💀┃acolyte

[exotic topaz]

keep us posted

[fickle citrus]

TIL to respect big hits even in reaper form on my hardcore lol, RIP 85

[exotic topaz]

rip in peace

[half lagoon]

What minion build is doing good so far in s2 ?

[twilit flume]

kamakaze infernal shade zombies

[frosty herald]

i reached 350 corruption i slowed down pushing ebcause i am doing all harbringer fights and getting some better blessings

[tawdry rock]

Well, defensive wise it isn't too bad but I do need more damage for empowered monos. The lack of damage shows I am now running into mana problems. Honestly not as bad as I was thinking but definitely fixable especially considering these are still my gloves...

[frosty herald]

but i think i can easily reach 500

tier 4 jura dying in 15 seconds with me being defensive

[tawdry rock]

Which build is that?

[frosty herald]

wraithlord

[half lagoon]

the fire one ?

[frosty herald]

but it was a bit of a pain getting the helmet

noo big boy wraithlord

on last epoch tool is called keepr wraithlord

also bless to the soul that told me to get crit avoidance

[half lagoon]

nice

[frosty herald]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1358990298805698600/1363282654882959360/image.png?ex=68057769&is=680425e9&hm=33e09cc2e8bbed294cf1aed8ff63bf141f0da6947daa7cfdd09f718b745f3989&

this echoe is kinda nice

[red harness]

woo this is good right?

[twilit flume]

kinda

[high smelt]

most OP Acolyte build atm?

[twilit flume]

anything with infernal shade

[exotic topaz]

I thought dread shade was good

[twilit flume]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/OrbisTertius/character/AverroesSearch

this is what ive been running, just think its neat giving the enemy -200% poison resistance, and having 100% crit rate

but its kinda squishy cause of how melee-mage it is

[exotic topaz]

you think this node is good to take after you're done with the +50 cold?

[wintry flame]

take multipliers like solo golem for 25% more and the 10% per point for melee dmg

or armor if youre running other minions

[exotic topaz]

solid. thank you sir

[twilit flume]

dont know if im going to drop warlock here and go try falconer or if im going to keep going and farm a weapon. its been 30 or something levels since my last weapon upgrade and nothing that drops is any good so its kinda lame

[leaden wolf]

You CoF im assuming? Have you tried prophecies and focus farming some that way? Also dont forget about weaver tree and using the imprint feature, as well as using the far right side of the weaver tree and farming in the right monolith for whatever weapon youre after and blocking all that other stuff. Respeccing weaver tree is super cheap

[civic mango]

Any recommendations on where to find Aaron's Will? I'm not familiar with end game yet. And I really wanna try that one

[twin epoch]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAwRgrATA7BQ looks like its a completely random drop, so all you can do is grab all unique chest piece drop prophecies & target farm the timeline for it

[civic mango]

Cool cool

Thank you

[twin epoch]

Running a torment warlock, is there anything on this item I could still reasonably do with the remaining forging potential or has it pretty much reached its peak?

Also just made this. Gonna attribute swap attunement to int at the woven echo once I find it again, mirror it, and those should then be pretty much bis until I find the proper uniques. It feels like getting very good exalted items is a lot easier than good lp uniques. Been target farming the 6 uniques in the build all day and havent been able to get a single one to lp2 yet.

[exotic topaz]

I like shades and I think i'm gonna get the node that makes 2 of them permanent

[wise locust]

phew not a bad first day start. Tomorrow we starting our lvl 70 adventure!

[exotic topaz]

dude, nice!

[lament kernel]

is arrons will the only way to get more than 2 golems?

[old hull]

Yes

[lament kernel]

i do want more golems...but not at the cost of all my skeletons :/

[old hull]

Beauty is pain

[lament kernel]

just curious...are fire mages any good? 😇

[wintry flame]

They okay

[lament kernel]

i feel like they are stronger than death knights but i dont know..i like how much fire they shoot and its more fire with fire archers and fire golems 😇

[exotic topaz]

really? damn

I was gonna make death knights but I guess i'll be making fire mages instead I guess

[lament kernel]

i read a build that used death knights...but i changed it to fire mages and it feels stronger to me...but i dont know 😅 🤷‍♀️

[sour hare]

Ya boy Abby down

Uber next

[exotic topaz]

nice!!!!

"health is drained 3% per second"
does this means that it goes up to 6% at the 2nd second and 9% at the 3rd second and so on

or is it always just 3%

[warm rapids]

is this item dead?

[red harness]

whats ur build

[exotic topaz]

I am a necromancer and I have to put 33 points in the warlock tree just to get some ward and hp

[twilit flume]

Im deleting stuff, and Im now working through idols. Do I just throw the junk on the ground or is there some kinda reforge system

[floral steeple]

question, does blood pact remove mana cost with dark shackles on life drain? i thought it will cost my life, not mana

[old hull]

No, only remove channel cost

[floral steeple]

ah alright, thanks

[pseudo ore]

feel like wraith lord you still want a decent amount of minion hp huh

it seems to be falling over pretty quick in 250C

[lime totem]

Keep good affixes for tombs and cemeteries

[granite wyvern]

for torment warlock, what 5 skills are yall using? i see everyone's using rip blood but i hate that skill, any viable options?

i'm using chaos bolts, chthonic, profane veil and bone curse

[tawdry rock]

Interesting. I also did a poison warlock but decided to do it differently with massive poison application and lots of spreads.

[north storm]

hi, super new, playing warlock, just looted that, seems like a damn lot of damage over time, is it a normal amount ?, it's gotta be better than my firestarter torch right ?

[pseudo ore]

can yo ushare your build

i wanna try going more defensive

[pearl snow]

since it's purple that means it's exalted either Tier 6 or 7. This implies its higher than anything you can craft

And on a DoT base so thats very nice

[twilit flume]

yeah its normal things can get pretty juiced

[granite wyvern]

any warlocks here that can help me with this?

[north storm]

sorry if i'm asking stupid questions but how nice are we talking here?, like nice for the campaign or it will carry me even farther and i should think long and hard about how i want to craft it ?

(i'm in ssf)

[twilit flume]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/Tieryal/character/Tieryal_tote

[pearl snow]

if you are able to craft ideal affixes for your build in those 2 useless melee affixes then. 100% I'd be using that for a long time into endgame

If I was running a staff

[twilit flume]

can spec a lot of fire damage with items like soulfire, and drop fissre under boss, use infernal shade on the boss as main damage

[pearl snow]

obviously not everyone runs staffs etc.

[twilit flume]

there's a passive in the left of chaotic fissure called Return Bellow, that lets you repeadidely spam the infernal shade as long as the target is standing ontop of the fissure

[twin epoch]

pretty much exactly that with rip blood. Just running the maxroll guide. Seems to work well, but havent really looked into theorycrafting other setups

[north storm]

nothing is obvious to me at this point, staves are uncommon ?

[granite wyvern]

i went for cold damge with chaos bolts, so idk if i should invest in fire

[granite wyvern]

are you activelt casting rip blood

[twilit flume]

and then there's a Zombie variant of it that uses kamakaze zombies https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/mar1ne/character/r1nnecrojapan

[granite wyvern]

i think its slow and doesnt do too much dmg

[twilit flume]

if you think chaotic fissure makes you go too much in melee-range of your target you could go necromancer and spawn zombies everywhere and blow them up with the infernal shade

[twin epoch]

yeah, it pretty much just exists for the mana regen and damage amp

[pearl snow]

so it really depends on your build. Let's take mine for example since I'm currently playing Ignite / Bleed DoT.
For dmg output if I manage to throw on Generic Spell Damage or Fire Damage. I'd be using it probably until I reach a limit where I want to build more defensively

[granite wyvern]

is ghostflame bad?

or soul feast

[pearl snow]

Basically, @north storm you found a great item to craft

If you play DoT

[twilit flume]

it's good

if you really dislike infernal shade for some reason it might be a good backup option

but infernal shade exists so people are using that there's not anyone on ladder really using ghostflame

[autumn elbow]

hello, i'm fishing for a LP death's embrace for a harvest character, any idea of what i should slam on it?
Atk speed, right? Since we get increased dmg and +dmg in massive amounts from buffs
I was wondering if + area was worth hunting

[exotic topaz]

I think i'm gonna get rid of Raise Skeletons in order to run both dread and infernal shade on wraiths, fire mages and bone golems

[jade cove]

Yes Attack Speed is by far the best affix to get, no doubt.

