2┃build-planning

[dawn spire]

What's spear stab linked to?

What does your build do?

And/or what do you want it to do?

[devout garnet]

right now with close combat martial tempo and immolate

im lv 61

[copper portal]

i'm gonna make a goddamn thorns warbringer

[devout garnet]

stab strong i guess and use temper weapon, thats it i guess

[dawn spire]

Why are you using avatar of fire with temper weapon and a weapon that does mostly ele damage?

Temper weapon already converts all your phys to fire

[devout garnet]

cuz warrior only has fire damage, i though it would be easier to scale all my dps with it

does it?

i didnt know

[dawn spire]

Oh, my b

The combust converts 100% of phys to fire

But your actual hit is not affected

[devout garnet]

so its not bad

[dawn spire]

With that spear, it's bad

[devout garnet]

can you explain?

i dont really understand why

[mortal swift]

what class?

[fierce sluice]

Why do most people use unleash with contagion? Does it stack on one enemy? Or do the 3 casts spread to separate enemies?

[dawn spire]

That spear has an average of 51.5 phys, 36 fire, and 23.5 lightning damage.

Avatar of fire loses you about 13 phys damage and about 6 lightning damage (about 20% of your base damage)

In exchange, you gain nothing except a homogenized damage type.

And that's just for the main hit.

With combust, you're converting your phys to fire already, so avatar of fire is losing you 23.5 lightning and giving you 18 base fire on top of the 87 fire you already have. It doesn't seem very impactful

Avatar of fire really shines when you have ways to massively lower fire res, have tons of added damage of multiple times, ignite scaling, and/or some ignite synergy like firestorm or something

Unless you're investing really hard into -fire res, ignite, etc. and I'm not not aware, I don't get what AoF is doing for you

[devout garnet]

i can try removing it to see if there is a impact in my dps right now, tbh i was not having any issue but i mean, that could be cuz im not even in maps yetr

[dawn spire]

They spread. Contagion will prioritize the lowest health enemy near your cursor that does not already have contagion

[fierce sluice]

Oh hell yeah good to know

Trying to learn how to create my own builds, any tips other than trial and error?

[dawn spire]

Avatar of fire also has drawbacks like making any "physical damage leeched as life" useless

[devout garnet]

i was not using that

[fierce sluice]

I feel like POE2 does an incredible job of explaining almost every interaction and mechanic in game with the alt underline system

[dawn spire]

Read gems in their entirety, use Poe2db, hold alt and click on underlined keywords to read how they work

Read all the tabs of the gem tooltips as well

[fierce sluice]

Thank you so much! Will as poe2db to my bookmarks

Currently loving poe2ninja

[dawn spire]

Also, as tedious as it sounds, I would read every support gem in the game at least once.

[fierce sluice]

Helped me make the decision to stop trying to make my fireball aoe 1 button build work until I farm some gear on a better ssf friendly build lol

[fierce sluice]

I have done this, even though I don’t understand what they all really mean/do yet

[dawn spire]

Just having a voice in the back of your head going, "Hey, isn't there a support that does X?" when you look at a unique or something can really help

[fierce sluice]

I constantly reread them and use the search function

[dawn spire]

Yeah, nice. My first character crushed the campaign with lightning rod + orb of storms because I just sat down and read all the skill gems and I noticed, "Hey, orb of storms procs on any lightning skill, and it chains a fuckton... Lightning rod is a lightning skill and wants to get chained to a fuckton..."

And then it was buttery smooth.

But it's been meganerfed in 0.2

[devout garnet]

i feel like i do almost the same damage. Futher notice when i reach the next boss

[dawn spire]

Yeah, it is pretty close, but with AoF you're also down a passive point and cannot shock

[devout garnet]

honestly i just press infernal cry into stab, should i use another skill?

[devout garnet]

thinking it that way, i mean, same damage but with 1 more skill point, i think its just better this way. The only thing i was thinking is that if i got more things to scale my fire damage, maybe is worth the point in it? but im not sure

so for 60k to 80k, 60 without it and 80k with it

[dawn spire]

I realized that avatar of fire also shines when you can efficiently scale your fire damage. Do you have %inc fire damage on the tree? You're not using any supports that scale your fire damage from what I saw

[hoary bolt]

veil of the night is kinda working

[dawn spire]

If you ha e lots of fire damage scaling as opposed to generic attack or spear damage, then avatar of fire gets better. That might be why you're seeing no difference

[devout garnet]

for what i saw, i deal almost 40% more damage

with avatar of fire

[devout garnet]

not in the main skill but i have in temper: fire pen and fire infusion

[dawn spire]

I guess that negates the downside of infusion, but, again, you're already doing almost entirely fire damage

I'm not sure what avatar of fire is for except for removing the possibility of chilling, shocking, breaking armor, leeching, etc. And it's lowering your stun buildup

[devout garnet]

does this helps in any way?

[dawn spire]

If you had strong fire scaling on the tree, I could see it helping. But if you're scaling the other damage types efficiently, then I don't get what it's doing.

You do you, but you haven't given me any reason why avatar of fire is good for your build, just a bunch of stuff about why it isn't bad.

[dawn spire]

Not really, no.

The reason it isn't helpful is that of course all your damage is fire. That's all I can get out of that page

[devout garnet]

wait, i did not say it is the best thing ever, in this conversation i never questioned your knowledge as i dont really understand very well what should i or should i not do. Thats why im talking here. I gave you my reasoning, which could very well be wrong.

[toxic sparrow]

Is the Demon Harpy able to become a spectre?

[devout garnet]

Im scaling fire damage, empowered damage and anything attack damage related. Mainly fire but warrior does not have many nodes of fire damage. At the same time im scaling gems lv cuz i though it was the best for spear stab skill.

[dawn spire]

Yeah, sorry, I got distracted and lost the plot for a second. My b.

I'd say that if you decide to go for more ignite synergy and/or fire damage investment on the tree, then avatar of fire is pog. If you scale all your damage anyway and also do a buttload of fire damage, then AoF doesn't do much for you

[devout garnet]

Ok, thanks. Im sorry if in any way i said something wrong bad or plainly ungrateful or anything.

Ill come back when i hit with the wall in maps

[carmine flicker]

did they reduce maltan waterways?
cause I remember they said they did, but that shit feels even longer now afetr patch

[midnight obsidian]

took like 10 minutes of walking/slight backtracking for me

idk if the number of levels is constant

[carmine flicker]

well, bit faster for me, still
10 minute just walking in basically.. curved line(not searching location, just straigh walking with storm mages clearing everything as I run) is.. bit too much if you ask me

was shorter in 0.1
or may be I was just faster with shield charge and blink..

[midnight obsidian]

yeah I was trying to walk/dodge roll into the un-cleared next area while going between levers at least it only takes a second to lower them

[novel cove]

Ayo, quick questions for anyone that knows. For the Huntress’s asmeri brew, if I use both life and mana flasks at the same time, will I get the life regen from the life flask AND the life regen from the mana flask at the same time? I feel like you of course would, but figured I’d be best to find out for certain.

[carmine flicker]

but also - storm mages are shockingly good
fast, aggressive, good clear
solo is.. bit lacking, but w/e

[near yew]

anyone running trinity? mine seems to not be working? how do i know if its active?

[rustic ravine]

Would barrage be a good addition to add to lighting spear and primal strikes build ?

[daring veldt]

Do we take accuracy nodes if we making galvanic shard build with deadeye? Or is accuracy only important with amazon?

[void osprey]

Hello, besides Lightning Spear Amazon whats the other top 2 builds for this league?

[vivid kestrel]

Anyone know if lightning spear or bleed is better for acts/early game huntress? I can get whatever leveling gear I need

[halcyon solar]

anyone familiar with Fubgun's LS Amazon?

[supple jay]

can caltrops crit?

[halcyon solar]

in the beginning rake+stomping ground is stronger than LS

if you can buy anything you want you can get the 0 lvl requirement belt with +44 STR, which greatly boosts stomping ground. There are also always great unique spears during lvling and the Blackheart ring for alts is a no brainer.

but you can switch very early

that's basically one shotting everything until mid act 2

[tacit parrot]

How come my prismatic ring implicit doesn’t effect chaos resistance?

[atomic halo]

chaos is not elemental

elemental is fire cold lightning

[young hinge]

can i use Shattering palm on my frozen locus to apply the shards to 1 nearby enemy?

or if i use shattering palm on 1 enemy do they also get the shards applied

also if i have used infernal cry will the palm attack AND the shard explosion both have extra dmg?

[supple jay]

Do briarpatch boots and thorn +base crit on tree affect caltrops?

[oblique sun]

How do people end up with 4k+ life without passive nodes? Does flat life on gear give you more than just that flat for your lifepool?

[young hinge]

strength gives +life

[oblique sun]

Like say I have +150 to maximum life on an amulet, that would just give me 150 to my lifepool, right?

