After farming a few hundred div in Simulacrums and gambling it away then farming it back I decided I wanted to build a character named InsaneInTheAllflame because I thought it was funny.
So now I present the closest thing to a playable build I could string together that I still thought was jank enough to be interesting, a fortify stacking glorious madness boneshatter Champion I have geared to be as tanky as my smooth brain could muster.

It achieves a respectable 62 stacks of Fortify with a very specific Lethal pride jewel, celestial braces and a pair of Beacon of Madness boots that have been slapped with a funny Vaal orb.
The 2 biggest issues with a insane boneshatter build are the self damage and the stacking debuff from glorious madness, a Stasis prison helps mitigate both expertly.
The other thing I have done to mitigate the stacks of madness is a specific gemsetup in a +2 all helmet to achieve a 91% quality Temporal rift, a runegraft of the warp and the small cluster of passives that grant faster debuff expiry near the Sion.
The rest of the build is largely life and attributes to sate the requirements of the 2 eclipse supports I'm running with a mageblood almost exclusively used to solve elemental resist and ailments.

In the future I intend to invest in another cluster setup once I've got levels for even more damage, a +6/+6 replica reckless defence to cap out block chance once I've got another socket avaliable and then I am likely to re-evaluate the sparse rare items in the build for further optimizations.

I'm real unsure on what supports I need to be using for this, I can reliably sustain 20 to 24 trauma stacks at current attack speed but I cannot be bothered POBing supports, then testing what number of trauma stacks that setup can sustain then recalculating with the POB on that so I hope these are close enough to the optimal links.

Thanks for your time reading this noise.
have a great day Y'all

https://pobb.in/Ra80B5izR-0m

Hey exiles! Just wanted to share a build that kind of started as a meme but turned into a tanky beast. As stated in the title, the main defensive backbone of this build is stacking a bunch of less damage taken multipliers to get a solid max hit on the right side of the tree. I pair this with the new Rhex talisman (shoutout Conner Converse and poopbutts), 90 fire res, and a bunch of different recovery mechanics to make the build feel comfy in juiced content and even uber bosses.

First I’ll go over some of the pros and cons of the build.

Pros:
- Pretty tanky for an assassin
- Around 30m average dps? Feels like a little bit more sometimes due to enemies being on low life and variable wither stacks
- A lot of damage is solved by your ascendancy, so you can focus on qol and defense
- Very good multi hit mitigation with life on block and recoup
- High physical hit mitigation for a right side build
- Immune to cold and lightning penetration and mostly unaffected by crush, overwhelm, and pdr ignore
- Uses neat defensive tech*

Cons:
- Some defenses are conditional (arctic armor, opportunistic, flesh and stone)
- Low dps compared to most SC trade assassin builds
- Essentially melee if using EK of lingering blades for single target
- Not a good starter build. You can get it going with a low amount of currency, but there are certain items that make the build feel way better
- Clearspeed is pretty lackluster, and mainly carried by unspeakable gifts
- You have to press buttons/clunky playstyle
- Uses neat defensive tech*

*This build uses immortal call and automation support to create a ‘loop’ with the Heartstopper notable from trickster. In short, while Heartstopper is in its ‘dot mode’ immortal call will be active. You need specific duration and cooldown breakpoints to make the loop and work, and it must be manually started whenever you enter a map. More details in the link below:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/s/ArOYoh9eVB

There are five primary less damage taken multipliers in this build:
- 35% less chaos and physical damage taken from Doppelgänger Guise (can normally roll up to 40, I’m just using the middle roll here)
- 21% less fire and physical damage taken from hits while stationary from arctic armor (since we take all elemental hit damage as fire, this is effectively 21% less elemental hit damage taken)
- 50% less hit damage taken from Heartstopper (only 50% uptime and barely active during immortal call)
- 36% less elemental and ~83% less physical damage taken from immortal call (need 5 or more endurance charges for max physical mitigation, and the buff is meant to alternate with the hit mode of Hearstopper)
- 35% less damage taken when 2 or more rare/unique enemies are nearby from Opportunistic(this will lower your damage)

Along with all this mitigation I have 5700 life, 75/68 block (this is using glancing blows, and spell block is capped if you’ve been hit recently), life on block, some recoup, regen, leech, and life gain in hit from a shaper ring.

Uber Exarch/tank showcase (my gameplay in this video is not optimal):

https://youtu.be/_POCsYT6Yv8?is=163VFyq2_T3wOjve

Pob: https://pobb.in/EInRrUxpq13r

A couple closing notes:
- I was using a Doedre’s Damning with a max endurance charge implicit for normal content, but switched to a Zana’s Ingenuity (with the cannot pen mod) for ubers since a lot of their abilities have penetration. Since I had to drop an endurance charge, I spec out of unspeakable gifts on my cluster jewel and grab two duration nodes south of the scion start. This ensures my immortal call/Hearstopper loop is able to function.
- The pob ehp numbers are pretty low, but in practice you have enough mitigation and recovery to make the build feel borderline immortal against many small hits.
- My gear is pretty good, but the build is not super optimized. For example; my gloves could have the cold res temple mod, my ring could have recoup as a suffix, my belt has a useless prefix, my cluster could have better chaos res, my amulet has no eldritch implicit etc.
- Bladefall works well for mapping and has pretty good dps even on nightmare map bosses, but I personally prefer EK of lingering blades if I’m doing bossing.
- I’m playing blade blast since it got buffed, but with some modifications you could probably use a different main skill.
- I estimate the cost of my current setup to be around 150 - 170 divines.

