2┃build-planning

[brittle anvil]

but phys and chaos is still a bit problem

[muted umbra]

Honestly, armour early is sorta great and then you can do armour with enough es or just pure es later. Feels like you want ES on everything even if you're not going all in on it.

I like those ES/Armour nodes they're just hard to justify pathing to a lot of the time.

[carmine flicker]

Es give room for maneuver
When those abyssal mobs do their 2k phys dot(that armour do nothing against) that disable recovery.. man, I'm glad I have 15k es rather than 3.5k life

[muted umbra]

Absolutely, it's just harder for some classes to pivot to pure ES. Abyss can be evil

[carmine flicker]

Easy actually for warrior cause black cycle training

1% increased es per 2 str helps a lot when you go titan grip

[viral sage]

why would u use glacial bolt/glacial shard instead of permafrost bolt?

[alpine basin]

So, assuming i have 4.5k life or maybe a bit more, and 1.2k regen per second, plus leech, instant and otherwise, goregirdle becomes a pretty huge defensive boost yeah? Little hits do nothing anyways and big hits get mitigated a fair bit more with 200% armour 🤔

[carmine flicker]

You lose like.. main pros of armour, ability to completely ignore small hits

I mean, if you can reduce damage for 50% at best why bother at all, just go 9k es instead of 4.5k life with 50% damage reduction, same deal basically

[west wharf]

may as well use gnashing sash

so you can overflow to 9k hp

[carmine flicker]

Yeah, way better really

[alpine basin]

Bruh. We get it. ES is better. I’m not going ES on a warbringer 😂

[carmine flicker]

Why not tho?
Except aesthetics ofc

But really, just go gnashing

[alpine basin]

Also, i still ignore small hit. I regen through literally any small hits, have leech as back up, 50% block and still mitigate 50% of the armour.

But it would increase the chance to avoid 1 shots, in theory, yeah?

[alpine basin]

Hadn’t thought of that. That is a good idea. Thank you both for the suggestion 🤔

[west wharf]

avoid oneshot options for life = gnashing sash, olroth's flask, guard on any non-unique charms, ananamu undying hate for progenesis, spirit of the bear rite of passage

[alpine basin]

Cause the only good way to scale it prevents me from using sacrifice of blood, and also makes using atalui’s difficult or impossible, and therefore cuts my damage by like 50%

[carmine flicker]

Oh, right, atalui

Dropped two of those, sold, and now don't have money to buy new one cause too lazy to play 🙂

[muted umbra]

I guess I was thinking from a more ssf prospective but yeah, there are certainly ways to get it

[alpine basin]

Good suggestions. I have guard from warcry constantly already. I’ll look at some of the other options

[west wharf]

olroth's gives an insane amount of guard if you have a little bit of % increased life recovery from flask from herbalism/belt

[alpine basin]

Hahahahah. I was super lucky and dropped one early when they were 11d then bought one later for 3d

[west wharf]

don't think it works so well with gnashing sash though

but olroth's is a good option with atalui if you don't want to give up your belt slot to gnashing sash (cus headhunter)

[alpine basin]

Interesting. That sounds like a good option. Thank you!

[west wharf]

it gives like 1500 guard and u can pre-pot if u lose some hp off atalui

[alpine basin]

Hot take. I haaaate headhunter. Never use it hahahaha

[west wharf]

i prepot olroth before jumping into any stupid looking pack

nothing wrong w hating headhunter

shroudwalker isa piece of shit mechanic

losing control of your character every 5-10s is zero fun

[alpine basin]

Right?!

[west wharf]

that being said hh's are pretty cheap rn and belt options this league aren't that incredible

so hh is a fine option

[carmine flicker]

Tbh..
If you have 4k pool(say 3.5 life +500 guard) you need 80k armour to have 50% reduction from that 8k(before reduce) oneshot

Idk how much do you have

[oblique sluice]

is there any reason at all as to why the Raise Zombie is not a Spell??? i've been playing a temporary minion build for so long not realizing my wand does jack shit to it. unreal man. at least it was pivotable to Unearth, but the zombies hit hard, and would have been hitting harder if + spell levels worked on it.. damn

[carmine flicker]

There are other reasons too

Like "can't afk for 5 minutes in the middle of the map, will lose all stacks"

[west wharf]

that's w/e u can just hit esc and pause

[carmine flicker]

Or sort loot for extra few minutes

[west wharf]

idk anyone who's sorting loot midmap by the time they're playing 100div builds using hh

i pick up like 0-4 items a map

[carmine flicker]

I don't use hh, but build is finished endgame
Still picked up everything rare and small for gold

[west wharf]

that's super inefficient but if it's how u enjoy playing nothing wrong with that

[carmine flicker]

Somehow I never have enough of it

Idk where to farm it right way

[west wharf]

either way i'm not a huge hh lover either, i just use it rn cus i don't think the alternative belt options r that incredible atm

rare belts offer nothing, the mod pools are super dry

just res and some flask/charm perks

[carmine flicker]

I used rare for res

[west wharf]

yea i mean ofc if u need the res u use rare

[carmine flicker]

Int stack build kinda have problems with res

[west wharf]

if u get good enough gear that ur overcapped on res there's not much value having rare over hh

[carmine flicker]

Suffix space taken

[west wharf]

cus hh is like same hp as a t1 rare

[carmine flicker]

Amulet was all stats, unique body and boots

T1 int takes up suffix space

I had to go purity of ice scepter to cap res)

[west wharf]

yeh i mean sure some specific builds can't grab enough res to go hh

i just mean for generic builds there aren't many amazing options

ingenuity is so nerfed

and gearcrafting is so good this league most generic builds cap res rly easily lategame

so u kinda just hh or gnashing sash or smth

[carmine flicker]

Tbh I should go ingenuity

Just to get bit more int

Thx for idea

Rings are int+res anyway

[alpine basin]

With scavenged plates it’s around 30k so even with “defend with 200% armour” i’m not quite thete

[west wharf]

could maybe do for utopia

it's not that expensive

[alpine basin]

Utopia?

Oh, i see.

[muted umbra]

The only thing I haven't poked at is Warrior of Kitava. Is the fire spell trigger thing decent enough to play with?

[static plinth]

No

[alpine basin]

Honestly not a bad option.

[static plinth]

To my knowledge you always take the two fire res nodes on Smith and then 4 armour modifiers

Though i think i did see some fire spell with Mjolnir builds in .2

Its probably better than the other two trainwrecks of skills

[west wharf]

i don't think it works vs like an actual straight 1shot (could be wrong)

[muted umbra]

Yeah I know the two fire res nodes are amazing and I know there are a ton of amazing white armor nodes. The spell trigger seems interesting enough to try to toy with despite the other skills seeming really bad lmao

[west wharf]

cus i think the stun and hence charm kick in after the initial hit

but to be fair at 4.5k life + guard etc it's usually not like an actual balloon pop from 100-0 in one hit

so it's still kinda nice mitigation after big hits

but only if u need some anti-stun anyway

rite of passage spirit of the bear is prolly the best overall charm for stopping oneshots but

ur build needs to clear quite rapidly to keep it up

20% max life + 20% reduced dmg is really insane tho lol

essentially a 1.4-1.5x multiplier on ur tankiness while it's active

hence the stupid price

[alpine basin]

Im too broke to buy one but i’m farming wild spirits just in case haha

[oblique nebula]

I am using the stormweaver lightning warp build by animeprincess. It recommends Heavy Snows but I cannot figure out why it would be recommended. Nothing that I can find in the build provides chill.

I tried submitting this in the Stormweaver thread under #1308715058716610580 but it looks like I don't have permissions to chat there.

[minor tree]

i guess spear of lorrata wouldn't work with resonating shield or shield wall, or would it 🤔

[gentle veldt]

anybody did elemental sundering? or which freeze/cold build is cool? I am not really wanting to do anything related to atalui though

[supple jay]

https://youtu.be/-WUTomqJyVo?si=0vjMQucFoMP2aSIc

why would ggg post this build then nuke the build

[minor tree]

shouldn't spectral fire stack into an infinite damage ignite eventually? 🤔

i tried a bit more and it kinda caps somehow

[alpine basin]

Are you referring to stacking poisons with resonating shield/shield wall? Because in that case, no. Those skills do not hit with the weapon

[minor tree]

it stores the last 8s worth of ignite and deals it as a single ignite at the end, so reapplying spectral fire should cause it to scale higher, make an even bigger ignite, and so on

but for one reason or another it seems to stop ramping after a bit

[minor tree]

wenk wonk, but makes sense

[alpine basin]

All it does is change the way the damage is applied by the ignite, as far as i’m reading. They still will only be affected by a single ignite, with the highest damage at any one time.

[minor tree]

but yeah if spectral fire can stack indefinitely, it could work with cracklecreep and self immolation to spread an infinite damage ignite

[minor tree]

well it stores 8s worth of ignite and deals it back in 1 hit, so if applied again you should get a higher stored damage in the next 8s, which deals a bigger single ignite, so if reapplied it should stack higher, etc

[alpine basin]

Unfortunately, it can’t. It never says it stacks ALL ignite damage. Just that the damage accumulates and then applies at the end.

[minor tree]

yeah it applies at the end -> so if you reapply infernal fire it should end up stacking higher no?

[alpine basin]

No, you’re inferring information that isn’t provided. It just says the ignite, generally, which leads me to believe it follows regular ignite rules, ie the single ignite with highest damage is the one that applies

[minor tree]

you do 100 dmg worth of ignite per second
you store 800, you get a 800/s ignite (lasts 4s base)
it'll do 3200 (800x4) + 400 (your 100/s) = 3600 damage during the next 4s
which then should do 14800 (3600x4 + 400) damage
and then 59600 (14800x4 + 400) etc

[alpine basin]

I doubt the ignite can be a source of ignite.

