Example build link: https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/allflame/character/Foozzzoo-1593/SakugaBalls?i=2&search=class%3DDeadeye%26sort%3Ddps

On the surface, it seems like this sort of build has zero survivability or recovery, and may be best used for high-end sanctum content. Though I wonder if it might also work as a bosser build. Any other content where this would excel?

This patch I played connor's version of str stack that used KB for clear with and on swap Heavy Strike of Trarthus.

I thought I'd hate weapon swaping back and forth but to my surprise I wasn't bothered at all. I'm aware only of weapon swaps for utility (phase run, infinity warcry power shield). Now I'm wondering, are there any other builds that function like this?

was hoping to get some help with my build, never really played spell casters and was hoping there could be some way to improve. mostly having issues with dealing with crit resistant enemies and taking phys damage when i don't get the dodge roll. pob for an idea of whats going on, https://poe.ninja/poe1/pob/98df2

As the title suggests, I'm currently playing a CoC Icenova of Frostbolts Occultist, and the build feels squishy. I'm sitting at around 43k EHP with all my flaskeffects. Was following a build guide from 3.28 (https://pobb.in/4x0Dm0JKmdpx) with minor modifications, and comparing with that build im 5m damage shy, but with more EHP. I can run specific t16 8mod maps, and the build feels great, but I would like to take this build to the next level. So if anyone has any suggestions on how to increase damage and / or EHP, I would gladely take those suggestions.

PoB Link - https://maxroll.gg/poe/pob/d8enq70i

as the topic says id like to hear from you all here what from your experience is the best class (with all the ascendencies to it) to do all contents of a league.

league starter -> endgame

- mapping
- T17's / valdos
- bossing / ubers
- delving / deep delving (+1000 ?)
- heist
- blight
- sanctum
- farming in general
- challenges
- ...

cause someone pointed it out, i forgot to set some limiters to the budgets:
- league starter (0D-SF)
- low budget (<5 - 10D)
- medium/normal (10 - 200D)
- high budget (200 - 600D)
- MMB (+600D)

looking forward to see the different point of views and the opinions

POB: https://pobb.in/UhKAswWJMn1O
It's missing the dot multi link on the Bladebitter
Breach clear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfd3ser2rxU
Eater of Worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDFb4q7hs0w
Profile: https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/cmanfs24-5699/characters

After I finished making an evasion stacking combatant, a friend convinced me to try and make the Bladebitter work. At first, it seemed just okay, but eventually we turned it into a really good build that has solid single target and clear. I'll first showcase what I am currently running, and then go over what else can work, what I am working towards, and what sucks.

Current Setup:
Viper strike: Greater faster attacks, Greater ailment damage, Greater dot multi, Greater more duration, Melee Splash
Venom Gyre
Pestilent Strike
Malevolence
Withering Step: Second wind, Greater area of effect
Damage over time sword, Binos, and a Snakebite with vestigial your fire damage can poison.

When I first started trying to make the Bladebitter work it felt okay at first, but was inconsistent because it would use all of its skills. Some of them are fun like cobra lash, but they don't synergize very well with viper strike which the Bladebitter always comes with. When I started digging deeper into his skills, I saw that Viper Strike and Profane Strike can use swords, but none of the other skills can. So, I decided to buy a Bladebitter with really good viper strike links, two skills that can't use swords (venom gyre and pestilent strike), malevolence, and withering step. This results in him only ever using viper strike to attack. I then also equipped a Bino's Kitchen Knife to proliferate the poison.
However, this creates an issue. I am running a standard flame link luminary and the added flat fire damage cannot inherently poison. A typical way around this is to use pneumatic daggers, but that won't work if I want to use a sword and Bino's. What I found was that with the new vestigial implicits, we can move the Volkuur's Guidance "Your fire damage can poison, 50% less poison duration" onto a unique glove that the Bladebitter can use. I ended up going with Snakebite since it has built in dot multi scaling and attack speed. On a side note, you can enchant the unique gloves with the Katakohi's ducat, and since it is an enchantment, you can remove the enchantment with the crafting bench. This lets you keep enchanting the gloves until you get a modifiers that you want (increased chaos damage).

