2┃build-planning

[west wharf]

they’re just additive damage increases

[shy root]

Anyone know if "ignore enemy physical damage reduction" also means it ignores broken armour, aka making it bad together?

[graceful ibex]

Nice! Great to know. Thanks!

[sage tulip]

question what would happen if I used elemenetal conflux with painters servant gloves ?

[west wharf]

you would simply do more dmg with the selected conflux element no?

[sage tulip]

maybe but the painters servant gloves is suppose to split the damage evenly between all 3 elements so IM wondering would it still be even or not since what comes first the glove effect of the conflux ?

[west wharf]

no it splits your base damage evenly between all 3

not your final damage

painters gloves is just conversion

[sage tulip]

hmm ok thanks for letting me know

[west wharf]

conversion happens at the start with your base damage, before damage increases etc

if you have painters gloves and have a ton of + fire dmg% on your tree and no cold/lightning, you’ll do more fire dmg

[sage tulip]

ok thanks for letting me know I want an even split of my 3 elements

so I can run fire storm and elemental storm together

[sage tulip]

question I havent really used any of the cast on .... skills if I put a support gem into it will the support gem effect the socketed skill ?

[wooden latch]

Math check: Primal Hunger (no innate rage effect) + Bestial Rage (12% per 10 rage) is a net benefit, right?

I'm toying with primal hunger, bestial rage and vengeful fury for an armor/damage setup.

[pastel forge]

savage fury kills you if you are CI?

[sage tulip]

wait is cast on shock and the other ones not in 0.4 ?

[pastel forge]

cast on ailments is there

[sage tulip]

damn how many of those can you run at once ?

[stone spindle]

are there any skills that help generate power chargers independently? I use raise zombie alot which consumes power charges, and I get those power charges from profane ritual (witch)

during boss fights, there are no corpses to consume so no power charges

playing as a lich

[pastel forge]

you can use sacrifice (60 spirit) to consume your own minions as corpses

[stone spindle]

hmm

[pastel forge]

other than that there are techs with melee skills + ailith's chime or unique armors

[stone spindle]

any other ways, i'm running spectres and wolf pack, dont wanna sacrifice those

oo will check them out ty

[pastel forge]

volls and another one, volls require you to crit

the other one just need to hit

[sage tulip]

can you use 2 different spellslinger set ups on the same wand mapped to 2 different keys ?

[pastel forge]

should be able to yes

im doing this on the same talisman for my wolf

but you also need to use the same weapons on both set and not another one

[sage tulip]

ok so I can run it off 2 buttons but that just means I need to have the same wands on the weapons sets. now does that mean I need to swap back and forth of just have them equipped ?

also damn that shred DPS

[pastel forge]

right click here

right click 1st set

it will make your 1st set apply on 2nd

[sage tulip]

ahh ok I see so I don't need 2 different wants I just need to apply 1st set to second set thanks

so then I won't need to swap back and forth between the sets mid fight it will just work.

[pastel forge]

yep

[sage tulip]

nice

[pastel forge]

only learned that last week haha

[sage tulip]

this helps cause I want to be casting a bunch of spells off of little amount of button pressing cause me and trying to times casting rotations doesn't work lol

also saves me a lot of spirit cost on my build

[pastel forge]

well thats unbuffed so its alright

[fringe ibex]

is there a way to consume shocks with xbow for shard scavenger? or am i gas lighting myself into think there was a support for that

[somber pendant]

What supports should i be using with my build for entangle and thrashing vine yall think?
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/LethalLoki-0881/character/SimpedBeyondDeath

[mortal swift]

Why cant I see the modifiers for boots/helms etc on poe2db ?

the weapons have theirs show up in tabs

[pastel forge]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Boots_int#ModifiersCalc

like this?

[mortal swift]

ah so I figured it out, earlier if you went to the items tab you could go to these tabs but now you have to go to another tab Thank you for your help though

[flat zenith]

anyone have an idea on if living bomb could be the main clear skill? kinda like coc comet but using just living bomb and scaling? Maybe something like coea with ignite? Not sure if it could be an insta explode

[pastel forge]

i think people have done instant living bomb on titan?

[silver gorge]

any idea if "Remnants you create grant their effect twice" results in you getting 2 instead of 1 infusion ?

[clever vine]

Guys which build is actually great for bossing? Budget 60d + i already got an HH

[tranquil steeple]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/CrocaDogg-2263/character/WHIRLYPEARLY

Currently trying to find the best way to immobolize, my current attempt has to do with using pin buildup on Rapid Assault however it doesn't do enough physical damage to build it fast enough on strong bosses, its the same way with using Spearfield for freeze on bosses, any advice?

[uncut bay]

somehow poisonburst arrow has good single target damage which amazes me
besides that spark comet, lightning arrow, grenade and lightning crossbow builds, incinerate, flame brrath, oil barrage,storm lance have good boss damage

thats just from the top of mY head, there are more builds

[clever vine]

I acutqlly running a LA deadeye. Im about at 100d investment and cant kill not even map bosses. Clear its amazing but bosses it terribly

I ran out of mana istantly. I also tried jewels with mana on kill etc

[uncut bay]

show your poeninja? whats your skill rotation?

[clever vine]

I spam like 10 lightning rod, tornado then spam LA

I am non crit LA tho

But with 100d or more i tought should work the same way

[uncut bay]

sorry, run out of mana on bosses?? your mana should be fine there with the mana flasks

there you go, non crit LA, thats why you deal less damage

maybe you position tornadoes wrong or have only one arrow or smth else

lightning arrow is great on bosses

[clever vine]

I have 3 arrows and tornado i think is great! I mean, i put it newxt to boos and i go inside of it. Probably should i invest those 60d into crit swap?

But not sure its ebough

[pastel forge]

oh, so savage fury actually doesnt kill you on CI, good to know

wait nvm my test is flawed

lemme fix something

ok it still works after i took off mom

[stray jetty]

Are there any good build guides for shaman wyvern? While I dont have a problem with the dps, I sometimes get 1hit deleted from bosses. I have around 76% def and around 2.7k es with 1.5k life which isnt a lot to begin with.

[fading flicker]

gas grenade for poison build any good this patch?

[pastel forge]

well physical damage is tricky because you need something like x10 the armour vs the damage hit to mitigate 50% if im not mistaken

so if something hits you 8k physical you need 80-90k armour to survive

[midnight bolt]

will i still benefit from critical weakness with this?

[upper vine]

as a druid going with entagled what should i look in for stats for wand and sceptre? in d4 the stats where easy to know what to go for but here i am confused af

like right now i have gold gear that are 5 levels under my level, should i just see past the rarities and go for the level i am in

[boreal wharf]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/jnljnl418921-4431/character/Nowidragon

trying to improve my character, i'm not sure if i'm trying to do too many things with it (charge regulation, coa comet & spell damage melee).

[oblique marlin]

anyone know why this added damage do not change values of dmg at skill menu AT ALL?

how to see damage increase then and if its working at all? all cold skills dmg tooltip still same as before

[dim fox]

Hi ! a friend is wondering if there are any good oracle druid build ?

[fading flicker]

anyone got a shockwave+anc totem build to share ?

[west wharf]

wym

this is defense

you don't get any dmg from this

you take less cold dmg

[chilly wharf]

How does this passive work with skills that have 100% elemental conversion, like Flame Breath?

[oblique marlin]

ah its defence...
another issue probably a bug? Overabundance +1 to limit support gem do not working for Summoned Wolves from Pounce

intended?

[west wharf]

perhaps

are you sure it's not working

you have to actually kill marked enemies to spawn wolves

and the last wolf can only be spawned off a unique mob kill

cus the regular limit is 6, to get 7 it needs to be off a unique

the +2 temporary minion limit node on the tree does work and apply to pounce

[oblique marlin]

its not specified that 7th must be from unique

[tulip trail]

hey, I want to switch from disciple minion build to a proper degenerate caster, what are my options here? I saw spark coc comet from animeprincess, seems pretty degen

[oblique marlin]

yes but Overabundance must add +1 too so must be limit 7. Unique means from one death will be +2 wolves, but it not increasing it over limit

[west wharf]

yes, it should theoretically make limit 7 and then 8 if you kill unique

if it doesn't then it's not working properly

just making sure that you actually killed a marked target

and also that ur gem is at least lv 14

[dim fox]

Hi ! a friend is wondering if there are any good oracle druid build ?

[static thicket]

Curious if anyone has anymore ideas for a volcano build that uses the obliterater bow to reduce the proj range of the volcano so it overlaps. Is this a thing it can do? It would still be able to get +5 proj, proj chain chance, 20% DMG as Xtra, and some other modifiers. Would lose quite a bit of spell damage and cast speed, but if it overlaps and chains enough, I could see it not mattering as much.

Ideally was thinking totems of some kind, that way cast speed isn't as much of an issue, but I'm open to ideas.

[static thicket]

Snakepit without the cannot pierce and cannot chain would help as well

[hasty kindle]

Not sure where else I can ask this but I’m having an issue with my passives scaling with one of my skills (spear field) and I’m not sure if it’s a bug or if I’m doing something wrong but if anyone could help me sort it out I’d appreciate it.

[west wharf]

both nodes work

[minor tree]

is there any way to have an invocation/meta skill on both sets cast the spells using a specific weapon set?

ie: CoC on 1 and 2, but it casts using 2 even if i'm in 1

[eternal meadow]

Living Lightning has line "minions disperse after 3 attacks" - does it count as death for purpose of minion death effects, such as Empowering Remains notable?

[minor tree]

doesn't it specify reviving minions?

