2┃build-planning

[pastel forge]

Just that the es Regen is shit with zo without needing to get flat Regen on most of your gear

Meanwhile with the belt,I get 160~ life Regen with vitality II gem (2% of max es)

[sage tulip]

Ohh so wait then I would just need to get flat # health regen instead of % so that there is good value amout coming in ?

granted going to be shit compared to % gain but still will have more then like 2 regen

[pastel forge]

Most items give 20-33~ flat life at most and that also means one less resist or other stats

[sage tulip]

Ill make it up somewhere else

[pastel forge]

So if you really want both es Regen and keeping berserk up 100% of the time then yes, get zo and flat life Regen in gears

W/ CI ofc

[sage tulip]

haha this is going to be fun, here comes immortal bear with 1 hp

[pastel forge]

Still need enough es to survive oneshots

[sage tulip]

that will be easy besides a lot of the nodes I plan on grabbing increases both ES and Armor I plan on trying to get 80K armor and around 20K ES if possible.

[pastel forge]

Idk how possible it is to get both that high lol

Even on a hardcore monk I saw with top notch es/ev gear he was at 16k es and 9k~ evasion

I guess it's possible if you are using a shield and exclusively invest defenses on passives

[sage tulip]

screw evasion just stacl the armor and elemental armor and resistance and enough ES(health) regen and you should live pretty easily.

[pastel forge]

The oracle I linked with 16k es used a pure es chest and had a str shield, his armour was only at 8.4k

[sage tulip]

hmm Im going to have to work some things around then and figure this out

Also Heroic Tragedy timeless jewel vorana for every 2 strength gain 1% ES

now no health gain from STR

[pastel forge]

I only have 3 jewel slots on my build so idk if I can afford to get that

[sage tulip]

Im in the same boat lol

[pastel forge]

I'm also using like 5 spirit skills so my stats are spread out

[sage tulip]

ahh yeah I only plan on using mostly STR stuff might have a few things here and there that are excess but yeah STR mostly. I want to only use bear form and that is it.

[barren nacelle]

Does embitter make all of this do cold damage ?

[pastel forge]

I use wolf mainly, and wyvern for buffs

[pastel forge]

Blazing crit yes

Mana flare is not an extra dmg buff

[sage tulip]

now if only I could get Iron reflexes then the Evasion will count for my armor to but it is what it is

[pastel forge]

I love seeing mobs kill themselves when they manage to hit me and proc wind dancer

[barren nacelle]

So only something that converts fire damage to cold damage would work like Blueflame Bracers

[pastel forge]

No convert is different

[pastel forge]

With embitter all 3 lines here become cold dmg

[random moat]

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/60fdab3c-4b97-4983-8497-41e2636707a1/builds/b24757fb-e37d-4100-b477-39cdbc602ac7 @idle cradle

[pastel forge]

Let's say you have 300 cold dmg
With this glove it becomes
100+30 fire
100+30 cold
100+30 lightning

With this glove and embitter it becomes

100 fire
100+90 cold
100 lightning

[random moat]

actually hang on I need to update this

[idle cradle]

yeah no problem, check out poe ninja too i always find that's a bit easier to read, and easier to see some more in detail info

[cedar solar]

200?

[barren nacelle]

I only ask cause i wanna do only cold damage , but its hard currently XD (No true reasons , i just like doing weird things )

[pastel forge]

Yea that's difficult unless you play caster

Without primal hunger or using glory skills, max you can get is 30+61 as oracle, 30+40 as non-oracle

Not counting gear so another +12 from maji talisman as shapeshifter

[cedar solar]

Is there any hard cap like 200- 300?

[lofty orbit]

Can someone explain to me how Andvarius can get triple rarity ?
Like, i see the implicit, i see the explicit, but wth is the body armour ?

[dusky wadi]

have yall ever completely swapped builds entirely after spending a bit of time in maps? like switched ascendancy's and everything without making an entirely new character?

[pastel forge]

Don't think so?

[pastel forge]

Switch ascendancy no, changed build like wyvern to wolf yes

[dusky wadi]

im doing a whirling assault titan build but im thinking of swapping to shield wall smith of kitava but i dont really want to make a new character and the gear is somewhat similar

like im even using the same unique helmet i would just have to swap weapons and add a shield

[pastel forge]

You can swap ascendancy I believe but never tried myself

[sage tulip]

Forgot to ask how much accuracy do you need for end game for a melee build like Druid bear ?

[dusky wadi]

You just have to do the trial again, which I can do semi easily on my titan

[pastel forge]

No idea, never really had acc issues with 130~ dex

[novel estuary]

I Shaw copy you too lol

[hearty tendon]

Hey making a Druid mentor rampage build which is better?

[sage tulip]

So you only have like 200 accuracy ?

Mainly curious since if I also use the gem that makes dex give armpit instead of accuracy then that also helps out my build

[sage tulip]

Ohh that’s not bad at all

That’s easy to get

Not to mention I will most likely be within 2 meters of the targets

Thank you

[dusky wadi]

how expensive is a high armor shield for shield wall?

[celest oxide]

What's the better ascendency for Lightning Spear, Deadeye or Amazon?

Feels like Amazon can't really generate frenzy charges to the point that it's worth empowering LS, but you don't really need to empower it either...

[late laurel]

GYATDAYUM Dance with Death is a CRAZY Attack Speed buff

What ways are there to extend Spear of Solaris' Burning Ground effect?\

[hoary bolt]

to my knowlege there isnt any other than persistent ground support

it doesnt scale with skill effect duration, and ailment duration only scales the effect on the enemy

[split folio]

is it possible to my es regeration to mana

can someone help me fix my mana problem??

[hoary bolt]

try to invest into mana cost efficiency

[mint glacier]

hey sorry for pinging u but just wondering does the build also suffer like most melee do or is it like tanky enough for most content

I remember not liking melee much this patch

so thats prob the only thing making me a bit hesistant

[split folio]

there are no nodes near me for that
my skill entangle costs 250 mana and i only regen 150

[mint glacier]

cuz rn its between that build or some coc comet build

[hoary bolt]

are you crit-based?

[split folio]

yes

using the nighscale

[hoary bolt]

what class are you?

[split folio]

ddruid orcacle

[hoary bolt]

theres good cost efficiency nodes here

depends on where you are on tree

with your pathing

[split folio]

i have the top left one

[hoary bolt]

consider anointing efficient casting then

on your amulet

theres also an augment for helmets that gives cost efficiency

[split folio]

let try that

[split folio]

it a bit expensive for now

[hoary bolt]

oh that it is

just checked

[dusky wadi]

how good is shield wall warrior rn?

[barren nacelle]

does frost wall count for ice crystals and creeping chill ?

[hoary bolt]

very good

[hoary bolt]

yes

[barren nacelle]

This is good news >:)

[hoary bolt]

that sounds devious

[split folio]

is there any flasks that life regeration constantly

[hoary bolt]

no

but blood of the warrior doesnt stop at full life

only lasts 5 seconds though

[dusky wadi]

how is it on smith of kitava?

[hoary bolt]

should be quite good

smith is easy to gear

shield wall is quite simple to get running even in ssf

[barren nacelle]

Does inhibitor work on skills that don't use infusions ?

[sage tulip]

Question if I use something like COA in poe2 will it pull me out of my bear form if its a spell like firestorm ?

[kindred barn]

Does wolf respawn from pounce count toward on minion death skill?

[sage tulip]

Infusions aren’t really worth doing unless your the storm weaver right ?

[sly wing]

what POE2 build is closest to poe1 Gen Cry or D3 WW barb

[silver urchin]

kinda

[silver urchin]

Depends on the wording, it either replaces or refreshes. Refreshign wont work

[kindred barn]

Eh idk about the wording but it deletes previous and spawns new one. Sounds like replacement to me

Worth a try then I guess

[silver urchin]

Looking for the best ways to remove/mitigate being ignited.
My current setup is reflecting some powerful ignites to myself, and I'm not sure how to keep myself alive.

[sly wing]

what does 'Warcaller's Bellow' line 'Ignore Warcry Cooldowns' mean?

[silver urchin]

You ignore the cooldowns of warcries

[sly wing]

so if you have that and say seismic cry, you can just spam it?

as long as you have the mana

[silver urchin]

Yes as long as theres no other requirement

[polar wraith]

what druid transformation is best rn?

[sly wing]

enh this looks mediocre at best

I'm really looking for a low button (automated) build that's low budget but strong & can be scaled. I don't really want to play minions

LA deadeye maybe?

[barren nacelle]

what are some things to keep a look out for in order to mana stack ?

[fringe lagoon]

It's very tanky thanks to ward

[silver anvil]

anyone knows if wolf pack + loyalty is worth it as a 60 spirit defensive layer? was doing charge reg + scav plating but i was thinking of getting the sceptre in offhand keystone

[pastel forge]

Depends on how much health they have I suppose? They also need to stay alive to absorb the dmg you take directly, though I guess they can body block projectiles for you

[late laurel]

None/All. They're all very good. Bear has its tankiness and nigh-autobomber type playstyle, Wolf feels very smooth snappy and quick, and Wyvern melts faces with a couple seconds' setup

[late laurel]

I was running it as Wolf and honestly it's pretty solid but there are better things to spend the Spirit on unfortunately

Wolf Pack needs a bit of a boost in general tbh

[unborn hawk]

does elemental penetration apply before the rakiata's flow support?

[timid cloud]

https://youtu.be/4yZZHcngOwU?si=19ayqqYFA5wwwc9A

check this out boiiiz

[earnest igloo]

rakiata happen before penetration. basically if you have let's say 30 penetration , and rakiata on your skill. if a monster has 50 resist , rakiata makes it -50 , and your penetration doesn't apply

it's basically a wasted stats if you have a rakiata. but it can still be valuable if you have multiple damaging skill , as rakiata only work for 1 of your skills

[teal pollen]

Is there a cap to are of curses? i read a build that said 4.7 but i see a lot of other builds which would have muich bigger?

[viral shard]

i see a lot of varashtas in hcssf use ruzhan over navira, is there a reason? only one i can think of is gem slots for muster?

[young heart]

Hmm this has to be bugged right? My mirror should be at lvl 29 with a 1.1 second spawn rate but it seems the support gems dont work correctly with it

[somber pendant]

Anyone know if rakiatas flow applies to a target affected by doryanis prototype?

[somber pendant]

Might be for the area denial/creation of “semi-safe” zones

Traps feel nice for that

Not sure if uhtred works in skills granted by items? Check others with that in mind maybe

@young heart

[rotund tartan]

is there any good guide to leveling sorc in 2? elemental skills feel kinda weak and I'm thinking ed/contagion is the way to go

i'd kinda like to stick to elemental though because its a sorc, if its possible

[quartz cairn]

I did Varashta and it was rough until 1st ascendancy. After that it was a breeze. Ed/C works though. Spark can work with Orb of Storms. Not sure on cold spells. Just don't go fire spells lmao.

[young heart]

works with spellslinger so id assume so

[analog gale]

any idea if theres any use for this?

[young heart]

Tempo also does not lower it unfortunately

would be cool to get it working

[flat jungle]

how does ember fussilade work? does it deal hit AND aoe dmg to the same enemy or hit dmg to the enemy and aoe to the surounding enemies?

