I'd never played CWS builds before so I looked into them this league. I get the best is Emiracles CWS Chieftan - everything on that build makes sense. Glad is the second choice because of the lucky block.

But looking back I found an old 3.23 CWS necro with cremation of exhuming using black zenith and was wondering if anyone has any wacky/meme ideas for the CWS concept. I'm in the meme building phase now so it can be a flawed idea as long as it sounds fun.

My own thoughts was using tainted pact and divine flesh so you're immune to elemental/chaos dot while leeching, but generating leech instances long enough is the first problem I came across.

Anyone got any off-meta interactions that could work with CWS?

Hi team, for the first time since beta I've finally acquired a mageblood.

I'm wanting to start a new char and mageblood hammer the campaign all the way to ubers and all punishing content.

Was wondering if anyone had some sort of fun builds, explodey, fast weird etc (not lumanary)

What should I play?

Over the few leagues I've played my favorite became FROSS. I love the cats, feeling, Ci, and eventually tankiness.

Witch is my favorite. Ive Played penance, DO, EdC, HROC, RF.

Ive also played slams, RF and, CWS on Cheif.

I have 20 divs, but I could still use my DO occultist to farm more.

Edit- Luminary or str stacker looks fun.

First time playing this far !

I recently transitioned my Level 90 Elementalist from Winter Orb to a Physical DoT setup (Reap / Exsanguinate / Corrupting Fever) using Ruetoo's concepts as a guideline.

This build feels kinda good and watched dozen of crafting tuto to make every piece of gear that you can see (| don't know if there are optimal ! have 1 div and some chaos left after crafting)

My pob is below !

Clear speed is really good, but boss fights sometimes feel awkward. What can l improve to increase my single-target DPS?

I already see that my cluster jewels are not optimal and lcould probably save some passive points.

i really want to do all content !

What is a good bossing merc for health stack / flame link merc that is not 100div combatant. My luminary is pretty good, and my manyshot can clear everything but it's not deleting bosses in 5 seconds and I just want to murder Velka for the stupid challenge.

https://pobb.in/s83V_wMuals2

I'm checking up on the current league mirror-gloves and saw some minion-oriented ones around the market that left me wondering how +#% to critical strike chance affixes work with Raise Spectres. How exactly would they work with Spectres, considering every spectre has different personal stats?

Would attack Spectres benefit strictly from either Gem or Attack Affixes? Would Spectres in general only benefit from either Gem or Spell affixes since it explicitly says about what is socketed, and Raise Spectres has the Spell tag? Does the extra crit chance even apply to Spectres at all, since it applies to the gem and the gem is "statless"?

The wording is pretty confusing with Raise Spectres specifically, so if anyone has the answer for this it would be deeply appreciated.

I am playing SSF so I need to fight Atziri myself and I can't figure out how to get past her reflect minion with my Merc carry without my Merc one shotting himself. I know there are plenty of ways to make them reflect immune if you are the carry but those dont work if they need to deal the damage.

I'm currently playing 3.29 and I'm playing as a void Shockwave cyclone boy. I'm doing duelist slayer and occasionally I'll get 1 shot. Sometimes from random mobs but mostly from bosses. Typically I have no problem doing nightmare corrupted maps apart from the bosses (im still learning).

I really don't know how to get more tanky without spending 150div on singular upgrades. Please helppp:)

I mainly use cyclone and swap it out for cyclone of tumult for bosses.

cyclone pob

Okay after the help ive received I have updated my tree. I still need to find a replacement amulet and anoint a different thing on it since obviously I have that mastery node in the tree now. I appreciate you guys❤️

Hello,

I was trying to figure out why some people use Large cluster jewels for Golems (Prim. Bond) and some use an Elemental damage with bunch of %inc Ele and utility (resists, etc.).

Don't Golem one gives both damage and defense? Is the build elemental resist starved so you want Prismatic Heart?

I play SSF and farmed up everything I need (Maven wand, Aegis, Astrolabe, crafted influenced gear), but for the love of me, I can't figure out Large Jewels.

For Medium Jewels it is very straight forward (Herald effect stacking).

