2┃build-planning

[hallow vector]

does original sin convert the as extra from archmage to chaos?

[static plinth]

Is it worth involving the lightning bow skills besides Lightning Arrow and Lightning Rod?

[static plinth]

No

You can use Embitter to change it to cold and thats it afaik

[hallow vector]

well thats lame

[languid kestrel]

How do I configure crossbow skills like shockburst rounds on pob?

[green dust]

I did not look into the skills that much, but assuming you want to know the shotgun projectile dps here is how I would do it:

• Select the Skill in Skills Tab
  • Enable Include in Full Dps
  • Set the Count on the right to the number of pellets
• Select it as your Main Skill on the left panel
  • Select Projectile
    You will see the Average DPS at the bottom of the stat overview panel. This includes reload times, but excludes the chain effect of the skill as I am not sure how it functions on a single target.

[languid kestrel]

oh thank you, thing is i dont think it shotguns in the traditional sense. projectiles still follow each other one by one but I had a feeling count had something to do with it due to reload

[green dust]

oh thank you, thing is i dont think it shotguns in the traditional sense
Ah sorry i confused the skill with Galvanic Shards, you are correct you do indeed not have to change the count in that case as it does not shotgun.
If I remember correctly the explision effect also damages the same enemy, meaning you woulddeal damage with both projectile and explision, but im not sure on that one. You can either estimate the dps by selecting the explision instead of proj in the dropdown on the left or, if you know both deal damage on the same target, add the skill twice in the skill menu, add both to full dps and set one to explision and the other to projectile. Just make sure they have the same supports.
but I had a feeling count had something to do with it due to reload
No, count is the amount of instances that are calculated. Since the dropdown of the skill on the left only offers Projectile (wich I assume is single Projectile) instead of all Projectiles you have to multiply it yourself by increasing the amount of skill assumed to be active at the same time. In other words we pretend we have as many crossbows as we have projectiles and use them all at the same time. But this does not matter here since i thought it was another skill

[quartz bobcat]

guys i really need help to solve my confusion.
im on hollow palm stormwave, using subterfuge mask.
why on earth does the helmet in image 1) give me 5k dps over the helmet in image 2)???

image 1

image 2

shouldnt it be straight the other way around? lmao

what am i missing here

im talking tooltip dps to be clear

[pearl sluice]

the in game tool tip is kind of fucked usually websites are more accurate

[quartz bobcat]

nvm i figured it out, my hideout instance was cooked for some reason

i couldnt even pull the new helmet into PoB

as long as i was in that instance

[languid kestrel]

thank you for this, I appreciate your time and help

[small bane]

For the Abyssal Lich node that gives you buffs based on skeletal minions summoned.... is that "per minion" for each, or a "no matter how many get 1x of buff" thing?

[languid kestrel]

AHA, looking at the dropdown it was the pulse and not the projectile as thats where the majority of damage comes from. awesome

[green dust]

Oh yes sorry, i didnt have pob open anymore. That is what i meant with explosion.

[languid kestrel]

yup i gotcha

thanks again

[lavish sapphire]

Is there any way to get corpses during boss fight yet?

[midnight obsidian]

you can get minions to count as corpses with sacrifice but that's a bunch of spirit reserved for it

[mighty sleet]

Is frozen mandibles deadge?

[formal silo]

Does Spellblade/Crown of eyes work with hollow palm? With pob update were we able to know?

[sly leaf]

Can Hellhound trigger Flame Archon or do I have to be the one inflicting Ignite?

[normal forum]

change isnt out yet so who knows

[static plinth]

How fast is the mount/dismount from Rhoa?

[umbral axle]

which is better gain or element ?

[naive mason]

what's the difference between lightning arrow amazon and lightning arrow deadeye? i started this season as deadeye but at 0.2 i was playing amazon and kept going back to primal strikes as i like the melee attacks more. can amazon be as good as deadeye in the endgame? i can't decide help please 😭

[eager basin]

ones an accuracy stacker ... the other is a whatever stacker

[naive mason]

🤔 wdym by whatever stacker?

[halcyon solar]

These unkillable tiny Kiln Creatures in Ritual are simply a bug, right? They keep ruining my maps 🙁

[violet yarrow]

Does anyone know if there is any source of afflicting stronger damaging ailment on critical hit? I remember seeing it somewhere but cant find it
nvm found it

[pale meteor]

How would i scale max hit on shield charge? (past the armor value of the shield).

Im compining poison spread, corrosion & splinter with armor explosion and trying to make it fast map clearing tool.

any suggestions?

[stark kettle]

How does the weapon set locking work? Does locking my wand+focus to the sets mean I can use the weapon set points (I want to use it for exposure/curses) without needing a 2nd weapon?

[violet yarrow]

yes

[stark kettle]

Nice. That makes life so much easier

Thanks

[halcyon solar]

What good are the omens that only add pre/suffixes with like next exalt?

you can't have like 4 pre and 2 suffix, rigth?

[manic venture]

Was the ferocity support gem removed?

[lusty delta]

Does anyone know a titan build for hc?

[hoary bolt]

Does anyone know if Tribal Fury scales with AoE? Fanatic Hammer does.

[torn radish]

for la phys damage then flat lightning is priority right

[left ledge]

Does anyone know if the block is hardcaped at 75%. When I try to raise it in game vs the passive tree as a warbringer it will not let it go any higher. Not sure if this a bug or not

[stark kettle]

If I have the passive that gives me X% Cold Damage as Fire Damage, then I have the Ice Archon active which converts all Ele damage to Cold damage, how does that work out mathematically? I am not smart enough to figure that out myself

[vagrant plinth]

does the support gem that stops skills from stacking bleed still block incision stacks as well? does anyone know?

[full meadow]

is there any way to see what people are using heart of the well for? always seems blank on checking ladders.

[haughty gazelle]

Does someone know if "Gain XY of Evasion" modifiers are applied before Evasion being converted to Armour by Iron Reflexes? (Eg. Deflection from Evasion or General's Bindings node effect)

[vagrant plinth]

does this mean that ignite will scale with lightning instead of fire, since its a fire DoT?

[steady birch]

is this the actual energy shield computed towards lead me through grace? because the +116 is confusing me, as in 1 spirit per 8 ES

because i need 720 = 90 spirit

[sterile furnace]

You can't ignite, you shock now

[sharp thorn]

No. It just means you will deal lightning damage instead of fire and as such you will inflict shock instead of ignite.

If something ignites as though deling fire damage... Well, now it doesnt.

[sterile furnace]

Kinda one main reason why people using grenades use this gloves

Shock is just so much better

[vagrant plinth]

Ah damn, Idk why I didnt think of it like that. Unfortunate, I was gonna combo it with Saitha's spear as im trying to go for an aggravate build

[haughty gazelle]

Anyone can help with this? From what I gathered I should still gain those stats, but I am not completely sure

[vagrant plinth]

Skills that leave an elemental ground surface; what happens if you convert their damage to chaos with something like original sin?

[full meadow]

if they say they leave a particular type of ground, they will still create that type of ground

[vagrant plinth]

So...how does it work if it leaves an ignited ground and ignites the enemy? All my elemental damage is chaos now.

Kinda wraps back to my original question on whether or not ignited now does a different damage. Or is it now that its an ground surface, it stops scaling with what I ahve?

[full meadow]

magnitude is based on fire, so probably terrible.

but it will still be ignite

[vagrant plinth]

And will the ignite do fire damage?

or chaos damage now?

[full meadow]

ignite deals fire unless changed.

[vagrant plinth]

So it doesnt scale with me, I see

interesting

[full meadow]

but yeah, it might. thats something i dont know. i assume its elemental, but it scales differently.

the tooltip should tell you

check the passive blackflame covenant. that should tell you whats missing

its likely you get terrible magnitude chaos damage.

[vagrant plinth]

So in the end, not worth it

gotcha

[steady birch]

which one is computed for 8 es = 1 spirit body armour only?

[full meadow]

the bottom number includes quality

[sterile furnace]

the bottom one is 725 because it assumes you would put it to 20% qual

[steady birch]

so if i +20% quality it, for my invoker passive skill 8 es = 1 spirit that 725 bottom one gets computed?

[full meadow]

its literally just adding 20% qual to it so you dont have to calc it yourself

because 20% qual is a given for everyone

[halcyon solar]

is playing with the Roah mount actually good/better?

[full meadow]

rhoa lets you cast at full movement

[sterile furnace]

if I'm playing Valako + mortar grenades so they are all lightning
grenades kill by mortar don't trigger HoT right? I need to be the one to kill them to trigger HoT?

[halcyon solar]

I can't find the gem. Tried "all gems" and typed "Rhoa". Which category is it in?

[sterile furnace]

now that the mosquitos are nerfed i'm considering dropping tame beast and wonder what buff to use isntead

[pulsar venture]

dooes anyone have a good guide for hallow palm monk please?

[sterile furnace]

should be spirit gem, make sure to unclick "recommended"

[river dew]

what happens with the extra +2 charm slots?

[north thistle]

So with blackflame, is it better to scale fire damage or chaos damage on the tree? If the fire damage is converted, would it be better to scale that first? Or should you scale the resulting chaos damage?

I think conversion works differently in poe2 than it does in poe1

[quiet forge]

if you scale the fire, you get nothing

[sterile furnace]

from what i remember in PoE2 only the final converted damage type damage increase work

unlike poe1 where every conversion steps work

[ashen mango]

You scale chaos damage and take + fire spell level on equipment

[north thistle]

yeah that's what it was feeling like. Odd they would totally switch it like that

thanks for the info

[abstract wing]

how much dps should I aim for when buying a Twin Bow for lightning deadeye ?

[sterile furnace]

i think they wanted to avoid all the double/triple/quadruple dip nosesne from PoE1 to prevent some crazy scaling bullshit

[hot elm]

how does this work arent you moving along with the skill? isnt it always max 2 meters?

[worldly oriole]

If anyone knows, is stun build up based on damage dealt? Im trying to decide supports for flash grenade, and i don't know if stun 2 or stun 3 is better

[sterile furnace]

it should i imagine

for pure stun stun iii is still a lot better, as it's 50% less damage, even if you factor that in, it's still effectively "150% more" stun than stun II's 70%

[worldly oriole]

Ah, ok ty. I wasn't really sure because if that 50% less damage. But now that I think about it, im not really using flash nades for damage anyway

[sterile furnace]

i also run short fuse on mine so it's damage is utterly irrelevant anyway

[worldly oriole]

What all supports do you run?