[agile remnant]

Im a huge noob but really love the druid. Its fun to swap between forms. I was gonna focus on rage/stun with bear mostly and have my human form cast plants to slow things.

Im starting to wonder if stuns good or not though because some enemies have like a recovery period or somthing.

[static thicket]

Would void illusion trigger poison gas to explode?

[agile remnant]

Actually how do i gain endurance charges as a druid? I see many ways to get power and expend endurance but no way to make them

[static thicket]

I think the bear slam generates them if used at 10 rage

[mellow escarp]

Are there any Curse/Runic Circle based builds that I could take a looksee at?

[agile remnant]

That sounds familiar but i dont see it on the skill desc. Maybe it requires a support gem

Ooooh i see!

Its on the talisman

[quartz pewter]

No it's built-in to the bear form

[agile remnant]

Thats what i said

Oh no what i said was “its tells you on the talisman”

[quartz pewter]

You have to hover over the bear / wolf / wyvern on the talisman to see what the passives are

[agile remnant]

I get that its intrinsic to bear

Yea

[thorny osprey]

Can anyone recommend a build/leveling guide? Just got the game and don’t wanna make the same mistake I did in PoE1

[shrewd sigil]

what do you enjoy

melee, range, clearing entire screens without looking, crazy single target dps, thigns that look funny, mashing lots of buttons, hitting 1 button?

[thorny osprey]

I love death and lots of it, so a build that can do tha pls

[static thicket]

Actually good to know I had no idea about that!

[shrewd sigil]

That doesn't really help me narrow anything down.

do you mean death like undead, or just "I like killing things" because almost every build can kill things

FWIW the most played softcore ascendancies rn are

oracle, blood mage, pathfinder, shaman

shaman is most played on SSF, disciple of varashta very popular on hardcore.

bear is very popular right now and works well with druid or titan, and im sure others

wolf is also very popular

[quartz pewter]

PoE is all about making mistakes and learning

[shrewd sigil]

shaman is pretty easy to get going since you can get a thing that gives you +spirit per empty charm slot. Lets you get powerful passives early on to give you a smooth ride

personally I went wyvern shaman. its got great single target dps, and rend is pretty good at clearing.

wolf/bear are better at clearing, and most things tbh. but dragon=fun for me.

[thorny osprey]

Yeah I should of narrowed it down a little bit. I mean I like killing things but like blowing packs of enemies up quick. Something that isn’t like sitting around buffing up for 4 mins something I can just load in and play with

[shrewd sigil]

poe2 is very diff from poe1

poe1 i couldnt get into because of the problem you're describing

poe2 ive yet to play a build that sits around buffing for 4 mins, or even see one

gaining power charges through combos or meta-gem-energy has been the most "ramping up" ive done so far.

but thats like, melee 4-12 enemies, then hit combo generator, then you have 1-3 power charges depending on how many you hit.

or cast spells like you normally are, and ocassionaly when the gem energy is full it'll cast comets

[quartz pewter]

For a new person I wouldn't play a melee build. Probably want to do a Mercenary or Ranger build. They are always strong and reliable

[shrewd sigil]

poison pathfinder was very popular and easy to gear I hear

[thorny osprey]

Perfect so within the ranger and mercenary, which of those would you recommend

[shrewd sigil]

and ranged

[thorny osprey]

So go with poison pathfinder?

So do I just type in Google “poison pathfinder leveling guide?

[thorny osprey]

How does one add a loot filter again?

[late laurel]

Game tab, open folder. Put filter in that folder, reload in game tab, select filter

[spring flicker]

Does anyone know if ancestral cry can be socketed into ferocious roar ?

[terse haven]

Any advice on what specter to use for a ailment based minion build? I am trying Cerberic Bats that have poison and ignite breaths and I added bleed3 on them. But I can't find ways to scale it other than just minion damage mods

[celest oxide]

So is an ilvl81 exceptional (2 socket) base better than an ilvl82 non exceptional?

extra rune socket on weapon outweighs difference between t1 and t2 phys right\

[midnight bolt]

does anyone know how cast on x work with weapon swap?
If i cast a spell(lets say ice shower from whsipering ice) and it procs some meta skills but i weapon swapped after putting the aoe, will the procs use the whispering ice staff stats or the weapon swap stats?

[split folio]

so my damage of entangle is at 33000dps is there anyway to increse it

[celest blaze]

can anyone confirm if Lunar Blessing's extra cold damage actually persists when you're no longer in Werewolf form?

[verbal summit]

Does anyone actually know what Amanamu's Tithe gives? I see plenty of people using it and I also use it myself but I can't tell what it's actually doing and haven't seen anyone else say it either

[late laurel]

The buff keeps going but does not apply while outside of Wolf form

[celest blaze]

yeah, that matches my expeerience also, which is super sad.

[late laurel]

So if you Blessing, switch out to cast Ele Weakness or smth for 1 second, you can switch back into Wolf form and still have Blessing, but you lose uptime from being human

However, Blessing does still apply to Wolf minions even while you are not a Wolf

[celest blaze]

in game character sheet damage is not showing damage when I'm in human form from the cold, and I have never seen the freezes and chills that I'd expect 🙁

Thanks, knew the answer in my heart but wanted to confirm.

Man, that should be worded better in the skill

[late laurel]

It not working outside of Wolf form makes sense to me

All the other Shifting skills work that way too no?

[broken nexus]

has anyone made any good wolf pack builds that focus on the wolf pack as main source of damage. I saw a few that included it as a side thing but wasn't sure if its even viable to be used that way

[olive compass]

Why tetonic slam doest work with sunder? Inst it a slam skill??

[late laurel]

Not really viable. They do like okay damage when they have Lunar Blessing + Howl on them but even then it's not a ton. I love wolves but they're unfortunately not useful outside of Loyalty and blocking projectiles, which they are admittedly quite good at

They're both squishy and weak on their own

This is them with medium-low investment on the tree but 5L

That said there is absolutely a very strong Druid Minion build to be made, between Shaman's extra Spirit and all of Oracle's extra Minion nodes

Wolf Pack specifically though doesn't measure up too well

[broken nexus]

thank you this was very helpful!

[late laurel]

Do note as well though that Pounce+Cross-Slash are an excellent combo for Minion builds as Predator's Mark increases damage they take per minion around them, which can be a lot

Pounce with Eternal Mark, then immediately Cross-Slash and the enemy will keep the mark and you'll pop out a wolf

[tranquil steeple]

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

Anyone know why my soul tether isn't leeching ES for shit when I use storm wave? The physical damage is damn near identical and the supports differ in like 2 ways and thats it? When I use my Whirling assaault I am basically perma full ES but otherwise im not, isthe fissures not considered physical attack damage or something?

[fringe lagoon]

Do you mean gathering storm? There is no storm wave in your poe ninja

[tranquil steeple]

yea i removed storm wave back for whirling assault

i can add it back one sec doing atziri

[tranquil steeple]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/CrocaDogg-2263/character/WHIRLYPEARLY sorry here it is with storm wave

i know why

soul tether only applies to excess recovery which storm wave barely gets because whirling assault skill lasts longer

the damage on whirling assault isn't really tolltip accurate especially for clear

[fringe lagoon]

Isn't it also because storm wave does a lot of phys to lightning conversion? Life leech only applies to physical damage

[tranquil steeple]

their phys damage is the same

most of my flat is elemental

even my qs

i have glove and a ring with phys

its just that theres not much overleech with storm wave, higher cost + less hits

whirling assaults damage is super innaccurate

[fringe lagoon]

I see

[tranquil steeple]

i prefer whirling assault better anyway after using storm wave for a bit

i dont even know if the build needsnsoul tether but i like mindlessly spinning tyhrough abysses

[austere zinc]

Does overheal affect skills/mods that scale per 100 max mana ?

[somber pendant]

does the lightning pen minimum affect rakiatas negatively if i use it together?

shouldnt affect it right? it says can, so if i dont get pen

[thorny osprey]

My friend went mage, does anyone have any build recommendations?

[oblique anvil]

dumb question but is armor still not very good? i have 70% phys reduc and 76% elem reduc and im still getting chunked in interludes

[thorny osprey]

Or just any new player friendly builds I’ll make him make a new character if needed

[pastel forge]

Armour still isn't great against big hits, your 70% is mainly against smaller hits

[atomic halo]

!armour

[pastel forge]

I believe you need x10 the dmg in armour to mitigate 50%

[formal violet]

Armour tooltips

The ingame tooltip for physical damage reduction is not accurate!

Armour reduces the incoming physical damage depending on the size of the hit. The rule of thumb is, that you need 5x the amount of armour of the physical hit, to mitigate 50% of its damage. That means that you need 5000 armour to halve the damage of a 1000 damage physical hit. A 10000 physical damage hit, on the other hand, would require 50000 armour to mitigate 50%.

The ingame tooltip and path of building are using the hit damage of a normal white monster at your level to calculate the estimated physical damage reduction. This results is an overinflated estimated physical damage reduction which is unrealistic against stronger monsters. You can set "enemy hit damage" in path of building to get a realistic physical damage reduction calculation.

[atomic halo]

^ poe1 but still relevant

[pastel forge]

Oh it's x5 not x10 huh

[atomic halo]

in poe2 it's 10x (per wiki)

as the embed is only for poe1

[pastel forge]

Damn why did they nerf it lol

[atomic halo]

[pastel forge]

Compared to 1

The vision I guess

[median compass]

ia the a sup gem that makes a spell deal no damage? i know there is one for projectiles and melee

alternatively, do most bosses have high life regen?

[atomic halo]

no, i can't think of any boss in the game with regen

usually you will only deal with regen with rares, which can roll mods that give them regen in some form

but actual uniques (besides recovering during a phase transition) will never have regen

[median compass]

Oh Ok. Ty for the info

[upper pendant]

For Ice shot build, would 20% dmg as phys be better on bow or as cold?

The essence

[olive tide]

where the attack totem leaguestart builds at? 😄

[brittle anvil]

the phys gained won't be converted to cold by ice shot, they will remain as phys, and won't be scaled with your elemental damage scalers

the only reason you want to gain phys that I can think of is if you are doing the herald of ice chaining tech

[cinder plank]

any suggestion for fast build to farm crystal to build temple quickly (and preferably clear it too) ? i;m playing plant varashta right now, and feeling im not clearing as fast. but not sure reroll class would be worth it

[pastel forge]

Temple is not shared amongst characters btw

[rich pine]

Are there any mechanics in POE2 yet to cheat mana cost on a CI spell character?

[cinder plank]

Yeah, I’m not sure that time spent building new temple would be worth it

The other thing I can do is refill to stormweaver

[pastel forge]

Yea I wouldn't do it unless your current temple is bricked and takes too much time to reset

[pastel forge]

Wdym cheat, you can have dmg recoup as mana or simply use mana remnants

Or build CI MoM

[cinder plank]

My current temple chain is about 10 rooms long. Is this considered a very new?

[pastel forge]

Longer than mine tbf

[cinder plank]

lol

[rich pine]

I mean getting rid of the cost of spells (or mitigating it to the point where a moderate investment takes care of it).
I am currently planning a build, but it tosses out about 800 mana per second, while only recovering ~600 on an pretty heavy tree and gear investment already.

Unless I find an easier method, I dont think the build is worth the effort.

