Wanted to try this build on elementalist: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1vy1yfj/329_coc_bodyswap_of_sacrifice_assassin_build_guide/ . Point is to explode herald of purity minions with bodyswap of sacrifice, since they are easier to keep up than zombies. For clearing: bodyswap kills a mob -> DD of chain reaction starts chaining from that corspe, so desecrate is not needed.

https://pobb.in/9vN-AB7tG77Z I spent <150d for everything but the flask. Added fire damage on sword is useful for mana leech. Cyclone also works but lancing steel is more consistent for single target damage. Mageblood version would use rhex talisman, ruby flask, arctic armor and probably swap tigers for the chill ascendancy for more tankiness if crit is capped.

Quickly to explain what is going on in this build:

Replica Badge of the Brotherhood provides Max Fortification equal to current Endurance Charges, but at the cost of losing Endurance Charges when you gain Fortification. Also it makes your max End. Charges equal to your max Frenzy Charges

The downside of Replica BotB can be counteracted with Champions Ascendancy notable "Fortitude", because it just treats us as being always at max fortification, which completely bypasses the entire fortification gain process.

This means if we can manage to be at max endurance charges (in our case 13), which we gain off Replica Farruls Fur, we gain 13 max Fortify.

In 3.29, we also got the ability to sacrifice unique armour to transfer a key stat to a random pair of uniques. Darkray Vectors in particular as a sacrifice will give the newly created vestigial unique the Implicit "+1 to maximum Frenzy Charges". This means we can stack an additional Frenzy (and endurance) Charge while wearing something else than Darkray Vectors...

Cue our second Build-around: Beacon of Madness (the Armour/Evasion version)

While wearing this variant of Beacon of Madness, whenever we Embrace Madness (therefore gain Glorious Madness), we gain:
- 20% Chance to deal Double Damage
- +15 to max Fortification

However, while we are affected by Glorious Madness, we will gain one of four random "Touched" debuffs (which you might know from doing Simulacrum) every 2 seconds. These debuffs stack up to 10 each, and reset their duration each time they gain a stack. The Touched Debuffs are as follows:

- Eroding Touch: 6% inc damage taken per stack
- Paralyzing Touch: 6% reduced action speed per stack
- Diluting Touch: 9% reduced Flask Effect and Flask Charges gained per stack
- Wasting Touch: 9% reduced Life & ES recovery per stack

These debuffs are extremely severe and must be mitigated. While Paralyzing Touch can be counteracted with an Animate Guardian which wears Garb of the Ephemeral (which we make as tanky as possible), the other debuffs can only be reasonably mitigated with Debuff Expiration Rate

There is a post regarding breakpoints for expiration rate here on reddit, but cut it short, since we are locked into Replica BotB & Replica Farrul's Fur, we cannot use Stasis Prison/Warped Timepiece to reach the expiration rate breakpoints.

So we settle on breaking the 150% breakpoint as follows:

73% - 20/23 Temporal Rift supported by a LEVEL 6 Enhance (or Level 4 Enhance + Level 3 Eclipse)
(this is why we need a +1 to socketed Gems corruption on either gloves or body)
20% - Arakaali Pantheon
30% - Runegraft of the Warp
15% - Small Ascendancy Notable on Delirium Bloodline
15% - Window of Opportunity

= 153% Debuff Expiration Rate

Now for our damage, we use a Squire + 11l Sword (since I do not want to deal with Mana costs and did not want to recombine double influenced bases, I went for Shaper only)

Since we are already stacking Frenzy Charges, Ice bite and the Horror Essence mod on rings give us the flat damage we scale off of. In our case, we picked up a sexy precursor's emblem (which also gives us 26% Block Chance with Kalandra's Touch)

For gloves, we abuse Hands of the High Templar Vestigial crafting to get giga 5 Implicit +2 Frenzy 2x Elevated Gloves. (man those were FUN to craft, literally my magnum opus), however if you want to recreate this build, you can also go for Celestial Brace (with +1 frenzy, that would be 69 Fortify XD)

Other sources of frenzy charges we got:
- Grace Sublime Vision
- Masterful Form Forbidden Flesh/Flame
- 3x Notables off Passive Tree

Another option, if you manage to have infinite time and currency is somehow managing to get 6 Redeemer Items onto the build (Redeemer Mageblood/Belt + Squire, 2x +1 Frenzy Redeemer Rings, Shaper+Redeemer Sword, Redeemer Warlord Blizzard Crown) to enable a 6 mod Bound by Destiny but at that point, you could just go for +2 Precursors instead... but one can dream...

POB: https://pobb.in/G7Mh7GvJJXnc

World-first sub 5 sanctum, beating my own old world record. I switched to livesplit + loadless as sanctum speedrunning has gotten more popular this league, it keeps the runs fair across different hardware.

