2┃build-planning

[burnt gust]

Planning to do a galvanic shards/shockburst rounds build: would you play witchhunter (seems less nerfed) or amazon (maybe bc of higher dmg potential)? Maybe later I will look into a explosive shot build with shockburst but that requires a unique I dont have yet.

[patent shell]

lol cant find it

[elder mural]

The eater of flesh from corrutped quest is easy ?

[patent shell]

ty

[hybrid ocean]

You're also considering making some type of build around that I assume?

I've been looking at Mjölnir & Kitava's Fire Spell on Hit

Basically cast on crit, but three times as good and doesn't require crits. Does require melee though

[upper viper]

im planning on lich, impending doom :3

[dusty kiln]

anyone got like a list of all the good auras/modifiers on beasts to look out for?

[naive pagoda]

Anyone actually try hexblast yet? Im doing an EDC lich build but was considering using weapon set 2 to boost crit a bunch and lower curse time so i can cycle hex blasts as fast as possible for single target bosses then swapping back to set 1 to reset EDC and totem. or would it just be better you think to get high curse mag and just spam essence drain

[uncut nexus]

is there a way to find more spirit items for my witch?

want to use spectres

[river sky]

i have a question would the subterfuge mask node work with the stalking panther ascendancy point wok

[uncut nexus]

for silly purpose

[river sky]

its the node that gives 2 evasion per energy shield on helm

and stalking panther doubles evasion on helm boots and gloves

so if i take a pure es helm would i still benefit from stalking panther

[dawn spire]

I highly doubt it would work. That node is what's giving you the Evasion*, not the helmet

[proven rapids]

what's the best leveling experience you can have on a monk atm ?

[upper viper]

i heard a bell >_>

[dawn spire]

if you're doing an attack build, probably rake + stomping ground + brutality. Otherwise, probably essence drain + contagion. Or maybe even spark + orb of storms

[proven rapids]

ok i'll do rake on a monk sounds good

bell still good i guess tho

[dawn spire]

can't use bell with spears I'm pretty sure

[proven rapids]

yeah you can't

[dawn spire]

I wonder if you can build combo with a spear, swap to a qstaff, and then drop bell

[proven rapids]

you can't even do that

they put a restriction on that lmao

[dawn spire]

oof

[shy pasture]

to those of you who are using the beast companions, what beasts have you tried so far? and what modifiers on your compagnions do you like the most?

[last horizon]

has anyone figured out a minion build that works?

I think I'll just play D2R for a few weeks until GGG figure their sh*t out

[upper viper]

i started with minions, but with raging spirits now. I switched to frost mages, and that was okay. Then i used bonestome for damage. When they froze

[last horizon]

I thought they heavily nerfed all freeze effects against monsters?

well, it's all good I have a lvl44 amazon in D2R that I haven't played in a long time...

[tight ivy]

how are people sustaining MoM on Lich in campaign?

It's not difficult to get mobbed and run out of mana and die

[violet grove]

I have not yet started the league, but given how rough things apparently are, what is a solid build with good mobility that is lower risk/will ensure I have a decent time?

[upper viper]

I just started using contagion and essence drain. That is quite fast 😄

[violet grove]

Oooh, I've done done that even in PoE1 in years, might be fun!

[tight ivy]

ED is pretty neat right now

[dawn spire]

"good mobility" isn't really a thing. Temporal rift on chronomancer is sort of a nice get out of jail free card, though. It's also technically sort of a movement skill. I'm playing essence drain contagion chronomancer and it's pretty smooth

[tight ivy]

also decaying hex and dark effigy kinda solves its single target, at least in the campaign

[violet grove]

"Good" == Monk zooming from last league, good enough for me (more than good enough in fact). Equivalency aside from monk this league?

[dawn spire]

rake + stomping ground + brutality is decent I hear. Rake dashes to your target

[nimble hound]

top builds on ladder is still archmage with lightning spells lol

[upper viper]

damn, i will be using archmage as well with my impending doom

[violet grove]

I am a bit scared of going spears given how popular they are, so am worried over expense. Is this a valid concern?

[dawn spire]

no

given how many people are giving up on huntress because they didn't find rake + stomping ground, I think you'll be fine

and stomping ground doesn't even scale with your weapon

rake is also just a stepping stone to real spear skills later on once you come online

[violet grove]

I am reading it now--how do you scale stomping ground? This is fascinating.

[dawn spire]

with strength

[violet grove]

Bloody fascinating.

[cosmic tulip]

guys , what exactly generates voltaic charges on huntress ?

How do I get 30 of them:D

I want to play lightning spear

[dawn spire]

read your support gems

I think you're using volt

oh, you don't have it yet

I think you need volt support

[cosmic tulip]

I mena , I do not have them , I saw a video on youtube and He has them , I wonder how to generate them , and I don;t know if it's a support gem , or from the ascendency

Thank you

[cosmic tulip]

I will check

Ooo it's a lvl 2 suppport gem , I got it , thank you

[violet grove]

I hope you do not mind me continuing this conversation (feel free to stop responding if I am dominating the chat):

Would you say focusing on Rake or even a Bleed generalist build is viable to league start well enough? I find I often spend a lot of resources trying to respec my league start, which puts me in a way further behind and then I even struggle with the next character.

Or should I focus instead on a "better build" and just use Rake/SG for leveling, ignoring Bleed/building into them?

[dawn spire]

rake isn't for bleed. rake is good because it procs stomping ground very easily

you can take or leave bleed. I'd recommend leaving it

[violet grove]

Ah ha. So it really is a Stomping Ground build.

[tidal birch]

Im following Cpt. Lances Essence Drain and Contagion build. But initially started the char to go Demonform. But the build feels good. You guys think Demonfrom (with the nerfs) is bait and I should just go Lich like everybody else? (The build: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/317nx0it)

[dawn spire]

I think lich and infernalist both have their pros and cons. For essence drain+contagion, specifically, I think lich offers more. Extra curse, curse pops, spreading curses via decaying hex + contagion, it just seems like such a strong package

and the demon form cast speed is kinda wasted on chaos dot as well

[elder mural]

Is there a website to see which boss are associated with the type of map name

[tidal birch]

What kind of build would want to go demon form?

[dawn spire]

no idea, but something that benefits from the cast speed, damage, and levels. And ideally doesn't care too much about their weapons

[tidal birch]

On a side node. The guy who made the build I follow, said in a video that he is not going for curse pops, because contagion is already spreading so dont need more spreading

[static plinth]

Multiple Sniper's Marks will share cooldowns right?

[tidal birch]

Okay, ty for the answer, with blink the build will probably be very mobile anyway.

[violet grove]

Given Armour is still "not fixed" (apparently?), if I roll a Ritualist, should I still focus on Evasion/Energy Shield?

[patent shell]

does skill gem support also buff shockwave ?

things like close combat etc

[mystic dirge]

Are we able to ask for build help here or is limited to the build help chan?

[violet grove]

Supports do not support support gems.

They support skill gems.

[languid fossil]

Anyone used penetrate on Amazon? The damage boost doesn’t seem correct

[uncut nexus]

i like using the lost men necromancer on the bone zone in act 2

[violet grove]

This is the build help channel--best place to ask about that. The #1308715058716610580 is a forum for specific classes and such, in a threaded manner.

[uncut nexus]

i use ember fusilade to spam my rage spirit (stole this build from ghazzy) because it can spawn more than 2 per fusilade technically since its multiple cast

[mystic dirge]

@violet grove Thanks. Just wanted to make sure before hand..

[naive cloak]

what do i need to make cast on shock more viable

it barely fills and im pure lightning build

[violet grove]

More % chance to shock

[mystic dirge]

As a Curse/Chaos dmg focused Lich, would it be better to ditch minions as meatshields and invest the points into ES nodes? Trying to tweak my build.

[agile meteor]

no inheret mana regeneration - can i referate mana from gear ? (Amulet , rings?)

Regenarate *

[dawn spire]

imo, trying to do minions AND chaos spells is stretching too thin

I'd ditch minions

[dawn spire]

inherent mana regen is the base mana regen you get that's a % of your max mana per second

so if you have some other source of it (like the lich node), you'd have that base regen instead

and then your mana regen mods would apply to that new base

you mentioned rings and amulet, but I don't know of any mods they grant that provide base mana regen

[mystic dirge]

Thanks

[dawn spire]

bonus tip for people struggling with getting swarmed by mobs (especially if you scale spell or cold damage); Arctic armour + glaciation + frost nexus will spawn a big patch of chilled ground when something melees you (as long as it gets frozen, which it usually will).

helps a lot with dealing with big swarmy melee packs.

