2┃build-planning

[sonic peak]

don't think it'll cost a lot

you'll want accuracy on your weapon for the other node regardless

[swift aspen]

I use similar setup currently on my gemling stacker but for falcon dive for insane attack speed

Lycosidae shield iirc

[steady flint]

So = 3.14×4×4=50.24
50.24×2.5=125.6
125.6/3.14=40 root of this = 6.3245m right?

[sonic peak]

and that node I mentioned + something else is prob enough

[celest oxide]

Dreamcore has a Spear Tactician Starter build that I might follow along with

sounds kinda fun honestly

[left matrix]

wait

no ur right

[left matrix]

yes

[steady flint]

Damn, so barely higher than old, but with 7 passive points invested..

[sour stone]

But what are most of you gonna play?

[steady flint]

Any other way of getting critical weakness now that i cant think of?

[left matrix]

the dispute is that ur working on 4m radius vs 4m diameter,
Or whether they indicate 4m area from the begining or not,

[steady flint]

I have no idea how they calculate presence, but aoe for spells and attacks is something similar to that

[left matrix]

wtf. standalone is up and downloading buyt my steam doesnt show update yet

[autumn hawk]

relog in

[left matrix]

yeah makes sense

[autumn hawk]

alot of times u need to logout and log back in

only 29gb not bad

[true patio]

Also go into steam settings and say always update - don't let steam decide

Right Click -> Properties -> Updates

[left matrix]

fixed it ty

[steady flint]

Im a masochist so im going Chronomancer

[autumn hawk]

im a masochist so im going Smith

who needs dps if u get 90% all res

[rugged sand]

no sites have huntress builds :/ streamers slacking

[ashen pelican]

if gear grants a spirit skill, do you get it for free or do you still have to spend spirit to reserve it? like this

[autumn hawk]

for free

[ashen pelican]

tyty

[autumn hawk]

this gives all 3 herald free, unlike poe1

[ashen pelican]

thats pretty cool

[autumn hawk]

i really cant tell if im doing tact or lich

im so torn

[true patio]

Lich looks really strong tbh, so does ritualist but so many people seem to not be interested

Ritualist is a pure mapping ascendancy tho

[autumn hawk]

not interested in ritualist myself after ingenuity nerf

[opaque steppe]

can't choose between Blood huntress or Smith warrior , any thought ?

[autumn hawk]

maybe if it affected all 3 rings

[steady flint]

I cant wait for some insane folks making some funny interraction with 3 unique rings and 25% increase on amulet

[autumn hawk]

^

its gonna be still be so strong but i think companions/spectres are going to outshine early gasme

probably going to make my 2nd char a ritualist once i get ingenuity etc

[sour stone]

Bro how u guys getting so much divines lol

[true patio]

Hype!

[autumn hawk]

but I can get a minion build strong enough to map/pinnacle so easy imo

[rugged sand]

lol why are there no good build guides for huntress

[sonic peak]

fucked up

[lapis arrow]

Gonna start with minions, since it's so easy and farm resources for a second class with it.

[sonic peak]

no buckler nodes

[autumn hawk]

exactly, this what im saying

yeah minions are trash garbage for mapping, and breach, but other than that such a strong first char

[knotty spruce]

Dang was hopin it might utilize the fire nodes at least

[autumn hawk]

not even really trash, just slow

but with breach spawning majority of enemies at the beginning now, minions might actually do fine in breach

[normal mango]

Do you think we wanna scale bleeding zon with Phys dmg or Magnitude or both?

[round escarp]

both for sure

[normal mango]

Does break armor help bleeds?

[round escarp]

yeah

[celest oxide]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r2ho3qe8kg I might try this

Tactician and Spears

prolly bad

but definitely new

[round escarp]

that feels like bait when i read it

might work tho

[neat bison]

It will be 20% more phys damage from armor break so yeah

Helps bleed

[celest oxide]

Probably

I wonder if the supporting fire skill will be any good

[strange ivy]

but what class for minions, Lich ?

[normal mango]

I feel like pivoting out of elemental spears into bleed afer seeing last second infusion nerfs

[sour stone]

I also so some guys post about starting gas arrow

Toughts?

[wide viper]

is this bugged?

[timid aurora]

So guys for totems WB or Blacksmith?

[quasi rose]

I need a spear start build

[celest oxide]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/peugets-javazon-leaguestarter

Might also try this

[round escarp]

I'd go warbringer for totems

[timid aurora]

Or even titan

Which of the 3

[round escarp]

that 20% dmg taken from totems and the node before it got buffed

[timid aurora]

Oh nice

[round escarp]

thats really strong

[cloud pebble]

Are there any bleed ranged spear attacks???

[sour stone]

But mapping speed of warrior is pretty dog not?

[unique dock]

Has any creators made a bleed amazon build or something?

[round escarp]

not anymore

they took a lot of movespeed out the tree

but overall movespeed of warrior is slower due to armour penalities

but it'll still get you through all content

recommend a sunder totem

[sour stone]

Yea forrsure did a armour break and it did the job in first leauge

[round escarp]

poe guy has a video on it

[sour stone]

But it mapping speeds is aids

Was aids

[round escarp]

i was doing 5-6 min maps with my totem build last league

[sour stone]

Damn

Crazy

[round escarp]

i think if i was going totems again i'd go arty balista tactician or gemling.

[pearl scroll]

How do u get max fire res now without being smith of kitava now? Unnatural resilience is nerfed

[round escarp]

should be more damage compared to melee

and very safe with the 8 meter target aquisition buff

[sour stone]

I mean issnt de biggest nerf to warrior that mobs now do more often heavy stuns?

[round escarp]

mobs dont heavy stun

heavy stun just is worse when you get it. theres only 3 ways to get it.

Stun meter build up/knock off roa. and boss skill that inflicts stun bar build up like the flame girl

[sour stone]

Ahhh oke

Still not sure what build im gonna play lol

[marsh token]

blood witch with herald of frost, herad of ash, herald of blood? or is this just GIGA overkill lol

[potent hearth]

is poe2db struggling?

[drifting cedar]

any ideas for things to socket in fire spell on hit to supplement melee damage?

[round escarp]

yes its struggling

i think its digesting teh notes

[alpine parrot]

wait, where do i get a good filter?

[drifting cedar]

oh yeah very much

is the wiki right about these tags

please tell me flammability does not have cold tag and does have fire tag

[sharp tangle]

Is it better to go for predatory/in for the kill on bleed Amazon or go for accuracy stack nodes (talking about ascendancy)

[nova echo]

Do you guys reckon the supporting fire minion for tactician can build pin?

[viral rover]

apparently its an hour later launch on consoles?

[sonic peak]

anyone knows if bucklers will give block chance?
bucklers page lists them as ER + charms items:

[viral rover]

mine says 2 hours. maybe its a visual bug

[sonic peak]

shields page lists them as block items:

there's this parry related node...

...that is behind a block node

[neat bison]

It’s almost certainly block chance and not charm slot

[hushed zenith]

what's the site with the updated tree?

[potent hearth]

guys do you have any faith in a bonestorm build? or should I go something more fleshed out?

[sonic peak]

https://poe2db.tw/us/passive-skill-tree

[hushed zenith]

thanks

they stealth nerfed Unnatural Resilience

[tranquil finch]

is RoA untouched? and giga juiced with deadeye now?

[potent hearth]

RoA now with rhoa

[tranquil finch]

HUge

[drifting cedar]

am I seeing it right that you need to attack to consume the bonestorm impales?

if so, idk how thats supposed to work

swapping between channeling a spell and attacking seems rough

[sonic peak]

can prob proc it with the next bonestorm

[tranquil finch]

Cause RoA gonna count as having consumed 14 charges? Like that is crazy

[sonic peak]

or is bonestorm multiple hits?