[young hinge]

yea

[oblique sun]

Then how does someone with just 90 str, level 90 with just +400 max life from gear have 4k life

Mind boggling to me

[atomic halo]

1 str = 2 life

and smith can get 20% inc. life from one of their nodes

[atomic halo]

check it in pob, it has a breakdown of everything

[young hinge]

youd have to link the character for me to answer that

[oblique sun]

https://poe2.ninja/pob/3122

Was scrolling and saw this monstrosity

Couldn’t figure out how the hell they got 4k life

Maybe a glitch with the ascendancy skill to overflow life where it shows more than there actually is?

[open brook]

Yo If I have a weapon swap for blood hounds mark, would stun build up passives need to be on my mark passives or my damaging skills passive swap?

[young hinge]

maybe the inc remnant effect makes it overflow higher too

[hoary bolt]

they have custom configs for the 100% overflow from life remnants

its only 2k life without that

[oblique sun]

Okay if it’s just an overflow thing, that makes a lot more sense

[hoary bolt]

here's my actual 5k life build for example https://poe2.ninja/pob/3ef4

[supple jay]

ok I tested it, briarpatch doesnt work with caltrops spirit gem

So I guess theres just no way to scale caltrops crit aside from %increased

[merry basin]

Can someone help me start a paladin coopsupport build?

[keen spindle]

Hey guys, does this affect storm lance detonation dmg? cuz i tried putting it on and off and theres no difference on the damage it displayed on the detonation part when i clicked advanced info

[polar wraith]

how does this node work with mana regen nodes in the skill tree

[viscid radish]

Increased mana regen nodes work, others don't (e.g., if a node says regenerate 5% mana per second, it won't work)

[rustic scaffold]

scales with them normally

your base mana regen basically scales with life instead of max mana

you still benefit normally from mana regen nodes

[polar wraith]

what are some good dps supp gems for minions

[simple lantern]

anyone know if there is an item or skill that allow you not to be shocked by?

[jolly girder]

Yeah charms

[polar wraith]

good supp gems for ghost dance?

[warped jackal]

I dont want to play another char at the moment but want to try balistica, could it be good with acolythe?

[dawn spire]

You mean artillery ballista?

[warped jackal]

oh yea hahaha typed it wrong

[dawn spire]

I don't see why it wouldn't work. You're kinda shoehorned into the four nodes that aren't bad (extra chaos damage, chaos res, and the breach nodes), but it should be fine.

[warped jackal]

Yeaa thats what i am thinking. but i just need to figure it out how to be efficient with my tree

[dawn spire]

most important nodes for you to get on the treeare probably the extra totem nodes near merc/warrior

and grab proj and attack damage along the way

[warped jackal]

Thanks, i will make a tree on db first and see how that goes

[dawn spire]

I'd use path of building 2 for a tree. Poe2db is what I use for checking gems, skills, etc

[warped jackal]

oh i already made something up

https://poe2db.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/AAAABgoDRF-bj7QFQ8OyLfsCmGS16W_O9K031-w0Y7xGhVhzJ2D5QExxQKuTSqBzjoyTvREqnUBpgR1FPi4yb4zp6a491JHB-fgmbtIdzKKuvh4zuYGR0VVjHrORYTCWZbq0aeTIY4nBfJ-X3PAyIZh7onkpZuPK0RMSlRzsmMx8H5w-Z_YI9JE-s0fzQZAAAA==

[rapid magnet]

Hello everybody, i got a little question. Is there somewhere i can see my total alignment chance? Im trying to see how much an abillity has the chance to apply shock.

[robust pendant]

I was watching a video about flicker strike, in this video, its stated that amazon is better for a flicker build, but items would be more expensive, can anyone help me figuring out the items for a good amazon flicker build?

Video: https://youtu.be/zx-uyfvH2FY
Build: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/ff7ia0lx

[dawn spire]

I know totems can benefit from the rage that I have, but can they gain rage themselves?

[dawn spire]

Assuming you mean "ailment" chance, then it depends on the ailment. Shock cannot show a static value because your shock chance is based on the lightning damage of the hit compared to the enemy's ailment threshold

so the more damage you deal the higher your base shock chance, on average

which is then modified by nodes like, "X% increased chance to shock"

[carmine flicker]

no
and if they could it won't affect them anyway since they use your stats for claculating damage, except they have their own base weapon damage

[dawn spire]

gotcha. so if I had two artillery ballistae with font of rage next each other, but not near me, they wouldn't gain any beneift

[carmine flicker]

sadly no

but if they got, say, enfeebled(and you aren't) that curse won't effect their DPS

[idle goblet]

Someone has any idea on how to properly use Arc for an HC Sorc ? I still have to unlock ball lightening, i tried to apply shock even with stromcaller arrow, but it works sorta badly. Any idea ?

[dawn spire]

nifty. I'm cooking up some dumb rage artillery ballista tactician thing rn and looking for ways to scale, well, everything

[dawn spire]

shock is hard to apply without doing lots of damage and/or getting lots of shock chance on the tree. You can also create shocked ground with something like lightning warp

[idle goblet]

So i should tp in between packs and apply shock with warp ? Sounds dangerous 😄

[warped jackal]

have you thought about shock balista? idk why i dont see a good build of it.

[dawn spire]

it worked fine for my 4k life str stacking gemling in 0.1, buuuut.....

[dawn spire]

wtf is shock ballista?

[idle goblet]

Should i surrender and go with cold as every sorc and their moms ?

[warped jackal]

shockwave

[dawn spire]

eh, up to you. I personally don't like doing pure lightning on HC. Cold is so much more useful for survival. Maybe a weapon swap to apply shocks/curses

[dawn spire]

shockwave totem? that's not a ballista

tho it did get giga buffed recently

[idle goblet]

Actually i'm using stormcaller arrow on swap for applying shock , but its useless with bosses...and warp would be useless with bosses too. With packs i'm not really struggling, but the bosses ? I already fled the chimera fight in act3 3 times because after 5 minutes fight it was still over 75% life

every boss fight looks like a benny hill show 😐

[sharp glade]

would terracota soldiers+sacrifice+profane ritual for tons of raise zombies be a good build?

[idle goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/benny-hill-gif-9109250

[dawn spire]

what bow are you using?

and what supports on stormcaller?

[idle goblet]

DualString with +2 proj level, + elemental damage

[dawn spire]

and does your swap tree have any shock or bow nows?

[dawn spire]

I need to see a screenshot if you can

[idle goblet]

shock and tempo i think

[dawn spire]

The damage on it is pivotal

if it's an old bow it's not gonna shock anything

[idle goblet]

Is it supposed to apply shock even on bosses ?

[dawn spire]

nothing is "supposed" to do anything in a vacuum

but it can if you invest enough

martial tempo doesn't help shock either

[idle goblet]

true

not directly at least

but i'll shot more so more chance, right ?

[dawn spire]

and "shock" isn't a support gem, do you mean conduction?

[idle goblet]

yeah +100% shock chance

[dawn spire]

more time trying to apply a shock = more time not spent in your main damage weapon set

[idle goblet]

yup, but with tempo i take 25% less time to shoot so i can switch to Arc faster

if it applies shock ofc

[dawn spire]

I'd use voltaic mark and support stormcaller arrow with concentrated effect instead of martial tempo

[idle goblet]

wait, tier 7 is the same as warp ?

[dawn spire]

warp is 9

[idle goblet]

ok

[mortal swift]

any thoughts on this tree/how I could optimize it

[idle goblet]

I'll try with voltaic mark

[dawn spire]

and I'd also curse them with conductivity, too

[idle goblet]

i do

it sucks like half my mana

but i do

[mortal swift]

just use a low level one

[idle goblet]

Its not max level

but i'm being pretty unlUcky with the loot

i still have a lvl 12 wand....

i even have just one lesser jeweler orb, and its from the chest in act3 start

0.2 is really slapping me 😄

[mortal swift]

never had shortage of lesser jewellers variance must be high

[mortal swift]

u ssf?

[idle goblet]

nope, just HC

[dawn spire]

have you read #1328202289755983932 ?

[idle goblet]

nope

[dawn spire]

It's all the advice I have for gearing in the campaign

what level are you?

[idle goblet]

39 i think (and i'm failing to beat the chimera which is level 36 😄 )

but i do use orbs on my gear

[dawn spire]

yeah, you should absolutely not have a level 12 wand wtf

[idle goblet]

i do check vendors

etc

[dawn spire]

yes, it's all in the guide

[idle goblet]

yeah but everyone one i found/made ended up worse than the lvl 12 one

[dawn spire]

artificer's, transmutes, augments, regal, and even exalts (tho idk if it's better to use them for trading. That's why I hate trade league, I love using my orbs)

[dawn spire]

pick up white wands, check vendors, gamble if you have extra gold

[idle goblet]

yeah, even the level 12 one i got was a blue one i slapped with a regal to get a +12 cast speed

[idle goblet]

no i'm very low on gold due to the various skill refound to try to find a decend build

[dawn spire]

are you picking up every blue (or rarer) item and white jewelery piece?

