2┃build-planning

[minor tree]

Remember it's not needed, it's just sprinkle on top
Same when you see headhunter in builds

[timid aurora]

I'm lvl 60 on the PF it kicks ass I just wanted to try something new for a bit

[minor tree]

Shield wall is super budget because you only care about armor on shield for damage

[timid aurora]

Slow boss dps tho

[minor tree]

So main hand can be a stat stick

[timid aurora]

Is there a build for that . I can't use YouTube ones since his passive tree goes to surrounded area

[minor tree]

The Poe curse

[rugged sand]

lmfao there is not a SINGLE doedre's undoing on the market

[minor tree]

You level up and by then you want to try something different x)

[minor tree]

It can't be put on instant trade

[rugged sand]

:/

[minor tree]

So you'll need to do old school trading

[timid aurora]

I'm gonna put concotiond into my PF once I get the 3rd asc points. Should help with bossing.

[low roost]

oka yI will go test

[minor tree]

DW they're all 1ex

[rugged sand]

still zero lmfao

oh nvm it was filtered by alchs

[timid aurora]

I heard that deardra build is OP but aren't the other bloodmage items super super expensive

Like the offhand

[rugged sand]

oh boy i love not getting responded to 🙂

[minor tree]

TwiceBorned right here just recently shared a video of it too

It's very good for the price

But you don't need to be blood mage with ataluis

[timid aurora]

Oh nice

Does it work on Sorc?

[minor tree]

It's good anyway, BM is just OP

[minor tree]

Yes ofc

I plan to use it on Chrono but I'm still leveling it

(and alabaster dawn beta came out so I prolly won't get to it today lol)

[rugged sand]

30 dms so far, no responses lmfao

[timid aurora]

Lol

[minor tree]

Buy for 2 ex and they'll reply instantly

Life hacks

[rugged sand]

im up to the 5ex listings and no responses

[minor tree]

Rest in rip then x)

[rugged sand]

lol

[minor tree]

I should buy one soon too before people realise it's good

Even if I can't use it yet

[low roost]

it's the same.............

my whole life is a lie. how is getting hit with 6 fireballs the same as getting hit with 1

[minor tree]

Shotgun moment x)

A lot of things in PoE2 are like that

[low roost]

that makes no sense, it doesn't even say it doesn't work either. wow

[minor tree]

Tbf otherwise that node would be +100% more damage which is insane

[low roost]

addiiontal projectiles is useless to me then lol

[minor tree]

Yeahh you'd need skills that can shotgun

[low roost]

so some skills can and some cant? lol

[minor tree]

Afaik there's no way to know if they do from just reading

[low roost]

yikes

[minor tree]

Yep some can and do by default too

Crossbow has a few

[low roost]

but fireball cannot, hmm

[minor tree]

People used them with very fast attack speed and high velocity rounds to melt bosses

[low roost]

I wonder if firebolt can

probably safe to assume it doesnt

[uncut umbra]

Need a small explanation on Cast on tagged skills:

What does "modified by the percentage of the enemy's Ailment Threshold the Critical Hit will deal" mean? Bigger hit larger energy gained?

[minor tree]

I'm not sure either, there is monster power which you can hover over

And it does mean that if you hit s bigger target you get more energy

[low roost]

you know, that makes support gems like unleash very decieving. where it gives you additional projectiles but the additional projectiles do less damage. It makes it feel like thats the trade-off for additional more projectiles. when in reality, it actually.. does not even do less damage, it does nothing lol

[minor tree]

Unleash will hit multiple times

It makes the effect reoccur

[low roost]

but how, additional projectiles don't do damage

[minor tree]

If you have spark with 9 projectiles, +1 makes it 10

Unleash makes it 18 or 27 based on how many seals you have (1 or 2 respectively)

It's like triple casting

[tardy narwhal]

Can someone TLDR the interactions of Snap for Infusions to Fireball. Is my Ember Fusillade supposed to ignite, then I Snap from Spellslinger, to proc an Infusion and then my Fireball does more projs?

[minor tree]

Yeah, snap an ignited target for a fire infusion that fireball can consume

[novel obsidian]

is it possible to use 2 herlads both the same?

[tall dune]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/d898

sm1 please help improve this build

[north heart]

What’s the best warrior build now

[winter niche]

what about ascnend points?

[dawn spire]

No one knows what the best anything is. We know of some builds that can do all content and we know what are most popular. It's very hard to define "best", let alone decide which build fits that definition.

If you want to see what's popular, I'd check poe.ninja

[violet yarrow]

on poe2bd.tw, how do you know which of the mods of timeless jewel is for small passives and which are for notables? I don't see it mentioned in the mods

[olive inlet]

quick question; this feels like it should be obvious but I dont see it anywhere...does anyone know if when using Resonance, the passives for "chance to generate an extra Xtype charge" apply before or after Resonance converts them?

[static plinth]

Unleash makes you cast multiple times, it doesnt just add projectiles

The logic to shotgunning is
Is it an AoE
Is it fired in sequence
Does it have the Merging tag

Fireball can Shotgun but only with multiple enemies, since it explodes on contact

If it hits 3 clustered enemies it can hit all 3 3 times

Bonestorm is the only skill i can think of that fires in sequence rn

[minor tree]

dang i should've gotten my doedre's in advance when it was still 1ex

[vapid storm]

Higher threshold less power

[dawn spire]

Lots of crossbow skills fire in sequence. As do any projectile skills that are empowered via barrage

[minor tree]

conversion always happens first

so you'd want higher chance for power charges rather than endurance (i'm assuming you're getting them by breaking armor)

[olive inlet]

assuming im going for power charges, yeah?

I actually want frenzy charges, which was generating from combat frenzy, but those are now power.

was getting endurance charges from armor break yes, which now become frenzy, so bonuses to frenzy charges dont help me there anymore?

[minor tree]

oh yeah endurance->frenzy my bad

yes should work that way

should be easy to test on deadeye, but it is supposed to work that way

although i don't have one sorry

[olive inlet]

I feel like it's applying the bonus before conversion...I am ending up with a ton of power charges now, which I assume is because of all my bonuses to frenzy gen from combat frenzy

which kinda stinks

[minor tree]

odd ò.ò

it should definitely be after, in poe2 conversions always go first

if you already have those bonuses you can try just combat frenzy and then just resonating

either you suddenly get more frenzy charges (as expected) or more power charges

[static plinth]

Barrage is more like a Multiattack thing isnt it

But also yeah i forgot about crossbow skills

How cooked of a build idea is Bonestorm + Ravenous Swarm

[dawn spire]

Oh yeah, barrage doesn't add projectiles as the number of repeats

[carmine flicker]

Want pob?

[winter niche]

sure, but the one you linked in the video, doesnt have ascendancy points

[carmine flicker]

In my guide you mean?

[carmine flicker]

it does, I just cheked

https://pobb.in/rVFZx-PaVN8C

doesn't have points in site itself cause it doesn't know shit about abyssal lich, but in POB they are there

[winter niche]

I hate pob xD can never open them corectly xD

[winter niche]

So the right nodes are basically there to get 10% reduced dmg and make it low life?

[carmine flicker]

yeah

15% reduced dmg

[winter niche]

Oh

Dmg wise, wouldnt it be better to trade jew slot into 30% chaos dmg one?

[carmine flicker]

no

gem slot give most important damage stat

50% AOE
2% int, cast speed and ES are cool too tho

[winter niche]

Well, i have sht jews and only 6 points 😅 so i guess its ether low life or jew+chaos for me

[carmine flicker]

50% AOE is important stat

you need around 252% increased

[winter niche]

You mean 100% 😅

[carmine flicker]

50% is after doubling

[winter niche]

Oh..

Shame

[carmine flicker]

need that much for cascade to overlap in the middle reliably

(x3 DPS basically)

[winter niche]

Btw, ANY weak to fire minions work? And is 1 enough?

[carmine flicker]

any and one

I use that moscito from 3-rd act cause easy to get and cheap

also damage nodes doesn't even work with undoing

the 30% more damage one doesn't at least

[winter niche]

Was hoping maybe some from act 1 would be cheaper 😅

[carmine flicker]

no

[winter niche]

Since im only in act 2 so far 😅

[regal turtle]

Was overabundance III in the game at season launch and then it just up and disappeared or am I convincing myself I saw it in game

[carmine flicker]

95% of liches do

[native bolt]

does increased attack speed with quarterstaves really increase my attack speed i am hollow plam?

[stiff meteor]

Path of Building says that "minions deal #% increased damage" applies to the Inspiring Ally node. Is that really so?

[atomic halo]

no

[vagrant nacelle]

what are meta items for lightning arrow such as "sacred flame" for lightning spear last season?

[dawn spire]

Best way to see is to go on poe.ninja and show only people using lightning arrow and then you can see what uniques they're using

[nimble zinc]

So I have a level 92 Minion Lich. How much of an investment would it be to swap over to Lament Lich? I've got like 13 divines

[undone gate]

Which wand is better?