[sterile furnace]

short fuse, stun, magnified ,decrease CD

i'm deadeye so i already throw like 4 grenades out (1 from deadeye, 1 from tree, 1 from crossbow) so i don't use multishot

[worldly oriole]

Ok sweet ty. Im tactician, so im running multi. I'll test it with those supports and see how it goes

[sterile furnace]

it's more down to utility for flash grenade in terms of number of grenades

but for damage ones, i think even tactician should consider dropping multishot at end game

tactician is 3 grenades , so it's 300% damage
if you use multishot, it's 75%*5=375%, but also 20% less speed

most support gems can offer 20~25% damage anyway, without any speed downside, so it still brings teh 300% to 375%

5 grenades would clear a little bit better due to better coverage but worse single target damage because realistically it ain't hitting the same enemy with all 5 grenades

[worldly oriole]

Im only lvl 43 atm, but once I get to maps, I planned on dropping mutli

[north heart]

Is volcanic really op? https://youtu.be/hnArVkvxsUI?si=6OpJBfXrFYkgn8XK

[coral finch]

returning since around 3 weeks after launch for this season, looking for tips on classes that are strong but won't get fkn nuked like everything i played early. i mained cryo/lightning monk the longest and my brother has chosen explosive tactician so any other suggestions would be dope thanks

[river dew]

anyone know if there's something like Molten Symbol (converts 20% of a phys damage hit to fire) but for cold?

[drifting burrow]

What's a good skill for boss/single target for shield/mace combo? My clear is really solid but I take ages to kill bosses if they're stun resistant

[supple jay]

does splitting ground notable work with crater?

[dire cave]

anyone have suggestions for supports gems for siege cascade?

currently running deliberation, brutality 2 and nimble reload

idk what to pick for my 4th support

[old oriole]

what are the best supp gems for lightning spear

[stark kettle]

Any way aside from the mega expensive Snakepit ring to make Frostbolt blow up on impact?

[dire cave]

pretty sure frost wall did something similar

[stark kettle]

They just float right through it unfortunately. Unless I need some sort of support to go with it

[dire cave]

nah then they changed it

snap does still work on frostbolt tho

idk how effective it is now with the cooldown tho

[stark kettle]

It feels real bad with the CD, even with Cascade to be able to blow them all up. I also use Snap to pop ailments for Remnants, so using it to blow up Frostbolts is kind of meh. No biggie. Will just have to deal with it until I get the currency for the ring

[narrow depot]

whats the support gem making you have 3 instead of 1 line for storm wave
multishot?

[static torrent]

They're not projectiles, that wouldn't work. You're likely looking for Upheaval.

[narrow depot]

Ohh

okay okay thank u

[gritty bay]

can anynoe tell me, i want to upgrade my scepter with a socket, what is best to put in there for physical damage minions, I could get 12-18 flat phys damage, 8% atk speed or 30% damage

[haughty gazelle]

How does "increased defences from shield" interact with Iron Reflexes if the shield is purely evasion? Does it get converted to armour and then scaled by the bonus, or is it just lost?

[sour basin]

is there anyway to automate fire infusions? im currently using living bomb with overbundance so i can get 2 infusions and snap for when they are ignited. im level 27 currently so no "cast on" skills (i dunno if they would work though)

[vagrant plinth]

will this support gem stop twister from getting the 50% elemental damage from surfaces?

or is it more if the skill inherently did elemental damage, that damage is blocked

[plush cloud]

guys is there some hexblast build some1 can send me?

[lean canyon]

does this mean different grenade of the same type or like poison, lightning and other types of grenades?

[shy root]

Do skills that consume armour still benefit from the damage bonus of the broken armour on the enemy when hitting them?

[hushed flint]

i can not use temporal chains with blasphemy, anybody knows why?

[plush cloud]

guys why when i try to hex blast nothing happens i have blasphemy active with socketed dispair

[hollow patrol]

Ok think I have the right channel this time
How are infernalist builds looking rn and what are things I should avoid so I don't mess up

[tulip fog]

does this interact with % resistance penetration from for example passives?

[steep spindle]

Who wants to plan a bleed tactican with me?

[sharp thorn]

No. You cannot penetrate bellow 0%, so you will not get any benefit from it.

[copper ivy]

anyone can confirm that if i equip From Nothing Diamond with the
Passives in Radius of Blood Magic can be Allocated
without being connected to your tree

Can i add the skill blood magic?

[obsidian brook]

Its a known bug. Try another blasphemy gem

[drifting burrow]

Hmm, does infernal warcry empower any attack skill as long as it has the attack tag and doesn't specify it can't be empowered? Like can it empower the active part of Iron ward?

[flat ferry]

if i anoint a node can i branching out from it ?

[feral flare]

anyone here playing LA and could comment on fork vs charged shots for my last link?

[echo beacon]

No

[flat ferry]

thnx

[echo beacon]

Charged shots more dmg fork more clear

Fork is worthless in bosses so unless you’re swapping for bosses, I’d stick with charged

[real zinc]

anyone tested if these work with hollow palm

Is it coded for quarterstaff skills or the weapon

[feral flare]

thanks, yea I swap charged for chain when at a boss. would lighting attunement be even better? idk how it interacts with my added flat on gear

[echo beacon]

Lightning attunement is nearly a hard req

Unless your flat is spread to other elements

[unreal sierra]

they dont work

[echo beacon]

Which you’ll wanna fix

[unreal sierra]

no

[feral flare]

yea I have 6 added flat of other elements - so those become useless?

[echo beacon]

You’ll wanna start replacing gear with only phys and lightning

[feral flare]

maybe I'll just save for rakiatas, screw that

[indigo herald]

hi. who can advice me good build with only 2 req: minimun buttons, can do endgame content 🙂

[dawn spire]

I feel like the infernalist "all damage can add flammability and ignite" node is just bad the longer I think about it.

In order for Ignites to be good, fire nodes help a lot. If you're taking fire nodes, you're less incentivized to actually use a non-fire source of damage for igniting. And then the infernalist node becomes worse

[real zinc]

Monk hollow + shattering palm

basically casting shattering palm and then continuing with stormwave

for bosses you use ice strike

[sacred pelican]

does quality increase desecrated mods, like flat lightning desecrated mod on a ring?

[dawn spire]

It should, it's just a regular mod that you get to pick more deterministically

I'm trying so hard to figure out how to use the infernalist's "all damage can ignite" node without just taking a ton of fire damage nodes anyway. The way ignite scales in poe2 just makes that node feel super bad

Like, I'd love to do some weird cold spell ignite build, but if I'm taking cold nodes then I'm not taking any ignite magnitude/faster ignite nodes in fire clusters and my Ignites are gonna be bad

And if I take fire nodes, they don't raise my base ignite since I'm doing cold damage

It's so bad

The only thing I can think to use it for is to gain bonuses vs ignited enemies

[unreal canopy]

Is it just me or does pure eva + deflect just feel like sht? I have all max res (except chaos on 50%), 1.3k hp and 60% eva + 62% deflect chance. legit getting one shot by some garbage all the time

[dawn spire]

If evasion and deflect both miss then you effectively have no damage reduction. So yeah, you're gonna get one shot sometimes. Also that evasion chance is an estimate. More accurate mobs will have better chances to hit you

[quiet forge]

pure eva has always been gambler's fallacy: the defense

you

[mortal flume]

For something with multiple attack types and tags such as https://poe2db.tw/us/Spear_of_Solaris, I'm assuming that the individual components are still affected separately? Projectile modifiers won't affect the ignited ground, etc.

[quiet forge]

are supposed to use deflect with armor

[north talon]

1.3k HP is no HP O.O

[unreal canopy]

ya well idk how to get more hp on my gear without spending too much

cause e. g. i like this quiet well

[drifting pollen]

Hi, noob question but how do people run with 5k+ shields and 1 life? I know the node that will let you have maximum 1 life and gain chaos and bleeding immunity. But that does not give you more shield

[north talon]

That is the neat part... you don't, but you really do need the HP

[unreal canopy]

Chaos Inoculation passive tree

[quiet forge]

they just bought a lot of shield

[unreal canopy]

You go for full ES

and increase max ES I guess

[drifting pollen]

But you can't get 8k flat shield just from armour, so I was wondering which node does multiple your shield?

[unreal canopy]

ya well xdd but what if I just get lower Eva?

[north talon]

Not sure but you'd get 1 shot less but may die more

[unreal canopy]

Last season felt better

[quiet forge]

chat, should I continue to fix up this merc build or move onto hollow palm?

[north talon]

Going from 1.5k hp to 2.5k hp for me was night and day though, but it was expensive

[unreal canopy]

what is that cracked font

[lean canyon]

how does the second part work exactly? Because I m spamming explosive grenades but when I run out of mana it stops throwing them saying he needs mana

[quiet forge]

AvQest, a font inspired by Diablo 2

[unreal canopy]

Alrighty

[lean canyon]

Forgot to mension that I have this

[drifting pollen]

Ahh I found it, getting lots of "% increased energy shield" on gear basicly

[quaint dagger]

so if I want to play an ignite based build: afaik I can only apply a single ignite, so its all about having a single fire spell that deals high damage, put ignite support gems on it and let that spell trigger ignite? can ignites crit? what happends if I ignite with a lower magnitude just afterwards?

[quiet forge]

ugh there so many fucking ways to spec a character

[dawn spire]

I'd recommend holding alt and clicking on things like ignite, fire damage, and flammability.

Basically, ignite magnitude is based on the fire damage of the hit that inflicted the ignite. So Ignites cannot crit, but critting with a fire hit will inflict a stronger ignite

[dawn spire]

Wild that you'd preface such a great aspect of poe2 with "ugh" lmao

[raven crown]

My blasphemy curse linked to ele weakness shows the indicator on ME, but it doesn't seem to show any affect on indicator on MOBS??

[dawn spire]

I should add an addendum that the ignite magnitude is based on the total damage that is capable of igniting, which, by default, is just fire. But if you have something like blackflame covenant, chaos damage will also count

[dawn spire]

Are the curses high enough level to affect that level of monster?