[drifting cedar]

description says attack

idk

should say hit if spells can do it

[potent hearth]

yeah bonestorm doesn't proc the impale 😦

[sonic peak]

oh yeah I missed that

ig you could get a good spectre and let it attack

[drifting cedar]

thats actually true

really any minion

[potent hearth]

how many rain of arrow can I stack on top of my bonestorm lol

[sonic peak]

oh yeah, it doesn't scale with the subsequent attack

then yeah, any attack minion

uh

actually

no

[potent hearth]

I really feel like spells are missing a ton of stuff, I want phys spells and chaos spells

[sonic peak]

since it's phys dmg, you want the 'pre-mitigation hit' to be high

so it gets less mitigated by the enemy's armor

so yeah, you want a hard-hitting minion to make sure the impale dmg goes through without getting mitigated by the enemy's armor

[solid dragon]

torn between eye of winter cold sorc and arrow rain+frost salvo dead eye. thoughts?

[knotty spruce]

What would yall use with smiths fire spell on melee hit?

[royal fiber]

What build would make good use of Acrobatics?

[celest oxide]

Most anything that goes all in on Evasion I think?

[sour stone]

Is a minion build still good?

Like de bone lich one

[modern lintel]

Probably

Spectres exist now

[potent hearth]

do we know how they work on death? they revive?

[drifting cedar]

flammability

[round escarp]

phys spells work great with blood mage

[hidden siren]

hey mods can we get tags for the threads

[drifting cedar]

maybe solar orb if you can find ways to abuse the ignite for more melee damage

[potent hearth]

I don't like corpse explosion.. what's left ? 😄

[sour stone]

Is it true that they didnt nerf any minions?

[round escarp]

bonespear + coc icewall

[fleet blaze]

Looking for a dot build. I think the witch got some new chaos dot stuff ascendancy?

[potent hearth]

they sure did

[sour stone]

I see the new minion build that is updated for 0.2

It stays minions didnt get effected bij de nergs

[potent hearth]

I think most skellies got nerfed, no?

[fleet blaze]

Whats the best dot class ?

[deft osprey]

Phys spells were pretty much all buffed

[fleet blaze]

What site is thus

[potent hearth]

bonestorm?

[sour stone]

Mobalytics

[round escarp]

yeah

[ornate sand]

anyone going ssf what yall playing?

[wintry cedar]

@drifting cedar gl fellow gnomie

[flint solstice]

Sorry if this was covered, but have any sites updated their data with the new skill web yet? I cant find the info anywhere.

[celest oxide]

Is Armour still gonna be trash/useless?

[drifting cedar]

thanks bud

[merry trench]

can I use crossbow of Rhoa mount? specifies bow and spear thorw only

[alpine patrol]

I have a ssf marauder, not sure which i will make today yet…

[fringe tapir]

Are there any bonuses or rewards for going SSF? Or is it just self bragging rights?

[wooden haven]

Is there any source left to "heal" energy shield after grim feast and shock siphon removal?

[modern steppe]

Just a different way to play, no bonuses really

[drifting cedar]

you get 100% reduction to fomo at leaguestart

no economy to keep up with

no meta builds you have to do

[potent hearth]

bonus: don't deal with trading

[drifting cedar]

oh dang we're getting crown of eyes?

[sonic peak]

does 'Global Defenses' include block chance?

[round escarp]

Poe DB updated with the uniquews or no?

[drifting cedar]

no

[sonic peak]

nice

[drifting cedar]

evasion, armour, es, ward(?)

[autumn hawk]

hes cooked chat

[potent hearth]

forgot if there is ward lol

[ornate sand]

i like playing ssf just to see if can do it in poe1 i always buy my voidstone carries never did 4 stones in ssf

[sonic peak]

imagined so

[modern steppe]

Looking at the amazon, if spears dont work out it looks to me like it would be quite good with staff skills

[round escarp]

Poe 1 ssf is easier imo than Poe 2

[sonic peak]

yes, but most of them are not showing any effects

only names and icons

[round escarp]

Ah

[ornate sand]

i cant do either poe1 or poe2 in ssf but im trying my best this patch

my goal is to fight that arbiter guy

[drifting cedar]

just put flat accuracy runes in pillar of the caged god and go str stack amazon

[hidden siren]

new skill tree sucks

[scarlet horizon]

hello guys, do you have any idea what would be the best class for an aurabot ?

[potent hearth]

boycot amazon! ><

[hidden siren]

they just adjusted all my non meta nodes for the new class

[drifting cedar]

330 accuracy > 82 flat phys

ezpz

[ember parrot]

Morior Invictus lost the "5% Attribute per rune/core", right? Did it gain any new modifiers it can roll?

[summer pasture]

That has to be on the weapon though

[round escarp]

Can malgos work with nodes that increase crit multi?

[autumn hawk]

6 new mods that are unknown until found

[potent hearth]

what if instead of messing with bonestorm I go ember fusillade and pretend I didn't care about phys damage anyway?

[drifting cedar]

runes are on the weapon right

[summer pasture]

Maybe

[sonic peak]

man, removing those jewel slots sure makes it a lot harder to PoB

the ones they left are in such bad locations lol

[drifting cedar]

is hte passive tree out?

[sonic peak]

https://poe2db.tw/us/passive-skill-tree

not on PoB yet, but this is good enough

[viscid cloud]

Guys im panic im sweating what build to do launch is soon oh no my blood pressure

[autumn hawk]

where is the new companion node?

[sonic peak]

there's a shit ton of companion nodes

just search for 'Companion'

[autumn hawk]

i dont see it on there

[hard sinew]

real, idk what to do. im cooked

[sonic peak]

did you even try

[autumn hawk]

oh i see them

[drifting cedar]

oh wow lucky lightning is now just 30%

[viscid cloud]

I feel like ima be stuck on the passive tree screen for hours

[autumn hawk]

didnt realize i can search on that tree lmao

[wooden haven]

patchnotes said something about buffed xbow dmg, the new bases all have the same damage as before on poedb

[subtle vigil]

Tactician Tame Beast Crossbow is my plan. It'll probably be awful, but at least it'll be fresh

[viscid cloud]

Im too broke to respec gotta do it right from the jump

[static torrent]

It's the affixes that changed, from the one-handed versions to the two-handed versions.

[drifting cedar]

companions gain your strength? is the living weapon on smith a companion?

[viscid cloud]

Welp time to go on youtube see what these genius content creators theory crafted for league start

[wooden haven]

"The base Damage of all Crossbows has been increased"

[drifting cedar]

oh my god manifest weapon is an immortal companion

[sonic peak]

could be on the skills
or poe2db could be fucked for bases. bucklers for example are not right

[drifting cedar]

and there's companions gain your str

you can do pillar of the caged god smith with another pillar beside you

and it gets all the str

[timid aurora]

Wow

[sonic peak]

attr stacking got nerfed tho

[timid aurora]

Smith is OP AF

[potent hearth]

pillar of the pillar of the caged god

[static torrent]

Right, misread that part. Nonetheless, not all the info on poe2db is up to date yet.

[drifting cedar]

i mean you can't give it lots of flat damage though i guess

[uncut grove]

Will path of building have the new passives today/

[sonic peak]

like, nodes in general

[uncut grove]

does anyone know

[viscid cloud]

no point game l aunches in 20 mins

[sonic peak]

https://x.com/Localldentity

LocalIdentity (@Localldentity) on X

PoB fork guy

X

[viscid cloud]

maybe they will get the right data after

[sonic peak]

dev didn't say anything

[worthy turret]

new update would drop on a sunny day with many errands to do..