[violet grove]

Love this advice. You got any equivalents for my Rake/SGness? ❤️

[dawn spire]

yeah, arctic armour

it does a bunch of flat damage

[violet grove]

Bahaha! Fantastic.

[dawn spire]

and the little swarmy bug mobs have so little life that they can still get frozen pretty easily

[violet grove]

Sweet, that will be a huge boon. Ironically I was adverse to going Cold this time around b/c I read they nerfed Freeze into the ground. I am still glad to supplement accordingly.

[dawn spire]

disclaimer; I've only been to act 2 so far and it's been great

but if you don't keep up with the level of the gem and/or don't scale cold spell damage, idk how it fares later on

[violet grove]

Indeed. Skill gem levels are more important now than even in PoE1.

[shy pasture]

i think i either found a bug or i am too stupid to read the ingame tooltips correctly. Following problem regarding spirit and the tame beast/ companions and a passive. My Quadzilla takes 42% of my spirit as reservation and he did that when i first got him without the passive, i then got the "easy going" passive and the small one before that gives "Companions have 20% reduced Reservation" but even with that passive on it is stil at 42,3% reservation. I already tried to deequip and reequip, captured a new one but that didnt change anything.
Now my question is do i understand the tooltips wrong or is it straight up bugged?

[violet grove]

...Yeah that must be a bug. Perhaps try unsocketing the gem? Respec out of the point and back in, then put the gem back in?

[shy pasture]

yea i unsocketed, i even went as far as to get a new tame beast skillgem and capture a whole new quadzilla but both the old and the new version keep the original 42,3% spirit cost 😦

is anyone else here using this and encountered the same thing? or could someone try it on their char and let me know if the issue persits?

[dawn spire]

if you hold shift over that 20% node, does it say it affects your tame beast skill?

[violet grove]

I will test this for you once I am playing...so it will be very many hours. This is purely for my own interest and I intended to have a companion as well.

[violet grove]

This is a great point.

It's still entirely misleading given it uses the Companion keyword, no matter what it says.

[shy pasture]

neither shift nor alt give any additional information on that passive, but since it is inside the companion cluster and specificly says "companions" it should work no?

and all other passives in that area have to do only with companions, like extra dmg health etc

[dawn spire]

it absolutely should, but that might shed more light on why it's not working

[shy pasture]

should/ could i submit this to ggg somewhere as a bug?

[dawn spire]

I would, yeah

[shy pasture]

that would be great, if you do get to testing it, could you ping or whisper me and let me know your result?

[dawn spire]

it seems like they also just broke/disabled the compare functionality in the passive tree

[violet grove]

100% will. Expect a bad report, however. 😦

[shy pasture]

do you know where i submit a bug report like that? im new to poe 🙂

[shy pasture]

yea 😄

[dawn spire]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-forum/2214

also, type /bug in-game and paste it into the forum post

[polar zealot]

does aggravating bleed work with haemocrystals?

[bold moss]

at what stage does the Painter's Servant gloves convert elemental damage? looking at the tooltip for my galvanic shards, it does look like it adds both fire and cold damage, but the damage is not split evenly as one might expect from the wording of the gloves

[dawn spire]

that's a great question. I have no idea if the "Expected remaining damage of the bleed" takes aggravation into account

[bold oxide]

whats the split on your page? do you have any extra damage gained as x?

[dawn spire]

conversion from skills and supports takes priority over items

[bold moss]

here's what the tooltip looks like. As far as I can see, I have only generic elemental damage bonuses, nothing specific to lightning damage

[bold moss]

that makes sense, but I'm still confused as to where the conversion happens - if the gloves convert before galvanic shards converts phys to lightning, then it would give no bonuses to fire as I have no elemental damage flat on my gear, but if it happens after, then you'd expect it to split equally

and it does seem to split the fire and cold damage equally, but for some reason its giving me more lightning

(which is a problem for trinity)

[quasi flint]

What's the best first notable for chronomancer?

[dawn spire]

as a simp for temporal rift, I always take that one

[nimble hound]

any one find any OP combos with unleash

[bold moss]

nevermind im stupid

[nimble hound]

on Chrono

[bold moss]

i had lightning infusion on

XD

[dawn spire]

can you link the gloves you're using?

or post a pic

[quasi flint]

isn't it a bit low value considering it's just a panic button?

[dawn spire]

I mean, I play hcssf. It's amazing for me

and it restores your ES super easily

and it's a movement skill

[quasi flint]

yeah for hc fair enough

[dawn spire]

and it's great for backtracking from a dead end

but if you use it wrong you will die

if you want more reliable value, it depends on your build

the 20% slow is very nice. If you're doing grenades, the 33% cd bypass is crazy good

[quasi flint]

well I am on EDC

[bold moss]

it's this, but it wasnt an issue with the gloves, I just forgot to remove lightning infusion lol

[dawn spire]

oh, I see

[dawn spire]

then I'd go temporal rift, 20% slow, or the cast speed one

[quasi flint]

I see

when does the recoup one become good?

[dawn spire]

when you have some recoup

[quasi flint]

I just realized they deleted an entire 30% recoup node

[dawn spire]

yeah, but it was a buff because you had to go through it to get to the 4s recoup node

[quasi flint]

wait isn't 30% recoup crazy good?

[dawn spire]

if you have this node, I'd say you can probs go the 4s recoup node without regrets

[dawn spire]

I never found it to be super good, tbh

temporal rift is basically recoup on demand

but if you don't wanna deal with temporal rift, yeah, it sounds pretty nice

[quasi flint]

is it worth getting the recoup cluster near sorceress then?

Taut Flesh and Loose Flesh

[dawn spire]

I think so, yeah. But I would wait until you have pliable flesh before you go down that route, personally

[quasi flint]

fair enough

I'll also try to get the presence area cluster

[peak acorn]

Hi everyone! Does anyone have a resource that explains how block and evasion interact with each other?

[dawn spire]

oh, I didn't see that. that looks really good. And it's got this node right next to it as well

[feral turtle]

what are the best specters?

it seems arsonists are shit

[quasi flint]

Yeah, between the slow from chronomancer and withering presence these clusters are pretty beneficial

[dawn spire]

I believe evasion is rolled first. If you fail to evade, you then roll to block

[peak acorn]

does entropy for evasion reset after you fail evasion or after you get hit?

Never mind, reading the wiki more in depth gave me the answer - if evasion fails it subtracts 100 from the entropy system it seems. I suppose it doesn't interact with block that way, and will still have a block check after

[open gulch]

What you guys think which monster is the best for SPECTRE skill?

[peak acorn]

quadrilla

[open gulch]

Which act?

[peak acorn]

3

[pseudo jay]

Guys i got question for a friend he sees soulrend and darkpact on poe 2 db but he cant find the staff/weapon that provide the skill . Do you know how to search for it on trade/how to get these skills?

[tight ivy]

How do you solve mana issues for Lich? I'm struggling a bit when despair eats half my mana pool and MoM takes the rest.

[dawn spire]

don't use MoM

at least not until you have giga mana sustain from gear/max mana pool/tree

[tight ivy]

uh, wouldn't I just build for ES by that time?

[dawn spire]

by what time? are you talking campaign, early mapping, endgame?

[tight ivy]

I guess I can drop MoM, but I might be prone to one shots more than I am already

early mapping to endgame

[dawn spire]

are you using the 5% mana drain node?

[tight ivy]

Nope, not yet

wait no, I won't

unholy might won't help ED

[dawn spire]

if despair is using half your mana pool, I'm wagering you need more max mana (which will also help with regen)

[tight ivy]

all I have now is soulless form, no real reason to ascend more until I build ES anyway

[dawn spire]

so #1 priority, if I were you and dead-set on using MoM, would be to get more mana on gear

[tight ivy]

err, probably max life for soulless, I guess?

[shy pasture]

i submitted my bug report on the forum and took a look around and filtering with animal companion ive seen 2 more reports of people who describe the same issue of the cost reduction not aplying. So you prob dont have to test it 😦

[dawn spire]

oh, you have soulless and MoM?

I see

[tight ivy]

my gear is pretty light on life right now, I didn't realise how expensive basic life rings are

[dawn spire]

I'm confused now

you're going MoM, which means you want as much max mana as possible (ideally higher than life)

and then you took a node that makes your mana regen based on max life instead of max mana

Why did you take soulless?

[worldly stone]

which huntress ascendency has more potential?