[raven crown]

ay yoooo wtf thats a thing?

[dawn spire]

Go to an act 1 zone and test

[raven crown]

thanks i didn't read that line

so i guess no curses on thjis b uild lmao

[real zinc]

Hmm i think whirling assault is better than Ice strike for Chayula

[dawn spire]

Or just level them up a bit

[drowsy fable]

If i have these nodes:

• increased projectile dmg by 50%
• increased projectile dmg by 30%
• increased physical dmg by 20%

Does using a physical projectile skill scale like
100*(1+0.5+0.3+0.2)
or 100*(1+0.5+0.3)*(1+0.2)

[jagged pawn]

with blackflame allocated, do both % fire damage increased and % chaos damage increased increase the chaos damage from fire sources? or just % chaos?

[quaint dagger]

im pretty sure its only % chaos damage, but you can increase the ignite damage by going for ignite magnitude

[sharp thorn]

The former.

[quiet forge]

haiyahhhh

[digital lion]

I am looking for a easy to use on controller minion build. Any Suggestions on what I can build to try and keep up with friends while taking it easy?

[velvet iris]

Not sure if anyone knows:
Shattering Palm w/ Rageforged support will consume rage upon use AND upon proccing the shatter debuff.
Is consuming rage on the shatter debuff an intended mechanic?

[weary elbow]

if i have almost no rarity and wear these gloves with my guildies, will it mess up the magic find on the map? I'm intersted in a support role aura/cursebot kind of thing (idk what to do yet, still pretty new). I like these gloves for when I'm solo, I dont want to mess up group play with my friends

[dawn spire]

If you have lower rarity than the people doing the killing, it will lower the rarity of the drops

As long as they die in your presence

[weary elbow]

is there a guide that exists for support/rarity build? so i kind of know what to look for? I'm lich and feel like unholy might would be useful?

[urban scroll]

I have the same problem

[raven crown]

read line on curse gem, it has level required for mobs

[dawn spire]

Seems intended to me. Rage forged works on any hit you do yourself or that you trigger

[real zinc]

I just realised Chayula Chaos Mage might be kinda cracked with the amount of leech u cna get

[nova isle]

Is there a resource that shows the rarity tiers of the uniques? Like I know some drop more than others but I wanna check and see how common the crackling palm gloves are before I start bothering to plan a build around them

[dawn spire]

What leech? All the chayula node does is make leech apply to chaos as well. There are still no sources of spell leech though. So you'll only be able to leech from attacks

[urban scroll]

Ohhhhhhh

thanks bro

[real zinc]

what if u use covenant

5% of spell damage leeched as life

but that works on all spells so idk

[dawn spire]

Where are you getting that spell leech from, exactly?

[real zinc]

The covenant

but that would generally work regardless of chayula

[dawn spire]

Oooh I kept thinking blackflame covenant keystone

Also using a chest piece with less than 200 es isn't really ideal

Imo, chayula has potential with a fire spell ignite+poison build. Scale chaos damage like crazy and inflict both ailments at once

[real zinc]

its so weird how so many uniques are simply useless because of the stats they give

[dawn spire]

Not that weird imo. Poe1 is very similar

[distant glade]

Guys what do I do with my ritualist. I don’t wanna play twister anymore

[real zinc]

what chayula is doing right now is hollow palm original sin, and essentia sanguis

[dawn spire]

Ed/contagion is always good

[dawn spire]

Damn, sounds hard to do in hcssf. But I'll keep trying

[real zinc]

Well Shattering Palm is bugged it often doesnt trigger which is an issue.

But the Leech with it is absolutely stupid. But yeah getting original sin and essentia sanguis in HCSSF gonna be hard

[velvet iris]

Yeah, thats what I was thinking but wasn't sure if triggered meant specifically from the spirit gem type triggers. Would've been a nice "Spender" to allow for more attack speed for Rage III.

[jaunty rover]

Thoughts on temporalis this league?

[celest blaze]

So, my league starter was my "ethical" variant of Deadeye Lightning bolt (no Tornado Shot, no Barrage, SSF bow and gear until mid-maps). I just am getting it to where I wanted it to be... transitioning to Molten Blast / Glacial bolt on weapon swap, as one does. I'm excited to see how it works.

Anyone using Glacial Bolt or Molten Blast this league?

(also now I want to make a blood mage, damnit)

[dawn spire]

I'm enamored by the idea of scaling a defensive layer and deriving offense from it. Mana stacker or RF from poe1 come to mind, but I can't find a decent way to make it work in poe2.

The closest thing I can think of is an int/mana stacking infernalist. I want to go MoM, reserve 75% of my life so I can use pain attunement, and then go EB for even more mana.

The problem is that my only survivability (my mana) is being strained by 50% less recovery and double mana costs.

And I was thinking of using mana flare, but that sounds like suicide to deplete 25% of my current mana on crit.

Archmage has potential, but still very expensive.

Impending doom and burning inscription are the only things that don't expend mana and still do damage based on the mana. And their damage sucks. Not to mention burning inscription isn't a spell so it can't get converted by blackflame covenant and thus won't synergize with impending doom as much. And it can't crit, so pain attunement loses value.

It just feels so jank to try to get any offensive power from your defense in poe2.

[celest blaze]

ya, this is intended. It's one of the reasons they keep nerfing strength stacking.

[north talon]

I mean strength stacking has never really led to huge damage scaling in PoE2

Dex and Int stacking were the damage stacking stats

Strength stacking mostly makes you not die

[craggy ice]

can someone help me build plan for this? I'm level 67 and trying to make this build work https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/coc-balls-invoker-ronarray

I was following the one click variant before I got to mapping

[sharp thorn]

Well, as it turns out they would rather let you do absurd amounts of damage than let you survive more attacks.

[halcyon solar]

I'm super inefficient in Breach despite basically one shotting everythig with just Lightning arrow. The monsters aren't spawning fast enough and pretty early they stop, so I end up having so much down time. How do i fix this?

[north talon]

That does seem to be the case. Exponential damage scaling is fine, but a bit of survivability is not allowed :P

[north talon]

Are you clearing the whole circle or just standing on one side?

[craggy ice]

what should I do first?

[dawn spire]

Str stacking corrupting cry gemling was the tankiest build I've ever gotten to maps in hcssf in 0.1. It was nutty

[halcyon solar]

I'm trying to switch sides as much as i can but often enough the map doesn't allow for it.

[vernal lodge]

I gotten this jewel from abyssal trove an i think it might be useful for life regeneration but im wondering what notable passive i should go for in this area?

[dawn spire]

My corrupting cry gemling had 3.5k life in cruel act 3 and could tank silverfist slams

And it just walked through the campaign

I miss it so much. Kinda.

It was stupid

[north talon]

Yeah, but I'd still argue strength was scaling durability far more than damage. Lots of stuff did more damage than it, it was just super hard to kill.

[halcyon solar]

If you would stand kind of centralized the monsters would never come by themselves, you'd have to get in range, right?

[north talon]

Yeah they don't auto just run to you

[dawn spire]

Yeah, fair. Though it got a fair amount from the old ball lightning+lightning warp + shock effect. Now that's dead, too

They killed corrupting cry in every way they could

[craggy ice]

why does my build say to use longshot I instead of II? is it wrong?

I don't see any negatives

[halcyon solar]

Thing is if you would simply try to look smth up about Breach on like yt, all the sources are pretty old. Does like 8 month old advice still apply on clearing?

[dawn spire]

A lot of builds are probably out of date and cobbled together hastily to garner clicks as soon as possible

[north talon]

I mean somewhat? Though breach density has changed a fair bit

8 months breach was literally spawning so many monsters it would error out and fail to find room to spawn them

[craggy ice]

so use longshot II?

[dawn spire]

If you can't see a reason not to, yes

[craggy ice]

ok thank you

[halcyon solar]

yeah that's what i mean. I only played a bit of DoH and haven't followed anything. I only caught they lowered spawnrate by much, so i thought this advice won't help at all.

[dawn spire]

Is that section just for low level or something?

My only guess is that it's sectioned into a part where you wouldn't have access to longshot II

Otherwise it's just wrong

[craggy ice]

no it was just wrong in the main version of the build lol

I linked it above

[north talon]

You should basically always upgrade to the next tier of support if there is no downside

[craggy ice]

ok that's what I thought

[dawn spire]

At least from I to II

III is situational

[north talon]

if there is a situation where you don't want to it would be INCREDIBLY niche and hopefully documented in whatever guide

But I can't think of one on the top of my head

[halcyon solar]

The Breach Circle last longer the more stuff you kill, but it's probably not that simple? Does it matter how much you kill or how frequently kills trickle in?

[north talon]

afaik it is just how much you kill, with magic and rare counting for more

never really looked too deep, ussally my breaches end because the map layout prevents me from continuting to clear

[real zinc]

Amazon is better than Chayula with Hollow Palm

u dont need original sin for life leech

[pure otter]

ANyway to give companions/minions my crit rate/dmg?

[whole wagon]

I had original sin drop in the campaign interlude from the NPC who gives you a choice of uniques is it used in many builds this season?

[real zinc]

170 exalts as a price rn

used by chayulas atm

[whole wagon]

Thanks, I'll get it up for sale

[north thistle]

what even is this "fuel" mechanic on incinerate? that's hella dumb

[whole wagon]

I was wondering this. I'm using essence drain/contagion

And want to use incinerate to drop my hp low for the passive procs but it's not dropping it

[halcyon solar]

What do you think is like the most rewarding end game mechanic between Ritual, Breach etc. atm?

[round escarp]

So while I'm enjoying blood mage, do we think the new abyssal spectres will slap?

I find that ice nova BM doesn't have enough clear.

For the abyssal maps

[north talon]

Not sure, I've mostly been doing Ritual because that is just the easiest for my build to do. I haven't really looked at the economics overall

[quiet forge]

anyone fuck with unorthodox hollow palm setups

[lethal epoch]

how come my tooltip doesn't change when i add proj acceleration 2 to my lightning arrow? I have the passive where increases to proj speed also applies to dmg with bows

[atomic halo]

does proj acceleration 2 say "more" or "increased"

[atomic halo]

the passive says "increases and reductions", which means specifically "increased" and "reduced"

so "more" and "less" have no effect

[lethal epoch]

damn

alright thanks

been using it for nothing then XD

[whole wagon]

I'm having an issue that my essence drain is killing the mob before I can get a contagion cast of on it too spread the dot. Does anyone else have this issue or what can I do to help fix it?

