2┃build-planning

[carmine flicker]

to just walk around and see loot drop

(but sunder totem did require skill btw, cause need timings with said totems to reaply it right after second sunder cast)

[fervent briar]

hate to say it zudakra but if you dont have howa, dont want to play archmage youre kind of just limited if you want something comparably good. im having this same issue in ssf.

i would suggest shattering concoction, even though its not a spell its a ranged skill. you cast a curse and use the skill but its more than 1 button technically lol

also you can play frostbomb titan. i ripped mine at 83 but it was pretty fun to play

i played a spin off version for hc based on lances char

[hybrid ocean]

A problem with multi-button builds is that they just aren't viable for clearing, you need a one button spammable thing to handle breaches, rituals or simulacra, not to mention just getting through the incredibly wide map layouts.
This is because no matter how effective your combo is, in the time it takes you to finish your setup and start the payoff, you could have already killed that mob and moved on

This is a problem with the game imo, I really wish there were broadly less damage per hit, fewer enemies (dealing less damage per hit with more hits) and smaller maps.

That said, this doesn't really apply to bosses. Against most of those you can afford the time to set up your exodia, and are appropriately rewarded

[hybrid ocean]

Something something "slower, tactical gameplay" doesn't work if the game also expects you to interact with many hundreds of mobs

[restive mortar]

alright want to try working on this poison comet again

then we cast on freeze ice strike

[dim fox]

Hello, im playing an ice strike build, ice strike have 142k dps, i have 220 rarity, but i can't find a way to upgrade my build without having to spend hundreds of divs, i still die sometimes on juicy keys and citadels, any advices ?

[idle oxide]

I've an ice strike monk everything together like 40 div,
220k ice strike that goes up to 800k during fight and 5k ES goes up to 10k with grim feast

ur build is weird if u only have 142k and cant upgrade lol

also 10k evasion and Ignore all elemental resistances, so that damage is pure damage 😛 ^

[waxen shuttle]

Hi everyone, does anyone have a spirit gem they can spare?

[marble stone]

can someone tell me why this metamorphosis is dropping my dex so much

[dim fox]

i have 10k evasion, 75 res cap and 9200 shield, sometimes i die

[static plinth]

Its a bug when it overlaps travel nodes afaik

[rustic raptor]

does ingenuity work on the jewels that you slot into sekehemas resolve?

[austere zinc]

Does a from nothing diamond let u Allocate the node that its on as well or only surrounding nodes?

[austere zinc]

I tried it, doesn’t seem to.

[restive mortar]

onyl around

[hybrid ocean]

Only the surrounding ones

Oh, I might be blind

[austere zinc]

😂 thanks nonetheless

[lavish python]

if i use necromatic talisman with an allies buff, would all my minions buff all my other minions? and would it stack?

[silent pelican]

Could someone link me some good passive tree for stormweaver spark?

Im so frustrated because mana is always ending

[ember parrot]

+Anoint in the one giving 2% increased lightning dmg per 10 int and wear HOWA and profit. 😅

[pine mica]

as a lightning arrow deadeye with HOWA should i start specing more int for more dps?

[carmine flicker]

what buff exactly?

[hybrid ocean]

But really, does anyone know if skills use your stats at the time of use, or when they hit the enemy?

Specifically for the purposes of power charge users and charge infusion

[carmine flicker]

hits aren't snapshotted afaik
so at the time they hit

[twilit axle]

would the staff on the right be an upgrade to the one on the left? trying to run double herald on an invoker monk and im not sure what to search for in a staff upgrade..

[atomic halo]

whats lefts dps

[viscid geyser]

does IC count as full life or low life?

[atomic halo]

1/1

full

[wicked tiger]

full

[ember parrot]

From the experience on my Gemling:

• Str till you don't die.
• Dex for requirements.
• Int with the rest.

[fringe lagoon]

You did not mention level or budget so here we go: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/lp9i5017

[dawn spire]

Anyone know if you can install/run path of building on a steam deck?

[past swallow]

Starting in on PoE2 and looking over builds and Minion Infernalist and Spark Stormweaver booth look good to me. Im concerned with end game with minions though. ARPG's have a hard time scaling minions and they fall off late game. Dont want to put in all that effort (a lot for my casual ass) and then regret and reroll. Minions falling off later a concern or am I good to go with either pick?

[carmine flicker]

minions ofc are weaker later than spark.. slower at least
but then they are way stronger early

[past swallow]

I get spark is stronger... but do the minons fall off bad later to where I am going to need an "end game" build to map and farm?

[carmine flicker]

and the only thing keeping reavers from removing target from reality is target size(they are melee so need place to stand around enemy)

[carmine flicker]

well
minions are strong enough to 0-button-press faceroll t16+ maps and ultimatum

frost mages at least
and reavers are kings of single target DPS as long ast target is large enough for them to stand around(endgame bosses tends to be big boys)

[past swallow]

How is the Minion AI? Clunky, bad, great? Feel not so great playing up to lvl 10.

[carmine flicker]

well
they are good and agressive when they have move speed

only minion problem are narrow doors

but that was semi-fixed last patch

(and you can just summon them to you with weapon switch trick anyway)

reavers and mages at least
archers.. I didn't like them much

[past swallow]

the Minion Infernalist is what I was looking at. Will I need to switch to a reaver/mage build later?

[carmine flicker]

best minions are frost mages(man, get critical mass of them, at least 7, and they start to permafreeze everything around) and reavers, ye

some say arsonists does better damage than mages.. and they are right
but they are slower, way slower
and don't have control

while mages make the world stop

[carmine flicker]

wdym switch?

infernalist will get mages and ravers atr later levels

[past swallow]

kk, looking at that build now

[carmine flicker]

tbh I played with minions as WARRIOR
cause I melee suck and I wanted at least smth that work
and man
if WARRIOR with minions just rocks..

then infernalist should be 3 times better, I guess

(you know, cause tons of free spirit and all)

[restive mortar]

im interested in this

with fixation of yix i assume

if it works could be strong

get increased presence aura on sceptre to make up for it

[past swallow]

Thanks @carmine flicker

[carmine flicker]

doesn't work

tested

[restive mortar]

yeah reddit/forum says doesnt work

is likely bugged

maybe will be fixed in 0.2 one can hope

[lavish python]

the "allies in your presense" buffs, such as for fixation of yix

[lavish python]

ah damn

[restive mortar]

anyone got a build with seeds of cataclysm ingenuity

seems fun

with 2 qualled ones you can get 60 crit chance and damage for spells on each

so 216% crit chance and damage with a 0.8 ingenuity

yes it does increase mana cost by 36% but that can be worked around

[foggy frigate]

I'm trying a spark character now and I got a choir of the storm to drop is it good to use that even if I don't have temporalis?

[atomic halo]

not really

[wild whale]

guys ive made my comet build(infernalist) and it seems the more shield I have the more damage I'm taking from proccing barrier invocation, could this be because im taking % dmg?

[foggy frigate]

@carmine flicker fixation of yix doesn't work? Or Allies in your presence buffs don't work?

[lilac fog]

U can minion with a lot of classes

[hybrid ocean]

It's worth pointing out that respecting is relatively easy here, the only real cost is just getting the gear for the new build. So long as you use the same ascendancy, that is.

[hybrid ocean]

I see. Is there any reliable source on the matter, or just a lack of indication to the contrary? Either way, thanks

[static plume]

I think I asked wrong area before:

With rarity culler - If i have the grave gloves and high rarity, am I ready to go? Or do I need something specific to make it work

Got the gloves and 400% but seems awful rarity. Do I have to be Merc witchhunter?

[carmine flicker]

You can fire slow moving cold projectile and take avatar of fire while it fly
Then look if it freezes or ignites

Would be rather telling test

[carmine flicker]

Yeah
But few have any actual reason to go them over inferno

[hybrid ocean]

Good idea, will test when next I play

Do you count as on low mana or full mana when you have blood magic?

[summer oasis]

does anyone have a invoker monk simulacrum build?

[small pollen]

Anyone have a good Invoker attribute stacking build?

[placid frost]

Just wondering if BLOCKING is viable on a Monk build with the block staff?

instead of going down the energy shield path, maybe evasion + block?

[ember parrot]

Could combo with the +10% block boots and have 25% base. 10% boots + 15% Staff Implicit, then get all the evasion/block nodes from ranger and anoint a block passive.

[ember parrot]

Hmmm... could use a gemling one as a template. At least mine is like 2~3 points adjacent to the start of monk. Downside is you miss 6% stat from gemling.

[placid frost]

How does block work with the staff? Does 25% block mean you can pretty much avoid 25% dmg? Do you have to face a certain direction with the staff?

[small pollen]

I thought of that. And I considered making a Gemlin but my monks already almost 89 dont wanna start a new char lol

[ember parrot]

• It's passive block. (See https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Block )
• Blocks Attacks and Projectiles (including projectile spells).
• It doesn't block AoE (unless Turtle Charm Warbringer), Ground Effects and Dots.
• Works omnidirectional.

[ember parrot]

As I said, it's a difference of 6% stats (and the double inherent bonuses), but should also work as an invoker.
#2┃build-planning message is ALMOST my current build, with slight alterations I can update later on.

[compact hull]

I'm currently playing as a lvl 53 infernalist witch in cruel mode, I saw a few builds that added the brutality support gem in the Detonate Dead skill, which deals fire damage as far as the game says, in which it will cancel out the fire damage. Is brutality support gem actually good for detonate dead or is it a useless support gem?
Also what are the best 3 support gems for flame wall and detonate dead? Thank you for the help.

[tropic willow]

The flat fire damage from DD is a very small percentage of the physical damage equal to corpse life

Thus, scaling the physical damage at the expense of fire damage is good

[compact hull]

thank you

[tropic willow]

For this reason it's also best to keep DD at the lowest skill level possible because higher skill levels only increase fire damage

While greatly increasing mana costs

[compact hull]

thank you so much, i didnt really get why the guide wanted me to keep the skill gem level low

[tropic willow]

People need to learn to write better

[compact hull]

Yeah all they talked about was mana cost, which for me was 22 (lvl 7) to 52 (lvl 12) I can easily regen that cost, but I thought the 2x damage was way better. Thank you so much again, glhf

[glacial flame]

what rune should i slot into my howa?