[carmine flicker]

in general second
but depends on other items and tree

[high glacier]

When will they put righteous fire in. Come on GGG

Any build that works similar now

[carmine flicker]

GGG doesn't like non-interractive gameplay in POE2

[west wharf]

there's burning minion builds ig

[high glacier]

Will check it out thanks

[west wharf]

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

not exactly rf but it's something ig

he's on ssf so you could scale this a good bit further on trade league i'm sure

[carmine flicker]

it's far from RF

like really far

also what do you want from build?
just walk and kill no button? any good minion build

[west wharf]

mechanically it's not that different per se, u scale the minion hp and the minions do the RF burn, but yea in practice it's way sadder

[carmine flicker]

tank the world while doing that?
sorry, good minion build again

between 20k ES and doggo infernalist can tank a lot

[alpine basin]

Anyone else playing shield wall warbringer? Looking to see if there’s any other ideas for the build that i haven’t tried yet. Poe ninja doesn’t have too many builds with shield wall

At least that i can find on my phone currently. Search is wonky on mobile

[carmine flicker]

only things I can say is that I POBed shield wall lich a lot

doubt it will interest you

[alpine basin]

I’m interested. Not sure i’d switch to lich, but love to take a look.

I can’t get PoB to accurately show my damage. Too many conditions and whatnot that aren’t supported.

But if i do elementary school math it should be upwards of 1.5 mil per segment that hits the enemy, not factoring in fully broken armour, shield wave, or “when stunned” and “at close range” stuff on the tree

Survivability wise i have instant leech, and 1200-1500 life regen at any time, 24% life instant heals, plus almost always have guard up from fort cry. Haven’t even felt in danger for so long hahahah.

Degen was always my biggest enemy but since picking up sacrfice of blood it is trivial

[carmine flicker]

I did very different approach, like 15-18k ES, 8k recovery and under 1M "DPS"

I mostly tried to use that timeless that give 1% increased ES per 2 str

(that way I could go titan grip without losing anything)

my main problem was inability to shift phys to chaos, or at least I don't know how

since unholy might, chaos infusion etc could be big, if I could shift base to chaos

was really a reason I dropped it all

[tired hornet]

Gas grenade pathfinder, I'm playing armour/ES and mana isn't really comfortable, any advice for a quick fix?

[west wharf]

yeh

constricting command

ignore all mana costs

balanced helmet

[tired hornet]

uh

[west wharf]

every grenade i throw costs half my mana

but doesn't matter

cool helmet

@tired hornet if u haven't used it before, u need minimum -4 enemies to be surrounded

-5 better but expensive

like 7div for -5 and 1div for -4 iirc

[tired hornet]

Yeah I've checked that

[west wharf]

but need to be vaguely close when throwing the nade, doesn't work if ur offscreening

[tired hornet]

Feels like it's gonna make a dent in my survivability though

[west wharf]

nah

the surrounded nodes r disgusting

30% inc armor while surrounded per small node

+10% ms, increased dodgeroll distance

[tired hornet]

Ah

Yeah

I could just ditch tempered defences then

[west wharf]

u would still want that if ur an armour spec

not sure what ur tree would look like, but generally any build going to the merc area atm just runs the helmet

the nodes are too strong

especially if ur build has mana issues, defy II letting u completely ignore mana is too crazy

[tired hornet]

Well gas nades + armour makes it so I'm really stretched

The nades are really point hungry

But there's something to be done with that helmet for sure

[west wharf]

ya armour with pf is a lil unusual

not necessarily bad but haven't seen it before

[tired hornet]

Initially I figured it made sense since I'd want to grab grenade talents

But it does have the issue of being very stretched

Tons of jewels though

[west wharf]

if it's too hard to fit surrounded

u coul djust make sure u have

a %mana on kill mod somewhere

on some random jewel

or like a flat mana on kill suffix on ring

generally that's enough for clearing

[tired hornet]

Yeah I could make a blue jewel work

[west wharf]

or on heart of the well, tho those are quite expensive now

used to be like 5ex idk what happened to them

[tired hornet]

Yeah I'm a bit torn because I feel like I might have to completely move back to ES/Evasion

So I'm not sure I want to spend too much

Armor gas nades works and feels nice but it comes with constraints

[west wharf]

ya if u wanna stay armour just grab a %mana on kill jewel or a ring with this suffix

there is also a kurgal ring desecrate for recover mana on kill

but the pool for kurgal suffix is kinda diluted, 50/50 if u hit or miss

[alpine basin]

Dm me that PoB?

[tired hornet]

Oh yeah could go for a ring like that and keep poison scaling on the jewel

Best of both worlds

[west wharf]

ya, surrounded helm looks a bit too hard to fit with ur spec

[tired hornet]

Actually looking at it I can compensate some dmg loss with attack damage when surrounded but I do need to be surrounded at 1 enemy for single target

[stuck hemlock]

quick question guys, is a higher or lower number better for the Heoric Tragedy timeless jewel?

[tired hornet]

Clear dmg is never gonna be an issue for sure, single target could benefit greatly from surrounded

[tired hornet]

Doesn't change anything, it's a random seed for what it does

[unreal sierra]

number just changes the passives around it randomly, hard to tell without testing the number itself

[stuck hemlock]

ahh thank you guys! preach

[tired hornet]

Mind you, the seed is only yours and depends on the slot. So you can't predict what it does

[stuck hemlock]

ahhh gotcha!

[carmine flicker]

will take some time to re-create
I rarely save them

but sure

[supple jay]

does shock conduction work with shocked ground

I kinda want to make an elemental sundering build that does ignite and shock prolif

but theres just not enough support for shock prolif in the game yet

[formal silo]

Does anyone know a good way to get Crown of Eyes in ssf? Or is it just total rng?

[formal geyser]

What's the best way to build arc? Go for + lightning dmg, penetration, and chance to shock?

This would be on a lich, which is currently built for crit

[carmine flicker]

DMed

[carmine flicker]

why lich? for unholy might?

first thing first you need to setup your lightning infusions, everythins else secondary tbh

and cast speed is really important to feel good
arc is slow-ish spell, 1.1 sec base cast

[formal geyser]

Abyssal. Wanted to do that "consume power charge to cast the spell"

[carmine flicker]

It's basically 40% more damage, no?

It cast spell second tome with heavy damage penalty

Like 60% less?

Abyssal one is tankiest ascendancy in game at least

[formal geyser]

Yeah, I saw one that does bone cage and just casts tons of them over and over from that and cast on crit

Was curious what other spells might work with it

[carmine flicker]

Idk, i use despair+ doedre undoing

I like the whole "remove screen with one button"

I wanted to go infernalist arc but too lazy to rebuild

[formal silo]

Can we no longer weapon swap blink?

[carmine flicker]

Afaik no

[somber pendant]

Anyone mess around with his vile emergence?

Thinking about bringing up an abyssal lich to try it out

[carmine flicker]

15 sec cooldown is too long to bother imo

It's like comet
But with big cd and locked to mediocre staff

[restive ocean]

can someone link me a budget shield wall build?

all the google ones use 50 div

or more

[somber pendant]

Darn didn’t see that, have a lvl 20 one with portion of cost converted to life and increased spell damage with skills that cost life

Got all excited for nothin

Still might try it out just to give it a go so I don’t give up without trying

[carmine flicker]

Yeah, without cooldown would be real good

[carmine flicker]

Knowing where to cut loses is important too)

[somber pendant]

I planned on making an abyssal lich anyways

[carmine flicker]

Oh, abyssal lich is great

Tankiest ascendancy rn

[somber pendant]

Hm tanky?

[carmine flicker]

Immortal

Like I can die only to arbiter oneshots now and heavy chaos damage (cause too lazy to get chaos res)

Other that that I can go afk with zero care

[somber pendant]

How you doing that?

[carmine flicker]

8k constant es recharge helps

[somber pendant]

That’s nice, there’s a second of delay on mine 🙁

[carmine flicker]

Delay is an illusion!

[somber pendant]

Oh you use the persistent gem?

[carmine flicker]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3847364/

I do better)

Here some guide and vids

[somber pendant]

Bruh am I getting indoctrinated?

This feels a little cultish, offer of immortality through the cycle of life and death xD

[carmine flicker]

Not your life and death

That's the real point

[somber pendant]

Maybe not now

[carmine flicker]

Not ever
Can't spectre other exiles

[somber pendant]

lol this is cool I can’t quite wrap my head around it but I’ll keep reading til I beat the info through my thick skull

Was skimming to get the gist

[carmine flicker]

Watch my xesht vid
Poor xesht

Orher aren't updated sadly

[daring prism]

What's generally better for a caster, a staff or Wand+focus?

[carmine flicker]

For defence wand and focus
For offence too, but more expensive

[daring prism]

Dang. Might have some trouble affording anything then. Got a measly 4.5 div to my name

[carmine flicker]

Depends on build

Some things aren't meta and so cheap..ish

[daring prism]

Running a fire sorceress

[carmine flicker]

Ehh
Can I advise switching to lightning?

[daring prism]

Besides the dmg from lightning debuff, what merit is there?

