2┃build-planning

[carmine flicker]

and imploding impacts do nothing

[azure wyvern]

does this work with Blood Magic?

[carmine flicker]

well
it reduce mana cost and increase mana regen rate

what could work there with blood magic?

[azure wyvern]

so those are useless too

[carmine flicker]

yeah

[azure wyvern]

so probably this is the only reducing cost passive from the tree which works

[carmine flicker]

ye

[restive mortar]

i believe lvl 90 for full 6l

[restive mortar]

i have this anointed playing lvl 40 ancestral totems

health cost gets insane

[grand nebula]

What are considered physical spells?

[restive mortar]

even with less cost support and deep trance annoint it's 757 life per cast of totem 😅

[restive mortar]

spells (the have the spell tag) that deal physical damage ( they have the physical tag and arent converted)

[urban vessel]

merry go round looking tree

[sinful plover]

which is better

[hybrid ocean]

Depends on if you have other sources of rage and how much strength you're stacking

Definitely swap out the runes on the left one though

And if the right one doesn't have sockets that's a yikes

[sinful plover]

i havent done any gear shopping for stat stacking yet cuz still levelling

it has sockets i just havent put in the att speed cores

i have jewels that give me rage when im hit but other than that no

[rigid tide]

well if u have high evasion

u wont get hit much

so ill take the 2

if u stat stacking

[hybrid ocean]

Btw, are there any +crit damage nodes on the tree or gear?

[sinful plover]

i have 37 evasion lol

[hybrid ocean]

That is as opposed to increased crit damage

So effectively more crit damage

[sinful plover]

so i should try n find a jewel to socket with rage on melee hit, does that work with tempest flurry/charged staff?

i would assume yes but im not sure abt charged

[toxic hawk]

for spark should I go crit or no crit?

[rocky sinew]

does a passive that says "increased aoe for attacks" also increase armour break's explosion radius?

[rigid tide]

its aoe attack skill

so it will

[rocky sinew]

ty

[latent bronze]

hi, i am trying to respec but finding i dont have enough gold of course...is there a better option than running around old areas farming white/blue gear and selling? Just making sure there isnt something better lol

[dark wharf]

ye get rares and sell

[latent bronze]

yeah just running through older content right now picking stuff up and selling. making sure thats the best option....kinda sucks ngl

i am a warrior, lvl 46 and cant do the current campaign stuff 😭

[rigid tide]

get rarity in ur gear

helps u get more gold

[dark wharf]

why old areas tho

[latent bronze]

i say old, but like...the most recent cleared

[dark wharf]

if youre low level its not your passive tree its your gear

[latent bronze]

the place where doriyani is...i cant take 10 steps forward

[dark wharf]

just upgrade some shit

upgrade skill gems

use support gems

passive tree below level 80 dont matter at all as long you have it on lol

[latent bronze]

i was just gonna actually follow a popular build guide i found thats why

[dark wharf]

that shit wont change anything

[latent bronze]

like i dont do any AOE for example and I think that hurts me a lot rn

[dark wharf]

just trade some decent gear at trade site for 1 exalt

[latent bronze]

obv i am not skilled or knowledgeable at this game, but i have some friends who (are at least more so) and helped me get some stuff that should help but i am finding it lacking against elemental enemies cause I am so slow and dont do enough aoe

i hear what you're saying about upgrading though.

I have used all that I can at the moment, and have support gems and rare gear even

i'm sure part of this is a skill issue...but acts 1 and 2 were not hard for me and suddenly i got skill gapped hard act 3 haha

[thorny fractal]

Can someone say me good builds like Aura+ mf to play with girl?

[azure wyvern]

What was your way to get to 40lvl?
14 from weapons
3 from jewel
2 from gloves
How did you get last level?

I heard you can corrupt gems to get lvl 21 gem

[carmine flicker]

may be gemling?

[azure wyvern]

But never tried to corrupt gems

[pearl sluice]

hi guys, i was wondering if anyone could put me in the direction as to what to focus on upgrading first? i have 426 exalts to spend

[restive mortar]

much cheaper than lvl 21 gem

just need good rings to fix res

[azure wyvern]

Are you warbringer?

[restive mortar]

titan

[azure wyvern]

I want to try get as much passive reductions as possible

[restive mortar]

i doing sekhemas only

not maps, they are boring

[pearl sluice]

how's ur resistances

[restive mortar]

but totem is good for sekehmas

[pearl sluice]

not great lol

if it's fine i would say the bow is lacking the necessary flat for that 100% to be a giga mod

ahh

[azure wyvern]

20% dmg to totems
15% reduced from unique helmet
20% reduced from unique body armor
10% reduced from jade

[pearl sluice]

maybe fix that first?

[restive mortar]

reduced what?

oh mana cost

[azure wyvern]

Reduced dmg you take

[restive mortar]

ohh

[pearl sluice]

your boots also

[restive mortar]

yeah my build isnt super tanky i just dont get hit

[pearl sluice]

okay i shall try, thanks

[carmine flicker]

reduction of what?

[pearl sluice]

you have way too much cold res hahah

socket some fire

[thorny fractal]

Can someone say me good builds like Aura+ mf to play with girl?

[pearl sluice]

if u feel like you are lacking damage i would suggest to upgrade the bow

but my recommendation is to fix the survivavility first

then damage

u cant deal damage if u die

[pearl sluice]

all of my sockets are lightning except for the chaos in HOWA lol

i see

because

in my opinion

life is great

but

losing some life in order to mitigate more elemental damage is a much better option

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHT9MGwkv_k

watch that for perspective

[restive mortar]

theres gloves that make you take kill credit then you can build mf, and alphas howl to increase precense

[pearl sluice]

it matters a ton

[carmine flicker]

well
then you want either 90% block warbringer, 90 res gemling or, if you want to reduce phys as well, invernalist

[pearl sluice]

since u are playing ranger i would assumme that u have decent amount of evasion

that would help mitigating phys damage and stuff

but the problem in end game is mostly the random shit

like instantly dying to something u didn't even notice

mostly elemental damage

also is howa even worth having? i won them from someone in global, it helps with dps but i lose a lot of stuff having the handslot taken up by that

oh yes

[carmine flicker]

with acro eva can protect from that
sometimes

[pearl sluice]

that is where most of ur damage will come from

scale it with int

ah i see, definitely keep haha

find some gears with int

without sacrificing resistances

yeap

[thorny fractal]

so there isnt 2 roles like in 1 to play mf carry + aura support?

[pearl sluice]

that is good

[carmine flicker]

then again best defence for right side is reduced duration+ghost dance+eva/es/ci

[pearl sluice]

evasion is cracked

it's op

okay i shall look on the trade site now for some boots first

do u have acrobatics turned on?

yes

ahh

then that is a really good evasion

that's quite high tbf

good enough

but need more resistances

at that point i woud say it's okay

because you are lvl68

you are probably running low tier maps still

but as you progress

not having cap res will be felt

especially if you add suffixes modifiers with maps

even white monsters can get ya

also the mana cost is pretty rough rn, do you think i can get some mana stuff on gear without sacrificing too much?

mana on kill possibly

or mana on hit/mana leech

physical damage leech as mana

modifiers are not useless

i did drop a jewel earlier giving 1% of mana on kill and thats helped a little but 1% seems a little too low

they have uses situationally

mana on leech people say is useless

it's really not

for ur use case for example

u might need it or not depending on the trade offs

[leaden salmon]

If you have 4000 mana

Thats 40 mana per kill.

Each pack can have like 10-20 mobs

Thats 400-800 mana per pull

[pearl sluice]

are u playing in standard trade?

[pearl sluice]

i am

[pearl sluice]

are mana on kill jewels expensive?

maybe get one more?

[leaden salmon]

By themselves no

[pearl sluice]

are u losing too much?

[leaden salmon]

With 3 other good modifiers kinda

[carmine flicker]

physical damage reduction doesn't work
forget about it

[pearl sluice]

because

no, but getting people to reply is harder than dropping a mirror lmao

put it like this

[carmine flicker]

are you going full eva?

[pearl sluice]

dealing more damage is great

but if u run out of mana in the process

u can;t hit

not hitting means not dealing any damage

so more damage is useless

u need to sustain

[hot coral]

guys when i play with higher level friend with me do i make level downscaling enabled or disabled?

[azure wyvern]

no but stacking reductions

[pearl sluice]

i mostly run out in boss fights rn as im not getting anything from the mana on kill

[carmine flicker]

then that body is kinda useless

[azure wyvern]

why?