[uncut grove]

is he afk

lol

last post feb

crazy

[viscid cloud]

Dw brother game wont go anywhere there is no benefit to racing to the top u will get burned out anyways

[summer pasture]

Coming calmitiy armor looks nuts

[potent hearth]

how easy is it to go crossbow and improvise on the fly?

[uncut grove]

not like that

wondering if my build is better on gemling or amazon

bc it would waste infinite hours if it would be better on diff ascend

[wooden haven]

found, it you have to hover over the base, then it shows new values

[summer pasture]

What build?

[fringe lagoon]

Any artillery ballista gamers?

[viscid cloud]

You see thats my problem if i pick the wrong thing id be wasting so much hours

[golden cradle]

No he is active https://www.reddit.com/user/LocalIdentity1/

[uncut grove]

so ya just tryna save time by knowing what its better on

[viscid cloud]

theres 24 hours in a day i cant afford to waste that on a build thats shit

[uncut grove]

it wouldnt be shit on either but it would be better on one

only rsn i consider is "penetrate" on amazon seems op

and for no other reason

[summer pasture]

What build

[golden cradle]

Respec isn't that pricy. Save your gold as well as you can if you're unsure

[uncut grove]

just spear stuff

cant respec class

might jus wait it out

[viscid cloud]

sir we will all be broke day one

[summer pasture]

If going bleed I'd say amazon

[golden cradle]

jfc the whining

[viscid cloud]

Plus time wasting

[uncut grove]

nobody in here is whinin

[ember parrot]

Early respecs are cheap, I did change my build so often while leveling in 0.1

[viscid cloud]

Unless they changed the costs i must be misinformed

[timid aurora]

Need website with all the new skills

And gems

[summer pasture]

Also they toned down stat stacking so Amazon is probably the best bet @uncut grove

[ember parrot]

The main issue is whether you "hit" the meta ascendency if you "only wanna play strong builds".

[viscid cloud]

Amazon is best but hmmm are we all going bleed?

infused wepaon is shit now

[uncut grove]

i dont rly needa stack on gem

it got reworked

[dawn spire]

Smh, not going chronomancer, the one true god of 0.2

[ember parrot]

Honestly, I will play Crossbow Lich

[uncut grove]

gem has '20% increased damage per red' and other fun stuff

[timid aurora]

What build

[potent hearth]

guys I have to understand how infernalist works, help

[subtle vigil]

caster chrono looks neat, the 50% more cast speed 50% of the time seems kinda fun though most people probably hate it. I'm curious how unleash works

[dawn spire]

Chaos dot with CI eventually

[summer pasture]

I'm going thorns titan, going to stun with thorns then use hotg for tankier mobs

[sonic peak]

they did change the cost during 0.1

[ember parrot]

What don't you understand?

[sonic peak]

it's quite cheap now

[timid aurora]

Guys quick my wife is asking what is the best end game builds for this season down those doing maps ATM

[viscid cloud]

AMAZING Respec away then boys

[sonic peak]

brother how would we know

[summer pasture]

No one knows yet

[ember parrot]

Nobody knows

[timid aurora]

Why Chrono for that and what skill? Sorry I never did caster before

[viscid cloud]

id say give it a week or two it will be figured out soon

[potent hearth]

idk I drank a beer and the demonform demonflame and infernal flame are complicated

[sonic peak]

what does Unleash even do, for chrono

[timid aurora]

She will dump my ass by then

[hidden siren]

10 minutes

[royal fiber]

Is monk actually squishy for a melee class?

[ember parrot]

Think of it like "being on low mana hurts ya".

[subtle vigil]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Unleash#UnleashSkillGemAscendancyUnleash

[ember parrot]

No, you use Energy Shield

[timid aurora]

Wasn't es nerfed

[summer pasture]

Es and evasion, and no

Just no grim feast

[ember parrot]

Laughs in Ghost Dance

[viscid cloud]

Invoker monk is safe im hearing

[sonic peak]

everything other than armor got nerfed, you still need to use something

ES still seems broken tho, will prob need to be nerfed again next patch

[viscid cloud]

aye shhhh they can hear you

[timid aurora]

Wow

[ember parrot]

Yeah, ES is the only "Life stacking" option right now

[summer pasture]

Doesn't need a nerf, armor and life just need to be buffed

[sonic peak]

well, it's not like ES is broken

[timid aurora]

I'll try chronomancer . Kitava looks too OP

[sonic peak]

it's more that you don't have other ways to get effective HP

[misty vortex]

Could I use explosive shot still for the merc on xbow?

[potent hearth]

you can't change ascendancy right?

[sonic peak]

can't

you can respec ascendancy points tho

[summer pasture]

Yes and no respectively

[viscid cloud]

We have 9 minutes i tihnk ima be on the char creation screen for hours

[sonic peak]

why

[viscid cloud]

Hard to pick what to do

Ok maybe not as huntress makes sense

[ember parrot]

I already decided what I wanna try first. Lich looks very interesting, especially with Atiri's Disdain

[livid ridge]

I’m making my character then going to watch the Minecraft movie. Peak day

[timid aurora]

Kitava if unsure

Or WB totem

[sonic peak]

just pick whatever ascendancy you think will be fun, someone will make a build for it eventually

[ember parrot]

Nah, just make a build yourself!

[viscid cloud]

Hmm yeah ill prob check out some theory crafts on youtube

[timid aurora]

What is a good Chaluya build for this pacth

[potent hearth]

ok guys I'm going bloodmage whatever I'll improvise and be frustrated, have a wonderful league start and remember to have fun ❤️

[viscid cloud]

nonono i suck at making builds

[ember parrot]

Nobody knows

[timid aurora]

Oh

[misty vortex]

any tips for using path of building?

[subtle vigil]

the thing that makes remnants like flame of chayula apply to allies in your presence is neat, could be a janky minion or support build using that

[summer pasture]

I was tossing around going poison rapid assault as chaluya

[viscid cloud]

Okay ima figure this out ill see you guys in game woo yeah

[ember parrot]

Conditionals: Remember that stuff like "is enemy shocked", "is enemy exposed" etc do have a big influence on Damage.

[dawn spire]

Chaos dot is a combo of a lot of skills. I'm going essence drain, contagion, decaying hex, and whatever else I can find.

Chronomancer has temporal rift, which is the last good way to restore ES in poe2, imo

[misty vortex]

thank you

[tight trail]

hmmm, now i gotta figure out how to generate glory to spam spear of solaris 😦

[minor tree]

arckkk i'm so torn on what to play

[sonic peak]

spear of solaris sounds so trash to use

how are you stunning with spears

[tight trail]

but, and hear me out, orbital death beam

[sonic peak]

prob looks cool tho

[dawn spire]

Just do physical damage

[hidden siren]

phys dmg builds up stun

[dawn spire]

All hits build up stun

Physical just does more

[subtle vigil]

Titan Spear of Solaris

[misty vortex]

Is it a level thing when i can't use the same gem for another skill?

[subtle vigil]

only 1 copy of each support gem on your character, unless you are a gemling legionaire

[pearl sluice]

Does anyone have a leveling pob for smith of kitava?

[dawn spire]

You can't use multiple of the same support. Skill/spirit gems have no such limitation

[misty vortex]

oh ok

[sonic peak]

I thought heavy stun required some other stuff?

[verbal summit]

gas arrow or bleed bow?