[eternal meadow]

No

The question is more if dispersion=death

[minor tree]

then i'm not sure, sorry
from my experience living lightning has been very meh with these things, doesn't interact with tactician's "watch how i do it" either

idk if they're a different subtype of minion or if it's just bugged in some way

you could find out with earhbound loop, if you take a bajillion damage then it works

[lime narwhal]

busy messing with glacial lance deadeye. working really good for general clear but lacking on boss damage. anyone have some idea for me for bosses?

could go pathfinder and make lance poison or try to get atziri spear to do bleed, i dunno

[warped viper]

its very good!!!

xdd

if u decide to swap to it, my personal discord is full of ppl running the build so it would be a good place to ask questions if u need to troubleshoot, but it's not a particularly complicated setup so u may not need that

[tulip trail]

well i have to take your word for it xd Im just swapping but I'm too poor to afford 181 spirit yet

[warped viper]

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

this is the setup you should run before you get the spirit

this is VERY cheap to set up

its almost free

it transitions seamlessly when you get enough spirit

[woven depot]

ai thumbnail smhmh

[silver anvil]

playing carnerius's bear build, i feel the opposite of tanky? Doing 6mod t15s with three tablets.
https://pobb.in/qxJ-BeGp9Vj0
any advice on something i might be doing wrong?

one of the things that just blew me up was the fire and ice witch double boss, the fire one did that cage attack, and i was already outside of it, but the fire was able to reach outside of the and i got caught at the tail end, instantly died on the spot, 2000 to zero. Am I missing something? I feel like i got scammed trying to follow the build

[hasty kindle]

Shouldn’t it show that it’s effecting the damage though? Like it is for the other skills

[west wharf]

it's prolly cus spearfield doesn't have direct dmg

they have to be det'd

so they don't have a proper dps read

[still rock]

cloak of fire means you p much forced to skip -max res maps +and EW if you arent immune to curses or overcapped ele

phys dam will str8 up murder you

make sure you are looking at your map mods

[sage tulip]

How many cast on ailments can you run on one character ?

Sorry for all the questions last time I played was back in 0.1 so I know a lot of things changed since then.

[median otter]

does anyone knows how parry and evasion are related, I mean, evasion when parrying is supposed to grant higher heavy stun resistance, but is the local or global evasion used to do the math?

[still rock]

as much as you have spirit for

afaik

[sage tulip]

Alright thanks I was thinking about run 2 of them.

Just wasn’t sure if using 2 of the same skill was allowed.

[still rock]

oh nvm i forgot yeah you cant, just tried it

since 0.3

[sage tulip]

Damn

Well trying to think how to basically automate this build to work on just one button press.

[still rock]

u can do coc and coea

tho

[sage tulip]

Elemental storm has its own built in auto casts from ascendancy, cast on crit for fire storm, orb of storm from cast on ailments. Now what to use to auto casts pinnacle of power.

Well could use spellslinger for orb of storms and use cast on ailments for pinnacle of power maybe.

[fading stone]

why on earth does dual wielding two 1h maces make all of my attack's slower than 1h and shield

[sage tulip]

Not sure but some people run 2 twohanded maces and attack speed bonus cause the base damage of that sort of build is enough to sometimes not have to use skills when fighting common enemies and looks cool doing it.

[daring haven]

Does anyone knows if this effect also affect "more" and "less" modifiers or only "increase" or "decrease" ?

Was thinking to pair it with the Druidic Champion ascendency node (Shaman) to stack crazy damage on attacks

[west wharf]

only incresae and decrease

shaman node does nothing

[daring haven]

:( sad

[west wharf]

crown of eyes is still a good dmg scaling tool on shaman but there's no synergy with the more node

[daring haven]

that is very sad

thx for the answer though

[near jewel]

is the temple bricked and i will not get to atziri? can I reset it?

[modern swallow]

You need to connect it with an actual road tile, you can't use a room.

[fringe lagoon]

You have to wait until armoury in front of atziri gets destroyed. Considering u have to get to architect and the sacrifice room before you get to atziri this is gonna happen at some point

[modern swallow]

hey, question about the lich ascendency, "Crystaline Phylactary".

It seems... underwhelming to me? Is it really just a jewel socket that doubles the (non-unique!) jewel in it? (And gives you the spell cost penalty when your energy shield is down?)

Can anyone help me understand why that's good enough to be worth an ascendency notable? Am I missing some clever use of it, or is it just that I don't appreciate how valuable 2 extra gem sockets are?

[wicked tiger]

You can look up expensive jewels on the trade site. Imagine 2xing the effect of one of them. It’s pretty good

[bright pine]

that node is super strong

[modern swallow]

I'm willing to believe I'm missing something, I just don't understand why yet. Jewels are fine, but most of the interesting ones are uniques. Even expensive basic ones just seem like a mishmash of a few stats?

[bright pine]

ascendancy nodes in general are not very powerful

just one mod on a jewel gets you 40% inc es in that slot, thats alrdy good and u get 3 other stats

for sure one of the better ascendancy nodes in the game

[burnt gust]

any good shield wall guide incl. good levelling? 🙂

[bright pine]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/build-guides/shield-wall-warbringer-build-guide

[burnt gust]

ty, is warbringer the choice or titan better?

[bright pine]

for leveling and early mapping warbringer or kitava is best

would do warbringer, it gives source of armorbreak which is very nice until you get it on weapon

once u get armorbreak weapon u can swap to titan, which is probably quite early if ur in trade league at this point

on a private league or new league fresh start you'll generally be on warbringer for a while though

[vagrant plinth]

hey i have this on a skill i plan on using third in my skill rotation. for some reason, the second skill consumes all combo points i build up. why is that? the skills are rapid assault > wing blast > thunderous leap

[burnt gust]

what's an armor break weapon? "incr dmg against fully broken armor" affix?

[bright pine]

% of phys dmg breaks armour or smth

suffix

[burnt gust]

Ok thanks

[fringe lagoon]

It's 2 extra jewel sockets, I'd gladly take it with any build

[golden violet]

Besides Heavy Buffer, is there anything else I should check/remember when switching to CI?

[sage tulip]

curious does teh archmage buff calculate before or after the painter's unique gloves ?

[fringe lagoon]

have enough %ES on tree and ES on gear, get some %ES stun threshold / ailment protection, if u play attack based builds maybe consider some ES leech tech

[golden violet]

Thanks. I'm playing sand/fire djinn, currently lvl 75 on hc, looking to switch to ci. Right now I'm sitting on 6.5k es but I don't think that's enough 🙂

[sage tulip]

im trying to make a build that is competely evenly split fire, ice, and lightning damage across the board. with all the damages doing the same value of damage.

not counting enemy resistances

[daring haven]

-Bear form gives 1 endurance charge every 15 rage spent

-Rageforge supports adds 10 rage cost for more damage
-Shaman ascendency adds +5 rage cost
→ 15 rage cost per attack = 1 end charge gained per attack

-Using rage III support along with passives, ascendancy and jewels makes rage sustain easy
-Jagged ground support makes you consume a end charge on each attack

-Passives give access to:
-9% increased fire damage per end charge consumed recently
-Gain 2% damage as extra fire damage / charge consumed recently
-Recover 9% max health when consuming a charge

TLDR: You generate and consume a endurance charge on each attack, recovering 9% max health on each attack + other bonuses. Stack high health, attack speed and if mana is an issue use blood magic and you are set. This is not a whole build, just a nice interaction I think could work, just dropping that here.

[fringe lagoon]

hard to tell what is the exact value that would be considered enough, sorc has a lot of good %ES nodes so with good gear and tree u can push more. maybe sneak peak to poe ninja for high ES sorc builds can help

[burnt gust]

Uul Embrace and Tuls Stillness are both from T3 Xesht?

[pliant scroll]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/DeuceWombat-3545/character/MOULINYAN

Some inspiration for ya

[celest oxide]

How does Global Defences suffix interact with Iron Reflexes?

Does it boost my evasion before Reflexes turns it all to zero?

[fringe lagoon]

I think it does not, just armor after conversion

Can check pob to be sure

[daring haven]

I believe it will only boost the armour indeed

[fringe lagoon]

same for %ev from tree/gear

[celest oxide]

I only ask cause I'm crafting an amulet for Galv/Mirage Tactician

and idk if Global Defence is worth

I made this base and wanna be sure so I don't fuck it up

since this base along is worth a fucktonne already

[drifting burrow]

Is there any good reactive builds that actually work well or am I just out of luck? I tried making iron ward work but it's worthless against at least half of all enemies and boss encounters

Barrier invocation could be interesting but IDK what spells would be worth putting on it's activation

[celest oxide]

So does this mean Global Defences isn't good on Iron Reflexes Amulet?

[daring haven]

it is, it will increase your armour after conversion

Or so I believe

[craggy ember]

does anyone know any good guide for bloodmage CoC comet with spark?

[zenith valley]

am I meant to spam thrashing vines and rotate in thunderstorm, or how does i work? in act4 and bosses seem to take forever to die.. gear isnt bad, its up to date

[hybrid ocean]

Issue here is which skill to use it with- there are only three bear Slam skills

Furious Slam, fury of the mountain, and rampage

Maybe you could just continually stop and restart fury of the mountain?

[static basin]

what can I change to increase survivability, on fully juiced maps i be getting crushed sometimes by abyss and some bosses https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Robfu-6038/character/Trevekuri

[harsh sandal]

I just upgraded my skill gem levels on my Lunar Frost wolf and my mana cost went all haywire - how do I deal with my newfound mana hunger?

[tropic ridge]

Any tips on how to make sorceress take less damage?

[fringe lagoon]

usually it is mind over matter (or the same %dmg to mana before life effect gained via gear and tree) or big ES, maybe CI too.

having strong clear/dps also helps reducing the number of time you are hit

[minor tree]

Does anyone know if minion cool downs are reset if they die and respawn?

I was looking at grim feast and I was wondering if I resurrect a cleric with grim feast whether it would always immediately resurrect a second minion

Because then having a very high HP minion with infernal legion and decompose + a cleric means I can take 2 steps, resurrect the cleric, which resurrects the other minion, and loop

[carmine flicker]

what kind of sorc?

anyway, you can(should) go CI+tons of ES
18k ES should really help in the whole "lol don't care" business

[undone dew]

can someone help me udnerstand how to use energy shield? im hybrid armor energy shield, i tried recoup, regeny the feel awful and slow, the starndard recharge mechanism doesnt feel good as melee becosue it never starts to recharge in fight, i am considering eldritch battery and damage taken from mana before life, but its either a unuqie or a lot of wasted skill point, how do u guys use ES as druid?