[carmine flicker]

you are hit all the time, 20% less won't work

[pearl sluice]

ahh boss fights

oh yea they can get rough

i can't help you any further than that i am sorry

i don't know much about it

[azure wyvern]

not with shockwave totem build

[pearl sluice]

i never had problems with mana 🤣

its okay, you have been excellent i appreciate it

[carmine flicker]

cause one corrupted cloak of flame and 90 fire res(that is easy to get and that you want anyway) give more PDR that all armour and PDR in the world could

shift 50% damage to fire and reduce those by 90% is better than anything else to deal with random phys hits

[azure wyvern]

cloak only transfers 40% of physical damage

[carmine flicker]

that's why I said corrupted

49% possible

infernalist shift 69%(20 chaos, 49 fire)
have 20% reduction cause of doggy
and can stack ES on top

that's A LOT of oneshot protection

(also have spirit for.. idk.. smth. temp chains + enfeeble?)

[fringe lagoon]

any end game int stacker stormweaver wanna share their tree? looking for inspiration

[trail monolith]

the description for Primal Armament says "more weapon Elemental Damage", does that mean it only scales elemental damage from my equipped weapon or just that it boosts any skill that does elemental damage using a weapon?

[hollow bronze]

I'm in maps and I'm using a flicker build. But I want to be able to chain it better any advice on Flicker gems I could use? I have 5 slots atm

[analog gale]

anybody tried this out?

[honest parcel]

Kinda just utility, helps with getting charged staff up and running immediately in maps or faster on bosses

[sonic crescent]

what are people liking for cheap start builds? i don't want to play invoker, would like to try pathfinder but I keep finding 10-40 div builds (I have 1 div and about 80 exalt). just kinda bored and want to try a new char

minions? ghazzy build or something like that?

[restive mortar]

ancestral totem is p cheap

when i started running this i was prolly like less than 100 ex total gear

runs sekehmas well, good to make money

[rocky sinew]

does the increase from Magnified Effect‌ also count for the other support's explosion? Or does it only affect the skill and not supports ?

[scenic steppe]

Can I ask about Passives here? Striving with Getting "requirements not met"

[pearl sluice]

Is lightning monk better than cold monk?

[analog gale]

what i was wondering

does it work with 0 power charges

so could you like use falling thunder with it and just constantly use the 1 power charge version

[rigid tide]

why not have both

[harsh sparrow]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/d9r9405l Anyone willing to gloss over my build? I am pretty new to poe and I half-followed a guide for this generic LA deadeye lol. Wasn't sure if there were passives I don't need/need to switch around. Clears 15s pretty well, and other than being squishy af, my only issue has been extreme mana instensiveness when fighting rares and bosses. I am at a point where it feels like there is not much wiggle room. I posted this in the deadeye forum and it's kinda dead rn.

[rigid tide]

i dont know much about archers but

which skill u use the most

is it the lighting arrow

[harsh sparrow]

lightning arrow yeah with cast on shock

ice and thunder heralds

[rigid tide]

have u tested getting that supp gem

that reduces cost 40%

i forgot the name

[harsh sparrow]

oh yeah i forgot about that I think it is on my cast on shock but that only triggers when the health pools are big enough, maybe I can switch that around

[rigid tide]

put that on the skill

lighting arrow

the one u spam the most

and check if helps

u dont have much mana on ur gear either

from what im seeing

[harsh sparrow]

yeah that helps but I have so much gain mana on kill it's not much of an issue for mapping. I think my gear is probably the underlying issue but every item feels so integral now idk what to change lol

[rigid tide]

what whill gain mana on kill help u

if u fight bosses

or even rares

u have to effectivly kill shit to regen it

[steady birch]

does heft works on charged staff?

[rigid tide]

ew

why would u want to put on charged

[harsh sparrow]

It helps when clearing maps that's for sure haha. I can spam all I want usually

[steady birch]

doesn't answer my question so shoo

[harsh sparrow]

but looking at it now the gain mana per kill on my gloves is probably enough on it's own.

[rocky sinew]

does the AOE increase from Magnified Effect‌ also count for armour break's explosion? Or does it only affect the skill and not supports ?

[rigid tide]

it wont work on charged since theres no dmg to scale with

[steady birch]

ahh cos it works on primal so im assuming its due to the lightning damage on charged

[steady birch]

now to answer your question im running a hybrid nuke crit wave + tempest build

i only use charged staff for pinnacles when i switch my grim out

[rigid tide]

sheesh

[ashen copper]

anyone here try attrition? is it any good?

[orchid hatch]

What's the trick to upgrading quality of the infernal hound? Inspect says it can be upgraded, but GCP doesnt do it.

[ashen copper]

anyone able to get their herald skills to show up in the DPS calculation of PoB2?

[hidden oracle]

anyone find Mind Eraser useful with MoM, EB and Adverse growth? Thinking of taking the 5 points out to somewhere else. Im a hexblast bloodmage if that matters

[latent bronze]

anyone knowledgeable about Warrior tell me how I can get this version of Mace Strike? I am trying to follow a build guide cause I suck and this guy's skill is different than my primary

[elder mural]

Is there a way to reset quest from act3 the potions rewards like chaos resist ailments resist etc

[cedar charm]

Are you using a mace?

[latent bronze]

yeah

[cedar charm]

Are you asking about the support gem the mouse is on?

[latent bronze]

i have the basic mace strike opr something

you see the icon only has one mace while the other i posted has 2

[cedar charm]

Oh yeah. Is the build dual wielding the maces?

[latent bronze]

uhhh yeah i guess he is

does that change the icon i guess?

[cedar charm]

I’m guessing it will.

[latent bronze]

lmao yeah it did ty

wow.

my friend had me get this shield but i hate it despite it helping a bit

[polar void]

for monk, should i go armor and es or evasion and es?

[cedar charm]

Evasion and es

Or one or the other. But not armor.

[elder sequoia]

can someone help me with my mana ? I got big problems and can hit bigger bosses just for abt 2 seconds until im out of mana

[cedar charm]

Do you have any gear you can switch out for mana regen or max mana instead?

[elder sequoia]

maybe my belt

sec

[cedar charm]

Well damn. That’s nice. Life could be better but those resistances are great! You could also look for a better mana flask and specifically get one with more uses.

Amulets and rings can have some mana mods too. Or if you have the spirit for it (I think it adds spirit?) you can put clarity on a buff.

[elder sequoia]

i will try, thank you!

[elder sequoia]

i will try to maybe change my breach ring to another one and play with my armour a bit, to keep my 75/75/75 res and get more mana on it

[latent bronze]

does strength inheritantly increase damage?

[elder sequoia]

I think ill change my amulet, im currently using "subterfuge mask" on it, but I dont think 600 extra evasion is "op" when im on 16000

[rigid tide]

no

[elder sequoia]

just 2 life per strength

[latent bronze]

hm okay ty

[hidden crown]

If I exalt this adding 2 suffix, it will requires a higher level to equip?

[minor tree]

lesgoooo my totem warrior is happy

[dusk kernel]

Leech 6.53% of Physical Attack Damage as Mana
Is this any good for mana sustain?

Like in bosses

[pearl sluice]

yea

or soul thief

[latent bronze]

what's the item called that adds a support gem slot?

[analog gale]

looks like it might work with falling thunder

because falling thunder just says it consumes power charges

wheras charged staff says it cant consume more than your max power charges

[lime narwhal]

do you need to invest in crit chance for spark build?

[gusty latch]

So I managed to get a belt with three charm slots but I’m having a hard time convincing myself to use it, due to needing the stats on other belts. Am I being daft. I’ve just never seen any benefit to these charms.

[near nexus]

Anyone have a link to a good leveling guide for invoker monk?

[dusk kernel]

I'm guessing it's better at endgame? Not doing much atm in cruel act 3

[dire stratus]

stun charm is really really good for stun immunity

but that's kinda it

[gusty latch]

Ok thanks. Yeah i’ve been using the increased rarity charm. Sometimes it seems to activate.

[dire stratus]

that one's pretty good too... i definitely see the case for 2 charm slots but 3 might be a stretch

[gusty latch]

I’m have a few two slot belts as well. 😂 Maybe i should finally start selling stuff.

[chilly vessel]

is there a way in pob2 to see how many skill points you've spent

er, passive tree points

[gusty latch]

I have to use Path of Building or have just counted them out like a dummy.

[chilly vessel]

you know what, I just noticed it at the top

[astral badger]

first pic is a wand on trade. second is my current one. im running cryoshock telestorm sorc w/ call of the brotherhood. is the one on trade an upgrade or will i prob lose dmg?

