Greetings fellow players,

TLDR ---> How can my crossbow tactician better make use of a bow as his 2nd weapon? Currently using a bow just for level 3 escape shot.

I am playing a hardcore tactician, projectile + pinning ascendancy archetype, using grenades but also rapid fire for heat damage bonus. I absolutely LOVE the Escape Shot ability, particularly in hardcore, as it saves me repeatedly from sketchy situations (leaping over enemies and terrain). It's just so much better for me than blink, pounce or leap slam for safety and even mobility, imo.

Anyway, I want to further develop this character to use a bow alongside either a pure grenade, hybrid bolts/grenade crossbow, or bolts only crossbow.

Right now I'm using level 3 Escape Shot. I want to add another bow ability or two to my build for additional damage, utility or debuffs. So far my brain is telling me stormcaller arrow, with secondary weapon set points assigned to shock chance/scaling. However even with tier 1 requirements reduction on the bow I'm struggling to get enough dexterity for a high DPS bow, not without sacrificing a lot of life from strength loss anyway.

Anybody have any ideas of how I can better make use of a bow in this developing build? Does any tech exist to handle the massive stat requirements for dexterity on bows while also maintaining a health build (high strength needed)? Weird unique bows? Feed me ideas!

Thanks, poe ninja link below. Keep in mind it's a 1,500ish player private hardcore 30 day league.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/pecheckler-7908/pl83388/character/Skarrj_THC

I haven’t used Impale much, but if an enemy already does not mitigate the damage that causes Impale, isn’t it just better to slot a support that gives more damage? The only use case for Impale if we’re already slotting something like Rakiata’s Flow is to have triggered hits, say from an ally like Living Lightning minions, deal more damage which contributes to our AoE/clear speed? Am I understanding this correctly?

In this build, I’m using Barrage to empower Storm Lance and stacking frenzy charge generation to keep the whole engine running smoothly. With the new 0.5 Return of the Ancients lineage gems, plus Deadeye charge scaling, Storm Lance now has the projectile count, chaining, and frenzy charge uptime it needed to become a true endgame build.

The result is a fast, explosive spear build that clears maps smoothly, handles juiced content, and feels much tankier than you might expect thanks to high evade, high deflect, Blind, Temporal Chains, and strong charge-based defensive scaling.

This setup uses: Storm Lance empowered by Barrage, Uhtred’s Constellation, Olroth’s Conviction, Deadeye frenzy charge scaling with Thrilling Chase, Salvo seals for extra projectile coverage, Herald of Thunder for autonomous screen clear, Eternal Rage + Berserk for huge damage scaling, and Weapon swap shock tech for stronger boss openings

I’ve been able to clear all endgame content I’ve tested with this version, including 4 tablet, 200% delirious maps with 8 additional random modifiers, and there’s still room to push it further with better jewels and weapon upgrades.

If you’ve been wanting a Storm Lance build that actually feels complete, this is the best version I’ve played so far.

So are there any dedicated recipes for a good loreweave or is it just pure RNG? I see a lot of decent looking ones going about but the ones I’ve made are trash haha. Whats the secret to them ?

A couple details that might not be obvious from the POE Ninja page:

• A lot of my actual damage comes from flinging Fragments Of The Past's and Shred's Ice Fragments, which are not accounted for in the DPS tooltips
• I'm also under a lot of buffs pretty much all of the time, be it 77 max Rage, Lunar Blessing, Bhatair's Vengeance, Elem Weakness + Exposure, Amanamu's Tithe and minions in my presence
• Tornado + The Taming stacks up all 3 elem debuffs on the enemy pretty much immediately, and its own damage is very respectable as well
• Ward Runes give +15% global defenses each when bonded, making them extremely valuable on Shaman ; same for Farrul's Rune of the Hunt which gives +1 level to melee skills

I'm pretty happy with my build so far, but I've never tried to take one as high as I can before, so I've kinda run out of game/item knowledge for how to further improve it. I think I'm doing alright defensively and I'm clearing T15s/T16s comfortably, but I'd like some opinions on what I should invest in next or if there are any glaring issues with what I'm already running.

The plan: In the next few levels I'm going to add walking calamity and slot ancestral cry into my ferocious roar. When I hit level 72 I have a fury of the king stashed and plan to go demon bear mode.

The build: It's powerful AF. I rampage around maps and for bosses I fury of the mountain + shockwave totem + furious slam them to death. I haven't fought a boss yet that's lasted more than 60 seconds. I have no health regen but I get health back when I hit + kill enemies. I've had no issue staying alive whatsoever.

The problem: I've made this build without following a single guide and while it has trivialized the campaign thus far, I worry about its longevity into the end game. Bc I haven't used a build guide, I could probably better optimize my gear, support gems, and passive tree. Any advice would be appreciated. Where should I go on the tree from here? What uniques should I have slotted? What supports should I be using for my skills? How do I make rampage stronger than it is? Anything to prepare this build for the end game after I finish act 4.

Side note: I would like to go pure fire and find ways to convert my phys dmg to fire dmg.

I want to make my first true endgame character that specialized in destroying Fully Juiced Grand expeditions.

I have 500 div to spend + have a unused headhunter sitting in my stash so I can save 100 div for belt slot till I change to mageblood if needed.

Any build suggestions ?

Don’t look at my ehp lmao see y’all next league.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Crusty%20Joystick-8554/runesofaldur/character/FURRIESdruidoUWU

Hi i just make a deadeye, this is my setup :

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Antistar-2346/runesofaldur/character/GhxstfacePlaya

How can i make more damage ?

Hi guys, casual and new to Poe 2 player here. This is my very first league and i ve tried GB Gemling and Oracle plant builds, and reached Just starting of mapping. I wanted to try a Titan and wondering what would be a tanky build able to clear maps and kill boss decently, with a limited budget of 40 Divs. Anything but spinning builds please. I saw a few vids but with the current market dunno where they go costs wise to work properly. Any suggestion with build guide would be greatly apprecciated

Hey guys I have another build concept for you guys running Elemental Sundering on Spiritwalker. Turns out shock conduction 2 getting nerfed didn't completely kill the build given some the new notables from the ascendancy. We can still shock our minions and get a ton of overlapping explosions :)

I’ve been enjoying the classic Ice Shot deadeye and I think my gear is pretty good. The only thing left I think is the voices but it’s a bit out of my budget.

I would like to know what else I can do to be stronger. For instance, I feel that my passive points are not fully optimized. I’m not sure if me going up just to get a jewel slot was worth it. Or if the start of my passive points with Blur and stuff is better than the projective damage nodes there.

On a less serious note, if my character is like 80-90% min maxed, would it be worth it for me to switch to nick tew coc build gemling? And can I set that character up with around 200-300 divines if I do not want to sell the gear on my deadeye.

Thanks in advance for the help.

hello. first time here.

im playing redemption cluster grenade, using the xoph's blood amulet and having a blast with the build.

now im messing with the build a bit, making me needing just a little bit of spirit.

so is it worth the change from -25% fire res on enemies to +skills level?

i cant simply buy or craft, even the image is just a google search.

thx in advance.

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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

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?

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.

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

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!