[tight ivy]

errr, I was just following a guide without thinking, really

There really isn't anything else Lich can take

[dawn spire]

eveyerone is going amazon it seems, so I'd say that ritualist has more potential since fewer people are testing it

[worldly stone]

any reason everyone is going for amazon?

[dawn spire]

amazon's potential is more quickly being converted into results

crit node, mostly

[tight ivy]

actually yeah, there's actually nothing I can take on lich that remotely does anything right now without hurting me

[worldly stone]

bonus ring and stuff cant it actually change your build alot?

[dawn spire]

curse pops are dope

[tight ivy]

for ED?

[dawn spire]

you're using despair + decaying hex + contagion, right?

[tight ivy]

yep

[marsh token]

does stomping ground not scale at all with your weapons base attack dmg?

[tight ivy]

despair is really expensive to cast though, so I don't really use it for clearing

[dawn spire]

then it'll make your clear even more insane

but, tbf, ED/C doesn't really need help with clear

if you have the ES for it, the more damage with ES cost node might be great

[tight ivy]

it clears fine if uh, the ED actually hits the contagion target, to be fair

[dawn spire]

or if you can get down to 0 max es so it doesn't add any cost

[dawn spire]

use ED first, contagion will auto-target the lowest hp enemy near your cursor

[tight ivy]

I probably won't build for ES until maps, it's a bit of a pain, mm

[tight ivy]

I did that early on, but now normal enemies die so fast the contagion whiffs

[dawn spire]

yeah, if you can get to exactly zero ES, that node has no downside

[tight ivy]

huh, I see. Didn't notice that.

[dawn spire]

I'm in a similar boat tbh XD

I'm considering using two EDs

[tight ivy]

I got +2 proj gems on amulet, +2 chaos on wand, so it's hitting reaaaally hard

and somehow it's kind of annoying lmao

[dawn spire]

one with swift affliction + chain for clear

and one with zenith + hourglass for bosses

or tough rares

[marsh token]

does stomping ground's dmg scale with your weapons dmg?

the attack mod says that attacks scale with weapon dmg.

but stomping ground says that it does dmg based on your strength? is that added on top of the base attack dam, or is the dmg purely from the strength?

[tight ivy]

somehow, I dropped a greater jeweller's before a lesser jeweller's, might sell that to fund something

[dawn spire]

stomping ground's "Attack" is the gem itself that scales solely off your str, so your weapon doesn't affect it

it only scales with aoe, physical, and attack modifiers

[marsh token]

oh damn, back to attribute stacking lol

[dawn spire]

you can use a greater without a lesser

they made it so you can skip tiers with those now

[tight ivy]

yeah, I noticed, but I think the div might help me more than another socket right about soon

[dawn spire]

fair enough

[tight ivy]

an atziri's disdain means I can just jump straight to ES now

[violet grove]

Ah, darn. Yeah, this happens sometimes. Edge cases and such. Although, this is not so much an edge case. I wonder if the Quadzilla just did not receive the Companion tag because it has another tag overriding it.

[tight ivy]

and also get cruel ascendancy points and actually have them do something

oh yeah, disdain is a random drop, right? I presume the prices will drop in the coming week.

also are there uh, no jeweller's orbs in the bulk exchange?

[celest blaze]

Is there a list of actual new unique somewhere? I looked for it on Reddit and found nothing but whining

If someone finds one please ping me (and maybe a pin would be nice)

[peak acorn]

i found this online https://game8.co/games/Path-of-Exile-2/archives/488529

[shy pasture]

okay 2nd update, i took out the passive points and then i couldt not have two and my herald active, put the passive points back in and could use both again. So it seems that the passive indeed does work but it doenst display the cost change on the skill nor on the total spirit you see in the bottom right, so no visual way to know how much spirit you actually have but the passive iteself does work xd

[violet grove]

OH! NICE! If it's just a visual issue, then that is a lot less irritating. Phew. 😄

[shy pasture]

yea seems to be just visual BUT that makes it super hard to know what you can use xd since they use such weird amounts like 37%, 42.3% spirit etc. so lets of manual testint for now

[steady flint]

Can skills gained by items get affected by +1 to levels? Example can boneblast be affected by +5 of the wand its on?

[celest blaze]

I'm looking for the new uniques specifically, thanks though

[steady flint]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Dawn_of_the_Hunt_uniques

[faint fern]

So any crazy fun builds coming up yet?

[static plinth]

Wait what the fuck this weapon is insane

I thought it just caused projectiles to fork on crit

[upper viper]

i just switched to impending doom at level 28. Now its fun to just run thru the things XD

[vernal falcon]

Hey question, anyone know if Necromantic talisman gives your instilled modifier?

[orchid minnow]

Do we know when pob gets updated for poe2?

[snow cypress]

hey quick question, what -% res we all have after finish campaign ?

[static plinth]

-40%

Assuming you did all objectives

[snow cypress]

why my fri -30% ?

[atomic halo]

they have res somewhere, of course

[ripe mauve]

Hi, how does additional proyectiles work on shotguns?

[atomic halo]

what actually shotguns?

[steady flint]

It has like zdps at base tho.
But if added dmg is accesible it might be quite good?

[static plinth]

Yeah thats the issue

But you get a 25% crit rate and basically 100% more critical damage bonus

[steady flint]

I guess ritualist with 3 buffed up rings?

[static plinth]

Possibly

Also if you get a really lucky corrupt, it has 29% base crit

[steady flint]

Only added dmg with decent rolls

[static plinth]

Well hey

Wake of Destruction has synergy with Primal Strikes and Elemental Sundering

Which i was interested in

[steady flint]

Imagine if they left bonestorm as was, would have easily above 1k added dmg

[short mango]

how are the various builds working so far in mapping?

[static plinth]

Yeah i think this is the way to go

You can get like +100-200 physical damage from 3 rings

More if Breach

Alternatively you go full INT on those rings and use HOWA

Or both, i guess they're not competing

[ripe mauve]

Fragmentation rounds

[atomic halo]

well, if it says it can shotgun, it shotguns?

not sure what the question is here

if you add more projectiles, they may hit as well and shotgun too

[steady flint]

Is it possible to offhand quarterstaff with charged staff and keep the buff on spear?

[upper viper]

So. Unholy might, grants of all damage. You think that includes impending doom support as well 🙂 ?

[ripe mauve]

My question how adding proyectiles works on these kind of skills such as fragmentation rounds

[atomic halo]

if you add more projectiles, they may hit as well and shotgun too

[steady flint]

Does someone know if skills added by the weapon is scalable by + to levels?

[static plinth]

Doubt it

[upper viper]

doesnt

[static plinth]

They are

[upper viper]

you sure ?

[steady flint]

Yeah, i double checked, wording is quarterstaff attack dmg

[steady flint]

Then ill just tell you this, most of them were buffed dmg wise

[ripe mauve]

And is it good? I mean does it add a good amount of damage?

[static plinth]

90% sure i had a level 30 chaos bolt in 0.1

[upper viper]

Hmm, i might be wrong tho. Just didnt feel like i ever saw mine go up

But yeah. I might be wrong

[atomic halo]

well, you start with 10, so +1 is 10% more if it hits.

[ripe mauve]

Oh, I seee

[upper viper]

Can confirm, with unholy might. Shet dies faster 😂

[ripe mauve]

Thanks

[fiery scaffold]

i dont really get this one

am i supposed to build accuracy?

[atomic halo]

yes

[static plinth]

Accuracy and evasion debuffs (maim hobble and blind)

[fiery scaffold]

interesting

so id guess that for the 1st ascendancy this one is better for now correct?

and then 2nd ascnedancy once i have more skill points put into accuracy i go for "critical strike"

[static plinth]

Wait wouldnt 3x iron runes go hard on this

75% inc phys damage

[atomic halo]

yeah

[topaz talon]

What are good ways to apply shock to bosses to utilize Shockburst Rounds

[fervent sleet]

is burning inscription/essence drain + drain ailemnts still a thing?

[bold oxide]

in 0.1 we did either plasma blast or a bow in the second weapon slot and stormcaller arrow

[steady flint]

Would help yeah

[tired badger]

I have withering presence toggled on, it's taking the spirit requirement but doesn't display on top left. It's checked in the options too. Bug?

[topaz talon]

ok ty, is weapon swap chill? atm I use shield charge. is the transition for instant skills neat?

[fervent sleet]

can do ball lightning + lightning warp no?

[steady flint]

I have another question for you, would self dmg in this case, which affects life be stopped by ES? And would ES scale the amount of added damage?