Even if it’s damage is applied at once at the end.

[minor tree]

well it does do a big ignite at the end, and it does feed the next spectral fire

i am doing a super small amount of ignites (i can barely apply the flammability for it lol) but it does get to a few thousands after a cycle or two (from the few hundreds i manage to do in those 8s)

but idk why it stops going beyond that

[supple jay]

when I first saw spectral fire I immediately thought of combining it with some poe1 skills that can spawn enemies
but that wouldn't work very well given the wording of spectral fire it seems
i think theres a skill in poe1 that spawns enemies on hit but i forget the name
I know about writhing jar and vaal breach but I swear theres another way to spawn attackable units

[coral finch]

is anyone doing tactician and have a build guide?
planning to run HC with it

[minor tree]

if we could spawn enemies that'd be really cool for a number of builds 👀

[supple jay]

yeah sad that theres just no functionality for that in poe2 yet

[west wharf]

is that from spectral or phantasm

[west wharf]

look up tacticians on hc on poeninja

parse to mortar cannon

look through a few and follow one you like

hc economy very diff from sc, I think referencing an actual hc tact will be more realistic

[minor tree]

from spectral fire
it'll accumulate all ignite damage dealt during it and do 1 big (unscalable?) ignite at the end

but if reapplied that ignite will feed the next spectral fire

or at least it should, it stops ramping up after a bit and i'm not sure why

the goal is to get 1 jumbo-sized ignite and spread it with cracklecreep and self immolation to instakill anything that goes near me

(downside: if nothing goes near me for 4s i have to redo the ignite stacking)

[west wharf]

dang you miss rf bad huh

[minor tree]

(and includes bosses going invincible, rip)

[minor tree]

i just want something off meta

[west wharf]

hrmm

[minor tree]

and cheap

i wanted to make indigon work but its biggest tech is still abusing atalui's

by reverse snapshotting lol

so i'm trying to find a way to make a build that can scale very highly through no damage investment (self immolation with a big ignite would do it, even if i need a minute to ramp it up) or that scales off of enemy hp (like detonate dead, but all those options need corpses to get going)

so maybe i'll just go full tank + infernal legion and call it a day

[west wharf]

I mean in my head let’s say you ignite for 10k/sec off the explosion, so 40k total, and let’s say your own damage is super piddly squat so you bring that up to 50k total by the time the next explosion happens

would the next ignite total not be 40k over 4s = 10k/s again?

just choosing those numbers for convenience

[minor tree]

well i'd imagine if i do 100 ignite a second (let's say i park a solar orb next to my victim), i'd imagine i'd get a 800 damage ignite at the end of spectral fire

with 4s duration

so if i apply spectral fire again, it should be 800x4 +100x4 (my solar orb is still just hanging out) for the next spectral fire no?

[west wharf]

spectral fire explosion isn’t an ignite right

[minor tree]

it is an ignite afaik

[west wharf]

it’s just a hit that has a possibility of igniting?

[minor tree]

you'll see it apply a big ignite at the end of it

[west wharf]

are you sure that’s not just a natural ignite off the dmg

[minor tree]

and i've checked people trying it out and it does seem to work that way

[west wharf]

since it’s a big hit

[minor tree]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iDwtNAu6mo

[west wharf]

lemme take a look

[minor tree]

but if it is a hit, then it'd do 800 damage and thus deal a 160/s ignite

so 1040 damage stacked for the next spectral fire, dealing 205/s as ignite

actually that'd explain what i'm seeing

it does ramp up but super super slowly (after the first spectral fire)

so it's a matter of just having more magnitude, and perhaps aggravating the ignite with the unique spear

[west wharf]

this is my assumption

just off the text itself

it says nothing about spectral explosion being an ignite of built-up dmg

it just says explosion

it’d be really unusual for it to mean some recursively scaling ignite that goes infinite if it simply says explosion

[minor tree]

well it's still infinite, but a bit ass cause you do 20% of what you did over 8s x)

at least it can be increased by stats hopefully

[west wharf]

yea you know what I mean haha

just not infinite via exponential

[minor tree]

idk if the spectral fire explosion scales with stats

probably not?

since it would double dip

[west wharf]

doubtful, poe2 generally doesn’t allow for double dipping type stuff by design

[manic burrow]

What's the empty gear slot for?

[west wharf]

they’ve divided it pretty clearly with conversion, gain as, etc that they don’t want recursive scaling

[manic burrow]

I don't remember this empty spot, it does not seem to be for amulets or rings

[brittle anvil]

bug

[west wharf]

you can’t scale gain as damage or converted damage extra times; I don’t see why they’d design spectral around doubledip

granted they prolly should’ve cus that shit looks a lil ass rn haha

[west wharf]

3rd ring on ritualist

@minor tree my read on spectral fire is

[minor tree]

yeah it's a bit ass x)

[west wharf]

the main value is intended to be aoe clear

[minor tree]

it's a whopping 8s delay for a mild damage increase

[west wharf]

rather than a singletarget scalar

and that ur supposed to prolly just use fairgraves for clear

maybe put down some fuses on ground before boss phases in then weaponswap

at least that was my initial read on the bow

[minor tree]

yeah i'm probably trying to just use it in an incorrect way

or well it works but, way too slowly

[west wharf]

also that technically, you can “shotgun” the explosions

because phantasmal ignites multiple enemies

who presumably explode on each other

[minor tree]

i'd like either being able to increase damage of an ignite i spread (as it'd be copied on myself, infinite loop) or damage scaling off of enemy stats (besides popping corpses or it being an on kill effect in general, perhaps armor explosions) in some way

[minor tree]

well that's just a weaker fire herald tbh x)

[west wharf]

to be fair it reads as a supplemental thing

rather than a “build around this to 1shot xesht”

it was probably just intended as like ok shot a fuse down ok it boomed and ignited some mobs, ok first mob dies to another hit (or got oneshot) and explodes, explosion kills more mobs, they explode and pack dies cleanly

and if a rare is in the pack it gets hit by 10 explosions and booms

[opal bobcat]

I just noticed the descrption of projectiles state "when a group of multiple projectiles is fired from the same source at the same time, only one projectile in the group can hit each target unless otherwise specified"
So just wanna confirm, does that mean the Run and Gun passive node (chance to fire 2 additional projectiles while moving) is basically useless against single target?

[west wharf]

unless the skill says multiple proj can hit the same enemy yea

[brittle anvil]

or the projectiles create explosions

[opal bobcat]

Hmm gotcha, thanks

[west wharf]

ye

[cerulean current]

Hey in poe ninja how do i check which auras are running in each weapon set? this guy has 194 spirit but i know the total spirit cost of individual auras is more so he def is running some auras in wep set 1 and others in 2.

similarly how do i check which skills are weapon bond?

https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/e3ef

(or even in pob wasn't able to find skill binding to wep sets)

[west wharf]

i don't think you can

this is a tiny bit unhinged but if ur super curious

u can try adding or pm'ing the guy

a lot of ppl are happy to talk about their build

i've been pm'd by a few diff ppl who saw my char on poeninja

[manic burrow]

is there any real reason to build ignite when building molten blast since it does a bunch of small hits?

[brittle anvil]

you can buildup flammability with small hits and then use a big hit to inflict ignite maybe

but I don't think there's a reason to build ignite this league

[west wharf]

no

[west wharf]

ignite to proc fireflower to proc ngamahu for rage

ignite useful !

great !

😔

[brittle anvil]

[west wharf]

is there any way to get increased action speed besides reverse chill and headhunter?

[vivid dagger]

any1 playing a bleed build? kinda stuggling to get more damage for pinnacle bosses

[marble steppe]

Which map drops dalias desire?

[indigo mist]

@minor tree so they fixed the feedback loop with bloodhunt + impale (bloodhunt is now life loss instead of damage so that it doesn't scale impale) and added a new feedback loop with spectral fire? Impressive

I was already thinking about doing a build with Fairgrave's curse as soon as I got one, but now I really have to abuse this

[lone wave]

is it even possible to get essence drain to a duration under 1 second for swift affliction 3

[tepid hill]

Hey! I tried to combine Blood Magic with Eldritch Battery, but it doesn't seem to double the life cost of any skill. Do you think this is intentional? I tried to make the Atalui support a bit more powerful by pumping up life costs.

[indigo mist]

It is

In general, in poe2, if something is converted from one thing to another, only the modifiers to the thing it is converted to apply. In this case, mana cost is converted to life cost so only modifiers to life cost apply

[cerulean current]

https://streamable.com/izzcme

messing around with stuff but right now having an odd issue where my skills seem to say no mana even when i have mana (see clip). Nothing in my build points me to this happening?

cant tell if its a bug or not

https://pobb.in/Jl1rDVFa-wlG

[faint skiff]

Weird question. Can I use Bind Spectre skill more than one? For example, Vaal Guard and Frozen Mandibles at the same time?

[minor tree]

yesn't but it's ass lol

[leaden heart]

can someone help me on how i can one shot my shield wall with resonating shield?? currently it takes two hits and im seeing videos where they only take one hit to break

[light dew]

when investing into es on titan what do i take node wise?

or is armour better if i can reliably get to 90%?

bc i dont think i can lose blood magic

for the changed version

[brittle anvil]

Armor is okay but you need to invest heavily into it

That % is a lie it's % reduction when you are hit by a white mob

[light dew]

then if i wánted to go es is the blood magic conversion node required for titan?

to get any nice amount of es

[brittle anvil]

that doesn't have anything to do with es

[grim gate]

I wonder...

