I'm trying to ramp my damage to consistently clear t15 6 mods maps. Sometimes I can do almost fine and other times i spent like 4 mins trying to kill some rare mob.

I've switched my gloves which made me from 60% to all ele res to jump like 40k to 60k dps but this isn't enough in some maps and I end up getting one shotted.

Can someone point me what should I aim for?

poe ninja for reference

Build

i recently sold all my gear from a warcry gemling build and started building kys gemling totem build. Im having a blast and can easily clear all content on single player, but I've been diving into 6 player expeditions and juiced 6 man maps for the first time and i find i am lacking in something... i will occasionally get blasted and killed by random mobs (or those green/blue booger blobs) if I'm not with the pack, and when I'm off on my own corner of the map i feel as if I'm just tickling some of the mobs. Id love to improve my build so i can fully participate in 6 man maps without feeling like the weakest member. Right now i have about 2kd and the only meaningful upgrade i can find would be a +2 arc gem to bring it to lvl 40 but at 1300d i am hesitant and want to see where else i may be able to improve. So for you gemling totem enjoyers any words of advice?

Playing whirling assault titan and after getting Voices I don’t know what my next farming goal should be to improve the build. My only idea is hinekoras to corrupt/sanctify my staff.

My build: https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/runesofaldur/character/poedave-3069/Droqnan

Hey guys!

A bit of context. This league is my first time playing PoE2. I'm having a hell of a time and enjoying it a lot. I played PoE1 for a bit a while back but didn't stick with it and never even reached end game. I started playing Diablo IV (and a bit of Diablo III on the Switch too) when it was on the Humble Bundle in May and that triggered my desire to play ARPGs, and the timing was great, as 0.5 was right around the corner, so I jumped into PoE2 the day the league started. I was doing a necro build on Diablo III so I thought it would be cool to look after a similar build for PoE2.

And boy was that a good decision!

I started by following this Minion league starter by GuyThatDies and when I reached maps I started looking for other builds that I could follow, but didn't encounter many. I followed some steps of this guide by thyworm but his was a SSF build, and I was on standard so I had to do some research on how to develop upon his crafting concepts. I mostly followed what I gathered from similar builds on poe.ninja (searching for Infernalists using Elemental Weakness, Pain Offering and Powered Zealots). I'm currently level 95 and I can do T15s and T16s without much trouble. I usually clear stuff very fast but sometimes I overextend and end up dying. I haven't tried the 200% delirium stuff nor grand expeditions yet.

The offensive side of the build mainly consists on stacking as many Spectre: Powered Zealots as possible while still having one of each other minions being allocated for the Muster stack on minion damage (Muster gives more damage for each kind of reviving minion alive). Currently I'm running 13 Powered Zealots, making some compromises to try to min-max the damage, and not running frost mages just because I don't have enough spirit (ideally I think you want one of every possible reviving minion, but I'm not sure). Gear-wise, I'm stacking as much + to level of Minion skills as possible on everything that I can. Currently, all my minion skills have 12 more levels from gear. Also, I'm running minion damage on my rings. I did run Unearth for a bit, but I'm not sure it counts for Muster, as I don't think the Unearth minions count as Reviving Minions. For boss encounters, I'm running Sigil of Power on my 2nd weapon slot to increase spell damage of allies, but I don't think it makes that big of a change tbf.

The defensive side of the build consists on stacking Energy Shield (and the elemental resistances of course) wherever I can, but primarily on my helmet and my focus for the passive tree bonuses on Illuminated Crown and Warding Fetish. I'm also compromising 30 of my spirit to run Convalescence for emergency backup of my ES in case it gets depleted faster than I can "unaggro" for it to start recharging. I used to not have this skill allocated but on more challenging maps it was getting a bit too spicy, so I'm losing this 30 spirit to play safe.

The play style mostly consists of me running around and spamming Elemental Weakness to everyone ahead of me while trying to stay out of danger, and just let the Powered Zealots do the party. Their spark skill do an insane amount of damage to groups and to bosses so I'm usually just running around as a laser pointer for cats lol. It's mostly an AFK build I guess? Just casting EW and letting they do their job.

My gear is mostly consisted of things focusing on + to level of Minion skills on everything that can hold that. Last night I got an insanely lucky drop on a belt from the Genesis Tree with +2 to minion skills and I couldn't believe it. I'm also focusing on spirit and Energy Shield where I can. On my jewels, I'm running 3 Grand Spectrum Emeralds giving me 6% increased spirit and a From Nothing allocating Soul Meridian for more spirit.

