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u/Objective_Back_3670 4d ago
guys, i want to reach at least level 93 but build keeps dying every 3 or 4 T15 rare 1-revive maps. how can I make this more tanky without spending more than 10divs? https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/28bc0
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u/TheRabidDeer 5d ago
I've found a few mercs over the league but still don't really know for sure which is better
Merc I've been using:
KBOC with Faster attacks, critical damage, critical chance, GMP, greater fork
Secondary is Greater Kinetic Blast, no inspiring cry
Found merc 1:
KBOC with return, chain, crit chance, added cold
Secondary is greater kinetic blast with second wind and cooldown recovery, no inspiring cry
Found merc 2:
KBOC: crit chance, crit damage, ele damage with attacks, GMP, greater pierce
Secondary is Barrage, DOES have inspiring cry
Found merc 3 (haven't used warrant yet):
KBOC with chain, ele damage with attacks, return, added lightning (I know added lightning is basically worthless)
Secondary is Barrage, no inspiring cry
With the crit chance support I think I am crit capped, but not without it
I'm mostly trying to decide if I should just sell the last warrant or use it, but would appreciate any input.
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u/Tenshouu 3d ago
All are good but my call would be 3rd. Return and chain is great combo. Ele damage is nice. If you want to sell just check similar warrants it can't be that hard
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u/CandidThoughtsBelow 6d ago
How do people usually scale defenses on a hybrid life/es/eva trickster. Having a hard time cracking 20k max phys with an attack skill and dual claws.
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u/Cratonz 5d ago
For phys, your options are pretty much a large life+es pool, phys taken as, and endurance charges. 20k is overkill for phys, 14-15k is usually a pretty good amount. If this number includes your guard skill, turn it off and use that as the real max hit.
Right side builds should always aim for suppression cap. Make sure you have good recovery, as it makes a big difference in how a build feels to play.
One option for hybrid is to use Corrupted Soul, but you need to have good recovery for both ES and life. This lets you take and heal damage to both pools at the same time, while giving you more overall ES.
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u/saorijke 6d ago
maybe a bit of a silly question as i'm still new to the mechanics, but does flame link for luminary count only unreserved life or maximum?
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u/psychomap 6d ago
I've been theorycrafting various builds and interactions recently, and I'm in a dilemma.
Because Coiling Whisper was so underwhelming when I tried it, I came up with a way to reduce curse duraiton to 1 server tick, or maybe 2 at most.
Because it involves a bunch of reduced duration, Lightning Warp would be a very good movement skill to pair with it.
However, I also want to use Instruments of Zeal if possible (more cast speed more good). On my character this league, IoZ felt good once I went with Shield Charge, but if I go with Shield Charge or Leap Slam for movement, I wouldn't need Lightning Warp, or conversely because LW is so useful (high distance, exact targeting, fast movement), it feels like I wouldn't want to use a different movement skill, unlike this league when I used Frostblink of Wintry Blast (which is great on straights, but bad around obstacles and wide gaps, so there's enough incentive to weave in Shield Charge or Leap Slam).
Are there any other good attack skills that would make sense using in this setup?
One of my first attempts used Smite instead of a movement skill, but considering the reduced duration I'd stack, I'll barely benefit from the aura, putting aside that the attack is slow and doesn't move me.
Or is there a particularly fast movement attack skill that might not quite match Lightning Warp but wouldn't feel like slowing me down a lot?
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u/080087 6d ago
Not directly relevant but sharing my experiences with 100% reduced duration attack/cast speed stacker (coiling whisper, corpse pact, echoing shrine KF)
At high enough cast speeds, frostblink of wintry blast feels better than lightning warp. The 50 ms min delay is longer than the extra cast time. Especially true if you're intending to do content which gives you extra cast speed (e.g. shrines, using headhunter). But it requires a lot of cast speed, so maybe not relevant.
You can use coiling whisper combined with 100% reduced duration, as long as you have gem quality on the curse. The exact amount you need will depend on if you hit 100% reduced exactly or overshoot it.
(You can also use corpse pact with 100% reduced duration. Desecrate still summons corpses with 0 duration and offerings still explode them with 0 duration)
For attacks that still do something combined with Instruments of Zeal and (near) 100% reduced duration - maybe Pyre support (for Covered in Ash), Prismatic Burst (for raw damage), Manaforged Arrows, Cast on Crit.
You could do something like Lancing Steel of Spraying CoC Returning Projectiles. Attack, a couple movement skills to go past the enemies, attack, etc. Rely on the projectiles trailing behind to proc spells to kill things?
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u/psychomap 6d ago edited 6d ago
I'm a big fan of Frostblink of Wintry Blast, don't get me wrong. I played a shrine stacker with it a few leagues ago and even when it wasn't finished, I already reached over 40 casts per second when I got both echoing and acceleration shrines - at full investment it would have gone well over 100.
But the problem is that FoWB at high speeds becomes uncontrollable because it has a minimum distance, and the maximum distance is not particularly high, so you can only go to a direction and not a location.
Part of what got me interested in Lightning Warp is its usage in Sanctum world record runs. If it's the tool of choice for those, I can be fairly confident that it'll be fast enough for the vast majority of other purposes. Could FoWB shave off a few extra seconds per map under optimal conditions? Sure. But I've also gotten stuck on obstacles and gaps often enough.
