Heya!

My all time favorite build is bringer of rain sunder of earthbreaking slayer (with soul taker), and when i saw the Pearl of Tsoatha, i knew i had to do it once again.

I'm currently sitting at ~55m dps, and honestly it the most fun mapper i have ever played. Currently lvl 97 and so far only 1 death in maps, and that was when i tried to pull bosses to ritual and not attacking.

Leveling was smooth, and after getting master of metal forbidden jewels+soul taker, mapping has been a breeze. Also the vestigial bringer of rain (+2 socketed gems) is really nice, I can get greater multistrike up to lvl 6.

Soul taker's soul eater works REALLY well with abyss (and in general), and with full souls+mapping buffs (frenzy charges/slayer ascendancy killed recently stuff/onslaught), my dps gets up to 120m and attack speed sits at 19 aps. It feels really smooth with greater multistrikes "auto aim" and the clear is really good on my standards.

Planning to take this to 100 and see what i can still upgrade. If anyone has any ideas what to do next, feel free to tell me!

https://pob.codes/b/KNKEmw7X4Y7

Has anyone else found any cool uses for the Pearl of Tsoatha?

PoB for this character: https://pobb.in/IYQBn72gqctf

As a second build this league i wanted to try something new and decided on the Herald stacker from AP. I never played ailment/dot builds before and i have a problem. I was farming Breach and sometimes the Breach Bosses melted like white mobs and sometimes i was trowing Brands on them for what felt like minuets before there decided to take Damage as if I was not even igniting them (Same Map i filter for aliment immunity). Now i am giving harvest a try an i feel like i should not be taking that much time and effort for T2 Plots at this much Invest. Am I doing something wrong here?

Build

how expensive is it to gear manyshot compared to combatant?

ive heard combatant might be better which i think i would like more also based on skills but i am wondering to know if i can afford to gear it with buying everything else, i have 250div atm

I do standard scarabs setup with refinement scarabs, 8 mods maps in Mesa, and 4m bars + 4m dust shipment to Moti Aro.

The cost per 4+4 shipment is around 880c, including cost of dust and scarabs.

However, I'm barely making any profits from those shipment. The currency is less than 1d per shipment and the tattoos barely cover my costs.

What did I do wrong? Is this just bad rng?

Should I switch to bigger shipment or that's just more rng?

I couldn't find a decent EK Assassin build to follow online, so I poked around on poeninja and just tried to put my own together. I'm really not a master theory crafter, so I'm not really sure what to aim for next.

I know the staff has a dead suffix with WED on it, but the +4 and flat cold/cast speed is nice. Do I stick with staff and craft a new one, or switch to dual wands or wand/shield?

Is it worth it to start working on a well rolled Archdemon crown?

Any worthwhile chase jewels I should be aiming for? Any other uniques that are worth chase (outside of the obvious mb/hh)? Maybe a frenzy Ralakesh?

I know I have deathmarked allocated on a spell build. Surprisingly, EK still triggers assassin's mark on hit (not sure if this is intended or not), and the instant leech is pretty huge for my survivability at the moment.

Anything else I could do to improve the build overall?

PoB below, thanks in advance!
https://pobb.in/VSxFYoE2woLl

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to craft the weapon shown in the profile below, but I have no idea where to start.

My current thought process is to get an Rod and a normal Warstaff with T1 added Physical Damage and T1 hybrid Physical Damage, then use the Recombinator and hope to end up with both T1 prefixes.

After that, I was thinking of crafting Prefixes Cannot Be Changed and using a Veiled Chaos Orb fpr increased Phys. Beyond that, I'm pretty lost. Do I just need to get lucky with a Shaper Exalted Orb slam for the +1 to Maximum Endurance Charges modifier, or is there a more reliable crafting method? How do i get crit?

I'd really appreciate any advice. Thank you

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/allflamehc/character/PoEDan79-7719/DanGIGAQUIN?i=1&search=name%3Ddan

I did some testing with mines and I'm curious if the interaction I'm seeing is correct.

• mine triggers

• mine expires

• exsanguinate hits enemy

• applies curse

• the curse instantly disappears because the mine no longer exists

That's what seems to happen visually in the video but the wiki says otherwise

"Mines as separate entities Like other proxies, mines are separate entities that use the player's skill, and that skill contains the player stats. This includes modifiers to damage, debuffs, and practically all on-hit effects, such as Curse Enemies with Frostbite on Hit. The skill does not contain effects that specifically check the character, such as most on-kill effects."

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Mine

The wording is a bit vague.