Does it make sense to do this?

[light dew]

the blood magic convert node gives 1 es per 2 strength or something like this? or is that possible with any big node?

[light dew]

look at the explanation of "difficulty" then you see why thats no option

[grim gate]

Oh

[light dew]

ye

[brittle anvil]

blood magic is mana cost to life and no more mana

are you thinking of the timeless jewel?

[light dew]

yes this one

and builds i saw convert blood magic into black sycthe training but im currently using blood magic bc i invested nothing into mana

defy would help but would also mean i dont have the mana for totems and warcry

since they cant slot in defy 2

[brittle anvil]

well there's lifetap support

you don't get the lucky from defy tho

[light dew]

i got the surround helmet

[brittle anvil]

yeah I mean lifetap these

[light dew]

ah ok

[kind pebble]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/lazyexile-molten-blast-one-button-spin-to-win-ritualist

The tree is for level 90 but it says it can be swapped at 65, "as long as you have most of the accuracy stacking notable allocated: Falcon Dive, Nimble Strength (either from Megalomaniac or anointment), The Winter Owl".

Any assistance would be appreciated towards anyone that knows how to trim the tree down for a level 65 character.
For now Weapon Set 2 can be ignored. Just want to test the basics of this build.

[eternal sky]

you guys knows any good galvanic wh build?

[lunar veldt]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/abysshc/character/WetPinkLips-7500/EgoPrincess?i=67&search=allskills%3DGalvanic%2BShards%26class%3DLich

My chaos max hit is 9k currently.
My plan is to go:

Low Life + Eternal Life + Lament Crossbow
75% chaos cap through belt and rings

Will that make me somewhat tankier? I'm very scary that i'll only have energy shield and no CI

[solemn kettle]

Does Crescendo III hit a boss 2 extra times with the ancestral boost? assuming there are no other enemies in the arena

[royal totem]

what build you guys suggest preffereably 1 button or just simple one (i already have LA char so smth else

[storm inlet]

Can someone please compare these 2 builds and tell me where my weapon set 1 passive has gone??

1. https://pobb.in/NCZf3ihd3582 Has all weapon set 1 passives allocated with Arcane Intensity
2. https://pobb.in/VRJ83iACKLaP My build not enough weapon set 1 to allocate Arcane intensity (node on top)

[quartz snow]

question what does lightning scales with

[fiery briar]

How do CoC builds maintain mana?

[wild dirge]

can anyone confirm whether shield wall can shotgun? I believe it does just hard to verify. for context, I am using Ahn's Citadel to make the walls form as a fissure, and then using kaom's madness to gain 3 additional fissures

to me, this seems like it can shotgun bosses and rares and outperforms the dps that it lists

as they will get hit with all 5 explosions

[wild dirge]

also, does the weapon implicit 'crushes enemies on hit' only work for attacks with that weapon?

[hollow parcel]

if bloodmage they use really high life regen per spell cast

increases it

for mana builds iirc when I played one in 0.1 it was mana on kill then for bossing usually you do enough crit dmg for it to be fine + flask spam

[fiery briar]

Is that a keystone?

[hollow parcel]

bloodmage or lich both one button

[hollow parcel]

uh undying hate jewel

has to be tecrod’s

basically per life spent on spells u gain 8 life regen or smth

[royal totem]

which lich build? Becouse ig you mean spark blood mage

[hollow parcel]

or per 8 life regen

[fiery briar]

Whats tecrod?

[hollow parcel]

i mean there are multiple bloodmages
I am currently playing a black flame bloodmage that I haven’t put too much into and it’s doing about 25MIL per burst

and last lament lich, sowza has a video

[hollow parcel]

Undying Hate Jewel
with the Tecrods thing

it’s like 7-9 div

[hollow parcel]

if you wanna see how the build i’m running works I have a video of a Xesht kill @royal totem

[royal totem]

oh yea for sure whats your channel name or is it just a recording

[hollow parcel]

https://youtu.be/mCBc3NYJEoI?si=SRpTEQzlzZEyiqnb

did a 2 man and saw 24m from one skill

that’s one man kill

it’s not as good as spark though, but it’s fun

and LL Lich is a lot smoother clear and good bossing ect

just search “Last Lament Lich Sowza”

[royal totem]

damn thats wild

i mean rn im trying a lot of builds cuz i got to lvl 90 on LA and got kinda bored rn im doing hollow palm monk but just want to have other options if it wont click

so ty for recomendations

[hollow parcel]

np! i’m also sure there will be more builds as time goes on

you could also try out a twister build they are the fastest build

[royal totem]

yea i hope for some new fun ones

like i see reap blood mage has popped up or ll lich

[delicate root]

What builds are fun this season? running deadeye, nowhere close to maxed but kinda looking for smt else

[royal totem]

rip

[royal totem]

fun? not in this game but for real i think that bloodmage spark is kinda nice but kinda also similar to deadeye, poison pathfinder is also nice but also similar to deadeye, hollow palm monk is unique and fun cuz you blaze through maps, LL lich is fun

but also starting with deadeye was a mistake cuz rn you will probably have a problem with playing anything else cuz her clear is kinda the best (or atleast thats the problem i have but im forcing myself to get through campain on different builds)

[cerulean current]

I am confused about an interaction here. Once you place frostbomb down and switch to other wep set and spend mana like with despair, doesn't the indigon spike skill costs making you unable to spend beyond a single skill?

Even if you reset your chrono your skills that use mana would be in 20K+ costs per cast making them uncastable?

so i dont understand how this person is saying we can cast with our 5k mana pool by resetting the pool if the skill costs are not payable

[rugged sand]

welcome to poe guides. they never make any sense

[sullen yew]

What's everyone's favorite zone in the game?

Mine is the abandoned prison

Though it took me a bit to realize the water Doesnt hurt

I am once again

Just 62

You?

Oh 63 now

[delicate root]

started with Hollow palm Monk ngl, got that thrue campaign then went to ranger.. got sick of monk xd

lowkey considering running a Spark Sorc or Bloodmage

[royal totem]

idk if sorc is worth but ik that bloodmage is

[crystal totem]

How does Atalui's Bloodletting work with crossbow skills? Since the "cost" only happens when you reload will I get any benefit if I use Double Barrel III which makes it so I never have to manually reload?

[carmine flicker]

cast smth cheap 1-st level I guess

[cerulean current]

yup i should have updated my comment

was looking at his build and he had lvl 5 snap

i was overcomplicating it

my mind was going at melee and defy 2 etc etc but no need for any of that

[ornate axle]

Is hallow palm Amazon a decent starter?

[frank glade]

I improvised my build this league, and got really interested in frenzy charges. However, I found out after that it's Deadeye that gets all the good frenzy ascendancies. What can I do as Amazon instead? Current build is whirlingslash -> twister with focus on attack speed, plus exploding spear for generating burning ground and Barrage for when I want to flood an area. I also got the node that says +25% damage to blinded enemies. But I feel like even on Tier 1 maps I'm struggling.

[oblique sluice]

hello. how do damage conversions work? say in the skill you have converts 60% to lightning, but you have a ring which is converts 100% elemental to chaos

[frank glade]

Conversions are done in a specific order on the server. I think it's Physical -> Fire -> Cold -> Lightning -> Chaos.

So first it will convert physical to lightning, then lightning to chaos.

[weak valley]

does lightning modifies actually increase the wild storm % dmg or not rly?

[carmine flicker]

wdym?

[weak valley]

the wild storm is +15% maximum lightning damage, what exactly that quality do?

[atomic halo]

your wording isn't very accurate, but simply, yes it works

[carmine flicker]

if you had 1-1000 lightning damage it becomes 1-1150

[atomic halo]

oh wait

[atomic halo]

you mean the quality?

[weak valley]

but wild storm is a fixed skill right

[atomic halo]

quality will not affect anoints in any way

[weak valley]

yea that's what i thought

[carmine flicker]

I wouldn't even think about it, tbh

[weak valley]

so the guy who did it was mistaken right?

[carmine flicker]

yeah

[atomic halo]

that quality does absolutely nothing, yeah

[weak valley]

so alternatively which one u guys think it's better? my build is based on evasion

idk if global defences are good

[carmine flicker]

you can change annoint and quality

you know, right?

[weak valley]

not rly

[atomic halo]

are both not incredibly mid

is wild storm a really expensive anoint or what

[weak valley]

yep

[atomic halo]

how much in divs

[atomic halo]

do you have es

[carmine flicker]

isolation/fear/isolation

[atomic halo]

100% inc global defences is the same thing as 100% inc armour, 100% inc eva, 100% inc es

[carmine flicker]

idk how much isolation now

both are really mid tho
and do you life/eva or es/eva?

cause if pure life then 100 life is big

[weak valley]

life eva

what is es?

[atomic halo]

energy shield

[weak valley]

ah nope

[atomic halo]

second has a good deal of resistances though

[weak valley]

but isn't this craft based on luck?

[carmine flicker]

emm, no

[atomic halo]

no

you get the right combination, you get the anoint

there is no rng

[weak valley]

aaah

hmm

[atomic halo]

so check ammy's without and add the cost of isolation

pre-anointed is usually overpriced relative to just anointing yourself

[weak valley]

that makes sense

[carmine flicker]

people make money on new players that don't know mechanics and blidnly follow guides. not good

[weak valley]

so 2x iso and 1x fear would be 150 exa

[carmine flicker]

so nothing much

[atomic halo]

so if your budget is 4 div, subtract 150 ex, and then look for ammys in that range

[carmine flicker]

150 ex is.. 2/3 div now?

