2┃build-planning

[grand nebula]

Ah I'm missing from amulet then?

[ember parrot]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/9v7eoXOCK Yes, can roll up to +3 Minion skills

[grand nebula]

Thanks

[ember parrot]

Also for specific skills there are some jewels... one sec

Which skeleton is your main?

Prism of Belief is another +1~3

[grand nebula]

Reaver

[ember parrot]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/RDOqz4GI7 That one is pricy to +3 (90div+ for +3, 2div+ for any reaver levels)

[grand nebula]

Mmmm yikes

[floral sun]

anyone know a good stormweaver leveling build ive been accidentally using an endgame one

[velvet basin]

these are my rings

pretty juiced ig

i just left the chaos resist cuz i’ll get chaos insulation later on

[ember parrot]

Did you corrupt the right ring yourself?

[velvet basin]

nope

[ember parrot]

Okay, cause it's a waste it was corrupted at 20% instead of 50%

[velvet basin]

yea but the stats were nice and i got it for cheap

[ember parrot]

Your ES is way too low for CI

[velvet basin]

what’s es again lmao

this is the first diablo type game i’ve played so still jus winging everything

[vast veldt]

we had a meeting and it's called exile-like now and energy shield

[velvet basin]

oh yea that’s what i’m struggling with

my armor could be better ig

[ember parrot]

Make sure to get melding, as that's another +40%

[velvet basin]

should i get the grand regalia or no ?

[ember parrot]

Hmmm... depends on whether the one you need is within your budget

Since there are a bunch of modifiers plus you maybe want one already 5slotted

It WILL drop your Evasion though, even with the Global Defenses one

[velvet basin]

have this

[ember parrot]

Life will be wasted if you go Chaos Inoculation (in short: CI)

[velvet basin]

true

[ember parrot]

Bought this yesterday

5th slot makes it of course way more powerful and expensive, as the effects scale more then

You'd probably want Global Defenses + Rarity or Elemental Resistances

Something like this, 4 slot while on a budget, 5 slot later on...

Ah nvm, that combo is cheap as a 5slot

[velvet basin]

i’ll do that

[restive mortar]

those are likely fake

i doubt any 5 slot is cheap

my 5slot res/rarity was 20div (socketed with rarity) and that was a good offer

[terse haven]

How good is this enemies chilled by your hits increase damage taken by chill magnitude line? I am wondering if I can build a stormweaver archer that uses double chill + this quiver?

[wicked moss]

any recommendation for support gems for Unbound avatar?

[supple flower]

+1 to any mastery

[wicked moss]

still one slot left sir

[outer oyster]

What’s the best engage shield for witch?

[supple flower]

There is no more support currently that is useful

Hello.

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/build-guides/tempest-flurry-gemling-legionnaire-build-guide

How expensive is this build to start clearing t15 fast? Not juiced t15 just rare 3-4 mod. I'm looking for something that clear maps very fast because I have other build to clear juiced maps. I want to use it for fast looking for citadel and going from tower to tower. Currently having raw 20d and 10 in other items

[plain matrix]

I dont know how to start a titan ... once in Freythorn that f*cker just keeps on bashing me

[raw forge]

For a spark based sorc would you sell an against the darkness jewel with 1%mana 4%int to buy a dream fragment ring with 24%mana and 51% mana regen?

[flat kernel]

Enemies in Jagged Ground you create take 10% increased damage
Just incase, I don't suppose magnitude of jagged ground would affect this would it?

[grim storm]

anyway to increase both essence drain and contagion duration via passive skill tree?

nm

[onyx cargo]

Skill effect duration

[grim storm]

just found that out lol

[grim storm]

shame that 2 skills i like only last 5 secs unbuffed

[ember parrot]

Bought one (Defenses + Life) for 80c to have a better % roll, so they are not THAT expensive.

With that armor it's all about the 2 chosen mods though

Defenses + Attributes for example is a very expensive combo due to stat stackers

[ember parrot]

As you said yourself, you took the Res + Rarity one. I did recommend Global Defenses (as the player that talked about it wants to go CI) and either Res or Rarity.

[restive mortar]

that's fair, defences and life are the 2 weakest mods by far so make sense

[potent fable]

how to get monster area with sigil of power ?

saw one guy yesterday with a range that make me cry.... and feel small....

[heavy zenith]

whats max demonflame?

[errant stream]

is Elemental Expression supposed to be so low on damage?

doesn't feel like the tooltip is wrong as it looks like it only tickles white mobs

[onyx cargo]

Quality might affect the radius

[tired python]

Max Quality makes a massive difference. You also want to use Weapon Set Point allocation if possible so that you can grab Area of Effect nodes for just the chiming staff, without wasting nodes for your main dps.

If you're not using it elsewhere then Magnified Effect also does a lot.

[tired python]

These pink ones here if you're up North side (near MoM)

[onyx cargo]

And you can stack area of affect in gems as well, my AOE is giant

[orchid acorn]

Do you think the build itself is unable to progress further? I did watch some videos of the dude and it was well, but at some point he switched to ES (Which I did, but I guess it was too early into the build and was unable to meet the same damage/defense than him. Then he went over to play a Deadeye with the same build, so at that point I was unable to follow. Even not considering the fact that I dislike having more than 1 character, making another one go through the campaign and getting geared will be a pain in the ass too big. So I'd only do that if you consider the build itself is stuck

[ember parrot]

Build should work, in general is uses the same DPS combo of my build. Only difference is the way we cause shock, with above build throwing grenades and comboing with explosive shot while I throw Lightning Balls and combo with Lightning Warp.

Also I moved back to using a rare helm instead of 3 dragons due to survivability.

Furthermore as you can see, an Int helm can also help get the Int for the Lightning Warp Requirements.

So if you feel your build is stuck, you can consider going Rare Helm and try Lightning Warp, which allows to drop Overwhelming Presence to open Spirit for more defense or potentially Xoph's Heart.

[fiery sable]

is there a way to self-inflict ailment? such as chill

[finite edge]

there is one for ignite

[ivory stone]

Herald of ice build or stick to the herald of ash build for titan warrior level 63

[restive mortar]

I've also been wanting to do this,but I think there isn't right now

[fiery sable]

how about chilled grounds?

[restive mortar]

you would need enemy chilled ground

[restive mortar]

if you come up with an idea that works let me know. and also don't forget you can get corrupted infinite pursuit to give 12% ms +31% whilst affected

so 43% total

i recently bought some 38% boots and they zoom

[fiery sable]

interesting, really good to know

[restive mortar]

i saw some available for 9ex

oh they are offline

still shouldn't be too expensive

[grand nebula]

Quick question, why does minion mastery only affect the cleric and storm mage when slotted into cleric and not the arsonist, sniper or reaver? If

[gusty spruce]

Hey - noob here. Trying to understand the math and builds etc a bit. I can't seem to wrap my head around the 13% + 33% being significantly stronger than the flat out 50% dmg modifier? Is there anyone that mind explaining ?? sorry for the noob question

[finite edge]

13 extra is multiplier of all ur damage

the 33% is less significant

13 extra is a MORE multiplier while 33 is INCREASE

[vast veldt]

key words being "gain" and "increased"

[gusty spruce]

That I don't understand. So if I have a spell dealing 100 damage, the 33% increase will not result in 133 damage?

[restive mortar]

so extra damage is added after increased damage

it is not a more multiplier but it is stronger than increased in a vacuum

if you have let's say 100 damage base hit, 50% increased, and 10% extra, the hit will deal 100 x 1.5 =150 + 10% (15 )extra =165 total

[vast veldt]

isn't it the other way around? first gain then increase?

[restive mortar]

but increased is a total of all your increased damage modifiers, including those on the tree

no, gain extra happens at the end

[vast veldt]

"adds" first?

[restive mortar]

and is not scaled by anything

adds is first yes before (global) increased

[vast veldt]

i see i see

[gusty spruce]

Okay, so the frost damage extra is stronger because it scales with the tree etc?

[restive mortar]

yes the extra damage is after all your other scaling

if you have a more damage multiplier that happens after increased and before extra

but each more multiplier is seperate

whereas all increases happens at the same time and all extra happens at the same time

if you have say 300% extra lightning from archmage, 15% extra is suddenly much less strong

[gusty spruce]

Okay that makes sense I suppose, though it makes it pretty difficult to determine which items are best

[vast veldt]

atleast they're not called the same as in one other game where you can't tell if it's a multiplier or additive

[dusty wagon]

Can someone also help me with a potential maths issue here haha.