[deep harbor]

How much currency does one need to begin with an attribute stacking gemling? Assuming they aren't jumping right into max teir maps but still progressing.

[lavish edge]

well, the amulet is 190 div, good stats gear pices so you can walk the map are also a few div each due to demand

[astral badger]

would appreciate a quick reply so i can snag the wand on trade if so

[lavish edge]

same with spark archmage

[deep harbor]

right well, I know the amulet isn't required at all to get it going at least >>

[lavish edge]

cant tell the damage dropoff with the crit chance loss, but an extra level does quite a bit of damage

[astral badger]

hmm ok ty

[lavish edge]

its still the second most used build after normal spark and monk, because you can do gemling monk and gemling mana spark

[lavish edge]

you can take the risk, and if not much better sell it for the same

[astral badger]

true. its only 3 div

[tribal moss]

Guys whats better here? I can't decide which way to go.

Im Ice Monk Invoker with Ice Strike. Upper path is with more DPS and the one below with more Crit Chance. What would be better for me?

I wanted to go to a "Nuke Crit" Build, but the DPS scared me a little

[lavish edge]

here, almost bis for monk gemling, 9div

[arctic cove]

How do I go about spending a div as noob?

just got first div from a sell at lvl 40, following nuke crit wave lightning invoker monk build so crit and phys dmg seem to be my go tos.

unsure how to make leveling more smooth

[lavish edge]

the number goes up more with crit damage than crit chance, but its good to have decent base crit chance

[astral badger]

it increases dmg for my cold spells, but drops lightning warp damage by 900, which isnt awful bc lightning warp is not a dps spell its utility

also gives me more mana and regen

[tribal moss]

so if i buy Crit DMG next the DPS will go higher and higher right?

would you reccomend then with going for crit chance instead of the DPS way?

[lavish edge]

yes, but thats the number, you might get extremely unlucky on some ocasions so you have to not always go full all in

[lavish edge]

crit is the endgame way for the best dps

[tribal moss]

im at the beginning of endgame so i think it would be good to switch

[pearl sluice]

the more physical damage u have the more mana you will leech since that is what it scales on

so probably

because u dont really have much phys in campaign

unless u have a giga weapon

[lavish edge]

my friend runs icemonk and last i checked 2 weeks ago had 160k dps, but he sucks and still looses citadels sometimes

so just slowly increase the damage, and buy cheap or eye cheap good items, since some players sell items for ex instead of divs

[deep harbor]

Right, that's why I asked what a starting budget might be. Enough to feel good progressing maps, not how much I'd need for BiS items X3

[lavish edge]

unless someone gives you gear, its going to be a bit slow

[lavish edge]

eye items with 2 or 3 good things and you increase after that,

[tribal moss]

yeah im not at the market everytime but if i look for some new items then i'm looking for cheap one

[uncut bay]

you gotta clarify whether archmage or howa stacking gemling. for the howa build if you spend maybe 10 divines you can clear maps and all

[deep harbor]

Apologies, meant howa tempest flurry.

[uncut bay]

only the howa gloves are expensive really (3 divines)

everything else you can buy even for like 50 exalt and you can already clear maps

the build is just strong

ofc if you want to optimize it, you need to spend dozens of divines on items, then it just becomes insane

[round mica]

Convert to exalt and make budget upgrades

[floral helm]

So quick question for anybody who might know, the original sin amethyst ring that converts all your elemental damage to chaos.

Does that allow you to stack for instance lightning damage nodes with chaos damage nodes?

[cerulean finch]

hi guys, why i slotted "inspiration" support skill, but it doesnt show that the mana cost of the skill is reduced?

[static plinth]

No, you want only chaos damage

[open siren]

are you checking on the UI skill bar, thats the cost of all the spells + support

the spell cost displayed in the spell menu is the base spell cost

[cerulean finch]

yea i was looking at the spell menu, i got it now, thanks!

[violet panther]

There’s a notable that makes my damage ignore non negative cold res. Does taking this node essentially invalidate all of my cold pen nodes?

[woeful sundial]

Does anyone know if crystalline potential is bugged? Maybe on ps5? It doesn’t tell me my skills are +10 quality in the menu

[lime narwhal]

best budget annoint for amulet for spark build?

[wise spindle]

Hey there fellas! I was wonderinf is there any full out support build here? Im just tagging along with a few buddies learning the game and id like not to 1 shot enemies and just give them every buff/support skill/spell i can offer in this game. Is there anything like this?

[wise spindle]

All i plan on doing is healing them and or just giving them defences and power if possible

[fringe lagoon]

conservative casting

[lime narwhal]

ah yes, how could I forget about that one

Don''t want to do lightning rod until I have my forever amulet

[fringe lagoon]

makes sense

big boys path to lightning rod

[lime narwhal]

I dont quite have godly jewels to do that yet

[regal granite]

im running 8 arsonists keepin enemies ignited while a storm mage spamming to ram up the damage. As long as the mobs are ignited the shock applied will stay. I have a question, when the shock hits a body on fire, will that still fall inline with this support gem or will it not be counted, therefore rendering this support gem useless?

Sorry if it's long

[fringe lagoon]

yeah I was joking 😅

[lime narwhal]

will max energy shield on an amulet count towards MoM? I know the tree doesn't

[fringe lagoon]

only flat sources of ES on amulet, not %

[lime narwhal]

gotcha

[scarlet cipher]

guys does Adorned Diamond wok with all corrupted magic jewels emerald, sapphire and ruby ?

[crude crypt]

what does a tier 4 or tiers even mean?

[scarlet cipher]

better stats can be rolled or be in this items

[crude crypt]

ok

ty

[latent dawn]

is there any info on how much "Damaging Ailments deal damage x% faster" impacts damage? Are there important break points?

[azure wyvern]

How much life do shockwave totems have?

[latent dawn]

depends on minion level probably?

or not minion but gem level I mean

[azure wyvern]

even in builder you need to set the totem life yourself

it doesn't calculate for you

[latent dawn]

gotta check in game then

[urban vessel]

doing a spark mage build, do i need flamewall to have a high lvl?

as in is it meant to be a damage buffer or just a status proc?

[latent dawn]

it adds more damage per projectile the higher level it is

[urban vessel]

ik, but is it worth the increased mana cost

[latent dawn]

lets see, lv 1 is 12 mana for +2 to 3 added fire damage (useless)
lv19 is 112 mana for 57 to 81 added fire damage

I'd say its worth it

the other question is if you even need that fire damage at all tbh - is it enabling something like Rising Tempest or what

[urban vessel]

yeah it is

and i have a node that increases dmg per ailment

so electrocute + shock + ignite

[smoky plover]

Just started yesterday, only level 15 sorceress - any thoughts on best level 5 skill ? I'm thinking cold snap as I use frostbolt, frost bomb and ice nova a lot ! But also arc seems cool lol

[rough shadow]

it is worth going crit with these stat?

[waxen jewel]

Wtf is the point of Auras in poe2 when they never affect you??

Except the negative ones like Blasphemy and Malice of course

Like is there a way to stick an aura to some non-player object?

[merry bone]

to support your allies

[waxen jewel]

Yeah, but it's so weird that the implicit of an entire base type is excluded to multiplayer. Bit confused by this design tbh GGG

Like auras are already limited by skill slots

[merry bone]

except that implicit is also a spirit item used to support minions

[carmine flicker]

did someone manage to facetank bahlak's tornado?

[waxen jewel]

What I learned of playing heralds that the biggest downside of them is the heavy preasure on skill slots

Ohh right, sceptres aren't affected by skill slots right, bad point by me

[carmine flicker]

except no positive aura have anything useful

so they kinda.. exist to exist

[carmine flicker]

what are you guys doing with skill slots?
I have like 4 used at most
may be 6 on summoner

[latent dawn]

so yea, lv1 fire wall is fine if its just as trigger for other things and not for the added fire dmg

[waxen jewel]

Lightning Arrow + Herald of Thunder + Herald of Ice for clear, lightining rod for rares and bosses, Cast on Shock for bosses, Orb of Storms for bosses. Shield charge + Blink in offhand for movement and survivability. I'd need to sacrifice shield charge for a curse. I won't because half of the gameplay loop is running backwards to another branch in the path

Forgot Gale Force, which is mandatory

"Wind Dancer"

Curse / orb of storms is whatever, but If I wanted to pile on more persistent effects (like Cast on Crit), I'd have to run Unset Ring

Maybe at some point I can take blink of for another thing if it gives me so much damage that I don't need survivability it gives

[compact stream]

are there any gem skills or spirits that helps maintain mana regeneration ? like mana remnants? anymore?