[carmine flicker]

Lightning skills better in general

Easier clear, better bossing from triple oos+arc

[daring prism]

Oos?

Oh storm orb

Still worth running archon if its lightning?

[carmine flicker]

It's not hard to activate
But it's also on big cooldown and unreliable

[daring prism]

Whats the cooldown?

[carmine flicker]

12 seconds after it ends or smth like that

Or 15

Don't remember

[daring prism]

Oh that's not bad at all

More reliable than fire to activate as well

[carmine flicker]

It's just.. when I played it I always have it on cd on boss etc

And killed bosses before it recharge anyway

[daring prism]

What's the reccomended setup for ascendancy points with lightning? Going for the branch in stormweaver?

[carmine flicker]

Idk, I played lich
Tried every spell there is
Likes arc and comet most among elemental ones

Then got doedre and liked it way more

[daring prism]

Doedre?

The ring, Gloves, or gem?

[carmine flicker]

Gem

[daring prism]

For that would i run a lightning staff or smt else

[carmine flicker]

Wand and focus better imo
Es is good

[daring prism]

3 curses and lightning archon activates

20 second cooldown

What am I looking for with a wand+focus?

Like bases and modifiers besides +level to skills

[carmine flicker]

Cast speed and damage

Crit may be
Lightning have better base crit than fire

Es on focus

[daring prism]

What wand should I use? Siphoning?

[carmine flicker]

One with that invocation preferably

But tbh.. any

[daring prism]

Wdym invocation?

[carmine flicker]

Spellslinger one

[daring prism]

Oh the duelling wand

[carmine flicker]

Can always load lightning conduit there I guess

For bosses

[winter niche]

Maybe useful with chrono?

[daring prism]

Best base i can think of costs 3 div :( 30% extra lightning damage and +4 to lightning skills

I cant afford to mess that up, and im sure I would

[carmine flicker]

Not strong enough to bother THAT much

[vague obsidian]

is this still good
https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/anthonys-vampire-queen?ws-ngf5-f7d82102-7e77-4a44-ad24-33b67e8ae7bf=activeVariantId%2C1

[daring prism]

What im working with so far

Terrified to continue

Do I just slam greater exalts now? Or can I somehow still manage deterministic crafting, since i got all i want but +Mana or +crit chance

[somber pendant]

If you got all you want then what’s the harm ;P idk I always have to look at poedb

[daring prism]

Got mana, but also life per kill :(

And a rune gave me my crit chance:)

29 to int. Actually somewhat decent

[somber pendant]

I sunk abit trying to craft my brother a quarterstaff and the last thing was desecrate for flat phys, didn’t even pop up in the reroll 🙁

[daring prism]

Rip

Did you corrupt or no? If not you can try desecration again with the right omen+annul

[somber pendant]

Low cost crafts the way to go if it doesn’t feel non chalant to throw currency around

[daring prism]

Expensive as shit though, gotta sell your soul and body

[somber pendant]

It’s not corrupted but I’m not sinking anymore into it yet

[short field]

I'm doedre's lich too. Not tanky as yours. Nice to see someone stacking int too😂

I've got decaying hex and chaotic freeze support on despair so my click freeze enemy.

[restive ocean]

Is this build beginner friendly or only god tier,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_OcW4nT0hQ

[carmine flicker]

Decaying hex not woth it imo
Too low damage

Freeze would be good, but no reason when immortal

[daring prism]

What spells would i run for lightning?

[carmine flicker]

Arc and oos mostly

[restive ocean]

why is ritualist used for bleed builds? whats so special about it for that

[daring prism]

Blood boil persistent passive

There a support gem that lowers mana cost?

[quiet forge]

efficiency II

[ocean needle]

What's the best budget build rn?

[carmine flicker]

Define
Best for what
What budget?

[ocean needle]

Like 10 div max

[little delta]

does anyone have a build for dual wielding warrior?

[ocean needle]

I tried deadeye it's not good at doing t15s

And sorc

[carmine flicker]

Try edc?
And my doedre lich
And minion infernalist
At least same class so easy to try and respec

Deadeye good
Just overhyped meta so overpriced

[ocean needle]

I do 80k dps on my lighting arrow rn but the issue is the defense

Evasion is not good

[carmine flicker]

Es good

Can I pm you?

[ocean needle]

I got 75% evasion rn but it's like nothing

Sure

[pulsar venture]

QQ: if I'm already 6 points in an ascendancy, can I change it to something else?

[west wharf]

yes tho it’s a bit laborious

can change as long as it’s in the same initial class ofc

[west wharf]

need hybrid gear with Eva/es

otherwise quite hard to get a good life pool without spending huge currency

[last bolt]

Have there been any highly effective builds that use the 100 weapon swap point dual tree setup?

I'm curious what people are cooking

[west wharf]

there prolly are some but it’s so awkward without being able to take jewel sockets

[last bolt]

I knew keystones had to be in both but jewels too?

[west wharf]

yep

really limits what you can do with it

[last bolt]

Darn yeah that sucks

I would've thought someone would do some crazy build where you max out curses on one tree and something bottom left or right on the other tree, but that sounds almost impossible now

[grim gate]

I wonder... If abyssal lich's umbral souls could be used to boost damage of fire spell, in order to convert them into chaos by a notable and then use palm of the dreamer qnd ming to get extra. Got to theorize it later... probably too much investment for too little return.

[carmine flicker]

Using umbral soul for damage is really inefficient

You get 100% increased for around 150 spirit
(It's around 15-20% more damage in normal build)
I bet you can spend 150 spirit with more impact

[dawn saddle]

I tried doing something but switching weapons too fast makes the game lag like crazy, so I gave up (I was switching like 6 times per second)
It was still showing 150 fps, but felt like 5

[grim gate]

No point doing fire to chaos conversion on lich for direct hit damage then? More of a infernalist/blood mage thing?

I guess I'd see then on ninja if this idea made sense.

[rare robin]

So I see a bunch of builds with avatar of fire using self ignite and then wildfire support in their skills. But if ignites are reflected back to you you cant ignite others. Does wildfire spread that ignite on yourself to enemies close to you?

[west wharf]

my tree pathing looks like absolute jank
but i can't figure out a way to improve it
can anyone spot a way to shave a point or 2 off this
https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/abyss/character/Languidness-2416/BACKFLIPBOOMBOOM

[viscid niche]

Rakiatas Flow does not work with Sunder my Enemies, just did a thorough test by removing sunder my enemies. So many invokers losing 70% damage due to incorrect youtube guides. 0% inverted is 0%

Did test on high resistant maps I crafted to purposely test it out, huge huge difference. 1 shotting everything when removed and with Sunder my enemies it was absolute crap a waste of support gem for 27 divines...

[magic pier]

umbral soul will probably see more play when we get more 1-handed weapons
right now, lets say you have a 170 spirit rattling scepter with enough +minions to get the skeletons to level 21
with the node preceding Umbral soul you get +6% reservation efficiency, which brings the spirit cost of the skeletons to 18.
you could have 11 skeletons from this scepter, this makes this a off hand that gives 165% increased attack damage, like this is nothing to sneeze at.
to me this seems like a pretty good alternative to using the sacred flame or one of the palm sceptres.

shame we don't really have any weapons that play off the spirit thing

like a unique weapon that said "adds damage equal to your spirit" would be so cool with this

[narrow shoal]

Im Building the Nova Bomber Build by rue and the build itself is really in-depth but i just can’t hit his numbers. could someone take a closer look maybe i’m missing sth important

[west wharf]

sure, altho tbf guys like fub and rue sink bonkers amounts of currency into their characters

it’s not a particularly complicated setup; if you’re missing dmg it’s mostly just going to be a gear gap

[narrow shoal]

thats the thing i already spent hundreds of divines ^^ and it isnt even close comparable =?

i could stream you my build if you could look over it?

[rotund veldt]

I have the issue that my LA Build cant cast Lightning Rod on some maps. Why is that so?

[dawn spire]

You don't cast lightning rod in the first place, but assuming you mean you can't use it at all, I would see if the map modifiers affect your mana costs or number of projectiles fired. When you hover over it, what does it say?

[wet raptor]

What map blaster poison PF builds are strong on a low budget to start out with? I checked Crouching_Tuna's video on Poison Burst Arrow. FatbellyWW has great videos on poison PF too and now I noticed MisoxShiru with Spiral Volley Poison but that uses some broken/bugged Acidid Concoction in the build.

Not sure what is bait and what is great.

[timid aurora]

They are all good. theres like 5 other ones too on YouTube which are also good. It's hard to mess up a poison PF lol

At this point they are all just trying to find new interesting tech

[wet raptor]

that is nice to hear. Fatbelly's has a nice cost entry to it gonna look into that for now then

[viral sage]

for kitava, what to consider when choosing flowing metal nodes or individual res nodes?

[hollow galleon]

just go all out on fire res and +max fire res w/coal stoker and forged in flame

[carmine flicker]

Palm is really good if you ask me tho
With 2 runes its 120 spirit, enough to get 3 mages for 105 global es increased
As alternative to focus..
Or just focus+palm for absurd tank if you scale damage some other way

[viral sage]

does the chaos res node worth it to reduce chaos dmg?