[pastel forge]

Cost efficiency support, or building super high Regen MoM are probably the 2 most obvious way to go, there's also cost efficiency passives near the monk area

Other than that, I think most es casters use mana remnants to support their costs

[rich pine]

Mana Remnant might be enough tbh... But its so hard to calculate, and I really dont want to run through the story again, just to realise that mana feels bad in the end.
But I guess thats the only way to be sure! If it doesnt work, I guess I can just drop a few gem levels or cast speed.

Thanks for your help!

[pastel forge]

Has anyone ever tried eb/mom with evasion hybrid before?

[jagged thunder]

Lich node, does this work with mana cost converted to life and means it becomes 0 cost? the logic is:

• Spell cost 200 mana
• Use an item or support gem to convert mana cost to life cost
• Spell now cost 200 life
• But my life cannot change while i have ES.
• so it cost nothing now

[brittle anvil]

if you can't pay the cost you can't use the skill

[jagged thunder]

so fun not allowed i see

[brittle anvil]

you can have stuff like "lose life"

[jagged thunder]

would this work.

[brittle anvil]

yup

[jagged thunder]

interesting.

[brittle anvil]

or damage bypass ES, say you have 10% bypass, that means 10% less damage taken

[bronze ore]

anyone else having the issue where snakepit ring isnt forking

[pliant cedar]

I have question. Looking at build on poe.ninja that has amulet with 50 spirit. However the skills assigned require total of 160 spirit. Now with 100 spirit that leveled character has I am still missing 10 spirit. Any ideas as to how this can work? Btw, there is no gear on that character that makes spirit reservation anymore efficient.

[bronze ore]

is it a solar amulet?

and what spirit skills does the build have

[pliant cedar]

its a gold amulet with total of 50 spirit on it. total reservation of all skills is 160.

[bronze ore]

what are the skills

[pliant cedar]

convalescence, coc, arctic armor

30 + 100 + 30

[bronze ore]

coc with quality give you 10% reservation efficiency

[pliant cedar]

well, my char has it equipped, and it still shows 100 spirit reservation. so where do i get to see those 10%?

[bronze ore]

use a gemcutter prism to put quality on coc

[flat jungle]

does anyone know how ember fussilade works? does the projectile hit and than the explosion or only 1 hit?

[bronze ore]

max the quality to 20%

[pliant cedar]

i already have that 20% quality. so if there is 10% efficiency, it does not display it anywhere

[bronze ore]

does the body armor not have any spirit?

maybe a corruption on the helmet or the staff having any spirit

[bronze ore]

could you post the build

[pastel forge]

Should I bother investing into faster start of es recharge as Eva/es?

Like I can spend 4 passives to get +85% which would bring my recharge delay from 5s to 2.7s.

In terms of current defensive layers I have:
8.7k es +CI
15k evasion (750 es from ghost dance)
8k deflect
195 es Regen (soul tether belt+vitality)

[tranquil steeple]

https://poe2db.tw/us/Zerphis_Infamy

Is there something im missing as to why this isnt used more often? Like especially on blood mage attack builds? It'd take like three uses of a skill and you'd be at the 50 glory already no? 50% more damage and AOE

like at worse you spent 5 or so seconds hitting an enemy to build it up then use it

[formal silo]

is thunderstorm the only way to overgrow plants?

[half pumice]

I want to do shield warrior build but I genuinely ahte using rolling slam early on
is there a warrior build that doesnt rely on it?

also which warrior ascendence is the best for it? I tried researching it but im too knew to know procs and cons of different guides :(

[twin sierra]

either kitava into titan or warbringer into titan

[half pumice]

I was reading into Kitava and saw something like I can only use normal armor
what does that mean? does that mean I can only use gray tier armor?

[twin sierra]

yes

kitava is tankier, but needs to use shockwave totem/shield charge instead of just warcries to pop shield walls before tier4/5 supports and some passives on the tree

warbringer probably more comfy in sc for that reason, gets more dmg too. Both end up speccing into titan eventually anyways

[half pumice]

sc?

also for campaign build, is focusing on mace strike good enough I dont have to use Rolling slam?
i just cannot get around to enjoying the usage of RS

[limber hollow]

guys i have a really simple question i need answer to

https://youtu.be/6Cd120w7GwQ?t=416

in this video how is he procc'ing multiple comets while using CoA on boss
time stamp already added

[twin sierra]

softcore

[half pumice]

GOTCHA

[twin sierra]

the reason you use rolling slam is to get prime for stun for boneshatter

[half pumice]

the yellow mark right?

[twin sierra]

if you only use mace strike the clear is gonna feel awful, and it typically ends up dealing too much dmg to prime for stun. But can try macestrike + boneshatter still

im pretty sure there are different setups that can work well pre-shieldwall tho I just dont know them personally, I always did rolling slam/boneshatter and mace strike/perfect strike for single target

[half pumice]

gotcha.
I'm just bad at using it and prefer parrying with a shield to apply the stun mark

[twin sierra]

Yeah can experiment with different setups for clearing/running between bosses

[half pumice]

thats true

[limber hollow]

hey citatel

do you have any experience with sorc builds?

[half pumice]

ye

[limber hollow]

mann

[limber hollow]

in this video how is he procc'ing multiple comets while using CoA on boss
time stamp already added

[half pumice]

that idk

[limber hollow]

oh

[wanton anvil]

guys anyone here buffer warrior pls? i don't know what to follow.

[timber talon]

If Im playing hybrid evasion/ES ritualist does it make sense to play deflection from % evasion in like boots/armor or not really?

[weak forge]

guys i need some helpwhy is my spell ENFEEBLE not cursing enemies? i dont get it
it hits but they dont get a debuff

[uncut bay]

comet spark?

[timber talon]

Anyone

[tulip void]

Thanks

[cerulean girder]

super noob question, would increased fire damage from ring do anything for poisonburst build assuming i have plaguefinger wraps?

only flat dmg will matter?

[mortal swift]

how much ES would this reach if I socket in ES runes

[dusky wadi]

im doing shieldwall smith of kitava, should i go with molten being or voracious? cause i have alot of leech but i dont know if the more damage would be worth it or not

[sage tulip]

thanks Xallista but turns out ES druid isn't as good as I thought cause Lightning still burns through my ES like theres no tomorrow

just going back to Armour and health bear and use the onslaught ring to have onslaught for 4 seconds on kills

[fringe lagoon]

Might be too low level, checl the description of the spell

[timber talon]

If Im playing hybrid evasion/ES ritualist does it make sense to play deflection from % evasion in like boots/armor or not really?

[pastel forge]

i get deflection from tree+body+glove as hybrid es/eva invoker, i think its worth it personally

it might be hard to gear if you are not playing CI though since you want chaos resists if not CI

on top of capping res etc

this is what i have atm

[timber talon]

Yeah yeah I know I will get it tho I think

[hollow bronze]

Anybody know how to get coc comet to slam down more often?

Besides temp if it's cool down things

[compact tulip]

When a temporary minion expires, like a living lighting or a raging spirit, does that trigger "when your minion dies" effects?

[compact tulip]

answering my own question^ yes

[mortal swift]

does spiral volley work with cadiros?

[daring veldt]

For spark+choir+CoC build, is triple gain %damage better or 2 gain damage and spell damage/lightning dmg will be better?

[fringe lagoon]

Best is to check on pob to understand the weights

Or check Poe ninja of very rich players I guess

[daring veldt]

tried pob, hard for me lol

[fringe lagoon]

It can be overwhelming at first but it's something worth learning imo so you can answer your own questions and optimize your builds in a much more precise way

[daring veldt]

are there any guides to learn it better?

[fringe lagoon]

Not sure, I just learned by myself

[mortal swift]

its very simple, you can import your character to start off

[daring veldt]

trying that right now

[mortal swift]

if u have your poe ninja set up u can import from there too

[wet granite]

Which class/build should i choose, where do i find it? I like really fast gameplay and screen clearing

[fringe lagoon]

For fast gameplay and screen clear I cannot recommend enough witchhunter Twister https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile2builds/comments/1py1149/witchhunter_whirling_slash_twister/

[wet granite]

which type of gameplay is the druid?

[fringe lagoon]

Mostly caster I'd say

[wet granite]

witch hunter is what class?

[fringe lagoon]

I imagine you can play other archetypes too, Zi recommend checking Poe ninja for some builds

[fringe lagoon]

Mercenary

[wet granite]

what about oracle?

[fringe lagoon]

Mostly caster but do check Poe ninja

[signal burrow]

So for poison burst pathfinder I was looking ahead to see but why doesnt he seem to use toxic quiver he uses a visceral quiver wouldn't toxic quiver be better?

[wet granite]

im not seeing the guide anywhere

[fringe lagoon]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal?class=Oracle

[wet granite]

i mean for the witch hunter build

like tree guide or ability guide, or is it me on my own?

[fringe lagoon]

No written guide I am afraid, but you can check the time machine functionality to see how it progressed from start to endgame

[wet granite]

wait sorry but how do i do that?

[fringe lagoon]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal/character/Vomii-2056/Vomi_WH?i=0&search=name%3DVomi

[wet granite]

OHHH I SEE

tysmm

goddamit i need an exalted orb

[mortal swift]

does quality of curse work inside hand of chayula?

[static basin]

what is the highest survivability build that you can achieve for 20 div or less with DRUID? I want to feel less squishy in fully juiced T15 maps and be able to go into T16. So far I can run T15 comfortably as long as they're not fully fully juiced corrupted.... please @ me if you can help

[flat jungle]

what spells scale very good with aoe? im thinking of playing some kind of spirit aoe stacking abyssal lich with palm of the dreamer

[sharp glade]

any build that can stack ES

[chilly swan]

If I have Volcanic Eruption AND Ancestral Cry active, will I get twice as many little fiery balls?

[plain solar]

Can anyone share a bow build for a poe2 beginner?

[timid cloud]

guys check this out

https://youtu.be/4yZZHcngOwU?si=xON7_DF3c7QEIVOM

[timid cloud]

i have this fo you much stronger than bow build

https://youtu.be/odaC0ohXZh0?si=5Bzb_NEb3bafg03r

[craggy ember]

can someone recommend good leveling guide for spark blood mage?

[trail tundra]

hello, im new to the poe series and was wondering if someone could explain what a passive nodes means by gaining extra when it says "gain 10% of damage as extra physical damage"? does that mean its adding an extra 10% on top of the normal damage? or does it mean that 10% of my damage is being converted into physical damage type?

[fast wind]

It means 100 phys turns into 110 phys

[summer copper]

was wondering if anyone has tried a witch/druid build witch as the main

[hybrid ocean]

Ai thumbnail? 🤮

[hybrid ocean]

Means you get another 10% of your original base damage, with this damage being converted to physical. Other increases/reductions are then applied afterwards.

So if you had 100% increased physical and 100% increased attack damage, an attack with a base 100 lightning damage would end up doing 200 lightning damage and 30 physical

[trail tundra]

oh awesome! thank you!

[trail tundra]

so "gained" is one of the better ones then? since it applies before the modifiers?

[hybrid ocean]

It definitely can be yeah, though it can still get saturated just like any other stat

And as seen in the example above, oftentimes you'll have modifiers that don't apply to the damage type being gained

[celest oxide]

Okay, so I'm building Lightning Spear on Deadeye

I'm looking at Resonance for Endurance Charges -> Frenzy Charges

And then I use Armour Break III for those on Herald and Bear tech on Bosses

But there's an Armour Break Tech with Herald of Ice apparently as well?

