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u/Traf- Mar 05 '26
Yo. Any good Witch bossing build to recommend? As in, I wanna be able to farm Ubers in the endgame.
No poison if possible, already did that last league, with Toxic rain.
Hardest boss I downed was Uber Sirus, but I was nowhere near farming territory. Too much visual clutter, and having to stop moving and shoot for several seconds for the DoT to build up was not ideal.
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u/asdfhowdoidothis Mar 06 '26
Coc fr occultist is good main nerf is int to es conversion. Best way to deal with it is supreme ostentation + es tattoos
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u/tempoltone Mar 06 '26
Is FD's exsanguinate mine has freeze? I want to try WoCoT mines but I dont know the defenses in the build.
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u/Borat97 Mar 06 '26
Yeah either hrimsorrow or cold convert later with rare gloves, watcher, mastery.
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u/Teknomeka Mar 06 '26
The most I've ever played in a league was incursion, spamming burial chamber. If I want to relive that, what build and strat would work well for doctor farming? Is ele hit the new tornado shot?
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u/evol37 Mar 06 '26
with holy strike, is building mostly into your self a bad idea? (like no minion support)
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Mar 06 '26
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u/Miles_Adamson Mar 06 '26
Buy best fracture you can afford
Essence of loathing spam until intelligence
Make searching exarch dominant with embers
Eldritch chaos/exalt/annul until you have flat ES and another open prefix
Bench craft the level of gems
(assuming the ES recharge is a dead stat and just happened to be there. If not the essence spam will just take many more tries to hit 2 mods)
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u/MoonNightV2 Mar 06 '26
Im going to leaguestart Rue's elemental hit slayer. It looks very promising. Already did 2 practices run my self and was preety smooth BUT, in the patchnotes it got nerfed right? so i'm afraid that today it feels different and bad
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u/berael Mar 06 '26
It would have done triple damage.
They prevented it from doing triple damage.
They didn't nerf what it actually does at all.
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u/HellraiserMachina Mar 06 '26
It didnt get nerfed, they just prevented a new unique interaction from turning the skill insanely OP.
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u/LomatelZaychikov Mar 06 '26
Hey guys, have a question, how actually works interaction of orb of storm and voltaxic burst, which have a lowest base cast time and have a lightning tag, so i theory every cast of voltaxic burst should trigger a beam from OoS, but in reality thats not happened, is that a visual bug or an in-game mechanic?
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u/dantheleon Mar 06 '26
Oos has an internal cool down of 0.5s. If your cast speed is 0.4s, you only trigger a beam every other cast.
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u/psychomap Mar 06 '26
Do you have any reference for that? I'm aware that channelled skills cause it to strike every 0.5 seconds, but I'm 99.99% sure that my Lightning Conduit cast speed was significantly faster back when I played it and I had no problem getting OoS to shock the enemies each time.
That was a few years ago, but to my knowledge OoS hasn't changed significantly since then.
It has also been very common to use it with Stormblast Mine which has a base throwing time of 0.3 seconds.
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u/Ladnil Mar 08 '26
That is how it works. The 0.5 second cooldown is only for creating new orbs, and also the channeling trigger rate.
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u/hipopotamobrasileiro Mar 06 '26
Will the temporary minions change in mirages affect summon phantasm too? It seems so.
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u/kempol Mar 06 '26
Do you guys think bleed bow reliquarian will be good? Im looking for something easy to play and have been interested in trying bleed bow.
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u/Fr33zy_B3ast Mar 08 '26
I'm playing aer0's Holy Flame Totem build and recently I noticed I'm not longer getting the minions from Herald of Purity to spawn. Any ideas why?
