2┃build-planning

[frosty finch]

what body armour should I use on my bleed blood mage ? these two look like fun options but is it bait ?

[mortal swift]

[copper mirage]

any build guide/vid link you prefer?

[mortal swift]

Fubguns guide is good

There's a YouTube vid and a guide on mobalytics

[dawn spire]

Do you have the life from ES chest node?

[frosty finch]

not yet, don't know if I wanna take it tbh

[dawn spire]

And yeah, both of those look like bait imo. A rare chests beats them both

Unless you use like actually zero spirit

[frosty finch]

i feel like if gore spike wasn't bugged this would be kinda OP

[south summit]

Zero spirit sounds like pain self inflicted

[frosty finch]

no herald of blood is big oof

[dawn spire]

What's bugged with gore spike?

[south summit]

Even if you dont run heralds or defensive options like wind dancer, even having something like clarity or cannibalism is just worth so much

[frosty finch]

last time I checked it straight up didn't add any damage

[dawn spire]

Checked on your gem page, or checked, like, with other people?

[frosty finch]

gem page

[dawn spire]

"Thanks for the reports, we are looking into Gore Spike.

I do want to clarify that this is a visual only issue. The increases to Critical Damage are not displayed in the skill gem menu, but the ascendancy node does result in higher critical damage when used. "

From a GGG dev reply on the gore spike bug report forum

[frosty finch]

damn ok

i might consider this then idk

honestly grand regalia gives me less HP but wayy less bad side

[silk sapphire]

How much HP / defenses you amazons out there running away with? I'm at 1700hp/1300es 80% ev and all res capped + chaos capped but sometimes I just get absolutely exploded

[rapid lily]

Hey everyone , new player here coming from a d4 player who hasn’t played any other arpg.
I just beat the campaign yesterday and got into cruel difficulty using a chaos build that I was able to half way put together.
In my ascendency I went blood mage because I saw this really cool build that was called lightning spear and I saw it absolutely Nuke bosses which I thought was amazing. My question is, how do I go about switching builds like that and start speccing more into blood mage?
In my first campaign run I literally have seen 0 legendary items or anything and have seen literally only around 30 yellows, so my loot drops have been horrendous.
Sorry for the book but can anyone help a confused guy out?

[hollow galleon]

dunno about amazons, but 1300 es seems a little on the low end for that amount of hp

[silk sapphire]

Idk I had to spend a good amount of currency and effort to even get to 1300

I'm sure part if it is my chest's defense rolls are low, but replacing this with a better defense roll is mucho buckos

[copper mirage]

I thought Lightening Spear is a Huntress build not Witch

[rapid lily]

I’m not sure.
I just saw a yt video that showed lightning spear blood mage so I looked it up on mobalytics

[austere reef]

Lightning spear is a spear skill, any weapon can be used on any class

[soft wren]

you can build LS on a number of different classes. Beauty of PoE is that no class is really set to certain skills. Can make a spell-casting marauder if you wanted

[austere reef]

There is not only one way to make builds, many different possible avenues to go down

[austere reef]

Edward, I thought you were RIP back in marineford, what happened?

[rapid lily]

Law used his DF power on me brother

[viscid radish]

I just realized that these 2 don't work together, any idea why?

[unreal sierra]

from wording alone doesnt seem like they should interact with each other at all

it doesnt leech anymore? or what is happening

[static plinth]

They dont affect eachother?

Sanguis is leech and eternal youth is recharge

[viscid radish]

So basically, I was using both and neither my ES recharged naturally, nor did it leech from damage

[static plinth]

Also you should just use Shavronne's Satchel if you wanted what you would get if they did work

[static plinth]

How much leech do you have, what skill

[viscid radish]

As soon as I turned Eternal Youth off, recharged and leech started working

I have the hunter leech ascendancy

Running flicker strike

[static plinth]

Hm okay that is weird

[viscid radish]

Everything dies in seconds, but no leech with both on

.-.

[unreal sierra]

ES won't be recharging with eternal youth

thats how keystone works

[static plinth]

Yeah but they arent getting leech either apparently

[viscid radish]

Yeah, but leech should work no?

[unreal sierra]

leech interaction is weird i agree

[viscid radish]

Even leech wasn't working

.-.

Ok, I realized the issue is not the interaction, it's just that I'm not leeching period

Which is weird

And, I also solved the issue

I need a flat source of leech on any particular gear for it to work

[static plinth]

Where were you getting leech before?

[viscid radish]

No flat source XD

My bad

[static plinth]

lmfao

[viscid radish]

[low meteor]

So.. what exactly do I have to think when a ring just says "25% increased damage" when corrupting it? Because I'm wiping bosses withing 3 seconds now..

I mean, does it increase the overall damage of my build? Or is it just 25% op top of the base physical / magic damage? It's not quite clear

[silent karma]

Got an idea for a spear monk build

So, go acolyte of Chayula, chaos inoculation and since it's a one hand weapon I have space for a focus instead of shield since I go for Evasion and ES

And add this

Plus chaos inoculation

What do you guys think?

Oh, as for why that ring it's because I want do deal chaos damage mainly

Plus there's this spear which would be constantly giving me ES

[austere reef]

To lean into the chaos dmg you could go with the unique spear that has the “Chaos Infusion” skill on it (like amazons elemental infusion skill but chaos)

Oh I didn’t look at that photo

You got it

[silent karma]

Yeah, xD

Also, go mind over matter for extra protection

[austere reef]

Was thinking about making a build like it as well but I was plugging things into POB and I can’t remember why but I ended up deciding against it, still very interesting though

[silent karma]

Yes, I can mainly play on the weekends only though due to work

😭

But I will sacrifice some sleep to get it done faster

[austere reef]

Quit

[silent karma]

[austere reef]

😂

[silent karma]

I will try to ping you in uh, 2 weeks? That should be enough leveling to see some results

💀

[unreal sierra]

its additive with stuff like increased spell damage or increased fire damage from tree

just for all damage

[manic kite]

any way to convert damage taken into lightning?

[crude pine]

no

[atomic halo]

yeah, that one node on the tree with 5% of phys taken as random element

otherwise no

[crude pine]

These are all the ones I'm aware of

[atomic halo]

catalysis is right there

[crude pine]

note that for Catalysis, it is random per hit, so it's not guaranteed to be lightning

[manic kite]

right

[crude pine]

but yes if you hit the 1/3rd it will be phys damage taken -> lightning

so yes you could trigger Valako's Roar from that (I assume that's what you are using it for)

Another note on Catalysis is I believe you need to be taking 1 damage post mitigation, so it is therefore possible to not trigger it depending on your source.
e.g. spell costs 100, your scold's bridle is 25% mana as phys, you take 25 phys, catalysis makes it 1 damage as lightning, it is resisted by your 75% lightning res and therefore you take 0 lightning damage

[idle laurel]

what do I want on my tt spear? like what do I have to look out for before buying one

[plush crypt]

so for something like this, where it says 45% attack damage but also 75% of physical damage, what's going on? only 45% of my attack damage is being used and then only 75% of that is being converted?

[silent karma]

With chaos inoculation, would that 24% be mitigated?

[crude pine]

yep 😄 with chaos inoculation and lich damage bypasses energy shield you can hit 45% elemental damage reduction

But it's not free, Soulless Form causes your mana regen to tank to 1/s (since you have 1 life from CI)

So you need a recoup layer or some other resource spending method to benefit from it

[static torrent]

Yes, 75% of the Physical damage from the 45% of total damage will be converted to Fire.

[silent karma]

Like mind over matter?

[crude pine]

no, I mean you need a way to cast your spells, 1 mana regen/s is not going to cut it

[silent karma]

Ahhhh

[crude pine]

You have to take this to get to the Eternal Life node which is what lets you get global 27% damage reduction when you stack % damage bypasses energy shield

[silent karma]

That's where my confusion came from
I was planning on going Chayula since the beginning

[plush crypt]

is there a reason it's done like that instead of just going "33% of attack damage"

[silent karma]

@crude pine

[static torrent]

Because it's 75% of the skill's damage, the attack damage the skill deals scales up with skill level and would mean that the percentage converted would also need to change with every level, even though it doesn't actually change the total percentage converted.

[plush crypt]

i see

[crude pine]

acolyte of chayula is not in a particularly good balance state, you would probably be better off doing another ascendancy

[silent karma]

Got any suggestions?

[crude pine]

just check youtuber guides, I do mechanic tinkering and don't do leveling guides. you can see the play rate of ascendancies on current patch here if that is helpful https://poe2.ninja/builds/dawn

[silent karma]

Aye, ty

[fierce sluice]

whats the difference between poe2db and poe2 wiki

[crude pine]

deadeye spears is the current meta build because it one shots bosses with Wind Serpent's Fury and has ridiculous clear with Lightning Spear

but meta build always means expensive to buy parts for

[crude pine]

poe2db = data mined information
poe2wiki = user curated information

[silent karma]

Mainly wanted to go Chayula for the passive, Embrace the Darkness and another one which boosts this buff but I forgot it also takes dmg before ES as Darkness

So, the crumbles almost everything

Unless I go eldritch battery but im no sure how that would do

Wait, wrong passive

Theres something that converts all ES to mana

Nvm, i was right
Got confused because I looked at an img of poe instead of poe2

[crude pine]

Chayula has multiple major usability/bug issues right now:

• Darkness is improperly instantly drained by ground DoTs (which makes burning ground maps very challenging)
• Darkness got nerfed to not work in trial of sekhemas anymore (not a bug, intentional balance change, but may be a reason you wanted to take it)
• "Mana leech applies to energy shield" apparently does not work if your mana is full, unless it is instant leech, which is not trivial to get. Since the node removes your normal energy shield recharge you are required to solve this or your ES is bricked

[silent karma]

Break it's about to end, thanks a lot for your help

🙏

[manic kite]

hmm why isnt it procing. i spamming skills

[crude pine]

it's likely this, what is the mana cost of your skill?

[manic kite]

ok i got some when i spammed primal strike which is higher cost. but i dont see any frenzy charges

no matter how much i spam

[crude pine]

maybe your max lightning res is higher than your max cold res

[manic kite]

oh my lightning rez too high

[crude pine]

yeah

[manic kite]

wth

i gotta be a glass cannon to do this. kinda meme

[crude pine]

alternatively, just increase the mana cost of your skill

which is easy enough with + gem levels

[manic kite]

i mean im already at 19

[crude pine]

if you invest fully into + gem levels you can get like 30+

+3 from amulet, or +4 if you get the vaal corrupt

+7 from weapon slots

[manic kite]

ah buy i actually already have mana problems i was running inspiration. alternatively i can get a higher roll on the helmet for damage taken

i didnt think higher roll would be bettter lol

omg

wait does that unique directly counter hyrii

it doesnt count as being hit right?