I want this helmet:
25% increased Energy Shield
20% increased Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield
+60 to maximum Mana
12% increased Rarity of Items found
20% of Damage taken bypasses Energy Shield
Gain 30% of Maximum Life as Extra Maximum Energy

Right now I have an armour and life build, with 1800 life (yes I know it’s low haha) - but 30% of 1800 is 540 - so does that mean the 45% boost is then added to this 540?

[restive mortar]

no

those % increases are local increases so only affect the energy shield number on the helmet

you would need global energy shield increases, eg from the tree or from your amulet

[dusty wagon]

Oh gotcha! Is that the rule of thumb always? (Ie in armour it’s relevant to that time)

[restive mortar]

i use the same helmet and getting a amulet with increased % energy shield does a lot

[dusty wagon]

Item not time*

[restive mortar]

armour and martial weapons yeah

[dusty wagon]

Awesome man that’s grand! I’ll check for an amulet ty

I’m aiming for 2k health, 70% block, 80% armour and around 2k energy shield

[restive mortar]

also have a look on the market you can get one that's corrupt to give more than 30%

[dusty wagon]

Any recommended jewels for increase of energy shield instead?

[restive mortar]

my one is 33%

[dusty wagon]

For an amulet?

[onyx cargo]

If you have enough % energy shield buffs, + to maximum energy shield will give ya more on your amulet as well

[restive mortar]

the unique helmet

can give more than 30% of your life

[dusty wagon]

Oh sweet!!

[restive mortar]

% energy shield on a jewel is not a bad idea, just need to find other mods that help you as well on a blue jewel

you might want red jewels for block chance and rage on hit

[quiet rain]

just wondering before i waste nodes. im LOVING the warcry build and interested in skill effect nodes that show "increased skill effect duration". now i have corrupting cry and bleed modifiers on my seismic cry and im wondering of those passive nodes effect corrupted blood and bleed

[dusty wagon]

What type of build you running btw

[quiet rain]

and also whats the benefit of magnitude bleeding and aggrevated bleeding?

[restive mortar]

they should? i haven't tried it though but it is a skill and effect with a duration

or rather they might affect corrupted blood but not bleed

bleed is a ailment so increased by ailment duration

corrupted blood is its own thing

[quiet rain]

if they effect 1 of the skills its good for me, corrupted blood is my main source of damage

[restive mortar]

magnitude of bleeding increases the total effect of the bleed per second

aggravating bleeding has a tooltip if you mouse over it

it basically makes bleed work even when they are standing still

and some other stuff?

[quiet rain]

oh ok

[restive mortar]

titan ancestral totem

i do sekehmas runs only so I don't need super defences

I have 3k life and 1.5k es with no block and some armor

[quiet rain]

so with aggravating bleeds how does that apply? does that apply when a bleeding target gets reapplied with a bleed with the RNG of the aggravate?

or just on reapplication of the bleed?

[restive mortar]

it should say on wherever you are getting aggrevate from

[dusty wagon]

I just found out yesterday I can use a perk that gives 1% damage for every 1% block I have, it was a lovely update haha

[quiet rain]

oh ok so in my tree it says off attacks ok

[restive mortar]

oh yeah it's nice but it's only capped block chance, still 70% increased damage is good for 1 point

[quiet rain]

so warcries dont do it

[restive mortar]

yeah they aren't attacks

uhh

unsure

do they have the attack tag

[quiet rain]

nope

[dusty wagon]

Could be 140% as there is 2 versions of it with different names

[urban vessel]

anybody who uses path of building know how to change attribute nodes that are alr allocated

[quiet rain]

god im having so much fun playing warcries as a warrior i hope theres more warcries or skill for them in the future

[dawn spire]

Hold down S/I/D and click the node to change it to strength/int/dex

[tidal carbon]

In act 3 what's the best venom for a invoker monk?

[dawn spire]

They're all pretty meh in normal difficulty. Go with whatever seems nifty to you. Or pick none of them and come back later if you eventually think, "Damn, that fight would have gone way better if I had more stun threshold/ailment threshold/mana regen" and pick the appropriate one

[restive mortar]

i usually go mana regen

can't go wrong with that unless you're blood magic

and then always chaos res 2nd one unless you're ci

[urban vessel]

thnx found the help menu

[late fiber]

Any1 know what I can do for more dps? I assume it’s a gear issue

[ivory stone]

Anyone have hearald of ice titan experience?

[wind schooner]

hi, i play with gaz explosion bow, does critical damage is usefull to the build ?

[plain matrix]

whats better ? smashing FrostWalls or smashing Shield Walls ?

[dawn spire]

depends on the build

[dawn spire]

I believe the explosion is a hit that can crit, but I'm not sure

[plain matrix]

on low budget 😄 ?

[dawn spire]

why are you trying to smash walls in the first place?

[wind schooner]

ok i will search that thx !

[plain matrix]

i like the concept xD

or are there other ways besides Fireball/Wall Hammer/wall ?

[hearty lotus]

hi im trying to share my build as im not sure how I can improve boss damage

I think i saw previously u can link ur build from a website? how do u do this? Thanks all!!

[dawn spire]

Any damage can break walls, the only one I hear about people using is fireball + frost wall. I don't know how people break shield walls, typically

[plain matrix]

Hammer ^^ ... but I guess I lookup a Frostwall Bomber

[hearty lotus]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/fubgun-attribute-stacker?weaponSet=set1 this is what i am using i have all of the items basically having issues with breachstone boss lvl82

[vast veldt]

ice shot cast on freeze frost wall

[hearty lotus]

eye of winter linked to cast on shock drains lots of mana

and im using the lowest level possible lvl 13

[dawn spire]

when you say "basically all the items", does that include pillar, atziri's disdain, astramentis, HoWaA, and Ingenuity?

and morior invictus

[hearty lotus]

no astramentis but everything else yes

[dawn spire]

melting maelstrom flask?

[hearty lotus]

items are not great quality but I can kill everyhing else easily

no melting

under Build Variants - I am up to Endgame not Uber Endgame

[hearty lotus]

im using lvl 19 u think i should be using like 17?

:((

[dawn spire]

maybe lower

I'd start with 17 and see how it feels

[hearty lotus]

oh wow really?

[dawn spire]

lower it until you're comfy

gem levels aren't that massive for attack skills, tbh

[hearty lotus]

oh really

i could probablky get melting maelstrom soon ish

u think that will solve the issue? haha

why is melting so good?? i dont get it

[hollow bronze]

I'm doing a Flicker build but it's better for me to just use ice strike with Charged staff. Is there anything I could add to increase DPS of them two instead?

[dawn spire]

it recovers all your mana on use

[hearty lotus]

ahh got it!

[dawn spire]

and as an attribute stacker, you have a lot of mana

[hearty lotus]

I think that will solve the issue

Cool!!!

I htink u probably solved my issue!

thanks so much brother!

:))

gotta farm some div haha

Deals 25% of current Mana as Chaos Damage to you when Effect ends

is that bad??

melting maelstrom has this

Effect is not removed when Unreserved Mana is Filled
216% increased Duration
Every 3 seconds during Effect, deal 50% of Mana spent in those seconds as Chaos Damage to Enemies within 3 metres
Recover all Mana when Used
Deals 25% of current Mana as Chaos Damage to you when Effect ends

it will hurt me i think?

[sick lava]

I am currently using armour/energy shield as chrono sorc, I mostly do ultimatums, have no problems surviving, is armour important or not so much? Character screen says 47% physical reduction, usually getting damaged by jumping monsters and stunned(have anti stun charm) if I don't kill them while flying

[dawn spire]

not if you have good chaos res, mind over matter, and/or spend a lot of mana during the effect

[hearty lotus]

ok cool thanks will look into it

appreciate it brother!

[hazy locust]

Hey, I have a question for the spark sorc players

I’ve seen a lot of people say crit does more dmg but lightning rod is also really strong

But what actually does more damage? Has it been tested yet?

[hollow bronze]

Could you help me a minute? I'm going to take off flicker strike, because I want more DPS on my ice strike/Charged staff. Is there a spirt gem or something I could get to boost it?

[dense mica]

Are these the best skill gems I can be using for this combo?

