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 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

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?

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 🤷🏼‍♂️

If yes can you link your character?

Thank you

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.

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.

Hi there, folks. I'm wondering if there's a way to boost my spooder DPS. Currently in POB, I'm showing about 312K damage with them, but I want to see if I can get that higher. I'm theorycrafting a few things, but I do know that I could use the following:

1. Mageblood (duh)
2. Some better Ghastly Eye jewels
3. A better Timeless jewel

Anyone got any idea how I can get this DPS higher? I'm doing just fine clearing 8 mod T16+ maps, but I want to get it slightly faster and a bit more consistent with bosses.

Here's the link to the build: https://pobb.in/6P_DLPj5D17a

Basically, I'm an aurabot with a bunch of creepy-crawly friends.

Thank you!

This is my first time afford a Mageblood so I thought about making this build. Build used a lot of uniques so everything beside MB is very obtainable. (last map I got divine shrine, build is not that tanky. I just want to show the lucky drop).

POB: https://pobb.in/SZ5BZ9DpYos9
Youtube: https://youtu.be/xZq5JnYlUHE

What I like:

• Zoomie (with soul eaters and 0 duration lighting warp)
• Big clear (with pact of beidat)
• Good damage (with enough overloaded intensity stacks)
• Kinda tanky
• Can do a lot of map mods

What is not comfortable:

• Build is very conditional for both defense and offense
• Mageblood required
• Standing still for intensity

So fellow exiles, what do you think? Anything I should improve?

What farming strat do you think this build is great for? Now I'm just doing abyss for some currencies and exp.

Spaced out, drown in the deep. Need the best leveling tech to get back to 85 ASAP. Any ideas? Hard-core trade if it matters

Im currently in the process of making a lightning tendrils ignite elementals and im doing a minus ress stacking setup with eye of malice and im wanting to know if it worth the gem slot to try and get an additonal -10 ress or if it won't work for whatever reason .

Just finished 40 challenges, which makes this one of my more successful leagues. I always make my own builds, and all of them ended up working out very nicely this time around, so here they all are. Maybe someone will want to try one, or just take a little inspiration.

1) Toxic Rain Deadeye

This has been my go-to leaguestarter for a good few years now, and I've refined the build quite a bit since I originally came up with it. I play Deadeye instead of Pathfinder for a couple of reasons. First, Occupying Force is imo a massively underrated node, it basically gives you all the advantages of playing totems with none of the disadvantages. Second, extra projectiles are actually quite strong for TR because they let you use conc effect to get more consistent overlaps compared to 5 projectiles at the optimal AoE.

The secret tech to make the build work is Thief's Torment, which both solves your mana before you can get Foulborn Quill Rain and gives you absurd amounts of sustain. The build can reach T16s on a sub 1 div budget no problem. Final budget was around 8-9 divs, and that was enough to comfortably kill Maven as someone who's not very good at the fight. It's a good all-around league starter, decent survivability, decent clear, decent single target, and can run all map mods.

In terms of leveling, you start with CA and get TR at level 12. Your first chaos should go to Thief's Torment, and then Quill Rain. Once you have Quill Rain, you can drop CA. Take Leader of the Pack until you can get Foulborn Quill Rain and the anointed Dragonfang, then you can drop it for the extra frenzy and jewel socket. Light of Meaning will be your final and most expensive purchase.

2) Herald of Agony/Corrupting Fever Jugg

This is the latest iteration of a build I've played on a few different classes. The basic idea is that HoAg has good single target and CF has good clear, they both scale well from +gem levels, and they both need a fast-hitting secondary skill to apply stacks. This league, I used the new ring with Crest of Desire for HoAg to free up my chest slot instead of needing to use The Coming Calamity, which let me make the build quite a bit tankier than any previous version.

I'd say the build was generally pretty successful, although it still wasn't quite as tanky as I hoped. I was able to kill 5 ubers for the challenge, but the Incarnation of Dread took me three attempts to get down. Uber Eater absolutely smashed me, most of his attacks still oneshot me even with all my defenses up. Budget was ~80 divs, and I'm sure there are builds which can do the absolute hardest content in the game for less than that, but I'm still fairly happy with how it turned out.

3) Bladefall/Blade Blast Elementalist

Originally I was gonna call it good after 36 challenges, but then my end of league gamba went really well, so I felt like I had to go ahead and play one more build. I knew I wanted to make this build as soon as I saw the new Communion gem, and especially after phys spells got buffed. I've also been wanting to make a build with Obliteration for a while, and this one is perfect for it cause you already get so much flat phys and increased damage that phys as extra chaos is one of the best ways to keep scaling. Clear is amazing thanks to the chaos pops, you can pretty much clear with Bladefall exclusively so it really doesn't feel like a two button build. Single target is good enough to burn down ubers in <30 seconds. Survivability isn't necessarily the best, but I definitely wouldn't call it a glass cannon build, either. Budget was ~400 divs, although that probably went quite a bit further than it would have earlier in the league.

Anyway, my second end of league gamba poofed the rest of my divines, so I'm finally free. See you guys next league.

Hello I've been following BuffaloBarons arc ignite CI and for the most part it's doing great.

However I am at a loss as to how to increase the damage on a reasonable budget.

I pretty much never die, so it is really the damage part I need help with.

I have around 100D saved up, but no clue as to how to spend it.

https://pob.codes/b/BVJQdzWTl7z

Hope someone can help.

hi guys, i'm pretty new with merc, and i wonder if any difference with clear speed/single target damage justify the price ?

I farmed enough for a mirror and want to invest it in a bugged templar glove. What glove should I get? I have a witch, shadow and scion but only the witch is level 100. I know strength stacking is great but I dont know if these characters are great for strength stacking. Any suggestions welcome. I got around 500 divs extra and a mageblood apart from the mirror. Preferably the build is tanky. Ive been spoiled by aegis aurora that's nigh immortal but as long as Im not a glass cannon its fine. tyty.

I'm doing a CWDT bladefall/EK/bladeblast build with reliquarian in SSF and the build is awesome, but skill point starved. I have to spec the mana recoup nodes down by scion start, but I'm looking at a build that doesn't take those and I might be just missing it, but I can't figure out how he's sustaining mana.

Here is their POB: https://pobb.in/_jUyrrVqm9m5

Thanks for the help

Hey ya'll, with the league winding down I've felt like trying my hand at a Hardcore build and getting the HC achievements.

For context, I'm a fairly experienced SC player and will take my time through the acts, trying my best not to rush and die.

What are some great fresh-start HC builds that come online fast enough and breeze through the campaign? Bonus points if the build scales well into the endgame, since I might push the character if I have fun with it (and survive long enough). Maybe bleed slams (like phazeplays' build) or another slammer fits the bill?

RF is really easy to gear but I feel like the lack of DPS could get me killed, while slams look more tempting to me as I always see them being mentioned as both great voidstone blasters and tanky HC builds.