[hollow galleon]

ure still gonna get hit eventually....this is just basically acrobatics if you have not been hit recently, without the evasion penalty - until you get hit, which will happen lol

[static plinth]

Dont use whatever wiki that is, Original Sin doesnt do that anymore

Oh that convo was older than i thought

[low panther]

any recommendations for distilled amulet passives im playing a grenade spam

[manic kite]

right but if the unique helmet counts as hitting yourself, im hitting myself all the time

how much do i put for just lightning maxerd

[silent karma]

Oh...

[static plinth]

100

But also im not convinced Trinity works right, i think its going off PoE1 trinity

wait for that matter, what is stance from?

Do you have focused curse on it + the faster curse activation from tree?

Visual bug when you get an instant cast curse with 100% reduced activation delay

Doesnt happen with Windscream though

[pearl sluice]

I'm thinking about turning my Chronomancer into a rarity bot, are there any good builds out there?

[hasty cradle]

Is there a good bow build ?

Been wanting to build one but can't find anything good

[mortal swift]

Are you sure it's not blasphemy or something that's going away

[reef hamlet]

What’s a decent lich build right now? I feel like essence drain is so slow

[pearl sluice]

If i lower the chaos res of an monster doe the enmies then have that res value? i am lowering chaosres by about 40% allready

[void osprey]

what socket do yall run on your Sacred Flame Spectre?

[tepid moon]

Hello. I recently saw that the incinerate/whirlwind aren't using spell damage anymore. Can someone tell me why?

[mortal swift]

guys

I need a price check

how much you suppose I can get for this

[broken scroll]

Use exchange exile

[mortal swift]

I can price check trade, but I dont see anything that has as much on those 3 rolls

so I was thinking this is a great item for someone who wants to whittle

[broken scroll]

Well if you can't find any commonish item on trade, how is anyone else going to PC?

[mortal swift]

I suppose if you had trade knowledge

I know some people are goated traders

[daring veldt]

hey! Just wondering if amazon is better for glacial lance build or xbow build(galvanic shard/shockburst round) compared with deadeye? Mainly talking about T15 and higher endgame and bosses. Taking both dmg and survivability in factor.

[midnight obsidian]

you have to be amazon to use infuse weapon which is used with frequent hitting skills and like redflare for power charges on xbow

deadeye is used for frenzy=>barrage=>lots of glacial lance stacks

[void osprey]

Hello, i got a Sacred Flame for my LS amazon build. what rune/soul core should i socket into it?

[hybrid ocean]

I'm contemplating using Rapid Shot to fuel infuse weapon

Is it safe to assume that heavy stunning an enemy with the infused weapon explosions on a crossbow ammo skill would not trigger auto reload?

Like, is infuse weapon its own thing, or an empowered attack?

[supple fjord]

is there a difference between offensive stance and lay siege

[dawn spire]

Nope

[supple fjord]

ty

[dawn spire]

It's safe to assume it in the sense that you guarantee you won't be trying an interaction that doesn't work. You'd probably need to test it and it sounds like a really annoying thing to test tbh.

Well,you could put pin support on rapid shot so it can't build stun and see if heavy stuns from infuse weapon proc auto reload

[raven patrol]

is there any skill that guarantee to land shock on target? currently running inferno charm and i think stormfire support can be useful on boss.

[dawn spire]

If lightning warp culls an enemy it guarantees shocked ground. If you can get 100% crit chance on a skill that leaps, there's that new support that makes shocking ground when you crit with a leap skill

[steady flint]

I have a question about the Unleash support gem..
Its only the effects that reoccur that gets the damage penalty right? So dmg should be 100%, 50%, 50%?

If i use Sire of the Shards and Unleash, the first 5 projectiles should be 100% dmg, then next 5 is 50%, and next 5 is 50%, correct?

Im asking because POB2 seems to just half dmg on all hits for unleashed of all hits

[dawn spire]

You're correct, pob is wrong (assuming the tooltip of unleash support is accurate)

[steady flint]

Alright, my dream of Sire + Ember unleashed lives on

[rapid lily]

Hey guys, new player coming from Diablo here

Is buying gear from websites really that common??my buddy who plays a lot said it’s basically
How everyone gets gear, just buys it’s from someone.
Doesn’t that take the fun out of the game? Or am I ignorant?

[hybrid ocean]

Oh, true! Thank you, I think that's exactly what I'll do.

Actually, it's probably cleaner still to use brutality + the opposite of brutality (I forget the name)

[dawn spire]

Is there an opposite of brutality?

[hybrid ocean]

I thought I remembered one?

Maybe I'm imagining things because I can't find it

Yep, doesn't exist

Oh well, I should be able to accomplish the same thing by testing on a skill that converts all damage to one element, then putting brutality on that

Or taking Avatar of Fire

[hybrid ocean]

Given that these do not exist either, Avatar of Fire it is

[copper mirage]

Started a ssf ranger lightening spear
At lvl 16, and I can’t even kill a white mob , I wait for 30 charges before casting yet the dmg is ridiculously poor

I know I don’t have wind serpent and combat frenzy but surely I should’ve dmg that at least lets me progress

Any tips would be super appreciated

[dawn spire]

my guess is your weapon is dogshit

[mortal swift]

At low level you really want flat DMG items

There are some spots that give mandatory runes in story

Use them on your weapon for flat DMG

Or look for flat stuff at vendors

[copper mirage]

I am using spear with 6-13 flat dmg

[mortal swift]

Heck even high level flat DMG is goat

[mortal swift]

What type

[copper mirage]

Hardwood

[mortal swift]

If you find lightning flat you will be chillin

[mortal swift]

No I meant, DMG type

[copper mirage]

6-13 puts
1-4 lightening

[mortal swift]

Also what's your supports looking like

[copper mirage]

How much is good at this stage ?

[mortal swift]

Well, 1 rune alone is 1-10 right

[dawn spire]

that looks like you're using a level 1 spear

[static torrent]

Yes, the Hardwood Spear base type is the one you start with on the Riverbank

[mortal swift]

Ngl I didn't know lightning could even roll a 4

[dawn spire]

this is a level 16 spear with meh stats

and no runes

[mortal swift]

Hmm how does ssf even scale deadeye, crit would be neigh impossible no?

[dawn spire]

I don't think crit is anywhere close to impossible in ssf

[mortal swift]

No Tangletongue, and no Amazon ascendancy

[dawn spire]

crit is good without tangletongue

[copper mirage]

I need physical dmg and lightening dmg on it ? Any crit chance ?

[livid fulcrum]

https://tenor.com/view/shake-it-horse-neigh-gif-12078875835731816039

[copper mirage]

What about elemental dmg ?

[dawn spire]

at level 16, you don't need crit

[livid fulcrum]

As much flat damage as you can get basically

[mortal swift]

Sure if you get its nice

[livid fulcrum]

Will be what scales you the most at low levels

[mortal swift]

Flat is king tho yea

[dawn spire]

base damage is all that matters. If you're scaling lightning damage, then lightning becomes better.

But if you're only scaling things like attack damage, projectile damage, spear damage, etc, then it's all equal

[mortal swift]

Even rings and gloves

Get whatever flat you get

[livid fulcrum]

Rings get so underrated by new players. I had no idea how vital they were in smooth leveling

[mortal swift]

Istg, martial weps even the shit flat DMG is so much increase

Which also basically means it's such a pain to level spellcasters

[livid fulcrum]

The only casters I have lvled so far in poe2 were twinked out phys builds until they hit mapping lol

[dawn spire]

laughs in

[copper mirage]

This any good ?

[livid fulcrum]

Significantly better than what you were using

[dawn spire]

it's a bit low of a base for your level, but it should like quadruple your damage

[copper mirage]

Thanks guys, I’ll look around for more

Appreciate the guidance

[livid fulcrum]

For comparison, based on stats you gave us your old spear was 12dps, that one is 63

[copper mirage]

What other gear pieces does phys dmg comes on ?

I could upgrade elsewhere too

[livid fulcrum]

Rings and gloves

[glad moat]

How do you see the dps at bottom

[gentle veldt]

is someone 100% sure about if you use beacon of azis amulet then exposure or curses that decrease resistance are useless?

[livid fulcrum]

Trade website, but it's easy to calculate too

[dawn spire]

no one can be 100% sure of anything, but based on the wording, I'm confident it works like that. I don't know of any tests that have taken place to confirm it's not bugged, though

[gentle veldt]

thanks! I might try without exposures to see how it feels

is there a way to remove the shock from myself? The overcharge is giving me a pretty strong shock haha

[dawn spire]

pathfinder ascendancy node to make you immune to shock. There's also the shock-removal charm

[gentle veldt]

oh interesting about the charm

[mortal swift]

Tbf in my non ssf runs I seem to get so many +2 and +3 wands

I gave away like 4 at league start

[daring veldt]

I’m looking for a build that can help me do T15 and higher easily. I’m currently a bloodmage coc spark but it’s sooo squishy that it’s off putting even after investment in it. So I’m looking for a build that can help me with higher content easily

[fringe kelp]

I'm enjoying the lightning spear Amazon like so many others. Currently roflstomping t15s and I'm semi ssf (only currency exchange and sell items)

[daring veldt]

For some reason I did LS with tangletongue and I had no dmg. Idk why

I was on deadeye

[fringe kelp]

Probably needed a spear with innate accuracy and actual damage.

Idk what deadeye is

[daring veldt]

So you use a rare spear?

[fringe kelp]

Yep. It's got like 650 accuracy which adds a butt load of flat dmg cause of ascendancy

[daring veldt]

Do you need to build crit too?

[fringe kelp]

Yeah, mostly crit nodes. According to POB I have like 60% crit only, and around 600% crit bonus.

Still reks everything

[daring veldt]

What skills do you use?

[idle laurel]

Where should I put in my first two Ascendancy points on the deadeye one? I'm leveling with ls at the moment. Would Gathering Winds for Tailwind be a good option?

[daring veldt]

Always tailwind

[idle laurel]

alright thanks

[void osprey]

Hello, what should i socket into my Sacred Flame for the Lightning spear build?

[ruby forum]

if im converting elemental damage to chaos damage, do chaos modifiers affect my damage?

or only elemental modifiers

and do chaos resistance skills/debuffs do anything?

