivability tbh

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/ne25l0n8

[hybrid ocean]

Have you considered that all roads lead to corpse explosion?

[brazen plinth]

Hey everyone. Looking for a bit of advice I don’t keep up with the meta as much as many people do so I am not as up to speed on what is the best of everything

I’m gonna start my third character and it’s gonna be a sorcerer’s and I’ve done ice and lightning on my other two characters and I want to do fire this time. What are some good fire builds for sorcerer?

[random carbon]

can somebody explain what I am looking at? Is that a jewel that drops or something?
https://poe2db.tw/us/Targeted_Strike

[rancid turtle]

is there a site or tool that can let me simulate builds? like just see what the stats are before i craft or trade incorrectly?

[vernal falcon]

Possibly not after next patch or two lol

Just cause apparently bleeds are supposed to apply through ES

[vernal falcon]

Passive in the tree

Wait is it lemme double check

[pastel heron]

yeah seems like a copout hahahahaha. i was thinking maybe scaling poison explosions with plague or w/e. i was wondering if a combo of impending doom (doom blast) + poison explosions could be a solid way to scale aoe dmg with prolif. also the explosions would stun

[scarlet oasis]

Is the only source of reduced skill duration a few passive nodes?

[vernal falcon]

So wild theory. They mentioned they were gonna cook up something unique for expeditions, and the name of the icon says Passives/KalguuranDexNotable.png

Cause it's not a normal tree passive

[tidal copper]

I'm listening
What problem are encountering exactly?

[tame hamlet]

Inescapable cold: 40% increased freeze build up. 20% increased Freeze duration

Do minions benefit from perks like these?

[vernal falcon]

Nah sadly not

If it doesn't specify 'allies' or 'your minions'. It rarely works

[tame hamlet]

Damn i been liking this frost minion build, but there seems no way to increase their frost penetration

[vernal falcon]

I mean you can run the frost curse and what ever the spells called that stack crit vulnerability, and slap frost exposure on jt

[honest thistle]

Hey guys, I play as an elemental monk and I know at got the charged staff skill, I've got the resonance passive in the skill tree, but I don't know where to put combat frenzy support gem ? On what skill ?

[vernal falcon]

A lot of minions builds just set up a lot of utility on their spells

[tame hamlet]

yes thats kind of what i am running

[hybrid ocean]

Eye of Winter ^

[vernal falcon]

Ye that

[random carbon]

it says the source is a timeless jewel, but I don't know if it's a jewel affix/suffix?

[tame hamlet]

Is eye of winter a gem?

[hybrid ocean]

Combat frenzy is not a support gem but a spirit gem

You put it in just like any other skill

[honest thistle]

Yes a spirit gem sorry

Where do I put it

[hybrid ocean]

Same as your other skills

[honest thistle]

Aaa

So I have to use it ?

[vernal falcon]

It's a skill. Puts up crit vulnerability naturally then you can put expose on it too

And just spam those out to debuff mobs for your frost mages to pelt

[tame hamlet]

Ok must be something i dont have access too yet, just been using hypothermia curse, and a few support gems that add cold to attacks

[honest thistle]

Right

Thank you

I just don't know how to activate passive skills , I'm on Xbox

[gloomy compass]

Is path of building 2 out yet?

[vernal falcon]

Yea it's pretty high up in the gem level if your not at end game

[vernal falcon]

Nah but I heard it will be today

[gloomy compass]

Patiently waiting 😁

[tame hamlet]

Alrighty thanks ill remember for later

[vernal falcon]

I'm sure we'll get an @ in game news

[tidal copper]

You could give them your amulet effects what if you annoint that node and give it to them

[vernal falcon]

We are suspecting that doesn't work

[old oriole]

what's the difference between left click and m4? the skills i mean

[hybrid ocean]

No clue about xbox keybinds, but you activate it from the skill gem menu directly

[vernal falcon]

Ones to reload/activate the skill, the other shoots I think

[hardy haven]

Added damage (not on your weapon), elemental damage with attacks, projectile skill levels and general projectile nodes

[old oriole]

why i can't find, i only have one

[hardy haven]

HoWA for example works great with ballista, and you can get some silly damage

[vernal falcon]

Ballista is a totem so it scales with any passive increases you receive IIRC

[hybrid ocean]

One loads the ammo type, the other fires whatever ammo type you have loaded. Hitting m5 would change left click to that.

[vernal falcon]

Dude Stat stacking ballista must go crazy

[hybrid ocean]

Aha!

