2┃build-planning

[sudden crown]

but overall endurance charge generation is useless bcs no use for that

in the end only power and frenzy is usefull for now

[thorny token]

endus are def useful for stuff like charge infusion, but you dont need super reliable generation for that one

[native willow]

Oh ok. That's not how I thought you did it and you just put in all of your active skills there.

[carmine flicker]

50 spirit or +3 to minion levels for minion build?(shield or that +3 mace)

[dawn spire]

Late to the party, but yes

[upper viper]

isnt there the +level jewel as well 😄

[carmine flicker]

there is, but why?

[upper viper]

then you can have both 50 spirit and a jewel for +3 levels

[carmine flicker]

or +6 to levels, so question still stand

[white relic]

Does using a divine orb on a controlled meta diamond only reroll resistances or also the radius size?

[upper viper]

i guess it will depend on which minion then ?

My sniper ones, dont need more levels, they kill damn fast XD

[carmine flicker]

then you don't need more snipers either

they will only mess with each other

[upper viper]

Ahhh 30 minions is always nice 😂

[carmine flicker]

they will only get in each other way

[glad arch]

No answered my question

[upper viper]

Seems fine for me tho ?

they oneshot damn fast

[glad arch]

I need answers

[forest monolith]

does anyone know if in path of building 2 its accounting for level of skills on gear correctly without inputing skill level urself with gear

[carmine flicker]

(even snipers. tried them, they are kinda stupid)

[glad arch]

Any rangers

[upper viper]

All minions a damn stupid 😂

[upper viper]

check moba 😛

[carmine flicker]

that's cause noone know probably
you want good answer, node made-up by someone who know nothing, right?)

[carmine flicker]

yeah
wanted to try reavers tho

at least those are fast and agressive bunch

[upper viper]

Reavers with a few frost mages is great

think i did 20 reavers

[carmine flicker]

why mages there?

[upper viper]

rest frost mages

[carmine flicker]

just to freeze?

[upper viper]

for ranged when needed

and freeze yea

gives reavers more time 😛

[carmine flicker]

for ranged I prefer lightning ones tbh

they never miss

(also shock)

[upper viper]

Thats true, but i just like they can freeze. And for me the time freeze is longer then shocked. By default

[lone citrus]

spark sorc here was planing to put lighting rod here ?? what do you guys think

[carmine flicker]

or I can just get 20 reavers and look at my personal army of berserkers

[upper viper]

depending on your spirit, get 30 reavers 😂

[carmine flicker]

I'm not THAT spiritual person

[upper viper]

Time to get there then 😛

I wonder how many i can get with my amount

yeah i can get 30 reavers. Damn lot

[limber flume]

Thanks

[carmine flicker]

linear or multiplicative scaling?
means 80 chain+20 moment is 100% slow or 84? (20+80 or 80+20*(1-0.2) )

nevermind, found answer in wiki

[dawn spire]

I believe all slows are multiplicative with each other

says so when you hold alt and click "slow"

[carmine flicker]

hmm, should have checked that first, ye
thx

so apex will do almost nothing there

[dawn spire]

if you got temp chains to 80% slow, then apex will still slow enemies by 20%... of their new speed 😛

also slows are less effective against uniques

[polar anvil]

How do I make Orb of Storms shock?

[carmine flicker]

so ye, almost nothing, better go titan and go for 100% temp chain at that point

[polar anvil]

I wanna try to use it with Shockburst rounds

[dawn spire]

so you'd actually have a 40% slow and a 10% slow stacking against uniques for a 46% slow with both

[carmine flicker]

make it do enough damage, that's step one

[dawn spire]

find the "shock" keyword somewhere in your skills or the tree and press R3 to read how it works

[carmine flicker]

can't decide what would be better defensive measure
100% slow or 90%block..

[polar anvil]

Looks like I need enough lightning nodes to make it worthwhile

[carmine flicker]

(assuming it's 50% uniques slow. doubt I can get chains to 200%)

[dawn spire]

no such thing as 100% slow

[carmine flicker]

you can get chains to 100 if you get mad enough

[dawn spire]

can you?

I mean, 100% base sounds easy enough

but can you do the 200% for uniques to be slowed 100%?

[carmine flicker]

no, that'd the thing..

so yeah
100% base slow aura or 90% block

200%.. probably can be done, but I don't want to think about the price

[dawn spire]

block doesn't work against slams or explosions. things moving at half speed sounds like you could easily avoid every single one of those

[carmine flicker]

well, ofc block works(cause why would I go block without turtle charm)

[dawn spire]

I thought you were doing this on chrono, my b

[carmine flicker]

nah, can't decide titan or warbringer

[sudden crown]

it works if that unique shield or warbringer

[dawn spire]

I guess the question is what do you trust more? 90% chance to avoid slams + your 1337 skillz, or playing guitar hero on beginner difficulty?

[dawn spire]

oh I didn't know there was a unique shield that did that

[sudden crown]

waling shield I think ?

[carmine flicker]

idk if bosses are affected when in phases tho
like that ultimatum tornado form

does it slow that tornado?

[sudden crown]

but its need to go with warbringer anyway bcs increased block chance is low so its useless

[carmine flicker]

wailing wall

I guess I can go 75% block and 100% slow and play guitar hero beginner with 75% out of jail free on top..

[limber flume]

I'm only at like 34% temp chains, so the ascendancy node still does something

[dawn spire]

the ascendancy node will always do something unless you have another slow that's 100% or higher on your target

[carmine flicker]

200% slow to freeze bosses and walk the game easy mode..

can that even be done tho?

[dawn spire]

once I get to my next wp I'll make that my next pob project

[carmine flicker]

if I.. could save time.. in a bottle..

[flat ibex]

I know I could prob look it up by searching but does the merc get any multishot later on?

[carmine flicker]

wdym?

[flat ibex]

Like shooting two or more bolts at once

[carmine flicker]

only deadeye have +1 projectile node

[dawn spire]

can crossbows roll +1 proj?

bombard crossbows shoot +1 grenade, and there's a +1 grenade on the tree as well

but none of those are merc specific

nothing in the merc ascendancies grants extra proj

[carmine flicker]

but any class can use any skills and supports so nothing stops you from, idk, using any skill that shoot many arrows.. or even going spark
or using scattershot

[dawn spire]

unless you can get +1 proj from the quality that gemling offers?

[carmine flicker]

nowhere I can remember on top of my head

if you go with bass crossbow skills then scattershot is real good for explosive shot(obviously), but that isn't merc specific

(then again best crossbow user is ranger anyway)

deadeye >> anything else as crossbow shooter

[sudden crown]

if you go for shotgun abilities dead eye is useless

[thorny token]

still does more for you than merc even for those :d

[sudden crown]

how so ?

[thorny token]

you still get tailwind, wind ward and point blank

[carmine flicker]

why exactly?

[sudden crown]

dead eye gives only frenzy charges or more proj

so more proj use useless on shotgun skills

[carmine flicker]

well
I mean, +1 proj is double the damage of, say, explosive shot via "shotgun"

[sudden crown]

bruh I mean shot gun skills not explosive shot or smth

[thorny token]

also even for stuff like frag rounds, +1 proj is still 10% more damage

[carmine flicker]

(well, explosive shot is only crossbow skill I remotely liked..)

[sudden crown]

yeah 10% more dmg for whole ascendancy xd ?

[thorny token]

if you ignore rest of the ascendancy

that i just listed above

then sure

[sudden crown]

gemling is much better

higher dps defenses

and more damage bcs of scalling of stats

[carmine flicker]

well, 20% more damage per big ascendancy node is sorta good rn in POE2
sad world we live in

[sudden crown]

well even witchhunter hives 30% more

even this useless witchhunter is better

[carmine flicker]

for two nodes, so 15% per

[sudden crown]

yeah 1 node = 10%

in dead eye

so still worse

and gemling gives even more

[carmine flicker]

actually node before it give 20% more

[sudden crown]

with his quality bonus that you can rock up even 40% more phys from quality

[thorny token]

point blank is 20% more, +1 proj is 10% more, 30% skill speed applies to reload speed and attack speed too, 30% less damage taken

[sudden crown]

on corrupt

[carmine flicker]

so it's 32% more for 2 nodes total
that's 16% per!

[sudden crown]

HOWA

that all

it needs with gemling

not count mind over matter

attack speed from accuracy stacking

you have more attack speed on gemling

dead eye is only good for explosive shot

[nova gust]

any gemling legionare tri stacker here that help me with my build? i would appreciate

[thorny token]

well 30% skill speed is worth 250 dex with howa

[carmine flicker]

good enough for me, tbh
best crossbow skill in my eyes anyway

[polar anvil]

How do people make those screen filling curses? I added support that makes it bigger by 50% and it's still pretty small

[sudden crown]

you didnt count talon tech and accu stacking

[carmine flicker]

you probably will have around 200 dex just to use skills anyway

[sudden crown]

well yes I'm just talking about shotgun skills

[thorny token]

falcon technique do not gets any stronger on gemling, neither does howa, only accu stack does

[carmine flicker]

then again I only used crossbows for lvling just to try them, may be it feel different endgame

[sudden crown]

well it does bcs you dont need to get more int/str for other skills so you have more dex

[thorny token]

well best crossbow clear skill endgame is still explo shot and best single target skill is shockburst so same as in acts pretty much

[carmine flicker]

well, gemling get more mana from HOWA int, so better MOM surival, but that's.. another story I guess

[thorny token]

you already get those stat requirements anyway from astramentis

there is nothing you wanna use that requires more than 113 str for example

[sudden crown]

right 210 divine item

whats the point of that talk if its mirror tier scaling

like ???