[static plinth]

Only chaos, not elemental

[ruby forum]

i see

thank you

[dawn spire]

Enemy resistance only negates the final damage you deal, so if you convert 100% of ele to chaos, enemy chaos resistance will work against it, but not any of their ele res

[manic kite]

no clue what stance is for

[static plinth]

Its for specific skills from 1, im wondering why the config showed up in 2

Unless you had all configs on

[manic kite]

nope

[static plinth]

Real weird

[manic kite]

oh wait its gone

maybe i did

[pearl sluice]

Might it be that Eye of winter calculates if it crits on cast and then every projectile of it cant crit? Feels counter intuitive with a spell that shoots out other projectiles.

Does Lightning Bolt do the same?

I mean ball lightning

[tepid moon]

Can anyone tell me if weapon and gear swap affect ignited ground damage of incinerate?

[steep grotto]

Take it using reavers as a witch is usekess? even with gems their damage on the sheet is 1/3rd that of ice skellies

[mortal swift]

nah how

you need to get gear that makes sense

need flat dmg rings

[mortal swift]

on deadeye u dont need a rare spear

[pearl sluice]

Can someone tell me why people socket caltrops into cast on crit?

I mean the spirit gem into the spirit gem

[manic kite]

different trigger skills have different energy requirements right?

wher do i see that

[daring veldt]

i used tangle tongue on deadeye lol

Can you share a poe2.ninja that i can follow

[mortal swift]

yes yes

[mortal swift]

fubgun has guide on mobalytics

[daring veldt]

is it suprising if I said i followed that and got no dmg?

[mortal swift]

yes

u didnt read

[daring veldt]

like my tangle tongue even has great rolls

[daring veldt]

so flat dmg is better than %lightning?

[mortal swift]

definitely

your dmg is mostly mixed

Most of your dmg comes from flat "add x to atck" rolls

this fire dmg is because of sacred flame but even without it 50% dmg is non lightning

[void osprey]

are u running sacred flame?

[mortal swift]

yes

[void osprey]

may i know what u socket into it?

[mortal swift]

without sacred^

[mortal swift]

just some random aura gems in sacred flame

[void osprey]

ahh thank you so much!

[mortal swift]

its bugged, doesnt use spirit to socket them

thats my LS

[void osprey]

cool cool Tangletongue spear?

[mortal swift]

yes

[void osprey]

i have a question, i saw fubgun run tangle on his deadeye and still have high crit but if i remember correctly he didnt get much crit chance nodes or rolls on his armor

[daring veldt]

Is sacred flame big boost to dmg?

[void osprey]

how does he still reach so high

[manic kite]

Does anyone have a chart for max energy for all skill. want to test with a more visible skill

[mortal swift]

mapping yes, bossing not as much as mapping (because warcry)

mappin the numebr on sacred is how much dmg u get

[mortal swift]

mmm?

well

for maps he has ambush in herald so herald will most always crit, for boss he has blindside in serpent for increased crit, apart from that its just a bit on jewels I suppose

for bosses u could technically apply crit weakness using weapon swap

[void osprey]

this is from the video, but from what i see gear wise he has no crit chance at all

[karmic geyser]

crit on tree, jewels and weapon

[void osprey]

thanks, i downloaded PoB and ur right

i didnt know there was a jewel that can boost the nodes of crit chance

[ornate anvil]

Anyone knows if gas arrow/gas granade + malady not turning the poison could into a bleed cloud is a bug?

[shy atlas]

https://poe2.ninja/builds/dawn/character/Po338823-4505/伄毛啊?i=0&search=items%3DPillar%2Bof%2Bthe%2BCaged%2BGod%2CHand%2Bof%2BWisdom%2Band%2BAction%2CBlack%2BSun%2BCrest

please god let this have decent clear and bossing

im so desperate for a good flurry build

[austere reef]

Hope you got 69,420 divine to shell out for that build

[obtuse lark]

Hi everyone, does anybody know whether there is a way, or the POB2 devs are implementing a way to search through supports and active skill gems with more then one keyword or have it auto sort to the weapon you are using so when I type in "cold" I don't get every single cold support and active skill in the game even though I have crossbow equipped for example. it is very difficult to remember some of the names of the support gems, vs it would be easier if i can specify a support gem then the type of damage "cold" that I want that support gem to encompass.

[shy atlas]

is it that expensive?

most of the stat-stacker builds are cheap because everyones playing spear

[austere reef]

It’s not that expensive but with the rolls on that persons gear it is

[shy atlas]

aint gon be more expensive thanthe shit i had to spend for my LS build

sceptre alone was like 40div

[manic kite]

with this you dont actually want to be consuming different types of charges?

[atomic halo]

you do, why not?

[manic kite]

oh i wasnt sure how consuming different types worked

thought they would just like overwrite each other

[atomic halo]

99% sure it just works, independently

[cedar idol]

on the trade site, how can i properly filter for the x to x added damage?
like with lightning, how do i indicate it should be 1-50 at least?

[austere reef]

Put the average of the two numbers in

[pure hornet]

guys can someone explain to me what build is that? #1357831739258572861 message

[hushed escarp]

Hello C: I wanted to play Lightning Monk with perma up Charged Staff Buff, how can I achieve that? I have problem to get one stack on normal mobs, and I cant get a single one stack on bosses. Any advices? I dont like ice skills, and just want lightning!

[woven depot]

What are you currently using to get power charges?

[hushed escarp]

I have Resonance in passive skill tree and im using Frozen Locus to freeze enemy and get some Power Charges and it feels so bad. Do you have any idea or better idea then mine?

[woven depot]

Use electrocute support gem on a lightning spell you hit frequently with

Like flurry for example

[hushed escarp]

Should I remove resonance passive skill tree then ?

[woven depot]

No but you should also go combat frenzy spirit gem, forgot to mention that part

[hushed escarp]

It feels a way better for now! Thank you

[woven depot]

there’s uniques for power charges as well, could take a look on poe2db if you want, but combat frenzy + resonance + electrocute was the go to for herald monks in 0.1

[uncut trout]

Does elemental damage increase as a mod significantly affect lightning spear? Seems like it would

[hushed escarp]

okey thanks, i will keep in mind

[uncut trout]

Asking for recombinator purposes

[hasty tangle]

is poison bad? Was thinking about playing a pathfinder

[woven depot]

Poisons great, idk if I think pathfinder is worth playing for it though

[hasty tangle]

what do you suggest then?

Deadeye? Acolyte?

[kind crest]

Pathfinder seems ideal if you are playing poison

[hasty tangle]

Pathfinder got pretty heavily nerfed iirc, maybe that's why he is suggesting against it

[kind crest]

Yeah, but if you are going all in on poison it is still the best imo

Only concoctions really got nerfed

[woven depot]

Depends on what you mean by all in on poisons

Pathfinder can reach up to 10 stacks of poisons though

[hasty tangle]

I'll never understand the concotion nerf tbh. Incredibly cool concept and it was nowhere as broken as the top tier builds. Also was anybody even using the other versions outside of poison conc?

[woven depot]

Shatter conc was almost as popular

But yea it was a strange change tbh

[hasty tangle]

because ranger has almost 0 cold support or was it just strong?

[woven depot]

Just strong in general, pathfinder honestly doesn’t have that great support for anything… unless you mean stacking poisons to max, it has insane QoL nodes though

[hasty tangle]

So what's your other suggestion for poison build

As in which ascendancy

[woven depot]

it’s versatile as hell. Poison, like bleed and ignite scales of the hit causing them, so there’s lot of ways to go about building around it

Either scale up few stacks, or stack up a bunch of poison applications at the same time

My poison build is titan cause hulking form is an absurdly strong ascendancy node

https://poe2.ninja/builds/dawn?skills=Herald+of+Plague lots of huntresses as well if you’re looking for inspiration then poe2ninja could be worthwhile

[hasty tangle]

Funny how Titan can seemingly do almost anything

[woven depot]

Hulking form do be absurdly strong

[tranquil star]

Can wildfire spread from dead enemies?

[hasty cradle]

Question guys been wanting to build a warrior class ,is there any good build i could follow for that class ?

[edgy dust]

Which would potentially give more damage 30% damage increase to the spell or +1 to level of that spell?

[atomic halo]

level

for most cases

[edgy dust]

ok thats what i was thinking but wasnt sure still pretty new lol thanx!

[jovial blade]

Is there a way to make herald of blood exploision happen faster?

[broken scroll]

Any advice to quickly/almost passively break ice walls?

Thought about warcry but they do too low dmg

Best way I could find was artillery ballista, which is fine, but sometimes doesn't attack where I want it to in the moment lol

And isnt as quick or passive as I'd like

But it may be the best/only way

I thought about companions, but quickly found they just phase through them lol

[candid imp]

I am having a hard time finding any SSF builds, is there a place that has a list anywhere?

[north heart]

How do I make warrior hit faster

[cinder apex]

What would be the best class for trail of calotrops and blink combo? And ascendancy?

[topaz kayak]

how do i find a good build to make a rarity or aura bot ?

[woeful cliff]

I second this question

[cinder apex]

Maybe trail of caltrops with blink 😆

[woven depot]

Check out high ladder ritualists and pathfinders on poe2ninja

[pearl sluice]

Is it just me or does it feel super strange that crit is on cast not on hit?

[dawn spire]

Get more attack/cast/skill/warcry speed, depending on the skill you're using. Note that some skills have a built-in minimum attack time, like leap slam

[north heart]

That sucks some of his skills have locked animation time. Do the other classes suffer from this

[dawn spire]

All classes can use all skills

Mace skills suffer the most, I think. But some bow skills also have it. Comet is a spell that has it

Despite the fact that incinerate does not hit, it can benefit from things like execute and controlled destruction that only raise your hit damage. I tested in Crowbell, it's not just a tooltip error. Are there any other skills that poison/ignite/bleed as though dealing X that also behave this way?

Incinerate also says crit support gems work with it despite the fact that it does not have a crit chance... So now I'm wondering if it's bugged like beira's is bugged and can crit if the enemy has something like critical weakness applied

[viral sage]

how do i make build that can take advantage of ignite similar to shockburst round that can deal huge dmg on shocked enemies?