[plain matrix]

whats that screenshots

[dawn spire]

combat frenzy and the resonance keystone to generate more frenzies is all that immediately comes to mind

[dawn spire]

win+shift+s my guy

[dense mica]

My pc is weird about screenshotting so I have to use my phone

[plain matrix]

just use Lightshot

[dense mica]

I know it's buggy srry😭😭

[hollow bronze]

I have that so far

[dawn spire]

if you use windowed full screen that might help

[dawn spire]

cut a spirit gem and see if any of them look good. There are very few that actually add damage to attacks directly. Attrition is the only one that jumps out at me

[dawn spire]

I cannot tell what supports are on those

[dense mica]

Rn I've got
Spark-Arcane tempo, Arcane surge
Orb or storms-overabundance, controlled destruction

[hollow bronze]

Okok not bad I'll have to see

[plain matrix]

Spark - Unleash

with controlled destruction

[dawn spire]

I personally like:
spark - arcane tempo - acceleration
orb of storms - controlled destruction - conduction
Flame wall - persistence - fortress

unleash is quite bad if you're just spamming spark most of the time

[dense mica]

Lol I was gonna say unleash might be kinda bad

My cast time rn is only 0.57s on spark

[dawn spire]

unleash is best on spells you cast rarely for a big burst

it's not great on a spell you use frequently

[plain matrix]

hmm ok

[dense mica]

Acceleration over arcane surge?

[dawn spire]

imo, yes

acceleration is amazing

also boosts single target because it raises the odds that more projectiles will hit the boss

[dense mica]

Out of curiosity why conduction over overabundance?

[inland nebula]

https://pobb.in/kXVeDJxVSVM9
Everything is WIP, very very much so, but any suggestions? (Any and all suggestions and critiscm welcome, first build.)
(All gear, and jewels are relative placeholders)
(I'm trying to build something with leech, that isn't spark, temporalis, trampletoe, hexblast, or other stuff I find boring)
I might possibly go wand + sceptre (for spirit) and do duo CoC or CoC + cast on Minion death (raging spirits) possibly? I dont know
Choir of the Storm may be a good option as well since I have 90% crit chance and can prob get closer to 100% but I dont know enough about it

[dawn spire]

I like to run mana remnants to sustain mana and it's more reliable for shocks. If you can shock reliably with spark alone, then I'd go with overabundance

[dense mica]

Gotcha

Thank you

[static plinth]

Anyone know if Ab Aeterno is additive or multiplicative with itself?

[plain matrix]

yes

[haughty wadi]

did you end up trying this? how bad did it go

[uncut bay]

anyone plays impending doom?

[plain matrix]

yes

[uncut bay]

woah how is it?

[plain matrix]

dunno

[uncut bay]

in terms of strength

what jewels do you use?

[plain matrix]

I dont play it

[uncut bay]

...

[plain matrix]

you just asked if ANYONE is playing it

and someone will have tried it

[restive mortar]

ab aeterno gives %less movement speed, this is a multiplicitive debuff (opposite of more). it's funny because you can actually roll all the way down until you basically stop moving

[uncut bay]

well I play it

I wanted to see how others build around it

[plain matrix]

hasnt lance played it ?

[restive mortar]

it is a pretty horrible item unless you are almost never rolling

[uncut bay]

nope

[midnight geode]

do instilled nodes and ones from mega jewels count towards your passive points count?

[static plinth]

Im asking if ten rolls causes you to be unable to roll or if that only sets you to like 10% speed

[uncut bay]

he went frost bomb

[plain matrix]

but some streamer played it

[restive mortar]

"only" 10% yes

[plain matrix]

Idk who it was

[restive mortar]

it's very slow

slow

even with a corrupted one that's only 8% less

which i have if you need it

I've got one that's like 30%~ increased and 8%less

got it to test but it didn't feel good for my build

[static plinth]

I guess its probably best on a minion build unfortunately

[quartz cairn]

Should I be dropping polcelkirn after getting ingenuity on ice strike invoker? And, what stats should I be aiming for on rings in general? I know physical damage is good for dmg scaling, chaos res, but what else

[restive mortar]

any res is good takes pressure off other gear

% cold damage

added damage of the type your scaling (so phys or cold)

[hushed nacelle]

Is anyone else disappointed that the Witch gets to be a Bloodmage but all the bleed nodes are on the opposite side of the chart?

[jade tundra]

does anyone play invoker ice strike monk here? i want some help with weapon swap

[ember parrot]

100% * 150% = 150% dmg.
(100% + 13%) * 133% = 113% * 133% = 150.29% dmg without other factors.

Beyond that, the 16% increased cast speed is the other big DPS modifier, making it 150.29% * 118% = 177.3422%, which explains the big DPS jump over the 50% spell dmg wand

That is before any passive tree effects skewing the scaling though.

(Hope this helps)

[gusty spruce]

that's the math I did was well, which made me confused to see a roughly 5% dmg increase on my frost bomb. But I suppose it is explained by the scaling on the frost dmg

[ember parrot]

I mean, look at the "damage per cast", that does not increase by a lot. The thing is the jump in castspeed giving it a 18% boost

[gusty spruce]

I thought it was a lot when I expected a 0,5% increase

[little quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/hi-everybody-simpsons-wave-gif-12144219

So, let's say I want to build a stat stacker monk

What should I buy besides HoA and Caged God?

[terse haven]

Its not actually that bad if you get "Eternal Youth" and %hp and mana on kill effects. You then get the overkill boots and use aoe attacks to destroy frost walls for double overkill damage and boss one shots

[ember parrot]

Morrior Invictus 5 slot is a possible +25% increase to all stats.

Beyond that, of course Astramentis for sick base stats and then path to the Polymathy/Jack of All Trades clusters

[little quartz]

Not even talking about the Astramentis with it's ludicrous price

Maybe if I eventually get lucky with it

[ember parrot]

Well, invictus still is a good investment

Could alternatively take HP and Attributes instead of Defenses and Attributes

But both are in the ~5div range

Black Sun Crest also is +5~18% to all stats depending on your budget

(By which time, it may be worth it to take a Resist/Attribute Invictus)

[atomic halo]

i agree with fub that atziri's is BIS in helm slot

[little quartz]

I might have to farm a little bit more on my Merc

I have around 15 divs

[ember parrot]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/pqkRERbI0 budget is +14% to all. You can of course dump one stat and only focus on 2 to make it cheaper or go for all 3 overcap corrupted and pay way more.

[little quartz]

Thanks, I'll take that into consideration

Also, wouldn't it be cheaper to get a 4 slot uncorrupted attribute regalia and vaal it myself for the 5th one?

[ember parrot]

Depending on your choice of attributes: yes

[pearl sluice]

I use tempest flurry as my main attack on my lightning monk, but it's not giving any charges to my charged staff ability. Can I fix that somehow?

[ember parrot]

But each try is 20 div

[ember parrot]

Electrocute Support/Kitoko's Current (Unique Gloves) + Combat Frenzy (Spirit Gem) + Conduit (Passive Tree)

Using that combo with Storm Wave and it works (If the enemy doesn't die too quickly, may need to spec into electrocute buildup)

[stable gale]

how does stun threshold work with CI?

[ember parrot]

Would assume badly, unless you change stun treshhold calc to ES based via passives

[stable gale]

it's normally calculated off of total life right?

[ember parrot]

Asceticism + Self Mortification

[little quartz]

I'm just asking because I saw a 4 slot corrupted regalia with attributes going for 1 ex

But maybe it was a mistake

[ember parrot]

Normally yes, passives can turn it based on 74% ES instead

[distant solar]

Likely pricefixing

[ember parrot]

Then it's also already "borked" and can never become a 5slot

[little quartz]

But a cheap 1ex 4 slots attribute regalia is still cheaper than a 5 slots

At least while you work on your economy

[ember parrot]

But you also drop 5% attributes. You wanted to be a stat stacker, there 5% are worth the investment
Sure, can use it as a stopgap, but it's your call

[stable gale]

thanks. How much stun threshold is "enough" for endgame fully juiced delirium etc? I was having problems with getting stunlocked so i went hogwild and got:

• a 10% stun threshold from ES jewel

• clarity

[ember parrot]

Dunno, mainly playing ranged builds myself, so always trying to get out of clusters who can stunlock me.

[stable gale]

i think it hadn't been a problem earlier because i was relying on evasion just keeping them from hitting me, but now they're getting trickier

[restive mortar]

1ex is fake you won't get anything under 50. and the good ones are multiple divs

also be very careful buying morior it's the most scammed item in the game

[atomic halo]

i got a 15ex 4s regalia for life and all res, very nice budget choice

[restive mortar]

often they will put one with worse mods or 4l etc

[atomic halo]

also yeah if you get invited for morior and the seller is > unascended or > not in a hideout, don't even bother tp'ing to them

just leave the party, 100% scam

[stable gale]

what's the scam?