[sonic peak]

like a specific skill or smt

[dawn spire]

Nope, all hit damage will build toward heavy stun

[sonic peak]

oh nice

will still suck on bosses unless you get 20 glory in a single stun

[misty vortex]

yeah wanted to use scatter shot on like explosive and gas grenades

[subtle vigil]

Crushing Blows (from specific skills or Titan) can cause stun at a % threshold

[minor tree]

amazon infuse seems meh, but it's the hot new thing and bleed may be nice

kitava seems solid, it's just a pile of defenses

tactician seems fun with supporting fire and buffing minions/totems

[dawn spire]

On trash mobs you'll likely kill them before you stun them without stun investment tho

If bosses don't give 20 glory on heavy stun I'll be very sad

[minor tree]

persistent buff having 50% less reservation seems huge

[sonic peak]

tactician defenses kinda ass tho

there's pin...

and that's it

if you even consider pin a defense lo

[subtle vigil]

ailment and stun immunity seems good to me with those effects happening more often

[minor tree]

in fairness amazon isn't really providing any either

[hidden siren]

ev on head gloves and boots is doubled

[sonic peak]

the half evasion chest one is decent as long as there's a good unique

[hidden siren]

makes up for the loss on chest

[minor tree]

so net 0? x)

[hidden siren]

theres a 100% more ev on armor node in tree

[minor tree]

i do plan to use that if i go for redflare infuse bs

[sonic peak]

no, since then you can use a unique on chest

[hidden siren]

or just go pure es or armor on chesty

[minor tree]

but that 70% nerf is rough

[sonic peak]

70%?

[minor tree]

was said to be 650%ish damage, now is 180%

[sonic peak]

oh wait infuse?

[minor tree]

yep

[sonic peak]

fucked up

[minor tree]

ikr? i was gonna go all in with redflare and infuse

[sonic peak]

I was split between infuse and accuracy

guess that makes it easy

[minor tree]

so yeah very torn between amazon (can try infuse, then go for accuracy/bleed), smith (free defenses) and tactician (50% less reservation is massive)

ritualist is fine but i'll need a lot of investment for that to work out, so nah
and i'm not feeling lich

[sonic peak]

lich Eternal Life sounds fun

they nerfed that unique helm, but added a 'dmg goes through ES' node on the tree

so you can get ~25ish reduction I think

[summer pasture]

Iirc correctly everyone can light stun but titan and bonshatter heavy stun

Also the explosion on temper weapon has 714% scaling at lvl 20 which is nuts

[minor tree]

i'm thinking that... almost all minions are persistent

50% off is insane no?

that's "double your spirit"

eh let's just go amazon, log in

[hasty elm]

hows pconc looking after all the changes to the skill and what not

[white charm]

Besides the unique helm, what are some good ways to get everything with an ignite ailment when near them? Infernalist dog can do this at 1.5m range, what else?

[cosmic tulip]

so , is 80 % of the playerbase going minions ?

[atomic halo]

what

why would they do that

infernalist got nerfed, all minions got nerfed post lvl 20

+5 on sceptres removed as well

[cosmic tulip]

I think minions on the new witch ascendency will be the most popular build for the first 3 days

[pearl sluice]

is it back up?

[potent hearth]

how many specters can you raise up?

[humble wave]

I went from 5000 Energy shield to 1900 energy shield with the same talents and I have no idea what happened

I played Chaos Inoculation so this wrecks me

[cosmic tulip]

I hered a streames saying smith of kitava got nerfed , have they removed something from that ascendency ?

[static plinth]

Are you using Ghostwrithe

[humble wave]

yeah

[humble wave]

what did they change about it? still says it converts 51% of life to ES

did they make that ES not scale with talents?

[timid aurora]

Anyone have website with all skill changes

Like numbers

[static plinth]

They fixed it giving ES with Chaos Innoculation

It now gives half of 1, aka 0

[frank iron]

anyone watching fubgun atm?

[ember parrot]

Urgh... They removed Shocked ground from Lightning Warp onto Ball Lightning Projectiles.

[humble wave]

Yeah that... really wrecks me. How do you even play CI without it?

[static plinth]

You get a normal ES chest

You lose like 500 base ES but you get more resistance and stuff

[humble wave]

I had 75% resistances to everything, with a normal chest im down like 2300 ES

compared to last patch

[cedar aspen]

Are thorns going to be a meta now!? This is amazing

[static plinth]

Idk about meta.but they seem viable

[cedar aspen]

Definitely. I might fuck around with thorns on my magma barrier build now for this

[rocky flint]

What’s the best starter class sorceress ?

[cosmic tulip]

I keep getting a not responding error on the first loading screen , anyone else having this issue ?

[cedar aspen]

Bleeding for sure is going to be huge if you can get access to the nodes on the tree. The bleed support gems look nuts

[static plinth]

If Barbs is flat damage and not as extra damage, the one support that gives lightning thorns while channeling + Barb support will triple dip on mana damage with archmage

[dim void]

Anyone tried anything monk yet? I feel like monk got hit the hardest with the herald and tempest nerfs.

[ember parrot]

Oh okay, I managed to fix my broken combo

Shockburst + Lightnign warp will now instead be Shockburst + Gathering Storm!

[static plinth]

Has anyone seen the stats of the new unique charms Forsaken Bangle, Ngamahu's Chosen, Rite of Passage, and Valako's Roar?

[short eagle]

Hi guys, is armor a underwhelming stat? I've stop playing a few months ago where ES was king

[atomic halo]

well, grim feast got deleted

[dawn spire]

the big bar at the top of bosses is building to a heavy stun

[atomic halo]

but armour didnt really get buffed either

[short eagle]

Oof

[modern steppe]

Anyone having success with amazon early skills?

[pastel nexus]

Umm trying to follow huntress build guide on mobalytics and the passive skill trees are completely different in the game ? Am I missing something?

[maiden pumice]

Does mercenary presence buffs affect the artillery / ballistas?
And does the ballista get its damage from weapon damage?

[dawn spire]

ballistae, yes. if you mean the supporting fire minion, no

[dawn spire]

no one had uptodate info until an hour ago, basically. Also did you pick huntress or ranger? They have different starts and I doubt the mobalytics people used the correct ones

[maiden pumice]

Nice thank you
Also would be Amazon or tactician better if I want to play with crossbows?
Thanks for your help:)

[pastel nexus]

I deff picked huntress, yeah I guess i need to give it some time before they have all the correct stuff

[ember parrot]

Okay, testing skills on standard... This game feels so slow after playing phrecia recently

[dawn spire]

depends on the build

[frank iron]

I been trying to follow fubgun... It looks like he went huntress, but used a ranger to mule a bow and LA to the huntress?

[dawn spire]

that sounds like a good strat to me

[maiden pumice]

was thinking about grenades or pin
Since Amazon gives also a lot of damage boosts 😄

[solemn cradle]

It feels like amazon ascendency is hyper generic. I wanna play bow this season and I wanted to play amazon, but it feels like deadeye is better suited for that.

[ember parrot]

Is there any way to increase the distance traveled with Gathering Storm?

[dawn spire]

I really couldn't tell ya. amazon/huntress looked so boring to me I barely looked at what they did

[maiden pumice]

Aight
Thank you very much!

[celest vine]

minions are dead, less then x30 damage in endgame gear, hard to kill rare mob in white map, deleting poe2 atm

[dawn spire]

sir, this is a build planning channel

you're looking for #2┃general

I was talking to @celest vine

[celest vine]

i dont care, leaving this server

[summer pasture]

When did that change, thought that was for any stun

[ember parrot]

You checked your passive tree?

Many got broken due to change of Jewel socket positions

[summer pasture]

Hmm then what's the point of the first titan node on the stun path? Just more build up?