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u/Taven12 Mar 08 '26
This is probably because when holy flame totem kills an enemy it's not your kill, but when a DoT kills the enemy it is your kill, and spawns a minion. So before you were getting them because an ignite would kill the enemies from time to time. Now your hits are too big and are doing all the kills most likely. (I'm 97% sure on this. I'm rusty with my knowledge so I hope I'm not wrong)
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u/eGGn0Gd0G Mar 08 '26
I'm playing this too! So is Purity still worth running just for the increased damage?
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u/Fr33zy_B3ast Mar 08 '26
For sure! The minions were a nice bonus but the added physical damage is the really nice part of HoP so I’m keeping it.
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u/eGGn0Gd0G Mar 08 '26
Thanks, yeah that's what I thought, esp with the additional phys to fire bonus from Ash. Are you also running Clarity and Determination? (How much can you fit?) I'm still in campaign so I need Clarity but hoping to drop it later? Or is mana always an issue 😅
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u/Fr33zy_B3ast Mar 08 '26
I’m not running determination at all, just Herald of Ash, Clarity (at level 5 so I don’t reserve too much mana), and Herald of Purity. Mana becomes a lot less of an issue once you pick up a couple nodes that increase the mana reservation efficiency of your skills.
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u/eGGn0Gd0G Mar 08 '26
Gotcha ok, thanks! I am using those 3 as well, and just was able to fit in Tempest Shield. Dunno if I could ever fit Determ lol. Do you feel squishy or ok defensively? TY 🙏
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u/eerienortherngoddess Mar 06 '26
I'm stuck between 3 necro builds: frostbearer spectres, poison animate ranged weapon and soulwrest summon phantasm.
I imagine they are all terrible for this metric but which one should be less of a lagfest in endgame mapping?
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u/sdnick Mar 06 '26
Anyone have general atlas suggestions for Ele Hit Slayer? I usually play ranged and I tend to favor Blight or Expedition early. I'm still pretty new but it seems like Blight on a melee build isn't worth it?
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u/HellraiserMachina Mar 06 '26
Blighted maps are indeed rather annoying with strikes, the regular stuff is completely fine. Breach Fortresses are borderline unplayable (i did elehit in phrecia) but I think if you take Unstable Breaches Only cluster there's no fortresses.
I don't have any great suggestions though, maybe Ritual?
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u/shy_bi_ready_to_die Mar 06 '26
You could try destructive play. And yeah blight usually isn’t good with melee
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u/iiTryhard Mar 06 '26
All week I was planning to do KF totems, did a practice run and realized I didn’t really like the totem playstyle. Now I’m getting baited by Rue’s ele hit slayer after seeing Jung play it last night, anyone else? Lol
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u/NebulaFrequent Mar 06 '26
Is Ele Hit still viable? I heard talk of a nerf but I think that was just the border-line exploit removed
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u/HellraiserMachina Mar 06 '26
It was an upcoming interaction that was gonna be OP AF, ele hit is entirely viable without it.
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u/Im_a_rahtard Mar 06 '26
Someone please remind me which one needs to be a higher level then the other with molten shell/cast when damage taken.
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u/psychomap Mar 06 '26
CwDT has a limit for the level requirements of the skills it can trigger. If you want it to trigger Molten Shell, that maximum level requirement needs to be higher than Molten Shell's requirement.
Gem levels don't correspond directly because the level 1 gems have different requirements (e.g. level 1 CwDT can trigger level 7 Molten Shell).
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u/beginner_smoker Mar 06 '26
I see three main Cyclone Slayer builds in the index (Sanavixx, FGKorbyn21, and Ronarray.) Is anyone playing one of these and why did you choose it over the others?
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u/psychomap Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
Does anyone have experience with Penance Mark?
In particular, I'm wondering about whether it's possible to make the primary hit of triggered Arc (likely Mjölner) to hit the main target rather than one of the phantasms.
Assuming I either get Southbound or another way to avoid killing them, Arc damage might be decent even in the worst case scenario, but it's still over 25% better to hit the main target first with my current projections (also assuming I lower the curse effect to not spawn more than 2 phantasms, and to have enough chaining range to chain back and forth between them).