[thorny token]

ok so you are saying you cant get 113 str without gemling

[sudden crown]

never said that xd

[carmine flicker]

so deadeye for +1 proj still double damage?

[thorny token]

it should be very easy even as you are grabbing generic attrib increases

[thorny token]

can be replaced with timeless anyway and just scale ES and gemling do not boosts the timeless

[carmine flicker]

timeless kinda expensive too, tbh

but yeah, eva/es is better than MOM in my eyes

but tailwind offer 10% move speed FOR BACKTRACKING

that's already better than everything else, when we remember current POE2 map situation..

[fringe lagoon]

Any very end game int stacker stormweaver? looking for feedback and inspiration

[thorny token]

in the end its also kinda pointless because noone plays frag rounds and shit anyway

as theres no reason to not play shockburst or rapid shot instead

[carmine flicker]

there is
I loved braindead explosive way more

[thorny token]

well you can use explo shot for clear either way, but for single target its not as good

and holding down shockburst or rapid shot is pretty braindead too anyway

[carmine flicker]

I think should be.. enough
with +1 proj double damage

does shockburst even benefit from +1 btw?

[thorny token]

yes, but its not double damage for it

but every shockburst shot fires 2 projs in barrage instead of 1

[carmine flicker]

only one would connect tho?

[thorny token]

no, both will

they still fire in sequence

but it also slows down your hitrate because of delay between the 2 projs by a bit

thats why it isnt double damage

[carmine flicker]

like.. 1.8?

[thorny token]

looked more like 30 to 50 max to me

[carmine flicker]

and I guess this delay is small enough to consider it "double" for explo?

(that is way slower at base anyway)

[thorny token]

yea because you have to reload

but for explo you also want scattershot anyway

if you are using it for single target as well

[carmine flicker]

scattershot with +1 is bad

well

not bad

but it's 1.28 support

(28% more)

[thorny token]

that is above average support

[carmine flicker]

also better burst I guess, and burst is important

60% more burst damage, better chance of outright removing those last X % life

so kill quicker

(that make +1 proj ascendancy only 33% more damage tho. still better than most)

and quality of explo is useless anyway

still, at lvl like 23(+3 from amulet or w/e) you have 1616% DE per shot
that's respectable lvl if you ask me

[thorny token]

its fine

its not better than shockburst or rapid shot or plasma or even close tho

[waxen jewel]

Does charge infusion require all kinds of charges to work at all or does it simply gain more bonuses the more different charges you have?

[thorny token]

each bonus is separate

[dawn spire]

@carmine flicker I put every single point I could into curse effect and magnitude of slowing debuffs and I was only able to get temp chains to around 96.4% with a level 21 20% qualitygem

[carmine flicker]

auras!

[dawn spire]

auras?

[thorny token]

aura effect is multiplicative with curse effect and slow magnitude

[carmine flicker]

make it high lvl blasphemy and take aura nodes and jewels and all that

[dawn spire]

only if you use blasphemy, right?

[thorny token]

yes

[carmine flicker]

so yeah, it's 40% less
then like 100% more

[thorny token]

you can get 20% per jewel with adorned so quite a bit more than 100% if you wanted

[carmine flicker]

and you WANT yo use blasphemy for 100% chain anyway
way more QoL that way

[thorny token]

and theres another 44% on tree as well outside of jewels

[carmine flicker]

so 200% possible I guess

[carmine flicker]

so 96 becomes 170%
could be even more I guess

if you go all out with infinite money you could make it 200%
and "win" the game

[carmine flicker]

that's before counting titan?

[thorny token]

yes

[carmine flicker]

so 56% with titan

yeah, 200% slow probably possible

[dawn spire]

I guess titan is better than chrono or gemling

[carmine flicker]

(then again how will you kill anything?)

[dawn spire]

outliving it

[thorny token]

well if you are scaling all this aura effect

then you can juts also use overwhelming presence

and coc or some shit

[carmine flicker]

btw, ye
100% reduced ailment treshold

cast on ignite go brrr

[thorny token]

and you also get rly big elemenal curse on top

if you grab whispers

[carmine flicker]

hmm, DB, you know..
100% reduced treshold is smth really good

[thorny token]

yes its pretty broken

[carmine flicker]

ANYTHING will be frozen in time and then, you know, just "frozen"

[thorny token]

also bugged atm so probs just temporary

[carmine flicker]

bugged?

[thorny token]

yes, they changed the wordings on jewels and tree to specifically say aura skills

and overwhelming presence isnt aura skill

[dawn spire]

so you said that aura effect is a multiplier on the slow of blasphemy temp chains, right? so how does slow debuff potency stack with curse effect? additively or multiplicatively?

[thorny token]

should be multiplicative as well

like its impossible for them to be additive

[carmine flicker]

you know
Dr. Who is really strange nime for a titan

[leaden moth]

Alright so I havent done ascendancy yet however I have tried farming for support gems and these are what I have at the moment. I also have all my "relevant" skills at lv 7. What I am asking here is how do I more optimize my build/should I change it. I am prioritizing survivability so I do not die. The only real "good" skills I feel like I have atm is mana drain and gas arrow (with flame wall to ignite the gas arrows), they deal huge damage but everything else is like 30% of the DPS of it and I only have 3 gas grenades, and the skeletons can die.

Also, heres my passive skill tree

[carmine flicker]

can you show me your pob BTW please?

[sinful plover]

5 socket. only missing chaos res would it be better to do chaos res or %mana. my mana regen is shit atm

[carmine flicker]

if your minions keeps dying go there
accuracy, life, damage, speed
all your minions want

[dawn spire]

okay (including 100% adorned and titan):
56% inc aura effect from normal tree nodes + 11 perfect jewels with perfect adorned = 276% aura effect
Curse effect: 76% on tree + 10% from quality + 25% from support = 111%
Slow magnitude: 85% from tree
Temp chains base slow = 30% with level 25 gem
40% less curse effect from blasphemy

30% base * 0.6 = 18% slow to work from

18 x 2.11 from curse effect = 37.98%
37.98% x 1.85 from slow magnitude = 70.263%
70.263% x 3.76 from aura effect = 264.189% slow
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/i8ttw05r

[leaden moth]

I mean if I want survivability on minions I prob want these

im going for 12% reservation so i can have more gas arrows

and minion revive i think

[carmine flicker]

no, you don't
those nodes are bad, don't bother
very inefficient

[daring veldt]

hello! i was wondering if there is any sorc main here right now? i am looking for a build for spark.

[leaden moth]

ok sorry

[sinful plover]

any thoughts on the regalia %mana vs chaos res?

[carmine flicker]

264% is bit overkill

[dawn spire]

yeah I didn't fine tune it at all and it uses 131 points lol

[carmine flicker]

also could use slow magnitude corruption

it exist afaik

[dawn spire]

dear god

[carmine flicker]

why?!

[dawn spire]

oh, I had it as chrono first

then pathed to warrior so I could swap ascendancy easier

[carmine flicker]

interesting, how soon will it be nerfed?

[dawn spire]

lemme ask in #fortune-telling

oh, that's not a channel? wild

[carmine flicker]

anyway, guess I'm lvling titan

[leaden moth]

Hmm okay is there maybe a guide or something I could follow instead then?

[carmine flicker]

there are tons of those

[dawn spire]

only if you change your name

unless you're legally blind

[leaden moth]

what do you mean

[dawn spire]

playing blind and following a guide are mutually exclusive

[leaden moth]

Its just my first time playing

I can change it to that instead ig

[dawn spire]

it was a joke lol

[carmine flicker]

ssfhc blind means you go "in" without any knowledge or guides.. and in SSFHC
(that means you are into BDSM or smth like that, but who I am to judge)

[dawn spire]

(:

[static spade]

Is this a slow clear or good enough for tier 7? https://www.twitch.tv/mk_kuroneko13/v/2364200897?sr=a&t=0s

[carmine flicker]

so yeah
give me good name for everything-permafrost character?)