In case you get 2lp or higher the rest of the affixes are pretty much determiend by the rest of your gear, but would be Crit Multi, Armor Shred, Necrotic Pen

Also make sure once you have it (or in best case before that even), to get Mana on Harvest on your chest(T1 is enough) or use Murama's Hilt

[autumn elbow]

Got it, tyvm
Is armor shred useful for non-phys dps characters? I thought armor applied mainly to phys

yes i'm tracking mana on harvest, never got a single shard since the beginning of my grind tho

[jade cove]

Armor is less effective against non phy dmg (70%), but is still one of the best scaling vectors for hit based builds

[north storm]

damn i'm excited, last questions, so if i wanted to play witchfire, ignite/damned, what would be the ideal affixes i'd want to get when i roll the melee ones also i'm kinda trying to discover the game blind but is witchfire a trap? i'm thinking splitting my focus on two things might be less efficient but seeing the huge global dot damage on the staff that node came to mind

[autumn elbow]

damn ok good to know, i may have skipped through armor shred pieces, will fix my lootfilter then

[jade cove]

So with a good armor shred affix + bone curse you can get your 30-50 stacks of armro shred already and that is usally enough, because armor shred has very heavy diminishing return, but those 30-50 stacks are already 30-45% more dmg

[crisp ridge]

its witchfire time 🙏

[jade cove]

Here for reference, the armor formula is the same for negtive, so jsut inverted:
https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/armor

[autumn elbow]

bone curse's node giving armour shred is not enough?

[jade cove]

As logn as you get all the attack speed you can get everywhere you also don't need armor shred everywhere. Amuelt and Gloves are very competetive with suffixes and getting it on ONE of them is enough together with Bone Curse' 100% Armor Shred

[pearl snow]

Witchfire and Ignite / Damned is perfectly viable. Plenty of builds out there in assume whether its Chaos Bolts or Infernal Shade stuff.
I don't know what would be best yet if you've yet to pick a build but https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/category/staves/prefixes

You can see whats available here

[jade cove]

It is very good to start with but not enough to keep the high stacks on targets

[autumn elbow]

tyvm ! back to grinding then

will be weird to go from the godlike judgment aura paladin to a lich

[north storm]

thanks a bunch

[jade cove]

No worries, happy to see people giving it a shot. Feel free to ping me if you want tips or ahve questions, or stop by when I stream. (I don't play Harvest Lich in 1.2 rn, but I can still give you all my knowledge :P)

[jade cove]

Lich is very tanky when you get used to the playstyle, especailly through very effective sustain and very good movement (2 movement abilities + evade)

[autumn elbow]

will do, as soon as i slay aberoth with the pally and get the helmet and belt, i'll start the lich

[autumn elbow]

is it as tanky as a paladin though lmao. I have not used a potion since lvl 50

[jade cove]

I can't say it, I am oblivious if it comes to the flavour of the week/meta builds, because they don't interest me. So I don't have a gauge for that.

But you will need potions (which actually got buffed A LOT in 1.2), to keep Reaper Form between bigger gaps and echoes.

[autumn elbow]

do i need to look out for experimental potion affixes?

i tend to ignore them

[jade cove]

nono

You ONLY use potions to keep Reaper Form from running out, when you don't have mobs to hit

Harvest Sustain is astronomical (1 Health on Hit per Int) + enormous amounts of leech.

So the potions are really only a tool out of combat

[frosty herald]

slayign 10 harbringer in a row

is hard

[autumn elbow]

thanks a lot heavy

[jade cove]

No worries, always happy to discuss/inform.

Puts a smile on my face when people are actually interested in Harvest.

Still remember the times I got bullied by Sarno (former Community Manager) for playing Harvest xD

https://tenor.com/view/uni-quest-wheat-harvest-queensland-gif-13894818

[pearl snow]

rekt by the rules

[exotic topaz]

u telling me we get stuff that's better than +2 to minion skills eventually?

that is crazy

[autumn elbow]

what's the best way of getting class-specific idols btw? i'm always running out of stuff to enhance at cemetaries

[jade cove]

Running Idols Echoes in conjunction with Idol Prophecies

[red harness]

hey heavy

how would u go about farming wraithlord helm?

[autumn elbow]

oh ok then

[worn fox]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BjW3Vexo

[stuck owl]

Lich, Level 95

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Acolyte (20) / Lich (78) / Warlock (10)

General:

▸ Health: 2,019, Regen: 123.16/s
▸ Mana: 315.98, Regen: 11.2/s
▸ Ward Retention: 280%, Regen: 0/s
▸ Attributes: 15 Str / 3 Dex / 140 Int / 3 Att / 13 Vit
▸ Resistances: 78% / 81% / 70% / 87% / 57% / 70% / 116%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 60%, Threshold: 404
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (62)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 31% (1,461)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 20%

Used skills:

Rip Blood / Drain Life / Transplant / Reaper Form / Death Seal

[worn fox]

confused to what my biggest gain will be for my coal slam

crit chance, or multi

[jade cove]

It is not THAT rare, so the FULL setup is probably not worth it.

But in case you have the % Unique Blessing and % Helmet Drop Rate Blessings that defintiely helps. But farming those specifically to get it is not really worth it, because in the time farming them you could probably drop it already.

So the strategy would be doing 3 things in parallel:
Run The Black Sun Timeline (Unique Helmet Special Echoes)
Use the new lens that blocks all but Monlith Prophecies, Use Helmet Lens, spend all favor for reroll and spend it on easy to get Helmet Prophecies
Use all Runes of Ascendence you get on Helmets.

I assume you are CoF? If oyu are MG well, farm gold, but I guess then you wouldn't have asked, right? xD

But yeah farming any uniques boisl down to, farm the appropiate timeline, get prophecies and spend Runes of Ascendence

Also when you farm The Black Sun, don't reset the timeline ever, try going as far away from the starting point as possible, the deeper echoes have much higher chance to be special echoes.

[red harness]

sorry whats special echoes?

the ones with unique item reward?

[jade cove]

In case you have a couple of Unqiue Helmet Echoes close together, you can also use the New Sepulchre of the Lost Woven Echo. (It gives you all the rewards from sourounding echoes , thsi stacks if oyu have the same rewards multiple times)

[jade cove]

Each Timeline has 1 or 2 Item Types as Unique/Set Echoes

They grant a Unique/Set Helmet for example in the Black Sun example

They can appear in normal already, but are incredibly rare, generally you cna start farmign them in empowered.

[red harness]

ohh i see

[exotic topaz]

am I crazy or is this skill just a free abom with no decay

[red harness]

but yeah, thanks for help

🙏

[jade cove]

No worries and sorry if I throw around too much specific stuff that you didn't know. Sometimes its hard to find the right baseline when you don't know people

[red harness]

no worries

[jade cove]

But yeah to get things going all of that should be enough, once you go into farming the helmet multiple times to get high LP there is a whole new vector you can go crazy with

Vessels of Memory and Vessels of Chaos, in case you know what they do.

[red harness]

i do not know

[jade cove]

I made a guide a while ago, explaining how ot best use multipel Vessels combined for crazy target farming. This is still relevant but with the new Woven Echoes there is even more stuff you can do

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/guide-how-to-improve-your-monolith-target-farming-how-to-maximize-usage-of-vessels/51938/1

Vessels of Chaos Reroll all Echoes in that echo web that are not completed
Vessels of Memory "unlock" all echoes you already have completed again, so you can do them again.

If you use them clever you can literally generate timelines that have 20, 30, 40 Unique [Insert Item Type] in them in one screen

[red harness]

ohh

[jade cove]

It is a bit complicated when you never seen them ingame, but once you get the hang of it, it really elevated the target farming

It also does requrie some time to set things up, but once you reached a certain point you can generate several dozen Uniques of the desired type/hour

[red harness]

if I got 1LP on my gear do I have to refarm the whole gear with hopes of higher LP?

[jade cove]

What do you mean with "whole gear"?

I mean if you are using a Uniques rn with 1LP, you would need to farm it again with 1LP and than hopefully have a better rules uniques and/or get a better affix added onto it. Or you get the same Unique with 2LP eventually.

[red harness]

yeah not whole per se, I meant the specific gear

english is not my forte 😅

but that answers it thanks

[hearty ferry]

how early can I swap to abom? I'm lvl 60ish just finished campaign with mages/archers but want something better to farm with until wraithlord. can i go abom now or will it be bad? never used it before

[crisp ridge]

just swap if u want 🤷‍♂️

[small parrot]

is Experimental Volatile Zombie on Potion Use still in the game?