[distant glade]

Use contagion first

Until your ed isn’t one shotting

[whole wagon]

Yeah that's what I thought thanks for confirming

[digital schooner]

any one know a good spell to put in coc to trigger the monk bell a lot ?

[broken scroll]

Trying to optimize my warcry build, Is this clear good enough? pretty early on in mapping still, not very good gear

[proven spindle]

Is firestorm bad :(

[dawn spire]

Most skills can be good or bad depending on how you build it

Sirgog is playing firestorm so it can't be that bad, I reckon

[dawn spire]

When you say, "trigger the monk bell a lot" I'm assuming you mean "hit the bell a lot". Off the top of my head, ball lightning, firestorm, eye of Winter, and frost shards

[uncut knot]

can infernal warcry affect ranged attacks

[dawn spire]

It says it can, but that's a tooltip bug that is being fixed in an upcoming patch

It can only empower melee attacks

[tacit wing]

Has anyone tried building around living lightning? And if so, if you link your main skill with supports, does it benefit from it?

[dawn spire]

Yes, supports linked alongside living lightning should apply to the living lightning itself

[vital scroll]

Do curses lower monster resistances past 0?

[dawn spire]

They can, yes

Same with anything that lowers resistance

Exposure, for example

[digital schooner]

yeah i tried Eye of w but it smeam to break too fast so i'll try the others ty

[dawn spire]

Why are you trying to hit it without breaking it too fast?

[digital schooner]

not like the spell don't hit enough

i played it like that on 0.1 but all eye was comming though the boss

[dawn spire]

Oh, the eye of Winter disappears too fast

[digital schooner]

now it seam to just stop

[dawn spire]

I see

Could also do spark

[fickle orbit]

Does this mean first enemy takes 100% and second 80%, or does it count as "piercing" first enemy, so first enemy takes 80%, and second 60%?

[cloud trench]

What attributes should I focus on playing as ranger

[hot elm]

any good ways to get higher max power charges as a warrior?

[fickle orbit]

Unless you are using attributes for something (like attribute stacking), you generally just want enough attributes to satisfy your gear/skill requirements and thats it

[mighty sleet]

Do gain % damage as x mods on the new jewel affect minions?

[dawn spire]

It's 20% less per target, so I imagine it would be 100, 80, 64, 51.2, 40.96, 32.768, 26.2144, 20.97152, 16.777216, 13.4217738, 10.73741824, 8.589934592, etc.

[dawn spire]

Which jewel? Unless it states those mods apply to minions, I doubt it

[dawn spire]

Once you meet your gem and gear requirements, I'd put excess nodes into strength for more life

[static plinth]

Anyone know if Forge Hammer's recall is affected by attack/skill speed?

Im curious about it as just throwing it rather than exploding it

[gusty bone]

Is ignite from ignited ground applied by you?

[dawn spire]

I'd have to watch the trailer for it again, I'm not at my pc.

[dawn spire]

If you made the ignited ground I think so

But I'd have to test

[gusty bone]

I want to know if blackflame affects ignited ground

[dawn spire]

Oh, almost certainly not. Ignited ground can't be converted to chaos in the first place

[gusty bone]

oh i see

[silent charm]

If take the Blackflame Covenant Keystone do i need to focus on scaling fire damage or chaos damage ?

[static torrent]

Modifiers to damage only apply to the final damage type, so since all the Fire damage is converted to Chaos, you would be increasing Chaos damage.

[dawn spire]

Chaos. Converted damage does not scale with what it was before

[silent charm]

i see

[crimson oar]

How does Multishot I interact with Staggering Palm? I assume the additional projectiles will apply normally to the buff, and the skill speed penalty will only apply to the actual punch that gives you the buff?

[quiet forge]

you just shoot more wind out on attack

[pallid knoll]

Can explosive shot hit the same enemy twice if it pierces the enemy and then hit it with the explosion?

[crimson oar]

can multiple projectiles fro nthe same attack hit the same enemy if they're close enough?

[static torrent]

Generally, no.

[crimson oar]

okay

[mellow shale]

"Inspiring Ally: Increases and Reductions to Companion Damage also apply to you " Does this really do what it says it does? Allows all these "increase companion damage by 12%" nodes the dex area is full of to apply to all types of damage? Sounds very useful even if you have no intention of using companions

[dawn spire]

Yes, and in poe1 that was actually a strat with a similar node that did that with minion damage

[carmine flicker]

any good idea for a lich build that isn't a minion build?
for offence specifically, defence is solved

[distant glade]

Ed

[carmine flicker]

ED have really bad single target tho

[halcyon solar]

Why does killing the boss reset the map with like Breaches etc. when it states in another place that only dying/resurecting does?

[static torrent]

Just killing the boss should not do that.

[halcyon solar]

I've had this happen more than once and now i always tediously complete everything else before. You mean "normally" i could just kill it and do Rituals, Breaches afterwards?

[static torrent]

Yes, that should work.

I completed a map like that earlier today, I killed the boss and was able to come back to the Rituals and Breach I had walked past.

[carmine flicker]

and are there any good spear or mace skills?

[icy dove]

Need some help with my build, i swapped from the early companion setup to the ES non-crit variant from fubgun, but I'm feeling significantly weaker as in; Getting stunned way quick (getting knocked off rhoa) and damage feeling generally lower without all the companion nodes.
Can anyone take a quick look at my POB and see if anything is wrong?
https://pobb.in/hns_bPE7CpQ_

[real zinc]

A funny build to work would be strength stacking Living Gemling. Because u can satisfy a gemwith your highest attribute i tall depends on how good living lightning would be scaling

if that works im laughing my ass off

[regal turtle]

Does Crescendo III work with spear stab? It says that it only works on attacks with final strikes, but then it also says it works with basic melee attacks

[carmine flicker]

living lightning doesn't scale with attributes

[real zinc]

yes it does

literally 1% dmg every 5 strength

[static torrent]

On Living Lightning II, specifically

[real zinc]

Hollow Palm Huntress again geonor i basically one shot him with flurry

[graceful kraken]

What are some good nodes to spec into with an ice Monk using hollow palm technique?

[serene minnow]

possible to annoint corrupted amulet ?

[graceful kraken]

I am pretty new to the game. I know eventually people go ice and electricity

[carmine flicker]

oh, there is II
didn't look at it

[noble token]

does mana cost efficiency interact with infernal flame?

[novel ridge]

Does "increased effect of quiver" stuff effect things like Asphyxia's Wrath chill scaling or the extra damage or stun of the gambler quiver?

[weary elbow]

is there a way to see total rarity on the character sheet?

[noble token]

choose if youre going to use mostly cold or mostly lightning skills then get increased damage nodes for the element youve chosen

[noble token]

its at the bottem in advanced skill info

any skill

[weary elbow]

also how can i fix this? I'm not weapon swapping

[heady elk]

Does leveling spectre gem do anything?

[weary elbow]

if I wanted to be a support, is 256% rarity worth it or should I have more? Is 204% good enough as well? with 204 my resists are in a better spot, im pretty tanky in both builds though

[hallow lichen]

Whats the best way to get and upkeep frenzy charges?

[distant glade]

Freeze with combat frenzy

[hallow lichen]

did they nerf frenzy generation in general? I remember i used to be able to get loads with pin on combat frenzy. Aslo the chance to gain max frenzy charges on the tree is gone?

[real zinc]

Ravenous swarm is one hell of an inbteresting skil

[jaunty rover]

Cooldown recovery rate effects only cooldown or does it effect like the brief pause also, like new blink has 1 cd pause time will cooldown recovery help in that?

[half steppe]

does anyone know the dps increase of +1 lightning skills on spark does. comparing to spell damage or lightning dmg modifiers

or is there a website that will show me level 10 spark

[distant glade]

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

Gem level progression

[dusky wadi]

is blackflame bloodmage actually viable or is it incredibly expensive gear wise?

[pliant edge]

Both

[pliant edge]

Makes them stronger

[carmine flicker]

better link poe2db, more always up to date info

[dusky wadi]

so like, do you just fissel out in endgame if you dont have gear thats worth several div?

[pliant edge]

Correct. Without the scaling from Rathpith, you’d prob struggle vs top tier pinnacles. Should be still able to clear everything below that with relative ease

[dusky wadi]

struggle but not impossible right?

[rapid star]

should I ditch Crit for Archon? I don't really have great gear for going crit right now, was just testing lol

[radiant lake]

So far I got on my tree for lightening build I hope this is right from
Beginning working to end game slowly but I hope I can make this build OP

[wicked isle]

You should look up lightning arrow build, your pathing is off & you shouldn’t have poison

[halcyon shale]

hey can anyone help me with something weird, I can't seem to lock my weapons to a certain weapon set, like this guy does at 13:30 in the video here. I simply dont have the option, on controller or MKB. whyyyyy https://youtu.be/Hl1Rzo4jO2I

[radiant lake]

I am following lightening spear build

[radiant lake]

There isn’t poison on my skill tree

[wicked isle]

Ah…. Looked like deadeye pathing

[wicked isle]

Whys toxins lit up?

[radiant lake]

I did other characters this one is huntress

Accurate and attack speed that part. And attack speed and dexterity

Those are the green that light up

[storm venture]

this doesn't work right?
MoM + Eternal Life + Soulless Form

i'm guessing my mana will drain before i get the 10% free damage reduction from soulless form since it goes ES > Mana > Life ?

[dire briar]

cluster grenade vs explosive grenade for mortars?

[dense beacon]

I've used the deadeye leaguestarter build and now I'm lvl 70. Should I find something better and respec?

[exotic sleet]

is there a support gem which negates interrupts during skill animation? like i play Stampede and when mobs hit me during its animation it cancels the attack... happens a lot

[steady lake]

hey guys is pob pub atm ? some of the copied item not showing correct stats

*for me

[storm venture]

stun threshold

[exotic sleet]

does it show my stun treshhold somewhere in the game? i am looking at my character sheet but can not find it

[pliant edge]

Yeah but you’ll have to do mechanics

[quiet forge]

Mechanics?