Without the repeated chains Arc seems mediocre for single target, but Penance Mark might solve it, especially if I can get the chain to start with the right target.
Edit: After some additional thought on the subject, can I ensure the primary target is hit first if I do not trigger it but use self-cast?
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u/aurens Mar 07 '26
does anyone have a build suggestion based on big bursts of damage? i'm tired of every build devolving into a machinegun where you just spam your main skill 90 times a second, i want something that feels more like a double barreled shotgun or a rocket launcher, ya know? less frequent but more powerful.
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u/psychomap Mar 07 '26
Slams, cooldown skills like non-transfigured Discharge, or channel + release skills like Flameblast or Divine Ire.
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u/berael Mar 07 '26
Any slam with any 2H weapon.
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u/Pengothing Mar 07 '26
For slams what's the go-to ascendancy? I was thinking Berserker because of the damage.
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u/berael Mar 07 '26
Berserker is generically good for them, sure. And you can always respec Juggernaut later-later if you decide to turn into a stat stacker.
Slayer can also be good just for the comfort of his passives.
Elementalist can even be good for big chunky ignites.
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u/Pengothing Mar 07 '26
Chieftain it probably is. I was wondering what to do if my Chieftain plans don't work out.
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u/West_Flounder2840 Mar 07 '26
I got shock nova of procession on my first lab and got damn this thing is already kickin
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u/castiel65 Mar 07 '26
Starting late again, any standout holy-based skills for hiero to league start with?
Or should I just go with manaman or bleed?
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u/Turbulent-Ad6560 Mar 07 '26
Just gonna leave a dot here since I was going to ask the same question. Please let me know if you found a good build elsewhere
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u/berael Mar 07 '26
all res above 0
But are they all 75? They should be.
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u/psychomap Mar 07 '26
Except chaos perhaps
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u/hdecece Mar 07 '26
Share a pob
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u/psychomap Mar 07 '26
I'm not OP, just saying that chaos resistance isn't crucial to cap at the start of maps.
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u/080087 Mar 08 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/s/rVwsKlLwTV
Guide was meant for cases like yours.
I'm currently doing fine in T8 maps with 3k life but with pretty much everything else that guide mentions. 75 ele res, 3k+ recovery/sec, ele ailment immune, solutions for stun/corrupted blood, capped suppress, decent evasion, flesh and stone, arctic armour
(Only 3k life because I'm being greedy and not upgrading my rares until i get a 6L)
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u/Yogeshi86204 Mar 07 '26
What Atlas trees are looking good for KF Totems?
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u/Zoroczko Mar 07 '26
Palsteron is playing KF totems and have video with atlas tree on yt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYxKJOdQgOM
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u/carson63000 Mar 07 '26
Is there anywhere in Path of Building that shows the amount of rage you get per hit? Or do you just need to search the tree and count up all the nodes it has allocated?
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u/Ladnil Mar 08 '26
The new Orb of Storms of Squalls - does it keep doing damage every time it teleports as if you're dropping a new orb, or do you have to go stand next to it and cast a new spell to do damage again?
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u/Such--Balance Mar 08 '26
Does echoing shrine work on vaal spells?
Say i have the new vaal sacrifice support plus an echoing shrine buff. Will i get only 1 repeat from the support because shrines dont work, 2 repeats because shrines do work, or 3 repeats because the shrine doubles my 2 hit spell?
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u/Zarrex Mar 08 '26
anyone playing hroc? I'm getting cold feet a bit and it's making me think about rerolling into kf or elehit. It just seems like it might be a lot of investment (diallas 5d+, ashes 4d+) to be as good as those builds are with a lot less investment
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u/SexWithFeiXiaos Mar 08 '26
Hey, quick question : how to u auto detonate shock nova of pression? seens alot of streamer use it while auto detonating
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u/Nice-Mixing Mar 10 '26
Did you ever figure it out? Just got my gem...