[obtuse quest]

Replaced with experimental bees on potion use

[obtuse quest]

Locks your skeleton count, but yes

[small parrot]

damn thanks

[obtuse quest]

Crit coal?

[obtuse quest]

Yes that lich build is dead

[small parrot]

naw i was using it for apogee and squirrels

[obtuse quest]

Oh that’s also probably a dead angle

Rip

[small parrot]

yea i gotta do vines now i guess

[obtuse quest]

The vine boots might help

[worn fox]

yeah following the maxroll

[obtuse quest]

If you think you crit often enough: crit multi.
Otherwise crit chance.

Even tho you probably should be pumping your int and max mana if you havent

[worn fox]

thats what i wasnt sure about, ill get 20 more int when i put the belt on, but for what to slam on the coal it was about 10% crit chance to go from 30_>40% or do i put on 37% crit multi

guess the tldr is idk what is a comfortable amout on crit chance

[exotic topaz]

I liked dread shade more than infernal shade

[obtuse quest]

And dread shade is technically better than infernal.

[exotic topaz]

pog it wasn't just bias

[obtuse quest]

You will always try to fit dread shade

Because you’re throwing otherwise-

[late tulip]

Anyone got a god tier necro minion build?

[queen shore]

man the ballista build on maxroll is so good. great clear speed and ballistas for single target!

(falconry)

[obtuse quest]

Sir this is an acolyte channel

[wintry flame]

Maybe they playing Ballista Necro somehow

[void sorrel]

Technically you can have skelly archers and use that mercenary relic >.<

[obtuse quest]

Those are crossbow men not static bowturrets

[void sorrel]

Tomatoe tamato

[thin knot]

anyone else use the maxroll acolyte leveling build and then respecced into the tormented warlock?

[obtuse quest]

[void sorrel]

😆

[pearl snow]

Ill figure out a way dont worry guys

[thin knot]

welp.. I guess I just respec the passives and skills and YOLO it

[void sorrel]

Ok in all srsness, my bro is new and is playing necro and just got to monos. Are necros ok this season ?

Is there good builds besides golemancer / wraithlord?

[obtuse quest]

Abom, archmage...

Yeah er, nothing changed from 1.1

[void sorrel]

Ok cool, hope he finds something good. I think he liked D2 necros

[wintry flame]

skele rogues op there's probs some more too tbh I just been on rogues for now

[swift forge]

when you have death knights as an upgrade in the skele mage tree, do they still use the mortar? I haven't seen it happen but from every guide they SHOULD be using that I could tell

[wintry flame]

it should cast don't remember tho

[obtuse quest]

It SHOULD, it just really doesn't like to.

[wintry flame]

skeletal mages is the skill not necessarily the types depending on the node of course, so it should work

[swift forge]

hmm, yeah. If it doesn't start occuring soon, Ill drop the points and put them elsewhere

[obtuse quest]

It's too busy running up to enemies and stabbing them.

[wintry flame]

they might also have prio on melee attacking, yeah

not sure where that skill lies on the priority for skill queueing

[obtuse quest]

That's my experience with them at least.

[still seal]

Anyone have experience with infernal shade lich yet?

[normal thicket]

hi guys, what build should i choose for corruption ?

i am playing hearseeker rn, but feels squishy af

[arctic owl]

does fissure node "fell fire" work with poison convert? like will it spread poison or no

[obtuse quest]

Yes

[arctic owl]

nice.

[obtuse stirrup]

Did you ever figure something out for this?

[marble path]

I just completed my wraith lord build and holy crap I love it so much. Why isn’t wraith lord on any tier lists that I see online?

[obtuse quest]

It is? It's been meta since it's existance

[crisp ridge]

any knowers if i make fissure change spirits to chaos bolts(chaotic rupture node) will the bolts apply damned through damned waters node?

Im guessing no but wanna check

[obtuse quest]

No.

[crisp ridge]

tyty 🙏

[still seal]

I guess I just need to play infernal shade lich myself. Can't seem to find anyone here who's played it

[crisp ridge]

i have played it 🤔

[topaz marlin]

hey guys, does Flame Wraith damage get converted?

would it be a waste to get the "+necrotic damage" nodes in the tree if I'm planning to use permanent Flame Wraiths?

[obtuse quest]

It still provides necrotic damage to them, but doesn't scale of % inc fire stats.

(Most minion bossting stufff is %inc minion damage anyway though)

[topaz marlin]

oh so the nodes will give additional necro dmg? ok thanks

[obtuse quest]

Ye

So now your flame wraiths deal a mix of fire and necrotic damage.

[quartz dragon]

Heya, anyone know of a good weaver tree?

[obtuse quest]

Everyone's cooking their own iirc

[still seal]

How is it?

[quartz dragon]

aahh ok, i think ima go for more tombs first to gain more points and then loot lizards

[crisp ridge]

its fine, dmg was fine, high leech but actual survivabiliy is low

reaper form is reaper form with its expected downsides

[quartz dragon]

aw man

[ashen tree]

Unlucky

[quartz dragon]

Anyone doing the infernal shade from dr3ad?

[wintry flame]

Ok I go to bed, got rogues to 60% power, I push it more tomorrow. I need to turn off my leech now that I also do dmg smh.
Bossing: https://streamable.com/69xlyz
Clear: https://streamable.com/y22ti9

[crisp ridge]

i tried both the warlock and lich variants, whys that

[quartz dragon]

i was curious what type of gear i should get, cuz he shows on his lvl 78 guide to get ghost maker but it doesnt seem that op on epoch tools,

[crisp ridge]

ghost maker just helps clear

[red harness]

bricked

[crisp ridge]

+1 transplant

[glass shale]

How good is this ? I dont really know how much it affects my damage

my minions seem to be able to keep it up permanent

on the boss dummy

[stiff summit]

Wrongwarp is crack

[strange plank]

What do you do with LP?

[obtuse quest]

Marked for death is 20% all res shred

[glass shale]

yes i know what it is it says 25% shred but im asking how strong something like that is

[stiff summit]

@obtuse quest what was your build this season

[chrome mason]

Holy shit

[obtuse quest]

Haven't touched acolyte yet

[chrome mason]

I hit

[obtuse quest]

Decently strong.

[chrome mason]

Its time.

[stiff summit]

what you playing though, Pally?

[chrome mason]

orian's int roll is tragic however but it could be worse

[quartz dragon]

glgl

[obtuse quest]

MM, cold HS

[crisp ridge]

meta abuser smh

idk if thats meta but funny joke

[obtuse quest]

Can't blame me for wanting to mess with a new skill in my 2nd main class.

[chrome mason]

Absolutely huge

[crisp ridge]

oh no flame

[obtuse quest]

DAMN

[quartz dragon]

GGS

what build btw?

[chrome mason]

Coal Lich

Can only wish the int roll was higher but i'll take it

[glass shale]

What is this icon above my minions ?

[crisp ridge]

torment iirc

[glass shale]

how it happen what it do ?

[strong hollow]

what's the benefit of this unique over any other for stygian coal build? your Leg affixes are 🔥 but chance to find poison and +10 int seem very average and the unique stats are clearly not for lich 😄

mana on pot /// is 12 mana really keeping your setup going with drain life?

[obtuse quest]

Marked for death.

[crisp ridge]

dam, knew it was one or the other

[glass shale]

oh

[chrome mason]

Theres no other real offensive options for a belt, nothing rolls Int and the build scales REALLY well off int because it also increases your mana through the Occultist's mind Warlock node (and mana = damage on coal), the only real other option for damage on belt is Elecoe's for the crit chance/multi but a well rolled Orian's goes up to 25 int which is more than a T7

[little yarrow]

any way to perma icarian poison?

[noble moss]

can someone pls explain to me. why my abomination is only consuming 1 skeleton intead of them all?

[obtuse quest]

No

[obtuse quest]

Are you hovering over them?

[little yarrow]

what if I am going bleed AoD and not scaling poison at all?

[noble moss]

yea when i use the skill. i have my cursor on top of the pile of summons annd it just consumes one

[obtuse quest]

You'll still be taking more and more and more damage, just slower scaling.