[hollow galleon]

nah and that only matters if u have tons of armor anyways

[carmine flicker]

not likely, your best armour source(body armour) is.. compromised
so you have less armour than titans etc anyway
and a lot of Chaos is DOT and DOT ignore armour

[viral sage]

😅 thanks for the heads up

[royal hamlet]

Does flamability magnitude impacts exposure? when dealing fire damage? 🤔

[dawn spire]

No, all flammability does is give the enemy a chance to be ignited when hit

[carmine flicker]

not a chance

or, well, 100% chance when you max out magnitude

[royal hamlet]

my crossbow is 80, so I guess I put 80 in max item levle? 🤔

[eager zodiac]

I'm trying to use Sowza Lich crossbow build. But at 88 lvl I have no idea on what aspect of my gear or skill pointa shoud I focus. https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/rouoko-1878/character/Liczo (this is my character) any one who know game can give me any advice what I shoud do now? I clean maps 15 without issue( sometimes I got one shot but this shot happens to everyone).

[winter niche]

any suggestion on another mob than bloodthief wasp? 😄 cant find any weak to fire in act 2 or 1 .. except the expensive hag in clearfell

werewolf seems 51 spirit,,,

how much wasp cost? bramble ape is 38

[carmine flicker]

werewolves

[carmine flicker]

same 38

[narrow shoal]

would you have some time to look over it?

[eager zodiac]

I'm curious about what you talk? 🤔 Tamed beasts?

[west wharf]

can u link ur poeninja

[winter niche]

im only 29, but will try to replicate it 😄

[west wharf]

shavs satchel helps avoid dying while you're on a budget

[carmine flicker]

well, prayers is 28 lvl unqiue

so can already use

[narrow shoal]

does POB work aswell?

[west wharf]

ye

[narrow shoal]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/te48x0g6

can we hop on a call?

[west wharf]

i can't rn but can quickly comment on some stuff

you need to change your mana flask

that isn't appropriate for ambrosia

you need one with minimum 67% increased charges

otherwise your ambrosia is doing way less dmg

[narrow shoal]

ok i run out of mana like in 5-6 seconds anyways? do i have to slam flasks?

[west wharf]

2socket constricting would be nice if u have the budget for it since ur not capped chaos res

[west wharf]

running out of mana doesn't do an ything

u have defy II

u can attack with 0 mana

u can replace magnified effect on explo grenade with a dmg link

it's just for bossing anyway

you can drop double barrel if u craft a gemini crossbow (+1 bolt) for mapping

i'm nots ure why you have heft on your herald of thunder, heft only affects physical damage

you need to add a gas grenade setup if your singletarget is too low

[eager zodiac]

Thank you I will get it. Something else? I shoud know? I don't really understand everything yet. Mabe those are some stara in items that I shoud focus while changing items.

[west wharf]

i'm not sure why you are running valako's gloves

valako's is good in midgame to shock

but you have very strong flat lightning rolls on your xbow + rings

so you will shock anyway

and you have ambrosia on your explosive grenade, so that would always shock bosses even if you had no flat lightning

valako's is literally a dead item for you atm

get rare gloves with good flat + AS or flat + abyssal sockets

if survivability is an issue, replace your flask with an olroth's

[narrow shoal]

okay thats alot of information xD so first of all: new mana flask with 67% increased charges, New Gloves with flat attack rolls, attackspeed und resistances. and maybe later on craft gemini

[narrow shoal]

what would be a dmg link for it?

[west wharf]

better would be 3 abyssal socket glove but obviously that's quite expensive, so up to you

[narrow shoal]

only have like 20divs atm

[west wharf]

ele armament or something basic like that is okay

rigwald's ferocity is good if it's in ur weapon set 2

[eager zodiac]

Novo amor is so wise 😱

[west wharf]

it depends how big ur explosive grenade aoe looks, if u can comfortably hit it on boss without the mag effect then there's no need for mag effect

besides that ur setup looks ok

[west wharf]

yea gemini isn't really a big priority unless you feel your mapping isn't good

if ur struggling to 1shot packs in juiced maps then it'll be pretty good to craft a gemini to free up support slot

[narrow shoal]

gloves are crazy expensive especially cause i need ALOT of resistance

[west wharf]

oh yeah, just do some resist + life + 1-2 flat ele roll then np

should just be a div or two

u need some chaos res still anyway so

[narrow shoal]

what flat rolls would be prio? lightning obvious. but fire or rather phys?

[west wharf]

i hvaen't run sowza's build so i can't give the best guidance here unfortunately, as far as i understand it is just not a very good budget setup

very nice feeling on high currency

but quite mediocre on low-mid currency is what i've heard

[narrow shoal]

sth like this?

[west wharf]

running shav's satchel belt feels bad cus no stats, but it's apparently quite necessary on low budget version

so that you can recover your ES

you do absolutely need to change ur boots tho

to 30% or 35% ms

and socket with ms% on low life

your rings are also really quite weak

make sure u use those slots to cover some resists, since your resists are quite low

[narrow shoal]

mine?

[west wharf]

no, plamcia

[west wharf]

i'd look for more res+life personally but along these lines yea

[west wharf]

lightning > fire > rest

but it's not a big deal since u have rakiata anyway

just whatever rolls are highest in flat amount

[rare robin]

does atalui's bloodletting still work with avatar of fire? does x% of damage as extra phys get converted to fire in the end?

[lime schooner]

sorry if this is a stupid question but is there a way to apply a custom modifier conditional to a skill not globals or weapon?
like "12% more Attack Damage with Skill X"

[olive inlet]

I dont believe so, the "increased damage" modifiers are based on a type of damage or set of skills, I dont think one specific skill

I think it has to be one of the "tags" you can find on skills, those can be increased damage modifiers

if you are asking can you apply damage mods to skill gem, no. Only whatever it's built in Quality modifier does or using support gems

[lime schooner]

hmm that sucks cus some skills/support gems are not calculated right / not implemented and i dont wanna add a global modifier which would increase the dps of unrelated things causing issues

[olive inlet]

Hard to know what you mean without examples, but...early access game is a thing. Not sure what you mean that increasing DPS of other things would cause you issues

[lime schooner]

for example on a chaos witch i would dot the enemy and then spam chaos bolts
so thats pretty easy to add
but when i add profanity on my chaos bolt
i cant tell pob to only add the 5% for chaos bold i can only add a global custom modifier which would also effect the dot dmg

[narrow shoal]

@west wharf quick update: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/rbtg0cs7

[steep sandal]

Hello! I would like to ask an question about an passive weapon sets im looking on build at poe ninja and cant understand one thing why ppl have 2 sets of passives on weapon sets but only one weapon equiped ?

[lime schooner]

u can lock it so it uses the same weapon for both
ctrl click on the I II above the weapon while u only have one equipped

[steep sandal]

omg xD I didn't know you can do that Thank you very much ❤️

[west wharf]

no sorry

conversion works on base values in poe2

atalui's won't do anything

99% sure, i'd get a second opinion though

but if i put atalui's on my cluster grenade for example, the fire damage portion does not increase - just the physical portion

"gain as" is the final step in poe2 and will not be further scaled by conversion, damage increases, etc

and is additive with other "gain as" sources

avatar of fire is not so strong in the current state of the game

there are many strong sources of gain as % dmg that get disabled (unless specifically gain as fire)

heart of the well, against the darkness, atalui's, ambrosia, perfect essence crafts, etc

[west wharf]

looking good, i would consider adding on a gas grenade setup if you want more singletarget

[rare robin]

I see, thanks for the input! just got that support gem and wanted to try it out but I guess it will be for another warrior build

[west wharf]

on bosses you just throw down a few gas grenades, then explo nades, and boom em

cluster grenade with payload + adhesive grenades works too as an alternative to gas grenades

i'm not 100% sure which one is stronger

[narrow shoal]

thanks alot ! 🙂

[west wharf]

you can drop your flash grenade setup for it if you have no slots

i don't think flash grenade is used much by the time you're at hh level gear

[robust bear]

Might be too late, but it is on the currency exchange along with all of the other special gems

I am looking for a spell caster build, does anyone have any recommendations for around 200div budget? Does Doedre blood mage live up to hype or would I be better off going some variation of Spark? I did craft myself an int stacking ammy but I am not sure if it will be worth it compared to spark or something else.

[olive inlet]

from what ive seen people are pooing on Spark this patch and blood mage is the vibe, but have not played them myself. If you're wanting to go meta could check poeninja for what's goin on

[solemn laurel]

Spark is amazing but it has also been that way, and now it’s just getting boring for a lot of people

[still kraken]

in the market how do i put a filter to only see items with one modifiers?