But I need Gain as Phys for it?

So I should Suffix Crystalize Essence on Gain as Phys for last Prefix here?

Instead of going for Hybrid with Desecrate? (Then I can use Desecrate to get Attack Speed over Onslaught?

Or is the Noteable that gives 8% damage as Phys enough

[brittle anvil]

there's a 10% gain notable on the druid side, but "enough" depends on your damage, so it's hard to tell

[latent dawn]

how does additional arrow/proj work against single target? only one will hit right?

[atomic halo]

yes

specifically, the shotgunning rule is that when multiple projectiles are created by the same skill at the same time, only one of them can hit a given target

there are two ways to get around this - aoe does not care about this rule, so if those projectiles create some sort of aoe explosion, that will shotgun. second is that some skills fire in a barrage when you add projectiles, which is a poe1 behaviour - im not sure if it exists in poe2.

[pastel forge]

Not sure for arrows, but wyvern oil barrage is specifically that

[golden pine]

Being new to the game what is the best way to figure out what item to chase next

[pastel forge]

actually oil barrage is both aoe and sequential firing of projectiles

[golden pine]

Here is my char I am working on

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/LevityBrevity-2514/character/Levitee

[shrewd sigil]

i bought this jewel that gives extra dmg as fire and extra dmg as lightning

my understanding is that it takes your damage after most multipliers, snapshots that at a percentage, then adds that number to your damage.

when I look at rend, i would have expected the tooltip to say deals x-xx lightning dmg, but it didnt after i put this on

am I misunderstanding?

I even went as far as to put lightning flat dmg on my weapon but it doesnt seem to affect even that. rend will still say same lightning dmg regardless of the jewel being socketed into my tree or not

nevermind i think im a fucking idiot

embitter turns extra dmg into cold dmg

[twilit pivot]

for Amazon's "Critical hit perk" is it an increase to your base crit chance or is it just bonus crit chance?

[zinc linden]

IIUC it is the same as global %increased crit chance. So it scales of the base crit. If it was additive with basecrit chance it would be uber OP

[brittle anvil]

it is added to base crit

[tranquil steeple]

Any build ideas with this? Currently have it on my Gathering Storm Pathfinder but its just cause its highest possible value I dont think it gets thes best out of it

[zinc linden]

Oh really?

That's like crazy info then

[brittle anvil]

yeah but remember only 25% of excess accuracy is gained to crit

so if you have 120% accuracy you will get 5% base crit

and then there's accuracy by distance, monster evasion

[cerulean girder]

what build uses this gem? big money right here

[latent dawn]

break armour with 20% of the chaos dmg and gain 40% phys as extra chaos

So you need to be phys based at the very least...

perhaps a build with Original Sin could make use of that
otherwise its still not bad for a pure phys char that either makes of Palm of the Dreamer scepter or even just as is if its a support slot you had nothing else to use.. hard to say

poe ninja shows mostly pathfinders, oracles, titans... and then some disciples, shamans, invokers, acolytes, etc uses it

It does amplify the original Hit to poison something

[uncut bay]

it's the bloodmage spellcasting chest

[latent dawn]

Blood Mage has a defense ascendancy that adds 100% of body armour ES as extra life.. so you got a Kaom's Heart amount of life on that Atziri's Splendour

otherwise yea.. pathfinder makes great use of that with having access to Sorc start with all the ES nodes...

[tranquil steeple]

pathfinder does but my pathfidner doesn't, ES with no evasion can be a bit of a struggle in overunn diffilcuty abysses while stuck to melee 😭

normal maps and bossing is fine

abyss just sucks on melee because of defences and also because you cant even pull out enemies from the void

[uncut bay]

okay pathfinder has good synergy with it yeab
if you stack ES you need either high evasion and ghost dance or you need good recharge

[tranquil steeple]

yea exactly, but PF isn't like amazon where EV from other equipment is crazy, and more often than not the other equipment is taken by uniques that are required

but you can stack defense super easily cause of travellers wisdom on PF

but once again, its a lot better with multiple defences

not just a lot of ES

[latent dawn]

that chest is also great on a build with Eldritch Battery

[tranquil steeple]

the hybrid es ev chest is alot better on PF id assume rather than the pure ES one

[latent dawn]

big chunk of mana right there

[tranquil steeple]

yea but ive never played spellcasters in this game 😭 its always been monk or ranger

new thing ig

[latent dawn]

I play a bow Blood mage and a Spark pathfinder, reversed roles on both 😄

[tranquil steeple]

i can see spark pathfinder being very nice with the movement penalty reduction node do you use it?

• you start from sorc anyway

[latent dawn]

my bow blood mage would take that ES armour instantly... its just too good for blood mage x: even non-caster

[tranquil steeple]

do you bow bleed?

or just bow in general

[latent dawn]

yea you can spam spark while moving much faster as PF and you start at sorc for everything

[latent dawn]

yea cold bleed bow blood mage, build by JayTX on youtube

you freeze uber arbiter, then you use Snipe and he dies to the bleed in a few seconds

[timber niche]

can anyone tell me why I cant add more skel warriors? it keeps saying I dont have enough spirit when I havent activated anyting else

I have 409 spirit

[latent dawn]

anyone know if you can target farm monster types on their end game maps that are the mirror of their campaign location?

Are certain monsters lets say spiders that spawn in Act 2's Traitor's Passage more likely to show up on that counterpart end game map equivalent?

Trying to get a better Tamed beast so farming campaign areas aint the way

[latent dawn]

could be a weapon set issue ?

skel warriors are only on the rattling scepter so if your weapon swap doesnt have it.. otherwise idk, sometimes things are buggy and you need to unequip and re-equip

[vital locust]

Want to make my own PoE 2 build (not copy one).
For beginners, what’s harder to get right: the passive skill tree or gems (skills/supports)?
What should I learn first?

[fringe lagoon]

Both are important and you'll most likely refine them over time. I'd start with skills and support to get some direction and build a tree that synergize well with them

Making new builds can be very fun, rewarding and instructive - Good luck!

[vital locust]

Yeah, it feels kind of overwhelming with so many possibilities.
That helps a lot though — I’ll follow that. Thanks!

[fervent lake]

Has anyone made a wyvern build and can help me make an endgame set up? I'm bored of wolf and bear and really like the notes on oracle/shaman. Feel like taking advantage of rage with druid/wyvern.

[nimble rune]

How do I get thunderstorm to shock enemies? the "shock" support won't work I guess, because 100% more of 0% is still 0%, right? ist shock conduction II the only thing that works?

[silent shard]

hey guys can anyone pls have a look on my coc arc build and say what can i improve i spend all my cureency and feels so underwhelming 🙁 https://pobb.in/SSixy_Pty9aQ

[midnight bolt]

does anyone know if its a bug that spell echo+spell cascade results in 4 spells not 6?

[heady mango]

whirlwind titan uses this - i went to buy it but i was like holy moly nvm

[round osprey]

I just found out that "minions revive % faster" can be rolled as a prefix on hearth of the well, are there any other "obscure" places where I can get this modifier, all I knew so far was from this link https://poe2db.tw/Reviving_Minions#RevivingRef ty 🙂

[gusty ingot]

can someone link a good bloodmage coc build

[burnt gust]

Life Leech III basically does what Fast Metabolism does, or?

[chilly swan]

Does anyone know if I have Volcanic Eruption AND Ancestral Cry active if I will trigger both Volcanic Eruption procs on separate cooldowns?

[odd vault]

If i get this node. will cast on crit trigger that? if i crit all the time will i then have "50% more damage" perma almost?

[atomic halo]

will cast on crit trigger that?
yes
if i crit all the time will i then have "50% more damage" perma almost?
it's increased, not more

that's a big difference because "more" is a lot more valuable than increased

but yes if you are consistently triggering that will be consistently up, and 50% increased is still quite good

[odd vault]

oh yes sorry that was what i meant cus if i do oracle the 4th node on top then i will "always crit" right? just with not so much damage but i will crit always right?

[atomic halo]

yes

[odd vault]

okay good. i was a little worried it wasn't how it worked. tyvm for the info

[odd vault]

Hi when i use COC it won't work always? does druid oracle asc node not work for that? i should be critting all the time?

[atomic halo]

well, if you are expecting a trigger on every crit, you need to read coc again

[odd vault]

yeah i jsut realised. how do i gain more energy? is there a support or spirit gem?

[atomic halo]

energy is based off of damage dealt, so one part is just dealing damage

[odd vault]

So the higher damage the more coc's?

[atomic halo]

the other half is that supports will interact with energy gain, keeping energy, plus there is support on the tree for energy gain

[atomic halo]

yes

[odd vault]

Do you know what its called on passive tree? its hard to search for it bc of ES

[atomic halo]

dont remember exact but there's energy support around monk area

look for ci, there's an energy cluster just above that

you should be able to find the wording there

[odd vault]

i see it noqw

[atomic halo]

"triggered" or "meta" should show useful passivess

[odd vault]

i will go for that later if my damage hasn't increased enough

[marsh oracle]

Question - fox idol in armor 2%quality will go over 20%? So 22? Or only helps if u r on 18 ..

(Guess not)

[woven depot]

Quality can go over 20% yes

[hollow bronze]

I wanna do rathpit stacking, what's the mods I'm looking for on wands? Obviously levels, spell damage for non channeling( I think ) crit. What else? I have like 350d to spend lol

[cedar aspen]

Is there anyone who’s actually managed to make Scarred Faith work?

[carmine flicker]

it's not smth you "make work" tbh

IMO you take scarred faith when you go life/armour and have like 300-500 random ES from somewhere for some reason(random unique you use anyway or w/e)

then you lose nothing by taking it, so why not anyway (if you are somewhere nearby in tree)

[atomic halo]

goes over, there is no hard overcap

[rough geyser]

So I've gotta keep my wife playing, so I can keep playing all night after work, and she has always liked cast on crit builds in PoE1, and happens to already be what I think is the more popular ascendancy for it(storm weaver) and she really wants to use the comet spell. I've checked on CoC storm weaver comet, and it seems to exist, but can the build fit into 100d or so budget, and how tanky is it? A lot of the build showcases are just bosses evaporating, which she can already do.

I'm having a hard time finding something that's really good for her to be able to stand in more mechanics than your average poe2 player. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it

[hollow bronze]

Just got a rathpit 7% per 100 and my DPS isn't as crazy as I thought haha

[cedar tulip]

Is there a known bug with main hand and off hand damage? using two two handers ^^
(It's not two handed damage nodes it applies to both)

[kindred sundial]

If I wanted to become a Sekhema enjoyer (I hate it; I'm a melee enjoyer / run-into-the-combat-and-die type person), where would I go to learn about how to love Sekhema ?

What makes a good Sekhema farming build?

[cedar tulip]

It seems the base damage off the skill is not added to the offhand and just added to the main hand

[trail tundra]

how can i tell if a skill is going to produce an elemental ground effect? Does the skill have to specifcally say it will create one like "Burning Inscription" does? Or can elemental spells still create ground effects even if they don't explicitly say so?

[thin plinth]

Can someone link me a druid dragon build?

