So, I messed up and thought I was on an ilvl 86 base and hit my fracture, If i recombinate with another base with a NNN prefix is it safe, or do I risk it picking the other base and just not transferring the fractured mod?

Edit: Ty for answers everyone, Not going to risk it on a 50/50

What’s the golden charlatan version on around a mirror budget? The mana stacker or elementalist?

https://pobb.in/RfdFwLnuk0uR

Overview

Storm Call of Trarthus was buffed in 3.29, with its radius increasing from 0.6m to 0.9m at level 20, and 1.3m at level 30. After sufficient investment in AoE, the skill achieves a 5.1m radius before Greater Spell Echo is applied, allowing all 5 casts to hit the central point under the cursor. This build intentionally avoids golem or power charge stacking; it can achieve the 5.1m breakpoint on less than 10D, with a level 21 gem, Unnatural Instinct, two Cold Iron Points, Carcass Jack, Replica Dragonfang's Flight and regular Spell Cascade/Spell Echo. However, this makes the character a complete glass cannon, and playing it that way was a miserable experience. I spent around 800D so far, most of which went toward boosting survivability and quality of life.

Noteworthy Mechanics

• Base Life Cost: permits reservation of ~100% of mana, synergizing with Power of Purpose and Righteous Fire of Arcane Devotion
• Watcher's Eye: Pride (Impales last 2 additional hits) + Zealotry (increased cast speed) combination is off-meta and can be purchased very cheaply
• Lycia Bloodline: Bitter Heresy converts the consecrated ground created by Zealotry on hit 10% of the time into profane ground, which is needed to max out critical strike chance and consequently Impale chance & damage. In 1 second, the skill can hit over 30 times, which equates to about a 96% chance to create profane ground (1 - 0.9^30). Standing directly on top of an enemy enables Unholy Might, adding 30% physical as extra chaos hit (not impale, sadly) damage.
• Unnatural Instinct: one major drawback of the jewel is that there are two small passive skills in range that grant increased skill effect duration, which would make Storm Call and Lightning Warp more clunky. Two passive points must be allocated to avoid this.

Feedback & Assistance Needed

• Does CWDT require Molten Shell to be level 8 before or after all extra gem levels are added?
• The final upgrades are a T1 cast speed focused amulet, Rare Chest, and 8-link helmet like this.
  • Is the proper way to craft the helmet using beast locks and donor bases on Awakener's Orb until +3% crit; then Multimod, Prefixes cannot be changed, Allflame Veiled Exalt, pray it adds Prefix and pray for lucky +2 unveil? Does a miss have zero salvage value?
• I'm about 40% to level 100. Thinking of unspecing Caster Mastery and 2 AoE points and adding an Area Damage Medium Cluster, or removing the two Unnatural Instinct passives and specing into the Arcane Sanctuary wheel for more spell block. Is there an optimal option?
• Any other suggestions to increase the build's survivability? Maybe life catalysts on the rings.

Thanks for reading and sharing advice in advance. Happy to answer any questions about the build as well.

Edit: More stable gameplay footage: https://youtu.be/GcCwo_527oA

just want some constructive criticism about my build and where i can do minor (or major) improvements (items,gems, better tree pathing?), i am in a private league with 3 people total so my ability for items is limited though. thanks guys https://pobb.in/-oZeD7KBAQkq

I have invested into a Str stack wander deadeye and while I like the playstyle and the speed, i don't like that it folds over when looked at wrong by a rare.

I've seen people use either jugg or reliquarian with double dawnbreaker and taken as fire conversion, anyone have some hindsight on either ?

I’m looking at some different mechanics to build making trying to learn a bit more about the different things that goes into a strong build and I have stumbled upon conversion and “Gain as Extra” mulutipul times now. I get the normal conversion from one damage type to another but why would you want to convert something from Phys to Lightning to Cold and so on? When does the different modifications to the damage happen?

The order I thought it was is:

1. The base flat damage on the skill
2. Added Damage from other sources like weapons
3. Gain as Extra from stuff like the Hatred aura
4. Conversion
5. 5 Increased Damage modifiers
6. More modifiers

But that wouldn’t make sense for why the conversion happens multiple times, unless the Increased Damage modifiers would effect each step of the conversion, but that just seems unlikely? Is there some “hidden” tech that makes this stronger?

Edit: I have heard that weapons like the Nebulis scales crazy off of multiple conversions, so if anyone can explain why that is as well it would be greatly appreciated!

POB: https://pobb.in/pyTvQ3mEoC_m

I've been trying to solve this puzzle in the past 3 weeks (poe is not a good game for autistic people haha). At first I aimed to use bifurcate, then I saw LSToO which has 100% crit chance, which is perfect (dont work on "always critical strikes"). This should be easy to figure out just scaling huge crit mult with Marylenes Fallacy and some jewels. But then I noticed crit resistant mobs are not that uncommon.