[dawn spire]

firestorm, elemental sundering, and elemental discharge support are all I can think of

[viral sage]

im trying to use immolate support gem to deal xtra dmg vs burning enemies, but i feel like ignite duration waay too shorter than shocked 😅

[mint summit]

Two copies of ember fusilade where one does extra vs ignited and one has increased ignite chance

Totems with either one of those attacking at the same time as you with the other

Shock and ignite both last 4 seconds be default

[viral sage]

my bad..shudve mention im merc using xbow..still figuring out which xbow skill best to use with immolate gem

[mint summit]

Either artillery ballista or swapping ammo with the 25% increased damage per ammo node

[mint summit]

At least in 0.1 fire wall lost ignite damage when socketing a ‘reduced damage from hits’ support gem

[dawn spire]

yeah it seems to be scaling damage from every hit source

including this node, it seems:

[mint summit]

Hmm

I bet deepest tower low life nodes are also scaling that stuff then, can I find a good dot to add to bosses 🤔

[static plinth]

Does weapon swapping between two crossbows maintain your loaded ammunition between them or do they have separate magazines

[dawn spire]

Separate magazines

[burnt finch]

whats the better ascendancy for LS atm deadeye or amazon?

[austere reef]

The correct answer is whichever one looks more fun to you, both are really solid

[mellow skiff]

is aurabot something usefull in this patch?

[dawn spire]

The only source I have for party builds like that is SnapOW on YouTube and I haven't checked his stuff out (if he has anything for 0.2)

[woven depot]

Seems a lot of higher level ritualists and pathfinder are playing aurabots according to ninja

[azure wyvern]

What do you think about this combo of items on Chayula

with Resonance

[karmic geyser]

you are going to struggle to get enough resists with all those uniques

[azure wyvern]

belt, ring, boots, amulet

Would it be hard?

[karmic geyser]

and the weapon has terrible base damage so i dont think your damage would be very good anyway

[azure wyvern]

a wand can give like 140% spell damage

[karmic geyser]

then why use those gloves?

sorry, helmet

[azure wyvern]

to get even more spell damage if dmg is needed

[azure wyvern]

because it makes all spell damage be used for attacks

[karmic geyser]

yeah but even then its +140% of a 150 phys damage weapon

[azure wyvern]

Attacks like fire mace skills

[karmic geyser]

not even 150

try use PoB to see if it works i guess

what ascendancy would you run this on?

[azure wyvern]

first on the market

[azure wyvern]

Chayula

fire damaged converted to chaos damage

via the ring

[karmic geyser]

could even do lich for unholy might

[azure wyvern]

and as you don't use chaos skills you can take the Even Horizon passive

without any downside

[static plinth]

Drop everything on the right imo

Except maybe Original Sin

Youd rather get tri-ele gloves than using both helmet and gloves for that

[edgy dust]

I have a dumb question...lets say I have 2 items that are almost identical stats and all...BUT one item is like iLVL 34 and the other is iLVL 81......will the iLVLs effect anything like dmg at that point AS IS or would they be the exact same item?

[static torrent]

iLVL only affects the affixes that can roll on the item, and the level of skills granted by the item, such as on Staves, Wands and Sceptres, or Uniques. On it's own, it doesn't affect damage.

[karmic geyser]

ilvl determines what the max tier of mods you can roll

mod tiers have minimum ilvl requirements

[edgy dust]

ok i figured thats all it did..im tryin to figure out why this thing isnt doin so hot

[karmic geyser]

also defence stats on gear and base damage on weapons

[static torrent]

That would be base types, nothing to do with iLVL.

[karmic geyser]

i guess but you cant get good bases on low ilvl

[edgy dust]

I just dont know how people have lightening mages that are just 1 shotting through the map....DEFINATLY not the case for me takes like 5ish sec for them to drop yellows. Stupid thing is I have them cranked on cast speed and they seem to still be atk at the same speed😕

[karmic geyser]

get more levels, more damage on tree, more +level to spells on gear

etc

[edgy dust]

im maxed on both

[karmic geyser]

optimal support gems

get crit

[edgy dust]

on tree they have all dmg and crit nodes nodes possible and with all my gear their skill gem level is 28 and all the atk speed on my gear gives them +64 atk speed...yet it still feels the same speed

[karmic geyser]

what is your main spell

and what is its crit chance

[edgy dust]

lightening mages

[karmic geyser]

oh minions

[edgy dust]

i dunno MAYBE it could be level difference between me and monsters? i dunno i dont think there is a big differnce in levels

[static plinth]

How should i scale Rapid Shot in Witch's area? % Fire damage seems incredibly scarce, spell damage is semi-common but needs crown of eyes, cold seems doable but costs a support and needs Blueflame Braciers, and lastly chaos seems like its probably the strongest but needs Original Sin

Wait nvm Original Sin doesnt work lol

I could also path down to Monk/Ranger i guess

[austere reef]

I mean I think crown of eyes may be your best option there? Along with all the fire dmg nodes possible. As well as any “increased elemental dmg” nodes. Not too sure tho

[karmic geyser]

lots of good elemental damage nodes near monk/witch area

also look for damage vs ignited enemies

[edgy dust]

so apparently looks like the game is bugged...took off gear, their stats are the same, poped pain offering....their stats are the same....Had this same BS going on my ranger...no matter how many times i shocked an enemy or froze them she would NEVER gain frenzy charges

[viral sage]

which ascendancy atm best at doing bleed dmg with attacks/hits?

[karmic geyser]

shock doesn't give charges

with combat frenzy

[edgy dust]

yes with CF

[karmic geyser]

combat frenzy only gives charges when you freeze, electrocute or pin

[edgy dust]

well thats what i meant my bad not shock

[austere reef]

Probably blood mage? I think it has something about aggravated bleeding, haven’t played it yet so not sure

[edgy dust]

the whole time i played here it generated charges for about 5 minutes full stacks instantly then never again

[static plinth]

Blood Mage has to path across the entire tree for bleed nodes though

[edgy dust]

and on lightening spear build its almost impossible not to build charges

[karmic geyser]

are you sure you even have combat frenzy enabled?

if you are freezing you should be getting charges

also are YOU freezing? or is it your minions?

[edgy dust]

well ya of course and it even shows the buff icon above my skills. But like i said i just confirm the game ist always working right....literally took off all my gear and the spell stats didnt change and i know they do cause i do this all the time when im checking the damage change on the items

for some reason its like its froze

[karmic geyser]

tooltips can be funky

make an attack to recalc them

[edgy dust]

Gear, buffs ...nothing is changing dmg, atk speed or nothing and the stats look the same so that probably is the reason why when i have NO atk speed on and then equip +64% atk sped they look like the exact same speed 🫤

i dunno....still early access i suppose...

[karmic geyser]

gonna need more info

can u record your game or something

what is your build anyway, you were talking about minions before but now saying you are attacking and using combat frenzy? im so confused

[edgy dust]

no no i was saying that build buffs on my other toon werent working either as a comparison...going to uninstall and reinstall. We had boss issues last night as well....I was running a friend and in the 2nd phase right before we killed him Doryani fully healed him self some how so we just been having alot of issues...so im thinking a fresh install couldnt hurt

[uneven flower]

how can i unlock 5th socket for this

[viral sage]

what other class can make use of this other than merc? https://poe2db.tw/us/The_Smiling_Knight

[humble rain]

Hey, i get + to melee skills, will the requirments increase and lead to that i cannot use my spells anymore?

[static torrent]

No, the requirements of the skill do not increase if you have a +X to Level, only the mana cost does. Also, if it is an increase specifically to Melee skills, it won't affect Spells, and vice versa. If by spells you're referring to skill general, then please bear in mind that Attacks and Spells are different things in PoE2.

[pale hatch]

Requirements don't change, but mana cost does so raising skill levels too much without building mana in parallel can brick some combos.

[vast rivet]

Anyone cane help me

This ain’t adding up and cast on crit is making my pet go away

[static plinth]

Anyone theoretically, but mainly the south side of the tree

[karmic geyser]

huntress, warrior

blood mage witch maybe

[thin jasper]

Idk if this is the appropriate forum, so let me know if I need to kick rocks. I’m trying to authenticate with PoB.cool so I can import my character.

After logging into pob.cool with my Path of Exile account, I’m unable to authenticate. Under “character import status,” the dialogue box shows a brief “(logging in…30s)” that quickly vanishes, and the prompt says “Not Authenticated.”

Has anyone else experienced this issue and if so, so you know if there’s a workaround?

[karmic geyser]

disable any adblockers or other relevant browser extensions

[ornate anvil]

If you spec into chonk darkness you cant use spirit auras?

[dawn spire]

I don't know of any build that would want to use that. All classes can use all skills and gear, but that's a very low level base with pretty mediocre stats. Aggravating bleeds on crit is nice, but idk of any build that would sacrifice their entire helmet slot for it. I'm very curious what makes you think a merc build would want to use that

[dawn spire]

You have 183 spirit and those cost a total of 220 spirit. What isn't adding up?

[dawn spire]

If you mean the acolyte of chayula darkness node, then yes. You cannot use anything that reserves spirit

[mint summit]

Hit level 90

[ornate anvil]

wow

no wonder i never seen anyone using it

except for that sekhemas cheese

[wide herald]

Any reason why molten blast can't be supported by volt? It has all the proper tags

[last horizon]

I'm really disappointed in Lich, both minion build and Essence Drain + Contagion + Dark Effigy seem not really that great to me... I can't even do Temple of Chaos and have literally just 1 div left and can't make any currency

[clever vine]

Guys, is there anyone who can help me finding a good spear over the market? I have like a budget bur don't know exactly which weapon is good to buy

[rough geyser]

Have you tried to use POB tool?

[clever vine]

Is there a mobile version? Cause im not at home atm

I play as amazon lightning spear and want to buy a weapon that can improve my dps for t15 maps. I have around 20d

[rough geyser]

No, not yet

[fierce sluice]

How do you get +5% movespeed on chest

Is that just like an implicit that drops on the item?

[copper summit]

Malygaro's gloves is a scam it caps your critical damage to 300 but you have no choice to remove all critical damage nodes

[ornate crest]

has anyone found the way to generate corpses? simillar to Desecrate gem in poe 1 ?

[static plinth]

I think i heard there was a bug where minion-summoning spectres' minions leave corpses behind

But there's nothing intentiona;

[ornate crest]

again its a bug, i wanted to make vd build but forgot, ggg in their mightiest idea assigned vd to weapons, which kind made it useless for me now :c so i am looking for way to just zoom through maps/camp spawning vd balls 😄

like in good old poe1

before nerfs 😄

[crude pine]

as far as I know you don't, they haven't added high enough level bases to award 5 sockets

[idle goblet]

Does "chance to fire 2 additiinal projectikes" work with BL ? It has the projectile tag

[broken scroll]

Ok you're right

And we all believe you

We really do man

And we're all fucking excited for you

Does that answer your question?