[barren nacelle]

What are some effective ways to take physical damage as elemental ? I tried looking at the wiki but it was a bit hard to navigate

[serene shore]

Shaman
Moltein being(passive)
the fire and storm unique body piece
Catalysis(passive) are some examples

[naive spindle]

Anyone know if the number of power charges affects flame breath? Or it just needs the minimum 1 to proc the extra damage?

[pastel forge]

just need 1 to proc the extra lightning

[thorny venture]

Can herald of thunder cause freeze build up? (I know it cant proc Herald of ice anymore)

[uncut halo]

The skill: Phantom Sniper, in what order or pattern are the framed skills used?

[hollow bronze]

Buys adored diamond and jewelsm DPS goes down. Anything I'm missing?

[dry knot]

Does this augment work on Atziri's splendor with soulcores count as helmet mod?

would it count on the splendor's energy shield

or the helmet?

[midnight bolt]

Does ball lightning hit 1 enemy every 0.2 sec or all enemies in radius every 0.2 sec i cant tell from testing

[pastel forge]

is there any website with updated heroic tragedy seeds? the one on maxroll seems outdated

[vital locust]

I’ve watched some beginner videos and they suggest following a build instead of making your own. Do you think this recommendation is more valid than trying to create your own build?

[woven depot]

Depends on the person

Making builds is the game for me

[pastel forge]

Well there is always the possibility that your first build fails horribly, and you might have to restart with a new character

You can also try to reference a build guide and adjust according to your own preference

[pale jewel]

Ayoo anyone knows how to maximize Essentia Sanguis ES leech? Ih ave a ring with % Phys Damage life leech but I barely notice any actual ES leeching, Im using an ice strike monk with a sinister quarterstaff that has Lightning Cold and Fire damage, maybe thats the issue?

[pastel forge]

You need phy dmg to do the leeching yea, either via 30% phy as extra prefix on weapon or something like dangerous blossom anoint for 10% dmg gain as extra phy

[torn mango]

For spell casters what’s the diff between Crit Damage Bonus and Crit Spell Damage Bonus?

[pastel forge]

same thing

[sage tulip]

Question does pin and knock back work together to like knack the enemy and then pin them in place or do they counteract each other ?

[static basin]

can someone please help me, I'm a lvl 92 druid and I've tried 10+ build guides and all of them are getting 1 shot and not doing a lot of dmg... I have 75 div budget. What is something I can start using right now to demolish juiced maps without fear? I want to farm but am hitting a wall getting popped and losing progress

[sage tulip]

What have you tried ?

[torn mango]

So it allows casters to stack more crit bonus damage?

[pastel forge]

this stat exists as well but rarer, so its easier for casters yes

[sage tulip]

I have come up with my own custom set up and it’s working but I’m still only about lvl 40 but the basic concept is working.

I’ll get the mobalytics link sent to you when I’m done working.

[pastel forge]

well what is your healthpool right now and armour/evasion?

[sage tulip]

I’m constantly revising it too.

[pastel forge]

healthpool meaning hp+es

if you are playing oracle like most druids then you can reference this guy who went pure es

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNAZBI6cdhg

[static basin]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1696e

this is my custom ES build, I do "ok" dmg, like maybe upwards of 250k dps on bosses, but i do get 1 shot and am in need of optimizing or a full rebuild (again)

[pastel forge]

oh minions

[static basin]

I keep spending 10-20 div on gear, following build guides, and then dying to bosses and its become frustrating

i only use minions to help recharge my ES and mana, they do no damage

they just blind/knockback and distract

but im not screen clearing the way some builds do on youtube, and im not immortal by any means

[sage tulip]

Are you using a scepter ?

[static basin]

yes

it has 140+ spirit and purity of ice

[sage tulip]

Vitality 2 ?

[static basin]

yes

[pastel forge]

the healthpool seems fine but damage might be a little lacking?

to truly survive oneshots from pinnacles you need like 15k total

[static basin]

it seems fine until bosses in t15 corrupted maps just 1 shot me randomly

[sage tulip]

armour amount and health regen ?

Also amount of armor converted to elemental damage

[static basin]

i have 8323 ES, 2403 recharge pe rsecond, 1.39 recharge delay... 2053 life, 73 life per second, 3948 unbuffed armour maybe 6k buffed

but i haven't been able to get high ES and also have higher other defenses

[sage tulip]

That is low armor in my opinion

[static basin]

I've already rereolled 10 times, I went with max health and overleech, i went with 50k armour builds

i did so many variations and now im at maxing my ES as much as I can because those all failed me

its frustrating as a new player to try everything and fail lol

i know its me doing something wrong but i cant figure out how to fix it despite throwing so much time and divines at it

ive been at the brink of giving up but i dont like to quit and i enjoy the game when im not dying losing progress

i looked into COC builds but they are like 900 divine

[pastel forge]

its hard to comment on armour/es builds for me, on paper your ehp seems fine

[static basin]

this is my POB stats:

my "full dps" is only 133k though in pob

[sage tulip]

Yeah the only thing I can think of is that your resistances values might be low or something

Nevermind your resistances are good

[static basin]

I get to a boss in a juiced t15 map and then bam I'm one shot before I can kill them, I've lost multiple citadel attempts as a result

not everytime, but when it matters...

[pastel forge]

the only really big thing is lack of armour but we know those dont help for big phy hits so not really an answer either

[sage tulip]

You need higher armor though

[static basin]

is there something to massively increase my mana for MOM and/or instant refill or infinite loop energy shield or overflow mana etc to up survivability I can look into?

and if there is a way that I can have high surviv and also screen clear / bossing 500k+ dps or 1m+ will be ideal so I can just go ham and farm

I feel like im dumb right now that I haven't figured it out in so much time played on this druid lol

[sage tulip]

You could drop energy shield recharge and take that one node that makes your ES heal from your excess life regen then you won’t need to wait for the ES recharge to kick in. That’s what I did

Now you don’t need recharge and use those passive nodes for more armor and more armor to element damage.

[static basin]

yea but im dying to one shots, not dying to attrition

ok i see what you mean hmm

but i thought armour doesnt help against one shots either?

[sage tulip]

It decreases the damage you take

[static basin]

im fine in maps, lots of mobs don't bother me

it just is bosses

[pastel forge]

it helps it just takes a lot to mitigate larger hits

a 10k hit requires 100k to mitigate 5k

[static basin]

yea im not reaching 100k without getting down below 1k energy shield and 2k hp lol

when i full stacked armour i was at like 2.2k hp, 100 energy shield, 50k armour max

and i was getting demolishes

i spent around 15 div on my current set up to get my energy shield over 8k thinking that would really help lols

[pastel forge]

yea usually it boils down to 15-23k es to facetank hits or you simply have to kill before they can hit you

[torn mango]

Everlasting gaze amulet? Or jewels and stats that increase mana based on body armor mana.

[static basin]

my current amulet adds 2k energyshield to my build, I will look at everlasting gaze

[pastel forge]

like even the 15-23k casters are killing shit offscreen with spark

[static basin]

yea my dmg is not high enough to insta gib everything or kill bosses in seconds

I fight bosses for like 30-45 sec probably on fully juiced t15

because im having to dodge and play defensive i cannot just stay and face tank

[sage tulip]

Like yeah I’m only lvl 35 but I already have 1750 armor I’m 1/3 your level but have half your armor. I face tank bosses easy.

[pastel forge]

im at 8.7k es on werewolf with 15k eva/8k deflect

w/ CI

[static basin]

the game is very very different at lvl 35 vs t15 juiced maps

[pastel forge]

stuff can still oneshot me

especially the slams that i cant evade

[static basin]

yea xall its just brutal

[sage tulip]

Fair just pointing out that your armor on that sheet seems low

[static basin]

i guess they dont want people to play hardcore, because i would never roll hardcore in this current state of INEVITABLE random 1 shots

yea my armour is very low because I went full Energy Shield gear

[sage tulip]

Yeah

[pastel forge]

you can consider just going full es and push towards 15k

[sage tulip]

You might be getting smacked by lightning damage. Lightning damage eats through ES

[static basin]

if I go with armour then I have to sacrifice energy shield, which I did before, I had body armour with over 2k armour on it alone, I was stacked to 50k armour total and 80k applies to elemental and still being one shot

[pastel forge]

and well some ways to improve your damage

[sage tulip]

You don’t use evasion right ? How much dex you have ?

[pastel forge]

no way to use evade with his gear and tree start

would have to path all the way to monk side

[static basin]

42 dex only 8% eva

yea I went all in with ES

[lavish shell]

is Last Lament Lich (Crossbow Galvanic Shards) still viable / working ? it was showcased a season or two ago. I never tried it and thought that maybe I can try it now ?

[static basin]

im having to use morior invictus though to get my attributes and ele res high

[sage tulip]

No I was thinking if he uses dex for supports then he could get the timeless jewel that causes dex to give 1% armour per 2 dex that would be an easy way to raise his armor without sacrificing ES

[pastel forge]

i have enough damage to kill most 6-9mod maps despite pouncing directly into abyss mobs so in that regard im fine, plus wolf freezes

havent touched bear at all so im clueless for that side of shapeshift

[sage tulip]

Also that specific timeless jewel is only valued at about 1Div

[static basin]

yea i kill mobs quickly, its just bosses that are a problem atm, with one shotting me.. I do around 250k dps, sometimes spikes with crits to 1million burst, so a 7-14 mil healthpool boss dies in around 30-45 sec at best unless im having to run around and recharge energy shield

[pastel forge]

oh heroic tragedy

well his base armour is low so a lil more % wont do too much either way since most of his gear is pure es

[static basin]

idk how ppl are flying through fully juiced maps t16 and not having this issue lol

[pastel forge]

so yea, if your concern is purely oneshot, you gotta go es chest too and try to hit 15k+ probably, and find a way to imrpove damage somehow

probably just go get CI at that point

and depending on how extreme you want to go, you might want to consider rerolling ascendancy to oracle

[sage tulip]

Fair but it is a slight buff and take kultist key node so his health regen applies to ES when his health is at max then he doesn’t have to wait for the regen to kick in mid boss fight.

[static basin]

yea im def going to try oracle

[quartz pewter]

Isn't there a support or something that prevents you from inflicting freeze? Looking to get my spell to still do freeze buildup but not inflict it.

[pastel forge]

you get to stack damage much easier as oracle so that can help you stay alive as well

[sage tulip]

For boss fight one shots that has to be a combo of lighting and physical damage which causes him to lose ES immediately and the excess damage just erase his health.

[pastel forge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNAZBI6cdhg

can reference this dude on how he built his oracle

[static basin]

thanks for trying to help. If I swap my armour i'm spending 70 div to get an 1100+ ES body armour and losing all of my attributes and ele res that I need to equip everything... so i dont think that is even possible right now

POB says that doing that will give me 30-40% resists and energy shield 13k, chaos max hit cuts in half but phys max hit goes up to 18k

[sage tulip]

Hmm damn well wish you the best of luck.

[pastel forge]

🫡 good luck on your adjustments

[static basin]

thank you

[sage tulip]

Ohh xallista if you know what would happen if you run knock back and pin at the same time ?

[pastel forge]

dunno, never played pin stuff

[sage tulip]

Ahh alright

[pastel forge]

exclusively wolf/wyvern monk so far

[sage tulip]

Thinking of swapping things and using the gloves that reverse knockback direction so as I slam with bear skills it pulls them into a pile and pins them in place as I keep slamming them.