[fringe lagoon]

Consider zealoth oath and if using attacks ES leech

[static basin]

Im in similar boat as druid. I have zealots oath and 4k buffed ES, it isn't enough to avoid 1 shots. 15k Armour, 80-100 resists

[undone dew]

what the optimal way to get es leech? do i have to use a support gem or is there a mod on weapon or gloves? i dont really want to use gem, becosue haths -30% more dmg=(

[static basin]

Es leech only helps if you aren't getting one shot, cant leech when dead. Game doesn't give enough defense options honestly

The best defense seems to be screen clearing everything instantly so you dont have to take any hits at all

[carmine flicker]

you can always use prayers for rain(unique body) and reformed barrier node(and have some spctre you really want to die with minion instability and infernal legion)

[sharp hawk]

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/2016f50u

Trying to get leech to work but apparently i dont deal enough phys with whirling assault

So now I am thinking of:

• Replacing both rings with non-unset
  • Drop Herald of Ash
  • Drop Falling Thunder (dont really use it anyways)
• Get new ele res rings, one with life leech, other with mana leech suffixes

For other builds on poe.ninja this seems to work fine and they have enough combined phys dmg to leech, but I am not sure if I am missing something

[carmine flicker]

(can afk tank anything but arbiter on my druid)

[undone dew]

how much regen you have to afk tank?

[carmine flicker]

around 5k

a bit more, really, can get closer to 6k with better items, but they are on my lich, need to change them back to check properly

[undone dew]

5000 es or life regen?

[carmine flicker]

5k ES recharge(constant one)

[undone dew]

with the reformed barrier stuff?

[carmine flicker]

around 15-16k es

ye

werewolf prowler(can use other spectres, I just like that one), cast on minion death to spawn orb of storm(for lightning infusions)

so I get both ES recharge, damage from orbs and infusions from same setup

[undone dew]

i hoped there is a tech what is inline with the druid "vision", but both zealoth oath and scarred faith feels garbage with talisman, especially if i can have 5k regen with some minion sheaningens

[carmine flicker]

who care about vision?

also talisman isn't really druid weapon, in terms of ascendancy, warrior ascendancies are way better suited to bear the bear IMO

also wisdom of the magi is actually really imnportant cause it add "minions revive faster" to minion reservation rune, so you can get better recharge uptime1

it's rather unique stat that's hard to get other way

damage per rage is good too and really good with barrier tech

[undone dew]

i care about the vision, if i want to abuse some convulted tech i play poe 1, i play poe 2 to toleplay, there is not enough content to play poe 2 serieusly

[carmine flicker]

idk.. if I want to roleplay I play Pathfinder 2e tabletop with friends 🙂

POE 2 is still ARPG focused on optimisation

[undone dew]

ok but if u would look me up on poe ninja u would see my garbage build and i defeated every pinnacle boss, there is really not that much incentive to optimize

[carmine flicker]

yeah, for sure, I do it for the sake of doing it

numbers go brr, me happy

[undone dew]

thats okey, im just tryin to tell u some people like to roleplay, i really wanted to make druid work as it is, and the only bad thing is energy shield, it really doesnt feel part of the druid experience

[carmine flicker]

well, GGG didn't really get that vision all that great IMO

druid ascendancies are waaay more suited for wand/storm/plant druid than for talisman bear one

a some "caster" benefits, some "generic" benefits, nothing that benefit whole shapechange thing

sacred flow is all about "now I have spirit for minions"(or cast on X setups) - anyway, minion/caster node
druidic champion is caster node
bringer of apocalypse is caster node
no melee damage/shapechange/slam nodes at all
sad

[pastel forge]

furious wellspring is very strong for shapeshift imo, since its basically eternal rage (100 spirit) that scales rage regen with mana regen.

the problem is you are forced to take druidic champion to get it

they need to add a "choice node" for druidic champion like with pathfinder/deadeye

[carmine flicker]

you can get rage on melee easy without this node IMO
it's only good if want to spend rage 24/7

[pastel forge]

it also gives extra max rage which is quite scarce on the tree

[carmine flicker]

also it's 4 nodes
4 ascendancy nodes
I rather take sacred flow, get 120 spirit and socket that eternal rage..

[olive compass]

Does Riven Armour gives extra damage per hit? Meaning that even weak shots (but with muliples projectiles and hits) will, in theory, cause much more dmg from raving armour compared to other skills?

[carmine flicker]

(then again I don't really value charms all that much, unless I can build some cool tech around them with ritualist or smth)

[pastel forge]

all im saying, if druidic champion node was giving a split node that says something like (+0.5%/1% to rage effect) aka make rage scaling even stronger, there would be higher incentive to play shapeshift on shaman

[carmine flicker]

for damn sure
but it doesn't 🙁

[pastel forge]

its just funny to me that oracle ended up being better for shapeshift

[carmine flicker]

(even then I'd rather choose titan or kitava..)

[pastel forge]

i went with invoker and im loving it tbf

[carmine flicker]

or that, sure

[pastel forge]

especially after i learn that you can use berserk and savage fury with no penalty using CI

[carmine flicker]

damn, PATHFINDER will be better IMO than any druid ascendancy and that's actually stupid if you ask me

[pastel forge]

it also helps that i can stack fat amounts of spirit using eva/es chest

it turns out my problem lies not in spirit but in number of skill slots

[upbeat ivy]

@mystic geode here is what i got so far

[pastel forge]

ended up needing x2 unset ring

[carmine flicker]

I only have that problem on pet builds..

[upbeat ivy]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Fate of the Vaal/5nLbyWyDfa was looking at this trade filter for potential quivers but im not sure-

[carmine flicker]

damn muster setups

[upbeat ivy]

if its awful

[mystic geode]

what are you looking for?

[upbeat ivy]

I need bow, quiver, a ring that can be kaalandra'd for resistances, and an amulet

this is my current filter for quivers

[pastel forge]

so many utility skills i would love to have but cant

[carmine flicker]

now I want to play berserk/druidic champion caster with constant self hit to keep rage up (set rage once at the start of the map and then turn off that 100 spirit rage regen and keep hitting yourself to keep at max)

but tbh 35% more damage sounds "ok?" at best for all the setup and troubles

(weapon swap at the start of each map, wait 10 seconds, swap back.. eh)

[pastel forge]

speaking of weapon swap

+176% skill duration effect anyone?

[carmine flicker]

what for?

[pastel forge]

31s savage fury (basically full uptime)
31s rend
62s bhatair's vengeance

[carmine flicker]

do 35% more and 140% increased really worth it for 30 spirit, 2 ascendancy points and 10 second of setup?

[pastel forge]

you referring to druidic champion?

[carmine flicker]

and

[carmine flicker]

won't work

[pastel forge]

confirmed?

[carmine flicker]

afaik yes

[pastel forge]

if confirmed then its the most useless keystone in the game

[carmine flicker]

the best part about rage - you don't lose it if you are hit every 4 second
that's easy to setup with volatility and a bit of healthy masohism

[pearl sluice]

Playing HC SSF for the first time in POE2, normally play SC SSF.

Any "wish I had known this" HC tips, or thoughts on playing Warrior? Shield Wall vs Bear, Smith vs. Warbringer/Titan?

[carmine flicker]

it's for, like.. lunar rage?

to have it longer

get it on caster sorc(with some rage gain from.. something?), pop lunar rage here and there

[pastel forge]

blessing? pointless especially with my weapon set, i can have pretty much 100% uptime with 0 rage

for others like oracles, thats why they use eternal rage

[carmine flicker]

yeah, lunar blessing

[pastel forge]

having more uptime and losing 30-80%+ more damage is dumb

[carmine flicker]

IMO it's "caster that want lunar blessing" node

(non druid caster so it have zero use for rage)

[pastel forge]

you cant even use lunar blessing as human, the buff doesnt apply outside of wolf

[carmine flicker]

imaging
lich that have idol on weapon swap and let his inner werewolf out every so often to then switch back and do her.. lich business

[carmine flicker]

lol?

damn, that's sad

I was thinking it work as prebuff

[pastel forge]

if you want a damage buff, you use rend

but you need to deal with power charges and skill duration for that

base rend duration is 10s

thats why its nice for my setup, i use rend and forget about it for 30s

[carmine flicker]

power charges are easy to get

so if rend works in human form I can actually use that.. hmm

I have power charges I have no use for anyway, so why not

from the cast on ailment living bomb/comet setup to fire fire-infused comets left and right

[pastel forge]

this is why my weapon set exists

[carmine flicker]

then again it compete with circle of power on weap swap

and circle of power is more, well, powerful

(with max duration and AOE setup, to do the whole THIS IS MY ARENA! thing)

[pastel forge]

well yea, unless you have 0% extra damage anywhere there's no reason to set up for rend as a caster

or if your mainhand is a staff already w/ sigil

[carmine flicker]

and lose 500 ES from focus?

never!

[pastel forge]

thats what the new ascendancy is for

well you get less stats from the focus but still

[carmine flicker]

problem is - other than that it's rather bad

[pastel forge]

there's the es nodes too so its not entirely bad for casters, gaining a bit more migitation as pure es

[late laurel]

So I'm trying to utilize the Lightning nodes from Oracle and I'm struggling to make anything that deals amazing damage

Besides Lightning Arrow and Wyvern I'm wondering how people are doing Lightning Attacks

[old ermine]

Can anyone explain to me how I can get my CoC Coment setup to chain back to back?

[celest oxide]

Does your build still feel like a build when you use Headhunter?

I could get one now easy but idk if that's the vibe I want

I could just add Darkness Enthroned and go zoom

[vagrant plinth]

hey i have this on a skill i plan on using third in my skill rotation. for some reason, the second skill consumes all combo points i build up. why is that? the skills are rapid assault > wing blast > thunderous leap

[tropic ridge]

Im trying to do a ice build

[static basin]

What is your POB? I am not sure what to do differently, I've tried a lot of different things millions in respec and no luck

[twin sierra]

there are multiple ways to make es feel tanky but good es leech does make you feel insanely tanky

its hard to get though especially for spells, idk what options there even are outside of bloodmage

getting oneshot is rarely ever the issue on an es build aslong as you have >10k es. Its almost always gonna be more about taking sustained/multihit dmg, so better recovery can work even better than scaling max es for feeling tanky

[hybrid ocean]

Has anyone tried choir of the storm with necromantic talisman?

[static basin]

Im a shaman druid demon bear, I have about 4k buffed ES and 520 regeneration per second, its not enough :/

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Robfu-6038/character/Trevekuri

[cunning ridge]

Go with captain lances walking calamity bear

[celest oxide]

Does all my flat damage/gain as damage have to be even for Trinity Painters Glove combo to work?

I don’t get any fire stacks for trinity

[pastel forge]

do you have gain % dmg as extra from outside of the gloves?

cause those will skew your ability to gain certain elements

[hybrid ocean]

Are crits calculated on a per hit basis, or a per attack/projectile/explosion basis?