[broken scroll]

Ok

[edgy dust]

does minion stuff like minion damage or minion atk also work on totems?

[broken scroll]

No

That's totem damage nodes

And totem life nodes

Totem and minions are different

However I believe companions are minions

But not all minions are companions

[edgy dust]

crap i was hoping minion cast speed would work on them

[broken scroll]

Unfortunately there's not many nodes for totems around the witch starting area, so you'll just have to deal with dark effgy not having nodes

Can annoint for specific notables or see if you can get a timeless gem or whatever, idk if any are around totem nodes

I think the one at the top left is

[edgy dust]

nice thanks for all the info saved me alot of time lol

[broken scroll]

But the thing that shines on dark effgy is that it's a spell

So I'm pretty sure spell damage nodes

[dawn spire]

Totems are allies, though

[broken scroll]

And chaos dmg nodes

Effect dark effgy

[dawn spire]

All companions are minions, all minions are allies, all totems are allies

But totems are not minions and viceversa

[broken scroll]

Where as other totems, like artillery ballista, ancestral totem, use their own weapon, so attack nodes don't effect those

[dawn spire]

Attack nodes indirectly affect them since totems use your offensive stats

[edgy dust]

oh?

[dawn spire]

All the nodes that would buff you if you were using the skill the totem uses will also buff the totem

[broken scroll]

Totems also do snapshot

[dawn spire]

10% increased chaos damage buffs dark effigy because the totem inherits that 10% chaos damage node

[broken scroll]

If you have them in different wep sets

[edgy dust]

since they have hp and stuff would they still be considdered an ally?

[dawn spire]

Yes

They are your allies

Idk what having hp has to do with that

[edgy dust]

that parts good then

i dunno lol

[viral sage]

coz i saw the dex and str requirements, 1st thing in my mind its merc helm 😅

[dawn spire]

Attributes are really not too big of a deal. You can make a bow sorceress or a spell ranger

[edgy dust]

my logic is if it has hp its more like a ally and not a on field buff lol

[dawn spire]

What do you mean "on-field buff"?

Totems aren't buffs

[edgy dust]

i know lol alot of games have stuff u drop down and its just considered a buff lol still learning this game lol

[dawn spire]

Ah, gotcha. Idk if totem count appears in the top left (next to your other buffs) but that could be misleading, yeah

[edgy dust]

im just really tryin to test the waters on which will take me further....goin Essence drain/ iffigy....OR doin lightening mages minion build. That iffigy was putting out some SERIOUS damage lol

[fierce sluice]

any advice for single target on amazon early game?

[midnight obsidian]

sniper's mark or parry+disengage to get your charges

then storm lance or primal strike for some exposure if you didn't pick up some pen early on the tree

[dawn spire]

Dark effigy is insane damage and it already scales with all your chaos damage nodes. Typically you want to put all your eggs into one type of damage scaling. If you invest in minions and chaos skills you're not getting full value out of your chaos nodes or your minion nodes. Not to mention you'd likely need to use a scepter which offers no value for chaos spells

[scenic zodiac]

Is there a way to add 100 strength to my build lol. I am at 544 and the weapon I want to use is 631 strength requirement.

[midnight obsidian]

you can put in a core that shifts 20% of attribute requirement to something else

[dawn spire]

Easiest way to equip it would be to unallocate giant's blood, but assuming that's off the table, I'd anoint a strength/attribute node if possible, get strength runes on gear, and, as asdas mentioned, that soul core to shift attribute requirements

[haughty wadi]

what nodes on the tree affect frozen locus?

i know the flip attack part uses your weapon's speed and stats for example, but the explosion from the crystal doesn't

but does the explosion from the crystal count as a staff attack? is it melee?

would staff only nodes affect it

same question for unarmed attacks that "require" a staff

[daring veldt]

I am currently looking for a build which can make playing T15 or higher content easy to play with pinnacle bosses.

Are the only viable options lightning spear and flicker strike?

[uncut trout]

does blocking a hit count as getting hit for the purposes of skills like tailwind?

[stable gale]

got a nice crossbow drop, any recommendations of what class i should make to utilize it?

[atomic halo]

yes, you still get hit, you just dont take any of the damage from the hit.

[uncut trout]

gotcha, thanks

felt like that was the case

[shut basalt]

Does Ritualist's +25% bonuses from Amulets apply to the +4 skills from a Fireflower amulet to make it +5?

PoB doesnt seem to think so

[hollow galleon]

Beira's Anguish Dousing Charm no longer guarantees a Critical Hit if any amount of chance to be Critically Hit is present on the enemy. It now will roll Critical Hit chance normally in these cases.

Hehe - there goes the Beira`s crit cheese people were using in spades.

[edgy dust]

awesome all the rarity items i just bought are now less effective...

[atomic halo]

their absolute effectiveness is about the same, their relative effectiveness is lowered relative to items without rarity.

[edgy dust]

woooow...sooo 2 of my skill gems are gone

literally just got my first perfect jewelers orb, used it, then lost it..... r.i.p.

[north heart]

Yeah I wish they would speed the Mace skills. Even with attack/skill speed, you still feel slow asf like quicksand

[mighty drum]

anyone have a PoB Custom Modifier syntax to fix Tangletongue forking crits when not 100% CSC?

[halcyon kernel]

struggling going into endgame, surive ok but not doing enough dps - should i pivot to lich / full chaos? - https://poe2.ninja/profile/character/1gxh490g4i1w3/b0xa-2404/LifeUhFindsAWay

infernalist / lich builds run similar skills, but ye

[toxic storm]

is herald of blood+envenom/plague worth

[dawn spire]

Worth what? It's hard to say and it depends on your build.

[dawn spire]

1. You're all over the place. Your damage investment is split between fire, chaos, and minions. I'd say pick one and stick with it.
2. You're using a scepter which only helps your minion side. If you go chaos or fire, get a wand/staff and drop the scepter.
3. Support gems that currently do nothing:
   -Acrimony on flame wall
   -Drain ailments on flame wall
   -Elemental army on unearth (not literally useless, but it seems like your goal is to have them blow up sooner. This gem works counter to that)
   -Encumberence on essence drain
   -Chaotic freeze on essence drain (not 100% useless, but the only source of chaos damage hits I can see is dark effigy which has no damage supports on it)

[halcyon kernel]

might go full chaos as contagion es dark eff is fun

but minions seem to be nice barrier

[toxic storm]

worth the spirit, does plague do enough damage to retrigger blood

[dawn spire]

If you ask me, here's what I'd do for a chaos damage build:

1. Respec to lich or blood mage (or stay infernalist, go for all the reservation nodes, and spec into MoM +EB)
2. Contagion + magnified effect + persistence
3. Blasphemy + despair + temp chains + heightened curse
4. Essence drain + chain + swift affliction + zenith
5. Dark effigy + envenom + arcane tempo + concentrated effect

[toxic storm]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/s16t10a1

[dawn spire]

It depends on how much damage you deal. Hard to say. Also the plague burst won't inflict a bleed unless you have generic bleed chance that would apply to it

And if plague burst doesn't inflict a bleed, the Herald of blood won't retrigger

[toxic storm]

alr fuck it then

[toxic storm]

does culling strike work on herald of blood

[smoky axle]

I have some questions if someone could answer thats of knowledge

1. Which pieces of gear can role with crit hit chance 2. Are there diminishing returns on over capping resistances?

[daring veldt]

I believe gloves and helmet can roll crit hit

[winter wyvern]

sup guys. i wanted a viable endgame final skill tree for gas arrow (freeze salvio+ voltaic mark) and maybe skill supps also. i followed fubguns` o but it messes up cus its huntress also included (ascendancy)... any specific recommandations? 🙂

oh btw.. any ETA until todays patch going live? 🙂 much appreciated

[static torrent]

#poe2-news message

[winter wyvern]

it says 1st may..and thats all 🙂

[karmic geyser]

soon™

[dawn spire]

For resistances, I'm not sure your question is clear.

"Capping" resistances means you reach your maximum amount. By default, this is 75%. "Overcapping" resistances means you go above that amount. It would say something like "75% (98%)" in your character page if you had 98% cold res, but still had a max of 75%.

Overcapped resistances provide zero value except for situations where your resistances are lowered via map mods, exposure, etc.

So to answer your question as written I'd say there are no diminishing returns on overcapping resistances because as soon as you reach the cap, your resistances give you zero returns. Going from 75%(76%) to 75%(77%) does absolutely nothing, so your return did not diminish, but stayed at zero

[frosty finch]

would this be good on a cold build ?

[karmic geyser]

only one of those mods is good

chill duration is useless

ailment threshold is alright i guess

[mighty drum]

why not haemoxtalls + support gem to inflict bleed? first blood, lacerate? Though then reach I noticed screws up often. It is enough to clear full pack this way

I am using rake + stab to clear stuff https://poe2.ninja/profile/character/1ptfqjd265ant/makima-6690/ChaHaeI

[sinful elm]

Yall think this is going to drastically effect the ignite inferolist build any

[azure wyvern]

will the passive work with blocking?

[dawn spire]

It should. It does in poe1

[dawn spire]

It kinda wrecks the people stacking crit damage without any chance, yeah

[sinful elm]

Ya, I just wonder if we can keep it and just run abunch of crit chance support gems

[quartz cairn]

With Trinity is it best to be trying for 1 type of elemental damage, or, a mix of them? Or is it good for either single or a mix?

As long as I'm dealing 1 type of damage the most, in that mix, I mean

[static plinth]

3 > 2 > 1 but 1 is still good

[quartz cairn]

Ok thanks

[meager loom]

1 Is kinda meh for 100 spirit

[gaunt ether]

whats with the nonexistent usage of staffs

is it purely bc focus allows more es?

or scepter spirit

[static plinth]

Pretty much

[toxic storm]

wym reach screws up often

anyone know how does execute support work with bleeding targets do enemies count as low life if the bleed portion exceeds 35%?

[crude pine]

Focus + Wand gives strictly more stats than Staff, the only way Staff would be worth it is if either the staff implicit skill is worth it or an extra staff rune can make up for the difference. Neither is the case so people pretty much only use weapon swap chiming for the Sigil of Power cast

[mighty drum]

Supported Skills have 80% less Accuracy Rating against Enemies within two metres

[toxic storm]

herald of blood cant miss

[mighty drum]

Xtalls don't hit then

Yeah but xtalls can

[toxic storm]

ic

[crude pine]

Yes because it’s a hit

But culling strike applies before the damage of the hit, so in practice it’s a bit difficult to trigger. You have to hit twice at least

[mighty drum]

Bludgeoning + Far Away + Haemoxtalls+ Deadly Herald

[toxic storm]

what does deadly herald do if its unscalable

[mighty drum]

First Blood or Lacerate to force xtalls to start bleed

[gaunt ether]

so only ever used pre maps

where finding wand + focus with good stats is a bit harder

[mighty drum]

I might be wrong but herald calculates damage from over bleeds?

