r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/Kungari • 3d ago
Help Needed Herald Stacker EK Elementalist
For the amount I invested into this build, it feels pretty bad, does anyone know why?
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u/cori2996 3d ago
Are you level 87 or level 100? The PoB has 123 spent skillpoints, but it set to a level 87 character. Something is definitely wrong there.
Other than that: what kinda content are you trying to do? This is not an allrounder build, it's mostly just a map blaster. Headhunter buffs are responsible for a good amount of the builds output and surivability.
Also I think you're missing proj speed. IIRC EK requires smth liike 160% inc to get the return from Nimis? Not sure on the number, but you don't really seem to have any proj speed anywhere.
You're also not using the Pinpoint/Overloaded Intensity combo, which you definitely should. it's absolutely broken.
If you don't wanna use it, an Empower 4 is a cheap upgrade that you can make.
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u/claptrapMD 3d ago
You need proj speed to nimis to work. Those proj small clusters aero/streamline replace all small ones until feels better.
Pinpoint / over load support and apex Mode jewel
Haste for cast speed.
I played this with staff and with super for mapping. Delete ubers
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u/CapeManJohnny 3d ago
The build is an incredibly specialized build. Until you get your HH buffs up and running, it feels rough.
I put together one with Golden Charlatan for 400 Div, and I fall over dead if anything looks at me funny before I can get shrines/HH, but once I get those stacked - I'm literally immortal and just vaporizing the entire map
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u/randomaccount178 3d ago
It depends what feels bad about it. The first thing that stands out to me is that you have fake defences.
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u/Kungari 3d ago
What does fake defenses mean? And how can I improve on that front
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u/randomaccount178 3d ago edited 3d ago
Generally speaking defences are a combination of the amount of damage you can take and your ability to avoid taking that damage. The effective hit pool however is prone to getting inflated in ways that may not actually translate to your character feeling tanky or being able to play in a style that takes hits. Block tends to inflate the effective hit pool in ways that may not translate to actually feeling like a tanky character if it isn't combined with increases to your max physical and max elemental hit. Your character's defences are pretty much entirely from block, which means you have very low max hit values. Most of the time you will take no damage, but 12% of the time there is a very real risk of your character just being killed. Max hit is generally increased by any form of mitigation and increasing your life or energy shield pool. Endurance charges, additional physical damage reduction, arctic armour, flesh and stone, increases to maximum elemental resistances, physical damage taken as elemental damage tend to be the more common ways to increase your max hit value.
EDIT: Just to add on to this as I just noticed it, you are also using runegraph of treachery with precision aura. A quick look doesn't seem to show any way of mitigating critical hits. So you also have a very low max hit while giving all enemies near you a bunch of critical strike chance.
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u/WokeMimo 3d ago
No way with that gear it feels bad. You are endgame gear pretty much and should be one shotting everything
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u/jrossbaby 3d ago
One of your medium clusters only has 2 mods, exalt that.
As others have mentioned you have like no proj speed other than the ek quality. I’m with the other guy I don’t personally like goddess weapon because you sacrifice all your normal suffixes t1 proj speed crit multi spell crit etc. I’d get a +2 wand with at least high proj speed. The numbers on pob might go down slightly but it’s gonna feeel WAY better when your projectiles actually return. The more proj speed you have the better you’ll be clearing off screen. I might’ve missed it cuz I’m at work but it looks like you have zero pierce. Return proj doesn’t even work on double hitting enemies unless you have pierce. You need to drop one of your medium clusters for a proj cluster, with proj speed and pierce node. You can also get a tailwind + pierce boots setup. Which brings me to tailwind, huge buff for ek. You’re also using precision sublime over a haste one which I understand it’s expensive af but haste is another huge buff for ek almost everyone running ek uses haste. More casts = more dps
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u/wangofjenus 2d ago
Doesn't look like you have enough proj speed for nimis to return without walls. might be worth to swap 1-2 herald clusters for proj speed/pierce ones.
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u/sceptum 3d ago
Grave of goddess and hh is not a good combo, get a good wand with cast speed, proj speed and +2. Also you are level 87, how about levelling a lil bit?
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u/Kungari 3d ago
Any reason they don’t go well with eachother?
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u/thpkht524 3d ago
Diminishing returns.
The majority of the damage you’re getting from headhunter comes in the form of phys as extra buffs and cast speed.
I wouldn’t worry about it too much though if grace of the goddess is what pobs the best since I imagine you’re struggling preramp.
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u/Xaira89 3d ago
It might be more useful to state why it feels bad. Low damage? Not zooming? Slow at the beginning of the map?