[idle goblet]

but i check vendors every level, and i bought even white items to try and get something better

i pick up everything till i'm full

then identify and disenchant

i'm not selling em really

[dawn spire]

I'd stop DEing blues at the very least

and make sure you salvage first

[idle goblet]

i'm pretty short on orbs too

[dawn spire]

yeah, that's why you should salvage

artificer orbs are stronk af

[idle goblet]

no i meant transumtation orbs

[dawn spire]

ah

[idle goblet]

with the few decent items i found i have more than enogh artificer orbs for them 😄

i mean, i got 5 left...but...

[dawn spire]

are you checking staves as well?

or you committed to shield for tankiness?

[idle goblet]

i do, but i'm more for wand+focus for surviviabilty

[dawn spire]

ah, focus. nice middle ground I spose

[idle goblet]

yup

my res arent very good, but i got 1400 es i guess or sorta

[dawn spire]

are you stormweaver or chronomancer?

[idle goblet]

i'm stormweaver but already looking toward chrono

[dawn spire]

why tf do you have 1400 ES with no good way to restore it?

unless you have eternal youth somehow I guess

[idle goblet]

because i found a thorn spine unique, and because i chicken out if my ES goes to low

[dawn spire]

what is that unique called?

[idle goblet]

ah sorry, thorn crown ?

spine crown ?

the jesus headset basically

[idle goblet]

this one

[dawn spire]

this thing is dogshit

no life, no res

minor downside

[idle goblet]

lotsa ES tho

[dawn spire]

life and res are much more helpful during the campaign. Life, especially

ES doesn't give you any ailment or stun threshold by default

it's hard to get back (whereas you always have a life flask)

[idle goblet]

I know, but atm i don't have problem with packs

[wild shoal]

for twister build which skills should i prio for gemcutter prism upgrades, whirlwind and twister are max quality

[dawn spire]

what are your life and resists?

[mortal swift]

It's not that hard

[idle goblet]

and in 0.1 i used the Energy Barrier Support Gem on spark, kept my stun threshold as low as possible, added the 80% stun recovery passive to get my ES recharge start everytime i got hit basically

[dawn spire]

if you invest into a bunch of recharge rate/reduced to delay, maybe

[idle goblet]

yeah, in 0.1 i had 2k ES/s recharge

and it started every hit i got

[mortal swift]

Even without it's fine. But I don't like it in campaign that's for sure

[idle goblet]

i could facetank everything except viper nazul

she killed me 😐

[dawn spire]

yeah, the phys hits + poison gonna shred es

[mortal swift]

Don't worry she'll do it again

[mortal swift]

Uh, no?

[idle goblet]

like around 600, ES 1400, res all around 50% except chaos

[mortal swift]

Poison doesn't DMG es

[dawn spire]

poison does double dmage to ES

[mortal swift]

[mortal swift]

Chaos does double dmg

[dawn spire]

chaos damage deals twice as much damage to ES

[mortal swift]

Poison can't DMG es

[dawn spire]

poison is chaos damage over time

you're thinking of bleed, I think

[mortal swift]

Yes which only affects life

[idle goblet]

no poison bypass ES

[dawn spire]

???

[mortal swift]

Poison and bleed both bypass es

[idle goblet]

yeah

[mortal swift]

[idle goblet]

poson dots bypass ES

[dawn spire]

this game is hard. y'all are right

chaos doesn't, but poison does

wtf

my 12 years of poe1 + trying to learn poe2 is fucking me really hard sometimes

[mortal swift]

Anyway, reason it kills easily is because we have no resists against phys DMG so we take full DMG and take high poison dot

As casters*

[dawn spire]

just don't get hit (:

[idle goblet]

good point

[mortal swift]

I have a clip of whole screen covered with purple circles on that fight

[dawn spire]

Even Jonathon got a poison mechanic wrong on Ziz's podcast

he said that armor would help a lot vs viper because it reduces the phys damage which would reduce the poison. That second part simply isn't true

[mortal swift]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1322253154083016795/1361047098799161585/Untitled_video_-_Made_with_Clipchamp_2.mp4?ex=68034423&is=6801f2a3&hm=708ab256c941ad773b9b40b5788f4241c08b95531235607259da3be48222e7a0&

[dawn spire]

since poison is based on the pre-mitigation hit damage

[mortal swift]

[mortal swift]

You know why? Last league it didn't say "premitigation" DMG in tooltip

It was DMG of hit

[dawn spire]

damn, I missed that in the patch notes

all right, I've accidentally spread enough misinformation for today. I gotta go do my real job.

[mortal swift]

It wasn't in patch notes I believe

I only.know cus I did a lot of poison last league

[idle goblet]

this was the ES effect i got in 0.1

investing heavily on ES recharge (after this clip) made it pretty nice and safe for HC

then i met viper

[static torrent]

Actually, this is what is said. While the Pre-mitigation keyword wasn't used, it did specify that the damage was based on the final damage of the hit before anything that modifies how much damage the enemy takes, ie mitigation.

So what 0.2 looks to have done is unify such descriptions into a single keyword that they can refer to instead of writing out the explanation every time.

[gaunt epoch]

what the heck is this stupid unique armor, wearing it decrease my damage instead of increasing

[dawn spire]

That thing has no modifier that should affect your damage (unless you have attribute scaling). What chest piece are you comparing it to?

[gaunt epoch]

it does, that armour applies to elemental damage

[dawn spire]

Yes, the damage you take

Armor will reduce damage from elemental as well as physical hits with that body armor

[gaunt epoch]

because i was wearing these thinking it was about more armor = more elemental damage

but it did decrease my damage after wearing that armor compared to wearing nothing on the chest

[dawn spire]

Really? By how much?

[gaunt epoch]

no armor

wait wtf

just now it affects now it doesnt

[dawn spire]

Tooltips do be like that sometimes

[gaunt epoch]

ah okay

it was affecting the dmg for around 1k just now

oh well

thanks for letting me know it was affecting the dmg i take instead 😂

[shy bluff]

i wanna play something fast in poe2, not really played game itself, give me some build guides or smth

[zinc mango]

Is there a way to generate targets to ignite? I thought ice wall might work but that doesnt seem to be able to be interacted with anymore

[frosty fulcrum]

any tips on boosting single target damage on amazon lightning spear?

find clearing areas is pretty easy but without chaining lightning between enemies my damage drops off a cliff

[dawn spire]

Unfortunately the best I can recommend is poe1.

The next best I can recommend is flicker strike or other quarterstaff skills. They feel the fastest and zippiest from what I've seen

[cloud canopy]

With my monk what ascendancy is better, is there a clear winner or are they both good

[silver sigil]

anyone playing minions knows if it gets better?

[dawn spire]

Depends on the build but I'd say they're both good

[daring veldt]

Hey! Just wondering if galvanic shard build is better with amazon or deadeye?

[night shadow]

Hello guys, can someone make me understand why do people use Supported Skills have 50% chance to inflict Bleeding support gem on Rake ? Rake already has 100% chance to bleed.

[atomic halo]

for the stomping ground probably

[zealous bison]

Does anyone know if you are ignoring elemental resistances and you use a curse skill like conductivity, if that will put them into the negative?

[dawn spire]

If they have low enough resistance, it might put them negative, but if you're ignoring their resistance you wouldn't care. You'd treat it as 0% even if they were at -10%

[atomic halo]

"ignore" doesnt mean "ignore when they're positive and then suddenly not ignore when they're negative"

[faint fern]

Best node to use Distilled Emotions on for Strength increase if I'm going for Giants Blood with Warrior?

[zealous bison]

ok so even if I were to put them into the negative it would still act as them having 0%?

[dawn spire]

Unless you have something that says, "Ignores non-negative resistance", yes

[zealous bison]

ahh ok

[void osprey]

Hello, besides Lightning Spear amazon, what other builds are currently really good?

[magic pier]

I've seen a thorns build working

Lich is also doing work

[void osprey]

sounds interesting, would u say its relatively low cost to build out?
not that rich rn just like 3 divs enough to make it work?

[frozen bough]

doing amazon lightning spear, which ascendancy points do u first take?

[magic pier]

I actually have no idea
Only seen a clip or two on reddit

[void osprey]

oh ok
tysm for the suggestion 🙂

Also another side question to anyone running LS amazon, how much is your tooltip DPS while just chilling in ur hideout?

[dense warren]

i got 30k

[void osprey]

oh cool, are u running Tangletongue + Lyco shield?

[dense warren]

no

[void osprey]

thats a juicy spear

[dense warren]

10 ex

[void osprey]

im following fubgun's guide and i get 16k dps chilling in hideout on my Lightning spear

[lime narwhal]

got my hands on this, wondering to slot accuracy rune in or is there value to the crit damage core?