[restive mortar]

they just put a worse one on the trade window

[atomic halo]

they switch it out for a similar but much worse morior

[restive mortar]

usually after cancelling the trade

i was glad i got mine at a great price first try

[ember parrot]

I got mine (attribute + global defs) at 5div as well, no scams

[restive mortar]

5 socket rarity+res already socketed with rarity for 20div

the 5 rarity cores is 12d even on its own

oh and it was 292% increased defences and i needed 291 or more for spirit reasons on monk

[ember parrot]

Oh nice!

[ember parrot]

Also wanted to answer you earlier:
Many of the Bleed Nodes on the other side of the tree are Attack Typed, so you only have like 2~3 valid notables. So just pick up Blood Tearing/Shredding Force and Cut to the Bone clusters, then work towards Battle Fever and Tempered Mind and finally Anoint Bloodletting, Perforation or Spike Pit.
Rest into defenses as well, since it won't help just focusing on offensives. Can lean towards shadow/monk tree for ES/Evasion or stay pure ES

[delicate canyon]

anyone know if i should use a full evasion body armour or a evasion and energy shield body amour with Spectral Wand

ward*

[ember parrot]

Full Evasion will get more payoff from spectral ward.

[delicate canyon]

ok thank you

[ember parrot]

Evasion ES armor are at around 800~1k evasion, pure evasion armors can crack 2k.

Especially if you combine with bestial skin

[restive mortar]

i like hybrid armour for it

because then you get more es overall

[delicate canyon]

dang thats kinda crzay

[restive mortar]

that's fair if you're down there

[ember parrot]

Yeah, heavily depends on your focus. But for "Getting the most out of Spectral Ward", pure Evasion gives most return for the passive point

[restive mortar]

better for a stat stacker

[delicate canyon]

im just a regualr monk

ssf stat stacking too hard to do

[ember parrot]

Yeah, the %dex increase is like 2 points away as well...

[delicate canyon]

dont got any of the uniques

[ember parrot]

When SSF just take whatever armor rolls better, no matter if pure evasion or hybrid.

[delicate canyon]

ye i got hybrid rn

just didnt know whats better

[hushed nacelle]

I want to try Bloodmage Bleed build but I don't know how to level into it because every youtube video is nothing but endgame builds.

[ember parrot]

How about just trying and winging it?

I also play guideless... 😂

[restive mortar]

does blood mage bleed do crit?

[swift meteor]

new to poe in general and started using the pob build tool it says i should have 123 passive skill points yet i only have 111 (i have killed all optional bosses) and when i put them into the builder it says im only using 110 of them out of 123 any 1 have any ideas? lvl 92

[restive mortar]

i got some jewels which give meta energy and magnitude of damaging ailment on crit for a failed build

so looking for another build I can use them on

[random vale]

Just made it to CD any ways to boost dps? Ranger storm-bringer setup

[restive mortar]

poison crit or bleed crit

[delicate canyon]

so anyone know if a new league is coming out soon?

[restive mortar]

123 is lvl 100

[delicate canyon]

heard a league last for 3 months am i right?

about 3 months

[restive mortar]

we don't know

it's beta so not necessarily

we know major update 0.2 is being worked on but not when it's releasing and if it's a league reset or not

[delicate canyon]

hop a league reset happens

[ember parrot]

Should have 24 Weapon Skill Points afaik:

[delicate canyon]

almost every build is cold or lightning rn

[atomic halo]

cuz ignite can't compete with freeze/chill/shock

[swift meteor]

mine says 20 😦

[delicate canyon]

im a quaterstaff player so ghopping they add fire

[ember parrot]

A leauge reset won't change that without rebalancing

[atomic halo]

exactly like poe1, seems they didnt fix that

[restive mortar]

that means you missed 2 side quests

[ember parrot]

Fire is on the other side of the tree

[restive mortar]

did you get unas lute

that gives points but isn't a boss

[ember parrot]

Look on the map and all symbols that have a +

[compact grove]

did you do act 3 tribal vegence, thats optional and the game does not guide you to it

[ember parrot]

Those are either stat boosts or skillpoints

[restive mortar]

on the map it will have a + symbol for if it gives a permanent reward

[ember parrot]

But yeah, the passive tree is roughly split by the 3 elements, defensive types and main stats.

• Witch - Int - Cold - ES
• Monk - Int/Dex - Cold/Lightning - ES/Evasion
• Huntress - Dex - Lightning - Evasion
• Mercenary - Dex/Str - Lightning/Fire - Evasion/Armor
• Warrior - Str - Fire - Armor
• Druid - Str/Int - Fire/Cold - Armor/ES

So if you want to play Fire QS, play a merc or Warrior

[orchid acorn]

Best quarterstaff base for yhe typical tenpest flurry invoker?

[delicate canyon]

but all the QS moves are fire lightning or physical

how would i do fire dmg?

[restive mortar]

you can convert to fire with avatar of fire

keystone passive near warrior

[orchid acorn]

Sorry to insist, can I get an answer to this?

[delicate canyon]

wait a minute

that might be the move lol

[restive mortar]

burn is just bad unfortunately

they need to add scald or something like freeze/electrocute but for fire

[atomic halo]

ignite doesnt stack is the issue

i think it would be okay if it did

[delicate canyon]

i see people do pretty big dmg with ignite

[atomic halo]

but the current implementation means its only good with skills like hotg and perfect strike

[restive mortar]

yeah you need really high single his

[delicate canyon]

but idk how ignite scales tbh

[restive mortar]

hits

and then it doubles your damage

[ember parrot]

Hmmm... would say whatever has the highest base phys DPS, since you then add increased phys, added phys and attackspeed for top DPS on all bases anyways.

[atomic halo]

which is fine and dandy for those skills, but it's not 10% as useful as shock/freeze/chill during mapping

all the top few bases are usuable, it all depends on the explicits

[orchid acorn]

Ok

[ember parrot]

Barrier staff has the bonus of giving base block

But lower DPS afaik

[hushed nacelle]

Is it better to add cold damage runes on the widohail bow or physical damage runes?

[atomic halo]

cold

although neither are great

[hushed nacelle]

What should I put on it?

[delicate canyon]

fire warrior quarterstaff

boutta make a dog build

[atomic halo]

the point of quarterstaff is speed

not congruent with ignite

[delicate canyon]

cast on ignite?

[restive mortar]

can't be worse than my last build

cast on roll chaos crit comet

[delicate canyon]

cast on roll?

[restive mortar]

ya

[delicate canyon]

or cast on dodge

[restive mortar]

same thing

[delicate canyon]

oh

chaos crit comet

lol

[atomic halo]

depends on your build of course

the ele dmg with attack runes arent bad though

[hushed nacelle]

I'm just leveling a build

[ember parrot]

I raise you... tried to make a Svalinn invoker, only to learn Cast on Block does not do what it says on the skill.

[atomic halo]

if it's early then flat

[ember parrot]

Fortunately we can overwrite runes even after a corrupt.

So just flat early and ele dmg with attacks later on.

[hushed nacelle]

So cold damage does flat right?

or at least a percentage of flat?

[atomic halo]

im not sure if you know what you're talking about

flat just means "+# to a stat"

Adds # to # Cold Damage is neccesarily flat because it adds a flat number to a value

i have no idea what "a percentage of flat" means

[restive mortar]

what does it do?

[ember parrot]

Skill says it gives 250 energy on block... ingame it gave like 2.5?

[restive mortar]

i was doing it as a sekehmas runner so 6 relics with + 0.7m roll distance as well as the amulet for 1.2m. and a lot of energy gain and crit on tree but it was just so low damage and hard to aim

[ember parrot]

See #2┃build-planning message

Really sad, cause in PoE1 Svalinn had a cast on EVERY block

(Played a over 90% effective Block and Spellblock Svalinn build in PoE1)

[restive mortar]

that sucks. do note that they changed how meta skills work with added cast time some point in December and they count added cast time as double. so comet/lightning conduit are 3s/300 energy

it wasn't in the patch notes i only found out when making my own build

[ember parrot]

Even then 250 energy on block is not generated. Plus that is without the "extra energy gained" on the skill and the Invoker Ascendency boosting meta skill energy gain

[restive mortar]

yeah

it's unfortunate that it's bugged

[ember parrot]

Either way, that made the build completely unviable for me.