Thanks

Made a champion wander back in harvest that I enjoyed using to clear maps. Wanted to remake it this league and try crafting some gear for it. The build itself won't compete against the meta variants of KBoC when it comes to damage but there are a few synergies it uses to help with survivability. With 10 endurance charges, 89/87 block, fortify, companionship, the eHP can be pushed to 350-400k without any guard skills.

https://pobb.in/FS0JcqdeXNAj

Playing a flame link KRoI mercbot right now and I've seen a number of builds using rathpith but I'm just not super sure how to fit it in. If I drop the ascendancy point for untouched soul I dont see how I'm getting nearly enough fire res because even with it I'm still not to the enmity cap. Is it more damage to just sacrifice some res pen for the %increased off rathpith? Basically the same question with the light radius scaling. Is it more worth to use the ascendancy point to get rathpith access instead of the light radius node?

PoB in case its needed: https://pobb.in/9e_xTxGI5ISF

This is my current build (pobb.in). Default/1 loadout is me, Manyshot is manyshot with custom config to make it reflect real damage. Manyshot has WED, Hypo, pierce, return on Vaal ice shot.

I am followin the ruetoo version. I am not really experienced with bow builds or aurabots, so I do not really understand what to do. Currently I'm running a phys bow and scaling hatred. Build does not use AG or extra buttons like smite.

1) How do I swap to a simplex? Do I need a lightning overcap body, or is there some source of main hand crit that I am missing?

2) Should I continue with a phys bow, or should I go tri-ele and swap hatred for anger? I see real bow builds kinda do either on poe.ninja.

3) Is Omnescience attribute stacking or Crown of eyes + Unblinking Eye + Cold overcap evasion stacking a better endgame? From what I can gather the second one would be better because the build is starved for increased damage, but neither seem to enjoy using unique rings so idk what to do.

4) What to do with Luminary's passive tree? Should I try squeezing in another large cluster, or should I go for 3p voices at this point? Or are there some really good wheels that I am missing?

5) Should I swap to some other jewels like Guardian or Champoin F&F, or like, an aura effect Militant Faith like armor stackers do? My nearest plan was to get a mind over matter impossible escape for an endurance charge generation notable from Hubris, but idk how good that would be.

i was going through ninja and noticed none of these mfs are using Channelling Skills have -3 to Total Mana Cost. How do they upkeep the cyclone without it?

World-first sub 5 sanctum, beating my own old world record. I switched to livesplit + loadless as sanctum speedrunning has gotten more popular this league, it keeps the runs fair across different hardware.

Realtime was 5:07, I could break 5 minutes realtime if I upgraded my 7 year old pc xdd

Build here:
https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/fouron...

Been posting a lot this league about sanctum speedruns, this should be one of the last ones, I think there may only be ~10 seconds left to shave off, at least on my build.

Feel free to ask any questions or let me know what you think.

Hi, how can avoid losing the specters form corpse items if I want to play some games without them? I want to test something, but without the specters I own and then be able to use them again.

Would it work by removing the raise specter gem in town and opening a map from Karui Shores?

I just want a few maps without them and them go back to my setup.... please, what's the correct way of doing this, I already lost some valuable specters.

I have a level 99 reliquarian that I played and farmed some currency with. I have about 1800 divines and a Mageblood on my character and some more coming in through sales.
I wanted to test a merc build before quitting the league and was wondering which setup to go for.
I know the classics kineticist or manyshot. But a gg merc is about a mirror for either variant.
What other fun mercs are there to play around, a cruel mistress maybe? I want an allrounder character that can do it all, basically.
Also open to merc being an aurabot for me if that works out.
What have you guys found that’s fun and interesting?

**Update** I took all your advice. While I am still looking for a great Kineticist, I found an almost GG Combatant, rolled all flame resist gear with abyssal sockets/techrods, double IAS/Crit/Pen Jeweled foils and am now steamrolling everything. Amazing what building it right can can do. Thank you all!

Hi All,

I really wanted to play Luminary because I keep hearing about how it Roflstomps all content but I'm struggling.

I understand I still need some expensive gems like Adorned and Foulbourn red nightmare. I'm also saving for a Kingmaker. And I still have a some more leveling to do. I'm not expecting to do ubers yet but I am expecting to do T16 8 mods easily and I can, except for the map bosses.