[dawn spire]

this? yeah, it just builds it faster

[summer pasture]

No the notable

Gives crushing blows

Which literally state you heavy stun targets that are primed for stun

[dawn spire]

yeah, look at what primed for stun does

[summer pasture]

Ah you stun faster

[dawn spire]

against uniques I think it means you heavy stun things at 90% of the bar

[static plinth]

Does the rhoa mount have a dodge

[unborn oracle]

Guys Iam struggling between Wichthunter and Amazon Hunter what do you think?

[carmine flicker]

what's the conclusion about spear skills?
how good as 1h melee?
(cause maces suck, so spears is only 1h melee we have)

[humble wave]

is this % of EVASION or EVASION RATING ? Cause 5% of 70 isn't a lot

[carmine flicker]

rating

[atomic halo]

evasion rating

[humble wave]

thanks

[proper socket]

Anyone going ritualist minions?

[faint moon]

Ok who is willing to give a super noob (me) a suggestion for a new build for the new patch? I don’t k ow anything about any meta or best/worst builds. I just want to be able to get through the campaign relatively easily and be able to do end game stuff when I get there. I’ve done a bad witch build and a got a ranger up to level 25ish so far.

[hybrid ocean]

In intermission of a concert rn, any interesting new uniques found yet?

[wheat blade]

What options would an EDC build have to reliably generate power charges to fuel Lich's Price of Power?

[hybrid ocean]

EDC?

[wheat blade]

Essence Drain + Contagion

[dawn spire]

profane ritual, power siphon, lingering illusion

[wheat blade]

Power siphon prolly is our only option eh

[dawn spire]

resonance + combat frenzy + chaotic freeze

[proper socket]

anyone looking to go into tirualist? if so what bui;d?

[hybrid ocean]

Ah

[dawn spire]

oh, wait, you need to hit with that. and I don't think dark effigy would count

[wheat blade]

Indeed

Can power siphon get us 2 power charges every 5s or so?

[hybrid ocean]

Well

[wheat blade]

That's just a wand skill isnt it

We'd lose a power charge on both ED and C

[hybrid ocean]

Depending on how often you need to cast, what about hateforged mitts and a high attack speed offhand weapon?

[wheat blade]

Dunno if that's worth it

[hybrid ocean]

I imagine you can still generate rage from ice walls

Probably not

[wheat blade]

The alternative is taking the jewel socket potentially

From lich

[hybrid ocean]

But it is the only way to get charges out of combat, as far as I'm aware

[wheat blade]

Oh no, inside combat

We have about a 5s to 6s window between DoT reapplication

So we'd wanna generate 2 power charges in that down time while running around

Lich Eternal Life counters the notable that makes us lose life when we use chaos skills too

[hybrid ocean]

Oh, true

...

I was about to ask if anyone had tested an interaction with that

And then I remembered it's been half an hour

[wheat blade]

If we could switch ascebdancies it'd be easier lol

[woven otter]

How soon will the new uniques be out you think???

[dawn spire]

they're out now

[woven otter]

I mean mined

[dawn spire]

unless they said they;re not

[hybrid ocean]

I wonder if anyone had a levelled unascended character or three just sitting around at the final chamber of trials

[dawn spire]

if they aren't mined yet, they probably won't be

[wheat blade]

How does Decaying Hex + Contagion interact

Does Contagion spread the curse too?

[woven otter]

Damn so gotta wait until they are found lmao

[dawn spire]

in the best way imaginable, yes

[wheat blade]

Sooo

[hybrid ocean]

More likely they mean the ones not mined getting uploaded manually

[wheat blade]

Wait does Lich's profane bloom thing, plus Contagion, plus decaying hex, do what I think it does

Explode -> Contagion spreads curse -> boom -> repeat?

Does it super speed up the chaining? =0

[hybrid ocean]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Dawn_of_the_Hunt_uniques

[dawn spire]

probly

[wheat blade]

Holy shit lol

[hybrid ocean]

These may or may not be all of them

[woven otter]

It’s barely any of them

[hybrid ocean]

^ almost assuredly not, I would imagine

[wheat blade]

I guess the thing is, Contagion kinda has a delay right

[static plinth]

Yeah thatll work

[wheat blade]

Fuck that's juicy

[static plinth]

Wdym

It transfers instantly

The animation just looks slow

[wheat blade]

Oh dope

So yeah it'll chain like crazy

[dawn spire]

someone's finally seeing the light; chaos dot

[static plinth]

Also fyi if you essence drain a target contagion will auto-target them

Within reason

[dawn spire]

and contagion will also auto-target the lowest health enemy near your cursor

[wheat blade]

Yeh I tried to make it work in 0.1, noticed that

[static plinth]

Really? Did not know that

Maybe thats why it targets ED victims

[wheat blade]

The huge damage buff and the fact we have real supports now and a real ascendancy looks good

[dawn spire]

yeah, I'm using it in act 1 and it's fuckin annoying lmao

[wheat blade]

I think the big thing is just: how do we generate power charges

[inland pelican]

lvl 3 character and leeets go

[static plinth]

Yeah its lookin crazy

[wheat blade]

Do we just use a power siphon wand?

[static plinth]

Thats what i did

Doesnt do anything in bossing though

But you can just hold it down to cull everything

[wheat blade]

Oh really? Dang

I was thinking mostly how we generate power charges on boss fights

[dawn spire]

profane ritual might be your best bet

[wheat blade]

Can we do profane ritual in boss fights?

[dawn spire]

if they have adds, yeah

[wheat blade]

Nah assuming they dont

[dawn spire]

then

[devout garnet]

question, how does exactly temper weapon works?

[wheat blade]

Like actual real pinnacle intent can we generate power charges

[dawn spire]

I don't see any way from the support or active gems

[wheat blade]

You channel it up to 4 stacks to boost next 4 attacks

[dawn spire]

when I get a spirit gem I'll check

[crystal slate]

The wirlwinds you can create using the spear. Can they only be affected by elemental effects or can they be affected by poison?

[woven otter]

Yea just do the swap trick

[wheat blade]

What's that?

[devout garnet]

should I boost fire damage in the tree or what

[proper socket]

Anyone looking to play Ritualist?

if so what you playing

[woven otter]

Profane ritual and sacrifice

[wheat blade]

My only gripe is if I go lich then in playing an ES build

[dawn spire]

eh, not necessarily

[wheat blade]

It seems like the obvious choice

[dawn spire]

curse nodes + phylactery + power charge. no ES necessary

my 0.1 build was an ice shot chrono, fuck obvious choices

[wheat blade]

Yeah but then no defenses

[dawn spire]

isn't that every non-ES build?

[wheat blade]

Like giving up on that huge damage reduction seems like a bad call

Versus going CI lich and getting like 36% less dmg taken

[dawn spire]

it do be kinda strong, but then how do you actually regain your ES?

[wheat blade]

Actually wait that fucks up mana regen

[trim moss]

is there a path of building for 0.2 yet by any chance

[wheat blade]

Valid yeah, we can't recharge it or leech it

I'm also eyeing chrono EDC tho

Now that slow effect multiplies curse effect

[dawn spire]

I'm doing chaos dot chrono

[wheat blade]

We can get insane high slow effect on bosses 🤔

[dawn spire]

and I'm going CI

because I can regain my ES (:

[nimble hound]

Anyone have a link to changes

like actual % for each skill

base

and per lvl

[wheat blade]

Also chrono means we can use the Cooldown supports easier for moar dmg and moar aoe

[nimble hound]

Unleash might be OP for some skills ?