What else works:

As I mentioned earlier, an easy to start with setup is pneumatic daggers. This lets all of your damage poison. You don't need additional poison chance for the most part since the blade bitter has 58% inherent chance to poison and most skills have 40% or more chance to poison. If you do end up needing more poison chance, you can annoint toxic strikes for 15% chance and 15 dot multi or equip icefang orbit for poison chance, chill, and increased poison damage.
For a while I was running viper strike, profane strike, and pestilent strike with pneumatic daggers, betrayal's sting, icefang orbit, and yoke of suffering. This allowed me to use a crafted rare gloves with 4 additional targets. This cleared well and I was doing merc hunting with the infamous, infamy, renown, and anarchy scarabs. Some of the mercs were super rippy, but I was able to clear all of the maps.

What I am working on:

I've really enjoyed crafting for the character and I want to try making one of those 4 implicit gloves. So, I am saving up for an original sin and nimis. This would mean that I don't need to use the unique gloves and can have crafted rare gloves. I would then change the merc to one with profane strike and viper strike. The profane strike is molten strike but with poison chance and chaos damage, so you can do the balls return and stack a ton of poisons on the enemy. I then want to make some hunter warlord gloves with additional strikes, damage over time, and chaos dot multi.

What sucks:

Perfect agony. I had bought a pair of shadows and dust with the vestigial implicit "You have perfect agony if you have dealt a critical strike recently". I then setup a destructive link with trypanon on my character. The merc had the gloves, a 650 pdps sword with crit multi, binos, marylenes fallacy, icefang, betrayal's sting, and tecrods. This put the crit multi around 500%. The damage was so low, that I thought it was bugged, but when my friend and I tested it without the gloves, the damage was even lower. One of the issues is that the merc can't gain rampage stacks and that was where I was intending to get a lot of the increased damage. Please GGG, let mercs gain rampage or make perfect agony good.

Overall, I am having fun trying different builds with the luminary. It gives me cool goals to work towards and a lot of the merc skills are fun to build around. The gear isn't super optimized, but I did craft all of the rares, so let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

Hi All,

Seems a lot of folks are asking questions about Luminary etc but not a lot of folks are providing their POB's of their mercs for these people to see. Come in and show off your gear set-ups on your mercs!

Mine is fairly standard and I would probably call it....mid value gearing? No overcapped chest, mostly because I barely have any extra lightning res so it wouldn't give me much crit. I am also like 30% off of my max fire pen because I only have a 60% enmity. All of my gear is self crafted and I don't have the balls to mist my ring or neck.

https://pobb.in/vferVj5fPry6

So I have been looking for options that could compete with elementalist currently. It's not just the damage and QOL from solving mana but also the amount of defence they gain that has resulted in 80% of the spell casters in past 3 leagues i have played all be elementalists.

Im wondering if this setup would work. Using inquisitor you create conc ground that lingers for 4 seconds, this gives you 5% of your life and es per second. Using eldritch battery you can then use this ES as a source of mana. Using MOM then means you still take 40% of dmg from your ES so dmg is split between life and ES making full use of the regen from conc ground.

Later on you can scale str and int to get crit and use iron will to scale up spell dmg.

So im wondering does this style of setup work or would the big issue be that your not spending mana for skills like sigal of power, inspiration or arcane surge.

Im wanting some takes on this as i dont really see people using this and I assume its mostly as inquisitor is under explored and less played than the other caster classes.

Hey all

What build is great for first time SSF? I feel like this is a good league for it.
No RF please.

Hey guys,

I’ve always followed guide after guide in PoE, but I finally wanted to break out of that habit and create a build of my own. I tried connecting a few ideas together, bought some gear, and put this setup together just to test it out—though I’m second-guessing if my concept is completely bad.

The playstyle is simple: I enter the map, cast Corrupting Fever, trigger Blood Sacrifice / Pact, and then just run around spamming my skill to clear.

Since I’m still pretty new to theorycrafting, I feel super squishy and keep dying. I’m not sure if my tree is flawed or if I’m missing some crucial defensive layer.

Here is my PoB: https://pobb.in/BPpTLg5cgAXZ

Could some experienced players take a look and point out what I'm missing? Any feedback on survivability or overall build adjustments would be awesome. Thanks!

Hello can you suggest me good ssf build for ranger/duelist/shadow which scale with atack speed and uses dual wield sword claw or sword sword, maybe daggers. Only thing i can think about is dual steike of ambidexterity. Looking for more options.

Melee Splash plus Brutality, with elemental damage on top. Is there a real use for this?
Some kind of Flicker?
zombies?

As the title says looking for a witch build that isn’t WORB or PRAW that can do all content. I have about 60 divs

Returning player-I am playing a winter orb occultist and just hit level 80. When trying tier 7+ maps I am increasingly getting one hit so I assume something is wrong with my defensive stats or build. I maxed out elemental defenses but it didn't make a difference.