[restive mortar]

I love cast on x skills hence my failed roll experiment

if you have any ideas I want to make a new cast on x build that uses crit and damaging ailments (bleed or poison)

or burn but burn sucks so

[ember parrot]

Triggered skills feel so underwhelming. Tried cast on shock in my shockburst lightning warp build and it was very underwheling

[hidden crown]

Why ppl corrupting nice jewels (with +2% max res) dont turn into rare jewels (with 3 mods) before corrupting?
They are corrupting it with 2 mods (magic)

[atomic halo]

the adorned

search it up

it gives increased effect to all corrupted magic jewels

[hushed nacelle]

Bow is considered a two handed weapon right?

[thorny token]

yes

[hushed nacelle]

thank you

[ember parrot]

Okay, let me join your club. A good one dropped for me (29% HP as extra ES, 20% Bypass). Sadly, corruption only gave +1 slot but tried it and holy moly... Got like +1400ES

[restive mortar]

extra slot isnt sad its good

obvs 35% is best but

extra slot is 5% all res or 10 rarity thats a lot

i think bis corruption is 2% max life regen

[quiet rain]

how do i get my last 4 ascendancy points?

i just hit 67 and hit endgame

[restive mortar]

you need to do a tier 4 trial

sekhemas or chaos

[quiet rain]

how do i obtain a t4 trial? chance off enemies?

i only did like 2 trials off the campaign

[ember parrot]

Chaos needs Trialmaster

So 3 trials with 10waves and hoping all 3 parts drop

Plus a 4th 10wave and then kill the boss

Way easier to just camp like global chat 2~4 and wait for a free carry offer on general

[ember parrot]

They drop in higher level content. 4 trial sekhema is like Level 75+ IIRC. The main issue is prepping for a 4trial, since you need good relics giving you at least 75% honor resistance

[quiet rain]

oh so i have to be atleast 75 for them to drop then assuming

[potent fable]

....soooooo, shouldn't this one give me around 3k mana?

[restive mortar]

this is giving 34.76% mana

so if you have 10k base mana before any max mana increase it will give 3k

[potent fable]

i got it now

[restive mortar]

it increases the effect of socketed soul cores by 769%
the effect of the soul cores is 4% increased max mana, x 869% = 34.76

a 3socket one is much stronger than a high % one

[ember parrot]

Never forget the 100% base effect (which you didn't :D)

[restive mortar]

this one gives 1500%~ whereas a 3 socket one gives that much at 500% increase

and can go up to 2000% at max roll

[ember parrot]

which then is 45.96% (6% increased mana * 766% increased effect) increased mana instead of 34.76%

my ES almost caught up with my life... 😂

Next investment will be a mid-tier ingenuity

[potent fable]

would a 573% with 3 sockes be better?

[ember parrot]

You can do the math yourself. 6% * 673%

[potent fable]

i haven't found yet how you do that math....

[ember parrot]

40.38%, so yes, it's better

[ember parrot]

You take 6% increased mana, due to the 3 soul cores giving 2% each.
Then you multiply by 6 x 100%+(Shield %) (in our case, that's 100% + 573%)
Thus 6% x 6.73 or 40.38%

[restive mortar]

easist way is just 573 x 3 compared to 769 x 2

[ember parrot]

That ignores the added 100% base from the 3 slot

[restive mortar]

oh true

[ember parrot]

So 673 x 3 vs 869 x 2

Hmmm... +3 all ele max resists vs +1 all gem levels and +14% all gem quality? 🤔

Cause the thing is, going much further than maybe +4 all ele max resists with Thaumaturgical Infusion takes probably too much investment

[dense mica]

Is “cast on shock” good when you’re only level 30? If so then how do I use it properly?

[ember parrot]

Never had good experiences with "Cast on x".
Guess others have to give you feedback there...

Usually Lightning Herald beats Cast on Shock on attack builds anyways.

Which class are you? I assume Monk or Witch?

[restive mortar]

cast on freeze is good the others are meh in my experience

cast on freeze so easy to proc

[restive mortar]

at level 30 i would just use other auras though

if using a martial weapon should be using a herald(s)

[river drift]

Does anyone know a attribute stacker monk that doesnt use flurry? Im currently a attribute stacker flurry but i dont like the movement on it. I always get stuck in corners/obstacle. can anyone suggest a good build plan?

[delicate canyon]

u can do almost any build with attribute stacker btw

mana stack for spells

[distant solar]

Just ice strike instead

[delicate canyon]

spark mostly

ice strike

storm wave

[river drift]

Can you link a build that will show what support gems and stuff i need?

[delicate canyon]

more int then dex because tyou wouldnt need all that movement speed

for wat?

what ability

[river drift]

Attribute stacker ice strike

[delicate canyon]

ok

youtube proably got it too

[delicate canyon]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/rhdnf0f9

this seem pretty good

[river drift]

Guess im gonna need boots with speed. Right now my build relies on flurry to move around and its shitty when i get stuck in corners

[delicate canyon]

his build only 15 div

ye u gonna need boots

[river drift]

My build right now costed about 100 divs

[delicate canyon]

ye

u gonna be stronger then these youtubers tbh

just look at any ice strike gems and itll probaly work

[river drift]

Awesome

Thanks!

[delicate canyon]

np

[restive mortar]

okay chat

plaguefinger

maybe can salvage my build

we are going to fix this

maybe

[fallow gust]

(Maybe this goes here, unsure) What would you guys say is a better deal 40% increased chaos damage or +3 levels to all chaos spells?

[delicate canyon]

think the +3

[restive mortar]

it depends how much youre scaling increased damage elsewhere but almost always +3

[delicate canyon]

pob

[restive mortar]

scaling level of spells is very strong

[delicate canyon]

check which one give more dps

[fallow gust]

Ok, cool I'll look at that

[quartz cairn]

How are people scaling energy shield on invoker so high? I've got a decent chest piece(1k ev, 450 es), decent head and boots and I'm still only 1600 life/2100 es. I don't die a lot but I feel fairly squishy when I do get hit.

[solid isle]

For Titan is straight armour better now with this new buff or is it still better to do cloak of flame?

[restive mortar]

global

stacks with your other %increased damage on tree etc

it is applied later with your other % increased damage from tree

not local like % increased phys

should do

[distant solar]

With howa probably phys %/flat phys/ele damage/aspd/crit dmg/crit rate. Without howa replace ele with hyrbid phys+accuracy

[restive mortar]

does %chaos damage increase poison damage

looks like no

[earnest idol]

gemling spark peoples: how much lightning penetration do you run?

[restive mortar]

you want 75 total on build including curse if you are doing pinnacle bosses

as they all have 75% all res

[limpid nimbus]

is archmage spark with grim feast, mana remnants, eldritch battery, and everlasting gaze azure amulet combo a thing?

[forest crater]

Is there any chaos bow builds ?

[ashen cargo]

Does PoB have a working import function yet or do you have to manually enter all your gear and talents in?

[distant solar]

manual still

[atomic halo]

yes

[static torrent]

More precisely, if you are Poisoning with Chaos damage, it will increase your hit damage, and in turn increase the damage of the ailment. If you are Poisoning with Physical damage, it won't do anything.

[restive mortar]

yeah i found on google ty

[atomic halo]

with howa you have more flat

so you value flat less

ik local is generally is better than global, you need to learn to break the rules

the numbers on prefix ele dmg with attacks can go quite high

get what, ele dmg with attacks?

what

everything is relative, i can't assign a number like that

it's just increased damage

you can get it all over the tree, plenty of jewel mods that grant it

its just that the prefix mod can roll to like 100%

what the person you replied to said, i believe it's correct

With howa probably phys %/flat phys/ele damage/aspd/crit dmg/crit rate. Without howa replace ele with hyrbid phys+accuracy

as you can see it depends, do you have howa?

then look for what they said

#2┃build-planning message

you wouldnt want the cold to replace the % phys or the flat phys

as they make each other more valuable

you could have a high tier of cold replace the % inc. ele dmg

but again, as you have a lot of flat from howa that would be less desireable

[dry pagoda]

this has to be a bug right? I even have vertex mask, why can´t I equip that thing?