[celest oxide]

Yeah it was my Heart of the Well

Had gain lightning and cold

So I guess the tech is to get an against the darkness win gain fire as well

[pastel forge]

pretty much yea, i personally gave up on trinity

i just use conflux

[pallid yacht]

Is it possible to get shockwave totems to produce aftershocks?

[woven depot]

Yes

[pallid yacht]

how?

[clever vine]

Guys can someone help me swappibg my non-crit LA Deadeye build to a crit one? You can DM me if you want. Ty very much

[woven depot]

It’s a slam, but if they never fixed the old bug stopping the passive nodes not working with it then Titan ascendancy should still work for it

[pallid yacht]

Let me rephrase, what sources of aftershocks don't specify "slam skills you use yourself"? Or does it just work anyways for some reason? As far as I can tell all the passives have that wording, so I was wondering if there was a source I had overlooked

[woven depot]

Titan does work for some reason, and I’d wager the passive nodes should work and if they still don’t then that’s probably a bug, but support gem and unique mace also works

[pallid yacht]

huh, that's definitely not supposed to work but good to know

[woven depot]

Passive tree works with ancestral totem

[pallid yacht]

support gem can't even be socketed, so that one definitely doesn't work

[woven depot]

RIP, skill is fucked

[abstract rampart]

Hi guys is there any reason why i cant use this weapon as set 2?

[woven depot]

Socketed augments maybe, limit is shared between

[abstract rampart]

i see

thanks

[dusk hill]

I can't seem to find a good guide for Ranger Galvanic Shard build. Anyone can recommend a build online?

[silver gorge]

does monsters take increased damage exist in any usuable form ? I hve seen it only relics

[pallid yacht]

shock ailment, wither (for chaos), theres a few more niche ones as well

[silver gorge]

thx sir !

[pallid yacht]

what build are you playing, maybe i can give you more relevant examples

oh yeah and fully broken armour for phys

[silver gorge]

im playing infusion ice nova mostly

[pallid yacht]

well i thought there was a node for inc damage taken per second frozen by you but i seem to be confused with poe 1

[silver gorge]

i was hoping to find something like poe1 unnerve / intimidate

[pallid yacht]

there is a node in the ranger area for 20% inc damage taken vs frozen enemies but it would probably have to be an anoint

also as far as intimidate/unnerve, intimidate exists and is not limited to only attack damage, plus it also reduces the enemies damage

that said i think theres very few sources of intimidate in this game vs poe 1

[silver gorge]

oh yeah i see it on wiki now 👌

too bad Fearful Paralysis is super far on the south side ... id intimidate when I freeze

[near jewel]

how can I clear the slot before boss? I run the temple all the time and it satys like tis while other rooms disappear?

[pallid yacht]

you could anoint it instead, but it's only 10% vs the other node

[pallid yacht]

run architect and pray it gets removed

[silver gorge]

yeah Ill probably reserve that annoint for something defensive

[brittle anvil]

run architect for more deletion or if you get corruption chamber you can kill it

[torpid temple]

yo guys, I wanna reroll but I am poor as fuck (2divs to my name). I ran EDC but never reached its full potential or managed to spec to a different build. What's a fast build that will hoopefully help me reach endgame? All ascendancies are game

[carmine flicker]

still want one?

[tidal birch]

So, in retro perspective, what were the best leauge starters for this season?

[bright pine]

shield wall the best imo

beyond that nades, poison pf, edc lich, plants all great too

[tidal birch]

Okay, ty for the answer

[minor berry]

Hello there. Iam new to ''endgame'' and iam struggling with surviving some of the mobs. Iam in the right channel where i can ask for help with items ?

[fringe berry]

Hey guys! Any bloodmage spark coc builds? o.O suprisingly difficult to find for me

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/u1ji500f what do you guys think about this? I've beeing trying to get a "high end" bloodmage build

[toxic beacon]

About 20% of the playerbase is using comet with cast on crit right now.

[fringe berry]

So, no choir of the storms? It is just that I'm playing bloodmage for the 1st time and I'm super lost hahah

so I was looking for a "this is it starting - this is it on uber budget" kinda guide or something

I managed to get 100% critchance, so there is that.

But I'm not on the self-build situation yet, I'm learning

[toxic beacon]

I mean that build guide is pretty budget friendly if you don't include the body armor

[fringe berry]

I've got 150divs to get the BM project going haha, but I was told I was broke lol

I wanted to know the uber version of the build (without temporalis) so I cna work towards it

Also tips to run HH instead of the tether tech

[toxic beacon]

Economy is quite screwed at the moment 150 divs today is like 30 divs this time last season

[fringe berry]

so many things, also Bloodmagic vs Mana.

[fringe berry]

oof. Guess is farming time.

Still don't know what to do though HAHAH

[tranquil steeple]

Can anyone explain why people like exclusively play poison on the poison bow skills? Like why not big single hits like plasma blast for bleed and stuff? I am sure there is a reason but just wondering

[fringe berry]

looking at poeninja right now on Spark/Comet

[toxic beacon]

You probably want blood magic, CoC casts comet so often that theres no way to keep up with just mana.

[toxic beacon]

I think looking at references from poe ninja for this is good

The main parts of the basic build are cast on crit with comet, spark with high crit and cast speed and Atziris Acuity gloves

Though it is very flexible, many variations out there

You could also run Ataluis bloodletting and lifetap, some people do that

[sullen yew]

Looking for druid leveling guide

[toxic beacon]

Did you look at mobalytics?

[sullen yew]

Ya, just don't know which one to take.

Someone suggested the entangle build

[fringe berry]

but wiht my current build comet comees just everynow and then, granted I don't know what I'm doing, I'm just following a guide.

[fringe berry]

on spark no?

Someone said it is possible to run HH instead of the soul tether tech

how would I do that without impacting my survivality?

[toxic beacon]

Headhunter is kind of like a magic wand that fixes all of your problems while mapping

[sullen yew]

Which would you suggest?

[toxic beacon]

Whats the crit chance on your spark? Also it's important to stack attack speed and projectile speed to make sure that the sparks are hitting enemies as often as possible.

[fringe berry]

100%

[fringe berry]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal/character/skyrayfox-6806/SKYRAY_VAAL?i=3&search=class%3DBlood%2BMage%26skills%3DComet%252CSpark look at this one

I think I could start to copy paste it, and then learn

[toxic beacon]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/bear-druid-build-league-starter-to-endgame?ws-ngf5-f7d82102-7e77-4a44-ad24-33b67e8ae7bf=activeVariantId%2C2 This looks like something I leaguestarted with

[sullen yew]

Ty I'll check it

Ya, I'll try that one

[toxic beacon]

Stomping you enemies to death is pretty badass

[toxic beacon]

Yeah soul tether is good too but you need one with vaal cultivation orb used to remove the downside as you can see

[fringe berry]

yeah I got one.

[toxic beacon]

Atziris splendour is totally optional

Getting one with good rolls costs like more than a mirror

[sullen yew]

Aww. The guide doesn't show when to get the gems

[toxic beacon]

Are you looking at the "Act 1-3" section of the build?

[sullen yew]

Hmm. Let me find that lol

[toxic beacon]

It is set to uber endgame by default

[fringe berry]

I guess. I was also thinking of spicing things up with the HH, but I lose the ES tech no? Trying to figure that out. Someone said to use Rejuvenetion on the ascension skil and spend 30spirit on Convalescence, but I don't understand that.

[sullen yew]

There we go. Had to scroll to the right lol

Now to see what gear I should be looking for as I level. Stat wise

Oh, a video guide

[toxic beacon]

Your life remnants generates life orbs right? With Khatal's you get CDR when you collect those remnants, convalescence has a cooldown so it will benefit from that CDR.

[fringe berry]

convalescence is triggering alone by iteself?

[toxic beacon]

Convalescence is a skill that you need to manually click to activate

It's pretty confusing since it also costs spirit, but thats how it works

[fringe berry]

I see.

[rotund tartan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nH1hHyzUSk&t=1490s at around 29 mins in the gameplay reveal, what are the skills the merc is using? the ones making arrows rain from the sky? i see the totem but what about the golden bolts raining down? is that a merc skill too or an enemy skill?

[sullen yew]

Here comes dying 10,000 times lol

One thing I absolutely love about this game is the pause feature

Sweet, right away i found a +2 to melee talisman

[raw nest]

Does elemental weakness from the elemental weakness curse stack with the elemental weakness from the oil barrage ?

[gaunt ether]

is this not just focused fire from poe 1?

[stark pewter]

does this work with Living Lightning? the tooltip for LL specifies that enemies ignore them, but they're also minions so do they even have life to drain with this?

[toxic beacon]

Not sure but I think the minions actually need to have enough life to remove with this too

Does living lightning have a hp stat?

[celest oxide]

Do all my flat damages need to be relatively equal for trinity to work too?

Or does Painters Gloves convert them

[fringe lagoon]

Depends on other factors like extra elemental DMG, conversions on the skills u use etc..

[celest oxide]

Yeah I have extra elemental damage removed for now til I can balance out my heart of the well

And it's a bit better than it was but I don't get much cold reso now

I'm just asking if Flats factor in that calculation as well

[static basin]

Yes if you dont mind please share a viable high defense pob I can review. I'm trying to understand how defenses work better. I've tried a lot of different things and still getting demolished sometimes is annoying me lol I want to crack the code.

[carmine flicker]

I can share my lich too if you want

[static basin]

I only have a shaman atm. I'm ready to give up on him though I've put way too many hours into him and he still isnt tanky enough. I tried 45k+ armour builds... energy shield... regen, life leech, nothing is working

[carmine flicker]

https://pobb.in/Y4UZ1HdyXtCi

my pob

pob doesn't calculate ES regen

I have around 2.5k

[static basin]

I guess my issue is im playing melee? Idk my "effective health pool" has been as high as yours but i still get 1 shot

[carmine flicker]

effective health pool is a lie

it doesn't mean anything

max hit matters

and recovery

I don't play melee
I play "afk lol"
I go there, I go pet my cat while my minions do w/e they do, I return and grab loot

they are actually good at killing things by themself sooner or later

[static basin]

they roam the map you dont even need to move? lol

[carmine flicker]

nah, I mean bosses

I move to bosses, minions kill w/e they want on the way, then kill boss while I pet cat

[static basin]

got u

[carmine flicker]

but I don't dodge or care, I just.. exist

as movable totem that spawn minions or smth like that

I can share my druid pob, but it's naked

[static basin]

so I found a shaman that has similar max hit to you https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal/character/SaulSantiago-5695/BigKushAwoo?i=1&search=class%3DShaman%26sort%3Dlowestmax%26columns%3Dcharacter%252Clevel%252Clife%252Cenergyshield%252Clowestmax%252Cdps%252Ckeystoneskill

[carmine flicker]

it had 16k ES and 6k recovery on full gear

[carmine flicker]

not much recovery there

while my shaman had almost 6k recovery

need to rebuild it, but later

may be in 3-4 hours

wasn't melee tho, it was caster(caster that facetanked everything, but still caster)

[static basin]

do you mean recovery literally?

