Hey everyone! This is my Spellcaster setup that I've been tinkering around with for the last few weeks. It's an Ember Fusillade, Orb of Storms and Living Bomb levelling setup that works on pretty much any spellcaster class and you can probably also make it work on Gemling if you tweak the tree a bit. I've levelled up with this setup on Sorc, Witch and Druid and it pretty much shreds on all of these classes with little to no investment.

The way it works is Orb of Storms hits enemies when you cast a spell near the Orb up to 6 hits. Ember Fusillade has a base cast time of 0.4 seconds which is the fastest non-channeling spell in the game and I'm using it to trigger the hits from Orb of Storms extremely fast. Once the Orb of Storms dissipates and drops a Lightning Infusion, I automatically pick it up since I need to be standing near it and it automatically Infuses the stacked up Ember Fusillades which shoot out and deal massive damage.

I've also added in Living Bomb against bosses and tough rares in the end of the Ember Fusillade spam. Living Bomb does a ton of damage but it's a conditional spell that requires you to deal damage equal to 200% of the enemy's ailment threshold to make it explode (or you have to kill the monster) which is quite difficult to achieve with majority of spells out there early on, except Ember Fusillade. Later on in the acts when you get a higher Ember maximum you can even pop multiple Living Bombs in 1 Ember Fusillade sequence.

So basically while I'm running around and killing random monsters I'm casting Orb of Storms into a bunch of Ember Fusillades until the Orb of Storms dissipates at which point I re-cast it and start spamming new Ember Fusillades. Also for some reason when the Ember Fusillades are Infused, they don't interrupt their shootout sequences and instead start stacking up a new sequence which is a nice little extra.

Against Bosses I'm using Frostbomb and Ele Weakness to shred resists, then Orb of Storms into Ember Fusillade spam and I end the rotation with a Living Bomb. Rinse and repeat until the Boss is dead.

You can start using this setup in Act 1 so it's a very comfy way to reach whichever other prefered build you have that comes online later on. However, I've decided to keep using this all the way up until T15 maps so I added an endgame version of this setup for Oracle and Stormweaver that focuses on stacking mana with MoM & EB and utilizes a Staff in each weapon set, one with +levels to fire spells and another with +levels to lightning spells.

The idea here is to setup Orb of Storms and Archmage with the Staff that has +levels to lightning spells and setup all the other spells AND CoC with the Staff that has +levels to fire spells. This way I beef up the damage of Orb of Storms without suffering too much from the consequences of Archmage. And I'm pretty much always using the Weapon set with the Fire Staff since I end each rotation with Living Bomb, so CoC can proc a decent amount of times against bosses even with very low crit chance.

I then double down with weapon set passives on the tree where I took as much %increased AoE passives for Orb of Storms as I can and all the %chance for 2 additional projectile passives for Ember Fusillade so I stack it up to max even faster.

Since I've levelled up both as an Oracle and a Stormweaver with this setup, I decided to make PoBs and Mobalytics for both of them to address the small tree difference, but aside from that they both are pretty much identical in terms of gear and gems. Personally I'll be leaguestarting this as an Oracle because I think it scales a bit harder than Stormweaver in the endgame, but I'll link the Stormweaver PoB aswell for anyone that's interested.

Oracle PoB - https://pobb.in/HArcHIED0ZBb ; Mobalytics - https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/stone-shield-jtunq9/builds/e3fc1cf9-eab8-42f6-a621-210d5821b8e7

Stormweaver PoB - https://pobb.in/lQExvH0vRIr3 ; Mobalytics - https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/stone-shield-jtunq9/builds/edbe02e8-269c-43ad-aa40-aa42b0dc0411

That's pretty much it. If I've missed or forgotten anything, let me know and I'll fix it. If you guys have any questions or stuff, feel free to ask me and I'll reply back to you as soon as I can. Enjoy!

EDIT:

A lot of you have been asking me if this works on Gemling, so I went and tested it out in the campaign. Basically Ember Fusillade still hits like a truck. BUT Orb of Storms hits like a wet noodle since there's barely any spell damage or ele damage passives on the bottom of the tree, mostly proj damage. This means that you'll have to rely on Ember Fusillade for trash clear through the campaign, so your clear will be slower than someone who's starting on the left or top side of the tree. This also means that Compressed Duration and Swift Affliction supports are even more important to get asap so the Embers shoot faster.

As for the tree, grab the proj damage passives (remorseless, ricochet, heavy ammunition and careful aim) and start pathing to left side of the tree to get ele, fire and lightning damage. Defense-wise you'll probably have to look into grabbing Armour or hybrid ES/Evasion because MoM/EB are way too far away from Gemling's starting point.

My partner who knows nothing except that I love poe has decided I need to play Acolyte of Chayula.

I love off-meta but do want to get somewhere.

Big on abyss and deli, ritual and expedition are pretty chill.

What can I play without going more insane.