[waxen jewel]

There is Clarity

for flat +30% for 10 spirit

[compact stream]

and clarity, yes.. any others?

[waxen jewel]

Flask charges gained

[carmine flicker]

ok, I won't even remember to use OOS, but other than that yeah
ok
probably attack characters needs more skills

cast-on are real good if you have spirit

[waxen jewel]

Yeah I prefer to play ssf, so my spirit is low

I'm 145 at level 82

[carmine flicker]

how do you use lightning arrow and cast-on spells tho in one char?

need kinda different investment

[waxen jewel]

I switch 1 herald for bosses

Neither does anything at bosses anyways

I keep it still socketed of course for convenience

[carmine flicker]

I mean, you need spell damage for bosses and attack for LA
hard to scale both

(and no wand = spells deal no damage, since lack +5 to lvl and that's like double damage)

[waxen jewel]

The amount of damage the triggers do far outweight the inherent anti-synergy of having +% increased attack damage in tree. But I'm aware of this issue

+% Lightning damage and +% ele damage are now preferable to attack damage. IDK how "damage with bows" works with cast on shock. Vast majority of my %inc damage comes from projectile speed and these things

That's 207% inc damage from bows with the quiver only

The real damage comes from lightning rod, which is an attack used with my bow, which then get's triggered by ball lightning triggered itself by cast-on-shock, so I assume these multipliers work in my favour right?

[carmine flicker]

how good are invokers casters btw?

[true grove]

Hey guys I've been trying to make a fire/ignite Volcanic Fissures aftershock Titan build.

I'm currently running fissures with Tremors/Aftershock/Upheaval, and while it "feels cool" to have a bunch of explosions and aftershocks, the actual SLAM damage of volcanic fissures is so low it does next to nothing, and I have to rely on waiting for Aftershock RNG to do damage.

Im currently missing my 3rd ascendancy, which can give me Earthbreaker, and this might be a big help.

I'm new to making builds, so I'm trying something that seems fun. But I can't get past tier 3 maps with my damage falloff. defensively I feel okay so far, but kill speed/consistency is really bad.

Anyone able to share some advice/tips/suggestions?

Some stats:
level 68 Titan
2200 Health
65% Armour, 65% Block
378 Strength
Volcanic Fissure DPS: 1400
Hammer of the gods dps: 37,200
Mace Strike DPS: 16700

[torpid plinth]

What should i engrave on my Hand of Wisdon with 2 slots? on a deadeye lighting build

[sudden crown]

anyone know why I dont see that white orb on the enemies that are "primed for stun " like with boneshatter ???

[waxen jewel]

Weird, question. What do you need? Probably some non-local stat because the gloves have pretty low level. Some options are: %mana regen, %life, %rarity, I guess even the one in the picture if you really can't figure anything

Pseudo move speed

[pearl sluice]

this feels like such a huge evasion loss if i just buy from the active one rn, do i wait?

[sage iron]

With Herold of Ice not proccing in simulacrum, has anyone any suggestions for monk builds to get this cleared easier? Almost every monk build atm requires HoI

[cloud flower]

I'm a noob, but is there a reason we wouldn't just path the weaponset nodes from the bottom area by taking the gem as a standard point and then weapon set pointing the curse nodes as originally planned? Are the +5 int that only come into play when using your offhand really worth those extra points?

I can't tell if person who made the build made questionable decisions, or if they're genius and I'm just not comprehending what they did here. I hate to pass up a seemingly free gem given how spicy those can get

[static plinth]

You cant take travel nodes with weapon set points

Wait i cant read

Yeah no the person who made that is stupid, that jewel socket is basically free

Path along the bottom and make up the stats on gear or something

Or even on the jewel

[supple osprey]

i do not need hp for spark archmage build ?

[urban vessel]

energy shield and mana

none of ur mage gear shld be giving life anyways

unless u have bad rolls

[unique sonnet]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/nl1ay0yx lvl 90 invoker what should i upgrade first to get the most i need ingen belt but thinking of going rings first

[elfin sequoia]

hey guys can i change an anoint on a corrupted amulet?

[gilded surge]

Sadly, no
No tainted oil equivalent exists (yet?)

[elfin sequoia]

ok

im trying to see if i should anoint this and corrupt or just sell as is

[gilded surge]

I'd say just sell as is
It'd fetch a pretty penny for any pillar build, and corrupting it you're just as likely to just brick a mod off of it as you are to get anything useful

[elfin sequoia]

fair

[gilded surge]

Will effects that 'ignite as though dealing [X] fire damage', such as Flame Wall or Radiant Grief, benefit from inc damage modifiers like "[X]% increased fire damage"?

[jolly grotto]

EVERY single monk invokes build says a different VENOM DRAUGHT” to get… can someone offer advice pls? (A) 25% incr stun threshold; (b) 30% incr element ailment threshold; (c) 25% incr mana regen rate.

[rapid iron]

is someone in here that could help me get more dps on my monk? can provide screenshots of my gear and skill tree

[gilded surge]

Stun is not a huge issue if you're an evasion build
Mana is a bigger issue the higher your main skill level and the less you're exploiting herald of ice
Ailment threshold is only a problem if you're not comfortable relying on a charm to avoid being frozen

I personally tend to go for the mana regen

[sudden crown]

anyone know what is limit with reload speed ? can I have like 0.01 ?

[gilded surge]

There shoudn't be a limit, but it stacks linearly in speed which means it stacks hyperbolically in reload time - to get half your base reload time, you need 100% increased reload speed; to get 1/4th your base reload time, you need 300% increased reload speed; to get 1/8th, you need 700%, and so on.

[sudden crown]

where did you learn about it ?

wiki or smth ?

[smoky plover]

Can you get wands with freezing shards ? Can't find any so far

[marsh seal]

https://pobb.in/cnAdNDKo9zPD Wanted to ask what next steps ya'll think I should take here? I'm thinking amulet, rings?

I need to fill out my resistances, too.

I have it set to not show the res penalty, but I'm currently at 31 fire, 63 cold, 39 lightning

Here's another easier view of my items

Gloves are howa, belt is ingenuity

[gilded surge]

This is how all 'speed'-type modifiers work in PoE 1 and 2 - cooldowns, attack speed, and so on
I suppose I first learned about it from the PoE 1 wiki page on cooldowns
You can also see the effects in the skill details panel in PoE 2 - check how much your reload time changes when you allocate a reload speed passive node

[sudden crown]

and I dont know how much that is correct bcs now I have
47% attack speed and 160% increased reload speed
base is 0.7 and I have 0.17 that is 1/4 of the 0.7 and its not even close to 300% increased

so I'm missing something or ?

[gilded surge]

That is very interesting; do you have many sources of increased or more skill speed? (E.g. tailwind, and there's a skill speed cluster in the southeast of the tree)

[sudden crown]

nothingg except those above

I'm testing it on witch hunter

some old char but dont have mroe gold to increase it to like 120% attack speed

and thats possbile easly

[gilded surge]

Reading up on it, reload is also affected by attack speed, but I would have expected those to stack linearly with each other for net ~207% increased

To confirm, is the 0.7 base reload the white/blue number you see on the crossbow?

[sudden crown]

yeah it stacks seperatly for 100%

[quasi ledge]

so I've got a freeze/cold sorc build
and I've got someone gelling me to get grim feast
does that even work on enemies that are frozen when they die?

[dawn spire]

Yes

It works on any killed enemy

[sudden crown]

bcs now when I have almost 50% attack speed increase
my nimble reload that gives 60% increased reload speed gives less than martial tempo that gives 25% more speed

now unsocketing nimble reload so going from 160%-100% I go from 0.17-0.22

[gilded surge]

I think it might be scaling the reload speed with the base attacks per second on the crossbow, as well; the math would roughly line up
Does the reload time change if you socket a soul core of (local) increased attack speed?

[sudden crown]

local attack speed dont change reload speed

so if you get attack speed on crossbow you dont get lower reload speed

I tested it

[gilded surge]

Intriguing

Well, I stand corrected and you know more than me XD

[sudden crown]

so now question is it possbile to get to like 0.01

bcs I'm 100% sure its impossible to cancel it

but like 0.1 is kinda in reach

[gilded surge]

It won't be able to get below 1 server tick, at the very limit, that's for sure
But that's like 1/33rd of a second iirc

[sudden crown]

server tick ?