[dawn spire]

DormamuIveComeToBargain

[leaden moth]

Alright well I just meant that I havent played through campaign yet lol but if thats the case is there a good guide you know of for a build for Witch

[dawn spire]

there are guides for dozens of builds for all the classes

I'd check maxroll.gg, but most guides aren't tailored to hcssf

[leaden moth]

Alrighty then

[carmine flicker]

damn, I want RF in game sop much

to defeat bosses by REALLY just staying around

[dawn spire]

I'm doing corrupting cry gemling, which is about as close as I can get to it. It just involved pressing button

[carmine flicker]

guess I could take some minion passives along the way and get, idk, some frost mages to follow me around

[dawn spire]

just put decaying hex on despair and wait

[carmine flicker]

.....

glorious!

it should scale with curse effect too

it's new DO poe2 edition

[dawn spire]

the damage of decaying hex? I'm not sure

I also don't know if decaying hex works from blashphemy curses

[carmine flicker]

let's test

let's test both of those, lol

[thorny fractal]

How to build support/culler in Poe2?

[dawn spire]

it doesn't say you need to use them yourself...

did we just discover new rf?

[carmine flicker]

would be most lazyman build ever existed

[thorny fractal]

anmy good guide? with max 15 div budget?

[carmine flicker]

playing POE with 0 buttons, except to walk and no minions

you know what
WalkingEntropy

fitting name

or heat death

[dawn spire]

bold of you to posit names here before making a character

[carmine flicker]

I hate how right you are

also all was taken

[thorny token]

it doesnt

cant even link it

[dawn spire]

rip, I thought so

[thorny token]

it should work based on the wording so i just assume its a bug

but yea

same with chaotic freeze doesnt work with decaying hex at all was very sad when i wanted to try it

[waxen jewel]

I run blink + curses on my second weapon set. And one thing I noticed is that inputs don't buffer during the 0.25s weapon swap time. So If I'm getting stunlocked I need to stay really calm and try to press my dodge right after the weapon swap finishes (spamming dodge is no good)

[left ledge]

Any build thats able to to t16 maps with little to no gear?

[waxen jewel]

Not sure if bug or feature

One way to get around this issue is to use the raise shield skill (just to swap weapons), this then enables the regular expected input buffer.

NVM I found another workaround. Using any skill (like the one given by wand implicit) enables normal input buffering.
TLDR: Never swap weapons directly for blink, instead cast a skill to swap and then cancel it with blink

[carmine flicker]

what's fastest lvling currently?

[waxen jewel]

You just play the game AFAIK

And have spoonfed gear from main

[carmine flicker]

I mean, fastest build

smth braindead

cause lvling with MACE skills is just bad

[waxen jewel]

Then ask for that, lol

[marsh timber]

Pillar of the caged god

• ice strike

[carmine flicker]

thx

[daring veldt]

hello! i was wondering if there is any sorc main here right now? i am looking for a build for spark.

[sudden crown]

go to yt and there is like 100000000000000 spark builds bcs its meta af

[serene minnow]

would "skill effect duration" affect poison ailment duration?

[static plinth]

Only when inflicted with Sporeburst Arrow

[flat ibex]

Is there an attack speed cap

[thorny token]

if its like poe then technically yes due to server tick rate its like 30 actions per second

[gaunt verge]

would you corrupt a gem if u dont care about +1 gem slot?

[spiral moth]

Can you get spirit corruption on body armors?

or is it just for helmets?

[plucky radish]

any build recommendations for new char? meta if possible

[carmine flicker]

why ice and not lightning one btw?

[dawn spire]

god this thing I made is so fucking stupid

it does like no dps, but it has these stats in act 3 normal

with 10 corrupting cry stacks I do like 650 dps

[carmine flicker]

get that damage per str node at least, lol

[thorny token]

flurry needs a lot more attack speed to feel good, ice strike is fine before that

[waxen jewel]

quant or rarity for map bosses?

I guess nobody cares really, if so, I agree

I just have no mental model what rarity is even supposed to affect in practice

[dawn spire]

yeah, this is a rough layout of what I have so far.

[waxen jewel]

Like what is the choice of Rarity vs Quantity supposed to mean from the player POV? (Other than maybe stacking only one of them is not so good idea

[thorny token]

well rarity is more available so if you can grab quant grab quant

pretty simple

[waxen jewel]

Yeah sure no doubt about that

[sudden crown]

hmm

[fringe lagoon]

any very endgame int stacking stormweaver? would like to get some feedback/inspiration

[waxen jewel]

I was just thinking whether there's some logic to it such as: "Rarity does nothing for currency, while quant does"

[atomic halo]

rarity affects currency, it says so in the tooltip

[waxen jewel]

I haven't played much poe1 so IDK if it's obvious to many of you

Oh right I could read tooltips

[atomic halo]

poe1 rules: quant >>>> rarity

[leaden salmon]

Isnt that the same in PoE2?

At least for juicing maps T15-18. Quant > Rarity

[upper viper]

I did int stacking gemling, but share what your issue is. Maybe someone here can answer

[waxen jewel]

I see, stuff is tiered and weighted in all item classes and more rarity is like having a bigger die (like it should be)

[fringe lagoon]

Well it's not issue per se, more like looking for further ways to scale (see https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/jou2705y), maybe compare to other player's trees etc.. 🙂

[waxen jewel]

Though IDK about jewels, but anyways. Like deathbeam said, there's not much of a choice because quantity is so scarce.

[native bolt]

does reduced Attribute Requirements reduce all items requirements or just the one on it?

[upper viper]

With spark, do you really need Dream Fragments ?
Wouldnt a int-30+ ring with other mods and mana mod not be better. Like your other ring ?

And if you want to min-max you can get higher int mods on both boots and gloves.

[atomic halo]

local

[waxen jewel]

It's a local modifier. You can spot local modifiers by looking at the base stats of the items, and if they are blue, it means some local mod of the item has changed that stat

[native bolt]

what does local mean ? reduced the requirements of the item that have that stat?

[waxen jewel]

Only exception is +%# additional crit damage, which AFAIK is local, but invisible

[atomic halo]

only affects the item that the modifier is on

[native bolt]

ty guys!

[waxen flicker]

what spells are people doing with a standard demon form fire build? I'd like to use at least firestorm

[waxen jewel]

Whether a modifier is local or not changes it's importance greatly. For example weapons have +% increased physical damage local mod that goes upto almost 200%, but because it isn't added up with other additive damage sources. For example: let's say you have from your skill tree total of 500% +%increased attack/projectile/elemental/projectile/physical/whatever damage. And you also have a bow with 50 - 70 base damage (60 average) and a local modifier +100% increased physical damage. The local modifier doubles your base damage to 100 - 140 (120 average) instead of just adding to the pile of 500% which would only be a 7/6 or 16% real damage increase

[hasty tangle]

im using raise zombie with a siphoning wand in act 2 and I'm able to sustain a lot of zombies constantly. Does this scale well into late game?

seems like a fun build

[hybrid ocean]

Does having multiple of the same herald do anything?

[dawn spire]

I see a lot of people using hexblast

[dawn spire]

can you even have multiple of the same buff active at once?

[hybrid ocean]

Just tested, you cannot

[round marten]

why dont my SRS explode when minion instability and infernal legion are linked?
well, sometimes they do sometimes they dont...

[waxen flicker]

maybe they aren't taking enough damage? srs really dont last very long at all, if they fire res that could be the case

[thorny token]

they need to go to the instability threshold faster than they expire

[orchid acorn]

What is the best venom for an invoker statstacker with pillar?

[dawn spire]

for cruel, the attributes. For normal, it's up to you. they're all pretty unimpactful

[strange girder]

yo any open run a poison ranger build i undid my whole skill tree im lvl 33 with 36 points and need hjelp making my build stronger

[dawn spire]

helps with gearing in the campaign

whoops

https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1328202289755983932

[steel nacelle]

do i need to set up multiple Tempest Bells on my skill bar and macro all 5 to hit at once??

[pale oak]

hello i have a question im a witch hunter merc im using HoT and HoI but my HoI is not procing why?

[sonic pollen]

Why can't I talk in any of the #1308715058716610580 channels?

[atomic halo]

you're probably looking at ones that reached the 1000 user limit

find a smaller, less full one, and you should be able to message.

[orchid acorn]

Tyvm

[waxen jewel]

Okay so double corrupting works for the points 7 and 8 in the atlas boss tree

I got all 8 without ever getting tier 16 map lulz

[hybrid ocean]

Are you managing to freeze enemies?

[sonic pollen]

Oh didn't know that was a thing thank you

[floral helm]

Do we have any kind of ETA on the release of either new classes or at least new weapons?

[rigid frigate]

What level should I be to do temple of chaos act 3 ascendancy 2 in hardcore

[atomic halo]

nope

nada

[floral helm]

Oof. n_n

[unique wolf]

How to unsocket runes?

[astral willow]

you can replace them, you can't get them back

[pliant sleet]

for ice strike invoker, what specific stats hsould i look for

im still rocking this 2exalted staff

[atomic halo]

dps

[atomic halo]

not bad

19% quality is criminal

[pliant sleet]

im t15 now but dont feel like im doing enough damage

[atomic halo]

after dps look for crit chance, crit damage, attack speed, + to all melee

if you can get similar dps with better suffixes you'll do a lot more damage

[pliant sleet]

so the better suffix is crit chance (1), crit dmg (2), atk speed (3), +melee (4)?