[stiff remnant]

Why not switching impale to blood hunt? makes the rake fucking nasty afterwards.

[mighty drum]

Rake with Ancestral Call is somewhat fun

[stiff remnant]

Blood herald have a flat base damage that can scale. 🙂

[mighty drum]

If only you could scale cool down to lower that 6sec window

[stiff remnant]

dont it just make it so you hit more target? I have been looking at it, but not sure how it would help really.

[mighty drum]

It triples rake hitbox, meaning you rake into a pack of mobs and all of them bleed no matter the size of pack

[stiff remnant]

oooh.. so its not just 2 more targets, its like 2 extra rakes? hm.. I could probably use that for map clearing, but losing too much damage for bosses. 😦

[mighty drum]

I don't feel the need to switch it for bossing tbh, sometimes I put it into spear stab just for fun

[stiff remnant]

Man.. I am a bit torn between going crit or non-crit, but to get crit I would have to sacrifice so much survivability.

[mighty drum]

https://poe2.ninja/profile/character/1ptfqjd265ant/makima-6690/ChaHaeI

[stiff remnant]

I guess you dont need impale on blood hunt for that extra boss damage eh? 🙂 Heard critting overall is just insane for rake etc.

[mighty drum]

I'm down to sub 11k eHP due to unique focus, with 2nd slot focus I sit at 14+15k eHP and good dmg

[stiff remnant]

yeah I was checking that out.
But you aint running acrobatics, or block? dont you just flat out die sometimes if you aint careful?

also.. it seems some numbers are off on my ninja-profile on my character, huh

[mighty drum]

No, wind dancer and ghost dancer are enough, you will die from chaos aoe if you not careful but that's it

crit based builds cannot go CI due to tangletongue mana cost conversion so chaos is only thing you look out for in maps

[stiff remnant]

I mean.. evasion without acrobatics dont help against slams, aoes etc even if they aint chaos?

so aint that a pain to deal with, or you might not brawl too much with a build like that?

[mighty drum]

2-3k ES + 2k HP

[toxic storm]

are you not worried about aggravating bleeds

[mighty drum]

Xesht gun finger at +4 can be facetanked

[mighty drum]

No I count on my bleeds maxing out on 1st hit

While monster is on full life that is

[stiff remnant]

huh guess ninja-numbers are off there as well, looks like you had like 3,6k total pool.

Im sitting at 3k life, was a bit hard to reach sadly. 🥲
But running block and evasion where both can evade and block all hit types, forces me to a specific shield to get it working, but larger hits from some bosses are hard to survive even with armour at like 30-40% on the side.

[mighty drum]

Yeah I've been at your place man, decided not to spec block chance and went ES Eva hybrid

It is too harsh to be killed by random hit which went through all defence layers as it happens too often in crowded spaces while playing close range.

[toxic storm]

whats your crit chance with rake makima?

[mighty drum]

PoB says 100%

Will get in game tooltip in couple mins

[stiff remnant]

I have been thinking about trying to get some ES, not sure if its doable without investing too much into passives.

Its rare to die on maps with my guy, I need to really try, at first I thought I would go the crit route with either ascendanies, but after a bit I realized I rather focus on safe mapping with satisfying effects.

Bit bummed I have a hard time at some bosses now T3 or T4, but thats life since I skipped crit, getting my damage up is rather limited.

[toxic storm]

damn whats the point in accuracy stacking if tangle gets you to 100 on its own

;

[mighty drum]

yeah crit gives massive damage scaling if using tangletongue for single target. However flat damage bleeds are slow but steady damage

[mighty drum]

Dunno I prefer having 3rd ring instead >:D

[mighty drum]

which helm are you running if u dont mind

crown or pressence one for forcing low life state in your pressence?

[toxic storm]

deepest tower is kindof alot of passive investment

[stiff remnant]

I should start asking around for help on how to improve my damage output without switching the style I have.. and without just "upgrading" my gear, have been eyeballing the jewels that gives you notable talents etc.

I mean looking at your rake, its like several times the damage of mine, only way for me to not fall asleep while bossing is doing the impale in blood hunt for bigger rakes.

I really want to improve my build if possible, since it fits well, I am mostly exhausted while playing, so I do dumb things, with anything else I would die soo much.

[mighty drum]

yes and no, depends where to you've branched out in passive tree

[stiff remnant]

helm? evasion heavy with life, for survivability, sec, lemme see if I have any shadowclips I can upload to show what I talk aobut.
https://poe2.ninja/profile/character/1gn235r3g4us6/catstyle-1245/Catstyles

[toxic storm]

if you hit stars alligned and finishing blows its good but ideally you get finality too

kindof pulls you away from the crit monk side of things

[mighty drum]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Crown_of_Eyes you can try this helm and minimal +spell damage somwhere will boost your flat damage significally

https://poe2db.tw/us/The_Deepest_Tower this I saw people use and have good damage too but have not tried it

[stiff remnant]

hm... the crown looks fucking amazing to be honest, deepest tower would mess with my auras.. so no go there. bloodboil etc.

[mighty drum]

yes it does, but warrior / merc tree area has some good nodes for it, flat damage usually specs into that tree side I think

[stiff remnant]

I recently managed to get my evasion up and hp to 3k, so I might be able to afford using that crown.

[toxic storm]

is this more dmg than lay siege

[mighty drum]

the multiplier from that helm is at very end of ur damage calculation, thus any increase in spell damage is massive

[stiff remnant]

cant I just swap in support gems for it as well? or.. not sure if support gems have spell damage on them.

[hard estuary]

Hi Guys my gemling ls build is coming along I'm using a 13% tangle so my crit is low but currently using howa gloves and three dragons helmet for frenzy charges, my question is the helmet wrecking my damage? Would coc be better even though my crit is only at about 45% right now

[mighty drum]

Lay Siege the shield? Dunno tbh

PoB shows me removing that helm is loosing tons of total dot dps

[toxic storm]

75% dmg for max block chance but idk when it applies in dmg calc

[mighty drum]

aah

[stiff remnant]

oh yeah, lay siege is insane, there is 2 talents like that.. I have been looking for the jewel that gives me the second one annointed, but its expensive.

[mighty drum]

it's Increased Damage per 1%

Damage = (Base_Damage + Added_Damage) * Increased_Damage * More_Damage * Hit_Rate * (Critical_Strike_Damage * Critical_Strike_Chance)

I suppose it's very good once you have flat damage sorted out

[toxic storm]

I'm not using tangle so I have good flat

[stiff remnant]

POB dont seem to be showing me the correct values for it, or any value at all for that matter

[mighty drum]

why not to try make crown and siege work together

[toxic storm]

Cause the focus is busted for spell dmg

[mighty drum]

haha all increases to spell damage would boost flat dmg additionally

[stiff remnant]

here we go, if I remove it with my current stuff it gives:

Not sure my BOP profile is correctly set up atm tho.

EDIT: this is with 68% block chance.

[mighty drum]

honestly you should feel difference with this node only - that is if u have spec'ed out to monk branch

[toxic storm]

I'm gonna drop beetlebite to try it 👍

[stiff remnant]

hm whats the biggest spell damage talent node?
I cant figure out a way to get spell damage on my gear without breaking anything else

[mighty drum]

looking at your tree Catstyle, I think you should better try to reach Lasting Trauma and it's cluster nodes

[stiff remnant]

Yeah I have seen it, there is no way I can reach it, but I figured its cheaper to annoint it and grab vigiliance or any other block-related node from that unique jewel.

whats the jewel called that lets you allocate passives without a connection?

from nothing.. but it seems trauma aint in range for that, hm. and controlled metamorphis is not long enough

[mighty drum]

why not annoit it on amulet

if you drop some conditional evasion, incision stuff (did not look how u utilize it) you could reach it and get some DPS

but depends on how much you can sacrifise from defences, pathing also could be optimized I think

wait r u using projectiles

[stiff remnant]

I am trying out incision mostly for bosses combined with impale.
Meaning I have at least 1 incision stack on the boss and a large impale from blood hunt, then I do a rake.
1 stack of inc gives me 30% magnitude of bleed.

[mighty drum]

Poison Burst Arrow?

[stiff remnant]

oh, that was just my swap I played around with, for my second set.. but with my current gear its not needed.

not sure how they show up on ninja

[mighty drum]

haha no worries, I saw people utilizing projectile / melee attack modifiers to boost flat dmg

[stiff remnant]

I do that, but its just a simple spear toss. "stalk and leap", nothing heavily invested into it tho, and I tend to forget sometimes.

hm its a 8% of evasion lost from remvoing that conditional thingie, since both is in play its 70% evasion at all times.

[mighty drum]

Passives in Radius of Oasis can be Allocated
without being connected to your tree

you can try use this from nothing to get back those nodes, though I think you will still need to spec to Wasting

[stiff remnant]

If there was a passive for all hits blocked that was not locked behind warriors ascendancy it would solve sooo many issues I am having.
but.. aint it only reaching points in range of that zone, or can I continue to reach outside it as long as my starting point is inside it?

oh wait.. you meant oasis my bad.

[mighty drum]

no you cannot continue pathing from nodes allocated via from nothing

would be too easy then 😄

[stiff remnant]

I am looking at that jewel overall in BOP.. it might solve many things if I find the right location.. but the price might be heavy due to it.

yeah figured,
So my best bet is prob to get trauma annointed, and a jewel that gives me a blockchange node to make up for it. or I might survive skipping some block chance.

If i could get my evasion from gear somehow I could skip loads of talent points.
Not sure how much it would actually hurt to go for flat evasion on body instead of the combo I have now, but the body gives me like 35-40% in armour tooltip. not sure how much that reduce damage taken as.

[wicked breach]

Guys, I need some assistance in figuring out how dual wielding works? I have 2x +4 Hammer in set 2 but the DPS in the gem screen goes way down compared to hammer+shield, what's up with that?

[stiff remnant]

also.. keep buying belts and corrupt them would increase my stuff boatload probably.