[gilded surge]

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Cooldown

[sudden crown]

what I mean is with 0 reload speed it would work like normal attack

like with raptor unique

that does it but its shitt dmg base for endgame

[sudden crown]

but its not cd right ?

[gilded surge]

It's not cd but it's extremely unlikely they've added tech to handle fractional frame rates for reloads
Given they don't even have that tech for attacks

[sudden crown]

hmm

[gilded surge]

I'm currently playing a rapid shot deadeye (using Auto Reload support, incidentally), and my character starts stuttering weirdly if I push the attack speed above 30ish

[obsidian aurora]

whats with people not adding quality to gear before corrupting?

[sudden crown]

oh you meant animation limit for attack speed amount ?

when I eq raptor I have 80% attack speed and this gives me 0.24 attack time
sadly raptor decresses reload speed by 30% so

[gilded surge]

I would be less likely to suspect anything animation-related than server tick issues. In PoE1, you can't do the same skill more than once in the same server tick until you can do it twice every server tick, so you can't have anything between 33 and 66 attacks per second
I very much expect reloads would work the same way

[sudden crown]

but having no reload speed doesnt resolve that issue ?

and max I saw was 0.05 attack time

with monk

so thats around 20 attacks per second

hmm

[outer marlin]

Hey guys Im looking to buy a staff can someone help me

if its worth it

[sudden crown]

but if I have like 0.01 reload speed

I reload like 100 times in one second

so if what you say is correct it would lag out or just crash server ???

[sudden crown]

bruh wtf is that attack speed xd

oh

its 550% of base

so its possbile easly on this skill

[gilded surge]

It would not lag out; you would simply not be allowed to reload that fast - you would only reload once per frame

[sudden crown]

hmm so could be no limit on reload speed but limit for how much servers allows you

[gilded surge]

Yeah. This is with martial tempo socketed; I don't typically use martial tempo when mapping

[sudden crown]

so in theory even with 0 reload speed I couldnt do more than like 0.03-0.04 ?

[gilded surge]

Yeah

[sudden crown]

hmm

how much reload speed you have ?

[gilded surge]

In terms of builds, you could try something with auto reload support like I've been doing for Rapid Shot
Stack stun, and if you're using one of the 1-bolt shotgun skills use a dyad crossbow
As long as you heavy stun things in two hits, you never (or at least rarely) need to manually reload

[sudden crown]

yeah but on bosses tho ?

[sudden crown]

hmm so 550% of base attack speed doesnt affect reload speed of rapidshot

[gilded surge]

Looks like

[sudden crown]

I want to try to make fragmentation rounds like default attack
aka 0 reload speed

bcs now yes I have auto reload on heavy stun

but on bosses it just sucks

even with 0.3s reload speed on my char i'm leveling bcs I dont have gemling

[gilded surge]

Yeah, bosses make it hard for a shotgun skill. Dunno how to solve that without the raptor
On rapid shot, I typically fire one magazine, get a heavy stun reload, fire till nearly empty, use emergency reload, then clean up afterward with manual reloads / a second heavy stun

[sudden crown]

and gemling have accuracy stacking = attack speed ( double inherent bonuses )

[sudden crown]

thats preety good but even when I could have 0 reload speed
scaling the dmg is hard

[gilded surge]

If you have the budget for hand of wisdom and action, that is the premier source of flat damage at the moment and would let you use raptor

[sudden crown]

hmm

didnt though about it

to get it and use it like that xd

what is int stacking cap ?

in like 50 div budget ?

bcs I dont want to farm divine

mirrors

[gilded surge]

No clue, I've never had a 50 div budget myself

[sudden crown]

hmm

if I can get 600 dex I can easly get 600 int

so propably 600-800 is good cap

above that is mirror tier

so its 60x 1-10 damage added

[gilded surge]

1-600 flat lightning is pretty solid, especially with the high damage effectiveness of the 1-bolt skills

[sudden crown]

yeah fragmentation is like 69% x 10 if all bolts

[gilded surge]

And high-variance lightning is good with the lucky non-crit node at the bottom of the tree

[sudden crown]

BRO

forgot about that node

thats perfect

[gilded surge]

Classic HoWaA shenanigans

[sudden crown]

okay I'm going to build around this

still curious tho about reload speed cap with attack speed stacking

hmm

[gilded surge]

Dex stacking howa is also pretty good for attack speed :P

[sudden crown]

but when I think about it more dmg is for sure with int

[sudden crown]

yeah its additonal 3% per 25 dex

[deep pivot]

Hey guys, quick question, for Poisonous Concoction, does it matter what flask type I use?

[gilded surge]

Three out of four of my characters so far use Veil of the Night to free up suffixes; I'm addicted

[sudden crown]

so you have
250 accu - 1% attack speed
15 dex falcon tech - 1% attack speed
25 dex HOWA - 3 % attack speed

[gilded surge]

yup

[sudden crown]

how do you live ?

I made prototype with this kinda of stacking

but its not 100% going into stacking

and have like 30% of tree nodes like increased dmg

I got 177 increased + 25 martial tempo more

[gilded surge]

50% inc max life is roughly equivalent to ~33% ele res, and you get to ignore ele pen / minus max res etc
My deadeye has tailwind, acrobatics, and 4.2k life
You still have to dodge scary ele ground effects, but most builds have to

[sudden crown]

70% evade acrobatics ?

something like that or more ?

[gilded surge]

yeah

[sudden crown]

plus now I realized that skill speed affect reload speed

its same as attack speed

[gilded surge]

yep

[sudden crown]

so I get 30% skill speed form dead eye

bcs gemling is only for that double accuracy in terms of attack speed and ofc gems req

so wondering what will give me more

gemling gives more if I invest a little bit more to accu

for now its 35% increased attack speed from gemling ascendancy

[gilded surge]

The accuracy to attack speed node contributes much less than the dex to attack speed node and howa, in my experience
Just because the ratio is too low

[sudden crown]

yeah

but its nice additon

[gilded surge]

Nodes you spend on increased accuracy could go toward just getting even more jewels and dex

[sudden crown]

I only get one node

I get 0 increased to accu

and only get one with falcon dive

[gilded surge]

Oh? Huh. Better than I thought, then

[sudden crown]

so its basically 70% increased accu for 4 points

yeah bcs 5 accu per dex

gemling gets double that

I have 10k accu with no increased from tree

ofc precision

mb it was 10k before

now iits 18k

[gilded surge]

How's damage looking?

[sudden crown]

but in the end its only worth to just stack attack speed

[sudden crown]

no dmg xd

thats the problem xd

or my pob is just dumb at calculating fragmentation rounds

[gilded surge]

Is it adding each fragment? Or is it just showing one and you need to input the multiplier for that?

[sudden crown]

I need to put multiplier

but it just shows 200k full dps

its unreal that is that low

[gilded surge]

Int and dex on all possible rare slots?

[sudden crown]

oh

brutality

is tricky one

xd

forgot about it

[gilded surge]

Either way: Prism of Belief, maybe Flame Wall and Conductivity as bossing setup skills, the lucky lightning node if you don't already, a bit of lightning pen, maybe lightning exposure from a grenade skill, see if you have a good spot for a dex or int Against the Darkness

[sudden crown]

didnt even know there is jewel like that

let me change it a bit for my tree

[gilded surge]

Great ones are expensive, good ones are single-digit div

[sudden crown]

something like this for now

still something is not right

200 int is small but

oh

forgot to change weapon

now its correct

but such a low dmg xd

[short lynx]

hey guys, quick Q - does precursor tablets increase map difficulty?

[sudden crown]

yeah +1 to area lv

so 70 going to 71 gives you that lv of mobs

[short lynx]

besides that? I feel like I started diying a lot after I invested in atlas nodes for Tablet Effect

[sudden crown]

besides that nothing so mob just deal more dmg and have more defenses

bcs of lv area increase

[short lynx]

I see, thank you 🙂

[sudden crown]

okay I'm gonna try and build around that HOWA int stacking
and later if they still didnt released anything new attack speed reload speed techs

[astral willow]

are there cheaper options for stormweaver? I want to help a guildmate move up in endgame but all the mage stuff is heinously expensive

[crude crypt]

why is ingenuity belt expensive even a 35% roll is 4 divs is that so great?

[sterile stone]

yes, and 4 div is cheap

[compact stream]

is there a way to improve quality of elemental resistance on a ring?

[sonic pollen]

What do you do for money that is "cheap"

[little wren]

if you do get 4 div later on dont buy that trash, a 10ex rare belt is better

tons of people already got scammed like that

[crude crypt]

what is a good belt?