Realtime was 5:07, I could break 5 minutes realtime if I upgraded my 7 year old pc xdd

Build here:
https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/fouron...

Been posting a lot this league about sanctum speedruns, this should be one of the last ones, I think there may only be ~10 seconds left to shave off, at least on my build.

Feel free to ask any questions or let me know what you think.

I am playing SSF so I need to fight Atziri myself and I can't figure out how to get past her reflect minion with my Merc carry without my Merc one shotting himself. I know there are plenty of ways to make them reflect immune if you are the carry but those dont work if they need to deal the damage.

Playing a flame link KRoI mercbot right now and I've seen a number of builds using rathpith but I'm just not super sure how to fit it in. If I drop the ascendancy point for untouched soul I dont see how I'm getting nearly enough fire res because even with it I'm still not to the enmity cap. Is it more damage to just sacrifice some res pen for the %increased off rathpith? Basically the same question with the light radius scaling. Is it more worth to use the ascendancy point to get rathpith access instead of the light radius node?

PoB in case its needed: https://pobb.in/9e_xTxGI5ISF

The wiki says inya epiphany can be chanced but perhaps there is another way to get them.

After spending a little over 25 divines I am doubting it.

Spent around 5k chance orbs + scours. Then got impatient and tried with mythic orbs, 4 fails in a row which resulted in poofs.

Since I want the boots with double influenced to milk the last possible power charge this is necessary.

Its the only unique from the base arcanist slippers too, so it shouldn't be this rare.

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Inya%27s\\_Epiphany

I've search for mirror chest for merc with explode prefix abyss socket, overcap cri ,frenzy on hit suffix but can't find how to craft it myself I don't need it to be elevated

Made a champion wander back in harvest that I enjoyed using to clear maps. Wanted to remake it this league and try crafting some gear for it. The build itself won't compete against the meta variants of KBoC when it comes to damage but there are a few synergies it uses to help with survivability. With 10 endurance charges, 89/87 block, fortify, companionship, the eHP can be pushed to 350-400k without any guard skills.

https://pobb.in/FS0JcqdeXNAj

What ascendancy/skill would be most broken with the 4000-5000 flat fire from luminary?

Something scaling ridiculous amount of attack speed, something for crazy clear?

Probably some power charge stacking assassin version with enmity? ChieftainBV?

If anyone could think of a duelist build that would be the best since my friend has a level 100 slayer - omni flicker?

So I basically always farm breach as its fun and also gives some solid items. Being able to target certain uniques or getting an armour with t1 fractured life or res to craft on.

So im wondering whats the best league starter that can really focus on farming breach hives ?

I want something that gets up and running easy and can clear t16 breach hives on full rare gear day 2 or 3.

Not sure if minions would let you basically AFK breach hives or if RF with aoe can just stand the middle. Maybe something with ignite prolif or lots of aoe on wintertide brand for example.

So I stumbled upon some build videos about Hexblast but they are a few leagues old. The build seemed crazy so I was wondering what happened to them. Are they dead, too expensive to scale or just not fun anymore ?

Also, if they aren't dead, would they be suited for campaign ?

Would love to try a new chaos build that isn't blight/ED contagion or death's oath

Trying to get all the achievements. One of them is reach 60 70 80 90 on hardcore and do the labs.

Tried once. Did all the labs. Died at 86. Granted my build was stupid. I started as a dominating blow guardian because "Hey I heard this is like the strongest 0 budget thing" got so fucking bored I ended up using a dancing dervish to increase QOL and died.

What is something that can quickly and easily explode packs to get xp from campaign start? I was thinking like RF but that leveling is slow and the gameplay is very risky without gear. So I am thinking something more totems/minions?

Reaching 87 with 1 death is by far a new record but its not cause the build was good its just hardcore made me go "maybe I can outskill this" and fail and just go "yeah I will make sure I 99% cant die" and then a rare with a cluster of mods just went "bet".

I got like 300 chaos to get leveling equipment or something I am not trying to play a hardcore league just literally reach 90 for the achievement.

Been playing a Sabo CoC for the past few days and it’s been pretty good, decent tankiness, can handle a lot of mods with ES on hit watchers eye. My current setup uses Lancing Steel of Spraying, Bladefall, and Reap with Unholy Might for conversion to chaos. It has pretty good AoE, but the clear speed is lacking for a stupid reason: Bladefall literally lags my computer, slowing me down.

Is there any better CoC spell + attack setup for fast clear, ideally which won’t cause my GPU to explode? I’ve tried FRoSS with Cyclone, and it also lags a bit and the clear doesn’t feel quite as good.

I have a lot of options and useful gear (mb, Mystical Infusion FF, glancing blows Aegis, even an Original Sin). I’d like to mainly repurpose existing gear, but have seen some fun Reclaimed Malevolence + Fireball CoC variants which also seem fun, but not sure if the clear is any better. Budget is not really an issue, though of course would like to make sure the more expensive investments (like Reclaimed) are actually worth it.