[viscid radish]

I'd go accuracy, guaranteed 27-28% increased phys damage from it

[lime narwhal]

hmmm true, these cores aint cheap though

[rapid star]

any ideas how i could use that? can't find a source of poison on my self lol

[atomic halo]

apep's supremacy

[rapid star]

well it wont work with poison burst arrow, gonna have to find another gem

[dawn spire]

I don't think poisonburst arrow hits so that makes sense

[fathom rover]

around what crit rate would you start investing into crit damage?

[rapid star]

40%+ if you also have high attack speed

[ruby forum]

why do my nodes and jewels that add minion crit chance not actually ad the amount they say

[wheat garden]

Does anyone have a good build guide for spark. I’ve just spend 200k to respec my build following a guide and it’s even worse than what I had and now I have no money to change it

[pearl sluice]

DM

[odd lava]

What can be done besides just not being there to mitigate 3k+ dmg chaos or phys slams that almost every map seems to have in t15?

[trail compass]

How can I generate frenzy charges against bosses? I'm trying to save gem slot, any way to generate it without using disengage?

[upper fable]

Anyone here a LS gemling? What do you guys do for boss damage

[woven depot]

If you can figure out how to self inflict lightning damage then there’s a charm for it, but before 0.2 you’d either use snipers mark or combat frenzy with electrocute support gem

[celest blaze]

Maaan... they apparently removed +2 max res jewels, they only grant +1 max res now

I didn't see that in the notes. Thank the gods I'm a Smith of Kitava

[woeful schooner]

Anyone got a mercenary leveling build they'd recommend?

[muted spire]

Anyone can show me a good roll for a Spear (huntress lightning spear build)

Man i rly need a good lightning spear build for huntress

Anyone can help

[cunning violet]

increased phys %, adds # to # lightning atk, # to accuracy, # to crit damage, # to crit chance

with accuracy having highest priority

[odd charm]

Anyone know what’s the most mana recovery/regen you can have?

[mortal swift]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1308715133207318578/1362766648355852349/image.png?ex=680396d7&is=68024557&hm=282c5a35121dc0ec09d670d45f48e99ec09c40357ef39f27dff2900eb3b074f9&

Any thoughts on bettering the tree here?

[odd charm]

Storm weaver?

Monk I see

[muted spire]

Thx bro

[cunning violet]

or just go tangletongue lmao, depends which ascendency node u take

[inland spear]

Any recommended Chaos Witch builds?

[dawn spire]

It looks like a whack build but I can't see any inefficiencies in the pathing

[dawn spire]

Essence drain + Contagion lich, infernalist, or blood mage. Whatever you like

[inland spear]

Contagion Lich

[edgy dust]

So for a minion build i cant think wich would be better...use sunspliter in off hand OR trenchtimbre and scepter in off hand....is one more optimized then the other?

[mortal swift]

its going to be glorious

[dawn spire]

It's a chronomancer, of course it'll be glorious

[edgy dust]

Also im kinda new these have alot of negatives on it but this item is suggested...is this really bad, normal, or good?

[magic pier]

this is a really bad ventor's yeah

don't disenchant it though

you can either trade for 2 other to reforge or sell it so someone else can do the same

[edgy dust]

so am i looking for 1 with no negative resistances? they dont seem to excist lol

[dawn spire]

Hold alt and you can see the ranges. The spirit and life seem kinda good

But yeah, the res is garbage

It's also got a very low implicit roll. And it's corrupted so it cannot be remedied

[magic pier]

negative lightning can be useful due to

[dawn spire]

Also what do you mean, "This item is suggested"?

[magic pier]

don't think the others being negative can be useful though

[dawn spire]

Like someone told you to wear a ventor's?

If they did, they meant a good one

[edgy dust]

ya they were sayin do to the spirit bonus for lich minion

[static plinth]

Well hey technically that one has max spirit

[mortal swift]

Goated ventors just don't get hit

[celest blaze]

Huh, I never noticed that Ventnor had spirit

[tall ingot]

can death's harp unique bow be chanced?

anyone know?

I tried it before once but I didn't work, I don't remember if I had the right base

poe2db says its dualstring bow but I'm unsure

if its possible

[atomic halo]

Death's Harp can drop anywhere. It can be chanced.

-wiki

[tall ingot]

ye I don't trust that

I'm looking for comfirmation of someone who actually did it

don't want to farm a base just for it not to be possible

[cursive girder]

When does the individual rarity start falling off? Like what should I be aiming for?

[brisk leaf]

anyone know of a way to hit themselves with cold damage?

[thin basin]

any1 knows if zenith support snapshot for duration spell?

or does it gain whenever youre above 90

[forest crater]

This is peak content https://youtube.com/shorts/KJTxzAyiZqI?si=NvWBmjKJ4ChEwX2W

[turbid moss]

which of these is better

[atomic halo]

do number math

12+18+4+6+2+4+2+25 vs 17+25+1+3

left is clearly much higher and it has +1

so left

[turbid moss]

ty

[mortal swift]

isnt the ele dmg from runes?

[atomic halo]

yeah

but considering artificers arent free in campaign

and that adding rune to right would still be just a bit worse

i just took the numbers as granted

[patent shell]

is there any gem that makes my companion less agressive lul ?

[patent shell]

any way to generate flask charges ?

[deft osprey]

Does this item simply just set your crit dmg to 300? you can’t change it further right?

[atomic halo]

correct

[vague fractal]

I haven't seen any info on this and I'm not 100% sure. Can Ember Fusilade ignite or do I need something to allow it to apply ignite?

[atomic halo]

all fire damage with hits can ignite

it doesnt need an explicit chance, it's just what fire damage does

[vague fractal]

I thought so, but just wanted to make double sure since wording in these games are VERY specific

[atomic halo]

as long as it doesn't say something like "Cannot Ignite", it can ignite. so yes, ember fusilade can ignite.

[vague fractal]

Thanks!

[scenic dawn]

How do I increase my support gem slots for basic attacks? I’ve forgor how it works

[dawn spire]

There's a spirit gem that generates flask charges. I forget the name

[dawn spire]

It's based on the item level of the weapon

Idk the breakpoints

[scenic dawn]

Ahhh no worries thank you

[obsidian nimbus]

anyone got a link to a good bleed bow build that can scale to endgame

[patent shell]

my usual dps is 12-15k tooltip on boss also 12-15,16 k but how can it be that i do sometims 40k hits ? i disabled crits totally

maybe its because my aoe is so big that it hits his left and right arm ?

[scenic dawn]

Is there anything that turns accuracy into crit chance or damage?

[mortal swift]

what build?

[shy lantern]

does this increase lightning spears dmg with frenzy charges or isnt it doing anything to the dmg?

[atomic halo]

it works

[shy lantern]

nice, it sound really good, hope its just as good as it sounds

[hidden crown]

On the poe 2 trade, is it possible to filter amullets with "allocate ..." ??

[near timber]

does tempest bell snapshot its effects?

[edgy dust]

This is difficult i cant decide between lich minion or infernalist minion or essence drain build lol

[patent shell]

leapslam but i think the problem here is the corpse explosion from his minions i guess

[edgy dust]

They said in long run lich is better u then infernal for storm mages but then i dont know who does bigger clears and more damage....minions or essence drain

[mortal swift]

It is currently the strongest form of LS in game

[shy lantern]

i tried it out and its op

[mortal swift]

Lol

[patent shell]

do i have to lessen the total dps of both weapon by 30% in POB or just type 30% less dmg in calculator ? both dont act the same ofc

[midnight obsidian]

blue should mean it's already accounted for

[mortal swift]

Blue ones work in pob

You don't have to manually do it

[empty spire]

almost 50k 😄

[patent shell]

yes but the problem is pob is not calculatin both weapons hit dmg thats my current problem

[mortal swift]

havent worked with weps tbh so idk how to help

[edgy dust]

Im not understanding atziri helm for essence witch....do i want alot of damage bypass???

[mortal swift]

for lich?

[edgy dust]

Yup

[mortal swift]

you want both damage bypass and gain life as es

[edgy dust]

Ok so high numbers on both

[obsidian nimbus]

anyone know any good bleed builds?

[mighty drum]

depends how good, this could be better https://poe2.ninja/pob/415d but clears t16s easily

[novel pivot]

i was playing bleed on amazon, it felt a little tough but i was clearing t15s. im currently playing twister and thinking of switching to lightning spear: I was here the other night seeking advice, looking for any input before i pull the trigger 😄

is LS all its cracked up to be?

[autumn hawk]

like 60% of playerbase plays it for a reason lmao

its eh for bossing but i basically throw one spear and whole screen wipes

[novel pivot]

right, i head it had some trouble with single target, i got about 35 div saved up trying to figure out the best way to spend it

[autumn hawk]

It shouldn't take but a single div or so to get it started

[novel pivot]

perfect jewelers though?