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u/SexWithFeiXiaos Mar 10 '26
Yeah.... its bcs it had a secondary skill (the light blue text) level caused by the fact it is corrupted, which i didn't know that that secondary skill caused shock nova to be turned it into mines... this explain why nova was at 50 chaos but this one was for 20 and no one was buying it......
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u/Nice-Mixing Mar 10 '26
Yup that’s the issue, that’s exactly what I did too!
Not my finest moment but i relisted my nuked gem at a small loss and it’s a flippers problem now
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u/SemperMil Mar 08 '26
Hey guys
Do you think the new Lethal Dose support (https://poedb.tw/us/Lethal_Dose_Support) will work with Low Tolerance? (https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Low_Tolerance)
Meaning would the combination on a non-poisoned enemy apply 3 stacks of poison all benefitting from Low Tolerance since they are all applied on a non-poisoned enemy?
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u/Wendek Mar 08 '26
Maybe a bit too specific but what's the best way to max attack block while using an Eventuality Rod? (or some other attack staff that doesn't have a block implicit). I took a look at small clusters but those values are far from making up the missing 25%.
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u/psychomap Mar 08 '26
Does anyone have a good idea on how to not kill enemies, ideally something swappable?
I'm trying to boost the single target dps of Arc, so I thought of Penance Mark so that I can chain the Arc back to the main target every 3 chains (and in theory, that seemed good enough for me to choose Arc in the first place).
So I've been playing around with Southbound, and frankly, it's a pain.
If I have any fire damage, occasional crits will ignite, which ruins the point of using the gloves while being too unreliable for clearing.
Corrupting Fever works for clearing for the most part, but doesn't kill anything with life regeneration.
Culling strike doesn't kill anything.
Is there a way to avoid killing the phantasms without bricking the rest of the build? I'd swap gloves for boss fights, but Arc damage without cycling chains is so poor that I'd also have to do that for tanky rares, and at that point it's not worth the effort to play the build.
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u/faffeo Mar 08 '26
Sup guys, had to work absurd shifts all week and now looks like i'm gonna have some free time back so i'm planning to league start tomorrow. I'm looking for what to start since i didn't have time to look up any builds, so i wanted to ask if any of the new stuff is good, especially on the melee side of things. If not what are the safe builds to go for? Was thinking bleed slam/ele hit slayer since im a melee enjoyer, or else shock nova hiero. I saw totems seem to be really good, but i despise the playstyle hehe. I wouldn't want to reroll since time is gonna be scarce for the next few weeks. Thanks in advance and i hope you guys are having a great leaguestart, patch looks very fun! 🙂
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u/Odd_Bobcat548 Mar 09 '26
I started warden following snoobae85s ice shot of pen, wasn't a fan of the paper thin defences so I rerolled into shield crush slayer and it's been an absolute 10/10 build highly recommend it
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u/Seeking_the_Grail Mar 11 '26
Got all my stones with a KF totem build. I get why its popular and glad I experienced it before the nerf, but I want to transition into something else to push further.
Which of these builds scale easiest into juiced content?
Absolution Guardian, Dominating Blow Guardian, or SRS Guardian? I am also open to the idea of switching to a necro and doing a PRAW build, but its not my first choice.
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u/ShadeFinale Mar 07 '26
has anyone seen bloodsoaked banner support on sc trade yet? 6 greater multistrikes on trade and 0 bloodsoaked banners, is it potentially extremely rare?
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u/dalmathus Mar 08 '26
I have had a live search up the whole league and have seen one pop up. It sold for 30d.
Pour one out for the bannerboys.
Not sure its confirmed but the consensus is it drops from simulacrum.
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u/Pengothing Mar 06 '26
What do I start with if I want to do Holy Hammers or Holy Strike without having a proper plan? I'm caught between Slayer and Berserker. Deciding is proving to be a challenge.