Question is also how to get guaranteed knockbacks.

[dusky wadi]

is fork a bad idea on fireball?

[cedar aspen]

Doing a poison build with plants. Are there any specific poison supports I should take/avoid? I’d be using them on Entangle and Thrashing Vines

[daring veldt]

Is wyvern actually really good for fast map clearing and bossing while having great survivability? How much budget to keep in mind for the build?

[cedar aspen]

I don’t know about budget but Wyvern is very strong for both clearing and bossing if done right. For clear, people have had success using just rend with power charges and using the notable Tribal Fury. With bossing it’s either Flame Breath, Oil Barrage or both.

It has natural ES synergy in wyvern form as well

[old ermine]

Does anyone have any suggestions for a Huntress campaign build? I am struggling to get through the campaign on this class

[daring veldt]

Which class/ascendancy does it the best?

[cedar aspen]

Well, I’d say both Oracle and Shaman have their pros and cons with it. You could even do Wyvern invoker too.

I’m using it on shaman in combination with bear and wolf skills so I’m not an expert by any means on other suitable ascendancies. But I do know Druid is pretty flexible between different ascendancies, it’s so versatile.

[vital locust]

There are website to check most used skills from poe 2 of comunnity?

[cedar aspen]

Poe2ninja

[old ermine]

poe 2 ninja

[cedar aspen]

I don’t sorry

[daring veldt]

Alright. I’ll have a look.

[silver summit]

For CoC does the % ailment threshold modifier count per ailment? Or only for one? Like if I freeze and chill will I get 200% modified?

[atomic halo]

no

ailment threshold is just a value to check against your damage

whether or not you actually deal ailments is irrelevant to CoC

[silver summit]

So what does the

Modified by the percentage of the enemy’s ailment theshold the critical hit will deal
Line actually do? Is it a nothing burger? It seemed like it would give a bonus to energy on face value

[formal silo]

Do bleeds overwrite eachother?

Like if I do a big hit and it has bleed on it then it does another so they stack or does one overwrite the other?

[rapid moat]

looking for help understanding how to make my own build

[vital locust]

Whats difference betweem Increased vs. More and which is better

[silver summit]

More is generally bigger than increased

Because more get applied after increased I think so mores also buff the amount of damage an increase buffs by

So like 100 increased by 40% is 140, and then 10% more is 140+14 not 140 + 10

I think it goes extra then increased then more

[stark pewter]

What happens when I have Whisper of the Brotherhood, Call of the Brotherhood, and Painter's Servant equipped?

[silver summit]

Why in gods name would you have all three

[stark pewter]

i'm wondering if there's a point in doing that lol

[silver summit]

They’re all converts so they all happen in the same stage so it depends on which applies last

[stark pewter]

100% Cold to Lightning
100% Lightning to Cold
33% of Elemental to Each Element

how does the math math here

[silver summit]

You’d either end up with 33 fire 66 lightning or 66 cold

I think

Or 33 33 33 if painters is last

[stark pewter]

More modifiers are multiplicative, while all of your Increased modifiers are additive with each other.
5x instances of 20% Increased damage is 20+20+20+20+20 = 100% Increased Damage, in other words 2x damage
5x instances of 20% More Damage is 1.2*1.2*1.2*1.2*1.2 = 2.48832x damage

[grizzled spruce]

Is it possible to selfchill without dealing elemental damage? e.g. some kind of all damage from hits contributes to chill magnitude or something?

[signal sky]

as atributes

[twilit pivot]

Those knowledgeable in amazon huntress.

If i blind an enemy and thus reducing their evasion chance, does it increase my chance to hit and thus the amount of bonus base crit i get?

[serene shore]

Im not in depth knowledgeable, but I believe so yes. I think it changes the crit chance with the accuracy formula when enemies are farther away from a ranged attack

[barren nacelle]

So does eldritch batter take into accounts nodes that add flat energy shield to your build ?

like if I take a node on my tree that says "+20 to energy shield"

[brittle anvil]

yes

just not the % increased

[barren nacelle]

Okay good

[agile remnant]

aw man i guess there really is a difference between "recover" and "regenerate" i took zealots oath thinking it would be neat to gain energy shield back using "invigorating hate", using my rage to gain overshield but it doesnt seem to work.

[vocal plover]

if you open you charecter page it will show you the stats as different you can use it to help prevent any future mistakes. recoupe regen and flasks all have seperate stats.

Beira's anguish dousing charm "Grants Immunity to Ignite" for 4 seconds and is "Used when you become Ignited" It effectively prevents itself from being spammed with self ignite until death then it does spam cause the deceased are unable to have immunity's. If anyone knows how to bypass the 4 second cooldown for the immunity please inform me. It has no cooldown but the immunity becomes its cooldown.

[hybrid ocean]

Afaik there is no way, but you can reduce charm duration by several means

[vocal plover]

i will look into that.

[hybrid ocean]

or like 2 exalts for a -48% one

Anyone here have a Garukhan's resolve and willing to test something?

[vocal plover]

at the end of the day thats not really enough to make it work the way id like it to to be worth building around it. it might be okay for setting ignited ground in a tornado build but thats about it.

[slender lodge]

if i use rakiatas flow and then use elemental penetration does it do more damage?

[silver urchin]

Rampage's description uses "charge" and "run" to describe the movement as you move forward. Does this count as Sprinting, or not?

For passives such as "+X while Sprinting"

[silver anvil]

how does phys damage work with conversion?
if the node says 40% increase phys damage but the skill converts 40% phys to lightning
its ass right?

shaman builds are so weird because you just have some damage as extra ele all over the place so these increased #damage nodes are so awkward

[brittle anvil]

it will scale the remaining 60%

but yeah if your damage are all over the place getting increased attack damage or just generic increased damage would be better

[tepid falcon]

Does a poison build work for deadeye?

[pastel forge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNAZBI6cdhg

i think oracle is hard to beat atm

[tranquil steeple]

oracle is such a strong ascendancy but the two things that make it strong feel almost un-nerfable lol

😭

idk what they will do

[pastel forge]

yea the keystone thing is such a cheatcode on top of exclusive passives that are stronger than usual

and it perfectly synergizes with heroic tragedy more so than other classes

[tranquil steeple]

i mean i dont see how they can nerf it at all

so

if its untouched im def league starting it next season

[hybrid ocean]

Anyone here got a Garukhan's resolve and a leveled Oracle that would be willing to test something?

[arctic osprey]

So I just leveled a Witch to endgame (secondary account). I've only ever played Contagion/Essence Drain Lich.

Are there any builds you guys would recommend that are primarily good for their clear speed?

[pastel forge]

poison archer

[twilit mortar]

does this notable stack if you allocate it twice?

[tepid falcon]

Does a poison build work for deadeye?

[vital locust]

I watched a video where he does one-skill builds with random ascendancies (Fang of Frost + Chronomancer, Shield Charge + Acolyte of Chayula). It really shows that almost any skill can be played — he always gets to Arbiter of Ash. That motivated me to try making my own build.

https://youtu.be/gLac8n8iBeA?si=woDbaC9iyG9AVfAU

[terse haven]

Does the updated vine arrow damage over time stack?

[plain cloud]

Sorry if it's the wrong place to ask, but what's the best modifier I can get for a EDC Lich? Should I get the increased Spell damage with spells that cost life and take those passive points on the tree or is it just better to get the as exta cold damage?

[brittle anvil]

gain only works with hit damage, not damage over time

[plain cloud]

Ahh, I was not aware of that, thank you! So it would only be for the Chaos Bolt then? Would it be better to just go the Spell Damage route then and add a life cost to skills?

[brittle anvil]

yeah if you can make it work then take the 87%

[static basin]

I'm having a bad time in this game if someone knowledgeable can help me before I give up, every guide I've followed has not been very good for my experience... I exhausted all of the things I could afford as a shaman bear, so I switched to oracle caster and my dmg is garbage... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvoDBDAoXp4

idk what to do next but ive put over 100 divine into this character and its not fun and not powerful

[toxic beacon]

You should post a poe ninja link for your character.

[static basin]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/16c31

[static basin]

let me know what you think i can change or how i can become more powerful... its a bit of a slow grind with this amount of dmg and cast speed etc... I'm a newb to poe 2 and been struggling trying a lot of different builds

[tepid falcon]

Can you really not use deadeye for poison builds on ranger?

[vapid moat]

Deadeye twister or tactical shards for mapping and end game content?

[pale jewel]

quick question, how can you equip 2 mana flask? im seeing ppl with 2 mana flask in poe ninja but i cant find the source of this

[pale jewel]

oh ok thats weird I guess the poeninja page must be doing some weird stuff cause its showing up like they are using headhunter but still having two mana flasks

[vocal plover]

Yea a youtube started a rumour if you use this belt then put 2 mana flasks in then swap the belt you can use 2 mana flasks with any belt. but if you read the zone when it goes red it says the stats are negated. It only works with mana flask charges count. nothing else. one negated flask is worthless without the ambrosia perk on a spell/skill.

[torn mango]

If I’m a lightning caster build, What’s the difference between increased Lightning damage, elemental damage, extra Lightning damage, and spell damage? Aren’t they all additive and make me do more Lightning damage?

[quartz cairn]

They all make you do more lightning damage yeah.. but from my understanding, "As extra" is calculated from your base damage and then multiplied by the others.

[novel estuary]

quick pob question: how do I add the 'extra skill points' that I gain through the campaign? so the level and number of passives match

[plain urchin]

Sorry for pic spam

Can I get some advice about my build, I feel like I'm not killing bosses or packs as fast as I could be. (Bleed ritualist)

[hushed nacelle]

Is it possible to league start with shield wall?

[woven depot]

very much so

[verbal summit]

What's the best build for temple that isn't a lightning skill? Ideally large aoe to catch any enemies in corners

[torn mango]

How does Cloak of Defiance work with MOM?

[late laurel]

What's the easiest way to get Chilld Ground on-demand?

Wake of Destruciton gives Shocked Ground but are there equivalents for Chilled or even Ignited

[verbal summit]

empowered ice nova

[mellow escarp]

Could someone help me understand what Voltaic Mark's purpose is here? I can't find any source of Electrocution, so I can't figure out what it's doing. I've seen a few builds that're similar

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal/character/HaMaDonKilleD-4649/HaMaDonKilleDzzzz?i=0&search=class%3DRitualist%26items%3DBlack%2BSun%2BCrest%26min-dex%3D800%26columns%3Dcharacter%252Clevel%252Cehp%252Cstr%252Cdex%252Cint%252Cdps%252Ckeystoneskill

[late laurel]

I mean for that you'd need another different skill for the Infusion and you can't extend its ground duration or just proc it passively no?

[torn quiver]

What's the main skill you cast?

[static basin]

ball lightning, but i just need to trigger crits to get lightning bolt from my amulet

[torn quiver]

It's not, you can put a lavianga or however it's spelt in your life flask and it works fine when it's red. Character sheet will clearly show you gain X mana per second from flask effect

[static basin]

i spam thunderstorm, power siphon, entangle, detonate dead,

my map clear is pretty good but boss fights take forever

i gotta figure out a way to nuke bosses quicker, my dps on them is way too low

[torn quiver]

Do you mean arc? If not Poe ninja might need updating I don't see a button to do it on mobile

[static basin]

nah not using arc

here is my pob this is updated to what i have now https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/16cf2

[torn quiver]

Don't you still need a cast on crit for the choir of the storm loop?