[atomic halo]

or so, i havent played in a week

[merry creek]

I started an ED/Contagion twink, funded with my LA Deadeye main, and.. I thought.. man with tons of divs, ill cruise through campaign.

Even with +3 lifesprig, and good rares with max res, life, and ES... I am not DESTROYING the campaign like I did with my LA Deadeye... am I missing something?

lol

[weak valley]

the ratio rn is 380 exa > 1 div

[carmine flicker]

or just buy best one for 4 div and annoint bit later

[chilly trellis]

I'd assume your base crit is determined by your main hand?

[carmine flicker]

you can always farm 150 ex next day

[chilly trellis]

Like dual wielding makes won't add up crit to 10%?

[atomic halo]

depends on what the skill says

[carmine flicker]

each weapon have it's own crit

[atomic halo]

i.e. whether it htis with both weapons at the same time or hits independently in sequence

[weak valley]

i'm honestly couldn't tell which one is the best

[atomic halo]

if it hits at the same time, it averges the crit values of each weapon for the combined hit

[carmine flicker]

really? I was thinking it calc damage(and crit) independently and then add them

[atomic halo]

oh i may be hallucinating

In the case that both hands are used simultaneously, each hand rolls separately and combines their damage into a single hit at the end of calculations, but only one hand needs to be a critical strike for the entire hit to be considered a critical strike @chilly trellis

from the wiki

[carmine flicker]

I was right then, good

[chilly trellis]

I see, thanks

[carmine flicker]

sorry, can't really help, not familiar with eva/deadeye builds

aside from general "life, res, +skill = good"

[weak valley]

@carmine flicker let's say i buy this, the annoi would replace the mana regeneration rate or will just stack up?

[atomic halo]

stack up

the regen is an implicit

and you would be adding an enchant

which occupy different spaces

[weak valley]

got it

[atomic halo]

the only thing an anoint will ever replace is another anoint

[weak valley]

since u guys have deep knowledge, what happens if i vaal my boots? will i lose any of these stats?

[atomic halo]

you may have some of the explicits rerolled into other modifiers

so i wouldnt vaal those if you couldn't afford to lose, say, the movement speed and life

[weak valley]

i see, thx

[light dew]

this is affected by life regeneration modifiers, right?

[atomic halo]

yes

[minor tree]

would high velocity rounds (subsequent hits do 5% of HPV damage) + impale into splinter of lorrata (always poison, no max) for lots of big poisons work? 🤔

[minor tree]

Thinking: if I ignite an enemy for 100 damage/s, aggravate it with the unique spear for it, and then spread the ignite with cracklecreep, will it still do 100/s or is it going to be higher due to the aggravate

[green dust]

Hey,
they changed demon form to take weapon stats into account this league.
Does anyone know if this also applies to Weapon Skills? I would like to play demon form Reap.

[minor tree]

I don't see why not! Should work

[drifting burrow]

Is there a way to make iron ward actually good

[carmine flicker]

you can do some volatility combo I guess?

[drifting burrow]

I tried making a build with infernal cry and a combo of raise shield, shield slam and boneshatter with some retaliation gems to do that too

it just felt like too many moving parts though and it ultimately was very slow and vulnerable, I just couldn't make it work

[carmine flicker]

does iron ward damage scale with.. anything?

[drifting burrow]

I mean I got to like act 3 but it was so rough

it scales with physical damage bonuses but that's it

[carmine flicker]

like with your passives, supports etc

[drifting burrow]

And it can store more % than 100% above rank 10 gem I guess

[carmine flicker]

act 3 isn't a place to judge build or skill tbh

t15 is

[drifting burrow]

Yeah no way it was making it into end game trust me

It took five hours to kill bosses

and clearing a map was slow and often led to deaths

I tried mercenary and the difference was extreme

[carmine flicker]

kinda hard to increase it's gem lvl since not spell or attack
if I could scale it to like lvl 35 would be good burst

[drifting burrow]

Right? Like I think it'd be a fun skill with some changes but from my testing it just didn't really cut the mustard. I also felt like the "armour applies to elemental/chaos damage" effects should have contributed value to the iron ward amount, but it only counts physical damage

[carmine flicker]

I mean, charging it before boss isn't a problem

[drifting burrow]

Which I think is really shortsighted, if it were all damage mitigated by armour then you'd still have to invest skill points/gear into it to make it really good

[carmine flicker]

tons of ways to deal damage to yourself

[drifting burrow]

How? You can damage yourself?

[carmine flicker]

but.. scaling gem lvl impossible and without it it's useless

[carmine flicker]

volatility

https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Heartbound_Loop and this

[drifting burrow]

that might work if it can be mitigated by armour

[carmine flicker]

living lightning and summon raging spirit
those guys spawn and expand all the time, tons of self damage

[drifting burrow]

So wait, it sounds like warrior is the worst character to use for iron ward then

[carmine flicker]

you can use srs and living lightning on warrior

nothing stops you

[drifting burrow]

idk what those are

and I'm talking more about the passive tree location bc the stats on warrior's section are kind of mediocre

[carmine flicker]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Living_Lightning_II

add 1 random lightning damage from ring mod to your attack and they will spawn and die very fast

they are useless, in general, but can trigger self damage with Loop

[drifting burrow]

True, but I also like the whole "turning damage taken into damage bonus/damage dealt" thing. I mean I guess it'd be nice to charge it manually but I liked the whole "tank hits, hit back harder" idea

Perhaps I should just stack a crazy amount of armor and resistances and unga bunga?

I dunno. Maybe a retaliation build makes more sense

[carmine flicker]

man, never ever trust important things to AI-controlled mobs!

and killing yourself is damn important thing

[drifting burrow]

Lol I guess I just wish I could wade into a group of mobs, soaking hits and then smash them back with a retaliation or damage bonus

[carmine flicker]

(that's why I often make builds that deal more damage to yourself than any boss ever could)

[drifting burrow]

Bossing was the worst with the retaliation/iron ward build I made. Boss damage is so garbage in this game if you have enough armour/resistances so it was impossible to charge stuff

I dunno. Iron ward is a cool idea but it feels like it wasn't workshopped enough

[carmine flicker]

just hit them with pointy stick till they die then

[drifting burrow]

It takes far too long to charge up, and being unable to make it apply to all damage makes it extremely fickle and unreliable

Nah I wanna get hit lol

[carmine flicker]

as I said. charge it yourself )

[drifting burrow]

I guess I could try a thorns build idk

[carmine flicker]

(actually don't bother, this skill is too weak since can't be scaled)

[drifting burrow]

Yeah I don't think charging it myself, even if I wanted to, would make it that good

Like it does a crazy amount of stun buildup but so does basically any mace skill with appropriate stat investment

[carmine flicker]

thorns actually works tho

lots of torns builds around

[drifting burrow]

I hear thorns is good but you need a unique to make it work?

Which I don't have yet so I guess I have to bum around on a starter build until I drop or buy it

[carmine flicker]

why bother with stun when you can kill tho?
"death is best debuff"

[drifting burrow]

Bc mace damage sucks ass and I need stun bonus damage to kill anything?

Well. Per hit mace damage isn't bad

[carmine flicker]

need helmet and boots, mace isn't must have

[drifting burrow]

it's just insanely slow

Like when I tried mercenary I was shocked at how fast and mobile I was, and how much easier the game felt

it was absurd the difference tbh

[carmine flicker]

I mean, mace oneshots white mobs
and blue mobs too

when properly scaled

[drifting burrow]

Sure. But then the 20 other mobs swarm you while you're recovering

Or you get nuked from orbit, or you're stuck standing in a death effect

[carmine flicker]

it's just SLOOOW, why take 2 second to oneshot them when bow or spell can do same in 0.3 sec?

[drifting burrow]

Yeah

Mace just kinda. feels really bad rn

Like I get the idea is that it's supposed to be slow, big hits, but when you have no other strength weapons to choose from it just feels frustrating and extremely punishing to play

[carmine flicker]

and warrior is kinda.. squishy?
armour is kinda bad against nukes and doesn't protect against dots
good against being swarmed tho

[drifting burrow]

Yeah it seems rn you gotta pair armour with ES or evasion to make it worth anything

And even then you're probably better off just going hard into evasion or ES

[carmine flicker]

Yeah it seems rn you gotta pair ES with evasion

fixed for you

[drifting burrow]

Iron ward could've been interesting if it was all damage mitigated by armour, at least then it'd be reliable even if it still wasn't that good or safe to use

Lol to be fair I've only really played warrior

I'm a str > dex kinda fool

I do find it kind of weird that armour is less effective on big hits though

[carmine flicker]

but sure, ES this league is crazy
or life+es of you go into bloodmage/ZO/regen

[green dust]

It might not because demon form was its own weapon last patch. Aka you weapon swapped when you entered demon form.

[carmine flicker]

when you have 6-7k regen per second that "overflow" into ES..

[carmine flicker]

now it use your weapon, so all good tho

[carmine flicker]

always was that way
POE1 at least had/have endurance charges (that was actually good)

[drifting burrow]

when I first set up the build I just assumed the new "armour applies to elemental/chaos damage" stats would make iron ward apply to them bc that just made good sense to me, so I set up for a mostly armour build with the nodes to boost armour when spending endurance charges

even though it was really slow and bad and weak I still had moments of fun

that's why I kinda hope it gets improved

Like, if it was made more viable (both armour and iron ward), then I could see there being a really fun playstyle of cycling skills to gain and spend endurance charges to keep your armour boost up so you can tank hits during the slower attacks

I THINK that was the intent, but it definitely did not hit the mark

[carmine flicker]

well
it will never hit the mark really, cause reactive gameplay
POE is about farm/kill speed for maps, burst damage for boss kills or tanky AOE clear for highly juiced content with tons of damage flying around
first is taken by deadeyes and some casters, second is.. actually warriors are good there, but not THIS type of warrior. and third isn't needed yet. not enough of that content in game rn.