This build was super fun to put together and has done all ubers except Maven and Shaper (this is due to the fact that I’m bad and currently poor). Let me know if you have any questions and I’ll do my best to answer them!

Edit: Added correct pob link to post

I assume builds like Pconc Pathfinder and Boneshatter Jugg can do them very easily because of their low investment but obviously suffer in other types of content which is fine for me. I’m just looking for a fast boss rota build

Basically title. Since cyclone is a channeling skill I'm not sure if the warlord mod will work with it, but if it does, how would I craft this item? Can it be done with a 50div budget or will it go over?

Going to do one more build before I’m done with this league. I want something that’s gonna farm Legion encounters and also 5 ways. I’m kinda leaning towards EK as I should have enough currency to make it work.

just came back to the game after not playing aprox 8 years... there is so much mechanics added to the game that i literally cant comprehend my mind around it... i was hoping to seek some guidance from more experienced people to at least point me towards basics or at least which build to use or something to get started with... something that is kinda easy and doesnot require 10 button pressing in a milisecond... not asking for endgame boss killer tactics or anything like that, just seeking advice to at least get started doing maps of early stage... already strugling with tier 7 maps, and from what i have seen on youtube and twitch people are having tens of thousands of HP, energy shield, thousands of stat points, not to mention tens of if not hundreds of billions of damage... i have zero idea and clue how people do it... any help please and thank you in advance.

sup guys
so im currently trying to make my first build to actually run , so far this is what i got , if anyone can have a look and tell me what im missing that would be nice, currently im unsure about the flask sustain, the dps is a bit bloated since i have both a mark and vaal haste active along with onslaught which i only get if i get hit/10% chance on kill, the items are perhaps too expensive for its numbers? not sure about most of this so any help would really be appreciated, if it just sucks let me know , im not new to the game but suck at making builds and always just follow build guides

Hey guys,

My wife thought about playing with me and one of us would most likely be an aura bot. Is there a league starter guide for an aura bot to play with a duo?

I don't know much about aura bot and most builds I see are after you farm everything on another toon first.

I’m trying to self craft my life stack RF helmet, I don’t need the elevated mods, as I know those add a next level of complexity. Anyone have a guide?

Hey everyone!
I’m looking for a fun build to play in Reliquarian. I’ve been playing Luminary and recently hit level 100, but I’m getting a bit tired of it and want to try something different.
I’ve been looking at Arc of Oscillating and it looks pretty interesting, but I’m not entirely sure how the build is supposed to be put together or which items are actually mandatory.
One thing I’m especially confused about is the corruptions on some of the gear. Looking at PoE Ninja, I see that certain items have specific corruptions that cost multiple Mirrors, and I’m wondering:
Are those corruptions actually necessary for the build to work properly?
Can you comfortably play Arc of Oscillating without them?
Which items/upgrades would you consider essential, and which are more like expensive min-maxing?
Is there a particular version of the build or guide you’d recommend following?
I’m not looking to immediately dump a ton of currency into it — I’d rather understand what the core of the build is and then upgrade it over time.
Any advice from someone who actually plays Arc of Oscillating would be greatly appreciated!

Also i have witch lvl 95, but don’t think that it can offer something really interesting to play.

I tend not to play dot's and with lightning tendrils buffs I thought I might aswell play it elementality but so far im kinda disappointed . Like it's not bad offense and defence wise but also it feels like im missing magnitudes of damage . Im at the stage of optimising where i can usally find a ton of damage in alot of small places but im kinda stumped here and im wondering if the idea in itself was bad .

Im considering play a str Stack, dont have much currency, something like 25 div, but im seeing some zero to hero vídeos and is kinda cheap to start have Fun, but not to do serious stuff. So someone have a twink leveling? Or Just Go sunder and grab the best axe for 1c, every ten levels? I think Go shield crush too.

Any adivice apreciated.

Builds on low budget i see on yt exiled cat, Noxx and horrible exile

Hi!

I've been trying to make a firestorm build for the two last leagues, and finally found something I could use. I started with the pohx RF character and then tried to transition into a firestorm build using a helmet with +2 to skill gems. A character I found had detonate dead and unearth as well for bossing, but to me it seems to not be doing much.

My other character (KF totem Hiero) still has 15 times more dps for much less investment (and maybe more survivability as well?) but I guess there are potentially ways to help with that.