[steady flint]

Doesnt guarantee shock anymore

[static plinth]

Its sacrifice not damage so it goes straight to life

[steady flint]

So its dogshit

[static plinth]

yargh

[bold oxide]

yea its chill

just use plasma blast then if you dont wanna drop the shield for shield charge

[steady flint]

Could do 3 vision runes for 330 accuracy and get about 80 added phys from amazon

[bold oxide]

not bugged. ive been using withering presence. nothing wrong with it

[tired badger]

So am I doing something wrong? I don't see it displayed but it says it's toggled on. Guess I just assume it's working lol

[static plinth]

Look for withered on enemies

[bold oxide]

have you actually gone out and stood near some monsters?

[tired badger]

Yes I see the debuff but just assumed the aura icon would be displayed regardless. Appreciate the help

[marsh token]

stomping ground scales with crit and crit dam right?

[near jewel]

is attack speed important for ancestral warrior totem with sunder?

[peak acorn]

looks like it - it has a base critical chance according to poedb

[frail sedge]

Do Impending doom/decaying hex work with blasphemy?

[high rivet]

can you use two prized pain rings and both proc on stun or no?

[polar zealot]

Are banners supposed to work on totems? In the tooltip my war banner didn't increase the attack damage of my ballista

[elder mural]

Do we has any info on unique maps ? Should we do them as we go or wait for red map ? I wonder if i should juice a high map or it doesnt matter..

[summer pasture]

When totems are cast they snapshot what ever buffs or debuffs you have at the time, you can't buff them after you cast them

[limber lodge]

Bruh these new tier 3 supports for reservation skills that give you 50% reduced duration on shock freeze and ignite are GOATED

[tight ivy]

err, how much life do I need for A2 cruel? Without MoM, even the hyena boss one shots me.

[marsh token]

could this scale the stomping ground?

[nimble hound]

What are the tankiest ascendancies

[marsh token]

im smith rn and im unkillable even if i stand still and just eat dmg

[nimble hound]

lol damn

yeah Kitavana seems super tanky. Warbringer too i guess

What about other than those tho

[marsh token]

you take the max life, strenght, and healeing per second, im regenning like 100 hps rn

lich seems tanky with the right side nodes

[nimble hound]

yeah i shoulda went Lich ors something

Top Smith is totem build, looks epic

[cyan plinth]

Would a normal minion build work with Bind Spectre? or is is there big differences

[upper dagger]

Is demon form litch still playable?

[burnt gust]

Deadeye or Amazon for Galvanic Shockburst Xbow in SC and why? 🙂

[vernal gull]

If i play witch what accention should i go for if i want minion build

[upper viper]

There seems to be a lot of lich minion builds already out there. So maybe that, i stopped minions real fast tho. Didnt like the changes XD

[violet grove]

Why not go a strength-stacking Ritualist Rake-Stomper?

[upper viper]

done enough stat stacking in 0.1 myself XD

[violet grove]

Was it any good? I did not, unusually.

[upper viper]

It was okay, managed to do both of them on a budget. And could specially fly thru maps with the staff stacker one

[tardy gust]

Why cant I slot huntress skills into cast on shock?

[abstract nimbus]

is stormweaver good?

[upper viper]

depends on what you wanna do 😄

[marsh token]

ik stomping ground scales on attack area and strength, but does it scale with hits dmg increases since it is not a dot?

[noble viper]

hey, is there a good warrior build yet or should i wait ? I want to try playing warrior but i'm not sure of how to build him... I do wish to use spear/shield but not sue if it's doable at all

[visual warren]

Anything better than Rake + stomping ground for leveling? Huntress fwiw

[versed tundra]

What are good leveling uniques for a totem smith of kitava build?

Doing shockwave totems until I can swap to artillery ballista

[raw fog]

Have you seen the ice tornado build? https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/2u9lq003

killed geonor in Cruel pretty fast

[nimble hound]

Whats the best lvling build for sorcerer at 20

my ED/C is starting to do next to nothing on bosses

[quaint verge]

is there a way of increasing the number of support gems that a standard Weapon Attack (eg Bow Attack) can use? I can't use Jeweler's Orb on it

[raw fog]

You have to get a higher level weapon

[quaint verge]

Ahh, okay, thanks. Using the Paquate's Mechanism Vaal Orb on my current weapon gave it an extra slot, but I wasn't sure how else to do it. Cheers!

[nimble hound]

before i just give up like most others, whats a fast build

im not having fun atm

[soft cargo]

Does anyone know if you can aggravate ignites caused by ignited ground?

[red night]

what is the best class to play right now with some good builds?

[opaque bluff]

isnt aggravate only for bleed?

[soft cargo]

There's a new unique spear that can aggravate ignites

[livid hamlet]

Hey for spear gameplay, should i go amazon or deadeye ? Deadeye feels smoother with tailwind and charge generation, but amazon has insane damage ( i feel like ) With crit and infusion nodes

[summer pasture]

Anybody using thorns?

[alpine yacht]

whats a good fireball build?

[kind pebble]

Is Widowhail Poison Spark a viable build?

[sharp glade]

bro you are looking for #1┃build-planning ?

[kind pebble]

Nah, wanted to know if it's viable in 2.

[atomic halo]

how would you poison?

we dont have the alt quality that converts to chaos like we do in poe1

[kind pebble]

Plaguefinger?

[atomic halo]

oh wait we dont have alt quality anymore, i forgot

[atomic halo]

probably still no

because poison doesnt stack infinitely like it does in poe1

the point in poe1 is that spark is a lot of hits and all those hits poison

but in poe2 you want those hits to be bigger

[kind pebble]

Ah that's unfortunate. But thanks for the info.

[boreal sluice]

Volt on lightning spear is game changing

[static plinth]

Damn is that without frenzies too

[boreal sluice]

yup, cause volt lets you chain based on how far you move

its a crazy support gem

was trying to cook up some electrocute herald + combat frenzy for frenzy orb procs but this is just way easier

[wintry badge]

which staff is better for a frost sorc?

[hazy sparrow]

Got a unique spear that does mega damage and I’m doin a bleed build

[static plinth]

Wait isnt Lycosidae fucking bonkers insane for amazons

[atomic halo]

first

• level too imprtant

[cursive girder]

Any Ritualist, what ascendancy points did you take first?

[atomic halo]

a bit, yeah

thing is it only benefits the crit

which is cool but amazon doesn't actually have a straight acc stacking payoff

[static plinth]

Okay fair

[static plinth]

Extra ring 9 times out of 10

Otherwise i think you go blood boil

[cursive girder]

Just wasn’t sure if it was worth it while leveling with shitty gear or should wait

[static plinth]

Id go with -mana or -spirit since you need a lot less of those early

[wintry badge]

is there a rule of thumb for how to look for gear upgrades? i come from WoW so gear in this game is throwing me off....for sorc is it +number of spell levels and then percent frost dmg and then spell damage?/

[warped jackal]

Anyone here who is a build with Chonk with curses on spectres?

[static plinth]

There is this tbf

[atomic halo]

yeah but that's just one notable

too weak

[twilit coyote]

anyone know a good build for deadeye bow in this season?

[cursive girder]

I think this is one of the toughest parts as a newer player (so I’m not the right one to answer)

[upper viper]

So we have archmage which adds damage, is there other ways for me to add damage to a spell directly like that ?

[simple mural]

Will lighting spear detonoate storm lance?

[atomic halo]

for spells it's + spell levels first (for weapons)

then % inc. cold is the same level as % inc spell if all your damage is cold

you want a lot of it, both ideally

and cast speed is very useful as well, each point is worth a lot more than spell damage

[wintry badge]

are there any good online resources that new players should look up for gearing?

[simple mural]

there are some decent videos on youtube

[static torrent]

No, it's not a Detonator skill.

[atomic halo]

a good beginner guide will outline the kind of stats you're looking for

if you're not going to follow a guide, i recommend you just ask here

explain your build and we can tell you what it probably wants

[simple mural]

bummer, any idea what people are combing storm lance with? just explosive spear?

[static torrent]

Thunderous Leap, Explosive Spear, or a skill from another weapon type

[atomic halo]

btw - any idea if thorns is attack, spell, or secondary damage?

[static torrent]

Alternatively, using it while you have a Frenzy Charge means you don't need to detonate it at all

[atomic halo]

oh yeah, i checked the wiki and it didnt say

forgot tooltips existed

[static torrent]

The nested tooltips are one of the best additions in PoE2, yet people keep forgetting about them xd

[dire flare]

im currently leveling a tactician and for end game I want to try making a sort of minion build but using a crossbow. I wanted to see if minions like teh skele's are buffed by companion passive nodes?