[robust bear]

use the # modifiers option from the drop down and set it to 1

[robust bear]

I never ended up playing it, so I guess I can do with that. Just need to find one that looks good

[still kraken]

thank you ill try that

[rugged sand]

yeah thanks i did end up getting that info ingame 🙂

[uncut bay]

you can look at what spells are popular on poe2ninja, spark is the meta pretty much, but every non channeling spell can completely obliterate all content right now, I prefer frostbolts. if you want to be tanky you should get around 5k life and 10k ES, if you want higher hideout/poe2ninja dps get the kaom's chest and veil helmet you could have 10k life with no ES, you can also get just the kaom's chest and play still hybrid ES/life. also, I highly recommend collecting all the movement speed up to the ranger side of the tree, with from nothing, jewels and the amulet anointment

around 100% movement speed should be easy for you

[carmine flicker]

add %increased damage with hits or smth
won't affect dots

[carmine flicker]

idk what do you want from build, can tell from experience that doedre lich is VERT comfy to play

[west thistle]

Probably a dumb question but, does Orb of Storm activates when Choir of the Storm lightning bolt hits?

[carmine flicker]

no, cause you didn't cast it

[lime schooner]

this doesnt really solve the core issue as would cause issues with other skills but whatever i have now made a patch for it so it works now
i would send a picture but i cant here
https://i.imgur.com/q0rYdGG.png (5000000% ofc just to test if it works)

[tulip fog]

is the increased weapon damage on Pillar of the Caged god local damage increase? as in, does it directly increase the base damage of the weapon or does it give a global increase in any damage dealt by a weapon?

[west wharf]

the latter

potcg mods all global

[tulip fog]

thanks

[dawn saddle]

All the damage, including added damage on gloves or rings for example, but won't increase the damage of your weapon swap or concoctions if pathfinder for example

It increases the damage with this weapon only

[tulip fog]

i see

then its practically local aint it? if it cant affect any other weapons you use

[dawn saddle]

Kinda, but local means it affects only the base damage of the weapon, not including added damage from any source

[tulip fog]

hmm, i see

[median wharf]

If i reduce chill/shock/ignite duration by 100%, am i actually ailment immune?

[dawn saddle]

Yes

Idk if it would proc "when ignited" stuff like charms tho

[median wharf]

Thank you, might have to cook up some defense stuff, being ci, ignite is annoying af

Chill is also super annoying

[dawn saddle]

The best would have high regen instead if you can find a way. For chill, 100% reduced duration might not affect chilled ground tho

[lime schooner]

okay i think i am going insane
attack speed and skill speed from any the skill tree or an item does decrease both the reload time and attack time for crossbows
but the less skill speed from multishot does only affect the attack time it for some reason just doesnt affect the reload time even though other sources do?? (at least in the tooltip)

[lucid nacelle]

how many jewel slots do you guys usually end up with?

i think I want to get 3 grand spectrums but then there's no slot for a megalomaniac

[median wharf]

I will test it first, cuz i have the 3 spirit gems equipped. Can use a random pair of boots

[dawn saddle]

The tooltip does weird stuff so it could just be that. It shows that my skill has 0.5 second use time while it’s actually 0.1 But it not affecting cooldown is great too ig

[dawn saddle]

Really depends on the build. Rn I have 5

[lucid nacelle]

i see

[lime schooner]

time to record and look frame by frame to time it

[west wharf]

like 3 unless ES tree

[dawn saddle]

I'm a bloodmage with ES but also totems and giant's blood, so I end up really far from my starting point, that’s why I have 5

[lucid nacelle]

what do you use giant's blood for?

[dawn saddle]

Double 2h maces for +14 lvls and a lot of damage

Well, +14 when I have more budget, it’s +12 rn

Dealing close to 200M dps with 6 divs invested in the build so far...

[lucid nacelle]

insane

can you link it i wanna see this

[dawn saddle]

Uh I didn’t record or have much to show rn, I’m not on my computer

The issue with the build is that summoning over 100 totems at once attacking at insane speed damages almost as much my graphic card than my enemies

And I have a rtx 5090

[lime schooner]

it seems the tooltip was accually wrong it does seem to correctly give a 20% penalty for both
which is also weird because for pob does correctly apply it to both but the wrong value xd

[lucid nacelle]

I always remember what my friend who got me into poe2 said

the game is optimized

to run like dogshit

[dawn saddle]

I actually have that from a few days ago when the build was worse and even more laggy (projectiles wasn't the best idea fps wise) https://medal.tv/fr/games/path-of-exile-2/clips/l7KtECQbZ307A8WnX?invite=cr-MSx4RW8sMjcxNTgyMTI1&v=17

[lucid nacelle]

LMAO

yeah that'd kill a pc

[dawn saddle]

In theory that’s over 15k projectiles per second

[hybrid obsidian]

ive asked relate questions a few times in other channels no answers, can anyone tell me if attack speed is worth while with skill that reload after each shot like galvanic with crossbowss?

ive seena couple ninjas peopel have rapid attacks but does nothing really unles you load multiple right?

[dawn saddle]

Attack speed decreases cooldown as well on crosbow ammunition skills

[hybrid obsidian]

cooldown as in reload rate?

[dawn saddle]

Yes mb

Like, you reload faster

[hybrid obsidian]

ok so just to make sure if im looking for weapons, if all else is equal, higher dps is always going to be actually better dps

basically if its faster and does more dps it will be more dps than one thats slower with a much alrge single hit

[dawn saddle]

Yes, but for crossbows, different bases have different reload speed, some having more speed but less reload speed

[hybrid obsidian]

didnt even notice that ty lol

[dawn saddle]

On the weapon itself, reload speed is separated from the attack speed

[hybrid obsidian]

im confused im looking at weapons for instance

with the aps the dps is good but hits are low and this is like a div

or this

the reload speed is .14 slower is that a huge diffeernce?

[dawn saddle]

Ig it’s expensive due to the crit roll, but you need +lvls to skills. Typically, I bought a 2h mace yesterday with similar dps but +6 lvls to melee skills and no crit, and it was like 30 ex

[hybrid obsidian]

the levels are th most important thing?

most of my points are crit based right now

crit ailment magnitudes

that second one with 2.5 is my current crossbow i got for liek 10 ex

all the ones i foudn with projectile levels were like 10 x the price with lower dps

[dawn saddle]

This one has around 730 dps, the other one only 700 but an extra projectile, which is like 33% more damage if all the grenades overlap.

You use only grenades tho ?

[hybrid obsidian]

i dont shoot grenades at all

galv/shockburst with plasma burst

[raven siren]

Is there a way to convert HP regen into mana regen?

[hybrid obsidian]

i was more asking about the dps i wasnt exacctly inteding on that specific crossbow

[dawn saddle]

The one you want to buy adds projectiles to grenade skills only

[dawn saddle]

Ic. Dps wise it’s worse but has a bit more crit

Clearly not worth it

[hybrid obsidian]

how much dps is the projectile skill ? am i missing a huge chunk here?

[dawn saddle]

And I think +lvls is around 12% more damage per, so with a +6 that would be 97% more damage (so almost x2), but with a higher mana cost when reloading

[hybrid obsidian]

oh shit

[dawn saddle]

Actually it’s 12% for spells, and more like 8% for attacks, so with a +6 that would be 47% more, mb

[hybrid obsidian]

48 % is still huge

although i cant handle th mana quite yet either so thats good to know

im still super broki i just got a div drop though

thought icould upgrade just seems not worth quite yet

thanks for all the info mate

[dawn saddle]

That’s why I love bloodmage rn, more cost is just more damage to me, and I regen it instantly. I'm at 1k hp cost rn, and it should soon reach 2k

Soon as in... when I get 9 divs tho

[somber pendant]

What are people using tacrods undying hates for? Blood mage? And anyone know ideal rolls?

[faint skiff]

Hello guys, newbie here. I'm lvl 68 witch who is trying to make minion build. Any suggestions for me?

[olive inlet]

honestly best thing if you dont have a plan and dont want to wing it is look up a proper guide or check out poeninja to see what others are doing

[somber pendant]

Are you familiar with Poe Castiel?

Have you chose your ascendancy?

[faint skiff]

Not really. I played Diablo Immortal, Torchlight but I'm not too much familiar with ARPG.

[faint skiff]

Yeah, I chose Infernalist

[somber pendant]

Good choice, easy spirit stack

Should be plenty of guides too unlike lich minions which are a lot of outdated ones

Or were last time I looked

[dawn saddle]

Eh minion is pretty easy to build anyway. You can optimize more by following a guide, but it works well even if you are bad at making builds

[somber pendant]

I didn’t follow a guide and I’m lich… still doing alright

[faint skiff]

Actually I looked up GhazzyTV build. And he's not using any spirit gem. Idk why

[dawn saddle]

Because all the spirit is for minions

[somber pendant]

As infernalist I’d also recommend that

Lich can utilize withering presence but if the only thing appealing for infernalist to me is convalescence and it’s just not worth losing a minion or two for

[faint skiff]

So is minion type important? For example I'm using 7 warriors, 3 storm mage etc.

[somber pendant]

Very important, the way their damage scales is different, as well as the way you set them up with support gems

[dawn saddle]

Warriors are more like tanks, it’s not doing much damage. Storm mages can be good to shock for extra damage to all your minions, but for damage I would use either specters, arsonists or archers

[somber pendant]

Imma hand off this convo as I’m not great at explaining things and someone else is chiming in ;P best of luck!