Anyone online and testing PF concoctions to see how fucking horrific they are now

im' not home yet

[dawn spire]

I'm gonna use an extra ED with hourglass + dauntless + zenith (Assuming zenith snapshots)

[wheat blade]

I was eyeing dauntless

[dawn spire]

it seems really really good

[wheat blade]

Chaos Mastery isn't much worse than dauntless if you cast asap, it's like 14% more vs 18% more, but no restriction

But dauntless has the upside

[dawn spire]

3.75s and you have full stacks I think

[wheat blade]

Yeh, but that's a long time to stand still

I can see that really blowing up in your face 🤔

Too many pinnacle fights won't let you stand still

[dawn spire]

that's why I'm only putting it on one of my EDs, the one with hourglass

[wheat blade]

I'd rather use Chaos Mastery support I think

[wheat blade]

Ah, I see

[dawn spire]

and then I'll have one with chaos mastery + swift affliction + maybe chain I guess

or zenith depending on how it works

[wheat blade]

I was planning on just having 1x ED, but then just abuse chrono and maybe eventually save up for temporalis

The thing us I just dunno how good/bad this build will be for farming Sekhema

[dawn spire]

chrono really shines, imo, with temporal rift + 20% slow and then whatever you want, so yeah, I could see the CD arm being solid

[wheat blade]

I think even with all the buffs it's gonna be pretty low dps with gg gear

[dawn spire]

I think I'm actually gonna dip into unleash and the cast speed

[ornate palm]

Is it just me or the default spear throw is stronger than any other huntress range spear skills atm?

[wheat blade]

Twister seems balanced around getting ele charged

And being used in a wind thingy

[ornate palm]

i used the the whirling slash then twister, but the default throws just clears faster

[wheat blade]

Usually for A1 its normal for your basic skill to fuckin slap

Cuz it costs 0 mana

[ornate palm]

also the lightning spear has crazy casting time and doesn't really do much dmg.

[nimble hound]

wow first time game crashed somseone told me switch to vulan

was i trolled

[static plinth]

Whild its less viable without grim feast, i used eternal youth

[grave iron]

Can the spectre itself changed or once the BIND SPECTRE is cast on corpse, that creature is bound to the skill forever , hence every enemy requires its own BIND SPECTRE gem ?

[dawn spire]

can you screenshot the gem?

oh, I got one

yeah, it changes the gem itself

[nimble hound]

best class for Chaos Dots?

[dawn spire]

depends, but I'd say witch, sorceress, warrior, and ranger are all contenders. Maybe amazon, too. Merc is a maybe

[nimble hound]

lol

[dawn spire]

class truly means very little for poe

[unborn oracle]

Byron any suggestion? Can´t decide between starting bleed sorc, withchunter or bleed amazon

[dawn spire]

none of those are chaos dot, so roll a die

[fallen urchin]

hey did they fix armour?? is armour good now or?

[dawn spire]

nothing was changed about armor, except they added some new supports that might help, but they seemed like memes to me

[vapid moat]

need some tips for spear class!

[carmine flicker]

you mean what class to choose?

[mint surge]

I'm gonna try to see if i can make a gemling spear build

[carmine flicker]

what supports btw?

[old shuttle]

yeah i was thinking gemling spear could be good with the serpent attack and frenzy charges

double dipping on support gems can go crazy

[proper socket]

I am curious about gambling

on ritualist

since there will be new unique rings and amulets

[old shuttle]

ay wtf, they moved my damn clearfell door

[mint surge]

Exactly

[old shuttle]

wtf why am i up the top now

[carmine flicker]

idk
I want spear user smith of kitava, but.. difficult to plan it without any knowledge about his skills

[old shuttle]

just log on to an old character and check out the skills

or search em up

[carmine flicker]

I mean, his ascendancy ones

ofc I already tried all spear skills

they are.. well.. better than mace at least?

[autumn cliff]

is it worth playing witch if I hate minion playstyles? Like I dont even want to use them leveling, outside of being forced until I dont have to. But if thats just going to be struggle buss all the way, I may pass

[old shuttle]

one boss killed one unique, ez

too bad its crown of thorns

but hey, as a lich eventually no downside kek

[autumn cliff]

yeah thats what I want to try, but i dont want minions lol. Thought there was a Chulya build somewhere with lich but idk

[carmine flicker]

every witch ascendancy have non-minion builds
and blood mage is full on non minion

[old shuttle]

yeah im doing a contagion curse build with atziri helm for tankiness

[autumn cliff]

cool, i know very little about the non melee/xbow builds

[old shuttle]

cause getting 25% dmg resist is kinda OP

[tawdry valley]

guys i paly lazylightningspear. while i really do enjoy it, i just realized the nodes on the skill tree dont acutaully match?= anyone else playing this?

[humble wave]

Do any support gems actually work with Witch Hunter's Sorcery Ward? And if so which?

[mental needle]

Does the contagion skill count as a curse?

[old shuttle]

no?

[dawn spire]

the build guide was made with the ranger start since huntress start didn't yet exist. They have different starting nodes, just like sorceress and witch

[gilded tangle]

Arsonists feels much stronger than snipers?

[mental needle]

okay i was Just wondering

[nimble hound]

herald of blood didn't make it?

[dawn spire]

it's a spirit gem

[nimble hound]

yah i didn't see it

[peak tundra]

Does bleed go past es?

[dawn spire]

no

[nimble hound]

oh i see

[peak tundra]

devs said it should go past

[dawn spire]

oh, my bad, yes

it does

[kindred dawn]

going in blind, smith and spear? Fire build??

[peak tundra]

I just fought a boss, but it didnt seem like it did anything to hp if es was there

[dawn spire]

but it can only be inflicted if the hit damages life. So if the enemy takes life damage, then regains ES, the bleed will continue to damage their life

[peak tundra]

Okay so bleed is useless if the boss has es?

that is the worst mechanic i have ever seen icl

[dawn spire]

you cannot inflict a bleed unless your hit damages their life

[peak tundra]

So its basically useless to build around bleed because you need the es to go down first. Im not playing bleed then. Onto something else

[dawn spire]

you can use malady to turn a bleed skill into a poison skill and poison does damage damage to ES

[peak tundra]

ah i see

[dawn spire]

just an extra step vs ES enemies

[peak tundra]

Might try that tbh

[nimble hound]

how good is ballista now

[alpine parrot]

its ballistic

[nimble hound]

ballistic warbringer..hmmm

[frank iron]

Anyone willing to vc and help me out? Im brand new and a little confused with skill gems and stuff.

[sterile sierra]

does anyone have a good warrior leveling build?
Want to go smite laer on <,<

[carmine flicker]

can't decide between lich and smith of kitava
what would be tankier?
ofc lich have huge pool and just "lol nope" 30% or smth damage reduction, but smith offer way better recovery (now that feast is gone) and 90 all res(and easy res cap on top)

[wheat blade]

I expect they're about the same, the question is doing stuff with the rest of the ascendancy

[nimble hound]

What ascendency do you think is best for totems? I'm kinda' tied on Warbringer or Tactician

that includes ballistas or regular totems

[carmine flicker]

ehh, smith have his "don't know what they do" skills

and lich have unholy might for minions I guess
(and may be double effect jewel socket, that's some cool stats too)

[tulip leaf]

so whats the best build to start guys

[carmine flicker]

noone know yet, too much meta shidt

[wheat blade]

Lich giving huge dmg boost to self cast is juicy

30% more and 25% more are beeg

[carmine flicker]

if you have charges that I don't really want to bother about

[wheat blade]

I'm thinking curse - curse - dmg - phylactory for EDC

Can swap to ES stuff once I have enough ES to be worth it

[carmine flicker]

I wanted to go unholy-ES-ES-jewel

well
or semi-mom with "damage to mana before life" nodes and double effect mana before life jewel

that's like 50% damage to mana, that can be better than straight up MoM

[sick timber]

guys should i go lich or smith?