[atomic halo]

giants blood

basically everything is important in some way

also is this a crackling quarterstaff

the % phys doesnt even do anything for that base

[atomic halo]

dex

[dry pagoda]

but it´s 50% of 169 times 3. 85 x 3 = 255

[atomic halo]

you dont meet the tripled dex requirement

[dry pagoda]

oh dex also gets tripled

[atomic halo]

remember giants blood is not just the str, its all att req

[dry pagoda]

I thought only str

ok thanks lol

[atomic halo]

gets a lot of ppl

[ember parrot]

That's also why he said "I'm not nimble enough."

[atomic halo]

it increases the base phys of the weapon

but that base has no base phys

so it increases nothing

[hushed nacelle]

Does Gas arrow not melt bosses and rares or do I have it set up wrong

[atomic halo]

the weapon needs to have base phys damage

more than 0

yeah

notice that this one doesnt have any at all

[quiet rain]

when going warcries build is giants blood mandatory?

the 2h in 1h talent

[atomic halo]

what do you even want me to say

more is better less is worse

compare to other bases and figure it out for yourself

you want the most dps for the budget you have

[fading agate]

Do you guys think molten blast on deadeye is best with 1H mace?

Cuz of that one passive?

[atomic halo]

if you have the damage and just want to be fast, sure

[fading agate]

Like so far I‘m only clearing very low tiers cuz I‘m pretty lost on where to go I only followed that one mobalytics guide

Like I am not sure what the biggest factor is

Is it just the weapon and accessories for dmg?

[atomic halo]

well yeah

your character is the product of your items, passive tree, and gems

[fading agate]

Ye but do I see it correctly that armor basically doesnt contribute to dmg?

[atomic halo]

correct

it's a defence

another school of thought: no, you don't deal damage while dead.

[fading agate]

Okok

I‘m a lil bit lost on what mace to choose

[atomic halo]

does your guide have anything to say on the matter?

it's just math, no?

the keystone is 25% more damage

so compare a 1h and a 2h at your budget

if the 2h isn't much more than 25% more dps than the 1h, go 1h

[fading agate]

Like

One sec

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/molten-blast-deadeye-fastaf

I try to follow this

[atomic halo]

i mean the whole point of the build is to be fast

so just go ahead with the 1h

[fading agate]

The only thing I changed is shield instead of staff

[fading agate]

okok

[dense mica]

Is cast on shock worth it if I’m running sorcerer? I’m level 30

[atomic halo]

everything depends on everything else

you can't just say sorcerer level 30 and expect a definitive answer

[brazen cloud]

Does Contagion and Intense Agony work if I am using Contagion to spread poison stacks?

[haughty wadi]

does gravebind not work with banners? or am i facing a bug

it seems like it should work

[tribal hound]

is there a build that can go as fast as a gemling stacker?

[dawn spire]

All builds with temporalis + blink already go at the speed limit of poe2

[karmic goblet]

yo byron you know anything about invoker campaign pickups

[foggy bloom]

how can I shoot and move with mouse click at the same time?

my character stops shooting when I click to move

[restive mortar]

chat is it enough damage

boss supports its 270k

+longshot

[ember parrot]

You use 2 different mouse buttons for move and shoot?

[foggy bloom]

I shoot with Q and move with left click

[ember parrot]

Is that maybe active?

[foggy bloom]

No. It's inactive.

Is it possible because click is move only?

For example, I've seen some players channel bonestorm and move while they channel. They can hold and move until they release the skill.

But they move with WASD

I don't move with WASD. So when I start channeling bonestorm, my character stops channeling and releases if I click to move

So if I click to move, skill channeling is interrupted unlike WASD

[restive mortar]

seems like you identified the issue

[foggy bloom]

seems like you didn't understand jackshit

[restive mortar]

you cant move and cast with click to move?

that seems like the problem and the answer to me

[foggy bloom]

you didn't read the question

[versed barn]

Was bored with a buddy so we tried to make a fun(ny) build using two 2h maces with ranger... turned out pretty decent!

75k dps per projectile (8, splitting into 64) once semi-optimized. Gear and tree could def be better.

Let me know what you think!

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/b19fff7f-7cec-455f-93ae-9aa5ea54346e/builds/9a6399b9-8cad-465e-818a-27cbfcf9f4ed

[foggy bloom]

but I wouldn't expect more from someone who's here only to show off their ~~ e-peen~~ dps

[restive mortar]

the question is "how do i move and shoot with click to move" and my answer was "you cant"

am i right?

[foggy bloom]

bro, just stop

[restive mortar]

or what is the question

[foggy bloom]

stop

[summer oasis]

Is it better to have more physical damage on a quarter staff for ice strike invoker or more elemental damage?

[restive mortar]

im trying to help

[pseudo gale]

any bloodmage bonestorm build planners? Kinda stuck on +3 pinnacle bosses, looking for some damage layers to multiply a phys spell with brutality

[restive mortar]

phys, it scales after conversion

ele damage is a nice bonus though

[summer oasis]

Currently my staff has 308 phys damage with 130+ elemental damage, for an upgrade then it would be better to get a staff that has a lot more physical and disregard the elemental?

[low lily]

sorry if this is a stupid question... does cold pen help with freeze build up?

[tired echo]

LF-Enfolding Dawn Pilgrim Vestments lvl39 everyone i message on the trade station isnt responding lol..

Help a brotha out

[versed barn]

yes and no, yes if they have cold res and you're dealing less cold damage

[restive mortar]

prioritise the phys but if it has ele its a bonus. and % ele damage with attacks goes pretty high and is also a nice secondary mod

[low lily]

Thanks!

[summer oasis]

Thank you very much! I’ve been wondering for awhile

[restive mortar]

if you have added elemental damage its best to be the element you are dealing. unless you need like lightning for shock or something

[versed barn]

if you're using howa, then elemental damage is pretty op

[summer oasis]

I am using howa, is it not better still though to prioritize phys?

[versed barn]

depends, i'm a ranger and it depends where the phy or ele damage in coming from

if your added elemental damage is higher than your base phys damage then elemental % can be better than flat phys

while this looks bad it does about the same dps as the one below it

[ember parrot]

Usually people want a high phys bow only to skill convert it to ele and then scale it with "ele dmg with attacks" XD

[wicked tiger]

You can also easily compare items in POB if you use that

[ember parrot]

Are PoBs dmg calc finally fixed, or do you mean base item DPS?

[tidal carbon]

Can someone help I made a monk an am in endgame i equip a amulet and helmet with spirit but my spirit won't increase it just stays at 100 when I put my chest it got up to 135 but it doesn't have spirit as a stat

[ember parrot]

Did you use the ascendency that makes your spirit based on armor ES and Evasion?

[restive mortar]

yeah its ascendancy node

[wicked tiger]

Base item DPS, dunno about the dmg calc issue though, but it’s been pretty reliable for me when deciding what item to buy

[restive mortar]

makes spirit based on your evasion and es

[tidal carbon]

Now I see wow thx was wondering wat was happening

[ember parrot]

Lead me through Grace…

[wicked tiger]

On that topic is there a way on the trade site to do some sort of sum between ES and evasion so that you get the correct amount of spirit?

[ember parrot]

Not really i fear...

[wicked tiger]

Not too big a deal, I still manually calculate it

[dense mica]

For a lighting sorcerer who’s level 30, what’s the best single target I can do? I’ve been using shock+orb of storms

Like is arc better than shock?

[kind sparrow]

Hopefully I'm in the right thread but when do you start getting better weapons or do you have to keep upgrading them? I'm level 32 and still using a cross bow meant for level 5 but I've kept upgrading it with different modifiers to make it pretty good but everything I've been getting hasn't been much better. I just started ACT 3 so if I have to keep going its fine I'm just wondering

[carmine flicker]

still can't decide about skill to use with ancestral totem

sunder? rolling?

[ember parrot]

The thing is: you are limited in your upgrades. Once an item has 6 affixes. 2 rune slots, 20% quality and a corruption on it it is finished. However, you don't want to waste too many resources on early weapons, as they also have a (partially hidden) itemlevel, which determines the maximum affix effect that can roll on items.

So, high tier affixes need higher base level items

[kind sparrow]

ok thank you

[ember parrot]

Also, if you DON'T play SSF, consider using the trade website as well

[river geode]

in general, is a morior worth it on a attribute gemling if you don't have enough for a +attribute and resist?

[ember parrot]

Using a Attribute/Global Defenses one myself.