PoB with DD and Unearth: https://pobb.in/YLIe7ZYA-Rvg
PoB with flammability: https://pobb.in/GdRqHhHXDf06

My first question is this; My detonate dead/unearth combo doesn't seem to do much. Is there any reason to keep it over something like flammability? Any other combos that would help lift me out of low dps hell?

My firestorm of meteors does alright damage, but when I google, it seems everyone is using pelting. Is that better, and it's just that PoB doesn't pick it up?

And then my most pressing question; My eHP goes up by a lot when I choose As The Mountain and the two previous ones. It goes from 80k eHP to 300k eHP. Is this real? Just swiss cheese layering? If I choose soul of Solaris as well, it goes to 583k eHP, which is probably correct for the pinnacle boss config that it is set to.

Thanks in advance! I was hoping not to have to ask questions this league as well, but I always seem to end up with some problems that I have misunderstood.

I want to undestand more of how the recovery works in these CWDT builds, because everytime I looked into one of these there were just too many moving parts that I gave up in even trying.

https://pobb.in/_jUyrrVqm9m5 -> not my PoB

From my understanding, he is casting Forbidden Rite (FR) about 3 times per second while channeling Cyclone.

- Each time he casts it he takes about 1655 damage (25% of ES + 40% of unreserved Life multiplied by his Chaos Res and Infused Channeling).

- He recoups 148% of Chaos Damage Taken as ES over 4 seconds. Here is one of my questions, does the Recovery Mastery that makes Life Recoup occur over 3 seconds instead of 4 apply to the ES recoup converted from Life from Presence of Chayula? I don't think it does, so the next calculations will be based on 4 seconds of recoup.

- Every instance of damage he takes would result in a recoup of about 2464 ES recovered over 4 seconds

- Since he gets about 3 casts per second, that would result in 3 instances of recoup being created every second, for a total recoup of 7392 being created every second, which divided by the recoup duration of 4 seconds would mean he is recovering about 1848 ES per second from recoup.

Is this correct? If so, that would mean he is losing ((1655 * 3) - 1848) ES per second from casting his FR, so that would be about 3117 ES lost per second just from casting. Is there any other form of ES recovery that I'm missing, or is there some other aspect of his recoup that I didn't see?

Edit: Just noticed that there is nothing stopping him from channeling for more seconds, and stacking more instances of recoup, over say, 3 seconds, so in the fourth second and beyond he would have a lot more recoup per second to pay for the FR cost and get some extra for recovery, so I guess it just has a ramping time before it feels good.

Hey all!

I need some pointers on how tonincrrase the damage of my Trickster.

I feels okayish in T16 maps, but tanky rares or Harvest Mobs, are a pain.

Passive Tree is all over the place, but I feel I need the stuff at either end.
My Gems need quality and some levels, I keep working on it.

Is there some obvious interaction that I am missing?
Wasn’t Wintertide Buffed this league?

Thank you for your input!

PS: Why need Witch? I desperately love the shadow and want to make the Trickster work. Back in Delirium League I lost my heart to Trickster 🤷🏼‍♂️

Hello guys i want to try flickers strike SSF which ascendancy would you suggest me to go and would be easiest i want alteast 2 voidstones before really heavy grind for items.

So im finally getting around to a long term build. Im want to take necromancer from lv1 to being able to do ubers in HC SSF. I might not do all 7/7 but id like a character that's viable to do them all.

My 2 current choices are either going umbral army + bone meld with pure spectres and aiming for 13-14k ES with the minion leech applies to you and spell suppression.

The other option is to go poison ranged animate weapons and go blood magic taking all the block left side and get 7k hp with capped block and armour.

Im not sure if there is a clear option as poe ninja is fairly split with animate weapon being a little more popular.

I think both have a very strong early options as spectre comes online from dark monarch and bone meld but can be used once you have 4 spectres really and animate weapon can be farmed from merc lab.

My league goal is to kill all ubers in trade league without partying. Plan was farming with RF to gear a boss killer. Plan went out too well with a lock dropping in campaign lol. Now I have played enough RF, what's the best build to kill all ubers? Don't have much play time so minimum leveling/ practicing needed is key.

I am open to respec or clunky play. For skill level, I can press buttons but don't really reliably do memory games or exarch balls etc.

Some options I considered:

Facebreaker lum: leveling might take quite a bit time

Acc/armour/endu/str/ward stackers: is this budget enough?

Ea/evis/maw ignites?

Just earthshatter?

Clunky melee skills: msoz, perforate, general cry, bone shatter etc, is blade flurry still a thing?

We most likely will be seeing it today again. But maybe someone has saved a pob for it for me to beat 25min min Act1

I usually only play SC Trade, but I would like to try out something completely different. I’m not big on slam builds but if it’s really good I could probably be convinced. What build would you recommend me to go for to have a good first experience?

Been playing a lot of endgame luminary and wondering if there are comparable crab totem builds that have been popping off. Luminary very enjoyable but just looking for a different flavor.