[drifting burrow]

Aren't retaliation builds strong in POE1 though?

I've seen a few perform well

maybe not as good as meta, sure, but still viable

[carmine flicker]

there are no reta builds in POE1

[drifting burrow]

I take that as a challenge good sir lol

[carmine flicker]

I mean, there are no retalitation to build around

can't make a build around thing that doesn't exist really

[drifting burrow]

? Retaliation skills are a whole category of skills in poe1

[carmine flicker]

oh, those

[drifting burrow]

yeah

[carmine flicker]

those are.. different beast than POE2 reta

[drifting burrow]

Definitely

[carmine flicker]

but sure, they exist

[drifting burrow]

The thing with retaliation in poe2... it's good on huntress but not in warrior lol

the stun buildup is easier to get with the buckler parry and the dispatch skill works better at cashing out the damage bc it's evasive movement + consuming the parry debuff damage bonus

so you get way more value out of it then turtle tanking with warrior and doing an extremely slow rolling slam or whatever

[carmine flicker]

idk, parry is some random bait mechanic

literally no need to bother with it on lady "I AM AOE!"

[drifting burrow]

yeah

even retaliate support doesn't do enough I feel to make it good

[carmine flicker]

idk, go svalin

it was fixed I heard

can blast everything by being hit

[drifting burrow]

does that work on active blocking?

[quartz snow]

is frost bolts any good?

[carmine flicker]

on any block

[drifting burrow]

nice

[carmine flicker]

go, some regen increased, then ES/life+block+zealot oath

things hit you, you cast, that use your life, you get regen from that, repeat

the more you are hit them more you regen

[drifting burrow]

Oh that sounds fun

I bet witch would be a fun starter for that maybe

[carmine flicker]

(I can't say if it would be actually good)

[drifting burrow]

What kind of weapon to pair with it though...

[carmine flicker]

wand

[drifting burrow]

yeah it'd probably be wand huh

hm

[carmine flicker]

or mjolner if you feel cool enough

but need good ES pool to pull it off

cause first casts would take your life and you will need 3-4 seconds for engine to heat up

(or you spend life constantly between packs to keep going. but ES still good even with that for the moment of "I just spent 3/4 of my life, stray hit can finish me")

[drifting burrow]

is svalinn the only way to get cast on block right now?

[carmine flicker]

it basically need warbringer tho
for 75 block chance
more reliable than active block

[carmine flicker]

only

[drifting burrow]

How is 75 block chance more reliable than active block? do you mean because you don't have to deal with stun buildup?

[carmine flicker]

stun, ye

can't block when stunned

[drifting burrow]

would retaliate make it worthwhile?

[carmine flicker]

why bother? you either scale spell/trigger damage or reta

no way to go both

[drifting burrow]

I guess yeah

It's just that kind of thing where a game you like adds the specific kind of mechanic you enjoy but it's not good lol

so I'm trying to find ways to make it work

[inner birch]

There isn't any unique that converts elemental dmg to physical is there

[drifting burrow]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Damage_conversion seems only only converting to elemental/chaos is possible, unfortunately

[inner birch]

Sad

[carmine flicker]

I mean, you go in, they hit you, you discharge tons of AOE around
what you wanted, no?

[drifting burrow]

It doesn't scale on damage blocked, which is the thing that makes it more appealing to me

it's just each block charges a certain amount

[carmine flicker]

you deal 100 times more damage than you take in POE2
or 1000 times more

[drifting burrow]

Maybe on a good build but definitely not the builds I've made lol

[carmine flicker]

well. get gut

don't push things that doesn't work, abuse things that do

[drifting burrow]

unfortunately I think I can't make the skills I wanna use good

[drifting burrow]

I mean if the thing I want to play doesn't work then why would I play at all, that's kind of my problem at this point

[carmine flicker]

you can probably make it cast each block

if you go fast cast spell

[woeful cypress]

if i only have 3 sockets on my widowhail is it better to have 2 proj 1 flat lightning or the other way around? dont have enough damage to one shot T15 rares

[ashen mango]

I’m trying to make a bleed build better. What is an “empowered attack?” The node internal bleed says I need an empowered attack to proc it.

Do I need war cry skills to proc this effect?

[viral sage]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Fearful_Paralysis and https://poe2db.tw/us/Lockdown#pin11 i thought taking these two early will increased damage significantly (coz i took tactician any dmg will have pin buildup) instead of going all the the way down to crossbow nodes

i was very wrong..i was struggling with campaign boss..after replacing those two with crossbow nodes at the bottom my dmg improve so much

when should i take these two nodes tho?

[neat iron]

Anyone know if Beira’s Anguish 0.3 scales with any passives related to ignite magnitude?

[fluid cedar]

Does anyone know if the crit dmg is reflected on the tool tip?

[rapid star]

If i want to change my arc build to a crit build, can it be done without having to get a wand and focus with crit chance?

[heady mantle]

hey could some dead eye expert pls help me gear up

[steady loom]

is rakiata's flow bugged? I've been seeing a lot of stuff on the forums about it not working and I've always wanted to buy one but idk if it is worth it

[alpine basin]

Yes, warcries empower attacks

[dawn saddle]

You can still gain elemental damage as physical damage. With bloodletting for example, that can give enough damage to even use brutality

[rough vector]

Me

I'm not super good tho -.-' can help a bit at most

[stuck ledge]

For DeadEye, am I going for the bow with the most Physical DPS or the most total DPS?

`Physical Damage DPS: 176.00 (114-206)
Lightning Damage DPS: 44.00 (4-76)
Total Elemental DPS: 44.00
Total DPS: 220.00

Physical Damage DPS: 81.95 (52-97)
Elemental 1 DPS: 57.20 (40-64)
Lightning Damage DPS: 23.65 (1-42)
Total Elemental DPS: 80.85
Total DPS: 162.80

Physical Damage DPS: 150.06 (86-158)
Fire Damage DPS: 35.05 (22-35)
Lightning Damage DPS: 19.07 (1-30)
Total Elemental DPS: 54.12
Total DPS: 204.18`

Just some examples shown. (I know the highest physical in this case is highest total.)

[brittle anvil]

total

but it's still depends on other mods tho, if they have anything like %increased or crit

[dusk narwhal]

Total, but note that other modifiers on the bow are likely to affect real damage than what is shown

[oblique sluice]

Hello. Do multiple persistent buff support gems that provide some unrelated buff “while active” (like upwelling for minions damage, or the mana regen or some other stat) stack

[quartz cairn]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/abyss/character/gichi666-4439/gichiabyssal?i=0&search=class%3DInvoker%26skills%3DFalling%2BThunder so I'm trying out concepts from this build- am I correct in that, the only way to gain power charges is to be hit?

[lyric shore]

I've played through act 1 as monk and huntress. Enjoying both and they were very powerful. I'm trying to pick an alt that's more appropriate to play when i'm watching something on a second screen. Any tips? Witch or sorceress? I found sorceress with fire boring.

[midnight geode]

if i run hollow palm is my base crit chance gonna come from my energy shield only? Meaning if i were to have no es id have 0% base crit chance?

[carmine flicker]

well, act1 is bad judge of class powerm tbh

but probably minion witch. minions do the work
you watch second screen

[oblique karma]

Does the Uul Netol catalyst increase add physical attacks damage to breach ring?

[celest oxide]

Gonna come play more this patch on a new character since I’m done with LA, what should I play next?

[minor tree]

been messing a bit more with spectral fire before giving up on it
i start it up with a 50-100dmg/s ignite, so it stacks up to 700ish
after popping it gets to 2000-5000, been adding the aggravate ignite unique spear to the mix

but when going to the next pack of enemies it never translated to a bigger ignite being spread

so i worry the source of the hit of spectral fire is not "you"

and somehow spreading the spectral fire ignite doesn't count as igniting an enemy perhaps?

it's really hard to test without training dummies

[carmine flicker]

we really need dummies
getting to boss each time I want to test smth is annoying

[unreal sierra]

unarmed base is 5%

[eternal sky]

is sorc ward that good on wh?

[small igloo]

is there a similar support gem to "pinpoint" from poe1 that focuses multiple projectiles like a shotgun? Im thinking of what support gems to use for Freezing Shards

[teal lion]

Does anyone know if herald counts as triggering a skill?
For the purpose of "Triggered Spells Deal % more damage"

[weak valley]

does area of effect from attacks also count for this?

[dawn spire]

No, that effect is not an attack

At least as far as I'm aware

[remote narwhal]

I got a similar question for that

The photo itself

But more on the new chaos keystone

Does fire dmg turn to chaos when you set that keystone

If so then stuff like impending doom would be affected correct

[dawn spire]

Are you asking if enemies that explode via that node would deal 5% of their life as chaos instead of fire?

[remote narwhal]

No

But that kind of question

[dawn spire]

I'm not seeing the relation between impending doom and blackflame covenant then

[remote narwhal]

Wouldn't the fire dmg nodes affect it

[dawn spire]

No

Flammability/ignite stuff would, but you're not dealing any fire damage

[remote narwhal]

Since it's essentially turning fire dmg to chaos

[dawn spire]

Yes, but conversion in poe2 doesn't care about what the type was before. If you convert 100% from A to B, you don't gain anything from modifiers to damage type A

It turns your damage from fire to chaos, but it doesn't affect the modifiers in any way

[remote narwhal]

So it wouldn't affect chaos skills basically

[dawn spire]

What is "it" in that question?