Also why is my herold of thunder not showing but it is active?

IDK what happened but it would usually be there and it is gone now

[little wren]

what ever you need, maxlife/mana, triple resist

unfortunately belt only roll strength for some stupid reason

no dex/int

[glacial pumice]

hey guys, was wondering if anyone could help me troubleshoot this. i have ember fusillade on elemental invocation which goes up to 15 casts. I wouldve thought with this passive it would regen 3x15=45% of my mana but it doesnt seem to do so?

[crude crypt]

Hey so is a staff with low physical damage but high element damage good?

[near timber]

does elemental expression trigger this?

[civic garden]

Hi I just started the game I want to level an invoker and was wondering what build is the best for leveling and later pivoting into endgame? Currently following the tempest flurry guide on maxroll

[rich jasper]

is there a planner that shows correct changes from heroic jewel?

[fringe lagoon]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/z9q9n05f what to spend my next 100d on? adorned 80%? better wand? something else?

[warped vine]

Hiiii yall, for the ones doing ascendancy carries, what class and ascendancy are yall running?

[near timber]

spark is prob the easiest for chaos

[warped vine]

What about for the other trial?

I have a frost monk one that can do chaos easy, but can’t even kill the final boss with two in my party for the other trial ;-;

[marsh bluff]

Could someone explain what I’m doing wrong? I’m trying to play with a build that triggers Lightning Conduit via Cast on Shock. In the video, the author just casts Sparks and gets very frequent Cast on Shock triggers, but for me, it almost never triggers because the charge buildup is extremely slow

build-
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/build-guides/archmage-spark-stormweaver-build-guide#video-header

[haughty wadi]

does aura effect work with font of rage (from totem/orb of storms etc)

[latent bronze]

hey warrior here - what gives Herald of Ash this circled ability? I do not have it but it is crucial to the build I am mimicking

[viral crag]

This is an effect of quality on the gem.

[latent bronze]

yep just found it! ty

[regal zinc]

For archmage sorc, do you want energy shield rune or mana increase rune

[viral crag]

That... is a good question lol

It would help if I had a specific effect of what aura effects you wanted to use with it (which stats were giving you aura boost)

[wet yarrow]

Does resonance + combat frenzy not work anymore?

[viral crag]

The general rule is that I would expect it to work though. Totems gain your stats, font of mana projects an aura, so font of mana should have increased aura effect.

[fringe lagoon]

ES on robe mana on everything else

[haughty wadi]

im trying to figure out what works with the very few aura effect nodes on the tree

[atomic halo]

works just fine

[haughty wadi]

i found that offerings don't work because apparently "it's the minion's aura not yours"

you'd think totems shouldn't work then, but totems might be an exception because of how they copy ur stats

[viral crag]

I expect it to work with font of mana, works with blasphemy, there's an argument on whether or not it works with chronomancer's Apex ascendancy skill.

[viral crag]

That's the important distinction. Offerings create a minion, and minions do not get your stats.

[wet yarrow]

Would you know why it wouldn’t be working by chance? I use call of the brotherhood so I get plenty of freeze

[regal zinc]

Why just robe

[haughty wadi]

so you expect it to work?

[viral crag]

That's my guess based on how I understand poe, yes.

[haughty wadi]

i guess it can be tested if the font of life shows the regen amount on ur character

would be interesting to see how it'd work with font of rage

maybe it gives more rage per second

[viral crag]

Well

Here's the thing.

Kind of why I wanted to see what you were using to get aura effects boosts.

Only boosts I see so far are "Effects of auras from your aura skills"

I don't expect your totems will count as aura skills, and I also don't expect the fonts will count as the aura skills of the totems.

[atomic halo]

it has by far the highest base es

[atomic halo]

are you getting charges at all?

does unallocating resonance change anything?

have you checked stuff like an extra support disabling combat frenzy?

otherwise, i'm not sure.

more mana is always better?

[viral crag]

There are a lot of benefits to more mana.

[atomic halo]

there is no such thing as "plenty" to a stacker - more is always desired.

[viral crag]

Besides the fact that you can regen mana while being damaged recently, unlike ES, regen also scales with your max mana.

[steel nacelle]

Does Astramentis really make or break a build?

[viral crag]

Not to mention you linked an archmage build, which would always love more mana.

[atomic halo]

not really, it mostly just makes already really strong builds really really strong.

is there something stopping you from checking the skills in the sets and deciding for yourself?

[steel nacelle]

Are they still 200+ divs??

[atomic halo]

yeah

mm

well, there's multiple endgame sets

and hopefully the guide says something about when to swap and what is required

it would be helpful if you would provide such information

[viral sage]

does armor break works well if i convert my physical dmg into elemental?

[midnight geode]

does this count when im not hitting anything?

[atomic halo]

not for the actual armour break part

[midnight geode]

like not using an ability

[atomic halo]

if you have payoffs like more damage to fully broken armour then it still works

[fringe lagoon]

High es item benefit more from added es from rune

[atomic halo]

if you're not hitting anything, you're not crit'ing anything.

[viral crag]

Don't see why not. Check the alt-text for "Recently" to be sure but I've checked for Inevitable Crit at least.

[midnight geode]

well there is a similar node that says "if you've dealt a non-critical hit" so im wondering why they'd word it differently here

[atomic halo]

i see cast on shock endgame, elemental storm endgame, and double shock endgame.

do you have the spirit to use cast on shock?

[viral crag]

For exactly the scenario you're describing 😅

[atomic halo]

do you have the ascendancy node for double shock?

[viral crag]

One benefits regardless of if you're attacking or critting, one benefits only if you're attacking and not getting crits.

[midnight geode]

yeah im gonna have to test it when i get home

[atomic halo]

why would you need to test anything

[viral crag]

Likely the reason the bonus is bigger and also includes a flat 20% increased CHC

[atomic halo]

the wording is clear

[soft thunder]

my friend wants to play infernalist witch, whats the best campaign/maps guide i can show him? i don't play witch and theres so many different ones so i have no clue. (he prefers the mobalytics style guides)

[viral sage]

since my defense gear not well optimized..my HP always on the low when i got crowded by enemies and i heavily rely on boneshatter to do huge aoe dmg..so i have to hit enemies with regular atk 1st until it primed for stun which is pretty risky..any tips on how to do better aoe dmg? titan warrior

[waxen jewel]

The more flat +energy shield you have on your gear/tree, the bigger of an effect the eldritch battery has. The point of getting eldritch battery is to make your energy shield benefit from mana recovery sources.

But you lose %increased energy shield scaling

[atomic halo]

then i'd think you'd go for the cast on shock

of course you have to compromise for the links

sometimes they're required for it to feel good/function, sometimes they're not

reading them can help

[waxen jewel]

I've found 2 greater jeweller's 4 divines and 1 Annul in my 84 levels of deadey ssf

[atomic halo]

also for the next link, it's pretty easy to use lessers and vaal for +1

[waxen jewel]

And 1 perfect jeweller because I'm lucky bastard

[polar anvil]

On a breach ring do you need flat x damage for the % damage boost to work?

[atomic halo]

1/8 for +1 and lessers are like 23 for 1 ex

[polar anvil]

Say mine says 10% increased cold damage

Do I need Adds 1-8 cold damage on the same ring?

[atomic halo]

that is global

not local

[polar anvil]

Ooooh

[atomic halo]

same as 10% inc cold on your tree

[polar anvil]

So Breach rings are powerful

[atomic halo]

they are the best ring base in the game

by a large margin

[polar anvil]

Quality goes up to 50%

I have one for cold and lightning

[waxen jewel]

Are you sure it's 1/8? Is +0 level an impossible outcome?

[polar anvil]

Guess I'll pray to Alva for some person to give me 50 catalysts for 5 exalts lol, thanks @atomic halo

[steel nacelle]

What are the top 3 best mapping builds?

[atomic halo]

if it chooses the "change level" outcome, i believe the two outcomes are +1 level or -1 level.

[polar anvil]

I guess breach rings are why people can max res while maxing other stas like ES/Mana/Life?

[atomic halo]

you can have no change if it hits the "no chance outcome".

[polar anvil]

Since if I get to max quality that's 50% res to that element

[atomic halo]

that's one thing you can do with them, yeah

[waxen jewel]

Yeah I believe that too. Just curious if someone has actually run test of that

[atomic halo]

you can also get big mana, big attributes, big cast speed, etc.