[nimble hound]

whats better staff or wand+oh for frost build

[kindred dawn]

Whats a detonator skill for spears?

[static torrent]

Explosive Spear, Thunderous Leap

Any other Detonators from other weapon types also work.

[kindred dawn]

hmmm

can I DD it?

[static torrent]

It's a Detonator, so you should be able to. You would need a Corpse to use for DD, though.

[kindred dawn]

hmmm I see

I was thinking of doing Smith + spell on hit thingy

[hollow galleon]

where do I see how much critical damage bonus i have? doesnt show in char sheet or skill damage

[kindred dawn]

skill prob

'

[hollow galleon]

huh weird, my skill only show crit hit chance

[kindred dawn]

cause you at 0 bonus prob

[hollow galleon]

nope, i have tons from tree

for some reason doesnt show on Sunder

[kindred dawn]

idk the skill but does it remove crit damage?

[hollow galleon]

nope, it can even guarantee a crit lol

must be a description bug

ah wait...it shows on the shockwave, not the initial wave hmm

still kinda weird, cause the initial wave does damage too

[pearl sluice]

Hey little question, what you guys think have the most potencial for dmg amazon Crossbow or witchhunter ?

[atomic halo]

amazon

just look at the nodes

[pearl sluice]

yes i know but witchhunter are good buffed this is why but ok thx i try . 🙂

[vital plume]

any new cool builds to play?

[nimble hound]

ive hit a hard wall at level 20 due to gear. what now?

other than using that clunky trade site and whispering some fat guy for few hours

[alpine summit]

where does headhunter drops?

or is it just random

[lone citrus]

should huntress be Dex/int or dex/str

[alpine summit]

i mean

that's depending on your build

which skills you use

if you're going for spear skills

it's dex/str

mostly dex

[static plinth]

75/25 DEX/STR for spears

[static plinth]

Random drop

[lone citrus]

thanks mate

[rigid frost]

is there any way to reduce the 5 seconds cast time on ritual sacrifice? skill speed doesnt seem to work

[static plinth]

Aside from MAYBE reverse chill with Sierran Inheritance, unlikely if skill speed wont work

[rigid frost]

ritualist so damn useless

cant use herald of blood

blood boil aoe sucks

new ingenuity belts doesnt even work xD

guess temporalis?

[wooden saddle]

Is the new convalescence spirit gem any good or no?

[rigid frost]

omg cant even use weapon swap on ritual with arvils wheel

have to manually swap each time i cast it

[nimble hound]

anyone know of a Chrono streamer or is the class dead

[unique cape]

would deadeyes thrilling vision node work with lightning spear?

[vocal wave]

Thoughts on the Hunters Acend? Thining Amazon

[atomic halo]

yeah amazon

[jagged thunder]

how do fuck do i use tame beast? i spam tame on rare, kill it. nothing happens

wasted so many good rares. heal allies, haste etc..

[ruby turret]

ritualist really is just DoA huh

the more i look into it the worse it is to work with

[atomic halo]

called it

[kindred dawn]

what can I do against enemies that are immune to bleed as a bleed build

[shrewd pulsar]

Does the anteater/armadillo/rolling boy companion do its roll?

And if so, how many hits would it dish out.

[candid hollow]

so whats the consensus on pure grenadiers? valakos vice or three dragons?

[shrewd pulsar]

I have a silly idea of combining that companion with Bonestorm's 60 stacks of impale. I wonder if a rolling companion could trigger them all extremely fast.

(Spells can't trigger the impale effect)

[marsh token]

does stomping ground scale with lay siege?

[agile girder]

Hey all, weird question, but does Crescendo not support Rapid Assault? And if so, how come?

[high rivet]

could use the tick spectre that summons like 50 bugs

[nimble hound]

no one playing ritualist, chrono, chaluya, witchhunter

i think because the altenratives are just better

[static plinth]

Spectres might be better

[dense kite]

For huntress is meta bleed or lighting spear?

Dunno if I should follows woolie's or jungroan

Or lazyexile

[kindred dawn]

jongroan never misses

[carmine flicker]

any idea what to reserve on str stack stomping rake?

except berserk I guess

[livid flume]

if a spectre uses a skill with 'projectile' tag, can you scale that damage with +% projectile dmg on tree?

[midnight obsidian]

no, they don't have you tree

[livid flume]

so only way to scale via tree is % minion dmg?

[atomic halo]

and anything that mentions allies

and anything like inc. minion attack/cast speed, etc.

it's like any other minion

[royal hamlet]

what gem will work with skeletal mages? attack speed or cast speed?
i want to increase basic attack of mages

[proper pagoda]

Guys I want to use the double evasion node for amazon, but im not sure what to do with body armour. Maybe go full armour base? thoughts?

[livid flume]

'companions of different types'...i thought they were always beasts? or waht is type referring to here

[carmine flicker]

all they do are spells

[fleet blaze]

how does this work? i just repeatedly use it and i nnever see any subsequent attacks triggering anything. furthermore if i spam it on a boss it will crash my game

[grim dawn]

anyone who is playing twister zon. What venom draught did you take? Is ailment threshold better than mana regen? I am early level does it have mana issues late game?

[nimble hound]

Why does almonst n o one play Chrono? That as my plan Forst Chrono

[median wharf]

is this icon chill? it would trigger echoing frost right?

[alpine parrot]

So, im an elemental huntress, got a focus for more lightning dmg
now i got astak sight, so poison on crit right?

im curious how that would work if i had the ring to convert all elemental to chaos, as 90% of my dmg is elemental (painter gloves too)
sadly its 20 div

oof

[static plinth]

Are you using spells or attacks to try and trigger it

Also its not exactly obvious, its just a flat damage boost

[static plinth]

No, that's Freeze buildup

[atomic halo]

you would need osin to poison yeah

also note the conversion from osin occurs at the same time as painters servant

so the gain as extra would not be converted to chaos

[median wharf]

how would it become chill? i have some cold damage, but i guess not enough?

[atomic halo]

and i think the ele -> conversion would interfere with the osin conversino

[alpine parrot]

osin?

whats osin

[static plinth]

Original Sin

the ring

[atomic halo]

original sin, the ring you mentioned

[alpine parrot]

ahh

like i just wanna try to see how it ends but god damn it 15 div

idk who even uses it atm

if anyone wanna give the ring to try for science id 100% return it lmao

[atomic halo]

you can use that one unique spear

that lets all damage types poison

or wait

i mean the gloves

plaguefinger

[alpine parrot]

mmm

hol on

[atomic halo]

the unique spear lets poisons stack infinitely, which is really good, but it has no base damage

[misty vortex]

Is permafrost bolt or galvanic shards better? I'm a merc just reach act 2

[woven otter]

is original sin even good lol

[alpine parrot]

dps fall 20% without painter gloves BUT

it would be a good test

thx!

[atomic halo]

in this situation, it looks quite good

[alpine parrot]

nope the gloves are expnesive af too

nm

[dusky wadi]

im doing a ranger poison build and i dunno what happend but my damage has just tapered off so hard

do i need to focus on damage or poison magnatude?

[alpine parrot]

i didnt buy it yet but what does it mean let all damage contribute to poison magnitude? what is the formula of magnitude per dmg?

[atomic halo]

normally, only physical and chaos damage can poison

it lets you use all types

oh wait

[fleet blaze]

im spamming bonestorm lol. the instance will crash if i spam it enough time

[alpine parrot]

ye

new wording

contributes to magnitudes

i wonder how that would work

[atomic halo]

want the more complicated explanation?

[alpine parrot]

ye

[normal pumice]

Which ascendancy can potentially get more maximum life, titan with his 15% node or nerfed gemling?

[atomic halo]

Poison:
First, it rolls the chance. You get flat poison chance from a lot of sources. Any hit can roll to poison, as long as it has flat chance.
Then, by default, it takes 20% of the physical and chaos damage dealt by the hit and applies that as the poison damage. this is why you can't poison with ele dmg, it ignores it. magnitude simply describes the damage the poison tries to deal to the enemy.
with plaguefinger, it doesn't just look at physical and chaos damage when calculating how much damage to deal. it checks all damage, so you just get 20% of all damage as poison.

complicated way of saying "magnitude just means how much damage the poison tries to deal"

[alpine parrot]

thats... sounds pretty good

like

20% minus dmg from removing painter, sure

[atomic halo]

it does, plaguefingers is a good item.