[atomic halo]

inc ele dmg with attacks isnt bad as a prefix either if it's a higher tier

[atomic halo]

i didnt list them in order

[pliant sleet]

how can i see my staff dps in game

[atomic halo]

math

[pliant sleet]

oh lol

[atomic halo]

(190+388+53+86)/2*1.5

537 dps

[pliant sleet]

ok dope i will try for 600+

[atomic halo]

oh wait and quality

* 1.19

[wintry whale]

are weapons the only thing that can have mana leech mod

[atomic halo]

i forgot if that updates the display ngl

i think it does

[pliant sleet]

dam mines like 580 dps then

its like 100 exalted for 600~ dps lol

mine only cost 2 exalted

[frank hare]

how is "enemies have %increased damage taken" calculated? After all damage? i assume 20% of the hit but best to ask

[atomic halo]

no i think it updates, so it's just 537

[pliant sleet]

so if i pay 100 exalted for 650 dps

im gonna be like 25% stronger

or depending on suffix it'll change completely?

would "path of building" show better understanding?

[atomic halo]

it would yeah

you can copy and paste to see the dps change

[astral talon]

Can someone please help me with my stormweaver build

[fallen cedar]

hey guys!
Real quick: My build needs 1 rage on hit somewhere.
I currently have it in a passive tree jewel.
If I get 1 rage on hit on my weapon, I no longer need the jewel, right?

[atomic halo]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/Y47EL67cY

example of a search

[atomic halo]

1 on hit isnt usually enough to sustain comfortably

[pliant sleet]

504 dps for 80exalted

605*

vs my 530~ for 2 exalted

[fallen cedar]

I'm an ice strike monk

[pliant sleet]

maybe its worth i upgrade some other pieces

[atomic halo]

its like 40% more dps

with the crit mod

[pliant sleet]

how can u tell

[atomic halo]

crit is very common thing to build for with quarterstaves

[pliant sleet]

im just putting my tree into POE2 rn

[atomic halo]

+2% crit chance is 20% more chance to crit

[pliant sleet]

i think i have like 36% crit chance

[atomic halo]

whats ur crit multi

[pliant sleet]

34.4% crit chance, 366% crit dmg bonus

on ice strike

[atomic halo]

just the crit mod is like 30% more dps

[pliant sleet]

oh dam

[atomic halo]

plug it into pob and see what it says though

[pliant sleet]

man i need to learn some math lmao

im just tryna put my tree in rn

takes forever

cant select acesions on path of building?

nvm

i see its on outside

[flat ibex]

What should you focus on wary game for a build? Survivability or damage?

[atomic halo]

a good balance

a lot of damage can compensate for low survivability

not really the other way around

[pliant sleet]

hmm not sure what ive missed

Path of building shows ice strike dmg at 28000 ingame at 36000

all items, all passives (including ascension), my 3 gems

my skills, their respective levels + quality, and the socketed gems

[flat ibex]

I’m playing merc rn only about lv 17 + 4 passive points from boss items. I went for life leech and projectile dmg + attack speed. Is that good enough for act 2?

[atomic halo]

maybe some config stuff, maybe some bugs.

[atomic halo]

as long as you're picking stuff up logically should be fine

[pliant sleet]

if im not fighting, then there should be no charges etc right

[atomic halo]

mostly, your progression depends on your gear, especially you weapon

[atomic halo]

sure, yeah

[pliant sleet]

dam

dont think i missed anything

ah

i think it is because ice strike has 4 hits

and hit 3 and hit 4 is stronger

it doesnt show those, maybe..

[flat ibex]

I’m pretty decently equipped I’d say but I struggled really bad on Rathbreaker

[pliant sleet]

how do i copy a weapon from trade

[atomic halo]

correct

[pliant sleet]

is that possible

[atomic halo]

you can toggle it

[atomic halo]

not easily

[pliant sleet]

got to put the stats in 1 byt 1 then?

[atomic halo]

to a degree, yeah

[pliant sleet]

sadge

[atomic halo]

i think they're working on a way to average it

[pliant sleet]

yeh i put that it goes to 31k

[atomic halo]

but rn you have to set it

[pliant sleet]

but they dont account that i have gem which allows 2 final hits

so theres where i lost 5k

🙂

[tropic dock]

how can i do that? when i try to use same spirit it says im already using it

[atomic halo]

is it actually two setups

like one for bossing one for mapping

check the guide and what it says

[tropic dock]

oohh okay

[pliant sleet]

31k -> 42k dps

worth 1 div u think lol

got it

:3

lol it practically doubled my dps when buffed.

[ebon cipher]

im kinda in on fense on what i should take: storm wave with upheaval vs rage?

30% damage increase (cause ~7hits a second) vs triple line of storm wave

[static plinth]

Id say Upheaval

Since it should be able to triple hit large enemies

[exotic hollow]

Hello guyz, my current POB below, i dont get why my damage are so low compared to numbers i read above: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/3s3qr0yr

I wonder if i should switch to CI and what are the pros&cons

tried citadel once a while back and got ass kicked. I'm about to try second time 😄

[pliant sleet]

i upgraded my staff but didnt realise it doesnt have mana on kill

now im running out of mana pretty easy as a invoker monk (ice strike)

what other items i should try to roll it on?

[astral willow]

2% of mana on kill jewel

[pliant sleet]

ty

would running cold dmg on it also be useful for me?

[fading flicker]

uhm i just got to maps with ranger, deadeye gas arrow

the build im following is using goldcast cuffs for the cold conversion, but i also got howa in my stash, but IM GUESSING that the conversion with goldcuffs synergies in a way that makes howa lacking in this build ? -

[astral willow]

I think so. a lot of quarterstaff builds run multiple dmg types because it ramps up bell

[fading flicker]

the tooltip number sure gets higher with howa but when i tried it, it felt less

someone who knows plzzz tell me

[exotic hollow]

and now i opened the iron citadel with a T16... i guess im fked... lets try to put more chances on my side. I think ive some mana issue against bosses. Because of my +6 lvl staff. do you think i should swap to this? Or anything i should do to my build before i go face this fat wolf?

[neat parcel]

hey guys, can you suggest deleter build for spark stormwaver?

[lethal robin]

chaos inloculation does bleeding still bypass energy shield while u have that

[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?

[lethal robin]

u can still reduce the enemie resistance to the minus

dealing more damage

i think

why it says non negative

incase ur doing a map where the mops getting higher resistance to cold

[violet panther]

oh

i think its to prevent me from changing a mobs resist from -10 to 0

which would be worse for my damage

[lethal robin]

atlease i notice it my self running that with all cold res reduce by like 100% xD

no

oohh like that

hmm possible but it can be that it does the calculation after

[pearl sluice]

what tier is that lightning

that's high

[lethal robin]

so incase even if all ur lower res is still hitting posetive

then the rule of non negative cold res apply making to non excisting

but it's not specified for me so its asumtion. for now i do notice high damage still.

[lethal robin]

but if u whant to take no risk take that while also having all the resistance lowerd. it takes a while to set it up anyways. so u already start off with enemie having no resistanse to cold

good for an opener attack

[pliant sleet]

lol my friend who is poor had a whittling sitting in his chest lmao

[haughty dove]

Hello i need some help I am a gemling stat stacker I watched a video that said if you want more damage you want int but on the pillar of god it say str give you you more damage. I just looking for another opinion thank you

[merry bone]

Int gives you flat dmg from HOWA - which is then scaled by the % Dmg modifier of Pillar. If you have no flat dmg - Pillar has nothing to scale

[haughty dove]

Oh ok that makes sense didnt think about HOWA thank you for your help

[gaunt stump]

is there any way to change ascendancy? Like i want to switch to 2nd ascendancy of monk how do i do it?

[merry bone]

nope - reroll

[gaunt stump]

........................... how much i "LOVE" poe2

[merry bone]

leveling is easy - just grab pillar and twink items -blast.

[shadow blade]

anyone using tornado shot? tryna make a chronomancer build, snipe felt too inconsistent (skill issue)

tornado shot for my projectiles doesnt seem to be a huge dps buff :( i am on an alt on low map tier so maybe thats why

[supple osprey]

hey i should use shield or focus for archmage spark build?

[merry bone]

i think the answer is staff

unless its mahu?

[fast nest]

does demonflame damage get reduced when you reserve life?

[viral crag]

Just curious if anyone has any input on where I could be wrong about my defensives here.

• Current build has very high mana costs. Estimated mana/sec on pob is 670
• Dropping 1 level on skills drops 12% dps, dropping 4 loses 34% dps
• Solution: More mana
• More mana, caster build? Might as well run MoM
• Running MoM and high mana+high recovery/regen? Might as well run EB/Gaze

Anything else I might not have considered as an alternative for primary defenses before I dig in here?