ES regeneration? "recovery"

not sure I understand what that is

[carmine flicker]

there are 3 main ways to recover ES
recharge, regeneration, leech

[fringe berry]

bro, question. Is there something going on with the Choir of the Storm? ppl seem to run it or not. apparently some interaction going on

[toxic beacon]

It’s insanely op if you have temporalis, but good luck affording it

[fringe berry]

oh, otherwise just use the regular spirit amulet, got it.

[toxic beacon]

Some people still use it without Temporalis I think, you can check out those builds too. But I don't think choir is necessary.

[fringe berry]

Got it.

[calm lava]

Anybody with a gemling legionnaire able to answer a few qs about Thaumaturgical Infusion?

• Does the Thaumaturgical Infusion count support gems in your weapon swap?
• Does it count support gems in skills that are disabled because you don't have enough attributes?

[sullen yew]

@toxic beacon ty for suggesting this build

Hey all, which is the first charm I should choose? Fire, cold or lightening?

[old ermine]

what % crit for spells do I want to run CoC comet?

[carmine flicker]

example of my tank from previous league

https://youtu.be/irfLSpkbTFg

[celest oxide]

Wait, so does Flat Damage get added before or after Painters Gloves convert it?

[fringe berry]

I don't know what I'm doing wrong man. I'm not doing the dmg and the comet is not doing the comet things. hahaha. I have 100% crit on the thing and 500% bonus crit. Decent spell dmg and cast speed too. but the dmg/clear is just not there. I'm lvl 86 and t15 is a complete struggle.

Surely the prob is me, because don't really know what do do to fix the thing

T_T

copy paste fail

[late laurel]

If you use Tame Beast to get 3 different enemies only for their Ground effects (Trail of Fire/Cold/Lightning) would that work? Can you do that?

[torn mango]

Can Vitality I and II stack on different skills to make 3% life regen?

[sullen yew]

So wolf leveling isn't good?

[cedar tulip]

Can rearmed hazards rearm again?

[late laurel]

It is if you keep up with Talismans, it was breezy for me but a struggling for seemingly everyone else

[sullen yew]

Ohhh ok

Which talismans is for wolves?

[late laurel]

Whichever one works? There's not really a specific Talisman only for Wolves, at least not til you get to endgame

Like any melee weapon

[late laurel]

So Burning and Shocked ground are pretty easy to get with Oil/SoS and Wake of Destruction, but I'm struggling to find where Chilled Ground might come from besides Frost Nexus

I suppose that'd be the Tame Beast

[sullen yew]

Boy is the temple weird

Are you won't writing a book?

[odd tulip]

Hey everyone, I'm pretty new to the game and am following a Mobalytics build for Shaman bear Druid . I'm currently starting act 3, and I have a few questions:

1. For the nodes which give +5 attribute, which attribute(s) should I pick? I'm mostly taking all of them in strength with the occasional dex and int, if the numbers look too low. However I don't know what I'm doing at all, is there any logic to which attributes should be picked?
2. Should I focus on armor, evasion or energy shield? I read online that you should layer these, but I'm not sure which of these should be prioritised. I'm focusing mostly on armor but I feel like I'm really weak against elemental damages.

[sullen yew]

Oh you did lol

[odd tulip]

Yeah sorry it was a lot to type out lol

[celest oxide]

Do I want a Phys xBow or +Ele Damage + Ele Flats xbow on Trinity/Painters Glove build?

[fringe lagoon]

Depends if ur build has phys to elem conversions via the skill u use

Check on pob is always easiest solution

[celest oxide]

Galv Shards and Storm Bolts they both have 60% lightning to Phys Conversion

[vagrant plinth]

when this says "up to 100%" does that mean like...a guaranteed crit?

[late laurel]

100% Increased, not 100% Crit

[fringe lagoon]

If your crit weapon is 10% crit chance then 100% would mean u go to 20% (additive with all other crit chance from build)

[late laurel]

So if you have 5% Crit rate baseline, 100% increased will make it 10%

[vagrant plinth]

thank you

second question; is this 0-20 in parenthesis the range i could roll from using a gemcutter gem on the skill, or more so the max amount i can have?

[barren compass]

is path of building still up to date with the new druid and everything?

[plush crypt]

im doin something weird with shaman caster. is there a way to increase max rage without shapeshifting?

[glad rover]

is adamant recovery supposed to do anything?

[austere reef]

At 0% quality you get 0% chance, at 5% quality you get 5% chance, at 20% quality you get 20% chance. The quality just maxes out that effect once you get the quality maxed out at 20%. (Quality can go up to 23% when getting lucky with a Vaal orb on the gem)

Also GOAT profile photo

[raw nest]

Is there a minion limit?

[torn mango]

Trying to get more damage out of this build I saw on YT: any help is appreciated…my main hand physical damage is about 900 - 2k https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/smullany-7061/character/SHANEACONDAdotFOUR#stats

[flat root]

for druid werewolf's lunar assault which number is considered for the damage out of this range?

[slim saffron]

Anyone can suggest me budget build like 250-300 div

[west wharf]

all of it?

you roll a number in that range

[flat root]

so I consider an average out of this range, right?

[west wharf]

for avg dps calculations yeah

you'd take the midpoint number

[iron meteor]

for a poisonburst arrow build could my plaguefinger have the poison chance on hit replaced with magnitude or is the poison chance important?

[torn mango]

What if your helmet has 20% crit hit chance? What will the total be? 40% or 24%?

[pale jewel]

Looking fr a build that makes use of ignite, seems busted this league and I dont think I have played any fire based builds yet, anyone got something good that can clear T3 pinnacles?

[timid cloud]

https://youtu.be/Jg437hv4woU?si=QXFknYafWjcW1zt7

[fierce verge]

Can anyone help me with this monk inv hollow palm build. Been using stormweaver all this time and can’t seem to make tempest flurry fly through the map like in this build.

I’m already at the lvl 85+ waystone portion of it. Using tempest flurry but can’t take off and go fast.

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/ronarray-unarmed-hollow-palm-monk?ws-ngf5-f7d82102-7e77-4a44-ad24-33b67e8ae7bf=activeVariantId%2C621ff37e-fab2-433e-953f-6fe55d3dd36c

[fringe lagoon]

120% of your base crit, so 22%

[quartz cairn]

So with Disciple of Varashta, is Navira better than Ruzhan lategame? I see a lot a builds using it and wonder if its preference or because cold/chill/freeze in general is better than fire

[torn mango]

Ahh that’s why getting crit hit chance on the weapon is so valuable

[proud sable]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/LuciLemakara-0237/character/sapphicneckromancer
hi! im running out of mana really fast and idk what i should do to fix it?

anyone got any suggestions?

[late laurel]

Twister can take multiple ground eles right?

Not Tornado, that one definitely does, but Twister

[timber talon]

is this huge having on armor/boots or better go for extra res?

if playinh hybrird ES/EV

[late laurel]

Follow-up question, can Whirlwinds pick up multiple ground eles? I'm not seeing a visual change when they do

Also can Twisters bounce off of Ice/Bone walls or only real terrain

[south cobalt]

I'm looking into building cold based char (either oracle or blood mage), COC comet probably. Have this wand that's in the making:

Perhaps yall know if cold dmg mod t1 is better/worse than another gain dmg mod?

[hybrid ocean]

Depends on how much increased damage you have

You probably have somewhere around 34% total gain as extra

So another 30% would be ~20% more damage

Meanwhile with literally only this wand, that cold damage mod is like 37% more, but would be 48% if the gain as extra were cold

However it's worth noting that the second gain as extra won't benefit from all the same element specific boni

[hybrid ocean]

TL;DR if you have more than 300% increased spell damage from the tree, it's absolutely better to get another as extra.

[dusky wadi]

Is it worth to go for strongbox nodes on the atlas passive tree?

[torn mango]

How much physical damage is needed to break armor on T15 mobs?

[rare grove]

was mercenary supposed to get a nerf that made him unable to use nova 2 on grenades?

[silver anvil]

#1447385591393161370 message
posted for help here for my shaman bear, crossposting it to this channel as well

[lethal robin]

anyone know why herald won't work?

it has been working fine so far

[small anvil]

Lose a stat or something?

[lethal robin]

after checking somhow the came unchecked both weapon set with out me opening that page ever

bit of googeling solved it

[uncut bay]

@half pumice just so you know what to expect from armour, it's very expensive, and this person is doing the build I talked about

[torn quiver]

anyone mind checking my build ive managed to occasionally cause myself to get -50% on reverse chilling slowing me down while majority of the time im at 50% going faster

[half pumice]

Gotchqaa

[frosty steppe]

Hey folks. Earlier today a super kind player decided to call this league quits and gifted me their entire build. But, they didnt really explain what the build was, how to level it, how to play it so I really want to make and level a character that takes advantage of all the gifts that were given to me. So if anyone can help me plan what the general build is, what nodes to focus on during leveling, just any help planning this would be greatly appreciate.

I have a PoB link with the items and gems I was given for reference - https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/39187u0u

[torn quiver]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/elak93-7419/character/ElakMoonk can anyone see how im managing to get regular chill? its seriously driving me mad

[stiff meteor]

will that work with self chill?

[grizzled sleet]

Been running lightning spear amazon nearly at end game but tired of juggling power charges ect. Thinking of maybe swapping to rake bleed or just going back to my plant druid. Any ideas for a fun huntress buils that doesn't involve waiting for everything to line up for burst dmg

[fringe lagoon]

Could go whirling slash twister Amazon, check out some builds on PoE ninja. I've been playing the build on witchhunter from league start and it's fun

[grizzled sleet]

Ok tks ill check it out

[flat jungle]

if i support pounce with buruts brain to make the wolfs immortal can i still use culling strike support so they cull enemies?