[thorny silo]

rune? doesnt matter you can replace them

[plain temple]

Would you guys have any suggestions for the best chest piece for a tempest acolyte monk build? lvl 67 currently

[ember parrot]

What is your build lacking?

• Resist Runes/Cores if you aren't capped.
• MP Soulcores for MoM builds.
• HP Soulcores else.
  Iron runes are not worth it as the defensive stats are bad.

[ember parrot]

Morior Invuctus would probably work. Else just the best rare you can find/that is in your budget.

[plain temple]

hmm, ok. I need something that has spirit on it though, otherwise the build falls apart if I don't have like 211 spirit

[ember parrot]

Morior can have 50 spirit. Else spirit on rares can roll up to 61.

Are you SURE you need all upkeeps though?

[plain temple]

yessir

[ember parrot]

Because that pretty much means near max rolls on both armor (60 max uncorrupted) and amulet (65 max uncorrupted) spirit rolls.

If you run 2~3 heralds, consider running reservation efficiency nodes if your build doesn't do so yet.

For curses, i had success moving from Blasphemy back to hardcast with cursed ground support.

What spirit skills do you run, if I may ask?

[glacial flame]

thenks

[flat aspen]

Dose anyone have spare "mana regeneration runes" by chance.??

[ember parrot]

In case you reached act 1 cruel, you can easily trade for them using currency exchange.

[plain temple]

HoT HoI Combat Frenzy Wind Dancer Cast on Shock and Grim Feast

[flat aspen]

I'm in act1 cruel rn at the ogham farms lol

Idk how to use the currency exchange yet

[ember parrot]

TP to town, talk to Gambler Boi.

He should have a new menu.

Just say 1ex in have and mana reg runes in want and it should offer a trade like 1 ex : 10 runes

[flat aspen]

Ty

[ember parrot]

I always had issues to make stuff like 'CoS' work. Happy if it works for you.
Grim feast seems like an optional skill, especially considering it is less useful during bossing. But there, ghost dance also costs the same.
It does use 2 heralds. Did you already plan to use reservation efficiency?

[plain temple]

I'm not even sure what that is. I'm a noob and basically a chip with a stick, my guy

[ember parrot]

There are passive skills making heralds cheaper.

16% near the '50% increased elemental dmg during herald' and another like 6% near the 'herald dmg and aoe' notable.

So you can make the 2 heralds like cost 50 Spirit instead of 60.

(Pro tip: herald reservation efficiency also applies to all supports with spirit cost slotted in them!)

[plain temple]

ah. ok. much to think on, thank you so much for the info and your time

[royal relic]

Can anyone please help me with my build? 🙂
Seem to be stuck now, not sure what to upgrade or change out in terms of items and gems and dps seems quite low 🙁
maybe swap out ring with 2x other rings but dps still will be low and I think I'll have mana issues

[tired python]

Neither Evasion nor Block affect your Max Hit (total damage you can take from 1 hit without being 1-shot), so you leave yourself very open to some random bs. It also has no effect on burning ground or similar effects which ES would block. Neither affect AoEs either, and Acrobatics for Evasion is a big hit if you don't stack it high. Block and Evasion are great for multihit, but with good Evasion you can already take Ghost Dance for good multihit protection.

[ember parrot]

Only seeing part of the skills. My question: do you use Gathering Storm?
Gathering Storm + Lightning Exposure + Overcharge + Strip Away is a good DPS boost.
Also make sure to use Conductivity, potentially with Cursed Ground Support if enemies stay somewhat in place.
Personally using Conductivity + Heightened Curse + Cursed Ground + whatever makes curse activate quicker.

[thorny silo]

Anyone got a good build for spark stormweaver? I'm tired of getting one shot by random shit

Most mapping is going amazing until i turn around the corner and die

was able to complete citadels, but a random blue mob will one tap me

[ember parrot]

What are your defensive layers? Sounds like evasion without HP/ES to raise your max hit.

Resistances are capped?

Max resist increases (e.g. jewels) considered?

[thorny silo]

resistances are capped hp 1.2k shield 2k. it's abit low but feels like anytime i go towards defensive layers i lose damge

[ember parrot]

Atziri's helm?

[thorny silo]

and then map bosses become a problem.
No im running this

[ember parrot]

I mean, dead people do 0 DPS.

[thorny silo]

yeah but like i said it doesnt feel a problem 99% until i just drop lol

[ember parrot]

Give https://poe2db.tw/us/Atziris_Disdain a try. 20% ele dmg does Bypass ES, but also gives like probably +400 base es

[thorny silo]

ok. i'll test it out

[ember parrot]

Just buy a cheap one first to test if it adds value.

Else: make sure to Quality your armor and also consider Iron Runing if your resists are fixed via other ways.

Personally a huge fans of using Defensive Focused rings like

Especially as 'to all elemental resistances' has all 3 elemental tags, so all 3 elemental qualities boost it by 20% as well. (15% becomes 18%, 16% becomes 19%)

Probably the thieves torment hurts your build, since it's only useful for mana-fixing IIRC.

Does your build work without the torment? Cause then you could shift resists on rings and then use Iron Runes instead of resist runes in ES pieces to get more ES.

[fringe chasm]

how much accuracy rating do i need as a ranger?

[ember parrot]

It depends on whether you use the node with 'attackspeed per 250 accuracy rating'.

Else: whatever is needed for a ~100% hitrate at T16

[fringe chasm]

yeah but how do you tell how much you need? it only shows 10% hit at 2m is useless for my ranger

[twin cradle]

is chance to bleed insanely easy to get or am I missing something

it's everywhere

[midnight geode]

it is easy but u have to spend a lot of nodes to get it

so u either go all in or not at all

[twin cradle]

i see

[midnight geode]

with titan its easier cuz he boosts the small passives

[ember parrot]

Also Warrior and Mercenary are closest for it on the passive tree.

[dull shadow]

Dm me

[tulip carbon]

Can someone please help me with proc'ing both Herald of Ice and Herald of Thunder?

• I've got cold damage on both rings, cold damage on my bow, cold damage on quiver
• HoIce: 3 slots
• HoThunder: 3 slots

Which gems should i put in to best proc both? Clearly i'm absolutely obliterating stuff with cold and shatter, but i rarely, if ever, see a lightning. Is stuff just not getting shocked?

EDIT: i might've fixed it 🙂

[safe finch]

is dual wielding two handed weapons with giants blood affected by two hand or one hand nodes?

[dawn spire]

It's based on the weapon type, not the number of hands you use to wield it

The weapon will say "one handed mace" or "two handed mace" at the top

[midnight geode]

2hand

[safe finch]

awesome, thanks

[ember parrot]

• HoT is triggered by killing shocked enemies. I use Shocked Ground via Lightning Warp, Three Dragon Builds use Fire Damage.
• HoI specifically needs freeze. Some builds use Three Dragons to make Lightning Damage cause Freeze Buildup. I noticed for my build that my clear is good even with 'only' HoT.

[tulip carbon]

yeah i think something's really up with my chance to shock

i'll try upgrading and swapping a few things about

[tulip carbon]

so it definitely works against low level enemies, but in maps its just not triggering, and when it is, it's really infrequent

[ember parrot]

I am a advocate for Shocked Ground. Unless you are one of 2 enemy types or have the Expedition modifier of '100% chance to avoid being shocked', shocked ground shocks 100% every time all the time.
For Bow/Crossbow/Spark, Lightning Ball + Lightning warp works, for Qstaff Gathering Storm works well.

Also Shocked Ground can easily run Overcharge, as the ground duration already helps boost the Shock Duration.

[tulip carbon]

thanks, i'll look into it - currently running a gas build with cold and ignite. My understanding is that it should trigger HoThunder with enough ice damage, and they do freeze and shatter (visually) - but HoThunder never procs against higher level enemies, only low level (tested in act1 non cruel vs maps)

[ember parrot]

3 Dragons?

Cause there, FIRE damage Shocks and LIGHTNING damage freezes.

[tulip carbon]

unfortunately i'm using another unique that triggers ingite automagically: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/48466d3a-f846-4da6-97a1-7580acd85c0c/builds/466224d9-df43-455f-9096-655ba6bd0ea1

[ember parrot]

Ah gotcha.

I mean, fire wall also auto-ignites enemies on touch.

[tulip carbon]

true true, it's another button click though 😛

I think I am struggling with the same issue as this user, it may well be freeze build up for some reason https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hy91zj/help_herald_icethunder_not_triggering/

[ember parrot]

Yeah... i only work with HoT and ignore HoI on my Build...
#2┃build-planning message

[glacial pike]

If this the wrong channel to ask in let me know. I’m a gemling legionaire doing ssf and just picked up pillar of the caged hog at level 75 could I make a build around just that item or should I get hands of wisdom first/get other items first?

[upper finch]

Pillar of the caged staff is a really good leveling strat even with out the gloves

[glacial pike]

Didn’t play Poe 1 so is level 75 still a point where you’re leveling?

Like I’m done with all the acts and doing waystones and trials but I don’t have a good sense what is like endgame

[fervent flame]

can someone explain why wheni added jewel to my build i lost damage on ice strike

[woven current]

If your build is capable of running t15 maps you will level pretty fast up until around lvl 90

[fervent flame]

i went from no jewel to this and all of my damage on every skill went down

[woven current]

90+ slows down significantly

[glacial pike]

Ok I’m at t5 and can do them pretty consistently if I’m careful, but I am not anywhere close to optimized

[upper finch]

Don’t die and you’ll level up fast

[glacial pike]

Just doing grenades go brr right now

[woven current]

Yea thats fine dude take your time. SSF ramps up a lot slower ofc because you cannot just buy your way to DPS/tank

[ember parrot]

Would get other items first. 4 sock Morior Invictus are 20% all stat you miss for example.

[glacial pike]

Is that a random drop?