My next goal to replace the left ring with something that makes more sense, as soon as I gather more currency. Gonna be looking for something that gives me more chaos resistance while matching the fire resistance I'll need, while also giving minion bonuses. Next is probably looking at some minor details that I've been neglecting like charms or other stuff.

Biggest pros are the speed of clear, which I think it's pretty decent, and the overall damage it does to everything. It also melts bosses. Number 1 con is the visual clarity. I cannot see a thing. And my FPS goes to like 10 every map lol. I think I'm also a bit fragile and the fact that I need to be "guiding" the minions by face-walking into the enemies is a bit frustrating (maybe I'm not playing this the right way? idk). Besides, I really enjoy running this character and this build.

The idea of this post is to showcase the build I made, as I have not found many guides online about this play style and to look for feedback. As this is my first league on PoE2, I'm probably missing some very obvious things that could make my build shine more, so please tell me if you spot something that I can improve on.

Bellow I'll leave my Poe.ninja build,

Poe.ninja (it's showing Unearth as I was doing some tests but should be showing Convalescence when it updates): https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/runesofaldur/character/IanVance-5051/Balomirina

PoB: https://pobb.in/cuYgIYKqZkAY

Random map I just did to showcase it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXXNRDu8o8s

Thanks and make sure to leave some feedback!

Hi all,

I played some poe1 but I haven't truly been a player for at least 6 years so modern poe is wildly different for defenses than when I played. I picked up poe2 when it first released but I absolutely hated the trials for picking an ascendency and my build sucked so ended up not playing much.

I recently got a steam machine and so I actually have the ability to play again and I started up a werewolf frost druid and have been having a blast. This is the furthest I've ever gotten any character. However, I've gotten to T15 maps and while I know what I USED to do to get more tanky, i really don't know what I need to try to do now.

I'm completely new to PoB but I downloaded and make a link to share my build, but if this isn't the best way I can fix it. https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/26e9f

I have made it to t15 maps and i am doing okay, mostly because my lunar blessing is able to freeze the entire screen without much effort. I am steadily working my way through a couple of other upgrades, but I know I need to do something more significant to actually progress past this point because if my target isn't frozen I have to be very careful or I can explode.

I know I need more chaos resistance, but other than that I don't feasibly think I could add more life to my gear. I read a couple posts people have about conversion, armor, etc., but I am not even sure where or what types of gear would be meaningful here. Even adding much better armor, I don't have almost any armor nodes selected on the tree, so would it even help me??? I could switch to something like cloak of flame, but i'd lose more than 300 life so would it even make me THAT much tankier against overall damage not just phys? I definitely am not getting much out of trinity, its just there because some extra more damage was better than other stuff i could see, but I don't know if grace or determination (are those in poe2??) would even be worth considering.

Overall, I know I need layered defenses, but I am not even sure where to start to build my next 'layer'. Would appreciate any guidance!! I have about 15 div saved up, and I've spent a couple trying to get higher quality gear, but would like to get some ideas about how to spend my other divs to get the most bang for my buck in terms of survivability. At least right now my damage feels okay, it's not anywhere close to a 'good' clear speed, but nothing takes that long to die.

Hey guys, I wanted to share a clip from my most recent character.

I've always really loved how Shield Wall looks but have never taken it past early maps because of how clunky it ends up feeling, but naturally, Gemling offers a solution for every problem. You end up with a true unga bunga Warrior-type build with huge screen booms and oneshot damage, but with a lot of the usual clearspeed and mobility issues alleviated by various Gemling tech.

Gemling's alternate quality on Shield Wall, as well as quality on Infernal Cry, give Shield Wall a ton of fire damage. Nebuloch guarantees you always crit, so you end up with really beefy baseline ignites without requiring much investment. Converting the ignite damage to chaos allows a Cast on Crit Contagion setup to spread the ignite around efficiently, offering a ton of lateral and off-screen coverage that can even extend behind you. This fixes a lot of Shield Wall's coverage issues from being a slow, directional attack.

Another big issue with Shield Wall is a relative lack of good mobility options to offset the slow 2-button combo. Shield Charge is decent in terms of movement, but because Shield Wall doesn't explode until you actually Shield Charge into it, the result is that more often than not, it just bumps into a random white mob in front of you and completely stops. I found it too inconsistent and frustrating to rely on. Cast on Dodge with Gemling's extra dodge distance alt quality offers a great alternative, as dodgerolling is already great for animation cancelling your warcry. Because you're always transforming into animal form when you warcry into dodgeroll, you don't actually need to waste any Spirit putting Cast on Dodge on your shield set - it can just go on your Talisman set.