Ok, now this I must try

[hardy haven]

It does 🙂 It deletes bosses in general, but I never took it to the maximum

[old oriole]

the one i have only loads and doesn't shoot

[hardy haven]

It does a tremendous stun buildup aswell for some reason

[hybrid ocean]

Also seems like it should be a totally viable secondary weapon set on a stat stacker

[vernal falcon]

Does it like snapshot your weapon when you place it, or can you place it with a +7 skill then swap to pillar?

[hybrid ocean]

Left click shoots.

[white relic]

Can someone tell me how quality works on Mana Tempest? Does the mana drain also continue for 1s after leaving it?

[old oriole]

that's from yt not my game

here's me

[hybrid ocean]

You'll want the crossbow basic attack

Fire crossbow

[tame hamlet]

Thats a good one ill have to remember if i ever get a good amulet

[hybrid ocean]

Basic icon

[hardy haven]

it should snapshot for levels when you place it if it works like other totems, but dont think elemental damage with attacks would snapshot

[hybrid ocean]

The icon will change when you load the relevant ammo

[thorny token]

well i highly doubt they will mak them insta kill you with CI even if how it works atm is untintended

it will most likely just apply bleed to your ES

[hardy haven]

You can get a 210 elemental damage with attacks +7 crossbow for relatively cheap

[thorny token]

and thats it

[vernal falcon]

Pillar is weapon damage

[thorny token]

theres a reason why CI gives you chaos immune otherwise poison would just insta kill you as well and thats bad design

[hardy haven]

Yes, but the elemental damage with attacks on the crossbow that you would have. Pillars weapon damage wouldnt work because its weapon damage and the ballistae specifically uses its own weapon'

[vernal falcon]

"Bleed is ment to be an anti-mage mechanic" -dev in the interview

[thorny token]

yea, and it would be

as ES works on recharge

so dots are very bad for it

[hybrid ocean]

Ok, but immediately killing you is a bit harsh

[thorny token]

normally

thats how it worked in poe1

[hybrid ocean]

And generally what deathbeam said

[thorny token]

so even bleed doing damage to your ES is already very bad and way worse for ES build than life build

[vernal falcon]

That's why you have to play around it and probably use a Bleed charm

Bleed as a core part of its mechanic penetrates ES. It's the one single scary aspect to CI

[hardy haven]

The one thing I didnt quite solve on my ballistae build was the manacost, its crazy

had to use "convert mana cost to life cost" jewels to even be able to use it

[hybrid ocean]

Were you using the +1 to limit amulet?

So wait, is the consensus that swapping off a +ele damage crossbow will lower the damage of a totem placed by it?

[thorny token]

i mean thats what poison does and they give you immunity to it for a reason, i dont think th balance should be this either insta kills you or you are completely immune to it

as that makes no sense

[hybrid ocean]

^

[cosmic basin]

what's the best spell for demon form ?

[vernal falcon]

Yea cause poison is chaos damage. I'm sorry your capstone will finally have a reasonable downside man

[raw barn]

The tool tip for bleed does say that it bypasses es, but yea that seems wack to me if it's also supposed to be applied from es-damage

[vernal falcon]

Like how a capstone should

[feral halo]

does anyone know if an extra arrow on bow procs more orbs from lightning rod while using cast on shock (fub guns build)

[hybrid ocean]

Your criterion for a reasonable downside is instant death?

Ok man

[vernal falcon]

Bleed charm

[thorny token]

it has downside. the issue with CI isnt CI but ES being broken, has nothing to do with the keystone itself

[raw barn]

Im not sure if bleed charms would even save you since the charm check might be after its done damage

[thorny token]

like how is removing all life not downside in your eyes

[hybrid ocean]

^

[thorny token]

its bigger downside than on most other keystones

[hybrid ocean]

You're losing a ton of EHP

[sudden crown]

anyone know if volcanic fissure can overlap eachother so if I put 5 of them 5 of them deal dmg or just one ?

[vernal falcon]

So your downside is you get to ignore a stat the other two defensive have to stack in addition to their defense stat?

Like your not also running MoM

[hybrid ocean]

"Get to"

The others can ignore it too if they'd like

[thorny token]

yes and you lose all life for it. thats how it worked in poe1 and it was balanced

idk why would yoou think it has no downsides

[rancid turtle]

hmm... i have 39 spirit free, i can enable one buff (ghost dance) but if i then disable it and try to enable a different 30 spirit buff it says not enough spirit.. wtf

[vernal falcon]

I think it's the most op capstone in the game. It has a downside, just not a massive one

[thorny token]

when ES is in actual balanced state then CI is not problem

[hybrid ocean]

Also "in addition" is generous for armour- That stat does practically nothing at all to begin with.