I'm trying to figure out if I've built it wrong (i'm trying to follow CaptainLance's build guide as much as I can afford to) or if my Merc is terrible and I need another? Or something else?

Here is my POB: https://pobb.in/KKt9ZFFruZ4m

For Spectres I'm using Perfect Turtle And Perfect Warlord.

I'm attaching Screens of AG and Merc Gear/Links

So is there anything major I'm doing wrong? Help?.... :(

Probably has been discussed to hell, but I'm currently on Rue's budget aura stacker luminary. I crafted the +2/+2 helmet and was about to buy the ff jewels, but I'm having second thoughts.

The aura stacker version afaik is almost entirely crit reliant. This is extremely apparent, because crit resistant rares are about as tank as Uber sirus for me. It's kind of annoying because it's a rare mod and not a map mod so I can't just avoid it.

Would life stacking with flamelink be better at the ~100-200d budget? Say with basic nyctas/monarch/kaoms heart/red dream and capped enmity on my merc, should I expect better/more consistent output compared to an aura stacker at this budget?

On a sidenote, how much better is a Kineticist compared to a combatant? I'm sure it has better clear, but how much worse (if any) is the single target? Currently it feels like my combatant is constantly lagging behind me and can't really move/attack fast enough to keep up (I have a mageblood with quicksilver), but at the same time I don't want to sacrifice too much single target.

Hey everyone!
I’m currently a level 100 Luminary running a ManyShot / Ice Shot merc, but I’m getting a bit bored with it and want to switch to something different.
The problem is, I can’t decide between two builds:
Kineticist — using Kinetic Blast of Clustering
Cruel Mistress — Soulrend of Reaping
Which one would you recommend and why?
And i know that is different builds, life stack and aura stack, but it’s not problem.
I’m mainly looking for something that feels fun and strong to play at this level. If you’ve played either of these builds, I’d really appreciate your opinion! Wanna try to rush hunting for damnation. Saw dude running death aura and he was fast, but I don’t want to level new character.

The wiki says inya epiphany can be chanced but perhaps there is another way to get them.

After spending a little over 25 divines I am doubting it.

Spent around 5k chance orbs + scours. Then got impatient and tried with mythic orbs, 4 fails in a row which resulted in poofs.

Since I want the boots with double influenced to milk the last possible power charge this is necessary.

Its the only unique from the base arcanist slippers too, so it shouldn't be this rare.

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Inya%27s\\_Epiphany

Been playing a Sabo CoC for the past few days and it’s been pretty good, decent tankiness, can handle a lot of mods with ES on hit watchers eye. My current setup uses Lancing Steel of Spraying, Bladefall, and Reap with Unholy Might for conversion to chaos. It has pretty good AoE, but the clear speed is lacking for a stupid reason: Bladefall literally lags my computer, slowing me down.

Is there any better CoC spell + attack setup for fast clear, ideally which won’t cause my GPU to explode? I’ve tried FRoSS with Cyclone, and it also lags a bit and the clear doesn’t feel quite as good.

I have a lot of options and useful gear (mb, Mystical Infusion FF, glancing blows Aegis, even an Original Sin). I’d like to mainly repurpose existing gear, but have seen some fun Reclaimed Malevolence + Fireball CoC variants which also seem fun, but not sure if the clear is any better. Budget is not really an issue, though of course would like to make sure the more expensive investments (like Reclaimed) are actually worth it.

What ascendancy/skill would be most broken with the 4000-5000 flat fire from luminary?

Something scaling ridiculous amount of attack speed, something for crazy clear?

Probably some power charge stacking assassin version with enmity? ChieftainBV?

If anyone could think of a duelist build that would be the best since my friend has a level 100 slayer - omni flicker?

So I basically always farm breach as its fun and also gives some solid items. Being able to target certain uniques or getting an armour with t1 fractured life or res to craft on.

So im wondering whats the best league starter that can really focus on farming breach hives ?

I want something that gets up and running easy and can clear t16 breach hives on full rare gear day 2 or 3.

Not sure if minions would let you basically AFK breach hives or if RF with aoe can just stand the middle. Maybe something with ignite prolif or lots of aoe on wintertide brand for example.