Freeze the boss

[formal silo]

Anyone understand conversion really well in this game?

[quiet forge]

what about it

[subtle gust]

Is lightning bolt only available if I'm using a staff with it? I can't engrave a skill gem with it?

[formal silo]

Just theorycraft, if I used huntress ele health leech with the energy shield leech gloves and put on original sin, would I be able to leech with chaos damage or would it just brick?

[quiet forge]

Sounds like it bricks

You never actually changed what you're leeching

You'd need to be chalupa

[formal silo]

Yeah figured Ty

So how does the conversion work so the gloves would let you leech es, but that’s where it ends the change?

[quiet forge]

You would leech ES with those gloves

But you're leeching 0 because you do no elemental damage

[viral sage]

which class could thrive in SSF without needing proper gearing? just use watever gear found and still can perform well in endgame

[muted umbra]

what spectres are people using?

[quiet forge]

Smith is probably still fine

[formal silo]

So my leech would be seeking ele damage to leech, but the conversion already happened turning my ele to chaos so it just has nothing to leech rather then my ele is now chaos so it could pull chaos for the leech ok

[inland plinth]

Mercenary using crossbow with mortar totems is really good. I went all the way to t15 maps without buying basically anything in trade was just all garbage ground loot

[formal silo]

Lich edc is also a great choice

[quiet forge]

yeah you're doing 0 elemental damage by the time you go to hit a mob because osin says nuh uh bro

[formal silo]

Tysm was curious

[viral sage]

which ascendancy?

[quiet forge]

a funny combo might be painters servant + osin

I really like trinity though so it'd have to add a lot/you don't have 100 spr to spare

[formal silo]

Lmao

Osin is just so mid in Poe 2

[exotic sleet]

can someone specify please: what exactly are "light stuns" in PoE2?

like when a mob hits and stuns me during a skill animation, and this cancels the animation... is that a "light stun"?

[silent glade]

that is a light stun yes

[exotic sleet]

then this is my rescue

[quiet forge]

That would help but it feels a lot fucking worse now thanks to sprint

[exotic sleet]

f dodge and sprint... i hate those stuns all the time

[silent glade]

vs a heavy stun being getting knocked to the ground and incapacitated for a few seconds (which can't happen to players by default, only in specific scenarios such as when you're sprinting or raising your shield)

[exotic sleet]

yeah i tried to stack stun treshhol like a maniac but it still stuns my character all the time

so i go for Unwavering Stance

[inland plinth]

Tactician

[magic pier]

chat what can i do to take less damage from the phys dot modifiers from abyss things?

[subtle gust]

Is lightning bolt only available if I'm using a staff with it? I can't engrave a skill gem with it?

[quiet forge]

what class are you

yeah it's an implicit spell

[exotic sleet]

warbringer fissure warrior

[viral sage]

is it bcoz of the elemental res nodes?

[formal silo]

Viper you think we will ever get physical to chaos conversion like Poe 1? I don’t even have a unique I can use for it. Feels bad not being able to send the physical damage from the updated wind skills and do chaos damage without shenanigans

[static torrent]

Inherent Spells can't be obtained outside of the base type that has them, including Lightning Bolt, Firebolt, Freezing Shards and so on.

[obtuse bear]

is there any good unique armor for witch that tanky and have lot of spirit?

[subtle gust]

I hate that. Lol. So if I want to use lightning bolt as my main skill for right now I can't switch weapons unless it has it on it. That sucks. Lol

That's a weird design choice

[silent glade]

I'm not sure. hit-based chaos damage is currently in a bit of a weird/unloved state, maybe when we improve that we'll add more ways to get it. just speculation though.

[formal silo]

Yeah sadly all I want to do is play chaos melee but all the monk skills are basically ele, it’s a big sad state. Maybe shadow fixes it. On Poe 1 tree there are so many options to like covert 40% phy to chaos and it’s pretty fun. I really just want to go in and wind blast or combo with the breach mtx wind skills while doing chaos damage but sadly lightning is like always just so good

[primal forum]

Is additional arrow implicit dobules the damage? PoB tooltip does not show that my DPS gets higher

[carmine flicker]

chaos bonestrom would be awesome
those 20+ impales per salvo are impossible to trigger in time anyway and bleed is bad for tons of small hits, so being phys for it have no real use

[lime tinsel]

What the frack is this 😮
A helmet that gives tailwind ?!? O.o

also looks really funky, its a small pirate ship on your head

this one also dropped 😮

meh

[viral sage]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Advanced_Thaumaturgy#AscendancyMercenary3Notable4 which charge could benefit the gemling the most?

[lethal epoch]

do nova projectils support shotgun?

[static plinth]

No

No projectiles shotgun unless given specific allowance

[lethal epoch]

what about that one build where theres just purple flame balls going everywhere? you're saying only one of those projectiles hit one target?

[static plinth]

Im assuming Fireball? In which case i think Fireball hits twice (primary projectile + secondary projectile)

[wheat socket]

Hey all. I will try Minions now on 0.3 and was wondering what are your thoughts on Minions Lich vs Infernalist:

[lime tinsel]

Im playing aminion lich while leveling my econd char, and absolutey and completly melting everything

that may have to do with two specific bugs though 👀😅

[wheat socket]

@lime tinsel nice! thanks for the tip 🙂
What minion are you using for levelling, Arsonist?

[lime tinsel]

@wheat socket iv done halfd of act 2, act3 and half of act 4 now in .... 4

i nabbed the interlude minions with my main character 😅

https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/16714069806401059430/358328AC7C4F2E0A5F34C435547325516DA96551/

theyv been completley silly all throughout the campaign

https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/17822815937033758008/B0F2721E0879195BF7C63A5B183957B3A2176A30/

only using 1-2 ex gear

[wheat socket]

I have no idea what you mean hahah do you mean you got a mob from your main character and used as a Spectre?

[lime tinsel]

https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/15298348557904024831/5AB9C2BA4C9AB1D0DA47BD79F4C24B5BACFC444F/

i used my level 60 character to grab 2 specters in a area after act4

as you can trade specter gems betwen your characters, but not to others

one gives 25% move/attack/cast speed

and the other is a ant with adhd

that happily rushes infront of you and murders everything

[knotty spruce]

Is it aight to send my build here and ask people for ask for advice or what ppl think i should change?

[lime tinsel]

https://www.aoeah.com/news/4092--poe-2-best-spectres-tier-list-03-the-third-edict

Frozen Mandibles for screen clearing without also dominating your fps, and Fleshpierce for the speed,.
Fleshpierce is gettign the hammer in the upcomming patch though

[charred flume]

Hey guys i seen some flickerstrike videos, but is it possible to have flickerstrike up like a 100% or not possible?

[lime tinsel]

used to be, GGG hates that so its much much much harder now

[charred flume]

How hard we talking, what do we need or have to maintain a 100% flickerstrike?

Or did it became impossible?

[lime tinsel]

not even sure if theres .3 builds that can do it anymore

not a monk main 🙂

[charred flume]

Damn most fun build gone

[fair compass]

trying to make lightning warp work but i find it difficult to teleport when its not letting me aim at courser. is this possible to fix?

[charred flume]

If monk had 100% uptime i will even replay story mode

[lime tinsel]

if thers a way to do it, expect it to be many, many divines in cost 😅

[charred flume]

Mhmh fairs.. so there hasnt been anyone yet then

[chilly mist]

man why did ggg take out the Integrated Stability gemling node that gave 3 extra skill slots? was a really a cool concept.

[tender narwhal]

can someone help me out on what svalinn actually does

[static plinth]

Huh. Forge Hammer isnt a projectile?

[static plinth]

Wdym

Lucky Block?

[tender narwhal]

yea

[static plinth]

If your block chance is 50%, you roll your percentile twice. If you get two numbers below 50 you dont block. If you get one number above 50 you block

Its really good

[tender narwhal]

i see

[static plinth]

Though with the lowered block cap and Svalinn allowing damage through block now its not as good

[tender narwhal]

im trying to find a way to survive better

everything seems to do way too much damage

i got high block, armour and max resistances

granted i dont have a ton of life but that shouldnt be my downfall

[viral sage]

do u usually filled all the skill slots? what hotkey u use?

[chilly mist]

by end game, yes. i have a few side buttons on my mouse and then shift+whatever key to fill out the rest. It's not some dealbreaker or anything, just having a hard time to imagine it was OP beyond balancing, for them to just completely throw the towel in on it and not even try to balance for it somehow, as a unique concept for the gemling. Oh well.

[tacit wing]

Anyone tried building around living lightning to any success?

[wooden sonnet]

does anyone know if 53% companion damage and 52% while in presence damage descration works with the passive node inspiring ally?

[stark kettle]

If I convert 100% of my fire damage to chaos damage, does that essentially mean that any of the "+% Increases to Fire Damage" in the tree become useless? Does it only scale with flat fire damage and Chaos Damage mods?

[fast wind]

The fire from the flat would be converted too and it will only scale with chaos mods

[static plinth]

Yes

You also probably want +fire skills

[high rivet]

i have a bit of a crackpot idea guys

here's my proposal, a way to be low life on any character

[pearl sluice]

Hey guys why would I have 1300 evasion ration and zero chance to evade?

[high rivet]

100% less mana recovery, low life if at 35% of mana or lower

convert your costs to life i guess, use a skill to drain your mana at start

never regen mana

pain attunement i guess

[velvet iris]

Can someone help me understand the order for conversion? I'm just testing some things and things don't show up in tooltip as I expected.
Shattering Palm -> 60% converted to Cold.
I Have 5% of damage gained as extra lightning. I am also using original sin.

I gain lightning damage based on the phys + chaos damage (From cold), which is expected.
However, adding heavy swing (or Heft) will as expected increase the phys damage, but it does not increase the gained as extra lightning damage.

Am I missing something here? Is gained as extra only applied to base gem prior to supports being calcd?

[stark kettle]

So if Spellslinger doesn't auto cast spells like it does in PoE 1, what is the point? An extra spell slot at the cost of sockets? I see some people using it for Firestorm

[quick vale]

dont know if this is the right place but is playing a pure ice mage viable? ive been doing ok in the campaign but just wondering if im wasting time building it

[pearl sluice]

My evasion being zero is frustrating me lol

I do not understand why

Is it a bug?

