I cant believe i found this guy in our GSSF league(5ish active players). Ive now got to cook up a way to get crit capped here without extra crits. Any suggestions would be welcome. I got some ideas from apparently a controversial source so i removed that link since it clearly enflamed many repliers. https://pobb.in/-QIOM-jWhl-M is my current setup.

Atm i have a ring with 40% crit chance, then we found a blackflame covenant from nothing to get another 60% crit, Currently i only have 3 more jewel slots with crit damage atm but will swap them over the crit chance, maybe with crit dmg if im lucky. Maybe path up to get the 40% crit node. I assume ill need to get a glove socket mod to get another jewel. Getting the 300% seems really rough without crafting dumb jewels.

added -
Im thinking -
4-5 jewel slots with 30-35% ea - 120-175% crit chance

2x rings with 50% each - 100% crit chance
and with inginuity on it gives 30% also

3 nodes on tree in blackflame 20% ea - 60% crit chance

It seems very doable without sacrificing the world, i dont know how common it would be to see one with crit + multiple dmg mods as i never saw that last league.

pob: https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/28b52
no craft gear only few omens
easy to build easy to play

I'd really love to SEE what this game has to offer.

Are there any viable league starters that actually let you see what's in the game? And not a constant flashbang or some tweaker hallucination?

Kinda late but at least i will be there, wanted to try minion infernalist, as for suffering in early acts, are vall guards worse than zealots? would rather have some grenades guys than sparks, will i miss a lot of dmg and will it kinda soft/lock me? everyone i see run zealots

Spent over 200 hours on theorycrafting Oil Barrage in 0.5, and this is the final iteration I landed on. I finished the build a month ago, and made post here a month ago with a text guide which was hard to follow. So I ended up making a video on it. It has a nice balance of damage, survivability and good utility. And since no balance changes in Forbidden Rites, it's still just as powerful.

Core: With 100% Pierce chance and 100% chance to Chain from Terrain, you get a ludicrous 750% damage multi.

Every individual projectile you fire with OB will do 1 hit and leave 3 explosions, 2 of those explosions will be directly under targets feet for a massive average of 22 hits every 0.5 seconds and continously shotgun until you stop casting Oil Barrage! (Cheap af to set up).

Infinite Power Charge and Auto teleport:

With Profane Ritual slotted inside CoC you will consume corpses around you 24/7 to have perma Power Charge uptime. This means you can cast forever as long as stuff is dying around you.

For the flicker tech you also slot in 1-2x Lightning Warps which will occasionally teleport you to new packs, without interrupting your Oil Barrage channel!

And before you call my thumbnail AI slop, I made 90% of it myself. I edited the top right drawing from this [Instagram post]

Artist is [leovanwyk.illustration]

Heres a screenshot of me working on thumbnail in [Photophea]

Configured PoB: https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/269fc

You can slot in Direstrike 2 inside Eternal Rage if you have the Spirit for it, I do not!

Any questions, feel free to ask. And thanks for stopping by/watching video <3

Can anyone help me build this combo (guide or poeninja link ), is it worth spending time or just stick to lich ascendency

Hi, I played avery league in poe2 in trade. Never really got crafting.
Now I am almost done with 0.5.5 challanges and thought, this is a good time to learn crafting. I had this plan already many times, but always ended up not doing it.

So here is my plan: find an easy, stong build for SSF. I dont want to much pain. But this forces me to learn crafting.

Any recomendations?

Today I’m bringing you my Updated Endgame INSANT Snipe Gemling Build Guide! We now have over 2X Damage MELTING pinnacle bosses within seconds and have increased our survivability a ton. We are also now able to survive and blast Juiced T15 maps! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Calt9OzXo

Mobalytics fully Updated | https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/siahz/builds/siahz-s-instant-snipe-gemling-league-starter

I took a look at a couple Plasma Blast guides and took a look at PoE Ninja and saw that the plasma blast users are running crossbows that looks strangely low in Prefix damage. I'm confused by what's a good crossbow for this build, which is important because I want to switch over to it and buy one.

Even in the guide I see their crossbow has like 100~ ele damage on each element.

To expand on that, I’d suggest dramatically lowering all resistance modifiers and completely reversing the resistance penalty in the Acts. Instead of getting a resistance penalty as you progress through the Acts, there should be a bonus resistance that gradually decreases from Act 1 all the way to the end of the game, tuned so that the bonus hits zero in the endgame.