[remote narwhal]

Black flame covenant

[dawn spire]

It allows them to inflict ignite

If they hit

[remote narwhal]

But doesn't allow you to take the fire dmg nodes

And make them to chaos basically

Cause if it did I have a impending doom bloodmage in mind.

[dawn spire]

Correct. Fire damage modifiers are still fire damage modifiers. But ignite damage isn't affected by fire damage modifiers

[celest oxide]

Is Hollow Palm actually the best way to build for Quarterstaff skills?

[remote narwhal]

All depends

[celest oxide]

Trying to decide what kinda flavour of the season I wanna build into next

[dawn spire]

It's good until you get a qstaff that's better than the base damage of hollow palm

[celest oxide]

don't feel like rolling LA anymore

Xbow Lich looks fun af but idk if I really wanna spend 50+ Hours on EDC Lich first to play that lol

[dawn spire]

I'm not sure what the problem is here regarding fire damage nodes

[celest oxide]

well I have enough Div to afford a decent enough Last Lament already

[dawn spire]

You can just get ignite nodes and chaos damage nodes

[celest oxide]

I mostly just wanna blast and get a build ready to go for 0.3.1 drop

not sure what to go for tho

[remote narwhal]

Cause the node shown above where I posted would affect dispair.

[dawn spire]

I don't follow. The explode on death node?

[remote narwhal]

The aoe

More aoe the better for impending doom

Especially when ur spell echoing and spell cascade

[dawn spire]

I'm so confused now. You're referring to this node?

[remote narwhal]

Yes

[dawn spire]

Why is this bad for the despair curse/ID?

[remote narwhal]

I was just wondering if it ended up counting the fire dmg as chaos cause if it did I'd go bm over lich.

[dawn spire]

It would do fire damage and not chaos. The explosion is not a spell and blackflame covenant only converts your fire spells to chaos

[remote narwhal]

Yea that's why I asked

Danm welp

That sucked

[dawn spire]

I thought you were asking about modifiers like %inc fire damage this whole time

[remote narwhal]

Yea

Well I could do bloodletting and embter

But that's still a no

Wanting to do a impending doom build but still work off the crit side of it.

Eh I could try BM with zealot and tecrod and use bloodmagic

[final raptor]

I am playing BloodMage, should i buy kaom's heart or save for tecrod ?

[remote narwhal]

Tecrod

Are u running zealots oath??

If u are tecrod.

And even then kaoms u lose spirit.

Is it worth the loss of spirit for kaoms.

[final raptor]

i do not know man i am level 85 so i have not went to the left side of the tree

[remote narwhal]

Yea tecrod with zealots is just golden

[final raptor]

thanks

it went up 2 annul since yesterday

🙁

[remote narwhal]

Yea it's pretty much a go to

I use it on my titan

But I'm also a full screen clear with rolling slam

[remote narwhal]

Woulda been nice if it did

But oh well.

Actually ty, I think I might stick to lich.

Smola I forgot about tecrods honestly.

Haven't played for 2 weeks. So I might have a decent way using lich for that.

[river frigate]

How do ya all deal with grinning immolation downside

[atomic halo]

if you reduce ignite duration by 100% it lasts 0 seconds

[static plinth]

Max fire res, there's two nodes on the tree you can anoint that gove 50% and 40% reduced magnitude of ignite on you

[viscid sierra]

if I want to take this node - need to buy a ring with this modifier right? Just cant understand how this gonna work

[static plinth]

You can get mana leech from a bunch of places but yeah

[rose stratus]

hi

in a whirlwind twister amazon, is it useful to have cold, fire or lightning damage on the weapon?

does it scale the damage normally like physical damage or do i need to do something for it to work?

[dawn spire]

I'm not sure what you mean by "normally like physical damage".

Your damage is based on your weapon, modified by your skill gem and supports and then affected by all sorts of other stuff like damage modifiers on the tree.

Using a weapon with multiple elements follows the same rules as using a pure phys weapon:
-It scales with modifiers to the types on it
-Base dps on the weapon is very important

I'm not quite sure what the "do I need to do something for it to work" means exactly

@rose stratus

[rose stratus]

i'm asking if the without for example a cold based spell and with a weapon with cold damage i would still do cold damage

[dawn spire]

Now I'm more confused. Are we talking spells or attacks?

[rose stratus]

attacks, i'm sorry

[dawn spire]

What do you mean by "a cold based attack"? You mean one that converts a % of your damage to cold?

[rose stratus]

lets say i have a fire based attack skill and i'm using a cold based weapon

[dawn spire]

Idk what a fire based attack skill means. Do you mean that it converts some of your damage to fire? Try using an actual skill instead of a hypothetical example

[rose stratus]

like for example explosive shot or spark for lightning

[dawn spire]

Spark is not an attack so I'll focus on explosive shot

[rose stratus]

ok

[dawn spire]

explosive shot converts 30% of your physical damage to fire

So if you're using a crossbow with cold damage (or any ele type) that damage would not be converted

But that only matters if you're scaling fire damage or physical damage, specifically

If you take nodes like "%inc projectile damage" or "%inc attack damage" or "attack speed" then it makes no difference what damage types are on your crossbow.

The only thing that would matter is its total base dps

So, on its own, there is no drawback to using explosive shot with a crossbow that does cold damage

[rose stratus]

i see, i undertand it now, i'm very thankful

[dawn spire]

No problem!

[rose stratus]

🙂

[plush timber]

this is kind of a stupidly broad question, but does anyone have any ideas for a single-target DPS skill for a glacial lance-focused build - at the moment it's a typical right-side crit Deadeye shell, eva/es, glacial lance clears well and I'm intent on making it work, but it struggles with single target.

I tried snipe with the freeze synergy but it feels extremely finicky - the freeze duration seems to be short at best and most of the time bosses unfreeze right before the shot hits, not to mention the annoyance of trying to generate enough frenzy charges for the barrage in a boss fight while also timing the freeze, barrage, perfect timing snipe

[static plinth]

Use frenzies on GL itself?

It should shotgun right

[plush timber]

you mean barrage the GL?

[plush timber]

the issue is that barrage consumes the frenzy charges and leaves none to empower GL, without which it hits pretty anemically

[static plinth]

Put Inhibitor Support on barrage

[plush timber]

ah, yeah the GL damage just isn't very high for single target, even empowered - it doesn't really shotgun when it explodes, it would just be the initial throw hit and then the explosion

[static plinth]

Shame

[plush timber]

I tried wind serpent's fury since, hey, frenzy charges I can use, but it feels absolutely terrible

[static plinth]

Maybe Ice Crystal stuff?

[plush timber]

I guess the only feasible route there is Glacial Bolt, but since they changed the mechanics to where the crystals do no damage if they pop right as they're created I'm not sure how to get a shotgun effect out of it

[static plinth]

80% less damage if destroyed within 0.5 seconds by something other than you

You can still insta-kill them

[plush timber]

so basically you can't just fire them underneath the boss anymore

[static plinth]

Yeah you have to actually destroy them

[plush timber]

you'd have to set them up elsewhere and run the boss into them?

[static plinth]

Ill admit ive never done ice wall shenanigans so this is all theory to me

[plush timber]

that's an interesting idea, worth a try I think since at least the cold damage synergizes

my other thought was basically using something unrelated that I know works - maybe mace swap for earthshatter fissure, but that ends up being a lot of pressure on attributes unless I drop the goal of running ele weakness curse (rakiata's is out of reach)

[kind timber]

does this remove the stun threshold you get from life completely? or does it only change 30% of it to be based on energy shield. based on the text I dont know if 70% of my stun threshold would still come from my life or not

[static plinth]

Its based entirely on your ES instead of your life

Good for CI and usually non-hybrid

[manic burrow]

Do all parts of a skill share the same tags? For example, molten blast counts as AoE but the shrapnel has no aoe.

[dawn spire]

They do not. For example, essence drain's chaos damage over time is not affected by modifiers to projectile damage despite it having the projectile tag. Contagion has the area tag, but its damage is not affected by area damage modifiers

[manic burrow]

time to farm more gold to spec out of the AoE damage if it doesn't help the shrapnel I suppose

[teal lion]

Hello, I feel like I'm going crazy

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/thevinter-4719/character/Vintert

I'm playing invoker and regularly, like ~10% of the time, I feel like I get slowed down

It's an effect similar to temporal chains / frozen ground

But then I look up to my debuffs and see nothing

[dawn spire]

Overextend support is my guess

[teal lion]

Does daze slow me down?

I thought it just increases stun buildup?

Maybe I have no idea how stun works

[somber pendant]

would choir of the storm amulet fully work with necromantic talisman keystone?

[dawn spire]

Hold alt and click on the daze keyword

[dawn spire]

I'm not 100% sure but that's the only thing I can see that would be de buffing you

Hmm

Is it when you lose rage?

[teal lion]

Don't think so

[finite shell]

Question, does Canons Ready from Tactician bypass any cooldowns or cast speed for vile effusion

[celest oxide]

Time to roll an Amazon, Lightning Arrow, Lightning Spear, or something else?

[fickle zinc]

FINALLY reached mapping. Digging the Smith leap slap bone shatter. Is there a good simple tanky archer I could play around with?

[static plinth]

Unborn Lich is pretty much impossible to build around cuz 0 spell levels right?