[static basin]

i dont think so, it just casts when i crit without cast on crit

[torn quiver]

I thought choir could loop by its hit generating energy. I could be wrong I haven't got to try it yet

[static basin]

this particular build doesnt use cast on crit gem

[torn quiver]

Only thing obvious I can see to increase damage on a boss would be the skill gem that inverts resistance on your main damage skill

If you can use it

[static basin]

yea its just 40+ div

[torn quiver]

90ish but you can attempt to hunt one down they drop on tier 6 maps

[static basin]

only tier 6?

[torn quiver]

And above tier 6 is the lowest you can put into the special maps

I crank the boss points up and run a t6 and then fly through maps just hitting anomalies

T1s and t2s to travel, grand projects if you have spare currency

You probably want the other one sorry forgot choir ignores elemental resists. Bifucates critical hits

[celest oxide]

Should I use Explosive Spear or Storm Lance for Single Target on LS?

[hollow edge]

Im playing druid moon blessing shred lunar assault build, im not following any build but im looking at build in ninja. My problem is that i don't understand why people put their armour breaking debuff on herlad of ice (socketed with armour break and armour explo, so i assume is for clearing purposes) leaving no armour break on bosses. Unless im missing something. can someone explain me why they do this ? i currently have armour break on shred which isn't that good i would say but im not sure where to put it

[late laurel]

Brittle Armour makes Herald shred armour for the explosion, I'd guess is how they have it set up.

[pastel forge]

Besides shred, majority of your damage as wolf is cold dmg, so armour break does nothing

Armour break on herald of ice is for chaining explosions

But you need extra phy on weapon or the tree to do that

[rare lance]

Hi! Im kinda new to the game. Learning now to do a good start next league.
I have 4 divs budget and want a build to do high lvl content.
My actual build is cyclone of tumult doing T16 "easy" but my PoB say only 1.5m DPS and the PoB I get do max 5m.
Someone can help me with a build/guide with this budget?

My actual build cost about 80 chaos so I think I can do much better with 4 divs

[brittle anvil]

wrong channel man > #1┃build-planning

[brittle anvil]

or maybe #1┃new-player-in-campaign-help

[rare lance]

same.

i need do something to open these channels?

[brittle anvil]

I'm not sure, try DM this bot to ask a mod maybe

[pearl sluice]

whats your ign in poe 2

[atomic halo]

missing poe1 role

should be fixed

[ivory gate]

Im looking for a mele Bloodmage build. And is it more expensive to get then running a Warrior build?

[tacit tulip]

if i am comparing weapons, can the +3 mele skills be better (using all mele skills) or is the other prob better?

[fathom brook]

Do you use the minion generation from pounce for damage? Cause that scales HELLA much with melee skill level.

It is essentially a minion skill that scales with both melee, AND minion level increases

Daaaaamn, now i know why tali+sceptre may be kinda broken

Pretty sure you can hit level 33-35 or so on pounce, which is BANANAS

Also, fun fact, if you run tali+sceptre/staff, the level of pounce seems to snapshot on the weapon used at the time, i.e. the tali

Just from personal testing with swapping from a +3 to +7

Mid straight to a late game one

Unsure if a familial tali's minion damage bonus also snapshots at the time of creation.

[twilit mortar]

i keep getting mini stunned by delirium monsters after walking into mirrors on juiced t15 maps -> how much stun threshold do you realistically need? I have 0 nodes right now. and 11k ES. Will a single 8-10% node of ST from ES be enough?

[silk cove]

would stormwalker notable work with wake of destruction boots? or is it strictly for enemy shocked ground

[static thicket]

How hard is it to keep totems alive as a non oracle? And if I'm not very close to the totem ehp nodes

[brittle anvil]

spell totem? they get resistances from level, but the answer is always enough damage

[static thicket]

Nah shockwave. Planning a volcano build. Just need it to erupt the volcano. We'll see about damage I guess lol

[winter swan]

What is a good leveling build for a warrior?

[polar wraith]

yall i cant decide lighting spear or twisters ritualist

[rapid topaz]

does vulnerability do anything against enemies with fully broken armor?

[static thicket]

Nope

[rapid topaz]

im guessing being warbringer and having the node that lets you break below 0 doesn't change anything, will it?

[static thicket]

That I am unsure of but I doubt it'll change anything to do with the curse. Ggg is usually pretty specific with their wording.

[prime plaza]

there's any tech for armour to be better against big hits?

[halcyon hazel]

Hello guys im new here ^^ and btw new on Path of Exile ahah never played the one, but really in love with the Poe2 🙂 ! But im really bad at Build construction :(... is it the good channel to ask some help or if a build is possible around some spell ? i dont want to disturb the discord XD

[prime plaza]

if you want learn game - first understand defensive system. You will not able to progress or learn if you die a lot. Just go INT- Energy shield and explore and you will be fine while experimenting.
Don't go anything weird, mixing defenses, atributes or melee+ spell and pick a easy to go thing like spark or arc

[halcyon hazel]

Yeah i understand Energy shield is overpower at Def ahah. Currently i hitting mapping i grow slow (T3) 🙂 ! But i find some feature i really like but i dont know if its possible to build around

[prime plaza]

it's not over-powered. It's just energy shield. What im speaking - you have STR/ INT / DEX str have armour - int have es and dex have evasion.

Focus on INT / ES as it's coresponding to understand the game.

[halcyon hazel]

Like currently im Rutualist ( i like the class ahah) and i really love the "Blood Boil" and the "Presence/Aura" Mecanics but is it possible to build around that ? getting a huge Presence Area who put maybe some dot or idk ahah because i saw i lot of "Increase Presence Area of effect" but i dont know if we can make dmg as presence/Aura i really like Curse too is fun ahah

[prime plaza]

ritualist is dex class and blood booil colabs goodly with bleeding so it's not good for understanding the game on spells.

you can build whatever you want and find a stuff to make it work ofc but it's not good way to learn game as a fresh new player

if you play ritualist for blood boil change to bleed/poison attack based build

first learn value of damage, defensive, defensive layers, types of damage and tags on items then you can combine and create builds by yourself

[prime plaza]

blood boil also work with bleed blood loss so try to use:
blood boil, bloodhound's mark, and rake skill for example. Incision on rapid strikes

[frank lichen]

When using Galvanic shards, how does chaining and forking interact?

Any point in using fork support gem, when i am using a crossbow which adds chains

[halcyon hazel]

Really thanks i'll try some things then thanks for tips and advices 🙂

[runic knoll]

Hello! I wanted to get a morior invictus for my build and trying to get chaos res, elemental res, and max life with at least with 4 socket. Is it possible and a good idea for me to farm the easier pinnacle boss and farm him for a morior invictus? In my head, i think its much cheaper to farm the pinnacle boss than buy a 4-5 socketed 150-450 div armor in the market since the fragments are cheaper to buy.

[flat vault]

Even if you manage to drop it quite fast it is not garuanteed that it will be these 3 stats.
Its random from a poll

[runic knoll]

hmm i guess so. ill think it over then. thanks!

[nimble rune]

Can't Fury of the Mountains trigger aftershocks? I have the support on and doN't see any aftershocks. nothing in both the skill or the support suggests that it won't work (it's melee, it's slam and it's an attack)

[odd tulip]

Does the stat "% of armor applies to elemental damage" on armor pieces stack on top of elemental resistance?

[serene shore]

Yes. Armour applies first and then resistances.

[odd tulip]

Thanks, so if my stats look like the attached screenshots, I'm getting around 90% ish reduction on all elemental damages?

[odd tulip]

Or is it like 80% reduction first, then 10% ish on top of the remaining 20% making it around 82% ?

[serene shore]

You don't want to use the % it provides, it's misleading. You want to use the actual armour values for more precise mitigation calculations

For example you need 10x a hit in armour to mitigate 50% of the damage. So if you took a 2k fire hit, you would need 20k armour to reduce it to 1000 damage before resistances.

[upper thistle]

Heyah, wanted to try a life-based build in HC and this guys has almost triple the Ehp of other folks with a much tinier lifepool. Could someone enlighten me on the "how" ? And if it's a good idea to copy him ?

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaalhc/character/Funkomatic-5313/WyvesCamdeborde?i=1&search=class%3DShaman%26sort%3Dehp

[hybrid ocean]

Do we have any nice buttonless ways of detonating gas clouds? Radiant grief is unusable now

[halcyon hazel]

Someone know if we can buff Blood Boil ?
I take "Area of Effect" but it didn't work on the spell 😮 !
How can I maximise the Corrupted Blood it afflict ?

I saw they said Blood Boil isnt same as Bleeding ! So I'm confused xD
How to maximise xD

[hybrid ocean]

I'm aware of spectral fire, but I'd rather not be locked to one unique bow

[kindred kayak]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal/character/Nate2crush-5642/GoldenPinkie?i=0&search=name%3DGoldenpinkie

How can i improve this?

[midnight bolt]

does storm charge count as strike skill? or not

[kindred kayak]

No, it doesnt have a strike tsg

[midnight bolt]

what does that line mean then?

[kindred kayak]

Melee range

Like how far the ability range is

[midnight bolt]

ah so the dash distance

[kindred kayak]

Yep

The skill was probably suppose to be a strike but decided not to make it one and kept the description since it makes sense to have that as the deecriptor

[midnight bolt]

yeee weird

[amber briar]

Should I spend my first divine on the grand regalia armor? Running Invoker Monk (lvl 67) just using mainly whirling assault and tempest bell, spirit stuff for the rest

[kindred kayak]

Convert divine to exalt

Use the ex to buy better gear overal

Even if it is marginal

Cuz if you only have 1 div that means your gear aint good

So its better to split your div across all gear

[amber briar]

ok ty!

[prime plaza]

basicaly as i said best usage is with blood hunt mark .
add herald of blood - slap "extra aoe" support on it, it's damage is unrealted to weapon damage but it works on blood hunt - so using both attack skill with bleed and blood boil will make bloodhunt mark a very fun to use - also with herald of blood everything will pop in blood. Don't over-invest into aoe. Use pure physical with brutality support.
incision stacks + rapid strikes are nice as incision increase bleed.
read all the tags and info on bleed skills on spears. While holding "alt" hover mouse on tags on skills to view advanced info

[halcyon hazel]

Thanks :3

[somber urchin]

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/ninja9k1-4472/character/sorcdeezmofo -- I know my resists aren't capped but I am dying way too much on T13 maps. Is there something accessible I can do to increase my ES without spending a ton of divs? I am poor.

[late laurel]

Struggling to figure out how I wanna run Twister Druid

Shaman has the extra Spirit and Bonded bonuses but there's not a ton for the build there besides Defences which aren't even as useful cuz it'd be ES+EV

Oracle has a ton of goodies but since most of the focus is in the Dex side of the tree there's a lot out of the way to grab, especially since with that you have to spec into Crit

Could possibly spec into Align + Moment instead but it's very ehhhh

[shut rune]

For coc comet oracle, which rune should i aim for first? Rakiatas, Atalui, Doedres, Uhtred?