[autumn hawk]

i guess, i dont have a perfect jewelers on mine 😛

[novel pivot]

i think most of my gear specs well into it

[autumn hawk]

i think in total i spent 2 divs for my gear

[novel pivot]

from twister build

[autumn hawk]

I've only gotten up to t10 as of right now but I havent struggled on anything

[novel pivot]

i've spent maybe 6 or 7 divs on my gear so far, i've been looking at fubguns endgame build with the scepter thats really expensive

[autumn hawk]

just have been to lazy to push farther

I use the tangletongue and lycosaide

[novel pivot]

i am clearing early pinnacle bosses, but i just died to olroth on the second to highest tier

[autumn hawk]

ahh i died about 50 times to xesht t0

xD

DEFINETLY need to get better gear to do pinnacles

[novel pivot]

yea xesht i died about 6 or 7 times before i cleared

i want to be able to clear pinnacles

and not have to worry about limited retries

especially for tier 1

[autumn hawk]

same but I feel im probably moving onto other games already lol

[novel pivot]

this is the first time i've played a ladder/league style game pretty heavily from the startup, its been alot of fun

[autumn hawk]

the new content just feels lackluster too me as of right now, guess i just expected more

[novel pivot]

i've sank alot of hours

[autumn hawk]

I put like 750 hours into the first season

[novel pivot]

and i do feel somewhat agreeable with what you're saying

i put a little more than half that into season 1, was really excited for season 2

[hidden crown]

Tame Beast Companions always reserve 42.3% of your total spirit?

[autumn hawk]

no

i have some that are i believe between ~32%-50%

i think a couple of mine were around 32% tho without reduction on the tree

[novel pivot]

this will be my second build swap if i do, and im just hoping that its an improvement from twister

[young hinge]

yo
does embitter work for eye of winter the gain is inside the gem idk if it works right

[atomic halo]

should work

[junior swan]

hi guys...im running a light arrow deadeye..should i go for light damage or phys dps on bow please?

when i run i PoB it always go for light, but all builds say phys

[native bolt]

how to activate this?

[atomic halo]

right click the icon

with the art

[native bolt]

i am right clicking on it, it doesn't appear as the reset of the spirits skills

is it always active and doesn't take spirits while i am wearing the spectre?

what do u mean with art?

[atomic halo]

searched it up and apparently it's always on

try walking towards enemy and seeing if they get crit weakness

[native bolt]

ty

[pale hatch]

What ways exist to make life recoup apply to energy shield?

[crimson sky]

How are people getting 60k tooltip dps on lightning spear with tangle tongue? Idk how to max out my crit

[mighty drum]

I can agree that it is tough, but rewarding nevertheless. You can see even more potential at T15s (don't mind boss fuck up with I messed a bit too much with stuff while smoking)

[novel pivot]

your videos are not playing for me, they are still pictures

im currently re speccing my whole build to try to fix the attribute hungry requirements for endgame LS build lol

its a big pita, i realized i didn't have enough int but then realized i needed to respec my passive tree and now just hope as i make these changes that it accumulates to the amount of attributes i need, i have alot of attributes on my gear so i hope it works out!

[mighty drum]

if u are worried about the gold...

exalt slam high tier waystones and .. .sell them to vendors 10k ea

[mortal swift]

dam thats a cool build

[mighty drum]

1 waystone == ~2 skill points, that's how I spent billions

[novel pivot]

i have enough gold

its looking like im short 25 or 30 int

i was previously looking at boots to fix this if i replace my shield with the flame sceptre for fire res

[weak rain]

looking to go for hand of wisdom and action on my witchhunter but i don't have the grand regalia

would astramentis make up for that?

[mighty drum]

you can stat stack rings and use lovely ingenuity if u can afford that? never seen that astramentis in my life ::D

[neat iron]

Does tangletongue fork crit on spells

[mighty drum]

it forks critical hit chance, so yes

[junior oracle]

So anyway: Which merc ascendancy is best?

[scarlet sage]

Hey exiles! 🌟 I'm recruiting active players for our PoE 2 Discord community! DM me here for the invite link. Just send me your join screenshot + in-game name after entering, and I'll hook you up with FREE Exalted Orbs & Map Keys! 🗝️🔥 Let's grind together!4

[pale hatch]

Can you sacrifice 10% of your life or pay 3% of your life if you pick CI?

[craggy ice]

can someone tell me how this build takes "patent barrier" at the top? https://poe2.ninja/builds/dawn/character/kennysmurf51-1384/RAT_TERA

[pale hatch]

Amulet anointment, Delirium crafting mechanic

[craggy ice]

ah okay, thank you

[teal verge]

hey i have a dumb question but if I'm using spear throw, how do I get it so that I can use three supports?

[mortal swift]

the thing from the weapon? U get slots for it if u have a higher level weapon

[fluid geode]

If he reach a higher level, not have a higher level weapon.

[mortal swift]

wait are you sure? Last league it was surely item locked

[viscid radish]

Pretty sure it's skill level locked, and not weapon locked per se

[mortal swift]

yes but you wont get high skill level with low item level

[viscid radish]

True

[mighty drum]

why then spear throw is same Level on such different ilvls ?

or it just shows my equipped skill ?

[static torrent]

Spears don't grant Spear Throw at a specific level, so it appears to scale with you in the same way Default Attack or Ascendancy skills do. However, Wands, Staves, Sceptres and Uniques that grant skills typically state a specific level that they grant based on the item's item level, so they do not scale with the player.

This would also be consistent with the wording of Ascendancy skills, where they do not state a specific level of skill that they grant.

[random arrow]

hey guys what does my 4th ascendancy point go in with huntress gas arrow?

i got azmeri brew, crit strike and pred instinct

[warped jackal]

Hi guys, i want to combine glacian bolt with the balista, what supports can i use so the ice walls of glacian bolt immediately explodes?

[normal pumice]

I don't get tame beast, the first few worked easily but now I can't mark/apply the status for taming onto rares anymore. How does it work now?

[copper summit]

how bad was the damage loss of archmage, is normal caster better?

[timber charm]

Does 50% increased titan sascendancy works with againstht the darkness unique jewel?

[dense warren]

can we still increase quality of amulet after instill?

[fierce sluice]

To clarify, this just means that if I have a solar skill that does a lot of ignite damage (solar orb) it will give me significantly more energy than flame wall?

And the 0-57% increased is depending on the damage of the skill? so like solar orb would be closer to 57% increased energy, and flame wall would be closer to 0%? Or is that line dependent on something else?

To add to this question, how does this work for CoC? I am assuming if I crit with lets say comet, it will depend on how much cold damage I do based on the enemy's ailement threshold, but what if the crit is like physical damage? does that still count against their ailment threshold?

[carmine flicker]

No
You get static amount of energy, then that is modified by ailment threshold, and then increased by up to 57% depending on lvl of the cast on ignite gem
(57 at lvl 20)

[fierce sluice]

ohhhh nice! So basically if I have a level 15 gem, and damage an enemy with solar orb with a lot of damage support/ignite magnitude, I could expect to get a very large percent of energy from igniting a boss for example?

[carmine flicker]

Type of damage doesn't matter
Why did you even think it do?

[fierce sluice]

Also I think I understand CoC now, if an enemy has 500 ailment, and my crit does 1000, I will gain 200% more energy?

[carmine flicker]

You will gain 100% more

100% more is x2

[fierce sluice]

Modified by the percent of the enemy ailment threshold the crit will deal, 1000 is 200% of 500 no?

500 would be 100% of 500 right

[carmine flicker]

If boss had 500 threshold and you crit for 1000 and had lvl 20 gem
You will get
20(boss power)*2 and then multiply by increased energy gained

So if you have no other increased energy gain
62.8 energy

[fierce sluice]

Okay I am working on a freeze/ignite build and thinking about taking CoI and CoC later because CoF looks kind of horrible now lol

[fierce sluice]

Am I reading the tooltip wrong or misunderstanding what it is saying?

[carmine flicker]

1000 is 200% of 500 so x2 energy
Except it's not 200% more
200% more is x3

[fierce sluice]

ohhhh yes yes I see now

200% more than 500 would be 1500

thank you for clarifying! makes much more sense now

freeze is so damn cool in this game, the animations and CC are so awesome

[mighty drum]

I wish there was a bot who could remind me in X days to check whether people found bleed as exciting as elemental damage

speaking of blood, what 5th link would benefit rake the most if we want to make it less clunky?

Rake + Deep Cuts + Close Combat + Heft + Ancestral Call is what I am running now. Would love to be able to either increase skill speed (or move speed as dash seems to scale of it too) or area/target count where I inflict bleeding

[carmine flicker]

Instant damage is always better than DoT when damage is similar
For obvious reasons

[mighty drum]

unless you want to farm so aura right? also.. physical dot can be removed if u want some insta dmg

[carmine flicker]

Aura? Wdym?