[leaden heart]

Guys I am trying to make a titan stampede build with herald of ice, but the lvl 17 spirit gem makes the herald of ice require 90dex and 90int (i currently have only 42). If i change it up in my passive tree to compensate i lose a lot of strength and wont be able to use 2h weapons froom giant's blood. How do i go about this? Any help would be appreciated

[merry bone]

Either get stats on gear - on the passive tree - or use a lower level spirit gem

[viral crag]

You've put a lot of things there that are drawing you towards a lot of stats. Something's got to break when you stretch too far 😅

Stats on gear, reduced attribute requirements on weapon (sacrificing damage), lower level herald. There's a concession to be made somewhere.

[leaden heart]

Wouldn't a lvl 4 herald of ice be much less effective compared to a lvl 17 herald of ice?

[merry bone]

of course it would

[vague elk]

I dont have flat fire dmg anywhere on my gear pieces. i was wondering if there is a gem I can slot in the bell or charged staff o add fire to to my damage. i am using both heralds so i have clod and lightning dmg. I just need fire from a gem if possible

[merry bone]

NOpe - need to get a roll on weapon/rings/gloves

I guess fire infusion - b ut that would be bad in most cases

[vague elk]

Okay thanks for the info

[zenith ermine]

Is POB way off for spark build? I'm seeing a 2k mana difference after double checking all items, skills, tree.

[merry bone]

what does that have to do with Spark?

[zenith ermine]

for my build anyway

stormweaver

[potent swift]

I notice I sometimes freeze mobs with Lightning Arrow - is merely a cold dmg modifier enough for it to start freezing?

[merry bone]

yes freeze build up happens from cold dmg over time

[potent swift]

That's cool

If I put Elemental Equilibrium, would that mean that freeze would be much more frequent (and shock only occassional)?

[merry bone]

Eh - not sure id try and do it through use of exposure swapping

just do more cold dmg

[violet vault]

I’m trying to make my skeleton brutes have as much health as possible at skill gem level 13. I have all of the minion health buffs i know of above the area Witch starts, and the 40% increased health support gem. Are there any other buffs?

[merry bone]

gem levels do most - but also west side of the tree there is another minion wheel

and there are 5 wheels with minion life north of witch

[violet vault]

yeah i think i might’ve gotten all of those

[viral crag]

Really having a hard time figuring out a good place for stun threshold, bit of a black box to me.
How much would you want to have before you were comfortable dropping your stun charm tbh? Trying to see if I can move some stuff around in my tree and make it worth.

[violet vault]

i will eventually have to get a brute gem with it’s quality maxed, didn’t realize that it would stop me from improving the quality if i corrupted it

[hidden crown]

LACK OF MOVEMENT ON INVOKER BUILD

Im currently running a **Invoker **with frost build
My main attack is ICE SRIKE, it doesnt move my character unless there are enemies on the direction
So I fell a lack of movement, I am running a 35% mov speed boot, but I am dealing so much damage and have so much survivability, that I am asking myself:

Is it possible to sacrifice some damage or survivabilty to increase my movement??
There are any spirit skill that increase movement?
I am new to the game so I dont know every item/skill
Ty!!!

[pliant hearth]

I want to roll a new character; What is considered to be the "most op" build?

[merry bone]

Stat Stacking Gemling or Spark Archmage

[merry bone]

Blink - its the only choice. You can put it on a weapon swap if you want. Otherwise the option is Flicker.

[pliant sleet]

is trhere any reason to run more than white t15 on a citadel?

i died on my first attempt so had to find a new one, but im a lot stronger now lol

[fast wind]

is i possible to lvl with demonflame?

[robust radish]

how many divs does a gemling stat stacker build cost? I have maybe 50 divine budget and im kinda bored and thinking of reroll

idk if its even good with this low budget

[hybrid ocean]

With sufficiently high waystone chance, you can get 2 or even 3 crisis fragments

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/742512397591511080/1333159293398159474/image.png?ex=6797e0d8&is=67968f58&hm=579e6055539a74d06e4c89b7d11f942e275f2941279a11af32577bbe45cb57dd&

[pliant sleet]

waystone % prefix?

is it possile to buy a high waystone % chance without all the negatives that juice the enemies stronger

[hybrid ocean]

That's what the waystone % is

Every suffix grants it

And of course scaleable ones can be increased by your atlas passive tree; The waystone I used there had I think only like 325% originally

[pliant sleet]

ah ok ill try find a good juice

[hybrid ocean]

If you're having trouble, the trick is to find ones that don't impact your build much

Like elemental resists if you're a physical build or running large amounts of ele penetration rather than reduction

[pliant sleet]

yeh i get you

i got 10 white t15s to juice

[hybrid ocean]

Or ailment chance/buildup if its not geonor

Don't forget to vaal the bad ones

[pliant sleet]

got rekt

1 hit by him wow

[elfin dock]

Why do people want a 4s Temporalis vs a 3.8s one?

[fast nest]

does demonflame damage get reduced when you reserve life?

[fast wind]

no

you just have less life with makes it easier to recover

[fast nest]

but the self damage is still based on your total life, not only unreserved life correct?

[fast wind]

correct

[fast nest]

thats dumb and i hate it

[worn tartan]

Currently lvl 83 Deadeye running Lightning Arrow build. Could anyone tell me which bow am I better off using?

[hybrid ocean]

How much flat damage do you have coming from your gauntlets and rings?

The more there is, the harder it skews towards the one on the right

Expecially if you swap out those iron runes for something else

[left ledge]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/n7v2y056

kinda what i have for an engame hexblast demon form. had to use wand to simulate demon form- also no idea how many stacks i can sustain

[worn tartan]

that's what i am working with rn

[hybrid ocean]

That's on the lower end, but still definitely the one on the right

I also only just now realised that the left is a warden bow

So you're getting +2 arrows from the swap

This means you can among other things, swap out scattershot on your lightning rods

[worn tartan]

yeah, i couldn't really get a grasp of how good those additional arrows actually are

[mental forge]

want to make a new build, what's the fastest build for mapping with decent poss capabilities?

[merry bone]

Gemling Stacker

[obsidian remnant]

What’s the best way to max my res? Should I be aiming for gear with res or rings?

[merry bone]

Wherever you can get it - that you dont have better suffixes you can get while staying capped

[hybrid ocean]

^

Anything you don't need to be a unique

[west crest]

how many points should i expect im lvl 92 rn

[hybrid ocean]

Wdym

[merry bone]

24 from quests + 1 per level

[flat ibex]

Should I be able to one shot the enemies as a Merc? I’m new and in traitors passage on the act 2 campaign but my stuff isn’t even close to one shotting

[merry bone]

nope

[flat ibex]

Ok. I didn’t want to be massively behind build wise if I was supposed to be

When does that generally come about build wise? Or level wise I guess

[merry bone]

you have basically no skills - probably h orrid gear - and no ascendancy.

For some people - never

But it comes with knowing how interactions work on your build - and getting good gear

[flat ibex]

What do you think I should get level wise for ascendancy?

[merry bone]

ascendancy is a locked in choice

whatever you pick to level is what you are forever

[flat ibex]

Wdym

[merry bone]

You cant change your ascendancy

[flat ibex]

Yeah but I haven’t picked but I can’t get through the trials at my current level

I lose honor too much

[merry bone]

then you need better gear - keep playing

[flat ibex]

Ok

[coarse shale]

What's the difference between those two? The notable seems like it would be less powerful than the minor

[hidden crown]

I dont really know which charm to equip, I never get fronzen/stunned/nothing
My survivability is very good, so I must use the gold charm?
It applies to the rare mob that I killed or just the mobs I killed after it?
Recommend me other charms if theres anything good, ty!!

[merry bone]

% Increased Crit - is based on the BASE Crit that you have. more Base crit, mean %Increased is more valuable.

Notbale adds more Base Crit. Its great - you take it - every time

[summer prairie]

I'm no expert, but the notable appears to be a flat bonus. If your crit chance is 5%, the minor would give +0.75% whereas the flat would give +1.0

[coarse shale]

riiiight, makes sense. Thanks guys

[summer prairie]

So yeah, as Ojintoast said, the notable makes all the other % increased crit nodes better

[mortal gate]

Guys, I have 2 audience with the king.. I need advice, should I used them or sell them to buy the unique mana Flask? 🤔

[static plinth]

(And the notable would make the former give +0.9%)

[pastel valley]

anyone got a good ice strike monk build?

[proud sorrel]

Would Malice benefit from Bolstering Presence and Aura Effect passives?

on a scepter

[hybrid ocean]

Depends on how much you like farming rituals

And whether you have all the ritual atlas points yet

[floral helm]

Looking to buy as many low tier maps as possible, I need gold fodder. Please let me know we'll work something out.

[left ledge]

notbale are the bigger nodes, minor is the smaller

[cloud flower]

Can a high enough shock magnitude + double shock push the total over 100%?

[hybrid ocean]

Yes, but individual shocks can't go over 100% I believe

[high relic]

Not sure if anyone can help me with this, but I do not understand those PoB results:
Why is the build with the Crest Shield doing more damage than the Unique with +170% Spell damage?