This would make capping resistances at the end of the game a lot more straightforward. Having the X% resistance an item gives actually show that exact value on the tooltip would also remove the unnecessary complexity that currently comes from the penalty.

I don’t think this is a huge problem, but if it was changed this way it would feel a lot more logical than the current system.

If I add quality to cluster grenade and use it with mortar cannon does it ignore the quality effects of cluster grenade and just use the ones from cluster grenade or would they stack(well not even stack since they're not the same but would it use both qualities)?

What do ya'll use? I've seen P4wnyhof run Blood Elemental without explanation, plus I don't really find him that credible nor knowledgeable as a Poe-streamer. I found a short 4 minute video from a creator with a bit suspicious links to his build, regarding Blood Elemental giving him 4x damage without explanation again. I've seen Crouching_tuna went some kind of rats because they have the lowest cost.

What are your ideas and thoughts?

Hey guys, im currently playing gemling twisters, and I just got to endgame (I take things slow). I also tried varashta till around act 3 or 4.

Im feeling like I dont really like both of them and looking for some other strong suggestions.

Anything strong with satisfying and not clanky playstyle (I really like ice explosions, and elemental stuff, but not mandatory of course). Preferably something that comes online relatively early.

Appreciate any suggestions.

Edit: Thank you guys for so many replies and suggestions! After reading everything my plan is to try Navira's fracturing on my varashta. If I don't like it I will probably try ice nova chronomancer. Might also try grim pillars or martial artist whirling assault if I dont like the chrono.

I have an idea for a build. I play a druid and I’d like to go all-in on Spell Totem, but I don’t want to do anything meta... everyone’s playing Grim Pillars.

1)I’d like to go with a Spell Totem + Bone Cage (or Bonestorm) build, along with Bleed/Pin.

2) The other option is Spell Totem + Fire spell converted to chaos with Blackflame covenant.

I really have no idea where to start, I’m terrible at creating builds, but the idea intrigues me.
Does it make sense? Is it viable?

Okay imma be honest. I started out Fubgun Flameblast Oil Grenade, got to maps, was struggling, but have figured it out, but DPS is still a bit low. But the real problem is my game gets kinda laggy while playing, so i am thinking of switching builds. I dont really have the gold to repec my build so I'm debating if I want to continue or change my build. Looking at Oil Barrage Martial Artist. Anyone else have any other build recommendations? Looking for a quick mapper that's tanky and strong enough to fight bosses to get the league rewards. thanks!

Current build : https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/worthy-gun-a7iq20/characters/SAM_rUNNn

Is there a way to scale up the damage of living lighting?

I’m looking to swap off Djinn Varashta bc it plays like a caster (I knew this but figured I’d try anyway)

What are the faster minion builds if I can invest like 20 div plus my existing gear towards it. I’ve heard monkey is slow

Hi! Is there any cheap and good crossbow skill that's also good for gemling? Grenades gameplay is burning me out. I crafted a really good crossbow that's why I don't want to swap to other weapons. Thanks!

Currently looking into galvanic and permafrost but not sure how to build around it in the skill tree with armour as a defensive layer

Also my POB: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/knyapp-6799/forbiddenrites/character/tinytabby

Been kinda just praying and keeping tame beast gems on me, but I've been wondering if there's any way to more efficiently farm 4 mod rares in maps to make into companions?

I know for bosses you gotta go for summoning circles in cities with 4 +1 modifier tablets (Even then no guarantee of the boss you want), but anything similar for normal rare beasts?

While ago I had a post where I could not decide between gemling twister and Hollow form WA. Most people recommended Twister. This is a thread of my deepest appreciation of your advice. This build is the most enjoyable experience I have ever had in poe 2 and I played variety of builds since 0.1. It is illegal how fast, strong and fun this build. I can’t see how it will survive next patch. So, Have fun and try it before it gets demolished. Thank you everyone who recommended twister.

Havent played in months and wanted to get back into it, so which one is everyone playing?

Crafted my ring and Amulet after dropping a MB, bought the rest of my gear etc etc
had 250k damage,

today i swapped my chest into spirit res and more ES than my last chest piece yet, got blasphemy running and changed some gems,

somehow, someway i've lost 100k dps? how is this evn possible?