I got one i think is cool but like

[wise spindle]

hey guysm anyone mess with these spectres? whats the best supports for thei lazer?

[autumn roost]

anyone run lightning spear build for amazon? iv been making my own stuff up as i go, but i need a good way to get life while im playing. idk if yall know an easy or good way to get hp while in combat other than life flask. atm i have no hp regin an no life leach of any sort on any gear. if i have to drop a mod on my spear to get life leach thats fine but id rather get it another way. just wondering if there is any effective way to get hp back in combat with this kinda playstyle

[static plinth]

Thief's Torment was the go-to in 0.2 iirc

Mod on spear wont work anyway, phys only

[autumn roost]

yeah i have no way to really get mana or HP other than flasks an i dislike it but its working.

i just got some better potions but man im spamming the mana one at all times

and the hp one i have to use any time i take dmg cuz i have no way to get hp back

i was running 2% mana and hp back on kill but it took to many nodes on the tree to get

[remote narwhal]

Are you being inflicted with daze

If not then no

[static plinth]

Personally im running lifetap + vitality + 1% life + mana on kill on tree and its working decently

But im not amazon

[strange wren]

Looking for a bit of clarification here - currently working on a bleed Merc that's also using some lightning shots. My understanding here is that elemental itself does not cause bleed w/o the blood mage perk - but for a lot of the merc skills, given they still have some physical component, can start bleed.

Looking to clarify I'm correct on that + also want to know if there's even a way to say, take a skill with an elemental component like rapid shot and make it purely physical? I'm still getting a feel for support gem options.

[west wharf]

can use brutality support

makes skills deal more phyiscal dmg but no ele/chaos

but there's no ele to phys conversion

you just lose that dmg

it's highly recommended to just use a pure phys skill if u want significant bleed dmg on non bloodmage

[strange wren]

Yeah that's what I was worried about. I should see how Frag rounds feel now at higher level

Yeah - Galv rounds + lightning herald is so damn good though

[west wharf]

there's various chaining techs to help bleed mercs clear

i think u need to just pick one or the other

go galvanic or go bleed

[strange wren]

Likely so - it's working well but I have no clue if the half/half will land well in maps

[west wharf]

it won't

when u split your scalings like that, both end up ineffective

[strange wren]

Indeed. Thanks for the info 🙂

[west wharf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_OcW4nT0hQ

example of herald of blood chaining for clear

[strange wren]

Nifty

I have HoB and HoT both rolling atm lol

[west wharf]

if it's still working for now don't need to rush to change it

but if u start feeling a lack of dmg/clear

outside of upgrading your xbow that's the first place i'd look

[strange wren]

It's fun but I noticed how slow bleed was rolling in and figured the elemental mismatch was holding me back

[west wharf]

ya, it's prolly just galvanic carrying rn

[strange wren]

My AP rounds are actually doing a crap load too

Gambleshot bouncing/piercing, etc + a lot of ricochets with the armor cracking fast into the snipe round with haemo crystals

One more clarification - at first this looked fun but I'm guessing that drawback of only 1 second bleed duration kills it's usefulness in a bleed build?

[west wharf]

well if u keep refreshing the bleed before the 1s duration expires it's fine

[strange wren]

Yeah I just have found if I have to say, kite out of range to stay safe/recover and then lose the entire bleed stack RIP

[west wharf]

it's a pretty rare keystone to take ya

pretty sure there are other was to aggravate bleeding without the heavy penalty

[strange wren]

Thanks for the help and suggestions - got some stuff to ponder going forward

[west wharf]

https://poe2db.tw/Aggravated_Bleeding

u can look through here to see if any of these methods look attractive to you

[strange wren]

Lots of good passives really and I'm stacking most of them. Feels like that capstone counters the entire concept of stacking/rolling bleeds

[crystal totem]

Is Atalui's supposed to show an increase in DPS in skills menu? Mine doesn't show it making any difference.

[atomic halo]

whats the skill in question

[crystal totem]

Siege Cascade

Weird thing is POB shows an increase but in game it doesn't.

[atomic halo]

it might not work with crossbow skills that involve loading bolts

because the part where you pay the cost is just reloading

[crystal totem]

Well thats sad if true. Maybe POB is wrong then. Finally got one to drop and didn't see number go up.

At least it's worth trading.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3849141/page/1#p26383671

[gray needle]

Can anyone help? I'm trying to build my warbringer boneshatter, currently level 89. I'm new to the game and I don't know how to progress more. Mainly because I don't know what equipment I should get. Thank you!

[formal silo]

Any Blackflame enjoyers?

I am trying to figure out how you scale blackflame spells when using it, since its converting to chaos damage do you no longer take fire damage node and just go full chaos damage nodes?

[weak valley]

So I have a question, for gavanic shards which weapon is actually better here? the one that adds fire somehow gives more DPS i can't figured out why since the damage for galvanic should be calculated on physical and lightning

[steel pilot]

If my brother and I use the same DoT ED/Con does it stack or overwrite or?

[pure stratus]

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[sleek crypt]

ty

[unreal sierra]

galvanic can still deal fire if weapon adds fire

[wispy ruin]

does anyone know if the beiras anguish charm build still works?

i was looking into it and ik it got bug fixed on 0.2.1 but that it still worked great as a mapper

and that it still had good boss dmg

i didnt play at all during 0.2 and i ran into a video about the build but no one plays it this league so i was wondering if there was any new change to it that made it dead

oh just found that it doesnt work anymore because now it creates ignite grounbd instead of igniting enemies in presence

[weak valley]

yea i know but that doesn't answer my question

[unreal sierra]

fire weapon has more dps so it deals more damage?

[west wharf]

wym

any attack can deal any type of damage

doesn't matter what the typing of the attack is

if an attack has 100% phys conversion to lightning, and you get +100 fire damage on ring, the attack will do some fire damage

it's just typically a bit more efficient to stack damage of one typing, because the efficiency of penetration and %dmg nodes of that type go up

i.e. if you have 20% lightning pen and 50% inc lightning dmg on tree, that'll amp a +20 lightning dmg flat roll, but not a +20 fire dmg flat roll

(though the lightning pen won't scale your lightning dmg on tooltip)

if you have no specific pen or %dmg typing, then the fire and lightning dmg will add the same amt to tooltip

and if you have a rakiata's then pen goes out the window as well

[violet yarrow]

does gain phy damage as extra fire damage still work if you take the avatar of fire keystone? also, If I use a skill that convert 80% of its damage to fire and I have for example gain 10% of physical damage as fire damage, does it count the remaining 20% physical aka gain 20%*10%=2% damage of damage as fire? or the whole gain thing is calculated first?

[violet yarrow]

thanks!

[west wharf]

@violet yarrow this is not correct

as i understand it, you do not benefit whatsoever from gain as non-fire damage types with AOF

atalui's, ambrosia, etc

or rather, i don't know the order of operations, but conversion will not apply to added damage

added damage is a final step in poe2

[west wharf]

you will still get a bit of value out of the phys added as fire with AOF

not much, though

and general damage added as fire% works fine

[robust ember]

Cant wrap my head around something, my mana cost of curse is like 4x the tooltip of the gem - having removed all of the cost multiplier gems and cant find any increase nodes ive taken on the tree - im at a loss as to why this is

[mental maple]

am trying to play hexblast and in this patch they change skill not to be instant use but u need to wait 2 sec ? any 1 know why they broke this, it is not event at top builds

[umbral ocean]

I put Rakiata into my Spark build and it feels like a huge damage drop compared to cold pen... something is odd

[midnight bolt]

Its a damage boost only on map bosses/pinnacles against everything else its dmg loss

[umbral ocean]

Oh OK thank you

[midnight bolt]

If mobs have 0 cold res what are u inverting exactly? Kekw

[umbral ocean]

I thought I was going mad

Appreciate it. Been trying to get an answer for a while lol

[west wharf]

well

it shouoldn't be a dmg drop compared to cold pen

cus cold pen only goes to 0% too

but if you have cold res reduction via exposure or something that can go under 0

[iron harbor]

it could be a drop it you keep using like ele weakness and/or expousure

[supple goblet]

so whats the verdict on all evasion + deflection, is it worthwhile?

[west wharf]

still preferable to have some ES mixed in for more ehp

or you're still susceptible to oneshots now and then

although if you have the budget to craft a life+%life amu and grab an olroth's you're realistically probably ok even without ES

[robust ember]

Does grasping wounds from bloodmage work on the mana pool if you run MoM?

[clear grotto]

In general what’s better? Flat physical damage (ie adds 6-13 physical damage) or increased physical damage by 20%

[sleek scroll]

does anyone have a link to an amazon ice strike hollow palm biuld ?

[west wharf]

on a weapon?

completely depends

just whatever makes the wep have the highest physical dps

if u don't know how to calculate dps it's best to take a little bit of time to look it up and learn

[clear grotto]

Okay thanks, yeah it’s on my crossbow I’m using the well of souls

[supple goblet]

im on act 4 so minimal access to damage

[west wharf]

yeah sorry it's totally dependent on the rest of the stats

it's kind of a half-assed answer but you really should look up how to calculate dps on a weapon

it'll be useful to you for the rest of time

[hallow harbor]

Could anyone recommend a guide or at least a passive tree for a CI LA deadeye? (currently just aping a decent looking char of poeninja)
I pushed a witchhunter to maps but I'm not loving the crossbow reloading and I want in on the deadeye action before it gets nerfed.

[lunar halo]

what are some good maglomaniac?