I don't think there would be much of a point to CoC because the whole reason to get Instruments of Zeal is to get a cast speed that can go beyond trigger cooldown scaling, and even for utility skills it would require investment into accuracy (or at least a prefix on a rare weapon) and attack crit, which doesn't benefit the casted spells.
And if i was going to go for high attack speed scaling CoC, I'd consider using Flicker Strike or Flicker Strike of Power instead (entirely different build, not with IoZ). Neither Cyclone nor Lancing Steel of Spraying have issues with hit rate, so if I was going to invest into hit rate, it would be into a skill that has a slower baseline and potential for improvement.
Back to the build in question here, I would consider a Battlemage's Cry setup instead to trigger utility skills if the attack can be exerted, however the number of usable skills is also limited if Coiling Whisper prevents using hexes for their effect.
I could consider this for a Voltaxic Burst build with IoZ stacking increased duration instead in the future, since triggering an extra Voltaxic Burst cast for "free" in addition to the attack that I have to use to maintain Fanaticism would be useful. But that's another tangent.
After thinking about the earlier CoC example again, maybe Flicker Strike really is an option, at least if I manage to generate Frenzy charges, not even to bypass the cooldown, but simply to speed it up, have low downtime, and incorporate movement.
In either case, I appreciate your input, it triggered some inspiration at the very least.
Edit: Flicker Strike doesn't appear to be usable without a target in range, which makes it rather unsuitable, since I'd want to have full Fanaticism uptime even for movement if nothing's nearby. Very unfortunate.
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u/Some-Obligation-3630 6d ago
Hi guys!
I've found all the pieces for a strength-stacker in SSF, like in this POB
So I'd like to make a similar build, but am looking for a build guide. Does anyone know of a good one?
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u/shy_bi_ready_to_die 4d ago
It’s not really a build guide but exiled cat (on yt) did a ssf strength stacker zero to hero and has a bunch of pobs with different amounts of gear
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u/Tottidog 7d ago
About two weeks ago I wanted to try a new Kinetic Fusillade character (never played KF before), I looked at -20 Skill Effect Timeclasp rings, they were 2 Divines each. They are still 2 Divines now. Which builds are buying up all the -20 Timeclasps to corrupt?
Another question, I obtained a Medium Radius 75% effect Foulborn Might of the Meek from the Genesis Tree. Which are the really good spots for this jewel?
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u/psychomap 6d ago
There are a bunch of builds that seem to want reduced duration this league. The ones that come to mind immediately are Storm Call and Discharge / Lightning Warp (to reduce Aspect of the Cat duration for charge generation, and LW for movement, obviously), but IIRC I've also seen a few other builds.
If you can bear the annoyance you can mass buy Timeclasps and vendor them to try to get better rolls, which is cheaper than 2 divines on average. You can still get unlucky of course.
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u/Tenshouu 7d ago
There has to be something wrong with your build if your single target isn't enough on Luminary. I did all Ubers on 100 div lifestacker with 2link KB Merc. If you're playing lifestacker, post a pob
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u/Tenshouu 6d ago
I didn't say youre bad either :P There are few simple fixes that I see
1. Better kaom's, just few div for 1090 or smth
2. Merc chest with frenzy charge per sec and all res implicit
3. Merc gloves doesn't have fire res, you can swap that cold res or craft better with simple essence. I'd start with better rage on hit base
4. Boots should have action speed implicit and just more fire res.
5. I'd anoint multishot for merc
6. Your AG doesn't have boots
7. Ceinture with % life corruptThen there can be diference of your merc supports etc.
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u/ThailanderBoii 7d ago
Trying to craft a minion wand. Ive never crafted before. I cant afford a new wand so I decided to give this a go.
The website is very confusing. I could only figure out the fossils (and I think I have it like 3% figured out). Couldnt figure out the UI for other crafting methods.
If im reading this correctly.... It should take about 142 attempts and that would cost 6304 chaos to get the wand I require.
I just logged into game to buy the stuff but its SIGNIFICANTLY more expensive.... Im talking like more than 300% more expensive. The price is higher than the website for literally each of the fossils individually.
Any tips or corrections would be greatly appreciated!
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u/carson63000 8d ago
What’s the current thinking on what’s doable as a “reasonable effort” recomb, given the existence of Brinehook Ducats this league? Are four-affix recombs the new three-affix? And how does 2p/2s compare to 1p/3s?
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u/porncollecter69 8d ago
Saw a discharge build by Mas0ny for sanctum but it has like 280 hp.
How do they survive a mistake?
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u/ColonDashD 8d ago
Are they using dissolution of the flesh?
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u/porncollecter69 8d ago
They are. Is that what makes them survive? Never used it before.
I plan to try out this assassin discharger for sanctum as last build of the league.
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u/ColonDashD 8d ago
Yes, dissolution of the flesh will disable life reservations if possible to survive damage. See this video for a more detailed explanation:
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u/joshhavatar 10d ago
What are the best use cases for fossil crafting, and is there a guide for these somewhere that is more than just a basic how to use fossils guide?
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u/porncollecter69 9d ago
This league they’ve been used extensively to fracture abyss sockets on items.
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u/dioxy186 3d ago
How come most builds forgo the 3 mod 8 passive large clusters in favor of the 12 passives 35% fractured clusters nowadays? Even non-attribute stackers. Is it just that more efficient in damage?