[dawn stream]

Any support gems I can use with "Blink" that can improve it ?

[high relic]

Ingenuity maybe?

[cloud flower]

Feel like this is probably motivation to prioritize working 60 more spirit into my build for Cast on Shock into Lightning Conduit with 110-120% shock values to scale off of. That could get silly

[atomic halo]

the spell damage per spirit modifier is not recognied by pob

you can tell because if you look at the line in pob it displays in red (instead of blue)

just edit 175% inc spell damage onto it

[high pike]

Anyone have any ideas why my gravebind cuffs aren't proccing with zealous inquisition? Had my hunch confirmed it wasnt working when i googled and saw that it has a big white animation and mine never did it

[high relic]

Thanks, I'll try that!

[marsh bluff]

Can someone suggest how to improve playing with a Witchhunter friend if I’m using Ice Wall? I’ve already taken the passive for 60% reduced crystal health and the support gem that does the same, but it’s still not enough

[merry bone]

not enough for what?

[marsh bluff]

It prevents him from dealing damage with his crossbow, and the reduced wall HP doesn’t allow it to be destroyed instantly

[merry bone]

what are you trying to do with the frost wall?

You asked a question, but you left out all of the information needed to understand what the issue is, and how anyone can help you

[crude tree]

is path of building the same app for 1 & 2?

[merry bone]

nope

[crude tree]

is there a link here to get it for 2, the ones i find online are just for the Or game

[atomic halo]

https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding-PoE2/releases

top result for "pob2"

[merry bone]

Google be hard man

[crude tree]

thanks

[dawn spire]

I'm currently leveling a str stacking corrupting cry gemling in hcssf. The idea is that I'm using pin support on seismic cry so it so it never stuns anything and thus never goes on cooldown because it never hits a stunned target.

That being said, it leaves my options for other gems rather limited so I'm looking for suggestions to try.

Currently the only other skills I'm using are time of need, blasphemy + Enfeeble, defiance banner, combat frenzy, and raise shield. Im using a scepter to be able to afford those spirit gems. My goal is to eventually run charge infusion over defiance banner so I can utilize the frenzy charges from combat frenzy more effectively.

I'm also toying with the idea of manually cursing with Enfeeble so I can get more curse effectiveness on bosses. But basically there's soooo much downtime on bosses that I want to fill with more stuff to do. The only criterion is that the stuff I do must not contribute toward stun. Thanks!

[shut rune]

deadeye lightning arrow build:
guys im using a widowhail (270ish) right now at level 75... any idea what the equivalent dps bow would be? wondering if its time to swap

[merry bone]

Impossible to know since there is no info about what your quiver is giving you

So you'll need to find a bow that has enough flat dmg on it to offset the benefits of the % modification to your quiver

[half owl]

I need help figuring out how to clear delirious monste easy, do they have high ailment by default? my HoT and HoI doesnt seem to proc much, as a results delirium monster takes more to take down

[undone peak]

If it's like PoE 1, then the longer into the delirium event you go, the mobs get significantly tankier which would cause your cold and lightning damage to hit less and therefore have a lower chance to apply freeze/shock. That may be what you're experiencing.

Here are the PoE 1 reduced damage taken modifiers from delirium:

As you can see, it's rather aggressive lol

[half owl]

I see, I'm mapping 60% and it sucks even with 200k dps buffed

is there a build that helps?

[undone peak]

There are certainly characters that people have made which are stronger than the one you're currently playing if you're finding yourself struggling with 60% delirious content.

But if you're asking for what tweaks you could make to your current character then I couldn't possibly know with so little information.

[pearl sluice]

Hi, I wasn't able to equip two 'Against the Darkness' jewels into the sockets in the passive tree. Is that not possible?

[undone peak]

"limited to: 1"

says it near the radius on the item description

[graceful quarry]

Worth it? Would be a huge upgrade on my ring but would totally clear out my exalts.

[pearl sluice]

ty

[late fiber]

Anyone got a link or sum to early witch minion build

[dawn spire]

If you can get enough aura effect to buff that one spirit gem that gives enemies reduced ailment/stun threshold to 100%, then you should be able to freeze/shock with one point of damage

[half owl]

thank you! ill try this

[dawn spire]

Good luck. It usually takes an adorned jewel and lots of aura effect jewels

[tidal carbon]

What souls cores should I put on a gemling legionnaire attribute build on a morior invictus att% and ele res%

[zealous bone]

Probably Attack Speed Soul Cores, or Item Rarity Soul Cores

[livid crow]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/r4lx705n

Hey guys, any suggestions for invoker 78 lvl lightning character. I'm new to the game so I'm pretty dumb in this stuff

[umbral vine]

herald of ice and howa gloves

[livid crow]

I should switch to ice build?

are you a invo player as well?

can I see your build

[sage gyro]

besides mobility(support gem) and pathfinder, is there anything else that increases movement speed while using an ability?

[unique hornet]

When I get to that point, should I put Chaotic Freeze on Contagion or Essence Drain for a Hexblast blood mage build

[normal pumice]

Question on lighting ball, does area damage increase the damage of the lighting bolts it shoots?

[sage gyro]

i believe it should as the skill has the AoE tag

[fiery stone]

Anyone try out a stat stack Witch Hunter?

[fathom garden]

Guys, what is Vaal ice shot ? tornado + iceshot ?

[raven coyote]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/4a50m0yh

Any idea how to make this skill tree better? I've been trying to cook to make it better than stormweaver but not sure if its possible

[hollow bronze]

Looking to get 30% boots but as a monk not sure what stats I should be looking for tbh. I'm running T4 maps ATM and I'm Evasion heavy with ES

[bleak skiff]

hai guys, have you ever encounter skeleton did not spawn when equipping rattling scepter for the second set weapon? the attribute requirements are met and can equip the weapon, but no skeleton spawn

is it a bug?

[marsh bluff]

Well, my wall gets in the way of his attacks
Because I’m using the Spell Cascade and Magnified Effect support gems, the wall takes up a significant area after just a couple of casts, and my friend spends a lot of time breaking it
That’s why I’m looking for a solution to keep the wall’s effectiveness as a type of attack for me while somehow solving the issue of it blocking my friend’s shots
Ideally, is there a way to make the wall break itself after a short period of time?

[west wharf]

how valuable are +max res% rolls on jewels, compared to dmg% rolls?

[wary bramble]

guys pls help, in PoB how to replace this attribute without reset the whole branch?

[tacit shale]

guys i got LA Deadeye. what waystone modifier i need to skip so i can freeze a lot?

[spring haven]

Just try to click on it?

[wary bramble]

left click = reset the whole branch,
right click = allocate to str for some reason

[pale solar]

I have seen there is these unique jewels that lets you connect some stats without needing the path. is there any unique jewel for monk that could increase my dps?

[sterile stone]

press and hold the button then click the node (eg: hold D + click)

[wary bramble]

Omg Thank you so much. I will try later

[round agate]

Hello there,
One quick question, what is better nowaday for endgame content beetween spark or LC stormweaver ?

[pastel valley]

anyone got a good ice strike monk build?

[spare quartz]

Is Ming's heart worth using for end game pathfinder. Better off with a 40% chaos damage rare? I think the added chaos damage makes winter eye work though

[spiral smelt]

My dps tooltip is 300k
My penetration is 66%
I apply 20% shock, 26% fire exposure, fire curse
Path of building tells me that I should have like 500k dps

I'm absolutely certain that i don't even deal 300k dps on some bosses

Is it possible that the game is bugued ? I use rapid shot and it's known it's a bit bugued after a certain amount of attack speed (30 attack per second, i'm at 28.5)

[marsh bluff]

Does Cast on Crit even work? I have a 55% chance, but it fills up extremely slowly

[spiral smelt]

You probably need stuff to improve the energy gains

[dawn spire]

Dps tooltip ingame does not account for curses, exposure, or other conditional modifiers

[dawn spire]

Read the cast on crit spirit gem carefully. The energy gained is based on the damage of the critical hits and the power of the enemy, I think

[dark pulsar]

if I use this can I allocate Avatar of Fire?

or only what's around it

[lethal robin]

is there anything else that can do this beside this belt. like passive etc

i mean flask applies to energie shield

[dawn spire]

Only what's around it, not the keystone itself

[spiral smelt]

Yes but I don't feel like I even do what's on the tooltip

[high relic]

Is block chance being taken into account in PoB "effective hit pool" calculations?

[leaden salmon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1317908148358479925/1333398842510544936/image.png?ex=6798bff1&is=67976e71&hm=19cd69cf1bf15cb93ac362a5b13be80bac3e03b9211bdb9d0208acc73a810e03&

2nd try.

Now my build is c00king

Time to get Dreamfragments 😭

[dawn spire]

How do you know? Serious question, but how do you sense you're doing 300k dps or not?

[dawn spire]

The eternal youth keystone on the tree

[leaden salmon]

You cant feel the difference between 70k and 300k dps?