[waxen jewel]

Because IIRC in poe1 there was some +0 level shenanigans

[polar anvil]

Sweet! Now that I can do breaches I'll look forward to them, thanks!

[atomic halo]

there is a good deal of data to support 1/8 for both poe1 and poe2

[waxen jewel]

I trust you

[atomic halo]

cool

[atomic halo]

that sounds like double corrupt

[waxen jewel]

And It's not like whether it's 1/8 or 1/12 changes any decision I'd make

[atomic halo]

double corrupt is weird, good thing we just have single corrupt in poe2

[waxen jewel]

The campaign of poe2 kinda hints that we may have double corrupt though. With the corruption altar thingy

I was pretty confused that mechanic was not reused outside of the campaign honestly

[thorny token]

i think that was just easter egg mostly

but it functions like regular vaal orb pretty sure

[waxen jewel]

Yeah, but it sure reminded me of the Incursion League temple. But maybe that's just because it's the last league I played poe1 in

One thing I'd really appreciate though are blessed orbs

[regal zinc]

So on argcmage why do you need any energy shield if you can flip damage taken to mana?

[atomic halo]

eldritch battery

[waxen jewel]

I'm accumulating lot's of jewelry and quivers that would be playable if I could reroll the implicit :(

[atomic halo]

and also just having it as another layer of defence, more is always better

[atomic halo]

the upside is that when you do drop a well-rolled implicit, it's more valuable

although they also removed base percentiles from armour

[waxen jewel]

Sure sure, but I prefer ssf so that doesn't matter for me too much

[atomic halo]

but i guess that was just a bandaid fix to give bases identity, no longer neccesary

[waxen jewel]

Though maybe I should try trading. It's just that once I start to trade in any game, soon I forget to play the game at all

[thorny token]

if this is their solution to making ground loot more valuable i dont want it :d

[atomic halo]

it's the same as no scour/alt/chaos

[viral crag]

Honestly scouring would be my one to get back.

Like sometimes I really do just want to start from scratch. I get that we've got annuls though.

[waxen jewel]

More ground loot: more twiddling with rules on loot filters

Not a fan

Isn't scouring in poe2 just a mirror on Normal rarity item?

[thorny token]

well because items drop unid its not even more rules on loot filters just picking more shit up and dropping it on ground aagin :d

also annul still cant change rarity or can it

so very different from scour

even if you used annul bunch of times

[waxen jewel]

I meant the "would be" scouring orb that Nascosta requested

[thorny token]

(and by very different i mean much worse)

[atomic halo]

you cant modify mirrored items

[viral crag]

Yeah, you keep rarity with annul

I don't remember scouring removing rarity though.

[waxen jewel]

Yeah I know that, but without any metamods, scouring would just let you reuse a base

[viral crag]

Oh wait, you kept a lot of stuff. I do remember scour->alch now.

Been a minute.

[thorny token]

you could also downgrade rare to magic with scours and metamods etc

i think if they want to keep current horrible system the tiered drops should at least drop identified or something

[waxen jewel]

So if you essence an Normal rarity item and then annul it, it's a 0 affix Magic?

[viral crag]

Yep.

[waxen jewel]

That's weird

[viral crag]

I've got a zero affix rare corrupted stellar lol

[waxen jewel]

Though I already had 1 affix rare somehow with expedition crafting earlier

No recollection how that happend, just remember those boots rare boots with 1 affix

[regal zinc]

Right but eldritch battery just converts energy shield to mana; so why not just skip the step and beef up mana so much you don’t need ES?

[viral crag]

When you can attach another tuning knob to an important stat, you do it.

You can't often put double mana modifiers on an item, but you can absolutely get multiple mana and ES modifiers on an item and then convert all those ES modifiers into mana.

[waxen jewel]

Because you get ES from the base stat of your gear anyways.

Might as well put that to use in a way that is very easily recoverable

It let's you have more + mana modifiers in your gear

[grand nebula]

Do arsonists even benefit from quality?

[waxen jewel]

I've never played Eldritch Battery, just thinking out loud

[regal zinc]

Right but high evasion is probably more useful, no?

[atomic halo]

where are you getting that dex

and grim feast is really strong

[viral crag]

Just so you know, I tried going eva/es up until recently.

Like genuinely invested in passives (since I'm already on that part of the tree for chaos/poison stuff) and eva/es gear.

The highest I ever got was 10% chance to dodge in late 80s.

[steady loom]

does anyone know why when I cast conductivity, it doesn't stay on the ground anymore? It's like a blip now

[viral crag]

You would absolutely prefer more damage, ehp (because of mom), and regen from more mana over a small dodge investment and a minor recovery from ghost dance if you run it.

[viral crag]

Cursed Ground support would make it stay on the ground, otherwise you get the blip and just the faint inscription remains.

[granite torrent]

hi im making a spark build, i see other builds use Eldritch Battery and take #% energy shield nodes but when i take the energy shield nodes i dont get more mana

[steady loom]

thanks so much idk why I removed that

[atomic halo]

you shouldnt get inc energy shield post-eldritch battery

can you link those builds?

[granite torrent]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/spark-endgame-nicktew?widgets-state=eyJmN2Q4MjEwMi03ZTc3LTRhNDQtYWQyNC0zM2I2N2U4YWU3YmYiOnsiZmlsdGVycyI6eyJhY3RpdmVWYXJpYW50SWQiOiJkZWZhdWx0LXZhcmlhbnQifSwidHlwZW5hbWUiOiJOZ2ZEb2N1bWVudENtV2lkZ2V0Q29udGVudFZhcmlhbnRzVjEifX0

[atomic halo]

ah, on the equipment?

[granite torrent]

in the skill tree

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/xpedn0v4

this one also

[atomic halo]

oh its the ammy

[viral crag]

The only purpose of taking inc energy shield nodes in this type of build would be if you're running an indirect ES gain.

Either gaze or atziri, for example.

[atomic halo]

you still get es from the ammy even through eb

so that gets scaled by the inc es

i forgot about that

[granite torrent]

thnks

[viral sage]

any warrior expert here? what cause the huge aoe dmg from only mace strike/skills that mostly found in youtube build?

[thorny token]

splash mace implicit

[viral sage]

so even if i deal low dmg, wielding that hammer alone can affect most of enemies on the screen?

[thorny token]

well you also need some aoe scaling but yea it doesnt rly have big requirements to just work

[viral sage]

the aoe from passive skill tree increase the radius the splash dmg too?

[thorny token]

yes

also linking magnified effect to mace strike

for example

[viral crag]

So wait. I equip this greathammer, and give the mace strike magnified effect.

Then perfect strike now deals splash damage in an area greater than 1.8m?

[thorny token]

no, mace strike will

[viral sage]

perfect strike deal splash damage if use that hammer?? 😯

[viral crag]

Okay, just wanted to make sure

[thorny token]

and yes perfect strike is also strike

[viral crag]

Perfect strike is a strike skill, so I expect it to.

[gloomy whale]

realistically speaking isn't this cracked?

[cedar charm]

Can you not generate combo with storm wave?

Also, when you use charges staff, is that a buff that gets added to your normal Quarterstaff strike, or is it a move on its own like tempest flurry?

[atomic halo]

needs to be a strike skill

[stone yew]

Are there any reliable skills for Chilling and Shocking enemies?

[atomic halo]

you just need to do a lot of cold and lightning damage, respectively

[stone yew]

im a ignite build

zdps too

[atomic halo]

yeah not good

[mint glacier]

Does anyone have any guide or tips on how to build a rarity culler? I’m thinking like one with pathfinder for heavy drinker

[viral crag]

So I think chill isn't bad, imagine it takes a lot less cold damage to apply some amount of chill.

[stone yew]

dropped shock idea

using Frostbolt + duration

using FB for chilled ground drops my FPS from 140 to 60

💀

[viral crag]

For totem skills, is the effective "cast time" (the portion during which you are forced to move slowly) the time it takes the totem to be summoned?

Since it doesn't have an inherent cast time?

[thorny token]

well totems have placement time which is the part where you are moving slowly

[viral crag]

Right, I figured that is the part where it is summoned.

[static plinth]

Frostbolt and Lightning Warp make chilled and shocked ground

[viral crag]

Honest question though, based on some recent bugs.

Do chilled or shocked ground count as you chilling or shocking the enemy?

[static plinth]

If its made by you its meant to

Whether it does idk

[viral crag]

Yeah, that's more the aim of my question lol

I certainly agree that it should, much like how poison should gain the benefits of your stats on kills.

But was curious if anybody has tested it.

[mellow shell]

If I upgrade the quality of a curse on blasphemy, does it apply the effect? Or is it not needed?