[alpine parrot]

but then if i can take some perks to make poison longer, that 20% + more is returned

fuck now i need 1 div

i wanna be the first elemental poison huntress + focus instead of shield lmao

[nimble hound]

poison amazon is god tier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jki8VbU1qVI

thats what PF was supposed to be

instead they made conctions dog shit

[vast jay]

anyone have advice about chaos innoculation and Eternal Youth and health potions?

If I use Eterrnal Youth, it's nice that I get health potions back, but then if my potion is empty im just sitting there with zero passive regen....

If I don't use Eternal Youth, then if a fight is ever to much, I have no health potion.

Is there any way to use Eternal Youth and still get some passive ES regen?

[dusky wadi]

whats better, poison ranger or poison huntress?

[ruby turret]

man im sitting here at the end of sekhmas and like... im tempted to just leave without an ascension

[vast jay]

what class?

[ruby turret]

both of these options jsut dont have enough to matter for me

im huntress

[vast jay]

i think Amazon is better 90% of the time

just the boss weakness thing is pretty damn good

for ritualist to work you kind of have to have a specific build in mind

[nimble hound]

go poison amazon

[atomic halo]

amazon crit is crazy

[ruby turret]

its either i only take 4 points for the rings with ritualist and the rest are whatever or actively dont matter or i go amazon for the weaknesses and nothing else matters

[atomic halo]

you dont care abt crit?

[ruby turret]

im not building crit with this build

[vast jay]

other things matter in amazon.. weakness is definetly the big payoff there though..

you can get alot from the over-accuracy nodes

[atomic halo]

literally why not

[ruby turret]

i wouldn't have the points to

im building bleed on tree

[vast jay]

in amazon you get crit for over-capping accuracy

[dusky wadi]

is poison damage hard to use early on? or am i just building wrong? cause im on poison ranger and the boss damage is awful

[ruby turret]

right but im saying im not taking any crit passive points as it is

[atomic halo]

i assume it would be hard to get chance & such

[atomic halo]

if i were you i'd try to pivot into it

[vast jay]

what level are you? IMO the best way to use poison is to use toxic growth, and then get the "multiple poisons" nodes in the passive tree, and empower the toxic growth explosions

[atomic halo]

ritualist is pretty sad

[dusky wadi]

how do you properly pop the growths? im lvl 18 and just got to act 2

[vast jay]

if you are going full bleed, you might use the ritualist for the pustules thing

[tall ember]

Can anyone explain why people are playing bow gas huntress over just playing ranger..?

[ruby turret]

its a couple points moved here or there but the old PoB has my whole plan still

[nimble hound]

are they using radiant grief?

[vast jay]

you put scattershot on the toxic growth, you toss down 1-2 toxic growth, then you use poison arrow to poison them all 2-3 times, then they all explode

[tall ember]

Not sure didn’t look too deep into the build, saw Rob doing it and he got the build from some build crafter who made gas ranger popular

[ruby turret]

nope corrupted blood is a debuff of phys damage, not an ailment or bleed

[atomic halo]

so many travels ack

[dusky wadi]

um. whenever i throw down toxic growth the previous one poofs

[ruby turret]

it was a concept

[vast jay]

you might need greater duration on the toxic growth, im usually able to get 2 toxic growth down

[ruby turret]

i can try to clean up but the blood nodes need travel

[dusky wadi]

how would i get more duration?

[vast jay]

you can also use barrage? the gem that repeats the next projectile

[dusky wadi]

cause its just poofing the moment i shoot the other one

[vast jay]

you use duration support on the toxic growth

i think it's called Persistance

[dusky wadi]

well now i really need a support gem and im stuck

also how do you shoot the growths? im controller can i just not shoot them unless theres an enemy?

@vast jay do you use m&k?

[jagged flax]

This good? I’m a Chaos lich

[ruby turret]

updated PoB, they did reduce the amount needed to travel funny enough

[devout dew]

this is what i was trying to ask a little bit ago - but between Lich and Ritualist - which 1 is inherently stronger

[ruby turret]

wait no i missed a branch lol

[devout dew]

ive not found a good build on youtube

[ruby turret]

between an apple and a banana which is better

you cant just ask that with no depth and get a real answer

[pseudo lotus]

thats like 10 travel notes too much

[ruby turret]

show

[dusky wadi]

how are you supposed to shoot toxic growth with poison arrow?

[stark sable]

Is there any stormweaver build that doesnt suck?

[ruby turret]

you can keep saying im wasting travel nodes but one of you need to show me where

im not going to listen if your not going to prove how

[worn whale]

so uh
where do i go from here, as a minion build?

[pseudo lotus]

reduce it by 10 points the way you want thats it

[rustic raptor]

just got a unique that doesnt exist on trade yet

[ruby turret]

WOULD YOU FUCKING SHOW ME

[rustic raptor]

fascinating stuff

[ruby turret]

i despise this shit "oh thats not good" " how do i do it better" "thats just not good"

[static plinth]

Amulet and Zealot's Oath convert life regen

[static plinth]

Sure you're not looking at standard trade?

[rustic raptor]

site was bugged

had to refresh

[stark sable]

Guys please help this deperate stormweaver enjoyer 😭 Is there anything to build into?

[dawn condor]

NOt that I know of

[stark sable]

thanks 😦

I've tried 4-5 different set ups and cant find anything to work

[dawn condor]

sometimes

you just gotta let things go

[stark sable]

I'm determined to make it work but losing hope

[tardy narwhal]

has anyone here leveled with crossbow and have tips?
I found Mist Whisper xbow, and leveling with just Permafrost Bolts but I suspect it falls off soon. Should I pivot into a rare xbow and which skill

[ruby turret]

bro refueses to elaborate and peaces, awesome

clearly what im doing is fine then

[tulip fog]

is it just me or is there a limit to how many beasts your account can have? i have 2 beasts captured with tame beast in my stash and when i try to capture a third nothing happens, the debuff/effect never shows up on the rare mob and they just die the normal way

[worn whale]

so uh
how do you sustain ES?

i find i just lose it at the beginning of each encounter and then dont get it back

[radiant wraith]

Hey guys could you comment if my build has any potential ?

Grenades + dodge roll + balistas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd9fnS_w1aI&ab_channel=JudgeDredd

[dusky wadi]

why does toxic growth spread so far? is there some way i can change that?

[nimble hound]

ive seen a few people with a similar setup on ladder as Gemling , its very good.

Ballista and Grenade builds are doing good.

[hoary bolt]

YO HUGE POB UPDATE GUYS

[radiant wraith]

Does Trinity is simply bugged and it crashes the game

Or is it because i am using it with Painter's Servant gloves ?

XD

Well its not exactly crash but well a guaranteed logout

[old ermine]

Anyone have skill suggestions for the smith of kitava?

[atomic halo]

@static plinth tf u were right

[static plinth]

on what

[atomic halo]

it is yriel's fostering and not the admiral

scammed

[static plinth]

L bozo

[atomic halo]

https://tenor.com/view/disintegrate-gif-22469816

[static plinth]

Im kinda pissed we didnt get Mind Of The Council though

[atomic halo]

maybe just still not found

[static plinth]

Wouldve been datamined by now wouldnt it?

[atomic halo]

yeah i guess so

[static plinth]

At least we got some really cool things

Tonguetwist is way more interesting than i expected it to be

[atomic halo]

tangletongue?

[celest blaze]

Thanks, appreciated.

I havent' seen anything truyly amazing yet but just skimmed some.

[static plinth]

thats the one

I thought it was just going to cause projectiles to fork o na critical hit

Instead it's 100% more critical damage bonus if your crit chance is 100%

[atomic halo]

any idea for resuccitating the infusion thing after they nerfed it by 70% from the preview to release

upside is that now it's surely immune to further nerfs

[static plinth]

what the fuck

i hate to say it, but classic at this point

[atomic halo]

612% -> 181%

im just disappointed someone saw 612% and said yeah, let's reveal that

[static plinth]

Well, there's the cool chaos infusion spear i guess

[atomic halo]

as if it wasn't obviously broken

[static plinth]

The Chaos Infusion spear lets you get 4 infusions per charge right?

And two explosions

Idk if it's flat is high enough

Can the infusions build charges?

You could at least do like, Voll's Protector to get a ton of em

[twilit coyote]

Looking for an arcer bow Deadeye build for this season, someone know any?

[static plinth]

ah wait you have to spend them

[nimble hound]

pob?