@mighty drum I got that video uploaded and trimmed now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9o2D-zZ8VU
This is.. like why I love my build and want to improve it without hurting the defensives of it. not sure if thats the best example, but yeah. I can fuck up and still get out alive, and the damage output is good enough, its not great, but it aint bad. 🥲
Also the gear is a bit old on that vid.

how did you get.. the clip directly in here?

[mighty drum]

I just copied steam recrding to clipboard and pasted

[stiff remnant]

ah. direct upload.

[mighty drum]

that looks like a train style buil, I mean, looks awesome! I cannot pull so much but can handle such quantities too

though have to be mindful of monsters, yadayada

[stiff remnant]

I mean, you probably just blast stuff away faster.. I tend to let my blood boils grow on them. 😉
some maps I casually just walk around collecting all the mobs and giving them some stacks, hit one rake and let the whole thing chainpop.

if I had not found this shield. I would have gone ES.. acrobatics and life alone was not even close to enough, and block from shield is kinda crap since its only for melee and ranged attacks.

[mighty drum]

ES Eva hybrid is always accessible, you can handle the transition with this node alone tbh

[stiff remnant]

hm, if I went pure evasion armour it might be neat. but that means losing 35+% phys reduction.

wait.. from nothing with zealots oath aint too expensive, 2 small block nodes and 3 x 25% attack damage. hm.. ima experiment around with a bit of this. thanks for the brainstorming @mighty drum ima focus on switching annoint to lasting trauma, a new jewel if possible and upgrading my belt as a first thing, that might boost my damage pretty good without messing with my current stuff.

[mighty drum]

nice, best of luck, let us know how it went!

[oak juniper]

That mess is like my build plays 🙂

another broken spacebar build

how can you even play without the monster healthbars 😄

[stiff remnant]

meh, most of the time they bleed themselves to death, no need to see all that!
I dont dodge to survive, I just dodge and disengage to get around all the stuff on my screen! 😄

[oak juniper]

yeah in breach i dodge forward, but not in simulacrum though 😅

[stiff remnant]

haha also @mighty drum sorry for the pings.. I just noticed something. 12% block chance node gives me like.. 3% chance to block.
if I were to grab myself a corrupted with increased block right on the shield.. it gives 7% chance to block from that alone. so thats my next goal, freeing up some stuff.
I annointed my amulet for trauma right away and also noticed.. that my belt is not needed for the resistance atm. so I might grab the same belt as you have. 😉

even the worst possible rolled ryslathas coil is like 20% bleed dps increase, and only at the cost of 34 max life and some resistance.

[stiff remnant]

Tomorrow after next patch, let us roll forward together even in Simulacrum! (its getting nerfed I think.. wasnt it?)

[oak juniper]

i dont know if that is already in that patch

i think its mostly buffing loot

[mighty drum]

you can go with Ingenuity too

[oak juniper]

Poison, Bleed we just need to look at the mobs a little bit longer than other builds 🙂 but I play pathfinder, I rely on Eva and es.

[mighty drum]

yes, the main problem usually at beginning is surviving long enough to see dot do it's job

[oak juniper]

so true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOk_60EwTMA

its more painful to watch than to play 🙂

[stiff remnant]

thats some sexy poison damage you have there!

let me show you two something about surviving long enough! I just realized my build works kinda like a sexy thorns build in maps. (lemme just.. upload this one first)..)

here we go! 😄 no attacks made, T15 map.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_34Ra4Qhao woop

Blood boil, blood herald and herald of plague doing gods work, you can ignore that part where I had a bleed and was standing in poison.... kinda missed all that somehow.

[oak juniper]

did this in way smaller scale 😄 winddance doing all the work here, no herald

[stiff remnant]

not sure if my discord is fucked or its still loading. I hear sound but clip is stuck on first frame. :<

[oak juniper]

not sure, its quite a big file for discord

[stiff remnant]

downloaded it worked, how much damage does your wind dance do? 😮

[oak juniper]

its only 4k, but it has a small chance to poison

And culling strike

[night socket]

Is there an early game monk leveling gear for an alt?

[mighty drum]

@stiff remnant is Life Thief on herald of blood a good choice? I am wondering if you are feeling difference with and without it

[stiff remnant]

I have life and mana % from herald of blood and cannabalism. I dont have any life leech at all (tho.. I would love to have it). and its great for any lesser hits I take to keep me topped up often, without it I would have to use potions way more often.
Like on bosses, the big bony guy that comes up from a hole is a great example where I tend to run out of life-flask.. mainly due to his ground aoe eats me up and is invisible, combined with a fucked hitbox so I cant rake him properly and it takes forever. 😦

I just tried removing vitality and cannibalism, its not large by itself, but its noticeable on my healthbar when stuff dies, if you are running haemo crystals I guess.. it might get buffed by that as well.

reminds me.. ima try haemo again.

[oak juniper]

did you try putting high delirium map into a hideout node? its spawns all monster in that small space

can get good chain reactions

[stiff remnant]

ooh? gonna try that next time I see one.

I am saving up now, gonna try get those x1 and x3 breach chance from map.. find 3 towers, stack 9 of those tablets and overlap breaches hoping my pc dont melt 😄
My record so far is 3 overlapped breached open at the same time. ❤️ chain reaction is fun

also @mighty drum Ancestral boosted rake was fucking neat for mapping ❤️

[oak juniper]

thats basically the same, but everything is already waiting for you 🙂

[stiff remnant]

wait what..?

if my map have increased packs. mobs and all that.. I guess it affect it as well?

what was the delirium rate on that?

[oak juniper]

+pack size and i think around 80% delirious

[stiff remnant]

... ima try that right after this map, thanks!

but, wasnt it sometihng about "mirrors" in delirium not working properly right now? and will be fixed next pathc.

[oak juniper]

i am not sure if the missing mirrors cause this

[stiff remnant]

I mean, you could probably have more mobs than that if it worked

[oak juniper]

maybe the mirrors just get activated and spawn their content already when map is loaded

could work both ways

[stiff remnant]

lets hope not, and its just that mirrors adds even more to it

[oak juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/rose-byrne-sign-of-the-cross-pray-praying-gif-7679668783190774657

[stiff remnant]

hokai, ehm.. any hideout that is better or worse to try this thing?

[oak juniper]

shrine might be fun, canal didnt chain good because of those bridges

[stiff remnant]

....hahaha 😄 wow that was a wasted expensive map. tried canal.. got stuck between a pot and a chair and died. also kosis was right at the portal infused with a spirit and all ❤️

so much for my tanky build.. cant even stand properly at a chair without dying

[oak juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/bye-felicia-hiding-humiliated-leave-me-alone-girl-bye-gif-21567771

[stiff remnant]

also haemocrystals is neat and all but everytime I try them in blood herald stuff dies too fast.. so its less chaining of packs. :< annoying since I want do round everyone up

[stiff remnant]

No worries tho, I think the game felt bad for me and dropped me a blank T15 map with the same delirium.. kinda, already built in. 🤔

[oak juniper]

oh yeah you dont distill it yourself, i only do this with droped maps

just did another one lol

i think my lootfilter died

[stiff remnant]

i mean why not? its not like I got anytihng else to use those lower tier things on. 😮

[oak juniper]

sure enough

[oak juniper]

https://youtu.be/6610Bm_0ofY

[stiff remnant]

.. something is wrong on my end.. doing canals here and almost NOTHING drops.. its not a lootfilter thing, the normal mobs drop stuff, but not my delirium guys.

correction only drops was from vases and stuff..

🤷‍♂️

[oak juniper]

very mysterious, i got 77 splinters from that map

its a juiced area though

[stiff remnant]

could it be that I did the same map I failed on before?

[oak juniper]

not sure

[stiff remnant]

I mean thats a first time I see 0 loot, and thats not making it sound worse, canal was full of mobs.

[oak juniper]

hideouts dont have any buffs on my map, but this one cleary is buffed

yeah i know

its a feature

[stiff remnant]

not even gold 🥲 oh also. i forgot to use my omen for reduced exp penalty when I died, rip exp

[oak juniper]

people did hideouts over and over again because they where fast

so they only drop loot the first time

[stiff remnant]

aaah

[oak juniper]

now i remember

[stiff remnant]

mystery solved, I failed thrice on the same map with other words

https://tenor.com/view/himym-barney-suicide-gif-20743087

[oak juniper]

i am still looting that hideout o.O so much work

[stiff remnant]

yeah rub it in will yah?

[oak juniper]

you bet

this one

[stiff remnant]

ooh 1000 gold, gratz!

[oak juniper]

🤫

[toxic storm]

anyone know why pob isnt showing the crit chance i get from accuracy https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/7qyq0ovf

[brisk crag]

What’s the best site for poe2 written builds?

[median wharf]

what does storm lance actually do in a LS build? its like 30k less dps than LS in game, and clunky to use

[stiff remnant]

it does for me at least while viewing your build

[sturdy yoke]

anyone know good warrior builds that can do damage to bosses and get me to T15 maps please? thank you

[mighty drum]

can u elaborate? haemocrystals form on dead targets, at least they should, since herald is proc'ed on killing enemy with blood loss?

[edgy dust]

I see and hear alot of people putting cursed ground into despair but it keeps telling me I cant??? It says it supports only cursed gems...despair is a cursed gem

[tawdry mantle]

I just ran Perfect Strike with Leap Slam into Boneshatter til I hit t15s

The build I'm following needs a few uniques to make certain bits work (Deepest Tower, Death Articulated) but otherwise it's fairly straight forward

[sturdy yoke]

I SEE, THANKS

[tawdry mantle]

Do you know how to use PoB?

[sturdy yoke]

sorry for caps haha

nope

[tawdry mantle]

Ah okay it would be useful to learn, what ascend did you wanna go?

[sturdy yoke]

tbh not to sure mate, im not very well versed in POE2

[tawdry mantle]

Smith - Tankiest, easiest to gear, capable of good damage
Warbringer - Shields and Totem damage
Titan - Highest damage, most expensive to hear

Ah okay so the basic gist of your build while levelling / Early mapping is -

Leap slam into enemies (socket Overpower support) until they're primed for stun and then use Boneshatter to explode them all.
Use Herald of Ash to add to the AoE

On bosses it would be helpful to learn how to use Perfect Strike, it's channeled so throw "Windows of Opportunity" support on it and when your dude flash's bright white let go of the attack

[sturdy yoke]

awesome thank you!

[tawdry mantle]

no worries, if you look up boneshatter guides you should find some written up

good luck!

[sturdy yoke]

yeah been looking at guides but found nothing solidd to work with tbh

[edgy dust]

IM extrememly lost im double checking and looking at everything and theres no reason it cant be added but yet it wouldnt let me...anyone know if thats a bug maybe?