[indigo bobcat]

Ive been trying to make blood boil work all league. I'll be perfectly honest... i think it sucks lol. First off the radius stacks off your presence. Like every 1.56 seconds it applies 1 instance of blood boil. If you look at your default presence radius, it's tiny. Enemies are probably building up 1 stack at most. Which does very little damage plus it annoyingly doesnt work on bosses so you dont get that extra phys dps bonus.

I had to use pretty heavy investment in passives and jewels to get a decently sized radius and imo its a waste of points.

So the actual solution if you really want to make Blood Boil work is use Alpha's Howl helmet which doubles your presence. With that and a couple jewel slots you can basically reach the edge of the screen (some people still falsely believe it goes further than that if you keep stacking it but it doesn't).

At that point, with herald of blood, it's at least usable. Pretty good for clearing, useless for bosses of course. Use herald of blood + bleed3/poison3/bursting plague along with herald of plague to keep triggering herald of blood. I also use poison 3/bleed 3 on wind dancer and also on my buckler just to make sure enemies stay poisoned as much as possible or the loop stops

And blood boil is not bleeding, correct. But it is blood loss, which works with herald of blood. Anything that increases bleed damage/ailmet damage etc does nothing for blood boil. It's just a secondary utility skill to keep blood loss on as much as possible, which keeps triggering herald of blood, which will self trigger itself with the poison combo. That's why it's not really worth heavily investing in to.

[dusky wadi]

im doing crit bloodmage blackflame covenant would there be any way to upgrade on this or no? i dont know if double gain on a wand with a good focus can match up to this

[sullen yew]

What's the best druid build for leveling? I'm currently doing bear furious slam

Which goes into calamity

[hushed nacelle]

I'm looking for an insanely easy starter build. I'm tired of these fake youtube twitch streamers' clickbait builds.

[woven depot]

shield wall fortifying cry and click random stuff on the tree, it’d be impressive to not accidentally make your build busted

[unkempt epoch]

For minion scepter builds, is minion max life better or crit chance or presence of area?

[hybrid ocean]

Are gas cloud explosions limited by the magnitude of the igniting/detonation effect or something?

[timid cloud]

i can give you my channel i have pretty cool builds on it. it's beginner friendly and I explain everything

[timid cloud]

i'd suggest you go for dragon wolf monk build. I have a starter and end game guide for it

[timid cloud]

https://youtu.be/odaC0ohXZh0?si=Y26QrTf0DOqu5FPB

[silver summit]

Is there anyway to have chill slow surpass 50%? From what I understand slow magnitude doesn’t surpass the 50% cap it only allows smaller hits to reach the cap

[muted birch]

Any good sorc spark builds for the campaign? Ive kinda just guess till A3 now im struggling looking to see what others have done.

[hybrid ocean]

Well, there's always stormweaver, letting you get two 35% chills

Which is either a 57.75% slow or a 70% one

[silver summit]

That’s unfortunate if it’s the only option

[silver summit]

You’re gonna be relying heavily on orb of storms and frost bomb for most early game lightning builds. You can path to elemental equilibrium (not a terribly out of the way area, you can get some good ES nodes on the way) to let your orb of storms generate cold for a spark leaning build. You don’t need to grab it if arc is your primary damage dealer. I assume you’re stormweaver? Once you’re mid game and have enough spirit for siphon elements get that immediately it automates remnant generation.

Gear is gonna be just the best thing you find on the ground for most of campaign.

[muted birch]

Got any good guides for it?

[rapid moat]

hello i was plaining to build into hollow palm and was wondering what it scales with

[past wind]

Does this armor lets you use Charmes without requiring Charges?

[lucid plinth]

Whats' the fastest build besides temporalis?

[celest oxide]

how does extra projectile work with Lightning Spear and Storm Lance?

[vernal estuary]

can someone help me plshttps://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1460489590388293787

[rapid lily]

would anyone be down to look at my pob and see where I can improve my build?

im newer to poe so im a bit lost on how I can progress

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/d4orpoe-6798/character/_Lynxx_

[north atlas]

Do two Snaps, one in CoC, another in CoEA work?

For generating infusions

[frail brook]

Need some advice on which to sell. Both feel nice, hard to tell.

running poison pathy

[earnest igloo]

how much elemental resistance should we get in total to be capped in endgame ? 115 % per element right ? Try to plan some gear but not at my home to verify

[uncut bay]

115%, you look at the number of uniques and CI, then buy items with the most resistances within the amount you need

[uncut bay]

it should snap lots of shocked corpses, but i never tried

[uncut bay]

reverse chill lightning arrow

[uncut bay]

doesnt do almost anything for LS, doubles the number of projectiles for sl

[uncut bay]

essence drain and lightning arrow are hands down the easiest starter builds

[uncut bay]

essence drain

[sullen yew]

How's mercs for leveling? No twink

[uncut bay]

mercenary? the side of the tree is great for lightning arrow

[sullen yew]

Hmm, I can't find martial tempo

Groovy weapon right off the bat

I'm not liking having to reload every other shot

[sullen yew]

One thing I don't understand. It's why did they make the game kind of hard right from the start

Well. Hard period while leveling.

[earnest igloo]

If dual wielding , how is the crit working ? do we need crit on each weapon or just the main one ?
forge hammer state that when dual wielding , both weapon hit with 30% less damage. but how does it work exactly ? like do we have independent damage instance for each weapon happening at the same time, or is it one damage instance with the sum of both weapon hit ?

[sullen yew]

Lol level. 4 and got a unique

Nothing good though

[mild latch]

Guys, im planning a stormweaver Cast on elemental ailment + cast on crit build with doedre undoing, going into curse magnitude passives primarily and wonder if in this case a double gain staff with spell damage will be better or a triple gain extra damage might actually do better in this case?

[latent dawn]

blood boil is basically just a +15% more dmg aura at this point lol

[median beacon]

Does anyone know how Spear of Solaris's ignited ground works? Usually things that force an ignite say "enemies are ignited as though dealt X fire damage", but here, it just lists a percentage of attack damage :o

I'm trying to play with Spire of Ire, which has low phys dmg but a lot of added chaos dmg, and I'm wondering how that would work with this ignited ground. Would the ignited ground deal chaos damage somehow? Or would the very low phys dmg (converted to fire) mean the ignited ground deals low dmg?

(Also posted in after-acts-help, since I didn't really know which channel would be the better fit for the question ^^)

[boreal laurel]

Why does the bow with accuracy seem to do way more damage than the one with crit. Im doing tier 9 maps atm and even though on the gem page it says more dps with the crit bow. It definitely doesn't seem that way

[uncut bay]

two gains, one cast speed, one spell damage, one crit chance

[uncut bay]

yeah the campaign is brutally hard, just learn the game

[sage tulip]

Is it possible to change all my element damage into ice damage as a bear ? all bear skill is like change %amount of damage to fire damage. do I just need the blueflame bracers then or would there be something better ?

[mellow escarp]

Yriels Fostering+Trusted Kinship don't stack to allow 3 or 4 companions, do they?

[exotic compass]

Base attack speed is usually hard to not notice if that makes sense

Both of those should let you clear t15s right now, prob don't even need a quiver equipped 😅

[sage tulip]

with the conversion and calculation where would painters gloves fall in that order ?

[exotic compass]

Blue flame comes to mind yes, painters too

If you have a talisman with 500-1000 phys as an example

And you use something that converts 80% of phys...

Sorry my Internet is bugging haha

Painters would split the 80% into three chunks of fire cold and lightning

[sage tulip]

Im trying to add chill and freeze chance to my fire demon bear so I can run Bhatair's vengeance easier

[exotic compass]

Yeah prob easier ways than glove slot

One thing

Is just using lunar assault for it

It'd be an instant swap just to freeze then back to whatever you're doing

An more costly way

[sage tulip]

fair but was trying to stick to just staying as bear

[exotic compass]

Would be to get flat cold damage on weapon, rings, gloves, anywhere you can

[sage tulip]

true

[exotic compass]

If a skill converts 80% to fire, it doesn't touch the cold

1:1

[sage tulip]

true

[exotic compass]

I can link you a video to leave you with but otherwise you should be good from here. Damage gained as extra cold from a heart of the well would also be good to pick up

Against the darkness

[quartz cairn]

Does the Ice Shot Deadeye build -have- to have Rakiata's? Or is that something I can save up for lol

[sage tulip]

fair but was thinking with the painters gloves then the ring to convery 100% lightning to cold damage and most of my bufffs increase fire damage then it should be an even split of fire and cold damage

possibly or just leave it a 3 way split for shock freeze anbd ignite

[exotic compass]

Full stop. Don't use painters and brotherhood

Lots of cooking happening when you shouldn't need any uniques

[stoic quiver]

is it just me or are there no talismans in pob? have they added those yet?

[exotic compass]

https://youtu.be/aeT9rsQZ4dM?si=btqlFSc69DXVPSze

Here's the video, at one point he uses lunar assault for ice bite/bhatairs but then he solves it another way, I'm gonna scour it to find what he did but it was prob just cold attunement and freeze supports in maul or something

[exotic compass]

No build in the game needs rakiatas, especially if you are on the southeast side there is plenty of cold/lighting/all elements penetration to pick up. Just go for like 20-40% imo it shouldn't be more than 5-10 points investment and you'll likely get some ele damage along the way

[quartz cairn]

Right on, ty

[exotic compass]

Spec SOME of these, whichever make the most sense for your setup, and save up for rakiatas (path like a demon towards jade isles and farm one yourself while you save up!)

[exotic compass]

How smart are you btw?

Sorry, that was a strange thing to ask..

How much INT do you have in-game? You can use elemental weakness with heightened curse to bring bosses down a notch. Cursed ground and duration and you can venn diagram abyss holes too

INT and a free skill slot/key bind are the usual issues for that

[quartz cairn]

I think the skill slot would be a bigger issue, I have 115 INT

But from the build I followed, I dont think I have an open slot

I havent finished though I plan on doing that tonight- have everything except the lineage supports but I ran out of currency

But I do have extra skill points i could put in cold pen and 2 supp slots meant to go to garukhans and rakiatas

[mellow escarp]

I'm planning a Smith build. Just how much valuable are the Body armour stuff compared to a rare/legendary? I'm not sure how to evaluate those nodes

[static basin]

what are the best supports or combos to use to make cast on crit proc more? the power build up for me is slow it only casts like every 30 seconds. https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/17066 <-- my Pob

[tribal pumice]

if my belt has this second corruption regarding life regeneration, does that mean my leech doesnt feed my energy shield?

[serene shore]

No, I think both applies to it

because the first effect is only leech, the 2nd is also life regen applying to ES as well

instead of one or the other

[hybrid ocean]

How exactly does mirage archer work with weapon sets?

Like if a socketed skill is only valid in one of them

[sage tulip]

Is there anything that converts 50% of my fire damage to cold damage ?

[exotic compass]

Most of what you have looks fine, I have a couple spots to point out tho

Your 3 sapphires could use some love, and your heart of the well too (mana and life on kill quality of life and the lucky lightning only helps spark not infused comet)

Path to Energise on the top right, up to you where to take points from

Swap mana flare out for energy retention in your CoC

Your focus has +2 to spells and some crit, but the invocated damage line is only boosting choir and comet (and living bomb)... Spell damage would be really nice there since choir bolts don't feed into CoC comet