[pulsar escarp]

Do you guys know if "Grants # Life per enemy hit" works if i hit the same target multiple times?

[flat jungle]

yes

oh no there 2 diffrent mods

PER enemy hit and on hit per hit can give multiple times on the same enemy per enemy hit gives per skill use the amount once per enemy

[zinc hawk]

Hello I have trouble picking, is coc comet faster or bear druid. I like being fast and annihilate enemy on my screen with low effort

[flat jungle]

both

both can be VERY VERY fast based on how much you invest and how you build it

CoC comet is 99% of all spellcasters so you could play anything and bear has MANY way to build it mathil made a reverse chill bear thats fast asf

[zinc hawk]

Which one do you recommend for a newer player?

[flat jungle]

whatever you want to play for bear captain lance has a solid early to endgame diary with his bear and for spell caster idk do ANYTHING bloodmage stormweaker pathfinder ... spark frostbolts to tigger comet do whatever you like there SO MANY diffrent comet casters

[cedar aspen]

Probably Walking Calamity Bear. Not sure if it does as much damage as CoC comet but it’s Druids version of comet anyway with next to no effort to get it going, other than passive tree placement and gear of course.

[pliant solar]

Does fully broken armour debuff with the molten one's gift node interacts with ignite from fire damage hits? Does it increase the ignite damage applied?

it should right?

[little lake]

Hi all, just started a new Druid character and wanted some advice on skill tree. What direction would people recommend going first

[fringe lagoon]

Poe ninja has a time machine functionality where you can see builds at certain snapshots (e.g. 6 hours or 2 days after league start). Might be worth looking at some druid builds u like and see how the leveled

[flat jungle]

i think ailments in gernal DONT get affected by increased dmg taken because the inital hit already gets the increased dmg so it doesnt affect the ignite dmg directly but it increases the dmg of the hit you apply the ignite with so yes it increases the fire dmg taken

[pliant solar]

well yes I'm not talking about the ignite dot

I'm talkign about the ignite hit which increases ignite dot

logically it should work

as bigger hit = bigger dot

unless resists

[flat jungle]

but how do you break armour if youre going fire dmg?

[brittle anvil]

isn't it the opposite?

so that notable should work

[pliant solar]

it doesn't contradict anything

[pliant solar]

partial phys breaking, chaos armour breaking, on heavy stun or pin armour breaking

[flat jungle]

it affects the hit portion and because you hit is 20% higher than youre ignite is 20% higher aswell

[pliant solar]

many ways

[brittle anvil]

but yeah either way it would work

[pliant solar]

its not as straightforward

because penetration doesnt affect ignite hit for some reason

[flat jungle]

i realy hate how ailments are calculated in poe 2 i tried twice this league playing a bleed build but during maapping the hit dmg was enough to kill rares so all my bleed invest was only relevant for bosses I HATE THAT i love the dot feel in poe 1 one of my fav archtypes in ignite but in poe 2 there barly any dot builds that feel like a dot builds

[pliant solar]

yes it doesnt increase the dot obviously

but you would assume it increasing hit (which it does)

but the hit doesnt result in higher ignite

[flat jungle]

yeah ele weakness is a must use kinda

[pliant solar]

sure, but I'm still wondering about armour break

[flat jungle]

if you get it for free yeah take it but if you need to invest into armour break just skip it there probably far stronger dmg multis that are easier to ge

[pliant solar]

yeah thats fair

[flat jungle]

what are you playing?

[pliant solar]

building self ignite rapid fire + incinerating rounds gemling

possibly avatar of fire

but we'll see

[flat jungle]

i think avatar of fire is bait

[pliant solar]

why

if I go full fire I really don't need phys portions

[violet grove]

What is the purpose of self-igniting in this game? (I've done it in 1)

[flat jungle]

ok tornado is kinda OP after playing bleed ice shot now iceshot where i ONLY focus on iceshot dmg and dont use snipe etc for single target using tornado to shotgun with proj and ice shards is sick

cant wait till we get nimis XD

[violet grove]

Oh that sounds super fun. I really enjoyed tornado on my CoC/Ail oracle

[flat jungle]

not tornado tornado shot

[violet grove]

Oh that makes a lot more sense, lmao!

[hollow bronze]

anybody doing coc with arc? nmot sure how to make comet work well

[pliant solar]

not much, but there is molten carapace node and you can use your own ignite with comisserate support

[flat jungle]

for arc you NEED lighting infusion without arc is useless

[hollow bronze]

how do i get lightning infusion lol xD

[flat jungle]

orb of storms siphon elements thats it kinda

[small anvil]

is there no such thing as a prism of belief for the Reap ability?

[hollow bronze]

ahh okok yeh i have orb of storm obv

[flat jungle]

use a dueling wand and than numlock spellslinger with orb of storms socketed in

[final fern]

does crit dmg from gloves scale the crit dmg of thorns?

[flat jungle]

no its a skill granted by a item so there is no prism for it only skills from gems have prisms

[sage tulip]

its been a while for me, can you change the socketed items in a corrupted item still ?

[flat jungle]

yes

[sage tulip]

thanks cause I am looking for a sceptre online but alot of the socketed items I don't recognize. they have a sort of stary like appearance but the effects (if looking at it correctly) isn't what IM looking for and might swap them out

can anyone explain to me what those augments are ?

[flat jungle]

what stairy?

[sage tulip]

That

[alpine grove]

i am kinda new in terms of end game, what is the best build for a stormweaver with about 5 div budget? i leveled a druid first and made it to t11 maps but decided to roll a stormweaver and am really liking it so far. (i tried to post this in church of stormweaver but couldn't)

[flat jungle]

you have to look ontop

this white ish color is the osckets

[sage tulip]

well I am mostly wondering if that is just a normal augment or is that something special cause last time I played was back in 0.1 release I just came back for the druid tryout.

its not the bonded effect right thats just a socket effect ?

if its just socket then I will just swap it out.

[flat jungle]

bonded is shaman exclusiv

[sage tulip]

ok thanks then ill just buy something and swap the sockets thanks for thew info

[flat jungle]

it doesnt matter whats in there just socket whatever you want

tho i wouldnt reccomend increased ele dmg on a pure phys build XD

[sage tulip]

no I am planning on playing shaman but I need a really good scepter to counter the decrease effect of the node so a really high spirit scepter would be great

also be nice if I could get a bonded scepter with either high health or high health regen to counter the health drain from some of the spirit skills

[flat jungle]

bonded scepter?

no every rune has its own bonded mods so you can change the bonded mods youreself aswell

https://poe2db.tw/Bonded_Modifiers

here a list of all mods and what rune gives what

[sage tulip]

Ohh that’s good to know. So wait I can change the bonded effect a the augment effect ?

Ohh wait no I see what you mean now. Each augment has its own bonded effect that is tied to it.

Thanks for the info

[flat jungle]

some builds can get idk 5x dmg just because of bonded mods

[fading flicker]

btw does rage by default affect totems?

[modern swallow]

I don't think so. By default, rage only gives you more damage on your attacks. Casting a totem isn't an attack.

[ancient otter]

can someoe help me figure out why this guy is using Demon Sticher gloves when he can't recover ES because of EB? Is this part of some interaction? https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/쌍봉라마-4440/character/애널스핀

[fringe lagoon]

Just for the vaal corruption probably

[mellow escarp]

Why is Unleash always used on Contagion? Doesn't it just immediately re-cast Contagion on the same enemy? What's the point of that?

[tawdry merlin]

Im using herald of blood with poison, bursting plaque, bleed.
It does a chain reaction.
Is that alspo possible with just poison somehow?

[flat jungle]

no

[tawdry merlin]

Should i focus on more damage or magnitude to get max damage?

[flat jungle]

both you need a balance look in pob what the best balance is

[serene shore]

No. It casts on enemies next to the first target as well.

[tranquil jasper]

What build should I play with a staff like this?

[flat jungle]

no build idk that staff doesnt look that sick its missing cast speed and increased chaos dmg and than 2 dmg as extra ele isnt synergising at all

[mellow escarp]

I see, thanks! How useful is that now though with the changes to Quality though?

[prime ruin]

Hey, i started league very late, few days ago. Sitting at hideout i made ~600d and another 200 possibly coming today. Is there any comfortable, quick druid build i could make for this amount of currency? Ngl current economy scares me

[flat jungle]

with 600d you can play ANYTHING except temporalis

[tiny jay]

I need some help with my character build.

[gloomy badge]

Will Death Articulate's no inherent loss of rage make the rampage skill infinite?

[flat jungle]

no its only INHERENT rampage costs rage per sec

[weary bramble]

hey guys im currently exactly 2 spirit off of being able to run blink, is there anything i can do to be able to run blink without having to get a new chestpiece or amulet or something? is there a support gem that'll reduce its spirit cost

[gloomy badge]

gotcha, save me 3 div

[flat jungle]

no

[weary bramble]

nothing? 🙁

[fading flicker]

but the dmg totems do ?

[modern swallow]

Oh, I was thinking totems counted as minions and used minion stats, but I guess they use yours? So maybe? Reading the totem skills I'm realizing I'm less sure than I thought.

[modern swallow]

I guess any totem that scales off of your attack damage might?

[pastel remnant]

Anyone know why curses cast from Mjölner's thunder gods wrath wouldn't trigger quipalotl's thesis effect (mana regen during runic inscription)?

[fading flicker]

oh yeah it does affect !

now totems care about all our dmg affectables

das cool owo

[modern swallow]

Easy way to test for sure is to just check the damage for the totem on the skills page, then get a bunch of rage and see if it changes.

But yeah, I bet it would work for attack-damage totems.

[fading flicker]

i tried on pob and it did change :D

[dire junco]

when did latest leaghue come out ?

[static torrent]

December 12th

[sand bramble]

guys any druid/pf/amazon build in 62d budget to play comfy ?