[tawdry mantle]

Not sure sorry

[midnight obsidian]

do you have enough int to add another blue support gem

[lost wren]

Someone playing Flickerstrike and is maybe more experienced? - the acolyth-monk version need some explanation or help, however 😄

[edgy dust]

ya im good on blues

[uncut trout]

So the DPS displayed for tangletongue isn't accurate, right?

[mighty drum]

In PoB?

[uncut trout]

The in game tooltip

[mighty drum]

in game tooltip won't show critical hit damage, it shows basic hit

[uncut trout]

So when it gives me that number it's not actually taking crits into account? Even though it has the crit chance in the tooltip expanded window?

I thought it did cuz I would boost crit damage or chance on my normal spears and it would give me an estimated dps damage increase

[stiff remnant]

hm.. lets say there is several groups of mobs on my screen, that I gathered up, usually it goes group 1 die, most effects chain to the next and they die, then chain again x-> x-> x-> but with haemo on, it feels like group1 just gets nuked along with a few of group 2, but the chain stops there kinda..? poison and blood boil should still spread to the rest of the group2 mobs and so on really, but it always feels like it dont.

could just be coinsident, I keep trying it with and without to see if I just imagine things or not

[lament sentinel]

is there anyone familiar with the infuse weapons skill from the amazon ascendancy? if the base damage was chaos, since the infusion attacks are full conversions from physical to elemental, would the infusion attacks do chaos damage, or would they do no damage at all?

[midnight obsidian]

why wouldn't it work

there's also the actual chaotic infusion skill from that unique spear

[lament sentinel]

just making sure, thank you👍

so basically we can ignore the conversion part on the infusion if the base damage does not involve physical

also I noticed rain of arrows did not have the duration tag, does that mean duration changes do not impact it?

[oak juniper]

does not look like the mirrors improved the mob density 😄

now you have to spawn them manually, which does not help poison to spread 😦

[mighty drum]

sounds like you're expecting bleed to proc poison and so on, but haemoxtalls make supported skills cannot inflict bleed by themselves, meaning, u need one more gem to inflict bleed first blood for example

[dawn spire]

Correct, skill effect duration does not affect rain of arrows. You use it once and one arrow falls every X seconds, it's not Y arrows over a duration of Z seconds

[toxic storm]

am i not understanding how to read pob why tf does it say my chance is only 36 on this setup

[toxic storm]

i like first blood on spearfield lacerate hitting enemies that arent full life on HoB is better imo

[stiff remnant]

Nah, its not that haemo stops any mechanic to play out, since most of the time the mobs in the back dont bleed to begin with ,posion is spread on death if I am close enough, corrupted blood spreads if the mobs have been close to me.

The problem with haemo is that I think it nukes the closest weak mobs too fast, so haemo + blood herald -> makes them pop directly, where it normally goes that it does a bit of damage, then corruption can make it bleed for a while due to corrupted blood, and then it pops onto the next mob etc.

so with haemo on, mobs die too fast, if any of the other mobs is slightly out of range, my chain infection of all things stops.

[stiff remnant]

Bleh, still cant watch your videos and im even at my work pc atm. 😦
I noticed the mirrors just spawn a pack of mobs when you walk over them, so I guess they gotta be triggered.

[toxic storm]

you need higher base bleed chance if you want to retrigger HoB

[fierce sluice]

What is the appeal/utility of eye of winter? I love the ability and wanna make a build around it

[oak juniper]

yeah it was like that before they bricked the mirrors...

[fierce sluice]

What things does it do well specifically is what I’m asking I suppose

[toxic storm]

it doesnt even apply crit weakness anymore idk if it does anything

[fierce sluice]

Ahhh okay, I’ll check ninja for inspiration but if it’s ass I’m rolling another dead eye

Tailwind for the win

[mighty drum]

gotcha. I was running plain herald of blood and it was OK with haemocrystalls. Now am trying to min max mapping with my toon and was testing herald of plague and noticed very random behavior of it when I apply bleeds with rake (probably because I disengage too soon canceling rake before it hits lol)..

what is funny though, I have gloves with flat cold damage added to attacks and I sometimes notice mobs shattering which would trigger herald of ice too, though I think we don't have any decent way to proc physical dot from it haha

any tips for plague incorporation into bleeds are welcome as I feel that we lack trash screen clearing like volt + ls provides for other builds. I still have D4 bleed techniques memorised in my muscle memory, always am trying to group mobs into tight spot to kill them lol, unfortunately there is no way to pull them into a group in this game yet, afaik?

[keen willow]

How can I increase my Pys Max Hit?
I am playing smith with spears, and feel tanky over all, except for phys hits. All my gear is armor/evation, trying to stack life and strength where I can.
Shield has block chance and additional phys reduction.

What more can I do to increase phys max hit?

[stiff remnant]

I have envenom on blood hunt, and like 1 talent for 8% poison chance, and some minor from other talents that spills over on to it, going without that 8% node is heavily noticeable, heck I usually run the two lumped together.

https://poe2.ninja/profile/character/1gn235r3g4us6/catstyle-1245/Catstyles

I imagine your crit would make heald of plague melt things, but the best "crap clear" is plague nova actually, it cant take much support, but a +1 chaos skill gem and it at level 19 makes it rather deadly and it fills up fast, heck even rake poison on hit, its small, but it all starts to chain pretty fast.
I had the stacking toxin earlier on, but since my main issue is bosses atm I opted out of it.

Heh, yeah I had fire damage on a ring and spotted ignites once in a while, you could try and run herald of fire even since you probably overkill mobs easily, had it earlier on lower tier maps, but now its rarely overkill, but instead they die from dots so its no use to me.

I run lacerate and volt on my spear throw combined with gamble support gem, and also culling, its good for bosses that refuse to die as well. 😉 so if there is any small stragglers one spear that splits and chains usually puts a bleed on them and they die shortly after.
I could run culling on like blood aura etc, but the clumped mobs are rarely the mapping problem, its the stragglers.

EDIT: your trick with ancentral boosting rake was insane for stragglers/faster mapping, atm I am losing out on too much damage to do it in some setups, but will def use it later on.

You could try the presense range from talismans on boots. makes it easier to apply corrupted and poison spreading.

[stiff remnant]

armour should do it, and some special gear/nodes.

[toxic storm]

scaling crit is alot more dmg than scaling poison

also armor isnt worth shit, if you want to survive when you dont block or evade you need more max hp or ES

[stiff remnant]

We are talking about getting packs easier, stragglers, for map clearing.
So its more about spreading poison than scaling. @mighty drum is using crit and dont have issues nuking shit to begin with, im critless bleed, so thats a different story, but poision here is mainly for quality of life while clearing rather than direct damage. 🙂

Disagree, armour alone as a layer, or stacking it high when diminishing return hits is not worth shit, but as me for example, I sacrifice maybe 4-5% of acrobatic evasion to gain 35-40% physical damage reduction.
So thats a HUGE increase to EHP for physical attacks that requires almost no sacrifice. all I do is using armour/ev body armour, going ES would not give me close to that if I dont switch around half my build. 🙂 and HP increase is on the chest either way.

[toxic storm]

amour mitigates small hits, you will still get 1 shot by bosses with alot of amour if you miss an evade

[stiff remnant]

even if it would mean like 20% reduction, its still 20% less without any big downside or heavy investment, can still combine it with hp/es etc, just saying its nothing to skip if it dont hurt other things, layers on layers and all that, if someone already have high armour or mainly invest in it, you are correct and putting survival in other parts is a better investment.

Not sure if its smiths that have the turtle charm passive or if thats another warrior ascendancy, but that makes it so block can work on all hit types as well and is extremly strong for survival even if its a bit RNG-based, same with acrobatic node.

[toxic storm]

overkill but to each their own

[stiff remnant]

¯_(ツ)_/¯ Not sure why free defensives layers would be overkill.

[oak juniper]

T4 Simulacrum done, what to do next though

[peak pewter]

Hello guys I am trying to config/setup my pob for bloodhunt / rake bloodmage and I have no clue how to do it since I am a pob newbie. Can anyone help me out?

[stiff remnant]

Import character -> check the configuration page, it have some important things like "is the target bleeding" etc. 🙂 thats what I can figure out on top of my head, dont have access to my POB currently

[peak pewter]

Ohh right, thanks! Do you think if POB works with rathpith focus too?

[obtuse briar]

i think you have to grind for mirror now

[oak juniper]

sure 😅

[tawny echo]

is there the new best atlas tree after the patch?

[lavish sapphire]

Thinking about, if I use Necromantic Talisman, minions gets my amulet's buffs instead of me, and Fixation of Yix, lots of minion buffs, but cuts presence to 2 meters, will minions cast Yix's buffs around them to their fellow minions?

No, it doesn't work

[pearl sluice]

In poe1 i love decoy totem flamewood ignite. Easy to scale, since the base damage if based off of the totem life. Has anyone found any synerfy to do something similar with the insane HP that the walls from "shield wall" get? I have been skimming uniques and such, trying to find an ability to hit based off their life. But not really finding anything. Thanks!

[oak juniper]

i better not be trying to tank this again 😄

[willow frost]

would appreciate an answer if anyone knows. How does rising tempest support gem exactly works? The way I have understood it is, if i put it on a lightning spell to proc it again I would need to use a skill of a different element type. Does it work this way?

[cedar fossil]

hey guys I just got this and realized that the passives that I have that give my minions resistances are worthless now because of it right? so I can respec them somewhere else

[calm roost]

does anyone know if essence drain crits, does that increase the dot damage as well? is the dot based on the hit like other dot mechanics?

[woven depot]

It does not

and no, the dot is separate from ED hit

Which is why you can use things like Chain support on it without affecting the dot damage

[dawn spire]

Unless you're inflicting poison/bleed/ignite with the hit of essence drain (and I can assure you, you're not), then no, critting with essence drain does not affect the DoT

[dawn spire]

Correct. Anything that affects your minions' resistances are now useless with that focus

[mighty drum]

Looking for ideas for aurabot ascendancy pick. Any obvious choices?

[woven depot]

Ritualist pretty good

Chronomancer

Pathfinder

third ring is pretty big for aurabots iirc

[mighty drum]

2nd ritualist this league ugh I think +25%iirc will not be worth it for me haha, pathfinder I did not look yet thanks

Like dunno if 3rd ring will be so helpful once you hit 300+? Or they did not touch iirc at all this league?

[woven depot]

Fwiw the pathfinder aurabots I’ve seen seem to have gone it for the QoL nodes