[hoary bolt]

path of building

[midnight obsidian]

!pobinfo

[formal violet]

Path of Building is a third party build planner for Path of Exile 1 which includes detailed build configuration options and statistics. LocalIdentity and some other members of the community have taken over and currently maintain the most popular version now known as Path of Building Community which can be found at:
https://pathofbuilding.community/

[proud niche]

is there anything else that can make damage bypass the ES other then the node from Lich and Energy Buffer?

[craggy ice]

LETS GOOOO

[soft cargo]

How does "% of damage as fire damage" work with ignite?

As in would something like Chernobog's Pillar work with ignite

[restive prawn]

can totems generate energy for this?

[gray ferry]

How does this work if you have pure Evasion helmet? Will it use your Evasion, or will it take Armour as 0

[carmine flicker]

no

[turbid chasm]

Hello . I had an idea and since I'm new I'm not sure its a good one haha..im on console fyi.

So I'm running an ice themed sorc with chrono ascendancy. Having fun freezing mobs ,
So since we don't HoI on staffs I was thinking what if I equipped a cross bow in second slot and then used frag rounds to explode all the frozen Enimies ?? Would that be viable , I'd still focus freezing but uss the cross bow to detonate the frozen peeps

[halcyon solar]

it's so ridiculous i delayed the decision for ascendancy until i was already in Cruel and now i can't ascend anymore, meaning my game is bugged and my character seems to be wrecked

everytime i kill Rathbreaker the game crashes on leaving and i would have to do it again

[devout dew]

so am i mistaken if i heard that the consensus for Minion Lich - it got nerfbatted hard

[livid ridge]

Its pretty rough

[devout dew]

does it get better or no

[livid ridge]

Minions are decent after act 3

[river dew]

How would that work with Blink? Would the blink count as distance travelled?

[livid ridge]

Def nowhere near as strong as they used to be

[spark belfry]

Anyone running infuse weapon on Amazon? Is it worth the points?

[boreal sluice]

it should, blink used to work with cast on dodge and it had a similar requirement. unless that interaction was nerfed

[trim fog]

for some reason I no longer see the differences when I am trying to compare to node in passive tree view, I see nothing changed when I press Shift like 0.1.0. Did something changed?

[halcyon solar]

can you disable that the game scales your power towards allies when in party?

i herad that you can somewhere

[atomic halo]

new idea

[distant glade]

How does lich ‘eternal life’ work? Are you immune to 1 one shots if you have ES?

[prisma trout]

Afaik, this is bugged

Same issue for me and my lads

[jaunty basin]

How does one get spirit? is it only on items you get ?

[vast jay]

When you have "Eternal Youth" is there any way to get some passive out of combat away from dmg ES recharge?

It feels bad to run Chaos Innoculation and have no ability to use health potions, but when I use Eternal Youth to get health potions, then when my potion runs out there is zero recharge

... this wasn't so bad when there was Grim Feast, but without it, im finding this isn't really workable

.. and shock siphon support seems to be gone also?

[still rock]

i gotta jump ship on the companion build

tame beasts do like 5 damage

so now the move is either lean into vaal guard spectres with the tactician aura or go pinning spear twisters

[pearl scroll]

I just created a 2mill dps build in pob not even minmaxed

[still rock]

ok now hit the griddy

[pearl scroll]

Amazon is pretty broken

[still rock]

from accuracy shenanigans or what

[static plinth]

@still rock I wanna know your thoughts on Tangletongue

[pearl scroll]

yep

[static plinth]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Tangletongue

[still rock]

thats what they called me in high school

what am i supposed to evaluate

it has bad dmg

[static plinth]

Did you have a 25% crit rate or did your lack of physical damage hurt

[static plinth]

Are you reading it as "Projectiles fork on critical hit"

Cuz thats what i read it as

[still rock]

the effect is cool but the weapon has no dmg lol

[static plinth]

Yeah but is it good enough to try and patch the damage

[still rock]

no

base dmg is more important than most stats for attack

i think on the high end we're probably looking at abt 250-300 ish phys dmg spears

[wanton forge]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/quc9v00i 1 button lightning spear huntress

inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-eYjOzUBuc&t=29s

[halcyon solar]

When i enter the Temple of Chaos, in the 2nd room i can never activate the Pylon to make the event start. After my 1st Ascendancy has been bugged aswell i think this is it for this char.

jesus f'in Christ.

[still rock]

ive also noticed mobs sometimes bugging up onto inaccessible platforms in tthe trials - when i didnt notice that at all last patch

but i just spear throwed em

[halcyon solar]

i waited till i was in cruel to pick an asc since i wasnt sure about Lich vs Infernalist and now everything is totally messed up

I did the 1st one 4 times until it finally "registered"

[still rock]

have u tried restarting the isntance

oh damn

sadge

[halcyon solar]

and im Temple of Chaos i can't progress past the 2nd room

I mean shall i really go through this friggin campaign again...

or just quit poe2, that's what i'm debating atm

[still rock]

do what makes you happy

[halcyon solar]

none of this does atm

[spark belfry]

Are yall running the Rhoa? Does it give movement speed or?

[normal pumice]

Similar issue yesterday. I had to move my mouse cursor around to find the rlt small 'hit box' that highlights/outlines the pedestal

[neat bison]

It’s just 100% reduced movement penalty for ranged attacks

[spark belfry]

Oh damn thats nutty

[rapid star]

Is there ane decent build using gas arrow for the campain?

[patent shell]

guys when i want to download pob 2 this appears should i still accept and download ?

[hoary bolt]

its safe

[halcyon solar]

How do you upgrade your spectres in lvl?

i just used the Skill Gem like i would with others Gems and created a new Bind Spectre Gem

[crude tree]

Is skill speed better than attack speed?

[vast jay]

depends on your build.. skill speed affects spells and attacks,

skill speed is a super set that includes both cast speed and attack speedf

but if you dont cast spells, then it doesn't matter, they would be the same

[crude tree]

Ah, I was trying to find a way to use primal strikes, it's so slow

[alpine yacht]

hows cast on freeze or crit for like comet?

[normal pumice]

If I take Eldritch Battery, will Stormweaver's Heart of the Storm ES recoup become useless?

[vast jay]

is there a way to make the little leap of Whirling Slash leap further?

[zealous bone]

Can anyone tell me which build uses the Glowgoan Elementalist Robe? I see it going for about 5 Div, but unsure why it’s so high.

[halcyon solar]

Does Burning ground like from Vaal Guards also set Skeletal Snipers arrows on fire or projectiles in general

[patent shell]

anyone know where i can get this ?

like which item ?

[gray ferry]

Are there any other ways to get projectile chaining aside from the chain support or snakepit?

[tacit merlin]

hi freinds, Can you guys give me some advice? Where can I contact to refund or return the costume?

[vast jay]

email support... it's something simple like [e-mail]

[atomic halo]

doesnt exist

for some reason poe2db show stuff from poe1 that isn't in poe2

[livid flume]

tactician pin is absolutely broken

[tacit merlin]

Very beautiful. Thank you very much.

[e-mail] or [e-mail] bro??

[vast jay]

[e-mail]

[viscid radish]

GGG

But GG

[tacit merlin]

Aha, thank you very much, bro

[halcyon solar]

Do Skeletal Snipers also get their dmg bonus if the target is burning instead of shooting through a firewall?

[vast jay]

it is not clear what question you are asking..... any projectile that goes through (thouches) the firewall, gets the dmg bonus

are you asking if an enemy standing inside the firewall hit by a projectile still gets the projectile dmg bonus?

[halcyon solar]

i mean if a normal arrow from a Skeletal Sniper hitting a burning target gets the bonus damage aswell. The same bonus damage which you would get when shooting through a Fire Wall.

[vast jay]

why is the target burning?

the sniper's arrow ONLY gets the firewall projectile dmg bonus if it touches the firewall;

tooltips in this game are very literal... basically things almost always work exactly the way they say, and in no other way

[solid walrus]

i am using corpse feet that cast decompose on step, but its not activating, and when it does its only like 2 mobs randomly, whats going on anyone plz?

[ruby mauve]

guys here me out, spectre with spark, run full minion crit chance and choir of the storm

[vast jay]

what class/spec? are you sure you are not killing the corposes with frozen shatter or something?