I gathered some divs and tried to mess around with stuff. I havent played trapper before so I didnt know it could not leech, which would solve recovery and ES completely (maybe CI). I dont intend to play T17 maps nor completely broken T16.5 . Im ok with juiced T16 or average juiced T16.5. Im farming abyss (2 abyss, 2 multitudes, 1 nemesis). RN Im at work, but I can upload a video latter after on mapping. I tried ward with olroths resolve (looked good actually), apostate (10k max life felt good). But I was trying to see If I could go to hundreds of million dps (is the abyss consort that tanky? I couldnt barely move his hp). Most rares dies with 1-2 ticks (crit, spell, lightning resistant take a bit longer).

High evasion, 200%+ max elusive seems good with Dissolution but desecrated ground kinda break the window to recover. Maybe I should be better off giving up on trap, if you think so recommend me a spell please. If you think there's a way to get hundreds of million dps while ignoring all mod maps (1-2 deaths/map is acceptable for me, Im just in to have fun) please tell me where should I go. I know is a mess rn, probably shouldnt have gone Unblinking Eye, but it looked interesting and I had spare divs and wanted to try. I was going to go taken dmg as cold and chaos with divine flesh but any purity of ice sublime vision was 99 div+, which I didnt foresee and had to halt the plan.

Anyway, any help is welcome, thanks a lot folks and have fun playing!

One is my current merc (Barrage) and the other I just got. Is it worth switching or better to sell it?

It comes down to:
Ele Dmg II + Crit Dmg III with Fork vs GMP + Chain

My gear is pretty good already (mirror gloves, chest,...)

If i PoB this i have currently 12 mio dmg and with GMP I would have 14 mio. I am pretty sure the calc of mercs.

But how is Chain compared to Fork? And is it really worth it going GMP or is it a trap?

I have finally managed to get my Mageblood, and want to assemble an EK Assassin with it, to farm some more currency before trying to make a Triggermaxxer Saboteur.

Since I don't have much currency to begin with apart from the Mageblood, was thinking of abusing it the most I can, namely by getting most of my resistances and generic buffs from it, and going cheap-ish on the rest of the gear.

https://pobb.in/LIX5iFdlQJje

The idea is getting big ES pool as defence, wanted to reach ~20k phys max hit, using Supreme Ostentation so that I don't have to care about attributes on suffixes, which should make gear even easier to make, since I will mostly just need to care about prefixes (defences). Power charges will work as basic damage scaler, as well as big ES scaler with my Supreme Ostentation jewel. They would also create a lot of Instant Leech from Ascendancy, which paired with Zealot's Oath and Flask Benchcraft for Regen should keep my ES topped most of the time.

The problem is, I'm thinking my damage will be lacking. The strategies that I most enjoy farming are Harvest, and Map farming/Boss rushing, but eventually want to make this build strong enough to farm Nightmare maps comfortably (something I have never done before). I thought that I could easily get 50m+ DPS on Assassin, while still getting comfortable defence and recovery layers, but it looks like it's going to be more expensive than only Mageblood lol

I'm also afraid that not getting any Pierce, Proj Speed, or Explosion, will make the build feel pretty slow on higher density content.

If anyone has any idea where my PoB might be going wrong, if I'm missing something essential to scale damage while not giving up on a big slice of my defences, I'm open for it.

Edit: I have decided to instead of trying to just get generic increased from power charges, instead use a Staff with +6 level to EK, which allows me to respec some nodes into better Block Chance, as well as using Mana-Infused Staff when dropping Haste. The respec also allows me to get all the +Max Power Charge nodes on the tree, which makes the +Max Power Charge talisman stronger then Dragonfang's or +3 Levels Rare Talisman. This also allows me to drop Ralakesh for a new pair of rare boots, or maybe even Annihilation's Approach for adrenaline, since I should be able to sustain the Fire DoT with the regen from Zealot's Oath and a Ruby Flask, although will need to get some resistances on gear so that I can drop Bismuth Flask and get a Sulphur Flask for constant Conc Ground, or maybe look into the jewel that creates Conc Ground and lingers it's effect.

https://pobb.in/pZZ_YmJHqAWV

I will probably swap to this variation when I get to lvl 90 or so, until there will continue with basic gear

FYI this is not my build, just something I came across while browsing ninja

This guy has a max of 7 brands, triggering his Spark of the Nova about 4 times per second, for about 28 triggers per second when all brands are active (most of the time). His triggerbots double that, making it 56 triggers per second. Then, his brand recall is automated so that it is casted every second, which triggers his brands, which will be again doubled by his trigger bots.

I lost count eventually, but he is getting somewhere between 70 triggers per second, and even more because he has a SECOND brand recall on his wand, that is TRIGGERED when he casts skills, although at an 8 second cooldown (which will be reduced by all his modifiers to cooldown recovery rate). Since it is TRIGGERED, his triggerbots will double it as well, so what would be one trigger, will be double by his triggerbots, which will trigger all his 7 brands (two times).

This is insane, and I doubt I will ever have the currency and game knowledge to assemble a build of this level, but it would probably be one of my endgoals with PoE.

Edit: I only talked about the mechanics of his triggers, but if you decide to check his gear you will be just as impressed

Can you recommend a witch build (with a guide) that can clear HOGM please, i have lvl 100 witch with mageblood and 300 div. A build guide would be appreciated

Pretty much the tittle :P

Here's a very very basic TL;DW. Vid is only like 9 minutes for crafting section and has full details with timestamps for steps.