[mighty drum]

it was a silly joke don't overthink it..

To try and look tough even when there's no obligation to ( https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Aura Farming )

[fierce sluice]

I got it Makima I thought it was funny

https://tenor.com/view/venom-dunking-on-spiderman-gif-26119954

What does a higher magnitude of freeze even do? longer duration?

[bold pulsar]

Hello folks! I need some advice on my merc. Im trying to make a bleed merc. I use Fragmentation as a delivery system for bleed. However, while good for crowds, its dmg per pellet is quite low. So I assume there are better options for single target, or maybe even overall. I considered High Velocity, as I use gas grenade to strip armor. B ut I dont know if thats viable later on, unless I specificly focus on poison. Any ideas?

[agile salmon]

the cluster marked in red gives a ton of area dmg and aoe and 10% cdr, but is it worth travelling to it like so?

i thought its worth it also because theres a jewel slot on the way, but i would like others' opinions too

[queen mountain]

What builds are fun this league? I've got a chaos/minion lich in act 3, but it feels slow (DoT). Debating starting a bleed spear Amazon.

[agile salmon]

smith is very fun to play, having a blast with it after trying witch

with the op ascendency nodes i found myself doing t10s right after the campain and lvled up to from 64 to 81 in 1 day with basically ~10 ex worth of gear

[quiet knoll]

Lich is fun if you go pure chaos no minions and stack ES. Just finished t3 simu and max xesht with 16k es. Have yet to find something that’ll eat thru the defenses

[queen mountain]

I'll give that a try now that I have Eternal Life. I had been using minions mostly for defense, but might not need them now.

[neon smelt]

I've been playing minion lich and wondering why it feels so ass

chaos curse minion lich

The AOE clear was good but bosses take forever

and t8 are starting to bite my ass

[quiet knoll]

Yeah I was like 8 hours into a minion witch and just ended up restarting when I realized how much better pure chaos would be.
I just run contagion/essence drain and drop effigies on any bosses. Very simple and very unkillable

Also got curse on second weapon but I hardly use it

[neon smelt]

Do you use despair?

[quiet knoll]

Yeah

[neon smelt]

I found that despair paired with the support gem that deal s dmg equal to your intelligence is also good

decaying hex

that'll be expensive to respec, yikes

[quiet knoll]

Oh yeah it’s mean, I was really hoping it would work on blasphemy lol

[neon smelt]

they killed hexblast unfortunately

blasphemy + despair and decaying hex doesn't work?

I know that blasphemy and hexblast doesn't work

[quiet knoll]

i didn't have any luck w blasphemy/decaying, the dmg wasn't proccing unless it was so small it could be ignored

but i also have temporal chains in my blasphemy

[neon smelt]

do you think stacking spirit without minions is a thing?

[quiet knoll]

probably a thing after some heavy investment lol

[neon smelt]

got 328 spirit rn, if I ditch the minions, I'm sure I could cook something up

did you take unholy might?

[quiet knoll]

nah bc that added damage doesn't affect any of my chaos dots, only the initial hit

was running the chaos booms for a while but found a nice phylactery and went defense

[neon smelt]

is the 30% bonus dmg not good?

[quiet knoll]

depends on what you're going for, i do 99% of my damage as DOT and that 30% damage is not applied to DOT

[neon smelt]

what choas dots do you have? ED and contagion?

[quiet knoll]

yeah

[neon smelt]

plus the effigy?

[quiet knoll]

yeah effigy would be the only thing getting buffed from unholy

[neon smelt]

So unholy might is bait then?

[quiet knoll]

if you're running minions i bet it's good

[neon smelt]

like I said, my minions are hitting the wall rn

[quiet knoll]

but for me it's a one time damage increase on the initial hit of my casts, not worth

[neon smelt]

Guess I need to switch to spellcaster only as well

you probably invest everything into chaos dmg and curses?

plus some Energy shield of course, I suppose?

[quiet knoll]

yeah weapon set 1 is all chaos dmg, weapon set 2 all curses. grabbed all ES nodes in between

[neon smelt]

is it even mandatory to set set points?

I mean, do you do some kind of weapon switch?

[quiet knoll]

i do, specifically for curse bonuses

and no i don't swap, just set up your skills to ONLY use the second or first weapon

and you can just hit the skill button without needing to swap

[neon smelt]

how does that even work?

[quiet knoll]

the same way i have 4 spirit abilities up w only 100 spirit x)

"used with weapon x"

can customize

[neon smelt]

Have I been playing the game wrong the entire time?

lmao

[quiet knoll]

those weapon set passives are clean

didn't use em last league

[neon smelt]

yeah Imma need some explanation on those XD

That's new territory for me

[quiet knoll]

if this is your first time hearing this please go watch a guide on how to set up a backbar/second weapon. it's so nice

[neon smelt]

Can you send me your whole skilltree please? So I know what to go?

[quiet knoll]

yeah i gotchu

[neon smelt]

Guess who cleared the whole campaign in the first league with only using the recommended skill gems as a warrior

No wonder the game felt like pain

[abstract timber]

anyone got a link to a EASY to do and understand Lighting spear duild as i am not to good at this game and waht to tay the lighting spear thing all the people are talking about LOL

[fierce sluice]

scattershot still lets all 3 projectiles hit bosses right

like if I frostbolt directly at a large boss all 3 projs will damage boss yes?

[abstract timber]

😦

[fierce sluice]

Are cast on ignite and cast on freeze both about the same currently in terms of viability? Haven't specced enough into CoC yet, and am deciding which is better

I am freezing very frequently, but based off the way the Cast on energy system works now, I almost feel like I would get more milage out of just using solar orb with CoI but idk I have not tested it yet

NVM lol

CoF it is until I can get higher crit chance

[dusty horizon]

for LS, is dance with death (+25% more skill speed) better than having a shield? Can't make up my mind, but combat does feel slow af without using that notable.

[hollow bronze]

When building DOT for Chao damage what's the biggest source of damage? For essence drain I do about 12k/s. now I'm only lvl 75

[stable comet]

for a late start in the season what build would you guys recommend? from these 2 builds

[mortal swift]

I like deadeye more but its personal pref I suppose

[warped jackal]

Can i combine herald of ash and herald of ice and is it good with balista and glacial bolt?

[scarlet musk]

level 89 spear amazon. Struggling with getting 1 tapped and survivability. Any suggestions? 65% evansion 35 block chance full res wind dancer 1.9k life.

[sharp glade]

none of those are mitigation layers

[scarlet musk]

think ill need to go hybrid es/evasion?

[sharp glade]

or just get more hp and dmg

[mighty drum]

You need near cap block chance and more evasion.. if you want to go block / eva.. I would switch to eva / es or even coc es

[zealous bison]

Does anyone know if you are running fresh clip and you weapon swap does the gem still work?

[quasi flint]

is there a sweet spot level for curses not to cost a ton of mana?

[manic venture]

Do raise spectres leave behind corpses for consumption with skils like detonate dead?

[idle verge]

hey guys for the fubgun deadeye 1shot build alot of ppl are doing i jst tried setting one up what crit chance is recommended or is it jst get 100% right out

[fierce sluice]

Are uniques target farmable in this game or no

If so, is there some kind of chart or something? I checked poe2db and didnt find anything of that sort

[atomic halo]

only boss uniques

which is a select few

rest is not target farmable

[fierce sluice]

how do I know which are boss uniques

[atomic halo]

on poedb it will say "「Xesht, We That Are One」Limited Drop" for example

[fierce sluice]

ahhh okay cool

[atomic halo]

there's only a dozen or so so it;s not too hard to just learn all of them

[fierce sluice]

is there a way to see drop weights

or is that only for affixes

[bold pulsar]

I need some merc advice. Im building a crit bleed fragmentation merc. But Im unsure what ascendency might be better. Any advice?

[mortal swift]

folks I need a way to break armor

thoughts?

ideally passively so I can get scavenged plating stacks

[bold pulsar]

I only know of my merc. I use gas nade with the support gem that breaks armor from poison

[mortal swift]

Im melee chrono

[mystic osprey]

for a minion build, lets say skeleton frost mage, should I also increase my damage a little bit or should I only go for minion nodes on passive tree?

[jovial pine]

can someone explain to me why shockburst round some times have pulses and other times doesnt?

[desert plaza]

can one of you fine individuals tell me what this socketable is?

[scarlet musk]

bird talisman

[desert plaza]

thank

[plain saddle]

https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Talisman

And it's rabbit talisman

[hoary geyser]

currently running t15 what should i work on or upgrade https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/pt3jv0bp

[plain saddle]

There is not even a bird talisman xd

[plain saddle]

Nice build, really creative passive tree points allocation

How to improve? Enter poe2.ninja check top lvl LS builds and copy that build just like you did with this one

[tidal birch]

What is better for Lightning Spear in HC, Deadeye or Amazone?