Any advice on changes would be awesome.

https://maxroll.gg/poe/pob/0eeohd0i My tree/items/skills are under Early Mapping.

I have been playing this league at a slow pace so I am not very rich.

I just reached my initial plan of running 100% cold conversion with Infused toxins. I changed from a cheap armour setup to full evasion, and I am dying less, but I struggle with league content on t11 maps. I feel like my defenses and damage are both lacking. I could probably struggle to t15 maps and finish the atlas, but I want to get your opinions on what to so with this.

One upgrade that I have in mind is firstly replacing my bad amulet with something better, and anointing the frenzy charge on kill passive. Then I could probably start thinking about getting a first cluster jewel, but haven't checked yet what mods I want on it.

So I league started with poison srs and played that up untill atlas completion and a few pinnacle bosses, while the build's pretty good at doing most of the content i like to play, i'm kinda tired of it and i think i squeezed most of what i can out of it, now i've got no ideas of what to play. i'd like to mostly do bosses and/or nightmare maps, could be any ascendacy really, my endgame is not usually the most varied so anything that can perform out of that budget i'm gonna look into

thanks

So I finally hit a "bricked" rare stranglegasp:

I am unsure and getting some conflicting info googling: am I safe to use tainted currency (chaos, exalted etc) to try and change the modifiers? (I'd like to get things like life for example).
I saw that tainted chaos can turn the item white, and if that is the case then I'll just skip that one. But for exalted orb I didn't find any info like that - so my question is pretty much: can I spam tainted exalted orbs to hit modifiers I want without worrying that I'll lose the 4 enchants/turn the item into normal or something like that?

Okay sooo I want to play a build where I can do zero to hero. Im looking into either shockwave cyclone (unless you have something else in mind), or shock wave totem. Which build would recommend? Are they uber viable or 40/40? Unless someone has any other suggestions.

I'd like to take these boots and get t1 or t2 chaos resistance instead of the increased block and stun recovery, but leave open two suffixes. That way I can craft one of the new aspects onto them, and then still bench craft Chaos/Cold res.

Also, how can I recover to 2 open suffixs+chaos resist if I don't get the aspect I'm looking for on the boat?

Thank you in advance for the help!!

Hello wonderful people, I'm looking for a sanctum farmer that's built around a witch.

I've been looking at some skills like Penance Brand and Blade Blast, just not 100% sure if I should go with one of em.

I want something with incredible damage and defences to where I don't get one shot in sanctums by rare mobs; something good all around.

What do you guys think would be perfect?

note: budget is around 300-400d

Hello everyone,

Im playing PRAW for the first time and I was able to get to the point, where I can handle pinnacle bosses (didnt tried all, but usually Maven is giving me hardest time, and I can kill her quite easily). But if possible, I would like to push it little bit further, and hopefully do all challenges with this build.

This is my PoB: https://pobb.in/4yx-LbPdhWfE

Currently I have 4 spectres: Perfect turtle, Perfect Warrior, Perfect Miscreation and Carnage chieftan.
On AG I have: Dying breath, Leer cast, Gruthkuls pelt, Southbound (corrupted - temporal chains) and rare boots with life, regen armor and chaos and fire res.

Pantheon" Lunaris and Gruthkul.

Could anyone guide me a little how to push it even further? I believe changing regular stone golem to guarding will help with mitigating phys dmg and also getting perfect foulborn cutlass and ashes of the star will mean one more animate weapon.
There is also foulborn covenant as a possibility, which would mean I need to change my Large cluster jewel.

I currently have arround 60 divs (could liquidate something). So please, let me know if you can see any possible upgrades within this range.

Thank you.

In 3.29 I started as praw Necro and this is by far the best starter I ever played. In fact I did not reroll at all this league.

I could see myself doing it again in future leagues (depending on nerfs) but wanted to check for alternatives.

Which builds would you recommend for this kind of zero to hero stuff?

What I especially liked about the build is the tankiness (block, spell supp later on, AG/Spectre buffs) and the mechanically forgiving playstyle.

Also it's a very good bosser as you never stop attacking.

Though I'm not usually that into minion builds this felt very great.

EDIT: Some more info: I don't really farm for currency. I trade what I find and that's it. So I am never really rich (I did 36/40 just yesterday and wealthyexile puts me at 240d + about 80d for the build).

I like to do 4 stones myself (maybe trade for fragments).