[obtuse quest]

I'm not too sure then, I haven't heard problems with abom

[little yarrow]

I see, but it's only 50% after 10 seconds, so if I toggle it off gradually, it does nothing really right?

only problem is poison shred I think, unscaled 28 poison dmg/sec seems really easy to mitigate

[strong hollow]

Sounds legit. I'm lvl 62 Lich. No coal yet tho 😄

25 int would be massive NGL

[chrome mason]

25 int at my current level (87 with mostly lp0 uniques) would be almost a 25% increase to my total int, i'm sitting at 109 (without counting the 10 my current Orian's is giving me)

Huge power increase

[strong hollow]

Risk a re-roll if you find some dogshit 3LP belt? 😄

[chrome mason]

Probably, its a target farmable unique a weaver node that you can just imprint on ur web and see randomly as echo's, super easy to farm and 0.42% chance to be 3LP

This weaver node can dupe LP uniques btw.

I havent tested how likely it is with higher LP's, but i was getting tons of 1LP grasp of the blood mage's when i had it slotted in

[obtuse quest]

Correct.

[obtuse quest]

LP is random as if it dropped naturally.

(I did it with a unique bow 0lp and it gave me a mix of 0 and 1lps)

[chrome mason]

Ah gotcha

[crisp ridge]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oYXNGr3B

if any henchers are around/bored, looking for somef eedback on a theoretical witchfire(slowly working my way to the gear)

[stuck owl]

Warlock, Level 86

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Acolyte (20) / Lich (11) / Warlock (82)

General:

▸ Health: 2,500, Regen: 26.04/s
▸ Mana: 95.44, Regen: 8.32/s
▸ Ward Retention: 90%, Regen: 25/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 25 Int / 1 Att / 17 Vit
▸ Resistances: 106% / 80% / 120% / 79% / 100% / 112% / 131%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 40%, Threshold: 500
▸ Dodge Chance: 6% (145)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 34% (1,557)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 91%

Used skills:

Chthonic Fissure / Spirit Plague / Profane Veil / Chaos Bolts / Transplant

[daring holly]

they still havent fixed the lag with bleed warlock ?

[topaz marlin]

does Archmage node overwrite all +Skel Mage nodes from anywhere?

[obtuse quest]

Yes

[marble palm]

anyone playing torment warlock?

[north lance]

It dead

[little yarrow]

dude what

[obtuse quest]

Not dead, just not the flavour off the season

[little yarrow]

double edged scythe applies ALL bleeds that I inflict to an enemy, to myself

I will need exsanginous to use that 😢

[crisp ridge]

😂

[chrome mason]

Worst possible rolls maneee

[red harness]

[crisp ridge]

[red harness]

ah I see you're an exsanguinous enjoyer as well

[crisp ridge]

exsang + last steps + experimental gloves

still die in 1 hit tho

[red harness]

just dodge homie

[crisp ridge]

5hed

[quartz dragon]

[crisp ridge]

my build has me needing the survivability

[strange plank]

stuck on my game

[chrome mason]

So many upgrades for me today

Finally blessed

[strange plank]

cant progress

lol

[chrome mason]

Stuck how

As in difficulty stuck or bug stuck

[strange plank]

My build is stuck I keep grinding gold to make legendaries to elevate the power but failing crafts

starting to get frustrated

[zealous elbow]

Whats the best xorruption build for acolyte :)?

[crisp ridge]

u gotta to be really higgh corruption for you to only need legos to progress

[strange plank]

I was having a lot of fun with warlock and changed to stygian coal as warlock was starting to drop off into endgame

[chrome mason]

Coal Lich and Abom Necro

[chrome mason]

What corruption are you at

[strange plank]

100

[zealous elbow]

I like coal - but its “Odd” when segmenting through loot haha

[crisp ridge]

u have a lot of other things to progress on rather than legos at 100cor

[chrome mason]

Whats your stats looking like, lots of int mana and health?

[crisp ridge]

like im at 150 without any legos rn with a homebrew

[chrome mason]

Oh yeah you definitely need alot more of everything

[crisp ridge]

res's capped?

[strange plank]

from what tho hahaha

[crisp ridge]

also thats a lot of int 👀

[strange plank]

oh damn

[crisp ridge]

ig its not but my build isnt int stacking so feels like a lot 😂

[chrome mason]

Get ukheiros asap, if you roll a good one its 20% max hp

[strange plank]

Game got a lot harder at 100 corruption lol

i was breezing through

[chrome mason]

Look for HP and hybrid health rolls on every defensive slot, cap your res with Reign of Dragons timeline blessing (20% allres)

[strange plank]

ty was haivng a bit of a breakdown

[chrome mason]

Also at 85 you should be close to getting this node to 5 points on Warlock tree

its a huge power spike because our damage scales heavily off mana

for 5 points were getting max mana equivalent to a T7

[little yarrow]

how effective is armor? I've been thinking of taking a node that would give me about 400-800

[chrome mason]

For now just make sure your resses are capped, and slot this woven echo into your weaver tree so it can appear randomly, its a guaranteed drop for Orian's Descent, get a 2LP one and slam hybrid health and %health into it

My orian's alone is 400 HP

[chrome mason]

Slightly depends on ur mastery, but in most acolyte cases its not SUPER important compared to other defensive stats, endurance and crit avoidance more important

[obtuse quest]

Empowered is the casual gate basically

[little yarrow]

I'd be going Exsanginous so I don't think I care about endurance that much

[chrome mason]

In that case its important yeah

[strange plank]

this is better already

I am going to work on better idols

and weaver tree, Is there a way of picking what traits you get on the belt or you just have to keep slamming them

[little yarrow]

so, how much armor is good for late-endgame?

I've read 1500-2500 somewhere

[obtuse quest]

get more health as well-

[strange plank]

Thankyou guys 🙂

[chrome mason]

Just gotta slam em, just make sure you have The Seekers summit in these nodes and go to the echo's whenever they spawn in ur monos to get more belts, its a 6% chance for 2LP which is all you need, and the int roll on it is the most important by far (25 int for the max roll is a T7 basically)

[strange plank]

okay its all clicking now

[vivid valve]

Which aco build has hit highest corruption this season so far

[strange plank]

🙂

[crisp ridge]

can prob check on leaderboards

[vivid valve]

Isn't that arena

[obtuse quest]

Ye that's arena, at best it's useful for setup usage

[red harness]

oh fuk yea

[haughty token]

I heard there was some kind of mechanic on the acolyte where you could make your dot explode on a target, ending their remaining timer and dealing damage proportionally.
I couldn't find how to do it, any help ?

[obtuse quest]

Acolyte doesn't have that

[crisp ridge]

u can, with infernal shade

several nodes make infernal shade pop instantly

noteably

infernal shades that attach to zombies then zombie dies doing big aoe around them

or fissure consuming shades for damage

[obtuse quest]

But that doesn't pop exisiting ailments.

[ashen tree]

I've been playing maxroll's leveling acolyte build, and it's been great+I like it, but where can I take it?

It's Chaos Bolt+Cthonic Fissure with ignite overload into Witchfire mostly

Prefer no minions, I went warlock also. Though I think we can respec?

[crisp ridge]

it doesnt, but it feels like they half heard the dread guides so i explained it

[crisp ridge]

u ca at a cost

[chrome mason]

You can respec masteries yeah so you cna realistically play anything

I used the leveling guide until i found a stygian coal and then went straight into Coal Lich

[obtuse quest]

Decently well

[ashen tree]

I'm fine staying warlock. Haven't looked into any end game builds

Level 68 rn

[ashen tree]

I can just stay as this?

I do like it tbh I love DoT

[crisp ridge]

im witchfire at 91, its fine

[ashen tree]

Cool

[obtuse quest]

Not accounting for player skill issues, hitting 300c+ should be fine

[crisp ridge]

tho i am purely witchfire

[ashen tree]

Wym purely witchfire

[ashen tree]

Okay, sick. I think skill wise I'll be fine

[crisp ridge]

my build is about getting double overload(damned/ignite) to proc aoe witchfire from downfall of righteous then i run around like an idiot

[ashen tree]

Nice

Lemme look up Downfall

[vivid valve]

Any acolyte build doing 1000 corruption already

[ashen tree]

Okay yeah that looks sick

Is that a specific drop or just CoF target farm unique relocs?

The maxroll guide is doing the same thing I think, roughly.

[crisp ridge]

rando drop, but ive gotten like 7 today from prophecies

[crisp ridge]

do u have a link? would like to compare

[ruby oracle]

Hey I was wondering, are there any other bow minions other than skeleton archers?