[dawn spire]

I never said that. I can definitely tell when I'm doing 3.5x the damage I was before. But they're saying their tooltip says 300k, but they are saying it feels like less than 300k. But if their tooltip is wrong, how do they know what 300k feels like in the first place to compare it?

Also the tooltips ingame are not even accurate in the first place unless you're using very basic skill setups

[leaden salmon]

Yeah. My PoB and Ingame Spark tooltip is way off

[dawn spire]

My point is that if all the dps measuring sticks are inaccurate, then I'm not convinced anyone knows what 300k feels like. At least not reliably

[leaden salmon]

By almost 20k

[spiral smelt]

I know it's dumb but i'm looking at the number up top right of the boss health pool and counting in my head
I need to record a boss fight to count it accurately

But you are probably right

It's just that this feeling on top of the known bug of my spell made me doubt

[dawn spire]

But then how do you know the number at the top of the boss is accurate? (:

[spiral smelt]

I assumed it was yeah

Is it not ?

[dawn spire]

Everyone does, and I guess I do, too. But we don't really have any way to verify

[spiral smelt]

True

[dawn spire]

We just have like three different ways to check dps and the best we can do is compare them against each other

[spiral smelt]

We do know the total health pool and we can record it and see no ?

[dawn spire]

Really the best way would be to use a dot skill that does a set amount of damage per second and use it on a boss and time it. Then look at that skill's tooltip and pob dps and compare to the actual measured dps

[dawn spire]

I think we do? I'm not sure tho

[spiral smelt]

I'll just trust the number on the boss health pool until proven it's not trustworthy

[dawn spire]

Yeah, that number doesn't reset unless you stop doing damage for an amount of time, right?

[spiral smelt]

Yes

Okay yeah I recorded a boss fight and I indeed do the dps I said, but this time it did felt like it too so eh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znLaJ4qI6ns

Funny to deal 85% fire damage while just stacking lightning damage lmao
I probably should stack shock magnitude

Since i'm still shocking
It's probably a bit free to stack and would improve dps by a lot

Sad that a fire build has to rely on shock more than on ignite lmao

I have like 20k ignite damage according to PoB, which is less than 5% dps ...

[pearl sluice]

hi, would anyone have an idea of what to put in my 5th slot please?

[keen glade]

what's the best way to manage mana consumption on cast on shock/crit?

[spiral smelt]

You play archmage ?

Do you have like 100% mana regen /max mana on breach rings ?
My friend playing this just swapped to those and it helped tremendously

[keen glade]

nah, not archmage

[hidden crown]

I am running blink, without temporalis
And I am using only 2 supports on it:

**Ingenuity: **30% cooldown rate
Arcane Tempo: 25% cast speed

Is there any other usefull support for it? (I have 31 spirit left)

[dawn spire]

arcane surge might not be useless if you don't have that elsewhere. Also unbreakable so you're less likely to get stunned while casting it

[tacit shale]

Guys for LA Deadeye. what waystone modifier i need to skip so my freezing can trigger. is it monster ailment threshold?

[jagged cave]

Probably+elemental resistance

Trying out evocation +comet high risk fast clear and the occasional self explosion

Lol

[tacit shale]

oh i see. what actually monster ailment threshold means

[jagged cave]

Im using witch with it. 10/10 on fun factor and the clear is insanely fast

I stay away from play gets reduced elemental resistance and slower recovery

I need more for resistance overcap

86%is not enough

[steel cobalt]

Looking for some ideas on classes with good synergy during the campagin. My buddies and I want to play the campaign together but it feels strongly discouraged. Our clear speed is so much faster solo - especially on bosses. Seems like monster HP scales faster than number of party members. That makes sense... IF you have synergy and we don't. In fact we have trouble synergizing enough to even break even.

We've thought about all minions and lots of auras. We've tried all same element for easier curse/exposure. Having someone dedicated to eye of winter and another using a mark for bosses. We did double gas explosions with another player spamming SRS/Firewall ignite. OBvious stuff like that. But again its all just slower than playing separate.

We are doing this to test league starter FYI, so no twinking is allowed. Any thoughts on good synergies for a trio league start?

[floral helm]

Does anybody know if they fixed leaching? I tried it a few weeks back and it seemed like it wasn't working whatsoever. But I need some survivability for a build I'm working on. Which is why I ask

[thorny token]

ppl are making leech builds rn so should be better at least i assume

(well mostly only on bloodmage and acolyte sometimes but yea :d)

[floral helm]

Okay well thank you very much. I'll have to try it out.

I have currently a solid build that's very fun and I haven't seen anybody else run it for some reason. So if I can pick up the survivability just a bit it might actually be worth posting XD

[tribal hound]

when i use 3x grand spectrum jewels with 4% each, is it 12% all res at the end?

[finite edge]

36

12 each

[tribal hound]

perfect tyvm

[urban shard]

heey guys can i ask yall a question? im looking at the builds on maxroll and im seeing red/green/yellow lines what do they mean and should i activate them or ignore them ?

[leaden salmon]

Where are you seeing these lines?

[urban shard]

passive skill tree
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/z6ox70y5

[leaden salmon]

Those are for Weapon Slot 1 and 2

You can path up to 24 skill points in a different direction for Weapon 1 and 2

[urban shard]

what about the yellow?

[leaden salmon]

Those are ascendancy?

[urban shard]

oh okay so if i wanna follow this build i should also do the red and green lines right?

[leaden salmon]

You have to assign them to Weapon 1 and 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu_N4IeJd3o

[urban shard]

oh okay, how do i do that?

okay thank u i will wathc the vid

[obsidian remnant]

Which merc build is good for endgame and pinnacle bosses?

[leaden salmon]

<@&174997701513969665> Scam/Phishing link.

(People dont click that link)

[dawn spire]

"stenmcommunuty.com" lmao

[dusty wagon]

Hey. I just made a new warrior as I wanted to see if they could be the “boss killer” I wanted

Any warriors - what level did you start obliterating bosses and what skills?

[leaden salmon]

At level 104

Sorry ❤️

[dawn spire]

Warriors can use any skills and gear just like all classes. I would recommend lightning arrow and orb of storms for the campaign. As for endgame, corrupting cry warbringer or skeletal reaver warbringer are pretty solid I've heard

[dusty wagon]

🫠

[leaden salmon]

Hmm... This is an upgrade of sorts for me. 25 more mana, 4 more int. 10% rarity

Not sure if its worth 5div though. For that 10% extra rarity and a smidge mana/int

[dawn spire]

Also pillar of the caged god works with any warrior ascendancy as well

Kripp recommends leveling the skeletal reaver warbringer with potcg

[dusty wagon]

I’ve seen so many videos of people crippling bosses with HOTG but appreciate that’s quite late on

[dawn spire]

It's also pretty good with chronomancer

[leaden salmon]

Most of those 1 shot videos forget to tell you about the 500+ div they spend

🥹

[dawn spire]

And/or the painful map clearing they had to do to reach the boss

[dusty wagon]

Dayumnnnnn. I just wanted an absolute unit 😂

My sorc felt like a gust of wind would kill her

[dawn spire]

When planning builds in poe, the more common approach is to pick a skill/combo/idea to focus on. Then pick your class, gear, tree, etc so that you can complement the focus as well as possible

All classes can basically be insanely tanky, extremely squishy, or anywhere in between

[leaden salmon]

You wont get hit if you build the sorc correctly 😄

[dawn spire]

All depends on how you build them

[leaden salmon]

With 300-600k dps you dont need to worry about getting hit much

[dusty wagon]

There is this too haha

[dawn spire]

Like, I wanted to focus on making a build that was hcssf viable and very simple to gear. I saw corrupting cry scales with strength, and str gives life. That's good synergy there for hardcore. Then I saw gemling has double the inherent bonus from strength. I had my build.

I didn't pick mercenary and then go, "Hmm, now what do I play?"

I picked mercenary because it fit my plan

Not the other way around

[spiral smelt]

Witchunter also has the sorcery ward ascendancy that really SAVES life

I have like 3.5k sorcery ward shield currently but when I was playing tankier I had a whooping 9k elemental shield + still 3k armour and 15k evasion

So many times it's tanking 3k elemental aoe damage

[dawn spire]

Yeah if you go CI with witch hunter that sounds nuts

[spiral smelt]

Once, my friend that plays witchunter too and is ~~ as tanky as me but wasn't running sorcery ward
We took a big cold aoe from a citadelle boss, he got one shot, i survived thanks to it

The problem is then only aoe physical damage (normal ones you mainly evade them)

[dawn spire]

I'm hoping just having really high life, res, and block will be enough lol. I've got 2.7k life at the very start of cruel act 2

[spiral smelt]

Though, those juicy x2 life from strenght is neat, but not playing stats stacking with that is eh imo, and in hardcore it seems hard to do

[sinful plover]

is it worth goin up to level 20 if at 19 i already do like 100k damage on gemling or would it be better to sell it

[dawn spire]

Nah, I just get strength. Ez (:

[spiral smelt]

Depends on the rest of your stuff and what you could buy with it

[sinful plover]

considering a helmet ring or amulet upgrade

cuz only problem w my build rn is mana regen and rarity find

also my es is pretty low

i dont die very often but 2k hp and 500 es aint a lot :p

[spare quartz]

Is anyone running poison concotion end game. Need to buff my guy up a bit somehow, not sure what to buy.
Got ingenuity, nice bow / quiver, crit helmet, chaos damage both rings. 2k evasion chest and ES on gloves/boots/helmet

Thinking to buy a Olrox life flask, is it useful without any nodes in the tree?