[fast nest]

if i reserve life, does demonflames damage go down?

[sinful plover]

any suggestions on how to run with a mf/culler? i can run fine alone but when the kills all count as theirs my mana/life on kill are useless

[copper portal]

is this good enough to fight level 4 ascendancy (chaos or sekhema)?

[west wharf]

does this look like a solid base tree for an ice strike invoker?

anything major i should pick up or clusters i should drop?

[old shuttle]

whats the most amount of minions you can get from a single sceptre? not for a minion build or anything

[lime narwhal]

is a 70% ingenuity belt still worth ot for spark vibes? considering whaling on one but 18 - 20 div is my ceiling

[versed sedge]

Has anyone experienced the Fireflower party dmg bug the #dmg when you ignite an enemy it affects your teammate? Buddy was running spark through my flame walls and it delt damage towards him.

[rigid tide]

Going to decide on my witch ascendancy soon, was wondering the perks of blood mage, and why someone would want to choose blood mage over infernalist

[copper portal]

2 for skele warriors or 1 for anything else?

[old shuttle]

Yeah 2 on skele sceptre, can ya get more than 2?

[fierce viper]

im playing a bonestorm build now

what is SRS, pray tell?

[old shuttle]

summon ragin spirit

[static spade]

If I got these both, does that mean I would get the bonuses as well since I am on the presense of my minion?

[hasty vale]

That would be a crazy interaction if you did hahah. I highly doubt it would. I’d presume with how it’s written because the buff doesn’t apply to you and the text says ‘instead of you’ that it wouldn’t work. Who knows tho

[lyric willow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YrCIItOG1g
Thoughts on quiver spark?

[static spade]

Well the only downside is that I had to be 3 meters near my minion if its the case. Technically, "Allies in your presence" only affects the Allies and not yourself. But if the Minions are technically wearing the amulet, then I would be considered as an "Allies within the presence" of the minion so I thought I would have had the buffs as long as I am within the presence.

I wish someone would test this

[steady magnet]

What is the secret to getting high MS with QotF? Highest I’ve been able to get is like 33% which doesn’t really provide any benefit over a good pair of boots and some move speed nodes

[static plinth]

You get it, but it doesnt stack

So its okay but kind of w/e

[static spade]

Well I never expected it to stack since that would've had too much effect. Now it affects not only the minion but myself as well.

[rigid tide]

Im building a fireball/icewall witch build thats apparently meant for blood mage but im wondering if it would work on infernalist since ive only hear bad things about blood mage lol

[novel cove]

There isn't a 'mark on hit' support/ability, right?

[static spade]

Infernalist got a good spirit pool for all that meta skills so I recommend it

[old shuttle]

yeah ngl blood mage has so few redeeming qualities

like being incapable of going CI is so tragic.

youre just forced into getting 75 chaos res

[native willow]

how does path of building work with skill gems and support gems? I feel like this is poorly explained. I set up all my skills but I cant figure out where to add support gems. the DPS in POB seems way lower than in-game so I know I'm missing something

[old shuttle]

configuration probably has you versus an enemy with 50% all res

[fierce viper]

oh ok, cool

[worthy cypress]

i can carry u if u want

[worthy cypress]

at lvl 83 your stats are wayyy too low

[viral crag]

There's a few good youtube videos out there that would probably explain it better than we could in a discord. It's a pretty heavy tool.

If you found where to add skill gems though, you found where supports go. You add supports just below where you typed in the name of the skill gem.

Each line of gems on your skill page (meta+skills+supports, or skill+supports) should have its own socket group.

So it would look something like this.

[sinful plover]

Anyone got suggestions on what to do if you’re running w someone wearing gravebind gloves (the ones that make all kills near them count as theirs) it’s making my mana/life on kill useless

And I don’t got a lot of slots I can use for mana regen

I got all my res maxed w soul cores and big res on the boots rings n amulet. Running pillar howa gemling. Not really sure how to increase my tankiness without a bunch of currency

[old shuttle]

mind over matter is huge

or similar type things

i have mental anointed and a megalomaniac annointing lucidity

[left ledge]

I play hc. I’m tired of dying and I’ve tried a lot of builds. I’ve lost like 20divs in the last week from my characters dying. I’m broke. This last one died to the arbiter. Is there any builds that are HC viable that can 1 shot arbiter before the memory game

[lime narwhal]

Is CI worth taking with 5k MoM or should I keep the 1.3k health for backup for now?

[spice oak]

I am trying this build from Nizar and I'm in doubt if it can do what he claims (tackle upper-endgame content with ease & no budget). I am not good enough in theory-crafting to understand it by myself, so I'd like to ask for a second opinion:
https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/462a6cbb-bfb4-43da-ad47-0e082e71241d/builds/ef9b9428-3ca1-4c70-a097-711ac10fdd51

It sounds way too good to be true, but to be fair upper end builds don't just tackle pinnacles with ease, they melt them like butter on a stove

[glad arch]

Are there good non lightning ranger builds

Or poison

[keen marlin]

which to pick?

infernalist

[west wharf]

is 5-10 physical dmg on a ring essentially equal to 5-10 cold dmg if i'm using ice strike?

[lyric willow]

ele dmg is a bit better

[west wharf]

oh ok

so i should look for rings with 2x flat ele dmg rolls

[lyric willow]

certainly, with atleast 2 high atrib stat if possible

[leaden salmon]

Pick the prettiest one

[west wharf]

o i'm not doing pillar

new player, no funding

pillar builds require more cash right

[lyric willow]

yeah 100%

but youcan start in a budget or 2 divs tbh

gears are pretty cheap atm, where you can start doing t15 maps with that budget

[west wharf]

is it better than a decent rare at that point?

[lyric willow]

maybe 3dv plus howa will make it feel good

[west wharf]

the tree is pretty similar right

so i can just switch from rare to pillar later when i have cash

[lyric willow]

yeah, 100% pillar is pretty op as it is

[west wharf]

gotcha

[lyric willow]

have fun on ur journey,

[torn epoch]

Hey, I have an issue with boss damage on Ice Strike, can anyone help me with this? Won't take long.

[livid dagger]

wanna ask, can Choir effect work on Necromantic Talisman?

[lime narwhal]

Don't have enough spirit for cos lightning conduit, would it still be a good tool as a manual cast for big boys?

[rancid cipher]

are crossbows considered bows for skills?

[limber flume]

Chronomancer Apex of the Moment stacks with Temp Chains right?

[pliant depot]

no

[exotic locust]

what is the max spirit one can get?

[carmine flicker]

IMHO would work just fine

[old oriole]

am i right to add 87% additional damage to my build in pob as im using fresh clip?

[carmine flicker]

only thing bloodmage have offensively is it's crit damage bonus
and infernalist do it better..

[old oriole]

please help me determine if this is right or wrong(59% from the shock as mob limits it to 20 and i have 79, the 87% MORE damage is from fresh clip as pob doesn't calculate it)

[spiral smelt]

Does bosses level for map increase the fragments crisis numbers that citadelle bosses can drop ?

[upper viper]

Havent seen the max, but i managed to hit 600+ without vendor rings 😄

[supple osprey]

do you guys recommend shield or focus for spark archmage build?

[waxen jewel]

Are these all the sources of charges?

Endurance

Cranial Impact notable: "Gain an Endurance Charge when you Heave Stun a Rare or Unique Enemy"

Frenzy

Combat Frenzy persistent buff gives a Frenzy Charge, when you Freeze, Electrocute, or Pin with 1.53s cooldown at level 20
Sniper's Mark gives a charge the next time the marked target gets critted (not necessarily by you)

Power

Killing Palm culling grants 1 charge per enemy deaded
Profane Ritual grants a charge after its duration ends (idk if exploding the corpse quickens this up)
Siphoning Strike consumes a shock to give 1 charge
Power Siphon (skill granted by a wand) also culls an enemy for 1 charge
Redflare Conduit Anchorite Garb gives 20% chance to gain a charge on-hit
Voll's Protector Ironclad Vestments gives 25% chance to gain a charge on-critical-hit

and Resonance for all.

Weirdly unbalanced right now

It's funny how there are like 10 ways to consume endurance charges though

[sudden crown]

magma shield for endurance

plus random charge gain ofc

plus support gem for endurance charge gain

[waxen jewel]

What do you mean by "random charge gain"? Effects that let you regain charge or not use charge?

[sudden crown]

there is unique that gives you random charge when you gain charge

amulet I think

a lot more generation sources you need to research more