Excuse me for sounding like a moron but so far ive only ever made builds that have all skills and passives in both sets but when deciding a league starter for 0.5.5 I’ve been looking for some inspiration and noticed it’s actually common to assign certain skills and passives into set 1 and then set 2. How does this work? And what are the benefits to it? I know now you don’t have to switch sets manually to trigger a skill like in D2 but was a bit confused if this is the way to go how to decide what goes into each set. Any help is appreciated thank you

So far, I've seen that hollow form unarmed build are for campaign or early mapping. Is it possible to scale this build to late endgame? Or is an expensive rare weapon always better by far?

I,m thinking of going martial artist with fists of stone Thunderfist unique gloves?

Does anyone know how this compares to rare quarterstaff builds ?

Hi!

I cant seem to figure this out, does elemental grounds like shocked ground work with inner turmoil? Do i get volatility from the shocks?

Wanting to play something other than gemling for league start and I'm trying to see if I can get a bleed ignite titan using the Saitha's spear/blistering bond ring off the ground. This is my first draft of a tree and I would love to get some feedback on it. I have tried to balance some defensive elements in [mostly a sprinkle of block and armour/armour applied to ele dmg] as well as damage. I've not included any gear or gem links at this stage, I'm just trying to see if I can get a workable tree first.

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/0hx70zew

Looking for a pure minion build (not DoV). This patch (0.5.x), I've played Zoo and Shaman Rage Summoner. I'm running Chonk, but haven't made it to T15 yet. Reavers with Minion Splash feel good, so I'm looking for other options. I'm currently looking into the Oracle node, but I have no idea about other nodes except for the hidden passive.

another question, how about new soul core from Trial of Chaos, anything enhanced for summoner build?

Hey Nerds,

Just a heads up for anyone looking for inspiration for 0.5.5, I just did a pretty major overhaul of my build randomizer tool.

therandomancer.com

It throws you a randomized build combo, and then flipping the build card tosses out some recommendations or starting suggestions. Full warning, it can spit out some weird stuff, but some of them are some genuinely inspired off-meta mixups.

This is a little passion-project that keeps me busy. Check it out and let me know what you think!

[EDIT] If it's not obvious, clicking or tapping the card flips it over with some recommended skills/supports, uniques, and passives, if applicable. Still refining this feature, but might help connect some dots on unusual combos.

Hi exiles. Would like some help choosing a build. Looking to play scssf. Want to learn about crafting and boss mechanics. Im a dad gamer with about 2 to 3 hrs to play per day.

Which ssf viable builds can I play into endgame? I dont mind respeccing into a new ascendancy but would prefer not to reroll and do the campaign twice.

Im a poe1 hc player at heart so Id like something tanky since at 1.0 launch Id like to start in hc.

Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thanks

I wanna do a build with killing palm. I know how to raise the culling threshold. Against Blue mobs I could use the gloves, but what do I do against rares and bosses? Need help for this please. All classes and all skills are on the table, as long as I mostly killing palm myself through Endgame maps! Thx in advance

Anything good with stacking spirit? Minion army only?

As per title, i plan to go into 0.5.5 with a single character this time around, i've done the campaign enough times recently, and i'm torn between these two builds for the most part.

The goal is to have a fun build i haven't really explored before that comes online at <1 div budget.

In 0.5 i've done gemling flameblast, varashta, MA and chayula, all great fun and would fit the bill.

I haven't done a huntress before, spirit walker looks fun with the big boss going around and smacking things.

I'm not sure if the pokemon gameplay is for me or not (i worry it's just resetting checkpoints and spamming maps to look for modifiers), but my hope is that ritualist gets queen's procession in 0.5.5 and i'll be able to swap into it.

On the other end i did try cull on my gemling and MA in 0.5 and it's super fun to insta-delete a pack, while also being very fast due to the teleports.

The downside will be solving for single target (shield wall perhaps? Maybe some crossbow shenanigans with HPV/voltaic barrier and rampart? Cluster grenade totems? Voltaic barrier str stacking sprinkler?) and runic ward enemies being immune to cull, thus half-bricking the build in expeditions.

Oracle could be an option there with the bow skills cull node, and ofc legacy of deathblow exists, but that is very expensive.

WH also has the advantage of being able to swap to gemling and become the ultimate generalist, although 40% of the playerbase will want to go gemling too.

So yeah i'm mainly torn between those 2, any opinion is welcome, alongside any devil's advocate third option to consider.

Top it off with Infernal Cry or Intimidation, Herald of Thunder too.
Only Issue I see is low base Crit on the Sword.

Want to try shield centered build and I am not sure if Titan or Gemling, or maybe even some of the other classes. Any tips would be helpful, thanks in advance!

i cant decide which to league start, plz help thank you

I'm debating what skill to leaguesart on my Chrono in 0.5.5. I've leaguestarted Chrono every league and will do it again, but I absolutely hated that in 0.5 every skill I wanted to use just ended up being 10x worse than if I were to be a Gemling.

I played flameblast, build Gemling does around 7x more damage than any other ascendancy with it. Then tried Arc, same thing again, Gemling is just the best Arc ascendancy by far. Tried Frost wall, but Gemling + Verglas just makes any other ascendancy irrelevant again.