[sullen yew]

What's the best druid midgame build

[late laurel]

Wolf Oracle was my league start and it's pretty dang comfy

[sand bramble]

any link to good guide ? :>

[sullen yew]

I heard wolf is pretty hard with leveling

And I'm currently shaman bear

[late laurel]

Nah I just made it up as I went, but here's my poeninja
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Brakmek-2387/character/Hotlo

[late laurel]

Not if you stay up to date on Talismans, I found it breezy

[sand bramble]

thanks

[sullen yew]

Heard that

And I can't even get the talisman i need NOW lol

[late laurel]

Note that I switched out Moment of Vulnerability while I was already into endgame so Moment is a perfectly solid buildaround, it's just a bit too finnicky atm hence why I switched to Entwined

[late laurel]

Luckily they're pretty easy to craft if you're not doing Spiny

[sullen yew]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/bear-druid-build-league-starter-to-endgame?ws-ngf5-f7d82102-7e77-4a44-ad24-33b67e8ae7bf=activeVariantId%2C2

This is the one I'm going with

Currently level 35

Ive gotten a few + to melee skills but the crafts ended up being horrible

[hardy tide]

whats the difference between attack speed and skill speed

[violet grove]

Skill speed affects both attacks and spells

[late laurel]

How do I tell if my Twister/Whirlwind has multiple elements on it? It only seems to show one at a time

[atomic halo]

1% skill speed = 1% attack speed, 1% cast speed, 1% warcry speed, 1% totem placement speed...

basically all the speeds except action speed and movement speed

[hardy tide]

so skil speed is more valuable gotcha thanks

[atomic halo]

if you only do attacks then they're equal, but yeah

[hardy tide]

yeah thats a good point im only using mace skills so i guess attack would be better since it gives more % for the passives

[hot bolt]

For my plant druid friends, did you take The Unseen Path or The Lesser Harm first?

Not sure if I should go
Unseen Path/Lesser Harm/Forced Outcome or Lesser Harm/Forced Outcome/Unseen Path

[late laurel]

Unseen>respec into Forced Outcome>Unseen>Entwined

Disclaimer: I'm not running plants, that's just the mainstay process for Oracle

[hot bolt]

Thanks! I’m blasting through the campaign so I think I’ll just do Forced Outcome first to avoid respec

As I typed that I remembered, we don’t have to rerun trials to respec do we

Might as well get Unseen then, thanks again!

[late laurel]

Not unless you're speccing out of the whole Ascendancy, no, and besides that Balbala can respec you now at the altar

[late laurel]

Struggling to choose between Twister and Tornado

On the one hand, Spells are icky

On the other, there's more Spell support than Attack support where you'd already go for Twister stuff

[fringe lagoon]

Twister without whirling slash might be underwhelming

[polar wraith]

best ascendancy for minions?

[frosty steppe]

Just wanted to check one last time and see if anyone could offer some help ❤️

[late laurel]

Is there a way to lower the timer on the "can't hit the same target more than once" thing

[fringe lagoon]

Nope, note the effect only apply to all twisters casted together, so if u cast it twice one twister for each cast can hit it in the same 0.66s window

[serene shore]

its an attempt at a choir of the storm build. Its looking to reduce the cooldown of the amulet skill so it starts casting with each crit.

so using any non-DoT skill to trigger a crit which has the choir of lightning bolt skill to trigger an attack after the crit

[late laurel]

Yeah I'm thinking since it's easy enough to hit 8+ second Twister duration hopefully it won't matter. There a way to force them to bounce? Ice Wall, Bone Cage?

[fringe lagoon]

Best way is to make them fast via projectile speed and keep making them with whirling slash (when charged 3 times it make 4). Duration helps, but w/o whirling slash you are just making one twister instead of four (unless using things like salvo or barrage). They will bounce around by themselves. Here is some top end twister gameplay if you wanna have a look: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile2builds/comments/1py1149/witchhunter_whirling_slash_twister/.

[late laurel]

Yes I did gather with Whirling Slash

Also makes it convenient for grabbing ground eles for all the Twisters

[fringe lagoon]

Note for whirling slash to work well you ideally want a ton of attack speed

[late laurel]

Yeah. Besides Faster 3 I don't see a ton of ways to get it up properly cuz you don't want Cadence on there I think

[hidden crown]

How do I earn endurances charges with driud skills??

[fringe lagoon]

Armour break probably

[barren nacelle]

is there any support for physical damage to cold ?

Like any items , nodes , masteries anything

[late laurel]

Gained as, sure, with Wolf. Lunar Blessing in particular

[barren nacelle]

To explain , im trying to do a watering plants build but i want the plants to do cold

I think , im too focused on conversion , when i can just have them do both phys lightning and cold

[median compass]

is there a bug with the flamewalker node? i tried it and my fire damage did not go up. I used burning ground curse support

[nova tide]

Guys, any idea if this is accurate?

I am running pounce as single target tech, but if I go by the description, it barely does anything

Or am i misunderstanding the tooltip and it just means that instead of 3% it's 4% ebcause of the quality on the gem?

[hybrid ocean]

If you would shock an enemy that's already shocked with Overcharge support, can you shock yourself again?

[hollow cave]

hii, if using ed contagion witch lich, should i be using staff or wand and focus? if so, why?

[calm lava]

Is there any way of decreasing charm effect duration to 0? I wanna do a jank cast on charm use build

Also is there any way of searching every modifier in the game in poe2db? I keep having to shuffle through every single page trying to figure out if a modifier exists

[hybrid ocean]

You mean besides the general search function?

It's inaccurate, but afaik all we've got

But you can get decent results if you're clever with your queries

[calm lava]

Yeahh that's unfortunate. It always just leads me to a bunch of google results of people's builds

[hybrid ocean]

What types of modifier are you looking for?

[median compass]

hey. if I have 25% of damage taken from companion before me, and my companion can't take damage, does that mean 25% of the damage is gone? I know something similar worked with Lich.

i'm just wondering cuz sometimes it disables the effect if something can't be damaged

[gloomy badge]

any rampage bear user have a poe build guide. I feel like i can squeeze more damage from rampage and molten crash

[serene shore]

to my understanding, yes the 25% of the damage is gone. They need to be able to take damage to receive the damage from your character.

[formal silo]

I never played rampage, how are people sustaining rage for perma uptime on rampage?

[gloomy badge]

i would like to see perma lol, but i have my max rage up to past 60 and have the spirit gem that passively regens rage

amonsgt other skils

[west wharf]

you don't

there's no point getting perma rampage

because you have to stop to loot anyway

meta setup is just to do a ferocious roar + raging cry + roaring cries (on passive tree) setup + enraged cry setup

[formal silo]

makes sense

[west wharf]

once you run out of rage you press it like once or twice

and you're back at full rage in half a second

lot more functional than trying to do perma rampage

and takes almost no investment

[formal silo]

yaeh makes sense

ty

[scenic onyx]

Mirage Archer says the supported skills do not consume charges, yet Poe recommends perpetual charge for skills they can’t use charges on?

[rugged loom]

Hi guys, I am trying to use Soul Tether Belt to life leech energy shield on Oracle CI Wolf and it just doesn't seem to work, what am I missing?

[woven depot]

do you have a pob or a
Ninja, lot easier than asking questions like ‘are you sure you have a source of leech?’

[rugged loom]

I'm quite new so not sure, do I need to set it up somehow? I have 6,01% life leech from ring

[hybrid ocean]

Is there some secret internal cooldown on Overcharge support?

I'm not having minions shock themselves as often as I'd expect

[woven depot]

No worries, it’s very minimal set up but we can go like this

Are you dealing physical damage or elemental damage primarily?

Leech by default is only from physical attack damage

[rugged loom]

depends of skill use, primarily cold atm but plenty of physical too with shred. On top of that I have atlas tree point for 10% gain phys and weapon 30% gain phys

[woven depot]

hard to say then, what keystones are you using

cant remember if scarred faith/zealots brick energy shield leech or not

[rugged loom]

I looked up poe ninja and connected it now

I'm sure there is something I'm missing and I hate that I can't figure it out 😄

[woven depot]

mind sending a screenshot of your soul tether?👀

[woven depot]

worth a shot

[rugged loom]

looks like it takes a few minutes for it to fetch my character

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Myysi-5413/character/MyysiDruid

okay now it's up

i actually found a reddit thread from a week ago now, apparently I would need fast metabolism for it to work 🙁 only the gloves that life leech be energy shield leech would work without it

that really sucks

just switched my build to try this, what a bummer 😒

[woven depot]

ahhh man thats unfortunate

[ancient surge]

Hey guys, im a wolf druid, how do ppl solve for blood magic life drain?

[hollow bronze]

What's the way to make comet go Brrrr on BM COC? On bosses

[mortal swift]

Hey Im hella new to crafting so I was wondering, if I desecrate this with necro omen does it remove dex guaranteed?

[carmine patrol]

What's easier to achieve ? 27k armour or 27k evasion ?

As granade merc

[opal bobcat]

Does the explosion from palm of the dreamer effect scale with % increased chaos damage and other similar stuff? Or is the explosion damage always exactly 25% of the max life of the enemy?

[mortal swift]

27k evasion is very easy

Im pathfinder and hyrri alone gives me 22k

[errant agate]

hey just started out as a bear druid, following the meta shaman bear build.
now need to pick between armour and health. Which would be best?
more hp regen + armour
or more hp?

[green dust]

Hey,
is there something like Battlemage in PoE2? I would like to play shapeshift with cast on ailment, but obviously the spells i cast do not inherently scale with my talisman. Is there anything I can do to benefit from my weapon a bit more?

[timber talon]

Is karanda touch working on advarius ring and working with ritualist ascendacy (more stats from rings)

[tight garnet]

hello, anyone playing the bloodmage spearfield build?

[late laurel]

Oracle CoC or Wolf Pack Cast on Minion Death

In terms of triggering for non-Ailments

Besides that though, not really besides just general scalings like the Spell+Attack nodes, Ele nodes, Crit nodes

[green dust]

Idk, that does not address my question at all xD
My problem is that talismans dont scale spell dmg, and i want the spells to hit harder. I have a high trigger rate already. 🙂

[late laurel]

Spells are very heavily focused on +SpellLevel to do the heavy lifting which you can't really get on Martials

Lord of the Forest might get you places with the scepter but it's ehhh

[sage tulip]

Question. If I use berserk does the recoup effect get triggered from berserk ?

[atomic halo]

no, recoup can only recover off of hits

[sage tulip]

ok, so then what would be the best way to counteract berserks life drain and other persistant buffs that drain life ? the max life % regen or just high natural regen values ?

[atomic halo]

regen is the most straightforward way to counter it, yes

[sage tulip]

so not maximum % life regen but just normal life regen, thank you

[violet grove]

Strength stack, Iron Will, or the new oracle node near its start (very good, better than IW in fact); Spellblade is a simple notable near the monk start if you're over there; Crown of Eyes is the go-to for hybrids as this; Hand of Wisdom and Action in case you are stacking dex or int, and need attack damage because you're stacking spell damage on gear.