Worth it due to shenanigans with Atziri's helm

Laughs in suddenly enormous ES pool

(without the helm it was 800, so the helm gives me 2400ES)

[sullen needle]

Behold, peak

[atomic halo]

time to get rid of xophs

[ember parrot]

Nah, Xoph's gives Health that then gets turned to ES... maybe

Checking

[atomic halo]

nope

the inc. occurs post conversion

[ember parrot]

Still 500 Life

[atomic halo]

yeah, does the ES change?

[ember parrot]

Only by the amount based on the life gained by the Str of the implicit

[atomic halo]

yeah

so time to drop it

[ember parrot]

Again, no

500 HP less

Nothing short of an astra, and even that not really, gives so much survivability

3460HP vs 2900HP

If you give me a decent reason what would be worth it with regards of survivability i am all ears, but baseline Xoph's means I die less

[atomic halo]

of course it's better than nothing

the ammy is a very valuable slot

[ember parrot]

Yes, and +18% increased health also is a valuable mod

[atomic halo]

i get that, do you not get my point

[ember parrot]

I get that amulet can be a bunch of nice effects, just not sure if it is valuable enough to sacrifice 500HP for more DPS if i feel like getting well though content

MoM is too far from my current build to go for that Mana Amulet

Also only 1k base mana atm

[versed barn]

as i said, the second one has a high phys but still gets out dps'd on lightning arrow because of the high elemental attributes

high base phys isn't always better

[viral sage]

does 'In Your Face' passive still work efficiently if i took many aoe nodes?

[quick wolf]

Does Comet not increase it's AoE?

[brittle sundial]

whats best to proc shock

[static plinth]

With minimal effort, Lightning Warp

+Ball Lightning if needed

Any other option needs you to also scale damage in order to successfully shock consistently

[brittle sundial]

i see

[ember parrot]

Gathering storm on QStaff also works

Perfect timing it gives you a path of shocked ground, working the same as the one from Lightning Warp

[ember parrot]

If you go the shocked ground route, you can make it very easily better via Overcharge + Lightning Exposure + Strip Away. 75% nearly free Shock Magnitude (20% to 35% Shocks without other investment) and 26% Resistance Strip.

[brittle sundial]

what is lightning exposure & overcharge?

[ember parrot]

Support skills

I have those 3 in my lightning warp on my gemling and gathering storm on my monk

[brittle sundial]

interesting

[ember parrot]

Result: Shocking ground that further boosts my dmg more than normal shock

[brittle sundial]

unfortunately those are botyh level 3 supports i only have up to 2

currently in A1 of cruel

[ember parrot]

They will come later or just ask someone nicely

Think they start dropping A2c or A3c

[brittle sundial]

👍

[ember parrot]

I overdid my Lightning magnitude boosting... Doing like over 90% shocks already

[brittle sundial]

and you put those on lightning warp correct?

[ember parrot]

Yes

Those 3 in warp, then Accellerate and cost reduction in ball lightning

If you 4 slot warp increased AOE in 4th support

[brittle sundial]

i only have one jewelers left atm but ill throw it on warp

or sohuld i use it on something else

my spark has 3 already

[ember parrot]

Well, what comes after shock? For me it's shockburst

Shockburst feels so absurdly good (against shocked targets)...

[brittle sundial]

is that a sorcerer skill?

never heard of it

[ember parrot]

No, crossbow

https://youtu.be/gCtyAr3MjCc

[brittle sundial]

ahhh ok

[ember parrot]

That's my current build on T15 maps

[brittle sundial]

looks nuts

[ember parrot]

And that was before i used my new helm for +2400ES

[steady loom]

I also have shock questions lol. Right now I put overcharge on spark and conduction on orb of storms, I'm a bit confused as how to proc cast on shock more often and make the lightning conduit attached to it deal more damage

[ember parrot]

Lightning conduit dmg scales of Shock Magnitude. So increasing that does increase the dmg on conduit

[steady loom]

When I do "mob" content which deals with a lot of monsters, I feel like getting shocks is really easy but when dealing with a pinnacle boss, idk how to proc shock more reliably. I asked for advice earlier, and the ways to deal more shock include

1. Increasing chance to shock
2. Dealing more lightning damage
3. Lowering ailment thresholds

By the logic in my head, would that mean, if I put increased chance to shock on orb of storms, it would proc less since it deals less lightning damage than my spark?

So would it be better to put both overcharge and conduction on spark since it deals the most lightning damage?

[ember parrot]

I mean, the thing is i I dont know how cast on shock works on pinacle in general due to no trash to multiply your shock application... I guess you need some other ways to consume and reapply shock

Also shocked ground reapplies a consumed shock around once a second

[steady loom]

So would lightning warp be a better option?

[steady loom]

I see cast on shock happen on pinnacle bosses but it does it slowly

[ember parrot]

Yesn't... Lightning warp also needs ball lightning if you can't reliably get people into cull range. Then you still need something to consume the shock that you can then reapply it

[steady loom]

Oh so something has to die in order for the shocked ground to apply

[ember parrot]

Or you need to cast it on a ball lightning like i do in this video

The coolest bonus of Ball Lightning Warping is you can skip ledges and chasms

(See 2:30 in the video)

[steady loom]

Does controlled destruction and inspiration work on cast on shock skills?

It says can't support skills that use spirit

So I just wanted to make sure since a guide used it for some reason

[ember parrot]

It does not reduce the Spirit cost, but should reduce the mana cost of the triggered spell.

[viral crag]

The point of that is to say "You can't make your spirit reservations cheaper"

[pale hatch]

I'm building a Mind over Matter minion build. Would you recommend also taking Eldritch Battery, or just stack ES normally on top of MoM?

It seems like EB would free a lot of passive points, but it'd have less EHP since max mana% is a lot harder to stack than max ES%.

[carmine flicker]

Infernalist?

[pale hatch]

Yup.

Got Midnight Braid for 70% recoup as mana

[carmine flicker]

You can go mom+eternal gaze or atziri helmet

[brittle sundial]

what supports do you put on ball

[ember parrot]

Increased Projectile Speed, Reduced cost, Chance to shoot 8 projectiles in a circle.

[carmine flicker]

Don't
In the end you want ES tho, for grim feast

Atziri disdain = you have ES and you go mom+eb
To split damage between ES and mana

[pale hatch]

So still stack ES and don't take EB? Alright. That's what I've been doing, but wondered if respeccing would be better to free up passive points that currently go to ES passoves.

[carmine flicker]

You can totally take eb

[brittle sundial]

so what does your spell casting typically look like then?

like what’s your dps

[ember parrot]

My DPS is fully via Shockburst + Lightning Herald.

[carmine flicker]

But don't take that belt
You need as much life as possible on every gear piece
Except scepter and helmet, ofc

[brittle sundial]

any ideas for a sorcerer

[ember parrot]

If you got enough castspeed lightning conduit. Problem will be getting shock magnitude that high.

[pale hatch]

That makes sense.
I'm still early in maps, but I'll change it later. Not sure I can even afford those uniques, they seem very pricey.

[carmine flicker]

No, helmet is like 10 ex top

Btw what minions are you using?

[pale hatch]

Arsonists+RS with a cleric and one storm mage for shock

[inland nebula]

https://pobb.in/F7MiS1HOiYmt
I'm ofificially using my first self-built build on my Blood mage.
Fireball GLB / dual cast on crit eye of winter for more GLB procs
Life leech / Crit
I need advice on getting better survivability and general improvements, i am missing one jewel, which i plan to get a against the darkness with life/res or similar
Even with a bunch of mana on kill jewels my mana sustain is ass, I wish my wand had a higher tier roll on mana on kill but oh well, and no rings have them sadly, hopefully i can get that at some point.
Boots will be likely upgraded soonTM with + to mana if i can for a reasonable price, or higher resistances
I also plan on getting a non-corrupted Choir with lvl 19 and not 18 GLB, so I can annoint something (Not sure what yet.)

[carmine flicker]

For me swapping arsonists for frost mages was game breaking

[sly talon]

monk here i want to know good supports for blink

[carmine flicker]

Game become 10x safer, cause everything frozen

[pale hatch]

I'm currently in t5 maps and with MoM nothing can kill me. Don't know how much it'd change, it's my first character.

[carmine flicker]

Do you have all ascendancy points?

[pale hatch]

No, only 3 ascendancies. Didn't even encounter the possibility for 4th yet.

[carmine flicker]

Can you do 10 ultimatum?

Cause it's good money

And easy 4th ascendancy

And cost 1 ex to try..