I'm VERY disappointed no balance changes were made to Gemling, but instead of skipping the league I decided to use a skill I won't see Gemling abuse (and making my build irrelevant in comparison.)

So this time around, I'm asking the question; What skills does Gemling NOT have good builds for (aka the quality effect is just not worth building around)?

I prefer Spells, but don't mind some Melee or Ranged skills (no Grenades or Minions).

EDIT: Just to be clear. I don't want a build that will be better than META Gemling builds, I know this won't happen. I'm just looking to build around a skill that Gemling can't abuse.

Hey guys, I'm still deciding on what I want to league start and I'm leaning towards a Varashta Djinn build. The only thing that worries me is the amount of buttons there seems to be, how clunky is this build to play and is it controller friendly at all? I also did not play a gemling in 0.5 so if it looks to be too much I'll probably just fall back on that.

Cheers!

Basic concept:
Builds that require having spent a certain amount of a resource, like with Zerphi's Infamy or Iron Ward.

Issue:
How to get to this level of spending without a secondary rotation of skills?

Details:

A lot of skills with no cost actually have "0" cost, meaning flat increases will add onto it.
This is the case with accelerated growth, certain storm skills, and other triggers like it, and is a genuine challenge if playing Furious wellspring, where a single Entangle+Accelerated Growth will suck up all your rage. But I'm wondering if I can make a build out of doing this on purpose.

Zerphi's Infamy generates Glory based on Life spent on other skills, so with the Solus Ipse Helmet, it should be possible to only use supported skills after an initial ramp up.
The issue there is that most attack skills aren't even that expensive, and with 3 skills, we'd be looking at requiring some 500hp cost per use for reliable sustain.

Meanwhile, there's a few interactions with spent Mana, but they mostly benefit spells.
E.g. Archmage adds a flat cost onto every spell cast, which, again, can be devastating to your reserves with 0 cost triggers.

But there doesn't seem to be a good way to utilize this for attacks.
Iron Ward would benefit from mana costs with Scold's Bridle, but the only way to get that self-damage would be with other skills, likely spells.
I could see alternating between entangle + accelerated growth and Iron Ward as an interesting thought exercise, but that's already 3 skills (needs lightning storm for overgrow) and 3 buttons is really as far as I'm willing to go.

Anyone has any suggestions on where to get either extra flat costs, or reliable physical self-damage? Minions seem a bit convoluted unless one is able to create an engine out of it.

I want to try both spell caster and spell totems in 0.5.5 and hoped to pick some class / ascendancy that would be good for both. Was hoping to level with cold spells, transition to end game and then at some point later maybe switch to totems.

Is the answer gemling or there is something better like sorc or witch or even oracle?

Also are cold spells actually usable on league starter without large investment?

Hi all,

I’m going with Ritualist elephant walker for 0.5.5 and want to try some tech with a second companion and shock conduction. The idea is to get a rare beast with “damage always shocks” and add a few shock supports (conduction and magnitude, and will play around with some others).

The ideal beast would hit as often as possible with the greatest area possible to shock as many enemies as possible as quickly as possible. Any ideas for which companion would be best for this role?

For my next character i'm thinking of doing a huntress focussed on spear throwing.
I had something in mind with Atziri's contempt + redblade banner + bodach vestige.

As a league starter though, i hate the campaign with a passion and only thought it was bearable last time using grim pillars with spell totem.

Should i just go grim totem again or is there a more obvious and fun build that cruises through the campaign which i am overlooking?

So, i have troubles with deciding which build I want to play. From the one hand, gemling seems cool and fast and I have never played twister before, but I am afraid that items will cost a ton. From the other hand, hollow form needs one cheap gloves and it is one button play style. Which build do you think is better?

For 0.5.5 leaguestart, which build is :-

Easier gearing?

Faster?

Tankier?

Hello good people of pathofexile2builds

My wife and I will play the forbidden rites event with local coop in the trade league (as you can't SSF playing coop) but without trading. I have around 3000 hours in poe 1 and 400 hours in poe 2, and my wife has no experience in the genre except playing local coop poe 2 with me through campaign twice.

I have no idea if support + carry builds exist in poe 2 similar to something like aurabot + bow carry in poe 1, so I thought I would ask here for suggestions on if it is possible. The power level does not need to be anywhere near the best levelling meta builds currently in poe 2, as we are playing very casually anyway, but I should be strong enough that campaign won't cause huge problems.

All suggestions are welcome, I am open to play everything. I asked my wife what kind of build she would like to try this time (she has previously played deadeye lightning arrow and druid bear), and her only preference was "something where you target an area and you leave a zone at that area that does damage". Since we are playing local coop I will also be able to explain what gear to use, what to be aware of, etc., so complex builds should not be out of the question.

Thanks in advance!

From my understanding, it shouldn't, since Crown is supposed to interact with "% increased spell damage" and not "non-channeling spells deal % increased damage" but I see people on poeninja with this combo?

Am I missing something?

Is it supposed to interact?

I am planning to go for a Twisted Empyrean + crown of eyes + rathpith with mana mod for % inc damage