[sinful plover]

jewels with damaging ailment magnitude prolly

poison mag

[dawn spire]

Do you want tankiness or dps?

[runic rose]

Does a blasphemy curse scale with aura effect, curse effect or both?

[spare quartz]

I did upgrade a couple of weak jewels last night. Found a beasty one actually

[dawn spire]

Both

[spare quartz]

So i need a bit more of both. I'm at 3k ES 1300 life 70% evasion and occasionally get one shot

[dawn spire]

Multiplicatively as well

[runic rose]

Tyvm

[dawn spire]

I think

[runic rose]

Its fine, I can get curse effect aura effect jewels for my adorned, im excited

[marsh bluff]

Can someone please suggest a good Witch build without summons and without spamming Fireball?

[spare quartz]

I'm built split between poison and crit i think that maximizes damage well for poison concoction. Too much poison duration just gets overlapped on bosses

[dawn spire]

Demon form hexblast infernalist

[spare quartz]

Maybe I'm wrong and a full poison tree would do better and just pacing myself with flasks, hard to compare the two

[runic rose]

Im playing cast on ignite comet, spirit stacker. Using Burning inscription for 100% ignite chance its pretty fun

[spare quartz]

I want to kill the King of the mists but i tried once and got killed by the tornado

[dawn spire]

Wait how do you get 100% ignite chance?

[runic rose]

Burning inscription always ignites them if they walk on the burning ground. So you dont need any ignite chance

Then you use essence drain + chain + draining aliments and as long as theyre standing on burning ground its constantly removed and replaced and super generates energy

[fading trench]

What is the stormweaver build to better scale on a casual budget (~ 50div), spark or cast on death comets? Currently (just reached T15s) it feels lik cast on minion death is way smoother (besides being OOM to trigger comet not to rarely despite 6% mana on kill) as it feels way better against the occasional boss /hard elite.

[runic rose]

Idk if you got dms on but i pm'd you the pob if youre interested in it

[wicked tiger]

what do you socket into a 2 socket HOWA, ice strike monk?

[prime relic]

What is better Damage for Ice strike Builds
a staff with high physical damage or a staff with Elemental damage stats and % Elemental damage on attacks?

[dawn spire]

I'll check when I get home, ty. I didn't think 100% ignite chance was possible since it's based on magnitude vs ailment threshold

[dawn spire]

Depends on the values. But the top end is probably the physical one

[runic rose]

It ignites 100% of the time and ignite magnitude just makes me general more energy.

[dawn spire]

How does it ignite 100% of the time?

Vs what target?

[runic rose]

Everything. As long as theyre standing on burning ground theyre considered ignited. My main cast spell is Flamability w. burning conscriptions. So when I press flamability it makes burning ground

[dawn spire]

Does an enemy walking onto burning ground count as you igniting them for the sake of cast on ignite?

[runic rose]

Yes it does

[dawn spire]

Oh that's absurd

[runic rose]

Yeah so I drop the flamability and they charge into it and turn into energy

[dawn spire]

I seeee

Yeah I thought cast on ignite only got energy from hits that ignited

That's wild

[stable crag]

how come when i look this up on trade site with + to all attributes nothing shows

[dawn spire]

Because that can only reach +21 with catalysts, I think. Try a lower value

And what do you mean "look that up on the trade site"?

Just copy all its stats and search?

[leaden salmon]

I wish this game didn't punish certain builds with insane performance drops (PC wise/FPS wise). So sad that all the bad things from PoE1 was transfered over

[tardy frost]

Does anyone know if the damage from the support gem Infernal Legion gets reduced by increasing your minions fire resistance?

[hoary ingot]

how are infernalist demons rn?

[dawn spire]

It does, yes. Assuming it says it does fire damage

[tardy frost]

okay ty

[fading flicker]

I NEED BUILD HELP

leveled ranger to endgame, gas arrow struggling with bosses big time

is ice shot/lightning rod setup best for proper endgame atm on a deadeye ? cant rly find any other builds that pop off like that

with howa preferably since i have it

[austere zinc]

can u run life tap with CI?

[thorny token]

you wont be able to use the lifetapped skill so no

[haughty wadi]

are ailment thresholds for bosses increased in multiplayer?

[dawn spire]

There is no best setup that we know of yet, especially for something as broad as "best build for X ascendancy". Deadeye can do loooooads of builds and they range from amazing to terrible based on gear and how you build it

[supple osprey]

hey, what is mafu

mahu*

[gray patrol]

Is that not the shield that increases effect of soul cores

[ruby steeple]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2G6ZD-2mq8&t=141s

[pastel valley]

is there anywhere else I can find builds besides Maxroll?

[jagged cave]

Which build

[jagged cave]

Trialmaster shield.

[dawn spire]

Mobalytics, YouTube, the forums

#2┃build-planning, #1308715058716610580

[pastel valley]

i tried searching build help but i can't find any builds there... it's all threads of people already with builds

[trim swan]

waht are some good b uilds to farm t4 arbiter ?

[dawn spire]

You just asked where builds are. Did you mean build guides?

Are there any innate scepter skills that benefit a build that doesn't have/want allies and does not crit?

[pastel valley]

yeah build guides

[dawn spire]

Then I'd go with maxroll or YouTube. Any guide maker worth their salt is going to post their guide there. Or mobalytics, but it's harder to split the wheat from the chaff since anyone can just post a guide on mobalytics

[toxic field]

Does Hexblast count as a hit? Thinking about trying out Chayula monk with Hexblast, and wanted to make sure the extra chaos damage will actually work with Hexblast first.

[dawn spire]

If it's not damage over time, it's a hit

So yeah, I believe hexblast is a hit

[toxic field]

Awesome, thank you!

[pliant sleet]

what should be my next upgrade?

[formal ridge]

does anybody have a stormweaver comet build/planner they can recommend? :))

[woeful sundial]

Does anyone know if Gemling gem skill passives are bugged? It doesn’t seem like they give any quality

[potent hearth]

is there any bloodmage phys spell builds working right now?

[atomic halo]

works fine for me

[daring veldt]

Should i put iron runes on my bow or should I put Soul core of citaqualotl? Doing a double herald LA build or deadeye

[graceful stag]

GUYS! PoB2 question how do i set my infernal flame level i need to get the ignite from it on infernalist

PLZ CANT FIND OUT HOW

IT DOES FOR ONE BUILD BUT NOT ANOTHER

[stable crag]

these youtubers be having 200k dps builds but when i make them they be like 30k dps lmao

[toxic spade]

I'm making a poison build, and I like the idea of using vine arrow with the rage per second buff (font of rage), but damn if that rage doesn't just drop off immediately as soon as I'm not near it. Are there any not too out of the way methods (my build is mostly in the top right area of the tree, so none of the passive rage nodes would help) to make that rage last a little longer and not start dropping as soon as you're out of the AoE?

[graceful lily]

having "Increase Spell Damage" on a wand work with Chaos DD and Damage over time?

[gray patrol]

You could anoint Unforgiving if it’s important to you maybe

I don’t know if I’d recommend it but it’s an option

[toxic spade]

Yeah that opportunity cost probably isn't worth

But I appreciate knowledge of the option!

[fading trench]

Is there any anoint to to combat the hillarious mana costs of comet stormweavers?

[mystic basalt]

so anyone know if close combat on lightning rods works when the enemy is close to the rods or close to you for calculating the damage? POB sais its a good skill to put in it but thats one thing im wondering about

[dire zephyr]

Is there any guides around playing frost merc? I'm using glacial bolt and fragmantation rounds but I'm having some trouble with single target dps / bosses, would love some pointers or tips if any are available

[flat ibex]

Is it preferred to roll into elemental damage or physical when looking for a crossbow?

[dire zephyr]

I'm no expert but I think physical is always best and then elemental damage is a nice bonus

[cosmic sparrow]

does the increased damage after crit apply to the other arrows if you do barrage+snipe or is it only for your next snipe

[eager shuttle]

how are spark builds doing similacrum tier 3 and tier 4? I'm stuck there. Going to cast on shock with conduit or adding grim feast a good way to go?

[lunar isle]

Anyone knows a spell that does a lot of crits to many mobs fast? It does not have to do much damage. I want it to gain faster energy for cast on crit.

[flat ibex]

Because the damage says 80% of your physical turns into elemental so I thought I should try for physical but I wasn’t sure if elemental would be good to add on instead

[static plinth]

Eye of Winter, Spark

Maybe Firestorm

[lunar isle]

okay, thanks i'll look it up