[ember parrot]

No, Arbiter

[woven current]

No you can get that from the arbiter so if you're being careful on t5's you're quite some ways off that

[distant glade]

Recommendations for build for hc trade fresh start?

[glacial pike]

Yeah that’s why I was like I don’t know if I should try building around the item if I’m like awhile off of killing pinnacle bosses who drop hands of wisdom

[ember parrot]

Yeah, just build around Crossbow and change later.

[glacial pike]

Really just trying to learn the game mechanics

[ember parrot]

IMO SSF is really rough to learn it.

[glacial pike]

Because gonna start a new character at full release anyway

[ember parrot]

That's probably years off.

Also PoE uses a challenge leauge system.

So people restart every few months usually

[woven current]

I mean you could. That item just gets better the more stats you have

And you can continue to accumulate stats as you find better items for it

[glacial pike]

I’m tempted just to see what other weapons besides the crossbow feel like

[woven current]

If you have another staff that has more dps use it until swapping over improves your dps

[ember parrot]

I mean, at that point rares may be better though.

[woven current]

It ain't that hard

[ember parrot]

If you got some spare skill gems just try it. My crossbow build has no crossbow specific nodes so I could freely swap weapon...

[glacial pike]

My main concern is cost of respeccing skills back and forth

[woven current]

Gold is pretty much a nonissue

[ember parrot]

Tried bow, but shockchain arrow <<<<< shockburst bolt

[woven current]

You will end up with more gold than you know what to do with

[glacial pike]

I really having spent any money lol so it really is “man when Poe 3 comes out I’ll be so rich”

[woven current]

Yea well

[ember parrot]

Weapon swap and if your skills are within 24 points of each other just use weapon skill sets.

[woven current]

The gold in poe2 isn't actually the real currency

[ember parrot]

I do not in trade as I play the market for free currency.

[woven current]

I mean I guess

I cba with that though

I feel like 95% of people will end up with more gold than they need, let me put it that way then

[terse pewter]

QotF isn't great in 2 because ES is so overtuned, right? Was debating getting it for my deadeye but having ES is so important to avoid dumb 1 shots

[vast veldt]

isn't point of qotf the movement speed? and es gives none?

[terse pewter]

Correct. But ES is almost vital. Even dex builds are saying to hybrid into ES for survivability

So wondering if that ms is even worth anything in poe2 since 1 shots are so much more prevelant

[vast veldt]

i think you can get enough ES with rest of the gear pieces to make up for it

[terse pewter]

That's what I was wondering too. Looks like I could snag boots that have 300+, which would outclass a lot of hybrid armors

[vast veldt]

full es helmet is nice too

[terse pewter]

But then, at the same time, howa in gloves, ingenuity in belt

Really just stuck with boots/helmet for ES

I guess with enough passive points, you can 2-3x all that so it ends up being enough?

QotF says ignore other movement modifiers, that has to include boot movespeed, right?

[vast veldt]

i'd assume so

[terse pewter]

Oof, and by putting ES on the helm/boots, you lose more movespeed. I guess I'd need to balance the ES with new found EVA prio for movespeed lol

I think it's mostly moot. If you don't stack evasion, I think it's gonna be hard to get enough to make qotf way better than 30/35 boots. So you end up with a lot of work for just slightly better boots. You could do it better by spending a lot, but not sure how worth that would be and it's outta my price point

[ember parrot]

Atziri's helm is good ES even/especially on Life Builds.

[mild sparrow]

in hardcore is stormweaver still the best class?

[distant glade]

Is captainlance’s spark guide on maxroll good for hcssf?

[plain temple]

RISE AND GRIND BAHVAAAAAAAAAAY

[restive mortar]

@glacial pike pillar costs basically nothing

its worth trying and see if ur damage is any good

its one of the most common uniques in the game and has fixed rolls so unless you want a specially rare vaal result its very cheap

oh ssf sorry

still worth trying

[dull shadow]

Yes

[ember parrot]

The issue with Pillar, especially in SSF, is getting that flat dmg to start the scaling. It's basically a weaker Paradoxica from PoE1, where the weapon REALLY needs added damage to shine.

[restive mortar]

rings, gloves, and infused staff

seems good to me

[royal kettle]

Anyone able to check my pob and see what I should focus to improve? https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/imadv07a

LA deadeye, fubguns build in specific. It looks like I need a 500+ dps bow to outmatch the widowhail so that's out of the question for now, mainly looking for obvious cheaper upgrades that I'm not seeing before I start farming out crazy divs to change bow/go temporalis

[ember parrot]

I mean, 'farming crazy divs' for a bow, yet you wear a Ingenuity. 😉

[royal kettle]

haha think I paid 8 divs for that, looks like my bow upgrade is 100+

[tired python]

See https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1324862098567725066. Theyll complain to you about how fubgun's build is too expensive for the actual value.

[ember parrot]

Got more Skill slots or all filled?

Personally am a bigger fan of using Conductivity and Exposure instead of Penetration.

Res Stripping has the Advantage that it can lower below 0

[royal kettle]

1 slot currently, still trying to find more spirit to get ghost dance slotted, probably an amulet upgrade

[ember parrot]

How much increased dmg taken does your Shock cause?

Maybe some picks woule be better towards shock magnitude...

[royal kettle]

I was trying to figure out where to see that actually, because I didn't set the effect of shock in pob

[ember parrot]

Doesn't show, but you should have seen it ingame

Will fire up PoB up at home and throw some modifications together.

[royal kettle]

Completely up to you, sounds like a lot of your time wasted haha. Appreciate the help already, learned a good chunk and going to figure out stuff about shock more!

[sharp tangle]

im playing infernalist on HC following Kripps build, any advice on what to transition to after acts ?

[dreamy edge]

Is getting elemental damage just the same as cold/fire/lightning damage all in one? Or is it applied to the formula differently?

[restive mortar]

same

if you mean increased vs increased

[dreamy edge]

Thank you. Yeah, I was asking in the event that they were both increased in the stat line.

[astral geode]

Sorc. 10k energy shield. Can take a hit. Capped resistances. passive that converts 40% of elemental dmg taken to energy sheild. I can handle the elements. Immune to Chaos dmg. The only time I seem to die is when a rare mob in a map hard ccs me for several seconds. Would it be worth it to give up a small bit of dmg for around 4k stun threshold and about 10k freeze threshold?... I am just not sure how effective freeze and stun threshold are...

[frail marlin]

Does anyone know an issue way to copy your skill tree including gems into path of building please?

[restive mortar]

probably worth

if it is just a tiny bit

[kindred frigate]

If i have a level 16 gem that requires 97 dex and 97 int, then use a staff that ads plus 4 to it will the int and dex requirements go up. I know the mana requirement increases.

[ember parrot]

Question: Primal Armamament is useless if the weapon has no elemental damage, right?

Primal Armament
Supports Attacks that use a weapon, causing them to deal more weapon Elemental damage.
Supported Skills deal 25% more Weapon Elemental Damage

[restive mortar]

no

only the base gem level

matters for retirement

but the mana cost increases

[kindred frigate]

Thx

[ember parrot]

Looking deeper into the build: What are the key downsides? What can i sacrifice for DPS/Survivability gains?

Currently how i would adapt.
Lose:

• 2% evasion
• 5% movespeed
• Some Freeze Buildup
• 0.4m AoE
  Gain:
• 10k DPS
• 20 Mana Regen
• 1400 Max Hit (via 900 ES)

(Left old, right new)

Shall I DM or share the builds here?

[dull shadow]

Today I explain to you the very difficult method to defeat the level 82 simulacrum with the Spark Stormweaver build. Here is the very complex method of how to achieve it; press the Spark button then wait.

https://youtu.be/ed2mHDqGhzk?feature=shared

[midnight geode]

by "travel" does it mean in any direction? Or specifically away from me? Spiral volley chains all over the place thats why im asking. And at what point does the increase reach 60%? Also does the buff go away after it hits the first enemy, or does it stay until the projectile is gone? Im dumb its not my fault

[silent glade]

• it measures the horizontal distance the projectile has travelled rather than distance from you, over the total lifetime of the projectile and persisting through things like pierce or chain
• it maxes out after 7 metres, and should really say that in the description so I'm gonna go add that now...

[midnight geode]

ayyy ty

[strong frost]

What would the best mf culler be? Anyone got a link to any builds?

[low hare]

Can't seem to build much defense on a gemling stat stacker, is it just a squishy build?

[ember parrot]

No, str gives health. While my build is not final, i got like 2.8k health and 3.2k es.

(Using https://poe2db.tw/us/Atziris_Disdain)

[low hare]

That's a lot of ES dayum, I'm at 3.4k health now but less than 500es

Ahhh, I'm using a black sun crest helm. Probably why

[ember parrot]

The helm is busted, 30% life as extra ES you can scale further.

[low hare]

I'm guessing atziri is better until I have enough stats to kill everything before they can do anything eh

[ember parrot]

Maybe.

Also using a Morior Invictus as armor?

25% increased Stats, 50% increased (global) ES is nice...

Stats still relatively low for now though

[plain temple]

Hey other monks, I got a question about a mask. Atsak;s Sight veiled Mask: How are we feeling about that for a Tempest Acolyte Monk

?

[restive mortar]

im not sure about monk but currently trying to make a build with this hat

probably switching to witch

question, does infernalist grinning immolation get reduced by fire res?

[restive mortar]

i was using this one

but the build i made it not good so im trying something else

[plain temple]

did YOU vaal it?

[restive mortar]

nah i bought it

the only way you can get these vaal implicits is from a unique helmet called glimpse of chaos

it can be corrupted multiple times and has different corruption outcomes

one of those is to transform into another unique helmet and keep up to 2 of its vaal enchantments

so this specific helmet is pretty unique

[sage kayak]

any1 have a good build guide to base my invoker build off?

trying to switch build but don't know really know how

currently using crit base build

[dawn spire]

You can basically do a mana stacking spark build as invoker. I hear it's really solid. Maybe some cast on shock lightning conduit as well

[static plinth]

Yes

[plain temple]

uh, mega question, what could one do that would remove that persons evade to 0% even with evade points still in stats

asking for a friend

[restive mortar]

iron reflexes

[plain temple]

whats that?