[unreal sierra]

do you have iron reflexes?

[pearl sluice]

Nope

I triple checked

1350 evasion rating

[unreal sierra]

send character then

[pearl sluice]

It wasn’t zero yesterday

[wicked stone]

Hey guys ! explode damage can be converted ? Abyssal Lich curse explode are Physical not chaos like regular Lich

[unreal sierra]

not really, its pretty hard to convert phys to chaos

[lime gyro]

boys how do I make this character better:

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Remdag-3180/character/Totembutranged

[wicked stone]

physical to another element, not chaos is possible?

[pearl sluice]

1133* I changed belts

[ebon plover]

anyone else working on pure spark stormweaver build?

[unreal sierra]

i think only avatar of fire converts 75% to fire and thats all we have for now

[unreal sierra]

is there a belt that gives evasion

[carmine flicker]

what would you think, how bad would it feel to get 3 infusions every 5 seconds? enough for, like, arc or w/e or no?

[unreal sierra]

i dont know if there is anything outside iron reflexes that could cause it, either on tree or boots

or bug i suppose

[pearl sluice]

Hmm no belt didn’t change anything I’m not sure what’s going on

[maiden wyvern]

Hey guys, Why take the Altered Flesh notable for Infernalist? Like what is the benefit of converting only some some types of damage to Chaos and Fire?

[static plinth]

This is only 75% less mana regen

[static plinth]

Max fire res becomes better and its a great way to mitigate phys (also it locks some of the best nodes)

[lone wave]

I read tame beast can keep 4 modifiers but since getting the ive yet to see a rare with more than two.
Do I need to reach endgame, a minimum level of zone, or a certain act or something before they'll spawn with more?

[carmine flicker]

btw does beam from ember fussilade prevent explosion or both explosion and beam applies?
when lightning infusion

[maiden wyvern]

But chaos damage does double damage to ES? So you are effectively doubling 20% unless you go out of your way to not build ES, which is silly on the witch section. I understand the other 2 conversions just fine, that one just seems... odd. Not to mention reserving 25% of your life seems a really big cost (for the follow up nodes)

[dawn spire]

You can either get to endgame where they're much more common (I think there's an atlas node for it)

Or.

Go to trial of chaos and fish for the modifier "Rare monsters have two additional modifiers" and pray you find a tameable beast

Idk if any beasts even spawn in trial of chaos

But I know that trial mod exists

[cinder river]

Does the Spear Invoker builds still work in .3? My friend went invoker and loves the spear,

Was this build patched in any way?

I was going to send him this link for ideas.

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/1f1f4ed5-c8cf-424d-8a83-ba9eb68dad9a/builds/34dbd93c-1e12-44a6-b151-5f15bdccdd40

[static plinth]

If you take 100 damage, 20 is chaos and 80 is phys. Doubled against ES is 40 and 80, chaos res lowers it to 10, for 10 and 80

And if you're an ES build reserving life doesnt matter much

[lone wave]

Aw come on.
I went back to the intro zone for entering act 3.
The little bloodthief wasp tiny enemies are beasts. The Bloodthief queens that spawn them and can actually be rares don't have the beast label.

[static plinth]

If you take only altered flesh and none of the followups you can take Chaos Innoculation to just delete 20% of phys too

[unreal sierra]

basically while having 75% chaos res or CI, converting phys to chaos is net positive cuz phys is hard to reduce on ES build anyways

and you probably want node behind flesh anyways

[pale niche]

The more i play with Banners, the more i hate them. I don't really get why they have such slow skill speed

[fading stone]

does anyone know of a skill you can get to 100% crit chance relativley easily/ with little investment. In 0.1 I had a character built around Bell and eye of winter with a well rolled crit base and one support I had it at 100% crit chance so i could stack crit multi

[quiet forge]

Nerfed into oblivion

[craggy ice]

will I get better damage with qs compared to hollow palm?

[quiet forge]

only with a late game twink stick

[paper summit]

Looking for build guide for it

[unreal sierra]

for campaign HP seems good but starts falling off late

like early maps

[craggy ice]

ok I just started tier 1 maps and it fell off tbh

[unreal sierra]

i think without unique gloves its just inferior to normal qs build

[craggy ice]

how much do unique gloves go for on trade?

lol

what are they called actually I mean

[unreal sierra]

thunderfist

around 10div probably

everyone wants to try unarmed lol

[ebon plover]

start saving for rakiatas flow is all i can say. im blasting t15 delirious maps now, but skilltree is a bit messy trying to fit in everything

[craggy ice]

bahaha x888 exalteds

[random mason]

I am trying to get my max fire resistance to 90% on smith of kitava character, is this possible?

[craggy ice]

no thanks

[maiden wyvern]

You said chaos resist lowers it down to 10. Im assuming thats with 50% resistance. Is chaos resistance common enough in PoE2 that I can do that easily?

[unreal sierra]

75% chaos res

and its fairly doable to get it capped

[mental kite]

anyone know how i can build this without fucking it up lol

incredible base

[unreal sierra]

try on #2┃crafting-advice maybe

[quiet sphinx]

any good alternatives to frozen mandibles?

i just want a fast beast for haste aura

[thorn onyx]

meep meep path of bows

[edgy solar]

Antlions at infested barrens?

[autumn egret]

Why do people sometimes put support gems is the basic weapon attack?

[midnight obsidian]

so they don't have to keep it in the inventory

and for mace melee builds the default attack doesn't cost any mana and doesn't come with a hefty attack speed downside

[carmine flicker]

best mace skill is basic attack, it's meme, but.. joke with truth in it

[north talon]

Basic attack is useful on all weapons tbh

Though mace is probably the most used

[gray ferry]

So now that Fleshpierce has been taken behind the barn and shot, are there any other notable support specters? :p

ig there are vaal embalmers and ribrattles

[autumn egret]

When would I need to auto attacks? I never run out of mana or use mana flask

[north talon]

You can put a bunch of utility stuff on them mostly. Like my mace strike has like 2777% stun buildup

[unreal sierra]

mostly useful on warrior cuz its free and faster than every skill

mace i mean

[north talon]

I've seen bow get some use before as a status applicator

[pulsar crater]

Also, even if you have great mana sustain, there are situations (e.g. mana drains monters / floor, ultimatum) where you just can't have mana.

Good to be prepared.

[unreal sierra]

usually thats why u have mana flask

but may come handy occasionally

[north talon]

Mostly it is just a free skill with surprisingly solid damage on every weapon you just have available to you

So sometimes you can get value from it

And since there is no gem limit now there is no opportunity cost

[chilly swan]

Does Hollow Palm count as dual-wielding? Nevermind. Wiki says yes.

[willow crow]

How do I get Leech X% of Physical Attack Damage as Mana on a glove if i can't find one on PoE2 Trade?

[unreal sierra]

https://pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise of the Abyssal/2bWGEodsk

[willow crow]

Okay my filter was bugging ty

[north talon]

sorry I undersold mace strike's stun buildup

[waxen skiff]

Guys now that cocaine ant is in rehab anyone know any alternative? i dont wanna go back to vaal guards

[arctic crypt]

anyone got some tips for making a recoup chrono with cast on crit idk good spell to use on it and using reap as the trigger for coc

[dusty gyro]

Welp. This modning I rolled Infernalist Spectres. Grabbed Ant. An hour later patch dropped.

Does anyone have any high hopes for any of the abyssal enemies?

The elite that shoots the big laser, sadly, under you, does not shoot the big laser 🙁

[dusty gyro]

Allegedly the Powered Zealots that cast spark.

I have not tried this

[north talon]

Ant is coming back, it being gone is not intended

[dusty gyro]

My source is a random youtube video

[drifting burrow]

Is there a reliable way for warrior to get damage taken recouped as mana? That would be a god stat for my build rn cuz I'm chugging mana pots like crazy

[dusty gyro]

So it is. Frost Mandible will return. Weird glitch tho.

[carmine flicker]

Zealots with eye of winter are good cold spectre
Really good ranged attack and eye shreds, but 8 seconds cd

[carmine flicker]

Didn't try them
What's so good about them?
Just stats?

[north talon]

not really, mana is ussally solved with mana on kill, leach, or just mana mods on gear ussally

[carmine flicker]

Or blood magic

[drifting burrow]

Damn. I guess mana leech/on kill would be ok for me too, but my whole build revolves around soaking damage so it'd be really nice. (iron ward)

[north talon]

That too is an option

[drifting burrow]

Blood magic might be an option later when I have more sustain yeah I was considering that

[north talon]

Is there a mana recoup corruption?

[carmine flicker]

Also - are act4 spectres enabled now?

I really want cheapest possible spectre with negative fire res
May be there is smth good?

[dusty gyro]

https://youtu.be/dOANm2Y-ET4?feature=shared

Why negative fire res?

[carmine flicker]

Cause infernal legion exist

I rather setup elaborate tech to trigger orbs of storms than cast them myself

[high rivet]

yeah i realized after its regen and recovery

[dusty gyro]

Ah. Auto cast on minion death?

[arctic bough]

Can somebody help me understand when taking elemental penetration nodes is no longer worth it? My understanding is you can penetrate past 0? I think? Or can it go negative?

[carmine flicker]

Yeah

[atomic halo]

it cannot go negative

so if you have 100% pen against 50% res, you will hit against 0% effctive res. if you have 100% pen against -50%, you will hit against -50%

[dusty gyro]

Looks like Fleshpiercer's haste aura is legit gone, both Spectre and Tamed Beast version. Sadly don't think tamed beast is worth it for a regular ol haste aura on spectres.

[arctic bough]

So how do I know if I have too much or not enough?

[atomic halo]

you dont

monster mods and map mods can add more res

the most you can ever expect to encounter is probably 75%

but that's arbiter/xesht

and there's your own curses/exposure/etc.

[carmine flicker]

Not those guys
What are those ants?
(Can't watch vids now sadly, googled them, but can't look)

[arctic bough]

Is there somewhere where I can see how much pen I have?

[dusty gyro]

Frozen Mandible is the old ants

They are currently bugged

If fixed and their stats not gutted, they are very good

[atomic halo]

pob for sure, skill screen maybe

[carmine flicker]

Just good fast melee?

[dusty gyro]

Basically yeah

They are a wall of stats

And five figure HO

HP

Is there a Spectre discord?