[carmine flicker]

same question, man, same question

[sick timber]

they're both cool

i just tried huntress for a couple hours and it was TERRIBLE

spear stab is your best option FOREVER

[carmine flicker]

all spear skills bad?

manifest weapon can be good for infernal legion things to get permanent ignite on anything for all the ignite thingy

like, idk, for that "molten strike, but support" or smth

[old ermine]

what would be the best class for Essence Drain/Contagion in this update?

[timber plover]

Anyone see any skills based on knowing gem info that look decent?

[true cedar]

Not sure if I should try the new Lich or go my old-time classic SRS (so would be Infernalist). Lich seems tempting, but watching Ghazzy, gameplay feels really passive. I get it's a minion build, but what I liked in SRS is that it always required me to at least do something.

[carmine flicker]

srs were gutted

[dawn spire]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[true cedar]

How badly?

[dawn spire]

babe, wake up, new ES just dropped

[carmine flicker]

2 max per spell cast

[true cedar]

Oh... that invalidates flame wall for SRS lol.

However, being used to PoE1 SRS, maybe it could work with something else? Or not really?

[carmine flicker]

idk, they last 5 second, to have 10 "in the air" you need to cast every second non stop or raise their duration a lot

and they are way weaker than poe1

no united in dream and all

(and lich can do srs easy, why the hell not, if you care enough)

[true cedar]

Bah. Maybe it really is time to try the Lich now. Just dunno how to make a non-SRS minion build exciting.

I was never original with builds. I don't follow guides cause that steals my fun, so I only came up with... SRS, Cyclone (how original), detonate dead, detonate mines toxic rain, and caustic ground build (which I unfortunately did on Metamorph league - I never knew hand can hurt so much when fighting one boss).

[carmine flicker]

good anime to watch and fluffy cat to pet while minions do the work

[humble wave]

is Armor/Evasion still doodoo?

[carmine flicker]

if I need to look at screen while I play then I know my build isn't really good...

[carmine flicker]

armor is still "lol no"

[true cedar]

Lmao. Well, I do like to do at least something, so SRS worked really well... in PoE1, in before this league in PoE2.

[nimble hound]

do "Allies" count to totems for Tactician

[midnight bolt]

parry animation cancells and allows to attack many more times than base attack speed KEKW

[dawn spire]

yes

[nimble hound]

oh woww nice

[old shuttle]

huh spears can have +proj skills on em neat

[carmine flicker]

problem is all fire spells are meh, so casting/minion fire hybrid sound.. not so exciting

[old shuttle]

yeah idk why flameblast wasnt buffed

let alone nerfed to the ground

like tf?

[nimble hound]

Seems like totem/ballista Tactician would do more dmg, but WB would be far tankier

"Watch How I do It" looks cool

Do Banners effect Totems?

[carmine flicker]

I like the semi-MoM mana/life summoner lich

[dawn spire]

banners create auras, so I'm almost certain they'd affect totems

[carmine flicker]

but idk how good would that be

totems share your stats in terms of attack afaik

so if auras affect you - it affect what totems do

[true cedar]

I wonder what else I could try. Not pressed on summoner builds, SRS was just my favourite ever since I started playing PoE. Literally the first build I ever played, naturally cause I just decided to try PoE when there were 3 acts and I didn't know build guides were a thing.

[carmine flicker]

try smth smth casting lich?

[true cedar]

Any suggestions? My knowledge of skill variety was always relatively weak even in PoE1, yet alone in this.

[dawn spire]

chaos dot go brrr

essence drain, contagion, decaying hex

[true cedar]

Might try that then.

[carmine flicker]

idk, need to see changed skill numbers

or you can go spectres
not so active(at all) gameplay, but tons of interesting research about monsters and their mods etc for spectring

[true cedar]

Yeah, when seeing Lich I was thinking of spectres, but... yeah, doing nothing at all feels meh.
Or... I might try. It was long while I did any minion build that wasn't SRS.

Will think about it, I guess I don't have much time left today anyway.

[carmine flicker]

comet is still best skill to self cast if you are tanky enough to, well, cast it

for smith you can go mjolner+fire spell on hit

and some mace skill
and crit
and cast on crit

for strom of random bullshit

[young hinge]

hey will this make decayin hex last longer too ?

[carmine flicker]

obviously, but why would you waste support on this?

[dawn spire]

yeah, I'd definitely rather recast it more often and use a stronger support

[carmine flicker]

btw firestorm is now 5 bolts per ignite

so..

it's not as bad? I guess

[true cedar]

Also semi related question. Did they make respeccing cheap now?
Cause in PoE1 it wasn't exactly that cheap, and I haven't tracked PoE2 since it originally came out to early access, but I heard there were some mentions of making it cheaper. Wondering how pressed I need to be to pick Lich Minions vs Lich DoT vs anything else now.

[carmine flicker]

in POE1 respec is free-ish(orbs of regret cost nothing)

in terms of gold it's.. affordable

[true cedar]

Guess I just never bothered with trading for them then.

[supple bay]

dumb question: do you need to use a bow/xbow to use artillery or ripwire ballista totems? Is there a consensus on which is better?

[shut vigil]

Can bosses be tamed?

[carmine flicker]

it was like 2-3 per chaos, so 50 chaos for full respec, that was nothing

[supple bay]

Ah okay ty. Another question: does my attack speed for my character affect my totems? Like more attack speed = faster attacking totems? or does it have to say totems

[old ermine]

Is it feeling good this patch?

[static plinth]

Splinter of Loratta is fucking insane right? You have to stack flat damage because it sucks but you basically get PoE1 poisons

[dawn spire]

hold alt and click on stuff

[dawn spire]

for my sorc, so far yes

[humble wave]

https://streamable.com/p3ttsh

Can someone explain why this mob isn't getting shocked? This happens a LOT and I don't get why

[dawn spire]

it's lightning resistant

[old ermine]

What ascendancy are you going? I was thinking Litch for my ED/Contagion build

[dawn spire]

very low shock chance against it

[dawn spire]

I'm going chrono because hcssf

[humble wave]

it happens all the time with other mobs too, the arrow does damage but it doesn't shock

[dawn spire]

what supports are you using with it?

[humble wave]

the increased shock chance one

[dawn spire]

that's it?

[carmine flicker]

btw, any reason to lvl new witch covalescence ?

nothing improves with lvl

[dawn spire]

not even the buff duration/cd?

[carmine flicker]

only duration, for like 0.3 second or smth

[dawn spire]

pretty sure spirit gems have been kinda bugged in the past in terms of showing their level up benefits

are you checking just one level ahead?

[humble wave]

Lightning Exposure, Conduction, Strip Away, Lasting Shock

[carmine flicker]

I cheked lvl 6 vs lvl 18

was like minor duration difference, less than half a second

[dawn spire]

does it ever shock? or just rarely?

[dawn spire]

weird.

[humble wave]

kinda rarely to be honest and it's infuriating because my whole build relies on it

like ill sometimes need to hit a boss with it 6 times

[dawn spire]

bosses are real hard to shock

and lasting shock isn't helping

[wild kernel]

Any thoughts on why perpetual charge wouldn't work with lightning spear? It literally consumes a frenzy charge?

[carmine flicker]

yeah, and between like 3.8 second and 4.2 or w/e it really doesn't matter

with support for cooldown and duration it's already good uptime

[trail cliff]

does the artillery squad from supporting fire ascendancy node count as in your presence since they are hidden?

[young hinge]

whats the support that lowers cooldown again?

[dawn spire]

ingenuity

[young hinge]

thanks

[woven otter]

most new uniques trash eh

more to come i think tho, poe2dw only showin 60

[dawn spire]

most new uniques trash eh *

new uniques are not datamined (yet)

[woven otter]

60 of them are on poe2db

they all shit except like 4

[dawn spire]

not even 4 hours into a new patch and you can tell which uniques are trash, teach me where you learn this

[fickle birch]

Is the community fork of PoB updated yet? It says it's up to date for me but I can't see the lich, not sure if I have to do something extra to get it going with the new patch?