[restive mortar]

not entirely sure what your question is

[plain temple]

I had evasion, tried on a new head piece suddenly evasion was gone

[restive mortar]

so do you have no evasion on your gear total?

what helmet is it

[plain temple]

no, nothing else changed and there is evasion on helmet

[restive mortar]

what is the helmet?

[plain temple]

the one we were linking

[restive mortar]

hmm

hover over your evasion on the character screen what does it say

[plain temple]

my apologies, on the character screen and everywhere else on the "inventory" screen I don't know the tech term for the screen. It all says 0, and kept saying 0. I transported somewhere else and suddenly it all snapped back. Not sure what was going on, but I guess its fixed now.

thank you so much for your help

[elder coral]

Is anyone able to hop in a call and help me fix my build? feel like ive hit a wall, using spark sorc

[ember parrot]

I can try, though my experience with sorc is limited...

[elder coral]

Any help is appreciated, just feel like im not doing enough dmg

im in help vc 2

[dim fox]

hi, i play ice strike monk i currently have 277k dps on ice strice on idle and there is my character sheet, the problem is i can't solo citadels, i keep dying, any advice ?

[teal pollen]

I am having major mana issues fighting t4 bosses, i get teh arbiter down to like 50% and then run out of mana and mana flasks, any idea whats good for bossing mana?

[mint summit]

do you have maelstrom?

[teal pollen]

i dont know what that is

[mint summit]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Melting_Maelstrom

refills all mana instantly on use. you can probably solve your mana issues with passive stuff or other gear, but if you have high enough base mana this can solve a lot

[teal pollen]

ah yes its the mana flask

i do not, is that like a must have?

[mint summit]

well how much mana do you have and what are you using?

[teal pollen]

im an ice strike invoker monk, currently sitting at 1000 mana

i was think of getting a ring with man leech instead of mana on kill as i have that on my new staff

[mint summit]

do you have Inspiration on ice strike

[teal pollen]

no as i am wanting to max dps, but i suppose running out of mana ruins that dps too 😂

[mint summit]

Inspiration is honestly busted, check out the passive tree for how hard it is to get Less Cost

[teal pollen]

i have just put font of mana and the mana leech support gem on my bell

[mint summit]

Inspiration leads to DPS by allowing you to spend far fewer resources on solving mana

it's really efficient

[teal pollen]

i will throw it on instead of rage and put a rage on hit gem on instead

jesus with just inspiration its so much better

[dim fox]

hi, i play ice strike monk i currently have 277k dps on ice strice on idle and there is my character sheet, the problem is i can't solo citadels, i keep dying, any advice ?

[teal pollen]

why are you doing citadels on max difficulty?

[dim fox]

Its not max difficulty, only like level 80 not even 82

Is that normal if i die there ?

[teal pollen]

nope you should be destroying it

[dim fox]

I dont 😢

[teal pollen]

hmm are you using meditate?

[dim fox]

Nope

[teal pollen]

meditate is busted for bossing

i run it 24/7

[dim fox]

Does it add survivability ?

[teal pollen]

yes because meditate doubles your energy shield

like grim feast but if you weapon swap its like instant

[dim fox]

You need weapon swap ?

[wicked tiger]

@teal pollen do you find not being able to use health potions annoying? I was thinking of doing the same thing

[teal pollen]

only if you use meditate

i have 1hp so health potions are useless for me

[wicked tiger]

potions with eternal youth*

[dim fox]

Is that helpful on mobbing too ? Cause i die against mobs sometime

[wicked tiger]

i find that if I'm in a sticky situation, the instant flask recovery from ingeunity helps a lot

like if I got bursted down, I can spam 1 real quick to get back to "full"

[teal pollen]

im currently sitting at like 7k energy shield and which doubles to 14k so i mostly die to just unstoppable one shots

[dim fox]

I have 4,5k ES and 82 evasion

[teal pollen]

its very very rare i die to not one shot damage

[dim fox]

So i sit at 9k with grim feast

[teal pollen]

grim feast is useless with bossing

[dim fox]

Sometime i get like « stagger » by mobs

[dim fox]

True but i need it to do the citadels

The mobs

[teal pollen]

would this be easier to VC?🤣

[dim fox]

VC ?

[teal pollen]

voice chat

[dim fox]

I can’t, english is not my native language and im in my bed 😂

[teal pollen]

fair haah

okay so what i do, is run mediate and grim feast when im mapping

[wicked tiger]

wait can you do weapon swap with ascendancy points?

[teal pollen]

then when i am bossing i swap out grim feast for hand of chuchala

[dim fox]

I’ll send you the maxroll i copied for my build

[teal pollen]

i do when swap and have a focus that has 50% energy recharge rate and then have 24 skills points getting as much recharge rate as possible with my 2nd weapon set

so i just weapon swap, recharge 14k ES in about 1.5 seconds

[dim fox]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/r338c0zc

Thats my build

[teal pollen]

i just realised what you were talking about, this is somehting that a lot of people take i just havent

is there a quick way of putting your build on max roll?

[wicked tiger]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/diby0ddk

[dim fox]

Can you check the tree in the maxroll i sent and tell me which ascendary i should replace by meditate

[teal pollen]

i dont have the lightning node

this is only worth doing if you weapon swap btw otherwise its a bit slow

[wicked tiger]

yeah makes sense

I mean I can still take on T3 arbiter with the current setup, so maybe I'm okay

[dim fox]

You can spawn weapon node in the ascendary ?

I dont understand that weapon swap thing

[teal pollen]

okay so you cant in ascendary

i am currently doing my max roll thing to share with you

i think this is done https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/4pcu00vm

In meditate skill i also have arcane tempo and ingenuity as support gems for it

[rustic pumice]

How good are these gloves?

[restive mortar]

this is an outdated image, the new ones are decent from about level 1-15 on a new character

[heady garnet]

for skills that hit multiple times, does the crit chance roll seperatley for every hit or just once for the cast?

[mint summit]

I mean, other than stuff like Arbiter it usually means double ES to start the fight

[river drift]

is there a stat stacking storwmweaver?

can anyone link it please

[raw forge]

Can I get a link to a good rarity bot build for the witch please? I have most of the gears I just can’t find a good skill tree to follow

[fringe lagoon]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/b4315f24-644c-4722-b117-520545273aad/builds/20939dd3-bf66-433b-81b1-8235900c5b12

[pastel valley]

Why isn't Gas Arrow Ranger a thing in end game?

[hybrid ocean]

It is.

[untold cypress]

Hi im planning to buy ingenuity belt for my monk, do i buy the 76% instead of 80%? the price range is really high between these two

[dusk marlin]

Any queen of the forest builds here?

[heady garnet]

might not be practical. you can roll 35% ms on boots, and to have more than that youd need 17500 evasion, idealy more

but if you went all in it could work

[dusk marlin]

You can easily stack 60-80k and have like 200%

[heady garnet]

hmmm. it might just be a case of nobodys tried it yet

[dusk marlin]

I have a good rough draft for it. Just was wondering if there are any solid builds that could help brain storm lol

[hybrid ocean]

Hey, if I have momentum on bonestorm, does it count the time before the shards fire, or only the time I have the button held down?

likewise for any other channeled abilities

[still fractal]

So I have started thinking about potentially making a Melee Blood Mage Witch Build using the "Blood Thorn Wrapped QuarterStaff" I feel like there is some obvious synergy here and could have some fun drain tanking things, but I am not positive if it would just be a huge waste of time or if I should try digging into it.

[hybrid ocean]

Does skill effect duration affect critical weakness?

[dawn spire]

If you're referring to building around thorns, it's been tried in various ways and the general consensus is that thorns sucks

[still fractal]

nah, I am thinking about doing a melee quarterstaff build using the unique https://poe2db.tw/us/The_Blood_Thorn and using the Blood Mage Acsendancy to amp Bleed and Leech damage

[atomic halo]

doubt it

wait

i think it might depend on the way it's applied

if its something like eye of winter i'm going to say no because i dont see a duration tag on it and i dont see a duration stat

[atomic halo]

do not

you will never make that weapon good

[still fractal]

elol ok thanks

[atomic halo]

i dont believe it will ever be possible

bleed is possible, blood mage is possible, but having a weapon that does zero damage will never be usuable when you can just stack chance on the tree & jewels & such

[dusk marlin]

Do you know anything about the queen of forest?

[atomic halo]

that's a rather vague question

[dusk marlin]

I’m trying to build a deadeye queen of the forest. Just don’t know exactly the best way to go about it all the way

I’d like to do hands of wisdom and action. And ingenuity with it also.

[hybrid ocean]

Probably the best way is to use a line of olroth heroic Jewel

That way you can heavily stack int and get both damage and evasion from it

Using Black Scythe Training

[vapid sandal]

what is best modifiers for a rattling sceptre. witch minion infernalist build? i know spirit and minion skill are most important, but other than that?

[sage light]

Can anyone send a screenshot of a good non-astra amulet for statstacking gemling?

trying to figure out what stats to look for aside from the +attributes

[hybrid ocean]

Probably +to level melee skills, spirit, and then fill out resistances

[sage light]

ok ty

[hybrid ocean]

Or like, magic find I guess, for your open prefix slot

[dusk marlin]

Does the number matter when it comes to the jewel?

[hybrid ocean]

Not if you only want it for the keystones

What it does to notables and small passives depends on the number though

I believe you can see what any given number will do to the tree on either maxroll or PoB2

So I guess if a few are the same price, you might as well see if their numbers give you any good nodes you actually want to take

[hybrid ocean]

TL;DR: Basically no, but there's a chance you can improve your build slightly with the right number.

[brittle anvil]

I'm making stat stacking gemling punch build with howa, ingenuity and rings, any suggestion for more dps?

[hybrid ocean]

I take it you already have all the unarmed nodes on the tree?

[brittle anvil]

yeah there's only 1 area for unarmed

[fiery stone]

Does the flat lighting damage from HOWA get converted to Chaos damage if I use the Original Sin Amethyst ring?