[dawn spire]

+level of gems (weapon and the tree, mainly. Maybe amulet, too?)
Wither
Lowering chaos resistance
Spell damage
Chaos Damage
Dark effigy is massive (I'd use envenom + conc effect)

[hollow bronze]

thank you if i sent you my POb would you be able to point me in the right way??

[dawn spire]

probably not

the tree only has so much chaos damage and wither stuff on it

just path to it in an efficient manner and you should be fine

[wild rampart]

How to scale Spear of Solaris Ignited Ground damage? Does the ignited ground care if the spear crits? Does it care about increased attack damage?

[plain saddle]

Yes this is an attack skill so increased attack damage boosts the damage

Doubt that crit Increases damage of burning ground

[sharp glade]

why is alphas howl so expensive

[atomic halo]

they forgot to give it a downside

[young hinge]

Elemental dmg maybe

[plain saddle]

No it's not elemental damage

It's 100 spirit and double presence

[plain saddle]

Where do you see elemental damage in the first place

[night shadow]

Hello guys, can someone please explain to me why Stomping Ground support on Rake is so meta? I'm almost at the end of camping my DPS on Rake it is 1800 and Stomping Ground dose equal to my STR damage, so my STR is 110 at this moment. Why 110 added dmg is so meta? Do Stomping Ground do extra dmg as well? Is this 100% attack damage added to the 100% STR?

[plain saddle]

people use macro for rake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7GxAdkTkVk

like this but this guy is not using macro

and its bad

[mortal swift]

It's good because it triggers like3 times per take

Rake*

[night shadow]

hmmm, why 3 times?

[mortal swift]

Idk xD just how rake is

[plain saddle]

cuz you do 3 steps using this skill

and stoping releases after a step

[mortal swift]

Yes technically that's the reason

[night shadow]

do the damage of Stomping Ground also scale whit other modifiers like Incease Attack dmg?

[plain saddle]

it scales with everything stated in tooltip

attack physical aoe activate

[mighty drum]

someone took stomping ground even to t15

holy

[plain saddle]

i killed king of the mists t2 with it

[mighty drum]

is this good then w/o stomping?

[carmine flicker]

why not? stack str and it works
(tho I'd say it would be better on kitava)

[plain saddle]

rake is useless if you want to deal dmg with stomping

[plain saddle]

wrong

titan is the best

[carmine flicker]

...for?

[plain saddle]

stomping

[carmine flicker]

yeah, titan is best cause of what?

[plain saddle]

50% bonus to small nodes

easier stunning more dmg to stunned

and you get armor that gives 30% strength not 20%

[carmine flicker]

attributes? you mean small nodes?
cause afaik it doesn't affect +5 nodes

[plain saddle]

yes

[carmine flicker]

kitava have 90 all res and phys as fire
so can actually survive things

[plain saddle]

i survive without it

and i clear whole screen with 1 hit

[gilded valley]

can someone try and help me understand how these 2 skills interact?
encase in jade is a passive and an active skill
i gain stacks over time and then can activate the skill to gain guard
is the skill always considered active or only active during guard

since im always gaining stacks of jade i am confused

or is the jade stacks not considered part of the skill?

[carmine flicker]

the skill itself have cast time
0.3 second

those 0.3 second are only time when you are "using" the skill

all other time you are benefiting from it's effects but you are not using the skill itself

[atomic halo]

you lose 21 int

[unborn oracle]

omg

[atomic halo]

yeah

[unborn oracle]

is to late for me ty xD

[dusty lance]

how good is sacred flames for huntress. is it a good end game build?

[shy atlas]

BIS sceptre

There’s a reason that shit is forty div

[atomic halo]

its the best

[shy atlas]

[dusty lance]

isd there a certain percentage i should aim for?

[shy atlas]

Has anyone tried using herald of ice for deadeye LS instead of thunder?

I’ve been playing a ice variant and it’s sooo satisfying

[dusty lance]

been saving like crazy im at 27 divs

[shy atlas]

Prices might drop since ppl quitting the league in droves

[plain saddle]

Lightning is better damage

Cold maybe better map clear

But you oneshot everything anyway with ls

[opal tusk]

hey fellas, can you help me decide between these two bows? primarily a lightning arrow focused build

[plain saddle]

Download pob2 (path of building) import your character, import these 2 items, equip both, compare dmg

[opal tusk]

o7

[plain saddle]

But would take the right one

[opal tusk]

alrighty

[plain saddle]

Both look good tbh but the right one shoots 2 arrows

[unborn oracle]

On the trading side does dps on crossbows (if you filter for that) already includee stuff like crit chance, attacks speed and so on? Or come that on top of dps?

[hoary bolt]

of course not

it does attack speed yes

but only local

i.e the weapon itself, it can't know what your build is

[unborn oracle]

alright ty!

[plain saddle]

Attack speed ye, there is also physical DPS and all DPS including elemental

People usually look for pure physical

[dawn spire]

It uses the flat damage and the attack speed. Not the crit or %ele damage

[unborn oracle]

So for example. Seeing one with 741,6 oiverall DPS awith 7,41% crit. The other has 704 overall DPS but 18% attack speed. SO as u said attack speed is already included example one should be better at raw dmg (plus it has more crit)

[plain saddle]

Y the first better

But does it have added elemental flat damage?

[dawn spire]

Yeah, you said "overall dps". Depending on how you're scaling your damage, a weapon with 741 overall dps but only 650 phys dps might be worse than a weapon with 700 phys dps

[unborn oracle]

Both add phys and lightning dmg

[plain saddle]

I would take 1st one if you scale crit

Or I have better idea just post both weapons here

[dawn spire]

Really depends on your skill and what you want to scale. If you're converting phys to lightning damage in the end anyway, then phys+lightning is effectively the same as pure phys

[unborn oracle]

yeah converting phys into light, playing galv shard and shockburst

Deadeye

[plain saddle]

First one probably the best

If you want to be sure download path of building 2 import your char import these weapons and check them one by one

How DPS changes

[unborn oracle]

sounds good thanks a lot!

[final dragon]

There a meta atlas build people are using?

[plain saddle]

Check fubgun

[trim moss]

does anyone know how "sustainable practices" pathfinder node works? it reads "30% of evasion also grants elemental damage reduction"

[fierce sluice]

What is the selling point/use case of Eye of Winter? it seems like horrible but I would like to understand what it could be good for

[severe oar]

Can someone help me understand Decaying Hex on Despair ?

[plain saddle]

What do you want to know

It's pretty self explanatory

[jolly jungle]

hi. recently finished act 6 as huntress and trying to buy a spear for endgame. guys, tangletongue or seaglass? tia

[severe oar]

Why would i increase my despair mana cost for only few damage ?

[plain saddle]

U see that cost multiplier

[plain saddle]

Tangle tongue cheaper but sea glass could be better but will cost a lot of sivines

[static plinth]

Dark Effigy

[severe oar]

contagion is better tho

[static plinth]

??? They're not exclusive

Every chaos DoT you have empowers Dark Effigy

[severe oar]

How so ?

[static plinth]

It fires an additional projectile per DoT on an enemy

[plain saddle]

If you have a lot of int it's good

[jolly jungle]

thanx for the replay rysiek 🙂

[static plinth]

EDC is 2, Decaying Hex makes 3, poison makes 4

I think im forgetting one

[severe oar]

that's the answer i wanted

[severe oar]

why EDC is 2

[plain saddle]

But effigy only on bosses

[severe oar]

oh conta

damn i was never using contagion on boss

[static plinth]

ED+C

[severe oar]

i'm so dumb lol

[severe oar]

yep

or clear map like some people do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDNX-KkD9ms

Thanks for the help, I see more clear now

[plain saddle]

I used decaying hex on despair and contagion would kill everything and spread

[severe oar]

My contagion doesn't do enough damage

I use essence drain with the support gems +90%mana and contagion and now I will try to only use contagion and dark effigy for clear

And maybe despair IF the curse is spread by contagion

[plain saddle]

Curse not dot yes

[granite wing]

if you ignite someone with original sin does the fire dot get converted to chaos

[ember pumice]

Testing out an infernal legion build, anybody know any spectres with very high health or utility for being exploded/burned?

[plain saddle]

You can kill your own spectres?

[jovial blade]

did they remove the advance and expert armors?>

[plain saddle]

Yes

[jovial blade]

I remember i am getting advance items on map 3 cruel before. now i'm on maps and still not seeing one

ohhhh

[plain saddle]

They just added new bases and removed advance and exprrt

[jovial blade]

hmmmmm is there a way to know better armors now?