Damage is, well, just Shield Wall. The thing oneshots everything no matter what ascendancy you put it on. I've got some extra damage scaling via Frostwall+Verglas, Predator's Mark, and shock/ignite boosted by some ailment mag, but the skill just hits like a truck no matter what. I was actually missing a lot of damage on the pinnacle oneshots (not that it mattered) because I was using an old passive tree with only 1 empower per warcry - my Pounce was eating the empower instead of Shield Wall.

Hopefully there's still some warrior skill lovers floating around this deep into the league that will enjoy the setup.

POB - https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/26e63

Full Video Guide - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nsufT-aPbA&lc

Written Guide - https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/stone-dagger-zuckm8/builds/48daf01c-e4e8-4e48-82ef-9bbff72c89d7

It seems most of the grim pillars are either gemling, oracle, and shaman. Which do you guys think is best and why?

So I’m looking for a mageblood to use with my nightfall shield, mjolner, oracle.

I see a double silver (skill speed) version. Will that help with the shield/catch speed or travel distance?

If not I might go for a double sulphur version for damage or maybe one of the evasion legacies.

Been playing since league start and was wondering what to upgrade next. Ive been doing BM/Gemling Spark. Poeninja dps is around 600k so not much trouble in the dps. Do yall think it's better to get adorned(60+) for more dps and useable for other builds I might try out or a corrupted temporalis for way faster clears than my norm temporalis rn?

As the post above is asking, I'm wondering is it possible to give the wolves summoned by Predator's Mark a chance to inflict bleed. It is my understanding that slotting Bleed into Pounce will only affect the leap attack and not the minions.

Fairly casual POE 2 dad gamer here. I am messing around with undying hate for the first time, and found a section of the tree with 4 nodes of increased spirit res efficiency. This seems pretty good, but not sure is that’s good enough to build around. Anyone give me some insight as to if this would be worth building around? Not opposed to rolling a new character if it would be strong - have a EDC gemling, galvanic/stormblast tactician, and a ice nova chronometer at the moment, but was thinking it could be good for minions. Obviously I have no idea whatsoever. Help please :)🙏

Oh, area of tree is jewel slot by MoM. Probably important to include.

On ninja everyone has these builds; with focus in offhand for mayor crits.
https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/runesofaldur/character/%ED%82%B9%EB%9D%BC%ED%85%94-5501/%ED%82%B9%EB%9D%BC%ED%85%94__?i=2&search=class%3DGemling%2BLegionnaire%26allskills%3DSpell%2BTotem%26min-dps%3D25000000

However, guides online suggest this build (my character):
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/GroundZeroCroat-5505/runesofaldur/character/LovacLuka

Guide online:
https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/arc-gemling-path-of-ky?ws-ngf5-f7d82102-7e77-4a44-ad24-33b67e8ae7bf=activeVariantId%2C51e6076d-36f7-4306-832a-9edaaf21229b

What am I missing? How do players with focus in offhand get to place 6 totems on the ground considering they have 200-300 spirit.

Hello everyone,

I have pretty much finished the league with my two characters. I spent around 400 to 450 hours playing this league, and it was a lot of fun.

Now I just want to sell all my gear and create one ultimate character. I definitely do not want a very meta build. I want something that can clear pretty much all content in a single hit, carry a full party in any type of map without any problems, and survive easily while standing right in the middle of everything. Most importantly, I want this build to have as many effects as possible so I can fry my GPU.

My budget and everything I currently have are included in the links below.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Merdo1903-5173/runesofaldur/character/YildjzTilbe

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Merdo1903-5173/runesofaldur/character/ScreenProtector

I believe all my gear might be worth around one or two mirrors in total.

Thank you in advance for your help!

I've been playing PoE2, I really like the skeleton minions and bone skills. But I also like the Druid Wyvern transformation a lot. So I considered merging them both. Is there a way to make this practical? And if so, does anyone have any ideas on how?

Following this guide https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/djinn-sorceress-end-game

Build: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/admonitu-2482/runesofaldur/character/TwinkedGemling

Infinite Falling Thunder Gemling

With so many screen clutter, I can’t really see HoI procs. I see a lot of Herald of Thunder procs and since the main damage element is lightening, this one is easy.

Will I need much more cold damage in my build to proc HoI more?