[restive dirge]

I guess this is decent/start for Titan, since I just saw Carnarius with base 50K ES xD

[outer talon]

is +3 melee skills mod good for stat stacker gemling vs something like 30 dex or int on an ammy?

[steady loom]

What's a unique build that can use dream fragments? I've played sparkweaver all early access and I want to try out another build that uses mana

[compact hull]

Hey all, I'm playing witch and in cruel act 2 right now, is contagion still worth to keep since it only does 49 chaos dps and only really helps with hinders gem? Or should I switch to another skill that I know will help?

[ember palm]

im running blood mage hexblast what are good ascendancies?

[dim fox]

Ok ! You only have 4k evasion ? Is that ok ? Less evasion and more ES is better ?

[mossy onyx]

i have following witch infernalist (lvl92) setup -> https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/pdou0dwv
running with 9k ES and 450~HP (it shows wrong on maxroll/pob due to beidats hand and ghostwrithe effect i think) and kind of want to keep the trenchtimbre/sceptre setup. im wondering what piece of gear i should upgrade first, since stuff is getting expensive at this point and im low on div orbs.
so if anyone is interested or has an idea, please let me know 🙂 (also with anything regarding skill/support gems!)

[dire hound]

helloo, does anyone know some good support builds (maybe aura bot?), want to play with friends and not sure about the best options

[leaden salmon]

Chronomancer is pretty good as an Aura/Rarity bot. Just be careful you dont focus too much on that or you wont be able to play solo :d

[dire hound]

ooh, that sounds good, ty

[leaden salmon]

Sadly I dont have any build at hand :<

[dire hound]

no problem, have something to search now, was totally lost before

[ember palm]

im running blood mage hexblast what are good ascendancies?

[dim fox]

What is more important on staff for ice strike build, Elemental damage for attacks or melee skill level ?

[ember parrot]

Depends how high your increased elemental damage in passives are and whether you can cope with the Mana Cost of +skill levels

[teal pollen]

ES is the strongest defence in the game

[teal pollen]

Elemental damage, you don't want melee skills ever as it makes mana crazy

[hybrid ocean]

There are ways to manage those mana costs

If you can, the reward is well worth it.

[teal pollen]

Arbiter, ritual boss but if I get hit by something huge that chunks me I can get my ES back in no time

[lavish python]

is there a way to see my full combined character stats? the default sheet barely tells you anything

[ember parrot]

Assuming a +7 staff and +100% increased Elemental Damage:

• going from 20 Ice Strike to 27 Ice Strike means 47 Mana Cost becomes 105 and dmg changes from 203%/452% to 285%/638%.
• That mean it gets 40% stronger for double the mana cost.
• On the other hand, while your Increased damage (all added) are below 250%, a staff with over 100% increased elemental damage with attacks boosts your dps by over 40% at no additional cost.

[teal pollen]

The currency investment or skill point investment is to much to cope with the mana issues compared to just having elemental damage which matches it anyway

[hybrid ocean]

It's additive with other sources of increased damage though

Whereas levels are their own multiplicative axis, and quite strong to boot

[dim fox]

im trying out you build, i don't understand how meditate works, can you explain me ? it don't increase my max ES

[teal pollen]

You have to hold down the button

[hybrid ocean]

It's also only like what, 6 skill points? The pathing would be troublesome, but monk is already in that part of the tree

You can get like 31% iirc, if not more

[dim fox]

yep, only tried in the hideout, it doesn't work

[teal pollen]

It should work

Mine works 🤣

Have you set up weapon swap aswell?

[dim fox]

no, it's that ?

no, ok it's eternal youth

i had eternal youth, but how do you play without it lol

[teal pollen]

With weapon swap, it takes me about 1.5seconds to get my 14k ES back

[dim fox]

ok wow, i don't know if i good anough at the game to play like that :/

i think i'll keep improve my build without all of that, so i can solo citadels, i don't feel good enough to play this setup, seems to complicated

[ember parrot]

Ah, citadels are relatively easy fortunately

[dim fox]

im keep dying in them ^^

[ember parrot]

That usually is a Defensive Layer problem more than a DPS one

[dim fox]

yep, but idk how to deal with that problem with my ice strike build

[cinder vine]

Does arcane surge build from mana expenditure of spells socketed in a meta spell

[ember parrot]

Looking at the build you linked:

• Not sure if I agree with them picking Patient Barrier. Would maybe cut everything after CI, could keep the jewel socket if you really need it, then move 3 points to Insightfulnes and 2 towards Shimmering.
• Then would cut Killer instinct and Tenfold Attack, freeing 5 points. 4 Towards Spectral Ward, 1 for One with the Storm (which makes Charged Staff better/last longer quicker).

If that is no longer your build, as you mention glaciation, would need the build we talk about instead. 😅

[dim fox]

Do you think i can do citadels with my linked build if i do some changes, or do i have to do the maditate weapon swap thing ?

[teal pollen]

You don't have to do it it's just my way of maxing my ES quickly

[dim fox]

ok, maybe i should take more ES piece instead of me ES, Evasion ones ?

[dim fox]

do you think 200k dps on ice strike is enough ? I have now 5200 max ES and almost 15k evasion (84%) before i had like 240k+dps and 4400ES and 11K evasion (80%)

[teal pollen]

For the lvl 80 citadels 200k dos should be absolutely fine

I was doing it with much less

Personally I dislike ghost dance and replaced it with cast on crit with eye of winter

Oh and you could have big improvement on your jewels

I have 20% ES and 15% cold damage on nearly every jewel with at least on crit modifier

[dim fox]

i lose dps when i switch my emerald to sapphires like you, is the ES worth it ?

i went from 200k dps to 180k dps for 400 ES ^^

[teal pollen]

It's up to you, I play the game comfortably at high energy shield but I also have top tier rings for damage

[dim fox]

oh yeah wtf, nice rings

but no rarity on them

[teal pollen]

Your rings aren't bad either though

[dim fox]

thats not mine

[teal pollen]

When mapping I swap out for a ring that has like 50% rareity

[dim fox]

the build if from someone i just took it

[teal pollen]

I keep my strongest damage ring and swap for a very cheap ring that has 50% rareity for mapping, then swap it back when bossing

Ahhhh I see

[ember parrot]

I usually skip rarity for mapping and prefer comfort mapping over profit mapping.

[teal pollen]

I comfortably map with that ring and with my belt I end up with like 128%

[dim fox]

i have 224 rarity on my stuff ^^

[teal pollen]

I'm all about comfort if it wasn't comfortable for me to map or boss I wouldn't do it 🤣

That's very high

[dim fox]

i want to drop

[teal pollen]

Sweet spot for rarity is between 100 and 120%

[dim fox]

thats when i take pleasure in the game

[ember parrot]

Drops don't matter if you die

[dim fox]

i only die in citadels tho

[teal pollen]

I second this 🤣

[ember parrot]

Citadel bosses are 1~3 div due to Invitations/Keys.

[teal pollen]

Have you got path of builder to put your build into a maxroll so I can see your gear too?

[dim fox]

i don't, i have the software, but don't understand it, so i can't do it atm

[teal pollen]

And I run citadel at like 1000% waystone increase quantity to get like 3 to 4 drops every citadel too

[dim fox]

do you want me to stream ? again english is not my native language so it'll be difficult for me to understand all and talk

[teal pollen]

Fair enough

Let me turn my pc on

[dim fox]

ok ok lets go, i need more advanced advice so i can be stronger

[teal pollen]

My build isn't perfect but I have spent HOURS in the passive tree trying to maximise it

[dim fox]

yeah i can see that 😮 i just don't feel confortable playing with weapon swap

thats a shame cause your build seems so smooth

[teal pollen]

POE 2 Help 3 chat?

[dim fox]

go

[shrewd crane]

is there a specific way to make sure that support gems are linked properly in a specific area only for a skill?

for example, a build planner says cast on shock: lightning conduit/ energy retention/ Impetus+Elemental Focus+Inevitable critical

how do I ensure only those last 3 are linked?

[leaden salmon]

Its not PoE1.

All socketed support skills will be linked

If you have 5 support slots you cant make it so only 3 and 2 are linked

[gusty leaf]

Does the Avatar of fire ignite version or the Herald of ice version better for Titan?

[pastel valley]

I also have no friends 😦

[ornate mortar]

any autobomber temporalis builder can help me? whats better bloodmage or stormweaver for it? and bone cage or spark

[icy dirge]

Anyone know the order of priority for item upgrades on invoker attribute stacking? I have the hands and pillar. Is ingenuity next with rings or do you go invictus with attributes and elemental res?

[woven current]

Seems to me that adding flat attributes before adding % attribute scaling makes sense

[dim fox]

i've been one shot because something went through my ES, any ideas ?

[leaden salmon]

Poison/Bleed

That or you used a Mana flask that takes % of life on use

= suicide

[dim fox]

oh shit ok, thats certainsly this, does maelstrom flask would solve my problem ?

[leaden salmon]

That or ANY flask that doesnt say "Take % of mana as life"

[dim fox]

does chaos inoculation prevent from maelstrom damage on me ?

[leaden salmon]

What build/class are you?

[dim fox]

ice strike

[leaden salmon]

Do you have Mind over Matter? Guess not

[dim fox]

no

i have chaos inoculation and lots of energy shield

[leaden salmon]

I think it says "chaos damage to you when used"

so CI should take care of that

[dim fox]

oko ok, i'll buy one thanks

[tight grove]

how do you get to use 2 of the same support gems on 2 skills? seeing some guides like this one here. he has 2 primal armaments on 2 separate skills

[dull pilot]

Gemling Legionnaire has ascension points that allow you to do that

[tight grove]

ohh im dumb. thats why. thaanks!

[tight grove]

only trial of chaos gives ascendency points? or both sekhemas

[midnight geode]

does armor break scale well with bleed?