[dawn spire]

it's not updated yet

[woven otter]

because some literally do nothing haha

[fickle birch]

Ah, brilliant, I'll wait then, I can't even play today anyway

[dawn spire]

either you're misusing "literally" or poedb is bugging out

[woven otter]

touche

they dont literally do nothing

but they may as well

[static plinth]

Did they add anything to Impale besides Bonestorm and Dreadfist?

[young hinge]

lol i think i can make my freezes last nearly 9 seconds

[dawn spire]

impale support

[woven otter]

ye support gems and gloves

[static plinth]

Oh thats more convenient

Woah max 60 impales

Guess that makes sense since not every impale goes off with each hit

Oh lol Gloamgown had a typo on db its 1000 not 100

Thats a cool ass unique ngl

[main bridge]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/fubgun-deadeye-leveling?widgets-state=eyJmN2Q4MjEwMi03ZTc3LTRhNDQtYWQyNC0zM2I2N2U4YWU3YmYiOnsiZmlsdGVycyI6eyJhY3RpdmVWYXJpYW50SWQiOiI1MDgxNDNmYy1lNzdmLTQ2YzgtOWM2MC04OTZjYWJmYTY4YTEifSwidHlwZW5hbWUiOiJOZ2ZEb2N1bWVudENtV2lkZ2V0Q29udGVudFZhcmlhbnRzVjEifX0

is fubgun tripping here, he does not actually put lightning arrow into the build other than the first few levels with martial tempo, now hes saying use LA and take out scattershot, but never even says to use scattershot in the LA

[static plinth]

Can you poison yourself somehow?

[stoic shell]

haven't been able to log in yet, but am trying to decide amazon and smith. any early input on which might be more fun?

[dawn spire]

fun is subjective and I have no idea what you find fun, so unfortunately no

[stoic shell]

Fair. Guess I’m just wanting something that’s the most different from witch

[young hinge]

whats that support that boosts chance to apply ailments

[dawn spire]

classes don't really say much about the build, so assuming you mean minion or chaos builds when you say "witch" then I'd say they're pretty much equal since you can do melee with either amazon or smith. Really depends on what build you want to play

[static plinth]

Anyone have ideas on how to make Wind Serpent's Fury spammable as my main skill?

[visual warren]

any good recommendation for a build that starts strong and ends strong?

[dawn spire]

if anyone says that a build "ends strong" 4 hours into a new patch, they're trying to sell you something

I will say that ED+contagion as a sorc is starting strong af

[visual warren]

what does sorc transition into? just ed contagion still?

[dawn spire]

I'm planning on going chrono and staying with ED/contagion

can't speak for how good it'll be

[static plinth]

EDC was strong last patch and it got like 80% buffs

Worst nerf was Withering Touch (maybe) and Despair nerf

• We now have Soul Mantle

Id be shocked if it isnt an incredibly strong build

[visual warren]

whats the playstyle like? i never played it in poe1

[stoic shell]

My concern w smith is that im going to be forced into going an armor build. Or is that not necessarily true

[dawn spire]

throw out essence drain, throw out contagion, watch the pack melt, drag the pack into other packs, watch them all melt as you cackle maniacally

[dawn spire]

not necessarily true at all

it has possibly the strongest defense against physical hits in the game without any armor required

[young hinge]

so what is the bosses ailment threshholds i wonder

poe2db says its usually equal to max life but bosses have a modifier which i cant find a number for

[jagged wave]

They forgot to add so you can put perpetual charge to storm lance.... Nice bug

[civic tide]

Guess i am a melee huntress starter

[devout dew]

does anyone here play Ritualist

[nimble hound]

i forgot how much more annoying warrior is to lvl than ranged

die mid rolling slam slow as fuck 😄

[hoary bolt]

its not

[deft fox]

Guys should I continue with Amazon if I hate the parry mechanic ?

[nimble hound]

wait what skill?

[hoary bolt]

boneshatter

[nimble hound]

i'm using rolling slam and half my HP is gone during the animation

on boss

[hoary bolt]

use mace strike on bosses early

with concentrated effect and martial tempo

[neat bison]

You don’t have to use it

[dawn spire]

you're not forced to use melee as warrior. I'd recommend contagion + ED

[visual warren]

awhat are you levelling as?

[dawn spire]

contagion + ED

sorc

[nimble hound]

i remember doing this boss with my eyes clsoed on sorc

but on warr i have eto elden ring it

[dawn spire]

but you get so much %inc damage on a focus/wand/staff that not having %inc damage on the tree early on really isn't a huge deal

[nimble hound]

feels like a totally diff video game

gonna just do ranged character

[young hinge]

qstaff and mace is pretty nice for warrior early u can wind slash and vaulting impact then boneshatter and macestrike spam

[nimble hound]

already switched sorry

just want to have fun

[dawn spire]

I also hear that shockwave totem is great for leveling

two maces with +level of melee gems and it goes brrr

[paper jasper]

bleed seems weak, Im doing spears and about to finish act 1, anyone else made it work?

[nimble hound]

is there any point of warbringer to use ballistas? because i'll need crossbow and then lose my block

[austere locust]

are concoctions dead?

[shrewd tinsel]

is anyone using raging spirtits? they are not casting for me when i use flame wall

[grave iron]

Best spectres ? the spectre's own minions do 0 damage.

[jagged wave]

Why I can't use perpetual charge to lightning spear or storm lance, but I can to explosive spear?

[magic pier]

aight chat how do we abuse this

[dawn spire]

vendor it and use that sweet 1000 gold for gambas

[dawn spire]

new patch, new bugs

[static plinth]

1500 flat phys CB aint that bad is it?

I guess 0 supports

[dawn spire]

oh, I didn't see the 50% of your max life. But you can't raise shield with it

that's actually an insane amount of damage

[frank sphinx]

does anything help make the heavy stun bar recover quicker?

[thin vortex]

Warrior spear? Lol

[static plinth]

Parry counts

But yeah you mostly need to roll chance

[dawn spire]

not that I know of. You can only get heavy stunned by raising your shield too long as far as I know. So maybe stop using it

[nimble hound]

How tanky is gemling? squishy?

I want a tanky ballista character

[dawn spire]

if you take the gutted attribute stacking node, very tanky

[nimble hound]

oh it was nerfed?

[dawn spire]

I did gemling in 0.1 for hcssf and it was the first one that made it to maps

yeah, the node that grants doubled effectiveness of attributes now comes with 20% less attributes

[static plinth]

And getting hit while on the Rhoa

[nimble hound]

aww

[dawn spire]

oooh

[slow notch]

Ok, its been a few hours. Whats the best 0.2 build for clearing all endgame content? thanks

[dawn spire]

you're welcome

[vapid moat]

what to select from spirit gem for spear?

[dawn spire]

depends. lots of beneficial options

want to be tankier? wind dancer
want to have better clear and inflict freeze/shock? herald of ice or thunder

bleed? herald of blood

[magic pier]

god forbid a person want to do something fun with a new item

[dawn spire]

they asked for how to abuse it, not to have fun with it

[carmine flicker]

what do you think, firestorm worth it now with 5 botls per ignite?

[dawn spire]

and in my defense I didn't see how much damage it did

[magic pier]

did you not even read it

[dawn spire]

I played a bunch of corrupting cry so I assumed it would do shit damage

I didn't read the 50% bit

I saw corrupted blood and was like, "damn, even at 10 stacks it's gonna be bad"