I keep getting these drops and I am not sure if I am missing something

so many items that reference bow minions yet there is only one

[ashen tree]

Sure, one sec. Though I think it tops out at getting the player to around 70

[obtuse quest]

Not for acolytes.

[crisp ridge]

oh is it just a levelling thing?

[ashen tree]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/warlock-leveling-guide

I'll let you look. It is labeled as that

I haven't looked at any of their endgame builds because I've been working last few days. Only really had time to get to 68

[ruby oracle]

Do any other characters have it? I played a decent bit of primalist and rogue but never thought any other character could

The only one that came to mind was acolyte

[obtuse quest]

Rogue has one.

[ashen tree]

Just acquire buff archers 💪

[obtuse quest]

Ballistia is a bow minion.

[ashen tree]

Thats more logical

[ruby oracle]

Oh you are so right im not sure how I couldn't think of that

I guess I never associate ballistas with bows

[ashen tree]

Happens

You could've given me an hour and I don't think I'd have thought of it

[crisp ridge]

yea mines a bit more witchfire focused, but ty for link anyway

[fiery orchid]

Is the Golemancer a good build? 🤔

[obtuse quest]

It's also special in that it's a minion that can take a % of player's stats.

[ashen tree]

Yeah. Makes sense. Do you have a link to your build?

[pallid plume]

It's tanky but clear and damage is meh.

Basically just spam high cast speed rip blood on golem to trigger it's retaliate ability

[crisp ridge]

this is the current variant im working towards

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/A22NJlnA

[stuck owl]

Warlock, Level 86

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Acolyte (20) / Lich (11) / Warlock (82)

General:

▸ Health: 2,500, Regen: 26.04/s
▸ Mana: 95.44, Regen: 8.32/s
▸ Ward Retention: 90%, Regen: 25/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 25 Int / 1 Att / 17 Vit
▸ Resistances: 106% / 80% / 120% / 79% / 100% / 112% / 131%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 40%, Threshold: 500
▸ Dodge Chance: 6% (145)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 34% (1,557)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 91%

Used skills:

Chthonic Fissure / Spirit Plague / Profane Veil / Chaos Bolts / Transplant

[ashen tree]

Thanks

[crisp ridge]

i should say, the build isnt good 😂

[ashen tree]

💀 💀 💀 💀

[crisp ridge]

its just a funny witchfire one im having fun with

[ashen tree]

Aiight lol I'm glad you clarified haha

[crisp ridge]

i doubt it can get past like 400-500corr lmao

[obtuse quest]

Lol lmao thanks nemesis

[ashen tree]

I'll look into Tormentlock then

[red harness]

where is my death rattle 😠

[chrome mason]

@obtuse quest i finally dropped one btw

[ashen tree]

I'll circle back to witchfire later though I think it's a cool mechanic

[chrome mason]

And it was 1LP thankfully

[obtuse quest]

Decent rolls?

[obtuse quest]

Nice.

[chrome mason]

at 1lp i'm happy w t it

Working on idols and blessings while unlocking everything for abby now 🫡

Red ring only drops post 200 corruption right?

[obtuse quest]

Red ring can drop anywhere after area level 80

[ashen tree]

What's the end game goal now? I haven't played since 1.0 and have not really followed the new stuff besides the weaver stuff.

[halcyon tinsel]

do i need "profane wand" or any wand can do?

[crisp ridge]

uber abby kinda

[obtuse quest]

Monoliths>Empowered Monoliths> 300 corruption> Harbingers> Abberoth> 500 corruption> Uberroth> infinite Difficulty

[obtuse quest]

Any

[ashen tree]

Thanks

Ten harbys right?

[quartz dragon]

Man i made a HUGE mistake

[halcyon tinsel]

as long as I have "wand" right?

[chrome mason]

Yep

[quartz dragon]

i swapped waaaaaay too early into lich infernal shade xD

[obtuse quest]

Yup

[obtuse quest]

Correct

[ashen tree]

OOP

[halcyon tinsel]

I cant get the unique version of this

already waste a lot of rune

[quartz dragon]

yeah i swapped back

[ashen tree]

[crisp ridge]

i was doing it from like lvl 40+, its fine

ofc depends if u just nuked all ur gear ofc

[quartz dragon]

i have no crit on my gear, im all DoT

no uniques cuz im VERY unlucky

[ashen tree]

Do you need to re-level the factions on a 2nd character

[ashen tree]

F

[crisp ridge]

well 😂

[quartz dragon]

no

[ashen tree]

That's cool

[red harness]

I need to farm exiled mages for a gear with this prefix right? how do I apply this prefix to another item after that

[crisp ridge]

can also get it from champs

[obtuse quest]

It's somewhat rare.

[crisp ridge]

also, no way to extend/refresh overloads right?

[obtuse quest]

That or champions have it on rings as well.

[obtuse quest]

No, gotta tick the duration down.

[crisp ridge]

annoying

[ashen tree]

What's the benefit to champions? I know they drop something special but idk why it's special 😂

No outside emotes hurts me

[halcyon tinsel]

guys, what is this
arena key
bastion key
lightless abbor key

[crisp ridge]

champion affixs and u can get some loot like uniques or exalted piles etc. from them

[obtuse quest]

Special and specific sealed affixes.

[crisp ridge]

dungeon keys

[ashen tree]

Nice

[halcyon tinsel]

what's the difference between dungeon and monolith

[crisp ridge]

theyre completely different content

[ashen tree]

Dungeons have specific rewards at the end and require keys to enter. Monolith is the somewhat endless maze of 'maps' that you can pick rewards from and fight bosses to empower them as you go

[halcyon tinsel]

when should I do dungeon

[ashen tree]

I'm not the best to ask i only know what one of them is for haha

[crisp ridge]

when u need the reward they give

sanctum: lego smashing
arbor: gold sink
bastion: weird loot stuff

or if u need uniques from the enemies

[ashen tree]

One of them creates legendary items. No idea what the other is.

[halcyon tinsel]

wait

I need this @crisp ridge

[crisp ridge]

then check where ur items come from and if they need a dungeon

[halcyon tinsel]

ohhh wwait

can't believe rune of ascendance gives me 12%

[delicate belfry]

so how can we faceroll 1k corruption?

[red harness]

does void dmg go through ward

[obtuse quest]

no

The only thing that ignores ward is "% current health" damage.

(Which cannot kill)

[red harness]

what about bleed

[obtuse quest]

No.

No other damage ignores ward.

[void vigil]

Ok necromancer is still meh in this game. Any fun warlock or lich builds? I like one button builds that makes a lot of stuff happen or automatic stuff

[obtuse quest]

Fissure warlock I guess?

[exotic topaz]

hi :3

[quartz dragon]

Infernal shade

[crisp ridge]

not rly gunna get 1 button with lich

necro kinda can

warlock deffo can

[high smelt]

infernal shade > abmoniation?

how high can infernal shade necro scale up to for corruptions you think this season

[crisp ridge]

should be pretty high, it got a big buff

[red harness]

coal lich seems sick

[delicate belfry]

can we faceroll high corruption as lich / minion exploding stuff or similar

or as anything

[quartz dragon]

what do yall mean coal lich xD

[high smelt]

great. im currently mage and the top end on it seems to kinda be sad this season and i really just wanna be OP (but not Sentinel)

so are people running more Lich or Necro as Infernal Shade

[void vigil]

Stygian Coal Lich seems pretty fun

[obtuse quest]

Acolyte is stuck in a “we can hit superhigh corrupt with enough effort but if no effort we are L”

[red harness]

how do u farm this

[obtuse quest]

Pray to rngesus, and mark it in your filter

[red harness]

alright

[high smelt]

what build is doing best for corruptions as of now?

[delicate belfry]

which are the builds capable of it?

[high smelt]

yeah everyone went sentinel or falconer(again) lol

those people doing 1K+ already

mage seems in a rough spot. but druid and aco seem to have a lot of potential just not a lot of players

[obtuse quest]

Stygian Coal Lich, Abom necro, Wraithlord Necro, torment Warlock, crit chaos bolt warlock.

[high smelt]

Which of those is the best starter at lvl 70ish

i have rank 8 MG so far from my mage which i rerolled from

[obtuse quest]

Honestly if MG, anything in the list works

[rare quail]

I think warlock has the most smooth experience?

[red harness]

whats MG

[crisp ridge]

u got an abom necro guide link?

[obtuse quest]

Except Coal, the rest works without uniques

[rare quail]

doesn't wraithlord need the helmet?