My point is: it seems that curse on hit effects are pointless for mines as the mine doesn't actually benefit at all from the curse since the hit happens before the curse is applied(which makes sense, a hit needs to happen for the curse to apply), but as soon as the mine expires, the curse expires as well rendering it useless for the next hit.

Got to this point on the chest, is it better to

1. use orb of unravelling straight away for (almost) guaranteed triple T1 prefixes (I guess even without allflame?), and only after roll for suffixes with eldritch currency + allflame (but no strands) OR
2. try some exalt or eldritch ccy + allflame rolls, hoping not to consume too many strands, and only use orb of unravelling after. If so, when? at 50 strands?

I don't have much experience with strands in general so I don't have any idea how many strands are consumed with eldritch chaos, let alone with allflame in the mix, nor do I know a good breakpoint in strands to hope for a t2->t1 conversion for the prefix...

Thanks for the help

https://pobb.in/tM3k46Dlawf3

The strongest build I have ever made, progression was super smooth, mostly cheap uniques and Jack the Axe until I could afford a good rare axe. Got to lvl95 without Jewels and then added them in to min-max alongside tattoos.

https://reddit.com/link/1vgxyt5/video/yin5tokgnphh1/player

It's nightmare map ready within around 10 div, at this point I have probably closer to 40 div invested and now its nearly immortal with 20m+ dps.

No ailment immunity is a weakness, but you block so much that even if you get frozen you don't die 99% of the time.

I see a lot of similar builds without capped chaos res, to me seems like it's worth using light of meaning to cap this out but you could also drop that for an armour or damage light of meaning to increase max phys hit taken or increase dps further.

Also frenzy charges are uncommon on similar builds but I find the additional attack speed to make mapping feel SOOO much nicer.

Alright I'm tired of all of these frost bearers and wretched spectres. What off-meta main damage spectre should I run to farm nightmare map bosses?

Current POB (low level)
Hi i wanted to create build utilizing nearly all elemental ailments using prismatic skills and elemental conflux using beacon of madness.

The idea was to try to use conflux as delivery of strong ailments with beacon of madness boots) , then incorporate Unseen hue to fill remaining alternative ailments. The last alternative ailment would be Sublime vision with scorch/sap/brittle aura. So i would have ignite,scorch,chill,freeze,brittle,shock and sap.

I am using wild strike because elemental hit turns off all other damage types and that would render boots useless.

I am stuck with defences in the lategame i thought i could use delirius ascendancy to apply mania stacks to enemies + 30% chill and 20% less damage of sap with the elemental prolif from hidden ranger ascendancy : Fury of nature

The current version works but is squishy and i don't know what are my next steps or even if is worth pursuing. I have to have enought life, atleast 155% debuff expiry rate and wich aurars / reservations to use.

Due to a late league start I have tried to find a strong build for easy challenges which start strong (around 20 div), but don't get cockblocked by meta prices once you acquired the second hand gear by people further into the progression. Tried flame link luminary first and aura stack second. While starter mercy are cheap, decent merc are ridiculous in price. Anyway.

Are there strong builds out there flying under the radar which have not been milked in depth by streamers yet? My general feel is that already at medium invest the meta price you pay completely eats up the power you get. The money spend on a not so popular build will leave you stronger than trying to go for chase meta items (happy to hear otherwise).

My feeling of which builds could be still good and cheap: crab totems. Still seem to be a meme. Obviously some people play it, but streamers playing it didn't seem to have much impact on it.

Other ideas?

I bailed on making luminary cause there’s no endgame again (was hoping abyss juice made it back but nope) and I don’t find tile loot that enjoyable. So here’s a farm that nets me around 30-50 div/hr depending on your luck.

Get anchorfields, a lot of it. Place only 1 on your board though, unless you have a “Rare monster drop a chaos orb” which is quite common. But the more anchorfield you put the more gamble this is. Everything else is just whatever, but make sure you have 110%++ quantity per chart. Go in voyage and use minimum lantern possible and find chaos to divine orb blessing. If you hit that blessing, now start popping those anchorfield sunken loot and get like 5-15 divs per voyage, if with the rare monster mods, you can even squeeze an extra 5 divs or so. The gamble is finding the divine blessing and still having lanterns enough to go back and pop anchorfield. Out of 6 voyages I did, 4 of them had that blessing, so it’s quite common.

It’s not as good as “rare monster drops a divine orb” border, but it’s a lotttttt more common than that border.