[dull pilot]

Here is a summary of how to get each set of 2 Ascendancy Passives in Path of Exile 2:

To Unlock Ascendancy and gain Passive Points 1 and 2 complete:
The Trial of the Sekhemas via the quest with Balbala's Barya in Act 2.
For Passive Points 3 and 4 complete:
The Trial of Chaos via the quest with the Chimeral Inscribed Ultimatum in Act 3.
For Passive Points 5 and 6 complete either:
The Trial of the Sekhemas via a Level 60+ Djinn Barya with "Number of Trials: 3" (3 floors), OR,
The Trial of Chaos via a Level 75+ Inscribed Ultimatum with "Number of Trials: 10" (10 Rounds).
Passive Points 7 and 8: Complete either:
The Trial of the Sekhemas via a Level 75+ Djinn Barya with "Number of Trials: 4" (4 floors) AND its Pinnacle Boss Fight, OR,
Defeat the Pinnacle Boss Fight behind the locked doors in the Trial of Chaos via a Level 75+ Inscribed Ultimatum with "Number of Trials: 10" (10 Rounds) AND all three fragments; Cowardly Fate, Deadly Fate, and Victorious Fate.

[tight grove]

massive thanks g

[dull pilot]

one small other thing is that if you complete any of the higher requirements it gives all the points from the levels below - so you'll see people in trade chat selling ascendancy boosts where they run players through the level 75 sekhemas and it gives all 8 points

[woven current]

CI makes you immune to that

[leaden salmon]

Yup

[tight grove]

that makes sense. thanks!

[dim fox]

Hi, i have a mana sustain problem on bosses with an icestrike build cause of cast on critical with eye of winter, anyone has advice ?

[slender bone]

How much should a Corrupted Heroic Tragedy Timeless Jewel with Vorana go for ?

Remembrancing 4990 songworthy deeds by the line of Vorana
Passives in radius are Conquered by the Kalguur
Historic

[ember parrot]

Does your staff have +levels?

[dim fox]

no

[rapid pumice]

any good budget Infernalist summoner build guys ?

[narrow anchor]

Hey guys, this is strictly theoretical.

Looking forward to the eventual release of Spell Totems

Trying to figure out mechanically what the upside of having Spell Totems would be though... like Melee Totems you can snapshot +14 gem levels from Giants Blood then swap over to a max block shield fe. And melee totems allow you to bypass long attack times

[placid meteor]

If I'm running full evasion, what's the point of having or rolling resistances if I aim to evade mostly everything?

[atomic halo]

you are still going to get hit

and when you do, it's nice not to instantly die every time

[open night]

Hoe many totems do you want? 3? 4? For sunder totem

[ember parrot]

PoE and PoE2 Evasion works on a deterministic scale. If you have 90% evasion, you WILL get hit every 10th attack.

[craggy lava]

Got some new gear, at the cost of ~15% damage reduction, gained 50% chaos resistance and 110% item rarity :)

Still do 235k dps so we're chillin

[ember parrot]

I assume the 15% DR means armor?

[placid meteor]

Armour is damage reduction towards physical damage only right?

[ember parrot]

Cause the armor calculations mean that the displayed 'physical resistance' of armor is incorrect at best and straight up wrong as well.

[ember parrot]

Yes, but it works worse against bigger hits and is more effective against smaller hits due to math.

[craggy lava]

My damage output was reduced by 15%

[ember parrot]

Ah my bad. Did understand it wrong. 😅

Now i get it

You do 15% less dmg.

[craggy lava]

All good, yes!

My resistances, all max 75% still, are 76% fire/ 81% cold/ 77% lightning/ 67% chaos

No evasion, energy shield, or armor. All energy shield is converted to mana via Eldrich Battery, and all damage is dealt to my mana before health via Mind Over Matter.

[sly shoal]

So I am working on a build in POB and am having trouble getting the DPS to reflect my burst damage on bosses. I am running a crit spark witch, with cast on critical and greater lightning bolt. So when I crit on a boss I am doing 20 million+ damage but POB full DPS is saying only 93k. Makes it hard to use POB to optimize further when I don't trust what it is saying about how nodes impact my DPS.

[ember parrot]

Current PoB has other limitations as well, most notably, shock magnitude calc errors

[sly shoal]

Gotcha, totally makes sense. I knew it wasn't 100% yet but not in what ways.

[foggy sundial]

so...I wanted to make a build based around Doryani's prototype scale male, but with armor being in the shape that it is....is it worth it? also I remember reading that the damage isn't as high as it should be (could this be a scaleing issue with changing resists past -100%?)....any ideas? is it worth it?

[dusty wagon]

Hey. Does “cast on dodge” work whilst in demo forms? Not high enough level to find out yet 😅

[hybrid ocean]

I've heard that they go down to -200%

But I think the general consensus is that if you go that route, armor will not save you, and you should instead just stack as much ES and life as you ever possibly can to not get one-shot by lightning damage

I believe there's also a node that makes lightning damage against you unlucky

[foggy sundial]

thanks for the info

I was reading a post and this is what someone commented on about Doryani's: "I've been experimenting with this interaction too, it feels like the negative resistance on the enemy has a much much much less multiplier effect on damage then when you have negative resistance. And the instant kill from enemies when we're 'using armor' on lightning damage might be just not negating the ailments so we negate the initial lightning damage but get instant shocked with -100 lighting res."

don't know how accurate it is

[solid wraith]

should i get ingenuity instead of using my headhunter heavy belt?

[wicked tiger]

Only if it can get you better stats than a regular belt (you need good rings)

[static plinth]

Is Minion Instability affected by any damage modifiers?

Whether that be yours or the minion's

[tired python]

automatically setting burning ground seems pretty neat, has anyone made something with this?

[dawn spire]

I believe it counts as minion damage. At least it does in poe1

[dawn spire]

I really want to use them on my life stacking corrupting cry gemling. It's one of the only ways I can get more damage without stunning stuff (which shuts off my whole build)

[viscid dune]

Can anyone help me make a build that utilizes rapid fire?

[hybrid ocean]

The crossbow skill?

[glacial pike]

Super grain of salt because I am still new to the game but Rapid fire is generally best used as a tool in a toolkit as opposed to main skill. Like galvanic shards for crowd clearing and rapid fire for targets you can get the right position/mobility for

[shut basin]

Guys I have a new sorceress... Anyone got a decent levelling build for campaign... I am planning to go stormweaver eventually... Church of stormweaver is full so can't ask for help there

[ember parrot]

I used Rapid Fire for leveling, think I can help

Which Ascendency should it be based on?

[viscid dune]

Gem

[ember parrot]

Perfect, will try to whip something up.

[viscid dune]

Thanks man!

[livid fulcrum]

@hybrid ocean I just did a stat stack pillar build for leveling my sorc lol. It was super fast, probably 6h or less of actual playtime to get through campaign

[hybrid ocean]

Uh, what's with the ping? That said, same.

[livid fulcrum]

Oh shit I have no idea why I pinged, must have hit something on phone sorry

[hybrid ocean]

No worries

[fringe lagoon]

You won't get much help about campaign there anyway - You can do whatever in campaign, don't necessarily have to play spark or other meta builds. If you really wanna follow a build then just search of mobalytics/maxroll

[ember parrot]

Okay, got a rough build whipped up, here the build:
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/021vp00i
Current DPS calc is incorrect, it's 61k peak-DPS pre-shock and also pre-HOWA (HOWA would be the prime upgrade, as those cost like 1 div and give +50% DPS, but tried to make it a more budget build to begin with).

Gameplan against Bosses:

• Lightning Ball + Lightning Warp to apply Shocking Ground, making the enemies take 35% increased damage (= DPS is at 83k)
• Throw the Oil Grenade for 42% Fire Resist Strip
• Throw down Flamability for another 45% resist strip (which should make all enemies drop below 0 unless a map mod prevents curses)
• Throw down Flame Wall to guarantee Burn and fire through it for added damage per shot
• Unload Rapid Fire, which builds up 24 heat to reach 168% added fire damage

With a HOWA, DPS would be around ~120k during shock, ignoring resist strip

All Jewel Sockets are still empty, so can potentially go Shock Magnitude + Crossbow Bonuses on Emeralds.

(Every 20% Shock magnitude Jewel means +4% increased damage taken by the enemy!)

[violet axle]

How do I equip cast on dodge twice?

[ember parrot]

Why? Don't think that works

[sinful plover]

would it be worth putting lightning conduit into my cos on top of ball lightning for la deadeye

[violet axle]

This autobomber invoker build I'm looking at has it equipped twice

[sinful plover]

u can equip it twice but you have to unequip one to create a second

[violet axle]

That makes sense. I'll try that @sinful plover thanks

[sinful plover]

same thing with tempest bell u can have several

[ember parrot]

If you reapply shock quickly enough, you can use Conduit, however it will also increase energy cost afaik

[sinful plover]

well build im running has the ball lightning spam a fk ton so im just kinda guessing itll make it dumber

[ember parrot]

Tried Cast on Burn/Shock on my builds and was quite disapointed

Never retried since

[sinful plover]

i did cos lightning conduit on a spark build n that was kinda alright but this deadeye one is pretty solid, i just need to get it to a proper level

get all the important passives n whatnot

[ember parrot]

I also try leveling a deadeye for a more... stranger build

[sinful plover]

was kinda interested in that one build that uses the unique that gives movement per evasion bc speed

but id imagine to get that working would be a pain i cant afford

[ember parrot]

QOTF

[sinful plover]

yeah that one

[ember parrot]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Queen_of_the_Forest

3 sock, iron rune, iron rune other items, become speed

[sinful plover]

i just wonder how they do so much damage, my setup is ok but i sometimes get overrun by breaches

can do breachstone tho not too bad

[ember parrot]

Never tried breachstone with my build, too poor to just try blindly

In general, only tried Strongholds so far...

And those are easy

[sinful plover]

my maps are pretty set with a lot of breachstones + i have maxed out tree for it

sorry not breachstones breach tablets

[ember parrot]

I hate the bootstrapping for the leauge meachanics.
"So you tell me I can farm the mechanic more consistently/easier... by farming it in its worst possible state?"