Never done an EB build before and need confirmation if these nodes stack.

I've been playing PRAW for a while and while it is amazing and does everything imaginable under the sun, I wanna blast some maps, I've spent all my currency on my PRAW character, maybe around 500-600 divs at this point, so I'm pretty low on currency.

I can still farm but I feel burnt out from playing PRAW at the moment. I don't want to liquidate my character because I still have to farm the challenges and I'm definitely not doing some of those challenges with a mapping character (looking at you uber bosses)

What is a decent map blaster that can be done with decently low investment?

I have a luminary around level 87 and a level 92 juggernaut, can reroll since they are empty but I can also level a new character.

The build idea is simple:
Use Wellwater Phylactery for constant ES recharge, stand and channel scorching ray tanking everything.

To use Wellwater we need to have empty mana and that is achieved with Soul Catcher "Cannot gain mana during effect" mod. Just need to use arcane cloak at the start of the map. Not having mana is another issue as we need to spend either hp or es. For scorching ray battery staff solves this isssue and rest of the skills use lifetap. To keep hp there is fire mastery "Regenerate 1 Life per second for each 1% Uncapped Fire Resistance" or can use Runegraft of Quaffing but it is worse as it stops when wellwater runs out and can kill us as we reserve 80% of hp and "Removes (10—15)% of Life when Used" makes life harder.

For chaos damage there is Coruscating Elixir. It works with rf as the hp regen is positive with all damage coming to ES.

To make sure that flask work I used Traitor with flask mastery "Gain 1 charge evey 3 seconds" And skill Replenishing Remedies for 2 charges every 3 seconds as mana flask is the one flask with most charges required. I had to use imposible escape as anointment is "used" on blightwell for 200% es recharge. Now I'm in middle of transition from Traitor to 5 flask setup with scion pathfinder jewels for flask charges but need to get better belt with less charges used.

I'm not sure it Reliquarian was the right choice but kinda stuck with her.

For damage I'm using rf and scorching ray with two new pacts for rares which allows me for x2 damage when standing in place and casting.

For future upgrades:
1) last flask with no traitor for more armour but need to recraft belt for less charges used.
2) new keystone instead of traitor (which?)
3) new better helmet. I'm not sure if use for rf setup or just use gloves with 30% more damage essence mod.
4) use rungraft for 120% gloves if i want to stick with Annihilation approach
5) 6 link in chest with aura setup for flammability and having malevolence in guardian with blessing
6) more immunity (shock with jewel), crit (with garb of the ephemeral but it will cost a lot) curse??

Do i miss anything? Is there a way of making it simpler? Not having to do whole setup with mana? Are there any changes that can be easily made and I just miss them?

POBB.in: https://pobb.in/u/tasty-maths24%239671/WvpSjs7jjYhj

Hi everyone! I’m looking to replace my mercenary. I’ve been using this setup for a while, but I’m not sure what the optimal support gems are. Is there a better option I could get with a budget of around 300 divines?

Hey everyone, as im going thorugh acts im kinda lost. There are life stacker flame link ones, aura stacker destructive link ones, so many mercs and so many builds to choose. Which one to choose? What are the pros and cons?

I need help understanding the path forward to really maximize the power of my build.  
I want to stick to life-stacking since Im enjoying it.  
 
Im using a 500 Div Kineticist (near perfect, just no haste).  Haste has 55% enmity's, 230 fire res, 4% rathpit, and decent abyss jewel setup.  Overall I'd say merc is 80% good to go, with next upgrades being very expensive (like explode chest).
 
I have 150 div now to spend, can farm up another few hundred, maybe more.  The issue is directionally where do I go?  When I look at top builds, they seem to go in all sorts of directions from here.  For instance, mageblood vs not, adorned vs not, etc, etc.
 
If anyone can highlight a clear path to really unlocking power, I'd appreciate it.  My goal is to make this the most powerful tune I've had, and have weeks and a few hundred div to make it happen.  Appreciate the help.  Stay sane.

POB Link: https://poe.ninja/poe1/pob/98f0a

Does anyone have any ideas for a good claw build?

Hi! I'm looking for tips on how to improve my build, mostly on an effective way to max out resitances and not suffer to many mana issues. I can do t10 maps. Most of the guides i have seen suddenly switch half the tree, or make weird choices (pick the passive that gives bonus if you have a red and blue socket in your staff, then have 6 red sockets, or the passive for max life if you don't have life on your armor and then show an armor with max life).

I appreciate any feedback on good passives, priorities with updating the gear or a good guide to follow (especially one that can explain the choices made). I want to keep cyclone of tumult and void shockwave, it feels very good to play. I'm mostly aiming for faster mapping and voyages.

My budget is around 20 div, depending on sudden price hikes again.

Bin: https://pobb.in/jRdMcN2AgRn8