[carmine flicker]

250% life
Cool

[dusty gyro]

Like to talk about the new Abyssal Spectres / see if anyone has found anything?

[errant sequoia]

dmg conversion dosnt work the same as poe 1? i got a call of the brotherhood for convert the lighthing dmg from charged staff to cold, but the tooltip of my icestrike dosnt really change?

[carmine flicker]

If you find one - tell me please

[near timber]

why does weapon swap remove ancestral totems but not the mortar cannons?

even a swap from mace to mace removes them

[viral sage]

what will be huge cons for warrior using buckler/parry build? other than the dex requirement for spear n buckler

[carmine flicker]

...you will have to bother with parry
I guess that's cons already

[honest grail]

maybe because they use your weapon, idk if that's intended behaviour though

[north talon]

I've just been ignoring pen and using the T3 pen supports if I feel I need it

[honest grail]

parrying still seems like ass outside of certain boss bonk shenanigans

[supple oxide]

guys my ants became baby ants, what happens 😂

[honest grail]

I wonder how many people running Rakiata's are farming olroth and gaining zero damage from their multi-divine support gem

[near timber]

how can i report that or get more insight about it? that was the whole idea behind my alt and now im sad

it took me 52 lvls to test the interaction

[honest grail]

could open a bug report thread in the forum, see if someone comes along to confirm it's unintended

but yeah that sounds like a real build killer

weapon swap is OP and should be abused as much as possible

[supple oxide]

cute baby ants bruh 😂

[honest grail]

shockwave totems also use your weapon, does swapping remove them as well?

[near timber]

no

[quiet schooner]

Is there any thing in game that can apply self slow debuff? like chill, hinder etc?

[nimble hound]

around what level does Sorceres dps start matching deadeye or grenade tactician? 80+ ? late game?

this is the worst gaming experience i think ive ever had lol

[near timber]

oh it has been reported

[honest grail]

ah good

[honest grail]

don't compare yourself with other builds

[nimble hound]

but i played them already 🙁

and this feels super degen

like i rather go off to work atm lol

[honest grail]

PoE 2 is more fun when you pick a thing you want to do with your current build and try to do that thing as well as possible

[nimble hound]

THe things i want to do don't open up until level 68+

[honest grail]

if you play one class with the goal of achieving the experience of another you will just suffer

[nimble hound]

but im stuck on campaign slogging like no tomarrow

yeah but its super unfun atm

[quiet schooner]

was wondering if using these 2 would lead to perma onslaught and slow immune if i can apply slow to myself with 100% uptime

[nimble hound]

1/10th the dmg of my Merc i played 2 days ago

[honest grail]

but yeah sounds like warrior would be faster

[nimble hound]

i'm Sorc atm

i can not find a spell combination that kills bosses fast

level 26 on double bosses Act 2 mammoth/caster

[honest grail]

there's some sorc specific threads in build help

can probably find some people having a good time there

[nimble hound]

i asked in teh sorc church they kinda just gave end game guides

or told me to buy stuff from trade

[honest grail]

ah rip

[nimble hound]

not many play sorc this season

[vivid wave]

What does "life leech not removed at full life" mean?

[honest grail]

buying gear from trade can often help you push through rough patches in leveling though

[quiet schooner]

normally leech is removed when u reach full life, but with that, it doesnt stop

[honest grail]

I bought a few shields as I leveled with warrior

overleech is OP if you attack fast enough for it to matter

[soft lake]

Normally, when you reach full life, all your leech stops, meaning if you take some damage you will have to hit enemies again to start leeching again. With life leech not being removed at full life (people also call it "overleech"), the leech will carry on regardless, and if you take damage then you will go back to healing up right away

[vivid wave]

makes sense. thank you!

[soft lake]

No problem! It's a pretty strong defensive mechanic because it makes leech feel like a much more consistent form of recovery

[honest grail]

another good stat to get for leech is '% of leech is instant%', which effectively gives you some life gain on hit

though you have to bear in mind that most bosses get some varying degree of 'leech resistance' which makes your leech worse, idk if we have any idea how much different bosses get and how much it affects you though

[undone reef]

Is frost bomb affected by curse bonuses?

[soft lake]

Nope, it's not a curse (check the gem tags, they tend to let you know what things will apply)

[stark kettle]

If I am immune to chaos damage and I have a unique that gives me 20% of Elemental damage from Hits taken as Chaos damage How much damage reduction does that end up being when you take 75% Ele Resistances in to account? Idk how the math works out and I couldn't find it on the wiki

[atomic halo]

20%

[stark kettle]

So it takes 20% away before the ele resists get taken in to account? Or after?

[atomic halo]

doesnt matter

[craggy ice]

can someone help me with this build? https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/coc-balls-invoker-ronarray

I'm trying to figure out what they mean when they say to take eternal youth? that just makes it so my 3000 ES never recharges

[atomic halo]

is that just unupdated for 0.3.0

[craggy ice]

what

it's for 0.3.0

[atomic halo]

yeah, it does say that

but it also uses eternal youth, which got nerfed in 0.3.0

[craggy ice]

well it doesn't. it says to get the belt and olroths resolve but I don't have 20 div rn so

[sour basin]

how viable is crit/fire damage whilst using remnants? (hit damage not ailment focused)

[craggy ice]

that's the swap it said to do

which doesn't make sense to me because it just makes my es not recharge at all

[atomic halo]

well, then that swap is not updated.

takes 30 seconds to type "updated for 0.3.0"

a little more to actually update everything

[craggy ice]

lol fair enough

[midnight obsidian]

every 0.3 minutes a build guide starves to death in poe

[honest grail]

Every 60 seconds in wraeclast a minute passes

[sly leaf]

Ok I have a build idea that I'd like some feedback on to make it even better

Right now I have Skelington Warriors reviving and self-immolating, then exploding, every 6 seconds

This does ok damage by itself, but the point is it makes lots of corpses for my Unearth

So I can do Unearth minions build even against bosses

The minions last for 20~ seconds so I can max them out with this setup, though it may take 12 seconds to fully ramp up

At least at my current spirit / gem levels

While this is going on I'm also casting Living Bomb and I have Raging Spirits spirit buff

It doesn't make a lot of spirits at the rate I'm going because most things die before needing more than 1 bomb

I went Infernalist for this and I'm planning on the +50% Fire dmg to my prescence, to buff the warriors, the constructs, and the raging spirits

Final nodes will be the defensive one with the dmg type redirects and loyal hellhound since I'm already scaling minion life to get more boom out of the warriors

The most obvious question I have at the moment is, what can I spend all these fire remnants on?

I could toss Fireballs I guess?

Is there anything better than that I could be doing?

[restive prawn]

ware companions still worht it?

[formal silo]

did anyone figure out if the ele res or global defensives is the better play?

for the choice?

[robust crest]

Ok am I stupid or is Raging Spirits not here anymore?

[sly leaf]

Raging Spirits is a passive buff gem

[robust crest]

I'm trying to equip it using an uncut gem but it's not here

[brittle anvil]

do you have an uncut spirit gem

not uncut skill gem

[robust crest]

Yup

[sly leaf]

are you showing all gems?

[robust crest]

I believe so. I even searched for it. Nothing in any tab.

I'm on Witch, btw

Read I need to look in the Sorcereas tab

[sly leaf]

you didn't search for "summon" did you?

Just search "raging"

[robust crest]

Exactly what I did lol

[sly leaf]

Well I promise you it is still in the game, I'm using it right now

[robust crest]

What tab is it supposed to be in? I'm looking in the Flame Wall tab but I didn't see it elsewhere either.

[sly leaf]

oh, you're not looking at passive buff gems

It isn't a regular skill, it requires Spirit to maintain and you get your first chance at it in Freythorn in act 1

[robust crest]

Oooh ok lol

Thanks

Yup I'm dumb

Uncut Spirit Gem...

[sly leaf]

Easy mistake to make, don't sweat it

[robust crest]

I was using an Uncut Support Gem

[sly leaf]

spirit gems are a lot rarer

[robust crest]

NOW everything makes sense

Much appreciated

[deft pike]

Hi guys is there a way to know how much curse magntiude is doing for something? Or if it works at all

Inevitable agony seems like it could but I cant tell

[crystal drift]

does any1 know why im getting these ice/cold exploding circles when im only using galvanic on xbow? idk wats causing or doing these cold explosions when i decimate a pack

[formal silo]

What is the abyss ground damage considered? It melts my health and i have fire res capped. Is it chaos?

[unreal zinc]

guys my monk is getting rekt... it used to be super beefy... is evasion f-ed? should i focus on es?

[candid hollow]

off explosive shot is still bugged

[kindred barn]

Do ice sorc builds other than frost bolt + fork exist?

[unreal zinc]

lmk if u find one please

[kindred barn]

Doesn't sound very good lol

[steady birch]

does crackling palm and herald of thunder stacks or no meaning

[kindred barn]

Ice nova with infusion spam and AOE buffs was really good to go thru campaign but I am struggling with dps on maps bosses now

[manic raven]

would the rigwald's ferocity lineage support affect thorns damage / the barbs support gem damage? or does it only affect the damage of the skill itself

[crystal drift]

what are the 2 best t1-t2 supports for the regular crossbow bolts for single target?

around act 3

[candid mantle]

Quick question, what kind of skill should I put electrocute support on? Should I put it on my main dmg skill or something else? Doing lightning spear/storm lance with HoT.

I also can use neural overload

[static plinth]

Is Mirage Archer Lightning Rod kinda awesome for LA or am i delusional

[round marten]

any1 know the estimated cost to redo the entire passive tree? lv90

[uncut bay]

use poe2ninja

[uncut bay]

around 500k

[uncut bay]

you won't electrocute with spells then, unless you have a spell damage build

use electrocuting arrow on the second weaponset

[uncut bay]

press G, then read the detailed skill description

[candid mantle]

Attacks*, my bad

I'm trying to proc electrocute for combat frenzy

[mortal glen]

PoB is saying increasing ignite duration increases Ignite DPS, that isn't correct right and should be ignored?

[green dust]

Hey,
could someone explain to me when and why the new bow base with 50% reduced Projectile Range is actually good?