[faint skiff]

Thanks for info. Most important stuff to me, when I try to damage mobs, my HP is down. Why?

Most of times I survive thanks to energy shield

[dawn saddle]

Not sure what you mean. Infernalist has quite a few nodes that damage or ignite you when you use mana or crit, maybe you picked one ?

[somber pendant]

Could also be a support gem if your getting damaged as your using skills or damaging

[dawn saddle]

Like lifetap maybe

[somber pendant]

I assume you don’t mean the life reservation

[faint skiff]

Hmm, you're right. I should check it I guess

[gusty tangle]

Question: On POE2 DB, when looking at a skill, there's a table below explaining the damage scaling per level, on the base damage %, it has multiple values, what does this mean? for example, snipe at lvl 20 says 343%, 343%, 936%, 1248%, 1878% but something like Rain Arrows has 132%, 132%... why snipe has 5 different values and that other skill 2 (that stay the same) or some have 3? what do each of this values represent?

I'm trying to understand how damage scaling works, by looking at how skills scale of base damage, to understand which skills are "good/easier to scale with X class or pasives"

Molten blast for example, has 3 values at lvl 20 265%, 265%, 265%

THE NUMBERS MASON WHAT DO THEY MEAN ?!?!?

[atomic halo]

it's for when the skill has multiple components

molten blast for example is 265 for the main projectileand also smaller fragments

snipe is 343 for main hit and 936 for explosion

[gusty tangle]

ooooh Yes, now I see it, thanks!

[wind swan]

Does anyone know why guides suggest playing Heart Of The Well with "Deal Extra Light/Cold Damage" for Last LAment builds? I understand lightning damage, but why exactly cold? Cant i also play chaos or fire here?

[lapis cedar]

i need help

i keep getting nuked

[patent iron]

does anyone know how i can trigger ice archon with zealot's oath active? I though the excess energy shield recharge would activate ice archon but it does not

[dawn saddle]

Before making a build, I'd advise you find a way to scale not only damage but also defense, ideally at the same time. Leech could help maybe, and energy shield helps a lot if you can get some

[daring prism]

What's the meta for warrior?

[snow tangle]

can someone help

i have a 1.69 cooldown and -1.96 on my temporalis but when i put on temporalis i have a 0.62 cooldown on blink

im so confused on why this isnt working

[west wharf]

cuz it lowers the base cd

i.e. if ur base cd of blink is 3.96, temporalis lowers it to 2.00

and then all ur reduced cd applies

[snow tangle]

ahh ok thanks

idek how im gonna get more, guess just a higher rolled tempo and levels lol

gonna be so expensive

[west wharf]

u can link me ur pob/poeninja

and i'll recommend potential ways ur missing

[snow tangle]

is it gonna take me years to set one up or is it quick

kinda dont wanna spend hours doing a pob

oh it auto does it

nice

[carmine flicker]

you can import character in POB

[snow tangle]

@west wharf https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/CokeZeroBottle-2701/character/DiddyBludMage when im clearing / mapping i use this but if im bossing i use rathpith and kaoms heart

could change the wierd quiver shit to a wand with spell skills but it depends on price

[vast egret]

for fubguns deadeye build what bow am i supposed to use if i cant afford the extra projectile runes yet?

[west wharf]

huh i'm surprised the cooldown recovery rate on ur breach ring goes up to 14%, i thought the kurgal mod was 8-12%

[snow tangle]

sanctify hooked me up

murdered the cast speed but its my clear ring so its fine lol

got a diff one for bossing

[west wharf]

oh neat

[glass minnow]

Does the Recover #% of missing life before being hit by an enemy effect scale with anything like Increased Life Recovery?

[west wharf]

idk how importantly you weigh each stat but some options are:

1. cdr soul core on helmet
2. double cdr soul core in helmet darkness enthroned
3. heart of the well jewel rolls up to 18%? cdr
4. if offhand setup isn't super important you could run crest of ardura on offhand
5. wand with spell skills + focus with spell skills is an option ig
6. feel like u should put mobility on ur blink and move vitality to something else
7. halani's pillar has 12% cdr option if you didn't take that
8. can anoint cdr on amu but there's nothing that great tbh

timelost emeralds are usually a good way to get cdr but unfortunately your tree doesn't provide for it

i thought blood mages didn't rly scale blink cd so hard though

[snow tangle]

not really but im getting bored of bad ms

kinda just doing my own thing with the build trying to make it as fun as possible lol, really appreciate the help bro 🙂

[atomic halo]

no, because the increased life recovery is just "life recovery rate", and that mod is instant

[stiff meteor]

added physical on the ring is a lot worse than ele for a build wit hele conversion, isn't it? I rolled t1 added phys, but just looking on the range, it seems to be a lot smaller than for lightning mods of a lower tier

[west wharf]

yes generally

in poe1 you can scale damage both pre and post conversion, so flat phys was much stronger

poe2 flat ele is generally better simply because the ranges are higher

with the exception of high-end phys weapons still often being better on many builds cus of high % multiplying high flat

but on gloves, rings etc usually flat ele is better

also in poe2 you generally don't even get full phys>ele conversion with most skills

so phys ends up even worse

[mystic dirge]

How do I use combat frenzy for charged staff when it doesn't give power charges?

[atomic halo]

resonance (keystone)

[mystic dirge]

Thanks

[stiff meteor]

that's horrible but much love for the lesson

[next linden]

I am thinking about PLaying Galvanic Shards Culling Witchhunter. Ive seen ppl like Woolie who build Full Evasion, and others that Go Ev/ES, and some that do Arm/EV to scale Sorc Ward more. Any advice on which is a better direction for full juiced maps?

[west wharf]

i'd either go hybrid ev/es with hp or full hp+armour personally

i don't think armour/eva hybrid is particularly good this patch

you can either scale eva with deflect%, or armour with armour affects ele dmg taken%

if you split armour+eva, you end up with mediocre values on those secondary layers

hp+eva/es hybrid has access to a larger EHP pool than life+armour

[next linden]

I guess that is fair. I know pure Ev on Amazon is like out of control good.

[west wharf]

but armour+ele dmg taken% is generally a very strong feeling defensive layer compared to eva+deflection atm

cus armour affects ele dmg taken% mods are in really crazy values compared to eva to deflection%

[west wharf]

well

i wouldn't say it's out of control good so much as

any heavy proj+ms LA/explo shot type setup just doesn't need that much defense

cus they kill everything at edge of screen in full circle

[next linden]

Almost pure EV, ES chest. rest EV. AFK Sim 4

[west wharf]

ya, if ur going up to the monk section of the tree i'd just go hybrid

if you're opting to stay at the bottom of the tree you can go armour with constricting command etc

[next linden]

galvanic and Culling strike nodes i think. Need a solid mapper

ya bottom strip of the tree

[west wharf]

just make sure esp if ur going pure life

that u rush for an olroth's flask as soon as possible if ur struggling w survivability

[remote nymph]

What stats help blocking with shield

[west wharf]

it's quite hard to get a good amount of flat life pool on wh

olroth's will double/triple ur survivability

[carmine flicker]

wdym? passive or active block? cause for passive.. well.. block chance, that is

[remote nymph]

Active block with a shield like holding the button

[quiet forge]

stun threshold

[carmine flicker]

interesting thing - ES builds are way better at active block, easy to stack %of ES to stun threshold

[quiet forge]

what's considered an acceptable level for base flat damages

like how much do i need to stack on my rings and gloves

[west wharf]

rly depends what skill ur using, how strong ur weapon is etc

i barely have any flat on my rings but it doesn't rly matter

good xbow + grenades is enough to oneshot any uber pinnacle as is

generally for very high AS fast hit builds, getting a ton of flat is super important

[quiet forge]

yeah but how much

[west wharf]

as much as u can get haha

until ur oneshotting everything

it's rly ur discretion/preference how much damage is enough

for some ppl no amount of damage is enough, so they go triple flat always

if u feel like ur blastin everything then grab a ring with life or rarity on one of the prefixes instead

[quiet forge]

yeah nah it's not high enough

i oneshot rares

[remote nymph]

Wait stun threshold helps with the amount u can block with shield?

[quiet forge]

it's your stun hp dude

[marble tulip]

Is dialla desire good for minion buold

[gentle veldt]

which second set of weapon should i use together with my voltaic mark? I dont do crit. I am using attacks only

[thin marten]

Hi everyone, can check should i still change my ES helom to viper cap if i dont have fantastic movement speed boots/

[thin marten]

walker of wild or viper's cap first?

[steady flint]

Anyone here know what the base stats of the Hellhound summoned by "Summon Infernal Hound" from Infernalist ascendancy at different levels? Specifically maximum life.
Or if you know where to find it, would be much appreciated

[minor tree]

the more i'm messing around with elemental spells, the less i'm liking them x)

atm i'm at 48 early act 4, just slowly going through and it's not feeling good, any tips to get me to 65 smoothly?

i'm thinking of just respeccing into edc (i picked chrono as ascendancy)

[north thistle]

anyone know the order debuffs are applied in for an attack? For example, if you deal increased crit chance against a dazed enemy, will the daze apply first then the extra crit chance applies to the hit afterwards? Likewise with something like blind?