[sinful plover]

indeed, esp for rituals

rare asf to find a audience key but its better once u already have points in it

[icy dirge]

Is it possible to overwrite an annoint? or can you only annoint once?

[ember parrot]

Basically need to find the invitation to have a better chance for invitations

[sinful plover]

you can annoint again so long as you havent corrupted

[ember parrot]

Yes and no

There is a unique allowing 3 anoints

[icy dirge]

which is?

[ember parrot]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Strugglescream

The thing people use to try to scam astramentis seekers

[icy dirge]

so its a type of astramentis. The normal one only can have one. Where does that one even drop from?

[ember parrot]

No, astramentis is a completely different unique

[sinful plover]

drops from simulacrum boss

kosis

[icy dirge]

ah I saw it now. Kosis

[ember parrot]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Astramentis

[icy dirge]

speaking of astramentis, what do you guys think is a good annoint for it

[ember parrot]

Whatever fits your build

[sinful plover]

depends on build

[icy dirge]

invoker monk at lvl 88

[ember parrot]

Given you probably use it for HOWA stacking: Pure Power (2% increased lightning damage per 10 int) or Jack of All Trades (+2% damage per 5 of lowest stat)

Whichever your build doesn't path to yet

[icy dirge]

okay thank you, ill look into it

[ember parrot]

They are 100% at the exact oposite sides of the tree

So you likely won't path to both

[somber island]

Hey guys I'm using spark build, if I get rid of my everlasting gaze would I also get rid of eldritch battery? To keep energy shield. And what amulet would i want in replace?

[mossy onyx]

if anyone wants to have a look at that, lmk what you think 🙂

[fringe lagoon]

Hey, best would be to replace gaze with a rare amulet that has +3 spell/proj levels and +10-12% mana, keep eldritch battery and remove all +%ES nodes from your tree as they no longer do anything.
This means mana would be your only source of defense (with mind over matter), so usually this progression is recommended at at least 5k mana.

[unborn stump]

how do you guys recommend searching for budget builds im level 72 with like 100ex for currency

[heady garnet]

can minions activate cast on ignite/shock etc?

[ember parrot]

I made my own... the best advice I can give is: grow organically and learn.

I pivoted from Rapid Shot to Shockburst Warp and now am a semi-statstacker.

[unborn stump]

im new to this genre of game so idrk what im doing with making my own build

[ember parrot]

I mean, 70-90 is still the settling phase, level 90+ you should have a very thought out build.

[sinful plover]

i wonder if this build on my deadeye would be better on my gemling lol

if i spec to the same stuff i could get double energy retention n stuff for double cos

do bow builds work out alright on a statstacker gemling?

[hybrid ocean]

Is there a way to fix this in path of building?

[restive mortar]

i saw a ranger rapid fire build that looks cool, you could get some inspiriation from that

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/t47uz0z6

[hybrid ocean]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/zt20700c

This is my first time using the silly program, so there's undoubtedly some imprecision there

Does anyone know how I could get more damage without sacrificing block chance?

The build performs reasonably well, but it's too slow to really contend with breaches

[viscid dune]

@ember parrot how do you get three sockets on gear?

[sinful plover]

depends on gear but if it supports 2 sockets to start with, you can corrupt for a chance at 3rd socket

[hybrid ocean]

Has anyone noticed fast forward affecting bone storm? It feels like it does, but I can't say for certain

[sour basin]

i didnt fully look at your build as the more i looked the more of a headache i got lol

yellow: damage
green: rage when you're hit (rage is 1% MORE damage not increased so its multiplicative)
blue: more crit bonus damage

just a few quick possible options. the points to allocate is down to you lol

[hybrid ocean]

Rage is for attack damage, and I have gloves that set the crit multi to 400% (300% bonus)

Bonestorm is not an attack

[sour basin]

its phys though isnt it?

yellow has phys nodes iirc

but like i said the more i looked the more confused i became so i just gathered generic "damage"

[hybrid ocean]

Hmm, yeah I suppose battle fever could help

but that's the only node on there that does anything, and it's a good bit away

[mighty mango]

what are the ideal stats for breach rings?

[sour basin]

wouldnt nodes like this work?

[hybrid ocean]

like 99% sure it wouldn't

given that bonestorm is a spell

this is a caster build

Honestly I was more hoping for suggestions for gear swaps (beyond better ES and enough attributes to upgrade gems to level 19 or 20) or tech with some spirit gem or other

[sour basin]

do you have any life regeneration?

[hybrid ocean]

Oh, weird, the belt isn't on there for some reason

but you should be able to see all the gear right there

[sour basin]

doesnt tell me how much life regen you have

[hybrid ocean]

The answer however is no, aside from this

I mean, it does

but here

[sour basin]

its different for us viewing

we dont see that detailed

but yee nvm your regen is too low to possibly use blood magic

[hybrid ocean]

Oh, yeah

I had that in a previous iteration while levelling, it became unsustainable

[sour basin]

would have freed up a few points otherwise

[hybrid ocean]

Yeah, all the cost nodes

I've since swapped out a couple of things, tree looks like this now

For whatever reason cast on block still works even if you don't meet the requirements

[sour basin]

you just have too much travel nodes

[hybrid ocean]

You'd think so, but I'm barely scraping by attributes wise

[sour basin]

they are only 5 each

attribute stacking doesnt come from travel nodes

[hybrid ocean]

Not like I'm trying to get to the moon, just have to meet requirements for skills and equipment

[sour basin]

that elemental circle (beef) all together is 57 strength

thats 11 travel nodes

in 5 nodes lul

but yee some attribute requirements are a pain

btw

5% is a chunk

[hybrid ocean]

It would be, but I only have (and need) 58

Just to be clear by the way, even though it sounds like I'm kind of shooting down most of your suggestions, I do appreciate the help

I could go back to this, see if I still have mana issues after doing so

[sour basin]

thats reducing mana

[hybrid ocean]

Right

"Still" doesn't belong in that sentence

[sour basin]

im also not knowledgeable enough in spell caster i just saw warbringer and i know titan well lol

you have a lot of int already so this might allow you to swap some int nodes for other stats freeing up points somewhere else maybe?

[foggy sundial]

anyone know how Sormweaver's "Strike Twice" ability works? the way I read it it allows you to apply two shocks on an enemy, do those two shocks add their effect together or is the second shock an additional multiplier?

[hybrid ocean]

I'm actually 2 short of being able to use level 19 gems

[sour basin]

if you can free up 3 points and put this in then you can work backwards till you're at the cap you need

[hybrid ocean]

Scratch that, just got a pretty cheap chestpiece upgrade with a bit more int

[sinful plover]

if i wanted to use double cast on x for ball lightning and ice wall for example would i wanna use cast on shock for ball lightning and cast on freeze for ice wall or cast on shock for both

i have herald ice and thunder aswell

[sour basin]

i dont think you can use multiple of the same ones

[hybrid ocean]

You can

For meta gems specifically

other persistent skills you can't afaik

[sour basin]

you can use multiple cast on crit for example?

[hybrid ocean]

Yep

[sour basin]

interesting

[sinful plover]

I already have 2 cast on shock happening w double lightning ball, kinda funny but not doin the damage I was expecting

Figured maybe ice wall would be better for one of them so that I can get a lot of freeze buildup quickly

Good enough for doing trials anyways

Both also have energy retention and impetus so they’re machine gun casting :p

[brittle anvil]

with lightning rod?

[sinful plover]

yes

i mean its probably a gear issue more than anything but its still decent

could i put lightning rod on cast on shock if im using tempest flurry

or no bc its not a spell

its also an unneccessary amount of buttons to try n figure out how much damage i can actually do and also bosses move smh

[dawn spire]

Correct, you can only trigger spells with any "cast on" meta gem

[left ledge]

is it faster to twink level with pillar or minions?

[pseudo fossil]

Can someone verify whether the "Illuminated Crown" + "Subterfuge Mask" Interaction is still broken? Google has proven inconclusive and its an ~100ex Anoint

[hybrid ocean]

This is because generally speaking, the number of lightning rods are the limiting factor we think

See #1333923133287174166

[sinful plover]

icic. im trying it out with some random ice stuff on there n it seems pretty good. got comet, frost bomb, and frost wall all spam casting

w ball lightning still so its just frame death for a moment

[hybrid ocean]

Oh, you're a caster build?

[viscid dune]

@ember parrot is there a sub for the helm?

[sinful plover]

no im doin it on my gemling, thought it would be interesting to hybrid bow/pillar

since both benefit from howa and i can have heralds for map clear

can also tempest bell for extra dps assuming boss doesnt move or die first

[hardy raptor]

Is HOWA WH still the goat?

[rancid cipher]

Is this multiplicative damage? Is there any world where this can be more valuable than 40% "increased" damage?

[atomic halo]

the lightning as cold?

[rancid cipher]

Yeah

[atomic halo]

Is this multiplicative damage?
im not sure what you think this question means

gain as extra is additive with other sources of gain as extra

it applies after adding up flat damage, but before modifiers like #% more and #% increased damage

the upshot is that if you have a lot of modifiers that say #% increased/more Lightning Damage and not many that apply to cold, your final dps increase will be less than 5%, often significantly less so

if you have all #% increased elemental damage / #% increased spell/attack damage, from a base of no lightning gained as extra (depends on such things as archmage), you will get exactly 5% more damage

40% increased damage i would approximate to be like 8% more damage for the average build, so usually it would be better

[rancid cipher]

Interesting, ok thank you.

I've just discovered that I can hold shift while looking over a skill and it shows me how much the damage of my skills increase by? About how accurate is this?

[atomic halo]

its pretty good yeah

[rancid cipher]

An an example, here's two nodes I'm looking over atm.

Is it calculating in the additional crit as well as the damage?

[atomic halo]

the crit calculates

[rancid cipher]

I come from Diablo where it's fairly poor to trust these kinds of things so I'm hesitant. haha

[atomic halo]

i dont know if it respects conditional stuff like recently

its not great in poe2 either, always use pob if in doubt

[rancid cipher]

pob?

[atomic halo]

path of building

its basically a very fancy calculator

[rancid cipher]

Oh good god

[atomic halo]

https://pathofbuilding.community/

[rancid cipher]

Tyvm for this, very useful.