[gray juniper]

is there a way to build defensively on amazon without going all in on evasion? i feel like full evasion is such an expensive build and is so rng if something is gonna 1 shot u

[solid walrus]

on lich, using ed cont. ES to kill the mobs

it randomly happens but it dont happen as said

[vast jay]

im not aware of anything in that build which would be consuming mobs, but the main reasons the boots doesn't do what you expect is that the corpses are not corpses any longer

[vast jay]

i personally preferd to build EVA/ES .. to provide some buffer..... i ran ghost dance early instead of wind-dancer

[solid walrus]

ya all the bodies are on ground even higghlight as i mouse over them signalling to be used but not going off

WTF suddenly it just started working after a hour trying wtf is this

[vast jay]

there are bugs in the game.. i was going to say to try resetting instance

[soft cargo]

How fast would the damage values on this drop off in the late game?

[solid walrus]

ya suddenly its working, absolutely notihng changed other than me coming here and u talked, welp thx for fixing u grandmaster jedi

[vast jay]

i pushed some buttons on the server. i gotchu

[gray juniper]

yeah i feel like that might be the only viable option

[gray juniper]

i mean i was hoping to do an amazon lifesteal build but i dont think its possible to get enough hp for that to work

[vast jay]

hmm... what skills are you using and what level are you?

i don't really think you could lifesteal through lots of dmg, unless you are bleeding tons of mobs

but im not sure if bleed counts for leech

google says yes

[gray juniper]

i mean im mostly worried about mapping im already 55 and easily clearing the acts

is there anyway for leech to effect energy shield as well?

[solid walrus]

i put sacrifice lamb support on my skelton war.... it makes the decompose not activate on the mobs i kill.... so... i dont get it... and how can i kill my own skele? only this gem seems to allow me to kill my own minions, and its not even working..

[vast jay]

do yuo mean despawn your own skelle? or kill/sacrifice it?

[solid walrus]

i want to create corpes by killing my own skeletons

[vast jay]

i think there is some passive that allows manaleech to apply to energy shield... but it might be in an ascendancy (i think monk - chululua)

[gray juniper]

basically i want to make sure im not running along and then just get one shot by something random

[vast jay]

you can't create corposes by killing your minions.. the best you can do is use the (passive?) that lets you consume a minion instead of a corpse

[gray juniper]

when i was on my witch stacking energy shield i was tanky enough not even using grim feast

[kindred dawn]

What does the mana regen thing on lich mean? All mana regen is worthless?

[vocal lantern]

what is the current "best" looking like for amazon. i want to use bleed but most are saying not good so🤷

[still rock]

seemsgood.jpg

tactician twisters feels pretty coo

with the pin

[vast jay]

it means inherent mana regen does nothing, and equipment mana regen does nothing, and instead you regen 6% of your life as mana per second.... exactly what it says

[rich bolt]

Question how does the burden of shadows and the lich your life can't change if you have energy shield interact?

[vast jay]

that is a good question

[kindred dawn]

yeah but does increased mana regeneration work on the passive tree

[vast jay]

the two obvious possibilites are (a) the spell life costs wouldn't affect your life while you have ES, or (b) you wont be able to cast any spells

[kindred dawn]

assumption is no

[gray juniper]

for leveling battle frenzy plus bushwack boots for easy frenzy charges is great on any build. i love tornados with a spear bought from someone else

[rich bolt]

seems like there could be a fun chaos build there

[vast jay]

i believe the answer is no (but have no confirmation)... if you want to increase your mana regen, increase your life

[rich bolt]

i want to know before i ascend cause i have 2 different build ideas for a witch haha

[kindred dawn]

so back to the question then, it would mean that mana regen is worthless

[still rock]

does anyone know if support gems interact with the monster mods from tame beast

[rustic monolith]

can u weapon swap rhoa and still ride it with ur main weapon?

[nova echo]

if I'm playing gemling and I can choose to stack dex or str, is it ever worth to go dex? How good is evasion right now

[vast jay]

its worth it go dex if you are using a dex weapon... if not, then no

because gemling can use any skill based on str, but not any weapon

i think there is a unique that lets you use any weapon based on your STR, which then would allow you to make a gemling stacking str and use any weapon type (and any skill)

[midnight obsidian]

jarngreipr

which doesn't work for pure proj skills

[nova echo]

crossbow needs both ah well

but I dont need a very high base type crossbow cuz I'm ballistaing anyway

[static wagon]

If I wanted to put cast on shock onto my galvanic shard witchhunter, what would the best spell to put in there be? Spirit and stats are basically no issue.

[bright locust]

is it possible to add more support slots to SPEAR THROW with jewelers orbs? can we not get more than the default 3 slots?

[proven dragon]

I am gonna say it: bow shot with 3 elements (paint servant gloves) + 3 ele heralds + ele skills (on hit effects and herald nodes) feels so unfair to other weapons. It just clears campaign nicely

same was last season

they did not nerf it cause everyone played spark instead

and I have not even gotten influx yet

[still rock]

omg he said it

[proven dragon]

also, add freezing mark on top, and it is free freezing

and acts as extra herald of ice

[young cobalt]

Worth gearing for the Loretta spear build or is nerf hammer incoming

?

[still rock]

heralds r good

im thinking incision might be pretty good for builds that dont build bleed chance inherently

espec ones that hit a shit ton

like twister

value of incision is v high if you dont have any bleed chance, for example

[vast jay]

are we talking about for bossing? because incision does not have any value against trash that dies in 2 secvonds

[still rock]

yes because

2% more damage per incision

for phys

but yes main value is single target

because this is a debuff damage taken, value is huge

[vast jay]

not only single target, but something that lives a while, becasue you have to stack up 10 stacks

and then the 10 stacks will get erased when it bleeds, and then you have to stack 10 more

[full meadow]

How many incisions are you landing, if you kill trash almost instantly? Lol

[still rock]

yes which is why i said it needs a skill that hits a shit ton

[vast jay]

no, you need a target that lives long enough

[still rock]

ok that was already said lol

arguing just to argue

[full meadow]

It seems like a passive that's main job is to apply a sick bleed as the other falls off.

And thats all

[vast jay]

na, what im saying is that in order to get even damage out of incision, you need to be able to sit there and fast-auto the target the entire time..

because when you start, you are getting nothing... and you can only get 10 incision stacks (20% more dmg) because once you get 10, it bleeds and wipes the incision

and then you have to start over

and that's assuming you dont get "lucky" and get a bleed earlier

[still rock]

so, for example, if i shit out 20 twisters in the bosses face, every single twister can apply incision and also benefit from thousand cuts more% phys dmg subsequently

[full meadow]

It seems low payoff for the work

[still rock]

there is no work

you literally just play normally lol

[vast jay]

a twister can only hit a boss every 0.66 s i thought

[full meadow]

Sure, but what i mean is the point could have more value elsewhere.

[vast jay]

"twisters fired together can hit a boss no more than once every 0.66 s"

[full meadow]

Not sure where though

[still rock]

the poiint has been lost

no point here in arguing

just saying there is potentially value for a fast hitting skill

do what u want

[full meadow]

No point in disagreeing because you dont want that

I see

[still rock]

me: this thing might have value in exploring to use for single target multi-hitting skills when you have 0% invested into bleed chance to benefit from a more damage multiplier on every hit

i kill trash fast enough

what the point if i get a lucky bleed anyways

then you have to get the stacks again

ignoring my points

cest la vie

[vast jay]

ill agree that the value of incision (which is already low) gets lower if you have bleed chance

its very hard to make dots work in POE2, because of the default limit of 1 dot per target, no stacking

[still rock]

the bleed doesnt matter

[carmine flicker]

So was anything cool not-spear-related found last few days?

[still rock]

its a more multiplier

thats good

[vast jay]

BUT the points you are talking about turn incision into a damage stacking buff

[still rock]

and can go up to 20%

[vast jay]

and the problem is, taht buff will disappear when bleed procs

[still rock]

and then it restarts and goes up in increments of 2%

[vast jay]

so you are getting 2% dmg per stack of something that is TRYING to disappear by proccing bleed

yes, so the best possible situation is 20%

but you are not going to get that, because its going to proc blled

so on average, you are going to get like 6% dmg at best

maybe less

when you averge it out

[still rock]

i wonder if you can make yourself unable to bleed

currently

[vast jay]

maybe there is a way to make incision not proc bleed... that might be interesting, bcasue then you could stack it up to 20% and keep it there

or maybe it works well on targets that CANT bleed 🙂

[still rock]

thats what i mean by exploring it, theres huge value in a debuff more multiplier

[full meadow]

Thats the thing, as i said, its designed to apply bigger bleeds as one falls off.

Its not meant to be a multi

The 'work' in getting it to be a multi will be more than the payoff

[still rock]

potentially, ill explore it tho

dpends if youre in the area for the points or not

[pallid wigeon]

Does the infusions work with tornados?

The amazon infusions or chaos infusion from the unique spear