[tulip zenith]

any1 planning to go ritualist?

[rugged kraken]

ended up doing a hollowpalm ritualist and it was very strong

[low hare]

A tad stuck here,

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Aristiell-1440/character/Chronoriss
What else should i do to improve my dps btw

[solar niche]

What is the best huntress build rn

[tulip zenith]

I have some exalts to spend

Do u think it's cheap?

[rugged kraken]

yah its pretty cheap cuz you dont need to constantly upgrade your weapon

the extra ring power and amulet power is kinda crazy

[restive ocean]

herald of blood doesn't work with bows?

its not doing anything

Or is that my pathfinder pioson spread messing that up

[rugged kraken]

Might need to be within your aura presence right

if your talking about the blood pops

[warm lance]

is this support gem bugged or just the tooltip being finicky

[restive ocean]

oh they gotta be close?

[warm lance]

cuz it increases my damage even though i havent destroyed any ice walls

[restive ocean]

im gonna just go full poison then i wanted to screw around with this chain reaction but ehh i dontw ant to be close then 😄

and dont have to put points into str to use hob

[tulip zenith]

can i send u some gear that i have that may be fit for the build already?

cuz am on LA amazon atm

i have 3.3k es atm and around 100 exalts to spend

[willow lotus]

for deadeye, should i use energy shield mixed with evasion body armour or just evasion ?

my overall HP is 3k

[carmine flicker]

Es/eva/ghost dance will considerably improve survival

[willow lotus]

alright. whats the minimum stats tho

cuz rn i have 455 ev and 175 ES on the body

[elder mural]

Whats the best way to reduce boss resistances with ice monk if i dont have Rakiato im ssf

I do 0 dmg on boss

[willow lotus]

elemental weakness

[elder mural]

should i use like frost bomb with ele weak

[carmine flicker]

That's.. not good at all

Also if you use es/eva you kinda want es/eva nodes, at least some

[willow lotus]

yeah, no shit xD. Hence my asking. I am completely unaware of the stat cap for the body armour, i see 2k on some, then 1k and 500 es on others

[carmine flicker]

how much are you willing to spend on it?

[willow lotus]

20 div

[rugged kraken]

You might see some blood pops if they are this close without pressence aura enhancements

[carmine flicker]

there are things like this I guess

[willow lotus]

needs spirit too forgot that

[carmine flicker]

you want ES helmet too

[willow lotus]

i have one with 500+

[carmine flicker]

cool

[willow lotus]

and got subterfuge mask on neck

[willow lotus]

do the runes affect the stats in them ?

[faint skiff]

Can anyone tell me which should i unlockfirstly two "Delirium Skills" in Atlas skills?

[elder mural]

should i use like frost bomb with ele weak to be able to dmg bosses since i dont have Rakiato ? or just self cast ele weak

[carmine flicker]

ofc they do

[willow lotus]

i meant the stats in the trade panel

[restive ocean]

why are spirit gems more pricey , rarere?

[carmine flicker]

yes

[willow lotus]

ok

[rugged kraken]

they are probly harder to find

[carmine flicker]

they drop less, like 1 our of 4

[tulip zenith]

ice strike + shattering palm is mega weird

holy shit

it's so bad this build here

like mega squishy

[dawn spire]

Depends on how quickly you kill things with and without lowering res. For things with high hp it'll be more likely that using FB and EW are worth it

[safe kernel]

I am following a hybrid energy shield/evasion build on Maxroll, and it says to use this charm. Am I missing something, or why should I use a charm that increases armour by a % when I have 0 armour?

[tulip zenith]

can any1 elp me with ice strike+shattering palm?

[carmine flicker]

I think I'm done with this league and with this character
any ideas for last tweaks and improvements before I put this on the shelf?
https://pobb.in/_8SK1bEX787_

[plush rain]

y'all, are there good attr stacking builds in this patch?

ive got a bit of a budget and id kinda be into building one

[grim gate]

Do the Brutus Brain and Loyalty combo still works? I see wording on Brutus Brai nwas changed from 100% less damage to cannot be damaged. It's impossible to put loyalty into the tamed beast gem if brutus brain is already placed.
But it is possible to put brutus brain is if loyalty is already placed.

[carmine flicker]

well, I play int stack if that count?

[grim gate]

I think it wouldn't work but can't exactly test it.

[plush rain]

iii uhh... guess?

i wanna have a reason to run a 100+ astramentis

:P

[carmine flicker]

oh
I used to use one, but switched to

bit less int than good astramentis, but 80 int+ mana/regen and ES are better in total value than 110 int ot so

[static plinth]

Using Magnetic Salvo to detonate lightning rods is just straight up worse than using LA right?

[rugged sand]

lol WTF my fire resist was 75(120) and then i went to another H/O and came back and now its 29%

Yay and I just got finished upgrading a bunch of stuff. Guess I can't wear my ingenuity yet

[rugged kraken]

The area dictates the artificial difficulty of the restances like if you go to act 1 your resistances will look alot better then if you were in maps and it switches when you switch areas

[timid aurora]

I am level 64 warrior. Can someone make me a budget shield wall build . I have 3 div and 70 exalt. 2h feels squishy so I like shield builds. Giants blood too expensive to fit in

[rugged sand]

LOL NOOOOO

[rugged kraken]

yes they are trying to make it as difficult as they can resistance wise to hit 75% cap AND squeeze out a buncha dmg

[carmine flicker]

yeah, 75 res a lot harder than in POE1

(tbh in POE1 you basically had to go 30-40 res overcap tho, I always had like 90(130) or 78(120))

[round osprey]

Wasn't there a support gem that let's you target minions with detonate dead?

[carmine flicker]

it's persistent gem

[round osprey]

Ah found it thanks 🙂

[rugged sand]

its always been this way

[carmine flicker]

It was worse

[umbral prawn]

How can I post my build to discord?

[rugged kraken]

Might be able to POB Ninja and upload your thing there and use the link it creates to post here in discord

[vagrant nacelle]

can you guys recommend me a specific guide for hollow palm build?

[olive inlet]

id say search youtube for 0.3 hollow palm and find one that plays in a way you like the look of, then follow that.

[umbral prawn]

my only porblem is idk how or where to find my link from the poe2 game and upload it

[rugged kraken]

everyone just no brained invoker hollow palm and face rolled

[rugged kraken]

You go to the site link your account and look up your char and post the link from the build. It works for poe 1 never tried it with 2

[umbral prawn]

yeah for poe2 it just shows my characters face profile but you cant click on it

[umbral prawn]

okay nvm i was able to figure it out thank you!

[cold willow]

how can i get this bonuses for the gear: 1 movement speed per 15 spirit?

[rugged kraken]

Gotta gamble a bunch and hope you get lucky with currupted gems

[cold willow]

so the vaal orb applys this buff?

[quiet forge]

chat, does the reduced recovery mod on maps and some trials also hit leech recovery?

[craggy plank]

I really want to make a buff/aura bot in poe2 with good magic find, does anyone have a good build or even a starter build that they could link? I’m having a terrible time finding one

[rugged kraken]

Yes vaal orbs usually brick items but if you do it enough you MIGHT get the thing

I am sure if I am wrong someone will correct me here

[rugged kraken]

I dont no of a build but you could probly pull off a decent aura/magic find thing with abusing minions to shield and do dmg for you?

[craggy plank]

That was one idea I was thinking about, this room would always play in a party though.

[rugged kraken]

well for like actually making the char and leveling and stuff you could like crush the content with minions

[craggy plank]

Oh for sure!

Truthfully I have a witch already built level 85ish so I could convert pretty easily lol

[rugged kraken]

oh then easy clap

[rugged kraken]

You might wanna look into some kinda build that you can share charges with players? IDK never though about it since I dont have friends lol

[cold willow]

thanks

[static plinth]

Can you give minions poison/bleed chance?

Or if i want DoT minions do i need to use Ravenous Swarm

[rugged kraken]

yes if they do physical dmg you can give them poison chance on hit

[rugged kraken]

Ravenous swarm already applyes poison

[narrow shoal]

My Build: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/je2vc0cp
Rue's Nova Bomber: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/ruetoo-human-rhoa
I dont know where is More dmg is coming from...

[static plinth]

I know

[static plinth]

Where do i get that chance

[rugged kraken]

there is like a lvl 2 support gem or something that gives a % on hit

I think the level 4 version gives like 60% chance or something

[static plinth]

Oh my god im stupid lmao

I completely forgot i could socket the supports

[rugged kraken]

Also some minions can just poison I forgot there names but there are like 2 that you can spectre and poison I know fursure

[static plinth]

Minions would all be competing over a single poison stack though right?

So id have to give them all a ton of deal poison faster or smthing

Maybe an animal companion...