[plain saddle]

Wikipedia

[atomic halo]

poe2db.tw / poe2wiki.net

[jovial blade]

so does that mean all items could get higher tier rolls?

now that we dont have advance and expert

[plain saddle]

No

They were just different bases

With the same icon and almost the same name

Now they have different model and name

[jovial blade]

do you prefer it that way?

its kinda overwhelming to memorize all these items

[plain saddle]

Ye and it's only the beginning

You don't need to remember all

[jovial blade]

poe2 wiki still showing expert and adnvance items

[plain saddle]

Just the best bases

[atomic halo]

that is not poe2 wiki

poe2 wiki is poe2wiki.net

[plain saddle]

It's fextralife rightm

[atomic halo]

you're looking at some unupdated nonsense, probably fextra yeah

[plain saddle]

Y that wiki is useless and missing all the valuable data

How to get unique? Go chance it bro placeholder

[atomic halo]

what more do you expect

it's correct and all we know

[plain saddle]

Why you defend it now

[atomic halo]

oh nvm i thought u were talking about poe2wiki

description applies to both

[pseudo gale]

anyone know how to make crystalline phylactery work in POB?

[umbral dove]

does "allies in your presence" include yourself?

[atomic halo]

no, you are not your own ally

[umbral dove]

rip, ty

wait so if im a non-minoin build using a sceptre, what can i put in it that would actually help me?

[atomic halo]

inc spirit

mana

not much

[craggy ice]

they say your greatest enemy is yourself

[uncut trout]

So deadeye huntress with spears is good?

[shy atlas]

really? herald of lightning is better dmg than ice?

always seemed to me at least last league that all lightning was for was to trigger ice

[cinder brook]

Lightning spear is just completely busted

[shy atlas]

ye ik

im tryna theorycraft a variant of it cuz i use herald of ice and cast on freeze instead of crit/shock

ive always found the way ice herald functions to be super satisfying

[cinder brook]

Don’t think there’s anything inherently that would stop the build from being decent

[shy atlas]

ye i figure, but im wondering how thunder is just that much better

[cinder brook]

It might not be. It’s def the most popular, but variants could very well be around equal. Most people are way too lazy to actually build themselves

Think dmg rolls on lightning gear are technically higher range but don’t think it’s a huge amount

[shy atlas]

so far ive been using it and it seems a bit better than lightning actually

the extra aoe from ice herald basically makes me delete an entire screen extra offscreen

i'm clearing four rooms at once on tunnel maps

only downside is you need call of the brotherhood for cold conversion

[cinder brook]

If you have a link to your current/planned build I’d like to look at it at some point

Always been a fan of ice builds myself

[shy atlas]

sure, ill reply w a poeninja once im home

and yep, its why im trying to make it work

the sound of a frozen target shattering and the little ice blocks that are left behind

chefs kiss that scratches a brain itch

the thunk is so satisfying

[cinder brook]

Yeah I had a lot of fun even just with freezing salvo when leveling

Imagine a fully synergized build would be fun to play

[shy atlas]

depends on the class

i rolled off zon and onto a deadeye because the LS build basically requires permanent frenzy uptime

deadeye LS is a thousand times more fun than zon was

[daring veldt]

Hey I was wondering how good stormweaver is after the nerf. I’m looking to make a frost build. I was wondering which class will have better scaling in high endgame for fast clear and bosses for a frost caster build

[wintry badge]

are sorcs still playing mind over matter?

[silent thistle]

Would culling strike wearing the deepest tower and having the cull the hordes' node ( 25% culling strike threshold) just auto kill all normal mobs? The helm puts all enemies in presence to lowlife 35% culling strike works at 30%, but the node should boost that to 37.5% so auto kill on any hit.

[pearl pagoda]

Hey guys, I am currently playing a warrior with the new ascendancy (Smith of Kitava) and I have a question regarding the "Temper Weapon". It states that channeling the spell will temper my "main hand martial weapon". I am using Shield Charge as my attack skill, which uses my "base off hand physical damage". Therefore, I am doing damage with my shield and yet it does not count as a "melee martial weapon", as it is not a type of that - still, I am using the tempered charges. So the game says the shield is not a martial melee weapon, but still uses the empowered charges.

Yet, my support gems - which boost my "melee physical damage" or my "attack damage" don't count for the skill I am using. So I am confused - is it a bug?

[unreal sierra]

would need checking, but I think deepest tower doesn't work like that, it just makes lowlife count on 100% monster hp

[steel peak]

sounds like it may be a little misworded leaning either-way. the intention may have been to mean 'not wands, staves, nor bows'

[dawn spire]

The yellow text says it tempers your main hand martial weapon, but the green text says it just empowers your next three melee attacks. I'm guessing it just says it tempers your main hand martial weapon so that you know you need to be wielding a martial weapon in your main hand to use it

As for the support gems, which ones are you trying to use with shield charge?

[pearl pagoda]

alright, cheers and ty 🙂

[pearl pagoda]

I am trying to use Heft or Heavy Swing - but I figured out that since I am convertig my Damage to Fire damage, the support gems seem to be applied AFTER the convert and therefore do 0% increased damage. Which for me, is weird - I would have thought they would buff the damage before it is being converted

[dawn spire]

In poe1, yes. In poe2, no. All the stuff that scales a damages type only applies to the final type it ends up at after all the conversions

[pearl pagoda]

Ohhh, alright - gotcha! Thanks for clearing that up

[dawn spire]

Only thing that would count would be, for example, %inc physical damage on a weapon

Since that's boosting the base damage before it gets converted

[pearl pagoda]

In my case, since I am using Shield Charge, I guess there aren't many options for that

[scenic dawn]

Best unique bow for crit build? Was assuming splinter heart is the best but unsure

[gaunt epoch]

did any1 ever tried if these 2 works?

[silent thistle]

Thank you

[unreal sierra]

i didn't, but from phrasing and other interactions, I think ambrosia won't count as flask effect

[gaunt epoch]

sadge, thanks

[marble steppe]

Anyone tried lightning rod annoit with ls? Can't decide between stormcharged and lightning rof

[scenic dawn]

Lightning rods work with ls

[edgy hamlet]

Best bow build? Doing gas arrow amazon. Having fun feels like it starts to drop off. I’m using the harp bow and then auto ignite helm. Besides lighting arrow is there any bow build on Amazon that would be better?

[valid oak]

does this work with a lightning monk for generating power charges with resonance?

[vestal silo]

is there anyone running crit bone lich?

[wide stone]

Yes

[valid oak]

should i use the unique one?

[scenic dawn]

What level is the build?

I’m using an Amazon crit bow build and I’ve wiped most bosses out with just basic bow attacks

[scenic dawn]

Yo them boots are wild I gotta get me them

[valid oak]

u think i should use them?

[scenic dawn]

What kinda build is it?

Is it a spear build?

[valid oak]

no im a lightning monk

[scenic dawn]

Can give them ago

Pinning might be useful

That’s why I like the boots

[valid oak]

alr thank you

[mystic osprey]

If I take the "no inherent mana regen" node of lich, would it be aa waste to get mana regen bonus from act 3 venom crypts quest? someone said that it scales with the regen that comes with your life so I couldnt be sure

[woven depot]

It wouldn’t be a waste no, mana reg will still work as expected, it just changes the base it scales from

[mystic osprey]

thanks

[willow swan]

is this suppose to be like this?

[plush storm]

is lord of horrors bugged? Doesn't seem to do anything at all

[hollow zinc]

how to see my dps skill in poe of buildings?

[gaunt mortar]

change skills in the drop down menu up top lol

[hollow zinc]

ok. but i dont see this information

its my first time using this app

[gaunt mortar]

it should show you everything about the skill on that screen in pob

[mint summit]

Anyone have info about or a link to a build that uses Berserk well?

[daring veldt]

Hey I was wondering whether Lich will be good for a frost build or stormweaver will be better? Which will scale better in endgame? I’m looking to do a frost caster build no minions

[plain saddle]

Change skills top left

And click on config that lets you check DMG monsters when shocked, ignited, stunned or whatever

[brave gyro]

Is Acrobatics useful at all?

[woven depot]

yes

[static plinth]

Culling Strike doesnt check for Low Life, it checks the actual Life remaining

[brave gyro]

how much evasion would I need to mitigate the 75% reduction?

[static plinth]

4x what your current evasion is lol

You need like 100k before acro

[brave gyro]

oh damn kk

[edgy hamlet]

@scenic dawn think I just got to level 66 lol. I guess I’m just wondering if the harp is really that viable or do I need a rare bow with better stuff.but the tuna guide said the harp was good

@scenic dawn you have a pob?

[true zephyr]

Hey anyone here know if POB calculates Dark Effigy's effects correctly? Is there a custom command I need to set for multiple proj procs from debuffs?

[scenic dawn]

I’d imagine the harps worth it in a few builds however if damage is falling off is your armour keeping up? Only issue I have with a few uniques is they fall off on maps and stuff

And no I don’t have pob

[fierce sluice]

Is it just bugged where shift no longer works here