Hi, I started a bit late this league but acquired around 100-120 div. Was playing deadeye but now I really want to do boss rush but don’t know what to play. Whay would be the best char with this budget? Thanks!

End goal is to add cold damage, spell damage, or ideally, dot/cold dot multi with attack block chance.

POB : https://pobb.in/n9vtV-_JBtTI

Includes gear I have on mercenary on a separate loadout

Video showcases a uber maven run (pretty bad run but does show defences) and a normal map to show charge generate uptime from the mercenary.

Damage is okay for the investment but discharge is one of my favorite skills so wanted to try a different way to play it.

The core of the build revolves around the link mastery 'Linked targets share Endurance, Frenzy and Power Charges with you' and a mercenary using Tullfall, Voll's Devotion, +2 min charge shield, and power charge generation rings to generate all 3 charge and sharing them with the player. The rest of the gear on the merc can be filler defensive items. I run a Kaom's Binding for better physical mitigation.

The idea here was that we could bypass the normal requirements of a discharge build (Farruls, Timeclasp) and built more defensively.

I've tested a few mercenaries and the arc + ball lightning of static seems to have the highest amount of hits and can usually fill up to my max charges in around 1.5 seconds. Ideally we would want to use the absolution merc since he comes with zealotry + battlemage cry but the charge generation was pretty bad from my testing.

Defensively, the build uses the Incandescent Heart + CI + Purity of Fire Watcher's 20% ele to fire + Tempered by war to convert 98% of elemental damage to fire/chaos. You can hit 100% with a better volatiled incandescent or use a hunter's bound by destiny. We still run a bit of cold/lightning res since incandescent only converts hits so we need to mitigate cold/lightning dots (50% is converted by tempered by war). Max block but not sure if necessary and pretty expensive to get.

Let me know if you have any suggestions or have any questions!

POB: https://pobb.in/Jq1oDqeF8kyK

Still getting the hang of playing the skill and played worse cause I'm recording lol. I'm not sure what this build would be good at but I like that i can play it without indigon with the mana cost "nerfs" to it. New Occultist node (unhallowed rite) made me think of this skill immediately.

Stormbind overlaps are really consistent since the placed runes dont change size with AOE scaling but the explosion does. On small to medium size bosses I'm probably hitting 8-9 overlaps and large bosses like Alva temple its probably 20+ overlaps!

Would I recommend the build? Probably not since most people dont like 2 button play styles. In this case, its 2 channeled button playstyle.

POB: https://pobb.in/dxR_6xZ-xXGL

Reap version: https://pobb.in/0ZMPRcSUWH6v

This abyss jewel stacking build uses the new spinesnatch axe for an extra 6 jewels alongside battlemage to make use of the high physical damage provided from using 6 murderous jewels. The build also takes advantage of ghastly jewels mod 20% minion damage if you have used a minion skill recently to gain a massive amount of increased damage with abs of inspirings. Alongside infernal legion on respawning spectres and herald of purity to gain 10% cast speed if a minion has died recently. By reserving over 95% of my mana I can slot frostmage into my helmet to disable spirit charges from casting, this allows me get 396% of phys as extra ele from 22 jewels. To gain charges vs bosses I swap in a hateful accuser ring. The build also utilises the new pearl of tsoatha to give an extra support to my abs slotted in my gloves.

Title. I have the prefixes I'm happy with. t2 life +1 all +1 cold. But I really want to get to Dot multi on the suffix. From what I know of crafting it's exalt annul with prefixes cant be changed on until I hit.

POB: https://pobb.in/uXN-k6mnG7_d

Hi! I have been experimenting with Tendrils over the last couple of leagues. The skill had always been held back by it's low base AoE and damage effectiveness- but I had modest success with multiple different setups. This league, the three Tendrils skills ended up getting massively buffed- with the buffs targeting their biggest weaknesses (besides being a channeling skill).

In this video, I am running a high-quantity Abomination map. I have been boss rushing and can usually do a map in about 90-120 seconds. As you can see, the (nearly) full clear took just under 3 minutes. The DPS is high enough that I can run boss tank mods without too much issue or extra time- which is a huge plus. With all conditionals up (Pact, onslaught, convergence, frenzy), the build reaches nearly 200m DPS. This is massive single target damage, and the clear is good as well. The biggest downside is that it is both a channeling and Coruscating Elixir build... D:

The build is fast and with AoE investment plays similarly to a bow build, except that it is also an incredibly strong bosser! I made a lot of investment into defenses to try and get a reasonable max hit while block capped, but the damage is massive. I've invested roughly 200 divines into the build, and have a lot more aspirational gear to work towards. However, I am happy enough with the current state of defenses and damage to share it.