Hmm

50% Bleeding minions 50% haemocrystal minions

But thats too gimmicky

[rugged kraken]

All the fun comes from gimmicks

Yes they would though you can only have 1 stack at a time enless you increase it somehow via talents or supports or acendancys

[static plinth]

Oh Haemo cant be used with minions anyway

[rugged kraken]

no the herald cant be used by the minions that would be busted

[static plinth]

Haemocrystals support i mean

[rugged kraken]

Im not sure tbh. I havent experimented with that yet

[nova plank]

does adds to phys damage work differently than increased % phys damage

[tender wharf]

does spell cascade work on choir of the storm lightning bolt?

[olive inlet]

yes, since % increases and flat value increases are not the same thing

[nova plank]

which one should i get ? im on huntress

[narrow shoal]

second one imo

[nova plank]

i have specced into phys damage

accuracy gives phys damage

do i still get the second one ?

[narrow shoal]

yeah both have good accuracy, second more. and on second u gain attackspeed

[nova plank]

aite aite

thanks a bunch

[narrow shoal]

in first you have a deadstat

on second u don’t and you will do lot more dmg with second

[alpine basin]

Which is better for a poison build using slivertongue, %increased physical or %phys as extra chaos? I’m guessing chaos? Slivertongue doesn’t have a ton of base phys to scale 🤔

[olive inlet]

if you want to learn and have it be cheap, play any of the "Starter League" stuff. Tons of em work, asking for "off meta" just means like dont play Deadeye or whatever. Choose any that you think is fun, youtube is full of 0.3 guides or you can peruse poeninja

[eager zodiac]

Guys I got myself gem Companion: frozen Mandibles, what support will you suggest to add? Ant is really powerfull on low level locations and took half boss hp before I even started using my skills.

[fickle zinc]

Leap Slam can prime for stun, and Bone Shatter can consume that, but are there any slam skills that can consume that prime for stun?

[true shell]

Does anyone know if an ancestrally boosted skill can cleave the same target with the boost clone guys? So like, if there were 3 things next to each other and you ancestrally boost an ability that cleaves would it triple the damage on all 3?

[alpine basin]

Nah. Seismic cry can though, which itself has synergies with slams

Maybe there’s a support gem that adds some functionality to slams? I can’t think of any off the top of my head

[fickle zinc]

I will look at it. Thinking of switching to Titan From Smith for more offense, but enjoying the leap slam / bone shatter combo. Looking for an alternative

[median kraken]

Is grenade damage or +1 ballista generally better for mortar tactician? Or is it just a personal preference thing (more total damage for ballista but better mana management and not having to drop as many ballistas for grenade damage)?

And can both be guaranteed with just a prefix omen and the right other omen?

[alpine basin]

Ahhh. I see. Fissures + slams to cause shockwaves is a popular play style and is similar, if not probably a little less clunky

[fickle zinc]

As long as Leap Slam is in the mix. I love jumpin on their heads

[alpine basin]

Shield wall is also a similar alternative that i am really enjoying.

Especially with ahn’s citadel it’s so fun and clears quick. Just makes a big rocky fissure straight out in front of you and you can warcry (or leap slam) onto it to pop it for HUGE damage.

With leaps slam maybe fortress could be fun. It would make a circular wall around enemies, then you could hop into the center a pop it

I’ve even thought about switching my warbringer over to titan for more armour and life. Would probably be solid

[fickle zinc]

There is some Ancest Empower or something I want to play around with

[alpine basin]

It’s also a big defensive move, because it blocks enemies and their projectiles as well. So gives you that second you need to wind up leap slam

[fickle zinc]

And thats a skill?

Citidel?

[narrow shoal]

My Build: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/je2vc0cp
Rue's Nova Bomber: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/ruetoo-human-rhoa
I dont know where is More dmg is coming from...

[alpine basin]

Shield wall is the skill. Fortress is a support, and ahn’s citadel is a lineage version that makes a line instead of a circular fissure

[fickle zinc]

Sounds like good single target ability

[carmine flicker]

why fissure is good tho?

[lucid mango]

anyone here got a good deadeye LA/lrod bosser? specifically like ritual / arbiter

[alpine basin]

Ahn’s citadel make it shoot a fissure out in front of you, it reaches about 1.5 screens. With branching fissures it easily screen clears. Can also use kaom’s madness for a fan of fissures in front of you, which is fun and visually satisfying but is overkill for clear and makes it significantly slower attacking

[silent charm]

How big is the explosion from the Rupture the Soul keystone ? Does it scale with area modifiers ?

[alpine basin]

It’s not a fissure in the sense that like volcanic fissure or forge hammer makes. It just changes the way the wall forms and makes it MUCH smoother for clearing and lets you kite dangerous things if needed

[maiden wind]

Anyone know any good 2nd builds for ssf? currently playing crossbow explosive shot

Looking for a 2nd build to keep me motivating to play lol

[alpine basin]

In that case, anything that sounds fun. Or whatever the next really good item you drop on your current build, make a build that uses it.

[narrow shoal]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/kq6tr0gk i have no idea where all his dmg is coming from. i still struggle with Xesht T3, First wave of nades get him to half hp... got the feeling i am overseeing stuff / Left side is my dmg - Right side is the dmg of Rue's nova build: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/ruetoo-human-rhoa

[carmine flicker]

oh. cool

worse single target or even better?

[alpine basin]

Does fine for all maps and map bosses. But for t3 bosses or citadel bosses i swap ahn’s citadel out for close combat cause you don’t need the range or clear.

[carmine flicker]

doesn't that many fissures shotgun like crazy?

[alpine basin]

Although i am curious after mentioning fortress, if the walls wrapped around the boss would cause more of the segments to overlap and shotgun

[alpine basin]

With kaom’s madness AND ahns citadel it makes a fan of them, and shotguns, but lowers the base damage so much it’s still worse.

Ahns citadel alone makes a long fissure extending out from you and so less segments actually hit a single target. Since like, half the length of the wall is well behind them. It really does extend like 1.5 screens

[carmine flicker]

that's with AOE

if you take no AOE and conc effect you can probably wall-in boss

I'd say "need to test", but I more or less quit league, so too lazy to bother

who care, league dead already

[alpine basin]

Mmmmm maybe. I’ve played with all the variations quite a but and know for sure that dropping fissures and just slamming walls horizontally in front of the boss feels like WAY more damage

And conc effect helps there too. So i don’t see the fissures out damaging the regular walls for single target

[carmine flicker]

sad

I like the whole "spell cascade shotgun" and the like

[alpine basin]

But boy. Nothing i have touched this league is as satisfying as shield wall with ahn’s citadel and kaom’s madness. It’s just beautiful

[carmine flicker]

I can say the same about doedre undoing cascade

like.. 0.4 cast time screen wide AOE boom

arc felt meh after change, fireball meh, comet meh, ed/c just horrible

[alpine basin]

Honestly might use that on weapon swap for my new poison pathfinder build, just as a fun way to apply curse, and blind the whole screen via murkshaft 😂

[carmine flicker]

need windscream

and that's not smth you want on PF

[alpine basin]

I don’t need cascades. I just need a pseudo curse on hit to apply poison and therefore blind.

[carmine flicker]

not for cascade

I mean in general

or delay is kinda long

[alpine basin]

Ohhh. I see. Dang. Guess i’ll find some other jank way to curse and blind

[manic arch]

does physical damage break armor on enemies innately? or do you need an outside source that says it explicitely

[carmine flicker]

some source

[rugged kraken]

you need like asupport gem or a skill that says it or a ascendancy perk

[faint skiff]

Hey, what your suggests for Bind Spectre? People says Vaal Guard but im not sure

[carmine flicker]

ants, guards, zealots - all good choice

[carmine flicker]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oadXSCHczpyCgRxzTk3nRBeeOLlefZAzKM3ijwmWevY/edit?gid=0#gid=0

look there. tons of vids and info

[autumn egret]

there aren't any archetypes that use armor and energy shield atm right?

[carmine flicker]

no, noone

armour must be stacked high or very useless

[autumn egret]

yea gotcha

[carmine flicker]

and almost no synergies
nothing like ghost dance etc

[rare shale]

Can i stack herald of ice and herald of thunder at the same time ?

I have plenty of spirit im also using combat frenzy for power charges

Ok nvm i see it says shocked enemies

[cedar aspen]

No synergies yet. Suspect that Druid will probably have some synergies with both armour and ES, being that the only nodes that combine both are near his starting position on the tree.

[carmine flicker]

those are probably templar nodes, I guess druid could change them to smth like amazon

[bold field]

For undying hate. Is it better to have a lower or higher tribute. What does tribute do?

[restive ocean]

how mjuch less dmg will shield wall do without
Atalui's Bloodletting?

Is it vital?

[carmine flicker]

Tribute scale mutated passives
One changed by jewel

[carmine flicker]

Atalui add 100-200% more damage.. if you are willing to pay 500-1000 life per wall, anyway

[restive ocean]

wow insane dps

[manic arch]

what controls the links for the default attacks? how do I get 6 link mace strike

[carmine flicker]

By lvling up

Need 90 for 6l afaik

[manic arch]

ah ok

ty

[carmine flicker]

90 is quick
It's really hard after 95