[obtuse quest]

Maxroll’s one works if they release it finally

[obtuse quest]

Oh yeah my bad, so coal and wraithlord have one required unique

[obtuse quest]

Merchant’s Guild

[red harness]

ohh

[crisp ridge]

ty, ill have a look, havent seen it

[high smelt]

is there no campaign skip for alts btw, like idols

[obtuse quest]

Still gotta take some side quests, but now every t1 dungeon clear gives 2 passives and 1 idol slot

[high smelt]

is there a list or guide for that

[quartz dragon]

isnt abom slow af?

[crisp ridge]

🤷‍♂️

[noble moss]

so since my abomination is bugged what can i play as a acoltye? maybe no summoner things?

[obtuse quest]

Abom can delete bosses. It’s the faster boss killer minion.

[rare quail]

bugged?

[obtuse quest]

Right I have to ask, what’s your abom skill spec?

I know there’s node that disables certain minions from being eaten

[noble moss]

i only have the only skill selected that has only skeletons eaten

[obtuse quest]

Hmm, then there should be no issues…

Not sure what’s happening then

[noble moss]

exactly i sent in a bug report for it

[obtuse quest]

And I don’t think a unique can clash with it

[noble moss]

i also took unqis off just incase it was and it is not

obviously its not a huge bug else more people would be reporting it

[crisp ridge]

can anyone eli5

[noble moss]

any idea on some other builds i could play?

[obtuse quest]

Wraithlord? If you don’t want minions, Coal Lich, torment warlock.

[noble moss]

im am playing ssf so i dont have wraithlord unfor. torment sounds interesting

[rare rock]

lmao im lvl 57 HC and doing a poison minion necromancer with 10 points in lich for aura of decay. Was doing rip blood before then tried spirit plague but Aura seems fun

[obtuse quest]

Do you want to find out, or do yoh want to listen to advice?

[rare rock]

I'm gonna die gloriously

[obtuse quest]

Godspeed, madman

[rare rock]

I've got my 4 other skills sorted, but I keep respeccing my 5th one. Golem, Skeletons, Dreadful Shade with poison nodes and Bone Curse

[noble moss]

you got anything on that torment warlock Kzb?

[obtuse quest]

Find any old one from 1.1 and it’ll work the same

[noble moss]

sounds good thank ya

[crisp ridge]

did get a hefty nerf tho 😭 still strong tho

[obtuse quest]

Not really.
Spirit frequency doesn’t matter for torment since it’s a single stack cap, only the ward nerf did something

[sharp plinth]

is there any way to add more aoe for abomination and if there is does it drastically changes the build for worse?

[obtuse quest]

Takes way too much effort for little gain since it’s mostly capped by it’s AI

Just make it one shot things

[sharp plinth]

it actually does im loving how he slaps everything, have zero problems when it comes to dps for any type of enemy, just sometimes when theres A LOT of them it takes time cuz of him slaping usually like 1-3 once only

[crisp ridge]

could add some zombies? depending ur build

[obtuse quest]

He has a default aoe slam that’s basically on a cooldown. Your other choices is just other spec nodes that gives abom more attacks.

[ashen tree]

Has anyone tried the Stygian Coal lich build?

[crisp ridge]

yes

[obtuse quest]

Known meta build

[ashen tree]

So it's pretty good?

[sharp plinth]

hmmm well i guess it will be too op if it would just one slap the whole map

[obtuse quest]

Ye, one of the two living poison builds

[ashen tree]

Cool

[obtuse quest]

Don’t worry you’ll also be kinda capped by melee minion AI

[sharp plinth]

btw someone here playing with abomination, is it only me but unless he stand on the champion type enemy that looks like a 4 legged lizard he slaps the air every time? always specifically that type of enemy

[obtuse quest]

That guy’s hitbox is somewhat wonky so might be a general minion issue

[crisp ridge]

i have no idea if putting the set on it is even worth it

[ashen tree]

[quartz dragon]

True but slow in terms of mapping

isnt this huge for infernal shade?

[high smelt]

i see on the ladder like the first 8 are infernal shade necro it looks like . for Acolyte

[obtuse quest]

It’s flavor of the season, thanks dr3ad

[red harness]

one runemaster in top 10

[frosty herald]

i tried abomination and holy never again

[obtuse quest]

Too much work?

[high smelt]

mage is cooked this season

[frosty herald]

bosses yeah die quick

[high smelt]

they over nefed it just like in POE2 sorc lol bad time to be a harry potter arpg fan

[frosty herald]

but the mapping will give me an aneurism

[high smelt]

i wonder if Sorc in D4 season8 will also be the worst class, trifecta then

[obtuse quest]

This is the cost for boss deletion

[red harness]

i played sorc in poe2

0.1

[high smelt]

OOF

oh

.20 tho yikes

[red harness]

now im deadeye

oneshotting ubers just like before

i wanted to play mage here

but rip

[high smelt]

haha yeah

[obtuse quest]

Acolyte still welcomes you-

[red harness]

ubers here dont seem to be a pushover

[high smelt]

who is a good acolyte streamer atm

[obtuse quest]

Ubberoth was hard enough that the first kill was a 2dps 2defensive setup party apprently, not solo.

[red harness]

yeah I saw

[obtuse quest]

Not sure tbh

[red harness]

group play

no solo kill yet

[obtuse quest]

Kinda crazy

There’s a known abberoth racer from last season that tried to do uberroth, and is stuck at the halfway point solo

[red harness]

may I know the name of the racer

[vivid fractal]

Is there any indication of when Veins of Malice (necro) is on?

[obtuse quest]

I don’t think they stream but let me check

[frosty herald]

i wish there were item set

[obtuse quest]

Oilo, they apprently do have a twitch.

[frosty herald]

i cant remember what i had equiped on my wraithlord kek

[red harness]

thanks 🙏

[obtuse quest]

Other than your buff bar i don’t think so

[vivid fractal]

Yeah, there is no buff that appears and I can't see anything on my abe plus it doesn't really seem to be acting any faster...just thought I'd try using that passive so I'll have a bit more to do myself

[red harness]

wait a min

there is a solo uberroth kill

[crisp ridge]

is anyone gettin a weird amount of 1 item this cycle?

last cycle i wouldve loved this

[obtuse quest]

I heard that’s from legacy but I dunno

[obtuse quest]

Did you imprint it? I only got like 2 so far

[crisp ridge]

nope

ive gottwen like 10 today from prophecies that arent even aimed at rings

[red harness]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr0niBA8Yjg heres the link to the kill

[obtuse quest]

Jesus chirst, not too surprised it’s a Sentinel

[crisp ridge]

ive also gotten liek 12 of the down of the righteous, without them beign imprinted. today has been some insane upgrades.

[strong hollow]

fubgun is not a human....

[red harness]

dude quit poe league then hopped over to LE and beat the game in 3 days

crazy

[void sorrel]

With the Golem chest piece it looks rly good yea

[rare quail]

How's wraithlord mapping like?

[obtuse quest]

I like some of your luck I've been getting utter shite uniques

[obtuse quest]

Decent. Better than abom.

[rare quail]

I'm assuming a downgrade compared to the warlock I've been playing. Since that's a big thing for fissure

[red harness]

what does imprint mean

[obtuse quest]

Kinda a bit hard to compare a minion mastery and a dot mastery tbh

[crisp ridge]

honestly, i started today with a reroll into a ehartseeker coz my build felt that bad. but then i came back and have had insane luck on the warlock

[obtuse quest]

In the weaver's tree, there's a node that lets you snapshot an item in to be able to get more of some form of that item.

[rare quail]

That's fair

[obtuse quest]

I'm still pushing my Cold HS and haven't made an acolyte yet

[red harness]

ohh

[crisp ridge]

i came to the realisation, i enjoy the game way less using meta builds or following guides

i love cooking up stupid builds

[obtuse quest]

I normally go one meta-ish build so I can farm with ease, then use it to fuel all the cooks

[crisp ridge]

i can feel that, but i really prefer the opposite

makes the game way more fun for me personally

like i was so happy when i managed to actually make a vilatrias build work last cycle 😂

currently my witchfire is proving way better than expected lmao

[obtuse quest]

To be fair to vilatrias, it has never been that bad, it feeds you flat spell lmao

[crisp ridge]

yea i managed to get just a shit tonne of flat spell and with sorc mana stacking was super super fun

felt like thor

[vivid fractal]

I guess it depends largely on what you set your goals at

If you're aiming for the highest levels of endgame, you're probably have to homecook something pretty meta to get there

[harsh warren]

hello my fellow acolytes, anybody know if the bone curse damage nodes apply to decrepify proc'd via pearls of the swine? usually more% applies to subskills but i was curious if anybody knew for sure before I spent time leveling a second character

[obtuse quest]

No.