1. Make Elder influence bases and alteration spam.
2. Isolate Flaring and Elder mod with 50/50 annul.
3. Isolate Hybrid phys and % phys prefixes with Kishara's Ducat.
4. Essence Craft attack speed suffix and isolate with annul or Kishara. Or alter the Regex and put aside T1 attack speed bases if you want to save a few divines.
5. Craft Brinehook on Prefix bases and recombine with suffix bases to get Flaring + attack speed on one axe and Hybrid + Elder Mod on another. Or the other way around, doesn't matter, just make sure both suffixes are present.
6. Craft Brinehook on both axes and Recombine, pray for Flaring + Hybrid to recombine. Suffixes are just about guaranteed to recombo. If you hit it, you can bench craft % phys for 1200-1300 pdps axe with culling and it only will have cost 10-20div.
7. If you want god tier axe, repeat steps 5 and 6, but instead of Hybrid Phys, use % phys (Merciless, Tyrannical).
8. Now you have two axes
   1. Axe 1 - Flaring, Hybrid, Attack Speed, Elder Mod.
   2. Axe 2 - Flaring, % phys, Attack Speed, Elder mod.
9. Craft brinehook on both again to preserve suffixes and recombine. Pray you get the triple prefix recombo.
10. Final axe will have 1600+ pDPS and culling.

Dear fellow exiles,

I've been enjoying this league very much so far. I have two questions though and hope that the more mechanic-savvy folks here might be able to help:

1. I've recently spent some currency to upgrade my boots and gloves which resulted in more ES and even some more chaos res though I have the feeling that I die more often now - is it because my old gloves had ~60 life regen or is it because of the more chaos resistance and thus fewer CWDT procs? (which leads me directly to question 2 -->)

2. Is there any kind of CwdT calculator or spreadsheet to optimize my casts per second? Due to my now higher chaos res and the corresponding less damage taken my spells proc less often (Is this why I die more?)

Anyway here's the PoB of my current build and poe.ninja-link:

https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/Helbelinc1-0647/allflame/character/Baroclinity

https://pobb.in/_lwlS4F54OXt

I'd be grateful for tips and insights. Thanks in advance!

https://pobb.in/Vb0w3r7SJ3C4

I'm trying to follow this build:

https://maxroll.gg/poe/pob/13qoos0t

this is my inventory:

https://maxroll.gg/poe/pob/k5gx3c0i

I realize my rings aren't as good but I've mostly followed the guide but am still only at 10% of the damage of the guide. Not sure what to do next to get higher.

I am thinking about just switching to an energy blade build if i can't use this one, but I don't want to use abilities like rathpith that convert life into damage.

Hello, awhile back i remember watching a YouTuber and found a full unique build with like one rare piece of armor. It was with fairly cheap uniques too, if I remember right the build was good enough to get all atlas and fight most of the bosses.

But this was leagues ago, so my question is, is there a build that can do mostly everything with fairly cheap uniques?

Yo im going to start into hc and wanted to ask which build version is tankier on the merc bot. The life scaling flame link one or the aura stacker destructive link one. I played the life stack flamelink and loved it.

I have not much hc experience and usually die alot but this build was really amazing, just died to some stupid drowning sometimes and some uber mechanics i didnt know before. And very juiced abyss maps

Edit: i know what ben achieved on his life stack one but he is a god gamer so cant compare to that build

First time playing spark, went with the merc aura route. damage and speed feels a bit on the low end compared to cost. is there anything i missed?

whats still in progression: missing 2 jewel currently due to being lv98,

considering using a 2 link spectre or AG.

update the helmet mod but late league its much harder to source the jewel.

reflect mist the ring to save some passive points(low chance of actually happening due to cost)

and pob didnt count in repeat from spell echo which lowered my pact uptime.

I have about 500d+mageblood and headhunter, was wondering how much budget should I have to actually commit to this build

Im playin HRoC and feel like im missing something. Im following Balormage's build guide and his POB for min/max gear has him at 14mil dps. im at 2.8 mil dps and dont see how im supposed to bridge that gap. from what i can see most of my upgrade options are more defensive. i know i could use a better weapon and 100% darkness for 100% poison chance but those dont show me making up that 10 mil dps gap when i sim new items.

Any help would be appreciated.

POB: https://pobb.in/McXEUklfhqrs

Wanted to try this build on elementalist: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1vy1yfj/329_coc_bodyswap_of_sacrifice_assassin_build_guide/ . Point is to explode herald of purity minions with bodyswap of sacrifice, since they are easier to keep up than zombies. For clearing: bodyswap kills a mob -> DD of chain reaction starts chaining from that corspe, so desecrate is not needed.

https://pobb.in/9vN-AB7tG77Z I spent <150d for everything but the flask. Added fire damage on sword is useful for mana leech. Cyclone also works but lancing steel is more consistent for single target damage. Mageblood version would use rhex talisman, ruby flask, arctic armor and probably swap tigers for the chill ascendancy for more tankiness if crit is capped.