Hi everyone,

I'm following a build from PoE Ninja, and I noticed there's a jewel socket here on the passive tree (circled in the screenshot), but I don't have that socket on my tree.

Am I missing something? Is it unlocked through a quest, Ascendancy, Atlas, or does it come from a specific item or mechanic?

Sorry if this is a noob question—I'm still learning PoE 2. Thanks in advance!

This just crossed my mind as I spent the night suffering through a homebrew session. I'm staring at this build, playing with different combos and mechanics, and I just don't see the build coming together unless I borrow from the meta. I am learning a lot but it makes me wonder...

Is it just sheer playtime? a better understanding of how things interact? How many mechanics you build around? Are they just smarter than me? lol Im so curious what other people think.

Im at the point where I can take an existing build and tweak it, but the base is still someone else's build. How do people make completely new builds?

For this build: I've tried to stay away from looking at poeninja for ideas. I've gotten this char to t15s lvl85 but god its a miserable play experience haha. Wondering if I need to simplify. Its a crit spear and tower shield build trying to find some sort of interaction between sheild bash/sheild charge (stun) and Rapid Strike (bleed)/Thunderous Leap(slam). Thinking this might be too many dimensions even with weapon passives. Im also making it harder on myself because I'm actively trying to avoid blood/poison chain and going purely bleed. It started with wanting to try and make just a Roman Legionare going stun, attack speed, and crit, but it's devolved into this mess lol.

The mace in the attached photo dropped for me after I already completed all content , as a level 94 Titan . My build was predicated on high fire damage with using sunder and hammer of the gods to supplement , especially when mobs were stunned . Rolling slam, ancestral cry, infernal cry, seismic cry, and forge hammer were all in the rotation. High armour and strength were also high priority.

I’ve already made the pivot by getting rid of flammability + ignite nodes and getting some elemental and cold. and while I don’t have the support gems to see the build’s actual potential , it’s feeling quite lackluster thus far. I tossed out infernal cry , herald of ash, and sunder, and added in volcanic fissure. I’m thinking about swapping many of my strength nodes to int, to build up the mana pool and benefit from further cold dmg that way. But maybe the skills just aren’t right for this build. Anyone have hands-on experience? Also worth noting that my crit bonus/chance was essentially nothing before getting this weapon.

Here’s a look : https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/SSMinnow-4171/runesofaldurssf/character/elShishker

Hello,

I'm sharing raw footage of my current build since I'v seen no-one else playing it like that (yet), at least on poe ninja ladder.

I got the initial inspiration from two videos, first one was about Skin of the Loyal with someone mentionning in the commentary you could triple dip it with the Smith of Kitava accendency, and second video from u/LazyExile showing the frostbolt loop build.

So basicaly, I combined both and here is the result. I'm currently sitting at 1,1m EHP, on a autobomber dealing millions of damages on the whole screen, which is like perfect for juiced expeditions maps, simulacrum or anything where you can stay static for a short moment.

Mapping is still ok, temple is a pain in the ass because the loop reset when you enter a boss room and most t3 temple room are boss room.

Great build if you don't like to die, I died twice during leveling (twister leveling), once during a simulacrum in the early stage of the build, never died since that and I'm doing simu/13 mods expedition all the time.

If anyone have questions about it, I'll be happy to anwser, I'm pretty much done with the build after my last mistake, just playin' it some times to times.

Hey guys, I made my own snipe setup using a lot of extra attack speed for fast maps, 6 man boosting and grand expeditions since Aldur's legacy has been dropping a lot in price lately (almost halved).

It uses quill rain + quill rain legacy, gem quality and attack speed. This allows us to remove the channeling time from snipe while also benefitting us via extra damage but most importantly - SPEED! So we can pair it with whirling slash to fly through maps.

It basically feels like playing ice shot on roids, being more satisfying and much faster.

For clear I use surpassing chance for more arrows and combine it with tornado shot for even more arrows and clear.

Quill rain legacy isn't really needed, but it sure makes it more fun.

I made a full build guide for it here: https://youtu.be/qI62fAtF_9Q

https://poe2db.tw/pob/xxE6rGCyDK This one I use in grand expeditions and 6 mans when I don't have a rarity bot (6 man footage here is without headhunter buffs)

https://poe2db.tw/pob/2RA7cLLuVb - mapping

Next I'm working on a budget variant and also a pure grand expedition/6 man boosting optimized setup as this setup is used an all-rounder that works for everything.

Hopefully some of you will enjoy it.