[harsh warren]

😭 aight

[crisp ridge]

i do not cook up good builds 😂 its more about how well i can do with bad builds

[void sorrel]

Anyone try the new skeletal mage staff?

[crisp ridge]

took me 92 levels for my first wraithlord helm 😭

[frosty herald]

finally killed aberoth without abomination cheese

[sturdy zenith]

hey, get down from there

unfortunately I am stuck, RIP my mono

[obtuse quest]

F

[sturdy zenith]

that'll teach me to use transplant (I'm still gonna use it)

[crisp ridge]

is there any good way to get a specific affix shard? its ofc showing as no.1 prio in my loot filter. Im CoF

[glass shale]

Is minion damage and minion health the only 2 useful prefixes for amulets for minion builds ?

[obtuse quest]

Other than loot filter, praying to rngesus

[crisp ridge]

sad

i need some shards to attempt to seal a shit affix so i can lego it 😭

[autumn elbow]

Hello, i have a question related to mana stacking : the only way to regen high pools of mana is focus and special nodes? Never a high mana regen stat? Currently running a non-mage mana stacker and wondering how to go around it since mana regen is not keeping up

[obtuse quest]

And the two mana affixes, yeah.

[crisp ridge]

idk i used focus for neg mana

[glass shale]

if i dont have mana problems thou i dont really need those

[autumn elbow]

I see ok

[obtuse quest]

Or something that gains you mana on use.

[wise locust]

I need the coal, is there any way to reroll items for it?

[autumn elbow]

Mana regen stat feels weak compared to health regen

[obtuse quest]

Rune of ascendacies.

[crisp ridge]

rngesus was with me

first attempt sealed it

[wise locust]

Im fcked, respeced without the coal at lvl 70 and now I do no damage

[crisp ridge]

it ran out of forging potential on the last upgrade 😭

[obtuse quest]

F

[crisp ridge]

kinda sad, but now i need a 2lp exsang.

think i might just slam it tbh, that +4 is too big for me rn

[frank remnant]

What is generally the best single target for lich for budget build? I tried most skills and drain life casted is the best I get

[leaden wolf]

Good lord the ramp from 100 to 150 corruption was.. big lol

[topaz marlin]

anyone noticed Necro passives that gives "% to summon Flame Wraith/Pyro/Cryomancers instead" etc becomes pretty much 100% from travelling between maps during campaign*?

[frosty herald]

man i need better defensive and rings

[jade herald]

wooooooooooooooooooooot

[wise locust]

It was fun while it lasted, tried all my gold and runes od ancendency and no coal

CHaracter is ruined

[jade herald]

no way to get proficies?

[crisp ridge]

be a naughty kid and ill give you coal for christmas

[wise locust]

Im just gonna quit tbh, idk what to do anymore and the item system doesnt help

[frosty herald]

you literaly just lvl 70

[wise locust]

yeah but I cant do any content now

I have no damage

[frosty herald]

got my wraithlord helmet when i reached lvl 89

[crisp ridge]

did u spec into coal lich? without the coal?

[clever yew]

Is this old necrotic convert rip blood crit lich an irrelevant tthing now? or is stygian just that much better than it?

[topaz marlin]

how did u hard brick urself

[wise locust]

yeah of course

[topaz marlin]

are u MG or CoF

[crisp ridge]

wdym yea of course

its the central core point of that build, dont spec into it until u have it?

[wise locust]

well if I wait longer it gets more expensive

[obtuse quest]

That was irrelevant about 3 versions ago.

[crisp ridge]

yea but now u dont have the coal?

[wise locust]

so I just changed to the endgame build as the guide sais

[crisp ridge]

yea but ur build needs the coal

thats what makes drain life useable. u shouldve specd into another lich type atleast

[chrome mason]

First double T7, AND its a wand buuuut both its both suffixes 😔

[wise locust]

idk itemization is so hard, even with item filters I get so much of stuff I dont use

[quartz dragon]

man its bleh getting to empowered monos

[chrome mason]

Tighten your filters

[crisp ridge]

learnig to do ur own loot filters is a big help

[wise locust]

I thought I could do something with all the items I got so far

[crisp ridge]

personally i copy someone else generally then add imoprtant rules at the top that are my current needs

[topaz marlin]

can u buy a basic 0 LP coal from MG?

[lime totem]

I’m trying make a bleed lich and I am smashing my head into the table

[wise locust]

whats MG

[obtuse quest]

Hold on, I might be able to help you get something basic running.

[topaz marlin]

Merchant Guild

[crisp ridge]

the witchfire is coming online 🙏

[lime totem]

How is witch fire feeling so far?

[chrome mason]

Yes

[wise locust]

I have CoF no bazaar tho

[crisp ridge]

better than i expected

[obtuse quest]

How desperate do you want to be able to at least still try to farm for runes?

I might be able to help you fix something usable up.

[topaz marlin]

just switch over, go back to random campaign maps and level the MG faction until u can buy off-hand unique lmao

idk how u hard brick urself but there's always a way

[rich frigate]

Honest question. Why Exsanguinous and not Shroud of Obscurity?

[obtuse quest]

7% more missing health to ward.

[lime totem]

Probably what he had on hand

[topaz marlin]

I was replying Ahri Fae with their problem haha not asking in general mb

[crisp ridge]

my 2 shrouds rolled terribly

[rich frigate]

That is really better than easier to find LP, more armor on implicit and cast speed?

[chrome mason]

Oh whoops 😅

[wise locust]

So much hastle, I think its a good opportunity to reroll and do things ok at 70 next time

[topaz marlin]

I mean- u did hard brick urself, it kinda is ur own fault; but hey we live and we learn

[rich frigate]

I am asking because I am playing Warlock right now without either of them and I can keep 6k ward up pretty easily, so I persoally would prefer a 3LP Shroud than a 2LP Exsanguinous if the main difference was the 7% ward

[obtuse quest]

2Lp exsang beats any LP shroud.
20 armor isn't a notable difference later on.
The cast speed is the only thing you can argue on.

If you can slam at least % inc hp in exsang the 7% difference starts to matter much more.

[crisp ridge]

this was my only shroud that was useable

[wise locust]

Yeah just like I idk why I spent 70 levels getting items when they turn useless even at 70

[rich frigate]

Why 2LP Exsang beats a 3LP Shroud if you can slam the exact same mods?

[topaz marlin]

altho asking in general, why is the coal such an important item for the coal lich build? wat difference does it make with non-unique offhands?

[crisp ridge]

it turns drain life into beams around you

[chrome mason]

It completely changes the way the skill works

[crisp ridge]

the central point of that build specifically

its not the only lich build, but it is that one

[main stratus]

What lich builds are best for a newbie atm?

[obtuse quest]

You can slam both health affixes, making the 7% more ward gen MUCH better.

[obtuse quest]

It turns the DoT skill into a mass hit skill.

[main stratus]

If I need to go MG and buy coal, then I have a plan. But what other options are there?

[crisp ridge]

do u have gold to respec?

[obtuse quest]

Lich itself? Not too much really.

Harvest?

[crisp ridge]

u can get away with lich builds like infernal shade or harvest etc.

[main stratus]

Harvest is the lvl 1 skill? Just basic attack?

[rich frigate]

Harvest is the sickle

[main stratus]

Do you combine that with reap?

[rich frigate]

Basic attack is a basic attack (with the weapon) and the level 1 skill is Rip Blood

[obtuse quest]

Combine it with curses.

[vale jacinth]

You can still level with drain life and do good damage until you can get the coal

[chrome mason]

With mastery respec i'd honestly just reccommend leveling with Warlock until you get Coal

[wintry robin]

Yay, got a wraithlord helmet from a unique/set echo chest, time to start on a wraithlord build hehe

[main stratus]

I guess I can unspecc lich, I'm just lvl 30

How much gold does it cost to change mastery?