The sad truth is that because PoE2 has relegated 95% of weapon skills to weapons themselves, you cannot get spell levels on martial weapons (as stated already), so it becomes incredibly difficult to reliably scale spell damage, too. Your only options, as stated already, are extra damage (mods that read deal #% extra damage as [type of damage]) on gear and then doing dual scaling with the items and nodes I and others have suggested.

The reason the other person mentioned another way to proc spells is because you can also do hijinks therein to give yourself more damage in clever ways, such as but not limited to buffs from minions respawning or dying, such as gaining Unholy Might when they are resummoned or commanded, which is one of those [deal extra damage] mods I mentioned.

[earnest igloo]

werewolf don't use blood magic

[torn mango]

How do you filter the trade sight for sockets?

[woven depot]

weird comment, of course werewolf can use blood magic

Can slot oisins on herald, helps during maps a lot but doesn’t do much on bosses

[pliant solar]

How do minions work with different weapon sets nodes? Like do they retain increases from nodes in set 2 while you're using set 1?

[uncut bay]

the closest thing to battlemage I saw was Snoobaes twister spark build, you can make a good abyssal lich build with crazy proj speed for both twisters and spark

+3 to spell skills amulet I guess, scale spirit and crit maybe

[carmine patrol]

i'm gonna guess you specced into extra evasion from body armor node (not sure what's it called)

[mortal swift]

yes

[carmine patrol]

which is nowhere near merc side

[mortal swift]

its not that far for merc. and well even if u drop it its only giving me 4500 ev

[void rock]

hey gents , is there anything similar to earthshatter slayer from poe 1?

[mortal swift]

maybe 5500

[hybrid ocean]

The reverse does exist, in the form of crown of eyes

Ah mb, missed where that was already mentioned

[green dust]

Ye, but most of my dmg increases are global anyway. (eg elemental dmg or dmg while shapeshifted)

[past dust]

Anyone knows about a way to easily get 5% regen? I rely on eternal rage, and I could get 20% extra damage with berserk but I need some way to mitigate 5% degen

[mint glacier]

What are some good cheap builds that are good in endgame?

[fringe lagoon]

Since you were asking about witchhunter, I think twister WH can do well in endgame even with low budget and can scale dps/speed really hard. I've just shared a rough budget breakdown in #1449236486737363015 .
Some top end footage, pob & poe ninja: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile2builds/comments/1py1149/witchhunter_whirling_slash_twister/.

[mint glacier]

Oh wow that’s actually pretty cool

Is WH the best to do that

I’m planning on joining a private league soon and already did PF so was looking for smth new

[fringe lagoon]

In my opinion yes, but other ascendancies can do well too

[mint glacier]

Ohhh okok I’ll do it with WH then

I’ll do this build then

Never tried anything like it

[fringe lagoon]

Nice, are you playing the second wind private league?

[mint glacier]

Yea that one

[fringe lagoon]

By the way I did league start with this so if interested you can check the time machine on poe ninja to see how I progressed from the very start https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal/character/Vomii-2056/Vomi_WH

[mint glacier]

Ohh wait wth

I never knew u could do that

[mint glacier]

Did u play campaign with spear already btw ?

Cuz can only see at lvl 54

[fringe lagoon]

Yeah!

[fringe lagoon]

You can check hour 3, 6 etc..

[mint glacier]

Ohh wait yea omg

My bad

[buoyant thicket]

Hello guys, is anyone here running tactician galvanic shards? how do you improve survivability?

[west wharf]

by killing everything before you get hit

the tactician way

realistically one of the only ways to get particularly good ehp as a tact is to run a life morior invicitus socketed with life% soul cores

and a massive 800+ armour glove with leatherbound gauntlets + iron reflexes

but tact often wants to run painter's for trinity so idk

[tranquil steeple]

does anyone know if Gathering Storms shockwaves are considered seperate instances of damage or one for the purpose of like bleed and big single hits?

[quartz pewter]

Tactician is easy... stack armour -> %armour to elemental -> Polish that Gear (ascendancy) -> Glancing Blows -> Iron Reflexes easy

[buoyant thicket]

thank you for replying. i currently have morior invicitus but not with life% stat. cant afford at the moment. and yes im running painters for trinity. i guess my real question is more on what gear to upgrade

[buoyant thicket]

thanks. i have those but i guess im lacking on armour side

sorry if i wasnt clear enough but here is my pob: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/HonorIsDead-5883/character/DevilInJerseyCity

if you guys would be kind enough to take a short look at what gear should i improve. at the moment i currently have 25 div.

[quartz pewter]

Looks like it's more of a glass cannon build which would be your defense

[buoyant thicket]

lol thought so, just tired of getting one shotted when im not careful running maps

[quartz pewter]

You should be using all armour gear

From what I remember... Iron Reflexes is still good even with no evasion on gear because of the base evasion rating

But yeah... other than that.. you're a glass cannon

Oh and the 0 chaos resistance could be it too unless you're mitigating chaos res with some other means

[buoyant thicket]

ok thanks. at least i now know what gear i should be looking for

how much chaos res should i aim for?

[quartz pewter]

Probably as close to max in general is what most people would say.. but I think personally a min of 40% I would say would lessen the deaths if you are dying from chaos damage.

I don't think there anything currently that can one shot any build with chaos damage at max res so it's not super important for maxing it

[buoyant thicket]

Ok thanks. i guess i will be dropping the spirit reservation efficiency of skills on helm which means im gonna be dropping some of my support gems. boots also need to be upgraded and maybe rings with chaos res

[late laurel]

Does Cool Headed reduce Ignite damage or does it deal all of its normal damage over half the duration

[drifting lance]

what does it mean when this is red

[kindred kayak]

Like when there is a red line to it?

• d it is highlighted red?

It means it is on weapon set 1

[glossy dagger]

guys I'm gonna ask something weird. Is it possible to make enemies crit 100% time against you?

[oblique marlin]

is this s bug?? Primal Hunger also neutralizing effect of Vengeful Fury!!! i tested

[drifting lance]

circled red

[glossy dagger]

I think it's normal because it negates the 'rage effect' which means no inherit buffs

[oblique marlin]

this one also will not work? crazy! it must be a bug

[kindred kayak]

Oh you mean exactly like that in the pic?

Depends on the description the crestor gives, some will say dont take it right away and label all crit nodes such as that one

[glossy dagger]

It says 'also' but you are deleting the initial buff which means there's nothing to also about

[kindred kayak]

Cuz you dont usually wanna lean into crit till you are already good on dmg

[glossy dagger]

I became a freaking lingustic proffessor because of this game. Reading the deep meaning of each and every word

[drifting lance]

doesnt say anything but thanks

[violet grove]

That's...not...a bug? It's literally what it says it would do, silly!

Oops, sorry, was scrolled up a bit.

You were already answered 😄

[quartz cairn]

What would be the best build for Pathfinder to run Sekhemas trials?

[celest oxide]

Should I build Lightning Spear on Deadeye, Amazon, or Pathfinder?

Maybe even Oracle?

[pastel forge]

CI + 1 hp regen counters berserk/savage fury

[sage tulip]

Cl ?

Chaos inoculation got it but then my hp is one ? Would the Druid with a shield work instead having hp ?

If that is the case would I even need armor ?

Then last question would be does all the % of maximum life regen then get applied to ES regen then ?

[pastel forge]

https://pobb.in/vcxeNOsvoYFF

This is a high es oracle, probably the most common way to get a high healthpool

CI makes your HP 1 so you just need any HP Regen to counter the life loss from berserk

[sage tulip]

so you wouldn't take Zealots Oath in this since you need the HP regen but then what would you do to have ES regen constantly cause isn't there a delay when you take damage ?

[pastel forge]

Well if your general worry is survivability, you can just stop using berserk altogether and get something like soul tether belt with life Regen applies to energy shield for shield regen

I can still use savage fury since it's a short buff even with the belt

(the above oracle is not mine, I play invoker)

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Zealflare-7547/character/Vishape

This is my character, I use the belt plus Vitality II for energy shield regen

[sage tulip]

so normal life regen still applies to HP but the maximum %life regen now applies to ES ?

[pastel forge]

With the belt, no,I was specifically talking about getting Regen for energy shield, you can't get both together without zealots oath, but zealots oath would make Regen scale off your HP instead of the belt that scales off your es

[sage tulip]

Ok so if I used zealots oath I still have life regen but the excess gets applied to ES after health is at max if I am understanding correctly ?

[pastel forge]

Yes, just zo scales off your max HP while the belt scales off max es

If you use CI that means your Regen scales off 1 hp

If you want to not use CI, you will need to use leech + Regen to sustain the HP loss instead

[sage tulip]

so if I did use CI then using ZO and the belt would basically make me have a low base HP regen and then the belt would make my life regen % of max be applied to ES instead of my health ?

[pastel forge]

Using the belt makes zo do nothing basically

[sage tulip]

ohh alright

[pastel forge]

Except disable your ability to recharge the shield

[tight garnet]

anyone here playing Bloodmage Spearfield ? i have some questions and need some help

[sage tulip]

just trying to figure out how to have a constant ES regen without delay and still have some health regen even if very little to offset berserk for the life loss from it

[pastel forge]

Was trying to figure that out but your only option in that case is to constantly life leech/spam HP flask

I stopped using berserk for that reason

But I can still use savage fury

[sage tulip]

fuck alright if only there was a way to make the flask a constant regen like you can for the mana side

[pastel forge]

You won't die from savage fury even at 1hp with ci

Unless it reaches 34 seconds somehow

[pastel forge]

This is the closest thing to that but you still have to spam it manually

[sage tulip]

wait what about taking eternal youth ?

[pastel forge]

If you have 50 rage with CI, theoretically you can sustain berserk by pressing this flask every 25 seconds

[sage tulip]

aslong as your life drain does not exceed 12.5% recharge of life then that should work ?

[pastel forge]

I never tried, could work maybe

Need to confirm if the life loss interrupts recharge

[atomic halo]

didnt read the context, but if you have %-based degen & ci, just get flat regen somewhere and it should be easily counteracted

[sage tulip]

right but was wondering how to keep some sort of health regen while using zealots oath

or how to have ES recharge constantly and not having a delay after taking damage

[pastel forge]

You keep health Regen with zo but not the belt

[novel estuary]

Any top takers on a build to use on Second Wind (the private league to start)