Is it able to import characters by chance? (assuming not but hoping)

[hybrid ocean]

It does not, unless you open up the skill tree while that condition is in effect

And idk how exactly it behaves when you do that

[atomic halo]

makes sense i guess

[hybrid ocean]

Which is to say, I don't know if its consistent

But it does at least sometimes take it into account

[atomic halo]

last i checked no but poe2.ninja is up

which i thought relied on similar api

[hybrid ocean]

By the way, could I trouble you for assistance with this?
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/h526s0d2

Bonestorm shield warbringer

[atomic halo]

im about to go to sleep so probably not

[hybrid ocean]

A very good reason. Drop the probably, get some rest

I think I'll follow suit actually

[atomic halo]

at a glance: the anvil is a hard item to justify using

ok bye

[glacial flame]

Is it normal to be getting one shot often as a level 84 monk doing tier 12 maps?

I have 74% evasion and it feels super unreliable. Is ES way better?

[left ledge]

Yes, es is alot better- stack es to the moon

[ember parrot]

The helm is cheaper than the armor.
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/BDpZdZkT8

It is a HUGE part of the ES.

[tired python]

I dunno what corrupting cry is but that sounds neat.

[dark lintel]

is there a way(other items/passive node/ or anything) to recreate something like this(or similar) "damage bypasses energy shield" without using this helmet?

[ember parrot]

Not sure why you want that, but manaflasks that drain your life can be used to bypass your own ES.

[ember parrot]

Also 3 socket on the weapon is a corruption result (corrupt a 2slot weapon, make sure to quality before corrupt). The items are based on what my character used around level 80ish and are an EXAMPLE set (with the exception of Morir and Atziri's).

Funny to see the heatmap for endgame builds... 🤣

[livid fulcrum]

lmao

[void beacon]

looks about right

[dawn spire]

It's a support gem that makes warcries apply a stacking debuff called corrupting blood. It does base physical damage per second equal to 25% of your strength and stacks up to 10 times.

[ember parrot]

Forgot it yesterday, but there is a 2nd way to use Supports twice:
https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Solus_Ipse

Basically, a helm giving you an ascendency passive. 🤣

[tired python]

You can also use Lifetap support gem on a skill to manually lower life whilst ignoring ES.

[plain matrix]

which event class for Storm Call / Vaal Storm Call ?

[dawn spire]

#1┃build-planning

[plain matrix]

ah ty xD ... misclicked

[dawn spire]

But I'd go Surfcaster

Or architect

[plain matrix]

gonna discuss there 🙂

[slender bone]

Does Melee Strike range influence speed and distance travelled by Tempest Flurry ?
Does Reaching Strike node make Tempest Flurry go faster ?

[flat aspen]

Dose anyone have a pillar of the caged god staff by chance.?

[ember parrot]

The staff itself is cheap, the main issue is getting a good corrupt on it.

[flat aspen]

I've messaged like 8ppl on the trade website and no one has replied

[ember parrot]

I also usually DM like 10 people

[flat aspen]

I have some chaos orbs or vaal orbs to trade for some ex orbs I'm still trying to get into maps and can't get any

[ember parrot]

I can give you a failed corrupt if you want

(for free)

[flat aspen]

I'd love that plz lol

[ember parrot]

Would need your character name, can ping you then

[flat aspen]

Idek what failed corrupt means for it 🤣 but I'll take it

Ohfulk ign

[flat aspen]

Ty so much

[ember parrot]

No problem, it's a failed corrupt, so only 9% increased dmg instead of 10% neutral or 12% on a good corrupt, but you can still use it as an intemediate solution.

[tidal ermine]

Hello seniors! im trying to make a build that focuses on the ignite effect from "Radiant Grief lace hood", and i'm starting to get stuck. Mainly because i cant tell which stats help scale it, does spell power for instance? i (Hope) that fire dmg does, which is what i've done so far, along with ignite magnitude. Any advice for what else to do to scale it up? (Im hoping to make a lol death aura)
I was hoping blasphemy+decaying hex would do the trick, but it seems that interaction is bugged or not intended.

[static spade]

Worth?

[hybrid ocean]

Awake now- I was using it for defense, but on examination it might not be necessary?
By removing it I go from 91.6% block chance to 88.4%. That is 37% more damage taken on average, but not the 100+% I was kind of expecting

[hybrid ocean]

I'll get on PoB later and see just how much damage I gain from replacing it with a rare amulet

[ember parrot]

On a burn/rapid shot build 100% yes.

[static spade]

Ember Fusillade with 0.21 hover duration?

Also, only those 3 are useful to my build inside that ring. Is it still worth the trouble of keeping them? Cause I usually see people use this gem to put 5 or 6 notable passive.

[ember parrot]

Never used, can't say how good it is.

[hybrid ocean]

Is that the amount that allows you to simply hold down the button?

[terse haven]

How does stun threshold get calculated? Is the base based off my hp? Armor? Is it independent or only based off level?

I am a manual comet casting build and struggle with being stunned out of the long animation often

[static spade]

The delay before the embers launch. With this duration + wild shards, I can launch it continually like a machine gun

[hybrid ocean]

Yeah

Would you mind testing for me if this works the same way with bonestorm?

[static spade]

Lemme see

If it has the "Duration" tag, it might work

[static spade]

Ah no it doesn't make it faster. The "Duration" tag is for the debuff

[hybrid ocean]

Ah, rip

[static spade]

Shame, would've been promising

[hybrid ocean]

What happens if you just tap it repeatedly?

[static spade]

It only launch 1 bone, I've seen it has a "Channeling" tag which is the cause of it's delay so reducing the skill duration isn't gonna affect it.

It actually makes it bad because it reduces the debuff towards the enemies

[hybrid ocean]

Yeah. Cast speed determines how many bones you launch

I was wondering if duration would let you start a new channel faster

I.e. getting the bones to leave faster after you summon them

[static spade]

We don't have a support gem that helps channeling yet, hopefully on the next update

Most channeling skills get their benefits from Cast time. Like Flame Blast, the faster the cast time the faster the stage

[hybrid ocean]

Yeah, I'm quite aware.

I was mostly wondering if the bone release speed after you stop channeling was scalable in any way

Doesn't seem like it is

[static spade]

I remember it depends on HP. That's why there's so many passive that adds stun threshold based on Energy shield because there are builds that makes your energy shield much higher than your hp

[ember parrot]

HP and gear. There are passives to shift it towards ES instead.

[terse haven]

Thanks!

[mint summit]

I swear by stone charm, I have CI and nothing in the whole tree helping with stun. Maybe it’s just because I’m not usually at close range but that seems like enough to not die.

[tropic willow]

Radiant grief ignite is not enough damage to be your main source of damage

There's no way to add to the 100 base fire damage so it's impossible to scale well

It's usually used for exploding poison clouds

[vernal hemlock]

Anyone know anything about the pinnacle variant of the cryo shock telestomper build on moba?

[teal pollen]

Hello i am not a witch main, i want to know if % increased effect of aura from your aura skills works with blasphemy?

[fervent briar]

did charge staff get changed? on league start i played a monk and the quarterstaff node (i thought) was giving me 4 stacks when i had 3 power charges max. Its not doing that for me on my gemling. I havent specced into power charges since im playing hcssf now thats later points. I'm playing gemling, not stat stacking cause ssf.

[fathom mulch]

Hi everyone. Does Tempest bell scale with "attack damage"? Let's say I take a Node "10% increased attack damage" and change nothing else, will the bell shockwaves themselves (not my hits) get stronger?

[hybrid ocean]

Yes.

[fathom mulch]

Thanks!

[hollow bronze]

somebody come to VC maybe help me with my tree and mana issues when bossing?

[timid solstice]

what's better for a stormweaver using sparks and cast on shock, howa or kitokos?

[ember parrot]

FYI howa adds lightning damage to attacks. Sparks is a spell. In case you also have 'electeocuted enemies take 20% increased damage', kitokos wins hands down.

If sparks is just the side dmg and the main comes via e.g. Qstaff, then Howa wins, hands up.

[void beacon]

dont think so

[mint summit]

Yea it works.

And increase aura effect is usually cheaper than curse effect

[placid iron]

Possibly flammability curse

[strong frost]

What is the best mf culler build??? Anyone got a link?

[woeful tinsel]

Ok, so I finally got a ghostwrithe to drop in HC. Is there anything special I should take into account while using it? Its a lot of good base ES but I'm rolling a Ranger so there's not a lot of ES nodes unless I move up to the Monk nodes. Should I try and get max life rolls on my other gear? Should I try and explicitly move up to ES nodes to make the most of it?

[tall ingot]

not sure what you're playing exactly but I don't think you want it longterm, and so I wouldn't try to target it

going into monk nodes is nuts

[woeful tinsel]

Yeah, I'm still trying to get through the campaign on HC

So its really only for leveling and trying to get to cruel

[tall ingot]

yeah

you can push for more dps ghostwrithe is stupid good

so thers no need to rush monk tree I'd say

if you path into monk tree asap it will take around 20 points to get +120% evasion +120% max energy shield, 20% skill speed, 25 dex, 25 int

and some movespeed too

[woeful tinsel]

Yeah I'm leaning much more into raw damage at the moment. I'm using a widowhail and maxing dps

[tall ingot]

Ye thats cool, I would deffinitely get tailwind for ascendency tho

what build are you playing

lightning rod?

[woeful tinsel]

For the evasion? Attack speed drains the mana too quick

[tall ingot]

for the movement speed

[woeful tinsel]

Currently just outside of jamanra

[tall ingot]

and evasion attack speed of course

[woeful tinsel]

Oh interesting

[tall ingot]

gotta go zoom zoom

[woeful tinsel]

I thought the more multiplier on damage was worth more

[tall ingot]

naw movementspeed is king

these two are also good and will give you +5 movementspeed total

you can also drop sniper its pretty mediocre imo

[woeful tinsel]

Yeah, it was mostly teched into since I couldn't figure out where I wanted to go yet