[chrome mason]

Its not bad to level with it, it'll just take a little longer

[chrome mason]

Barely anything, scales with level

[main stratus]

Ah, ok

[chrome mason]

Coal also isnt super rare, so if you just use whatever rune of ascendance's youll find while leveling on Catalyst you might just get it

[lime totem]

Stygian coal

[crisp ridge]

honestly at later levels its a decent chunk, but thats only coz i turned off gold rewards :joyo

[jade herald]

For coal litch on orians decent do i want as good of an int roll as possible? or a smite roll

[chrome mason]

Int

Smite doesnt matter

[jade herald]

gotcha was wondering

[main stratus]

I am completely clueless tbh. Maybe I should just try warlock to explore more of the game

[chrome mason]

Its used purely as a stack stick because +25 int is insane

[jade herald]

time to go get a better one im runnin a +12 rn

[chrome mason]

My int roll sucks unfortunately but i couldnt pass up the insane slam

[glass shale]

Is there a way to instantly dispel all my minions ?

besides removing the skill from my bar

[obtuse quest]

If online:Going to town MIGHt help

[jade herald]

ooh nice

[glass shale]

nah doesnt do it i play offline

[topaz marlin]

I found that if you're a necro, just use sacrifice lmaoo

[glass shale]

not in bar

[obtuse quest]

F

[topaz marlin]

how often do u want to dismiss minions anyways

[glass shale]

not that often but if we had a button for it would be a bit better then the crude way of removing the skill from the bar

Its mostly when i wanna test stuff in the arena

[topaz marlin]

yeah I agree, but the best way is sacrifice I guess

just use one replace sacrifice then put it back

[main stratus]

Does reduced health drain from acolyte and lich passives work on lichs transformation skill btw?

[obtuse quest]

No

[main stratus]

Oh, good to know

[obtuse quest]

I'm almost sure there's an alt text somewhere that tells you this.

[main stratus]

I'll look

[obtuse quest]

Found it, it's hidden in Death Seal.

[main stratus]

Anyway, speccing out of that then

Ah

Man, why does skill mastery have to be like it is. I wanna just test all the skills until out of gold

To learn

[obtuse quest]

If you want theory I can teach

[main stratus]

Maybe it's best this way though. Idk, I'm new

[main stratus]

Teach plz

[obtuse quest]

Any plan in mind?

[main stratus]

Nope

[obtuse quest]

Any main skill in mind/

[jade herald]

Orians gona get his fckn ass kicked

[obtuse quest]

What the hell

LOL

[main stratus]

Stygian coal

[void vigil]

Wth.. Stygian Coal damage is so bad?

[obtuse quest]

Okay, so Drain Life Coal.

Crit or Poison?

[void vigil]

Crit

[obtuse quest]

Do you have flat crit somewhere?

[void vigil]

Maybe I just dont have enough crit tbh

yeah my crit is shit, thats prob the issue

[short sun]

grin the soul gambler's voice actor mispronounces multiple words within a few lines hahaha

[obtuse quest]

Reaper form is your buff, and a chunk of your defense.
While transformed, it's replaced with reap, a melee gapcloser that shares a cooldown with all traversals. (Can be made to not share a cooldown in it's spec node.)

While in this state, your health drains rapidly. If you run out of health in this form, you get kicked back to human form at full health.

Spec nodes allows you to modify Reap, or have stat buffs while in the form.

[obtuse quest]

Phantom Grips can temporary solve that.

[void vigil]

oh wow it actually did

[obtuse quest]

It gives like 4% with 2 rings? You'll still need to find a method to PROPERLY solve it, or get LP on them.

[topaz marlin]

does Phantom Grip work end-game?

[obtuse quest]

Probably?

I admit I'm not too sure.

[jade herald]

Aw got a 2 lp orions but 8 int ):

[topaz marlin]

it's still +2 to all ur skills tho that's pree crazy

I did get a pree sick hat from Nemesis tho

[jade herald]

OOOH BABY

[main stratus]

Damn, I didn't realize. I wanna modify reap to be something I can combo with transplant

[crisp ridge]

reap dmg is w/e, so u just use it for extra mobility

[obtuse quest]

You can, takes a spec node.

[jade herald]

got very cringed on by sealing glyphs but still a banger

[obtuse quest]

Pop quiz: If you get one shot during Reaper Form, what happens?

[crisp ridge]

so close

[crisp ridge]

u can still die if its enough

[main stratus]

Extra dmg goes to normal hp

[crisp ridge]

found that out the hard way

[obtuse quest]

Wait, did they change that?

[main stratus]

I saw it in descript

[crisp ridge]

idk, all ik is i got killed fully in reaper form to a crit. the overflow was huge

[obtuse quest]

Multiple hits kill you yes, but last time, if it's a single hit with no lingering damage, Reaper Form effectively eats the overflow.

(DoTs of course, still murder your ass)

[crisp ridge]

doesnt seem to be true anymore, but i will admit i didnt thoroughly test

[main stratus]

Skill description says extra dmg go to normal health anyway. I have no idea what things were like before though

[obtuse quest]

In the alt text? Looks like it changed then.

[main stratus]

I don't wanna test until I die naturally

Not sure where, not in game atm

[crisp ridge]

finally got to the point in the game where i can tighten my loot filter 😂 does that mean im end game

[austere breach]

do you die in regular mono ?

[main stratus]

I need to make a loot filter

[main stratus]

Yo o7

[obtuse quest]

You er, gotta be more specific.

[austere breach]

im wondering if everyone make tanky build or im the only one struggling

[void vigil]

is anyone running stygian coal? this doesnt not seem to work. Just had a 100% crit chance shrine, it was still ass, so idk if its the crit

[austere breach]

yo !

[main stratus]

Acolytes unite

[austere breach]

🥲 got one shot

[obtuse quest]

CRIT!

Err my condolences.

[obtuse quest]

Check your sheet's crit.

[main stratus]

So many from the other place pick wrong class. Don't know you need to pick acolyte

[austere breach]

im just here because there is a new unique for wandering spirit

[austere breach]

but like idk how to make defense for my character at all

🤔

[crisp ridge]

the grave one? hows it going?

[austere breach]

don't have it yet. I use spirit plague wandering spirit + profane veil and hungering souls

it's nice

[obtuse quest]

For lich: Health health health endurance.

[austere breach]

but a bit low on single target because hungering souls seems to sucl

suck*

[obtuse quest]

Souls can't shotgun unless with a unique.

[austere breach]

maybe it's a mistake for what I want to do but im doing warlock but im mostly building around necrotic dmg over time

with wandering spirit and spirit plague

[obtuse quest]

Oh, health, endu, ward, armour.

[crisp ridge]

dam, im interested if u can make i work, was one of my potential builds

[austere breach]

clear is very cool

spirit plague

op

[obtuse quest]

Ah hell they changed it.

[frank remnant]

I feel so tanky as lich compared to rogue (marksman or bladedancer) I don't know if its normal 😄

[austere breach]

how should I get lot of wards ?

[obtuse quest]

Rogue relies on multiple layers, so you either are always full health or get one shot.

Lich is a rollercoaster because you're constantly leeching.

[obtuse quest]

Boneclamour, warlock has passive nodes for it

[frank remnant]

ye, but having second life is a game changer

[obtuse quest]

It's more like double hp bar tbh

[frank remnant]

thats broken

[austere breach]

I got something like this for now

[austere breach]

thanks I'll check

[void vigil]

its 50% spell crit

[crisp ridge]

biggest problem with lich is ur form falling off then u have to afk for 20s 😂

[frank remnant]

free 50% endurance with full endurance threshold

just being a lich

[obtuse quest]

So no singularity shinanigans, 50% crit should be pretty okay.

[hybrid kestrel]

Hey now! If you stack a ton of cooldown recovery it's more like 16 seconds!

[obtuse quest]

Don't be insane, who stacks CDR in Lich?

[austere breach]

can't find boneclamour in the passive

[void vigil]

Right? If It's this ass at 100 corrupted with 50% spell crit, I dont know how it can scale in anyway or maybe I am just spoiled and want everything to die instantly

[crisp ridge]

do experimental affixs still only come from exildes?

[obtuse quest]

It takes a bit because you need to scale it's damage, int, max mana..

I'm surprised it's used more than the poison variant.

[obtuse quest]

Yes..

[crisp ridge]

dam

[obtuse quest]

It's a unique helm

[crisp ridge]

i actually have to kill them, and my build doesnt do it well

[austere breach]

thx

[frank remnant]

I don't really understand this skill, if there are only one enemy, do I hit 13 time this enemy?

[obtuse quest]

No, it does not shotgun.

[austere breach]

can I use ascendance on any helmet ?

to get bone clamour

[obtuse quest]

Yes

[austere breach]

🤔

LOL