[rustic seal]

two questions regarding incision.
Does the +2% phys damage per incision from Thousand Cuts apply to bleed generated by the hit that consumes incision?
Does the Incision support count the incisions consumed by the hit that produce the bleed as recent? Or does it count to the next one?

[twin bronze]

Poe 1 player wanting to try out Amazon. anyone got a leveling guide or Pob? to make it easier?

[empty ledge]

Can someone explain why when I try to use weapon set 2 skill points it's also taking from my main tree? Bug or is it that idk how it works?

I put into one node, only takes weapon set 2 skill points, put into another and it takes both weapon set 2 and main

When I put a point into this second strength node it takes it from main and WS 2

[fading wind]

question on the tactician node that says "all projectile damage is pinning". Does this mean all of my cold damage is now pinning instead of contributing to freeze build up for instance?

trying to figure out what if anything is stopping me from focusing on cold and going pure phys pin frag bolts

[rustic seal]

my guess is that the prior strength node seems to be part of weapon set 2

[empty ledge]

Yeah, so why would it take from main?

[empty ledge]

Shouldn't it only spend weapon set 2 skill points?

[static plinth]

Weapon set points arent free, they consume normal skill points

[rustic seal]

yeah

[static plinth]

You use 1 normal for 1 weapon set point in each set

[rustic seal]

they're essentially a pool of passive points which swap as you swap weapons

[empty ledge]

Why is the first one to the left of it free then

[static plinth]

Because you already had weapon set 1 points allocated?

[empty ledge]

Oh is that how it works

You get as many 1 and 2 as you spend on main or something?

[static plinth]

If you allocate 14 points in weapon set 1 you get 14 free weapon set 2 points

[empty ledge]

Ah okay

That's what I was missing ty

[static plinth]

If you then allocate a 15th WS2 point, you get a free WS1 point

[trim imp]

what iam doing wrong?

why it one shot my mount?

stugger bar always full

[plush kiln]

whats like

the upper echelons i can take attributes to

theres this node that gives 1% attack speed per 25 dexterity and im not sure how good that actually is

[cold willow]

hello what is a strong minion witch build for high tiers? i am starting to struggle ab bit ^^

i feel like paper

[atomic halo]

you can go to poe2.ninja and sort by dex

which shows that ritualists can get 1k, most around 800, and very highest at 1100

[manic parrot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_n4BTeUjWQ gonna just drop this here

[somber pendant]

Just a friendly reminder when youswitch to Chaos innoculation dont forget to unallocate this if its allocated

[deft bridge]

is there any way to leech es other than the unique gloves?

[empty torrent]

when people say you need 100-150 rarity, does that mean on gear or on gear+waystone?

[frozen knot]

would this buff the damage from armour explosion?

[static plinth]

On gear

[oblique sluice]

hello. what support gems to use on raise shield?

will the stun support gem (cause 70% more stun build up) be just additive to the Shield Bash's 600% more stun build up?

[carmine flicker]

all more are multiplicative

[alpine basin]

Yes

[latent dawn]

Can Lich use this without issue? With its life not changing while having ES

[dawn saddle]

your life can't change means you can't pay life costs

so no

[tulip fog]

is there any monster you can use for a Companion/Spectre Infernal Legion Build where you DONT need to rely on weapon-swapping to move the monster with you, where you can have the monster actively chase down enemies ahead of you (by itself) while just walking around and that the damage they deal is strong enough to handle juiced T16 maps?

[dawn saddle]

frozen mandibles

[tulip fog]

is those the only ones? i dont really like them because of the cold explosions they spam around them all the time

[dawn saddle]

afaik it's the only good melee ones

[tulip fog]

i see

and would a build that scales their health for infernal legion deal enough damage to clear Juiced T16 maps?

or are they only good for their melee attacks?

[dawn saddle]

I have no idea as I don't play minions myself... I know they have good hp, enough to tank high lvl maps, but idk if it's enough to rely on their life to deal damage

[tulip fog]

does multiple spectres or companions that has infernal legion deal their DOT at the same time for combined damage? or can only 1 infernal legion DOT be dealing damage on an enemy at a time?

[dawn saddle]

it's ignite, so only 1 at once

[tulip fog]

dang, ok

[dawn saddle]

could probably work for mapping, but not so well for bossing

[tulip fog]

probably yeah

maybe frost mandibles could work when mapping and then you swap to another gem setup with one that has higher health pool that would normally need to be relocated with weapon swapping for bosses

idk

[dawn saddle]

I don't really see the point in even playing infernal legion tbf

[tulip fog]

i just wanted to play a Righteous Fire type of build where i could walk through maps and kill enemies just coming close to me with as few input from me as possible.
infernal legion is the closest i could come to that, but basically any spectre/companion with enough hp to literally MELT bosses in T16 maps and T4 pinnacle bosses are the mobs that has so shitty movespeed that you need to move them with weaponswapping that re-summons them while you move

[dawn saddle]

there's way better imo : high attack speed with an attack that makes you move (boneshatter for example), giving you crazy movement speed and with chain reactions of explosions to clear with heralds etc

at least that's the kind of build I'll make when I have more currency

[tulip fog]

i know there is a bugged interaction between herald of plague, herald of blood and the Plague support right now that lets it proliferate/loop around

which is super strong

you can use it for basically any attack that deals phys dmg

but idk if they intend to fix that in next weeks patch

so not sure i wanna start that now and then have the bugged interaction be broken/fixed next week

[dawn saddle]

what I wanna use is herald of ice + armor explosion

basically these explosions but with crazy move speed from boneshatter https://youtu.be/b6MMMob8Xgw?si=sUZkk1U2Ue4HsbcG

[tulip fog]

i used wind dancer to trigger poison, herald of plague and armor explosion last season, was a lot of fun, just walking around and letting enemies hit me, making them die half a screen away

[dawn saddle]

rn I play totems, with boneshatter just to move around. But for my next build I wanna focus on boneshatter instead https://medal.tv/fr/games/path-of-exile-2/clips/lbW7Yfq3Vprl1hG_o?invite=cr-MSxqSUosMjcxNTgyMTI1&v=33

[tulip fog]

i have a shockwave totem + fissure build right now but it feels slow to map with because i gotta resummon the totems while i go and keep spamming fissures

[dawn saddle]

yeah same, but I have decent clear due to molten blast totems

[tulip fog]

which takes like 10-20 seconds longer per pack to do than if i had just had a single ability to use that cleared the pack

[dawn saddle]

it takes me 2-3 seconds, but when it starts attacking it's the whole screen that pops if the area is open

[tulip fog]

ive seen ziz play a spark caster with cold infusions that looked pretty fun, ill see tomorrow if i can find if he made a buildguide for it

just spamming one button filling the entire screen with spark projectiles

[dawn saddle]

I feel like a build can't be perfect if it doesn't also have great movement

[tulip fog]

true, a build needs to be able to move from pack to pack with a good pace to feel good

[dawn saddle]

except for a few contents like simulacrum

I can just afk in simulacrum t3

[somber pendant]

https://youtu.be/_8DuXvlNL0E?si=vIfsB4WU2oKuIKpX

It can be done

[tulip fog]

ive seen that video he is using weaponswap to move it around

i dont want to have to rely on weaponswap

mostly because it puts me in harms way

since i need to walk up to the monsters before i weaponswap it to my location

the only thing i dont get is how he gets almost 200k life on that elephant, i could only get like 120k at most when i tried doing a planner for it myself

[wanton falcon]

If a skill have 2 hits or multihits in 1 click, does weakness exploit only proc on the first hit?

[hallow harbor]

Is it smart to go for CI with deadeye LA or is it better to be a hybrid build relying on life/es/eva?

[proud imp]

im playing an acolyte and want to use chaotic freeze. whats a good skill to make a lot of chaos damage hits to stack for chaos freeze

[lofty jungle]

Can I get a confirmation that Fresh Clip currently doesnt work in practice???

[west wharf]

dunno but it's not hard to test no?

just strip off all your supports besides fresh clip

and go do damage tests on some interlude boss, reset at waypoint repeat

[swift ridge]

Why can’t I search for a quarter staff using these two mods? Trade website finds nothing and I have one!

[pulsar atlas]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise of the Abyssal/eRR0YQ0wcL is this a good buy.. I think the extra dmg is kinda int

[unreal sierra]

most likely wrong attack speed, try looking for one with (local)

[burnt jungle]

Guys. Im planning to buy thunderfist utility wraps. Just want to ask what is the stat i should be prioritizing seeing these gloves rolls are all over the place. Should i look for high critical hit chance or the lightning damage etc?

[dreamy field]

im trying to put together a shield warbringer build and im unsure on how to choose the clearing skill (single target is basically covered with shieldwall + fortifying cry).

option 1: resonating shield damage - basically use resonating shield + fortifying cry + trampletoe. The main issue is movement speed and not sure if say shield charge would fill that gap.

option 2: resonating shield priming for boneshatter - similar setup to above, except resonating shield is used mainly to prime stun for boneshatter + trampletoe. Again, the concern is movement speed, plus im not sure if resonating shield would do enough stun build up on its own.

option 3: leap slam - at this point it's getting bit away from a "shield" build, but ye, either basic max damage + trampletoe leap slam setup or leap slam as primer for boneshatter.

Any ideas?

[idle plover]

Hi guys, i was experimenting with nova projectiles but figured it doesnt hit small mobs (small apes or bugs) and flies over their head. Does anyone know if this is intented behaviour or a bug?

[naive mason]

can i not use weapon set points to unlock jewel sockets?

[unreal sierra]

no

[naive mason]

bruh

feels like weapon set points are so useless

since you cant use the same weapons too