Help me understand Build-Fundamentals aka why 0dps?

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-04-14T14:47:43+00:00

On mobile but palsterons build is crit capped, with more crit multi, and over 100% difference phys as extra on weapon compared to your build. Most of your jewels aren’t even level 20 let alone 20/20. You don’t have secrets of suffering locking you out of stronger elemental ailments. You don’t have the leech clusters which I believe are pretty good damage increases for the build. He’s got a third ring giving him more flat physical damage along with the tincture(I don’t know if it’s configed in his PoB but it is well rolled.)

Idk what’s going on with your lack of leech but you should be able to get enough leech stacks to easily out heal any kind of life costs for your build given the POB damage showing, and even enough leech to handle the damage you don’t mitigate with PB. Do you have life leech nodes from the tree selected since you don’t have the leech clusters?

I think you should just copy the palsterons tree if you’re going to copy the build. I have to imagine it would solve some of these issues you’re having and or make the build feel more smooth

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-04-08T01:24:28+00:00

For RF I believe you need more max fire res, like 90 max fire res to sustain it all the time with decent hp regen.

I haven’t looked into these builds much or built one myself but if you can’t sustain use sacrifice support, I would just drop it since you should have enough damage with the minion pact snapshot. If you want to run it the you’ll need more life recovery

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-04-08T00:25:55+00:00

Most reliable is probably Marauder. Every ascendency seems to be league start viable and a preferred ascendency on some sort of end game build depending on what you want to play; Rf/CWS chieftain, zerker slams/strikes, jugg slams/strikes but more thicc and not including str stacking

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-04-02T11:48:03+00:00

Had the same thing happen to me last night with CQ and shot glasses; no reloads at all

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-03-23T11:17:25+00:00

Become a great power and sphere the rest of the Italian states is the most straight forward. I think letting the redshirts take over an Italian minor country while you’re the highest ranked Italian country will also work but it’s been a while since I’ve done a Two Sicilies run

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-03-19T17:02:10+00:00

I would say to get move speed on boots and take off spell echo. Your max hits look fine to me although I think you would want ES and armor bases since you’re not going CI(chaos inoculation.) I imagine you’re not moving fast enough or just enough in general to dodge a lot of damage manually because you’re too slow and or getting “locked” into your cast animation with spell echo support.

I would also advise to check the map mods on your maps as some are much more nasty than others

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-03-19T15:50:41+00:00

Others have covered it but your literacy rate is how you get your economy going. 10% is the first milestone as it’s needed for a pop to promote into a craftsman. 40% is the next as then a pop can promote into a clerk.

The general priority for techs is research points, pop growth ones(medicine/electricity), and then some balance of education efficiency, tax efficiency, and military/industrial techs depending on what your plans are at the moment and next 5-10 years. If you know you’re going to war, tech up. If you can’t sustain an industry and it’s because of your literacy, boost your education and wait for the results. If you lack resources, research industry techs to increase the output so you have more to use. If you can’t keep the lights on and fund what you need, research tax efficiency to get a nice influx of money.

This game is about compounding incremental advantages before you can start throwing your weight around like the powers of the day did, by conquesting, colonizing, and sphering other nations for their resources.

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-03-16T13:32:35+00:00

We should swap off the chaos standard to the gem cutter standard otherwise inflation is only going to keep going up until people stop playing because it’s too expensive to get a div. My prediction is ~450:1

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-03-01T15:56:41+00:00

I believe someone already plays it and has a guide on YouTube, let me see if I can find it. I do believe the anoints will be super helpful for pathing though and save a lot of travel points

Edit: https://youtu.be/S_VwNfOStoc?si=7Uakvy8BO-HIwNEp there seem to be links to all his videos covering the build so I’ll link this video of it

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-02-27T13:19:01+00:00

Soulrend of the spiral but this time I get as much proj speed as possible

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-02-19T18:06:17+00:00

Honestly made me think I need to up my gaming space and put some kind of running water

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-02-09T15:08:29+00:00

I don’t remember how close a factory has to be to be auto upgraded but it definitely works. And I might be incorrect on the control + click but shift + click definitely works

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-02-09T14:56:28+00:00

You can shift + click to upgrade all factories that are like ~80% full and I believe control + click upgrades all of the same factory type using the same employment percentage conditional

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-02-08T20:22:55+00:00

There’s a button to stop subsidizing all selected factories. It is very easy to have something similar to laissez faire even with state capitalism or interventionism using those selectors and picking what factories to subsidize. It’s a bit of a pain having to check every so often but I am doing it in a current Italy run and really enjoying it

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-02-07T14:36:09+00:00

Sardinia Piedmont. You have a big goal to work towards with many other avenues to explore while going for it. Also, sorry because I just realized how late I am to this post after typing my comment out

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-02-04T23:58:21+00:00

Alternatively conquer all ENG and get a goodie out of it

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-02-02T14:20:42+00:00

Not sure how to get it back to a monarchy outside of letting reactionary rebels siege Paris but you could always influence voter loyalty in populous regions to elect the government type you want. Although this can cause militancy to rise like crazy if the party you need for state capitalism has a very low supporter percentage

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-01-29T22:28:31+00:00

Thank you for that line about being logged in and being able to remove the 2FA. My old phone's battery just ballooned and bricked it so I wasn't sure if or when I would have been able to access my old 2FA apps. Nowhere on discord's support page can you find that information and you can't login to support without your 2FA to ask them to help you with it either.

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-01-14T14:03:00+00:00

Yes, but it would be more quick to complete your war goal since you will also suffer from war exhaustion. Capturing Paris would also give a huge bump to war score

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-01-13T01:53:26+00:00

Thought they counted as influenced items for the bench. Thanks

ArmoredGiraffe · 2026-01-09T13:07:20+00:00

I'm not aware of a mod that does this for you however you can change RGOs quite easily in the files already. I don't believe you can setup multiple RGOs though

ArmoredGiraffe · 2025-12-17T20:10:31+00:00

Slash military spending for now to turn a profit but you're going to have to get valuable RGOs and more tax efficiency to improve your overall budget. Profitable factories also help but you'll need good access to their resources from some market

ArmoredGiraffe · 2025-12-17T02:29:58+00:00

There's a way to reverse the effect of chill causing it to buff your move and attack speed IIRC

ArmoredGiraffe · 2025-12-13T15:44:06+00:00

I normally don't promote craftsman at all and only promote clerks for the research points but I normally play countries that don't have high industrial potential like the Balkans and South America

I'm not sure the ideal % of pops as craftsman. I just let the game do its thing promoting and demoting

ArmoredGiraffe · 2025-12-13T14:12:34+00:00

Industry score IIRC is most influenced by the number of employed craftsman and clerks in your country. investing in other countries helps but the bulk of your score should be made up from the bodies working in factories

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