[gusty timber]

is voltaic mark's shock effect multicative or additive with shock magnitude?

nvm its multiplative from testing, cool

[static plinth]

It would if your ignite is shorter than your attack interval but thats pretty unlikely

Unless youre using a skill with a cooldown

[frosty finch]

guys is it better to go with a full evasion body armour or go with hybrid evasion ES on a monk ?

[gusty timber]

do shockburst rounds actually gain dps from allocating endless munitions? feels like the attack time is double for each shot so no benefit outside of ammo consumption?

galvanic shards seems to not gain much either unless its true that the chain lightning from it gets doubled as well

[limber oasis]

have re-added the 'Frozen Mandibles' ant spectre?

[digital axle]

can someone explain why regen doesnt affect energy shield?

[vagrant plinth]

Theorycrafting a chaos twister build using Spire of Ire. The skill it comes with, chaotic surge, specifically states I cant consume charges, but I assume thats after I use it. If thats the case, could I not use Barrage THEN Chaotic Surge, as the charges were consumed before usage?

[oblique sluice]

hello. what is the best way to cap raging spirits?

[unique portal]

Hi, has muster gem support been fixed yet or, we still need to put muster on all minions including offerings.

[crystal token]

Hello all, are there any viable builds with spears at this moment? By viable I mean on similar level or faster than stampede fissure warrior.

[static plinth]

Chaotic Surge itself cannot consume charges

You can do whatever the hell you want with your charges besides that

Chaotic Surge isnt a skill you use anyway, its triggered

[static plinth]

Do you have the Life cannot be changed while you have ES node?

Im not 100% confident thats why but thats my guess

[digital axle]

seems so... last patch i played it worked differently... thx for the help tho

[primal oasis]

Is there any supports to lower the time it takes for combat frenzy to be able to give you another charge?

[static plinth]

Dialla's Desire

[somber nymph]

does anyone know what the best spell to summon SRSs is? I'm currently using fusillade since it had the shortest cast time but not sure if a slower AOE spell that summons two could be better

[icy dove]

Could use some help with my build, i swapped from the early companion setup to the ES non-crit variant of Fubgun but I'm feeling significantly weaker as in; getting stunned way quicker (getting knocked off rhoa) and damage feeling generally much lower without all the companion nodes..?
Can anyone take a quick look at my POB and see if anything is wrong?
https://pobb.in/hns_bPE7CpQ_

[sly tinsel]

hello, any witches here that will transition to blood mage, what skills did you guys use for each acts?

[fast yew]

Whispers of Doom let me apply a extra curse right?
but I'm using essence drain, contagion, effigy, but i didn't see a difference.
can anyone explain how this works?

[gritty bay]

my skill gem for the cold ants now says nettle ant 38 spirit instead of the usual 99, did they completly remove the new minions?

[normal forum]

Yes

Bug tho that will be hot fixed

[gritty bay]

good i feared my best minions were removed

i was so happy to nothave my whole screen burning and killing my pc

[static plinth]

I mean

What curses are you using

Despair and Temporal Chains?

You can just see both debuffs on the enemy HP bar

Or are you under the impression EDC are curses themselves

[polar wraith]

whats the best way to get frenzy charges now for lightning spear deadeye since you cant put electricute on harold of thunder

[twin mauve]

if im converting lightning to cold and have chance for lucky lightning, does lucky come before convert?

[grim gate]

Does this work while standing on the burning oil grenade field?

[drifting burrow]

PSA for anyone using the "armour also applies to elemental damage" stats, it seems it doesn't work for lightning damage. Might be bugged?

[leaden siren]

What happens if I put Frenzied Riposte on the Parry skill itself? Is it an instant frenzy charge at the cost of never getting the extra damage, or does it not work since it would generate and consume the same effect?

[dire cave]

if you convert al fire damage to chaos with say the original sin ring I assume you cannot ignite the enemy correct?

[vagrant oyster]

hello , i want to build a char with shav's belt and CI, what else i need to do to make sure the life flask works at ES?

[alpine basin]

Anyone know if i have armor break nodes on swap 1, apply armor break which also applies to fire (via molten one’s gift) then on swap 2 hit with sunder does sundering armor also apply to fire, since the applied armor break does?

Sundered armor’s description clearly states that unless otherwise states, armor break modifiers affect sundered armor as well. I’m just unsure because when sundered armor is applied i don’t have molten one’s gift allocated 🤔

[dire cave]

doesnt sunder specifically state that it increases enemy physical damage taken tho?

[alpine basin]

So does fully broken armor. But molten one’s gift says “fully broken armor effects also apply to fire damage taken from hits” and sunder states very clearly (for some reason i assume) that unless otherwise stated fully broken armor modifiers affect it as well.

Which led me to believe that it would receive a similar modifier that would read “sunder effects also apply to fire damage taken from hits”

I could be reading it too literally, but 🤷‍♂️

[dire cave]

well the sunder skill does specifically state that sundered armour causes 20% additional physical damage taken and since thats the case I would assume that armour break also works for fire would not work in this case

high velocity rounds on the other hand might work

also worth noting I am not an expert at this

[alpine basin]

It’s confusing because the verbage for armour break is the same, but it is applied to fire damage.

“Targets with fully broken armour take 20% increased physical damage from hits”

Not sure how i could test it in game, seeing how there’s so much shit going on on screen and not much to actually indicate whether or not the effect is being applied to fire damage

[dire cave]

also call me crazy but I think riven armour from high velocity rounds is stronger than sundered armour

friend of mine was running it and we couldnt see the difference in damage between riven and sundered

[alpine basin]

Well i can’t put high velocity rounds on my ancestral warrior totem hahahaha. Otherwise i’d try that out too

[dire cave]

they also fixed a bug where xbow would fail a reload on weapon swap

[dawn spire]

Unless you have something that makes your chaos damage contribute to ignite magnitude (like blackflame covenant or the infernalist node), the chaos cannot ignite

[dire cave]

f@ck

[dawn spire]

The eternal youth keystone makes life flasks apply to ES

[steady birch]

what happened to premeditation support gem? what have it become?

[dire cave]

what did that do again?

[dawn spire]

If you can't find another support with its same text, it's been removed. Several supports were removed

It boosted empowered attacks I think

[silver urchin]

This might be a vague question, but: how good are Skeletal Warriors exactly? Their base damage and life, mostly, compared to your other average non-spectre minion

[steady birch]

how do i find support gem with same text

[dire cave]

pretty bad

early game its alright but the further you get into the game the worse they get

[alpine basin]

Yo @dawn spire . Any idea if the molten one’s gift applies to sundered armour since it’s in game description states that any modifiers to fully broken armour apply to it unless otherwise stated?

[silver urchin]

How much stronger would they have to be to be good?

50%, 2x?

[dire cave]

imo about 3x

[silver urchin]

I see. thank you

[dire cave]

you are far better of getting a different minion tho

question here to deal with my copium but there is no way to wield a staff in one hand correct?

[silver urchin]

Correct

[dire cave]

sad

[dawn spire]

Search for some keywords and check "show all gems" in the lower left when cutting a support gem

[silver urchin]

I am comparing it to another minion I have in mind, so if your estimation is correct, I should be fine on paper

[dire cave]

which minion would that be

[silver urchin]

Well if I was worried that it might be OP I wouldn't say, but since absolutely nobody in their right mind would use them: Skittering Stones

[sonic jacinth]

Guys at what level i should have the ability to screen clear ?
I am making my own build and i want to know my shortcomings currently lvl 59

[dire cave]

which bloody mob is that?

[silver urchin]

From the new Skittering Stones support gem

They don't have a stats panel in game so I'm comparing them on POEDB

[dire cave]

never heard of em must be new this patch

[silver urchin]

They are, yes

And to be honest, they seem horrible

But they might have the stats to back it up

[dire cave]

I gotta find an abyssal depths with the most recent patch

since now abyssal monster can be bound as spectres

theres one that caught my interest but not sure how good it would be in practice

[dawn spire]

Not all builds can screen clear at the same rate. And if you can, you likely pay for it elsewhere in the form of single target dps and/or survivability. My cold spell chrono was clearing screens as early as act 2, but I paid for it with lousy single target and (as I unfortunately learned later) tankiness

[dire cave]

on a side note for a minion build does everyone go infernalist or can I go another ascendancy with same effectiveness?

[silver urchin]

Infernalist gets to scale up their spirit, I think that's the main draw

[dire cave]

prism shield does the same without reserving life

[oblique sun]

Are minions builds performing well atm?

[dawn spire]

Warbringer, titan, lich, chrono, tactician, and gemling are all solid minion options

[oblique sun]

I could see a full team of brine maidens being ridiculous with how fast they freeze

[dire cave]

true but you lose about 82-86% increased minion damage from not being a witch

[dawn spire]

You cannot make spectres out of (or tame) act 4 mobs

[oblique sun]

Oh that’s incredibly lame

[dire cave]

102-106 if you are anything other than tactician or witch

[oblique sun]

No ice crab army huh

[sonic jacinth]

Same my cold build good at freezing targets but so bad at single target damage

I wanted to do crit based bloodmage with elemental damage “ i am fairly new to poe “
But i feel stuck 😅😂

[dawn spire]

The tree is inundated with minion damage anyway, I'm not too concerned. And if you go mercenary you get lots of ally buffs and presence aoe close by

[oblique sun]

What’s been the general consensus for bossing with minion builds?

[dawn spire]

It's great. Minions are just great rn

[oblique sun]

Aka how well does it perform on a stacked team t4 xesht assuming near perfection

[dawn spire]

Check out Ghazzy on YouTube

[dire cave]

banner 25% more is a nice incentive but unsure if its better than the 80%+ from being a witch

[dawn spire]

I'm not talking Banners

[dire cave]

since you can still use banner on witch but with less uptime

[dawn spire]

There's a node near merc that is 40% inc presence aoe and there are other nodes that give allies attack speed, life regen, etc

[river dew]

what are the sources for getting +skill ranks to a spirit gem? +1 from corrupting it, +4 from supports, +1 from corrupt amulet, +1 from new amulet affix, that takes it to 27 - are there any others?

[dawn spire]

And tactician can give allies 25% of their weapon damage as base damage

Gemling can get +2 to level of minions

[dire cave]

its only 20% presence aoe and no life regen

[dawn spire]

Titan has boosted small nodes and minion clusters LOVE their small nodes