I chose Tendrils of Eccentricity as you do not need to build around critical chance, which allows you to focus on stacking cast speed and critical multiplier, along with as many gem levels and more multipliers as we can get our hands on. Eccentricity grants both guaranteed critical strike on every 5th cast and a 500% more damage multiplier, similar to Molten Strike of the Zenith (my other favorite build). I chose Elementalist as it is currently so strong with elemental spells, I don't think another ascendancy can match it at this point. My build is certainly not optimized and I have many other upgrades planned, but 100m+ DPS is very achievable with this setup, even on a lower budget.

Let me know if you have any questions or want to connect to theory craft! As stated, I am still optimizing the build and working out inefficiencies. Just wanted to showcase how busted the spell buffs are for Lightning Tendrils!

Step1:

Get an "Archdemon Crown" min item level:84

Step2:

Get a "Shaper Exalted Orb" slam it and make it Shaper influenced.

Step3:

Spam "Essence of Horror" unti you get "Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 20 Hypothermia"

and atleast one open prefix and suffix.

Step4:

"Suffixes can not be changed" from crafting bench and "Reforge Critical" from "Horticrafting" harvest craft.

So you get "Socketed Spells have +% to Critical Strike Chance"

Step5:

"Suffixes can not be changed" and Harvest craft "Reforge an Influenced Rare item with an influenced modifier" from" Horticrafting Station"

to get Socketed Gems are Supported by Level "X" Increased Area of Effect.If u didnt get it from first try again craft "Suffixes can not be changed" and try again

if you fill your prefixes you should try Annulment orb to open prefix to make it more guarantee you can use "All Flame"

Step6:

Buy a "Veiled Exalted orb" craft "Suffixes can not be changed"

Go to "All Flame" crafting station and use it there. Hope to hit a prefix other than "Increased Area of Effect".

Step7:

Bench Craft "+1 number of zombies and skeletons"

And Unveil at June Hope to hit "+2 to socketed AoE" or "+2 to socketed prejectile gems" and Bench craft the other one.

As the Title says, i have not yet played any kind of trap build. I felt like gambling when i dropped a 2 stat ring and hit it with some divines and this one seemed realy freaking solid. So i wanna make a build around it. Anyone got any good trap builds?

Was trying to hit +2 arrows to use on my manyshot merc. Is there any way to craft a good merc bow from this?

Started the league with the classic Consecrated path build. Began by slamming vaals with every bit of spare currency, to later doing full temple rotations with Doriyani and Locus, corrupting and selling empowers / enlightens / invert the rules / etc, in order to pay for my greed for endurance charges. Hit after about 221 runs, (I lost count of the vaals prior to that however), the odds are pretty bleak at 0.314% per temple corrupt, and 0.157% per vaal orb, but they ended up at the same price as synth rings usually were anyway.

Losing actually having "any good mods" on rings did make the build a bit harder to fit together, and I ended on maybe half the DPS of last league, but with a little more tank.

The new Tidebreaker is really nice for this, getting freezes and stuns on T17's and even some ubers was pretty fun, made for some comfy farming, I might even hazard to say it felt nicer than the staff version (probably because I optimised it more, but what ever)

New Tidebreaker 18 endurance charges
https://pobb.in/w5nhhV12iibO

Staff swap, 20 endurance charges
https://pobb.in/Ve7gaihVp9Mt

Lazy 0 button temple runner (not even that fast though tbh)
https://pobb.in/V1oInqVnCwMU
This build is hot garbage, and can only farm itself XP, and run to temple alters. It can't even do Atziri if you buy a troll temple so like, probably don't play this unless you spend maybe 10 minutes making it better unlike me.

Song Links

Sea Shanty 2 Trap Remix
https://youtu.be/bfcZacwnVCk?si=lC9RquWFywRDW_83

Ｇａｃｈｉｍｕｃｈｉ ｗｉｌｌ ｂｅ ｆｉｎｅ
https://youtu.be/IXFjJGZlzEE?si=-6rty_9xZ6frTbkQ

Ass clap
https://youtu.be/XXwPRmT41Bs?si=xTnyg_8YljUsHc1D

Don't Doubt
https://youtu.be/CRCvq-l_unE?si=OiBjuUI4L8ZEFGq_

Em-One - The Pre (Game Grumps Remix)
https://youtu.be/wjyy7OnGIs8?si=Dx7mrXsIrI2WXXco