[summer oasis]

I’m going to level a ranger after getting deep enough into endgame with my monk (just got to repetitive and upgrades are getting very spendy) is there rares/uniques that would help with going through the campaign quickly?

[pale hatch]

I'm not sure. Will try later today. Ty for advices!

[sullen iris]

I'm playing srs dd infernalist and until early late game it's been crushing. Got my minions to about level 31 and my gear almost as good as I can get, but I'm starting to struggle. Particularly with arbiter t3, simulacrum t2. Are perhaps sniper better or storm mages?

[atomic yacht]

does myris uxor work for lightning warp cull?

or the monk killing palm cull

?

[faint ibex]

What are some good filters for amulets? On invoker ice monk

[pastel gyro]

Which setup would provide more Mana in Path of Exile 2 for a SparkAM build if both setups take nodes that convert ES to Mana?

1. Investing in Armor gear with increased ES + INT and socketing 2-3 ES-boosting runes.

2. Equipping Morior Invictus Grand Regalia, socketing 5 runes that increase %Mana, where the armor also grants additional Max Mana and Attributes per socketed rune.

Which one would result in a higher Mana pool?

[river drift]

what are the best for the ritual tree? i just got my 7-8 skill points

[fierce viper]

left side for the deferment discount

4 altars is inconsistent atm

and you get enough points for both rerolls if you consistently annoint your maps with 24% pack size

[old shuttle]

Any good ways to get generic spell or elemental damage? currently trying to make a elemental discharge monk. trying to get cooldown recovery and attack speed to pump out as many as possible. As well as to get cast on crit + choir of the storm crits. So ice and lightning damage heavily.

currently looking at CDR + Attack speed + Ele dmg jewels

but for gear im kinda clueless

[hybrid wadi]

im not sure why i am not getting any more boss atlas upgrade books, tooltip says +79 plus for more skill points and i did a map lvl 81 but no book drop, any ideas?

[dusty sage]

what is the jewel that make i can use wild storm without allocate point to it ?

[old shuttle]

Controlled metamorphosis or From Nothing

[dusty sage]

also is there expanding ground support gem ?

[spice abyss]

whats the best way for me to try and roll spell levels on this? anyone omens or anything? or just straightfoward exaltt?

[ember parrot]

I think #2┃crafting-advice can help you better, but:
Spell levels is a suffix. So you could fill up, then use either (Omen of Dextral Erasure + Chaos Orbs) or (Omen of Dextral Annulment + Anulment Orbs + Exalted Orbs) till it rolls on a good + levels.

[spice abyss]

Ty

[urban vessel]

is the mahu's soul core modifier say 6% max mana + 36% (600% increased) = 42% mana.

or is it just the 36%?

[viral sage]

it only allow me to change attributes

[normal apex]

unless you show the bottom part we can't say for sure if you can remove it

[old shuttle]

im assuming you cant cause its connecting your whole ass tree

[normal apex]

danse macabre offering of pain does not count as 2 offerings for the lust for sacrifice passive, right?

as they must be different

[quasi flint]

Are there any good monk casters?

[old shuttle]

cast on monk id assume does pretty well

[viral sage]

sorry..it was my mistake..below ones didnt connected 😭

[quasi flint]

i would too but I've seen basically no builds for it

[old shuttle]

im messing around with ele expression and having fuin, but havent invested into it at all yet so its arse.

just make your own, its part of the fun

[quasi flint]

i want to restart the game after my first self made build got me to maps, but I was stubborn and made something bizarre so it isn't very good

[old shuttle]

itll prbably work. 35% more meta energy, crits ignore res

[quasi flint]

Spark Witch hunter

[old shuttle]

either hella spirit chest and defence. some damage, meditate, worlds your wheelbarrow

[quasi flint]

right

[midnight geode]

anyone used this before? with 3 charms would be really good I think. Just put a chaos charm to negate the chaos res loss

[old shuttle]

youd be best off using it with CI

and then maybe something silly like Self slow + anti slow charm + chance to trigger other charm + rarity charm idk

[quasi flint]

Is life still the gold standard of stats on gear?

Like is the building meta still getting life rolls as much as you can?

[old shuttle]

nah, life is kinda dogshit doodoo ass right now

[quasi flint]

So how do you defend?

Aside from grim feast being busted

[old shuttle]

classic all res cap. Es in general is just great. Block is a bonkers defence. Evasion + acro is quite popular

MoM with high mana is crazy popular right now

[dawn spire]

My solution in hcssf at t3 maps? Have capped res and 4.5k life

[old shuttle]

ES in general is just great. And you can go life. Typically best bet for that is gemling + strenght stacking

[dawn spire]

Yep that's exactly my build lol

[quasi flint]

What are the normal life numbers now?

[old shuttle]

yeah i have all max tier life rolls on all available gear on my blood mage. best % neck, barely break 3k xd

[quasi flint]

Used to be like 4k ish

[dawn spire]

And I spam warcries that restore about 6% of my life a second on top of regenning another 2% per second. And time of need. And blasphemy temp chains + Enfeeble

[old shuttle]

for a gemling build 3k is on the lower end tbh completely honest

tbh you just kind of dont ever build life

[dawn spire]

On my Softcore chrono build I felt fine with 2.5-3k life

In t13s

[old shuttle]

chrono is hella safe

[dawn spire]

True

I'm in t3 maps with str stacking corrupting cry gemling. 4.5k life makes me feel immortal and I only have four ascendancy points

[old shuttle]

yeah its crazy how trash life is outside of gemling

[quasi flint]

I never appreciated how much there was to poe 1's building until now trying to relearn the building for poe2

[ashen cargo]

Do you guys think we will get a season before release 🤔?

[dawn spire]

And you'll be relearning it every patch until release

[dawn spire]

No

Well, what do you mean by season?

[old shuttle]

i thought they said they were planning on that

[dawn spire]

If you mean challenge league, no

[old shuttle]

i think season is diablo league

[ashen cargo]

Like a full season

[old shuttle]

im pretty sure we are getting one is what i heard

also not the place for it

[dawn spire]

"Whats a space shuttle?"
"like a full space shuttle"
Thanks mate

[vast veldt]

hmm why? because you can stack str?

[old shuttle]

cause you cant really get life nearly as easily as gemling does because of strength

[dawn spire]

I know they said they were doing an economy reset before release which would mean a new set of leagues, but idk anything about a challenge league

And neither of those are called seasons so idk how to answer their question

Neither are they called full seasons

[vast veldt]

my guess is that we get major changes when they decide what to do with 0.2 and a reset

[quasi flint]

Long shot but there are no playstyles reminiscent of traps/mines right?

[vast veldt]

not yet but there is traps atleast are coming

[dawn spire]

Grenades are the closest thing

[vast veldt]

ah yeah grenades exist

[dawn spire]

And as a big fan of traps and mines in poe1, they're not close at all

[vast veldt]

i hate them both equally

[dawn spire]

They might be kinda like explosive trap or fire trap, but they're way more awful. They bounce

If they didn't bounce I'd be all over them tbh

[vast veldt]

impact grenades would be awesome

[quasi flint]

they have cooldowns too

[dawn spire]

So do some traps in poe1

I don't mind the cooldowns

[quasi flint]

yeah but these are usually supplemental and you have something cooldownless for clear

[dawn spire]

Well I've only played grenades on chrono so far, so...

The 33% chance to not consume a cooldown is nuts for nades

[quasi flint]

was it good considering you're on the opposite side of the tree?

[dawn spire]

It worked great in t13 maps

Traveling is easy

There's good stuff on the way

[quasi flint]

I did the opposite and went witch hunter spark, which wasn't amazing but idk how much of that is my fault

[dawn spire]

There's tons of proj and lightning damage near merc

I leveled with spark on merc til 44 on hcssf

Worked like a charm

Well, charms sucks, so I'd say it worked way better than a charm

[quasi flint]

yeah that was my rationale

but feels like witch hunter wasn't the play

feels very underwhelming

[dawn spire]

If I were going spark witch hunter I'd use all 48 weapon set points on buffing conductivity and sigil of power

[uncut bay]

ehm...what about the blink cooldown

I personally would rather be more mobile

[quasi flint]

I didn't use sigil of power personally

But I guess I at least kinda made it to maps with a 100% self made build, so I can try something actually good now

[ember parrot]

There are very fringe cases where it's worth it... can probably get what this gets via a Morior Invictus with All Elemental + Item Rarity per rune as well. (Being either +40% or +50% both, depending on your budget)