The issue here is the stats themselves, not CI

[thorny token]

so you are completely missing a point in what should be nerfed here

[vernal falcon]

Also again your running MoM so this convo is kinda pointless unless your a pure CI energy shield stacker

[hybrid ocean]

You probably have support gems that eat spirit

[rancid turtle]

hmm... youre probably right 😄

[white relic]

Adding quality to Mana Tempest, does the mana drain also stay for 1s after leaving it?

[rancid turtle]

ah yeah theres a 10 spirit support gem

[thorny token]

yes not everyone is running mom, theres a reason why the 2 are on opposide of the tree as well

[vernal falcon]

And with pure CI energy stacker, run a bleed charm, like it or not they flat out said it's intended for bleed to penetrate ES

[raw barn]

Hybrid Life/ES was about as popular as CI for tricksters in poe1 and it works the exact same there, it's just the ES scaling in poe2 that's wack

[hybrid ocean]

Likely with a caveat for CI specifically- As I understand it, this was also the case in Poe1

[vernal falcon]

I do agree ES could use a nerf, but not a massive one. I think evasion and Armour just need to be brought up more

[thorny token]

it needs massive nerfs lul

[thorny token]

they said they had no clue how it works atm as well

and that bleed is supposed to be good against mages

but they did not said it should insta kill them

[vernal falcon]

They said it was applying through ES internally

[hybrid ocean]

Armour needs a system rework tbh

[vernal falcon]

True

[hybrid ocean]

Until it gets that, you could probably buff it by an order of magnitude and it would still be the weakest

[thorny token]

well armour is only defense against phys, stacking it is always gonna be worthless unless they give left side more tools for mitigation

[vernal falcon]

I wouldn't hate if they made CI immune to bleeds, but rn it's intended to penetrate and apply through ES, and idk if they're gonna make CI immune to bleeds

[thorny token]

idk why ppl compare eva or armour to es either, they are not comparable defenses

[vernal falcon]

You might just have to play around it

[thorny token]

armour an deva are comparable but stacking only eva is also shit, right side just has more tools that arent just stacking eva

unlike left side

[plush path]

Can anyone tell a noob is sorc or monk better at endgame? Now they are not nerfing archmage am tempted to try one. My monk is lvl 90 and have no idea which build to follow.

[vernal falcon]

Both kinda go hard but arguably I'd say Archmage is better

[raw barn]

Both are fine at endgame, play whichever one looks the coolest to you

[vernal falcon]

But yes play what feels comfortable

[thorny token]

with state of heralds atm monk clears way better, and both one shot all pinnacles anyway

[hybrid ocean]

The obvious solution is not to make it immune, but rather just shunt them onto ES

[thorny token]

and theres no other metric anyway as you can go ES on both so you arent dying either

so if you already have monk just stick with monk imo

[vernal falcon]

I'm eternal youth life flask demon witch :3

[hybrid ocean]

Wait, does the life degen not interrupt shieldlife regen?

[vernal falcon]

I'm regen ES with life flask with eternal youth

[hybrid ocean]

I get that- Figured you might be using the other half of eternal youth to sustain demon mommy

[vernal falcon]

And using infernal flame self damage to proc both barrier invocation, and high life recoup to sustain demon form

[dapper swallow]

I just got into act 1.2 and I feel like im not dealing any damage anymore... Should I go for a sunder build? or is it not doable in act1.2?

[vernal falcon]

And using the constant ignite I have from infernal flame to make my life flask never stop healing my ES, and using the other capstone to have 50% less degen at all times

[quartz hamlet]

Any idea when Path of Building 2 launchs?

[vernal falcon]

I swear overcapping your infernal flame is bad guys

[vernal falcon]

No life degen still stops the ES regen part of eternal youth. You only use it for the flask on ES part

Sadly

[plush path]

Thanks. Might stick with monk and try and find a good build. Anyone know if pohx monk buuld is good? I see he is using freeze ring and it's looks good to me but then again am noob.

[potent ice]

how does 'take % of life' attributes work with CI

whats 18% of 1 in this game

[hybrid ocean]

Depends on what's acting on it

Trying to consume 18% of your life will fail

Taking 18% of your life in damage will kill you (not 100% sure of this one)