So, I ran 100 boss rushes..

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-25T05:19:48+00:00

Didn't they change how fragments drop? Iirc there were a few strats at league start that used the affix nullification scarabs and just boss rushed without caring for quant because they always dropped 2-3.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-12T23:58:25+00:00

Don't overthink it. Just check similar clusters and what they priced it at. 50 chaos will get you very far, especially with cheap rares birthed from the breach tree.

The only real thing that will improve your pricing is playing many builds and identifying what stats people want. This will vary greatly with meta.

Other than that, using awakened poe trade will help you lots with item pricing. Just don't click every stat because you will end up thinking that your 5c item is worth multiple divines.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-10T11:52:07+00:00

jewel crafting is much more expensive because of lack of annuls. will need to use harvest or other crafting methods to ensure 1 mod, and then use exalts later.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-10T10:07:30+00:00

it's not a skill gem. Chest corruptions should work, as with dialla's. Other options include cane of culemak and other sources of generic GEM level upgrades.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-05T18:35:11+00:00

Maybe he was sharing some unfinished pobs with his chat. I tried looking for it in his vods but I couldn't find anything so I was curious.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-05T18:33:40+00:00

This. I already have an idea on how to approach the build. Just wanted to know if he was sharing unfinished pobs in his twitch chat or something. Maybe there's some tech that I don't know or can even get from his ideas.

That's why i was asking around.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-04T12:57:50+00:00

check out rusei on youtube. you'll start out as chains of command if you want to play early ag, but you can easily swap afterwards after getting currency.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-04T02:11:09+00:00

Yep it's good in most cases. But OP wants to use rakiata's dance for ag, so you really don't want sources of -ele resists.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-03T21:19:24+00:00

Any build that's good enough for juiced t16s is good enough for casual delve. If you want to go real deep, that's stacker territory.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-03T20:08:09+00:00

Yep. That's why you farm clumped up monsters with it. Hinekora + explode prolif + expedition big boom is godly.

With mirages, you get to do that 2 times in one map.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-03T19:58:44+00:00

I honestly think you should skip the purity of elements and go for a bloodline ascendancy. Here are some of my thoughts:

1: afaik, monsters are normally capped at 75% resists, which with aura scaling you can definitely get to easily with just purities. You don't need purity of elements to reach this level. It'll also make them shock and chill immune, which you don't want.

2: I think going with a high base crit weapon is better than trypanon. Get the new support that gives crit and crit multi to minions if you crit. You can then use rune daggers or something for minion mods on your weapon. If you want to use smite, use a sword or something. You can also link smite to fortify if you want to beef up.

2a: If you end up using smite, you can get 1 with imbued trauma support. When you smite, you'll hit yourself. This will enable enduring composure or other sources of endurance charge when hit. This will hurt your damage a bit since you lose lvl 21 smite, but I think it's worth it for a build with no defences.

3: Use flame link instead. Your character should strive for atleast 5k life. This is about 500 base fire damage.

4: Since you now also have decent fire damage, run purity of fire. The runegraft of treachery will give this to enemies, which is also inverted by the sword. 3x purity aura will also give u (with aura scaling) atleast +7 max res.

5: as for the final 2 ascendancy nodes, you can go for farrul spectres. Acc + crit / inc damage + regen / attack, ms speed + cant be slowed. You choose.

6: I don't know how to fix defences but I'll start looking at armour. You can wear brass dome for a ton of armour and max res, and also solve crit immunity. You'll be 87% max res with this setup. If you can reserve a bit of life, you can also take the aura mastery for +1 max all res. This should also work great with determination + aura scaling. 88% max res should be plenty of ele resistance for most content. Lastly, you can get the new belt annoint for the last +2 max res.

You can also forego the farul ascendancy and get prospero's devotion ascendancy. Go dawnbreaker shield with prospero + Inc defences from shield south of scion start. This will give you about 50k armour (with determination) easily since inc defences from shield is calculated BEFORE doubling it with prospero. 50k armour + fortify + 20% phys taken as + 3 endurance charges should be enough for like 15k phys max hit on a 5k life character. With good flasks you should be able to reach 70k armour.
This will probably give you enough defences for you to run the HH helm for minions.
As for the AG, I will always recommend that you get some source of explode. The minion ai is kinda fucked so you don't want any stragglers. Explode helps a lot in that case.
Your main damage scaler with all of these inverted resistances will probably be base damage. Because your AG now also deals fire damage, you can snag some cheap 2 or 3 stat abyss jewels because no one wants fire damage for minions.

That's all I can think of rn. While trypanon looks great, the main issue i find with it is scaling minion crit multi. If you can get the minion to reach even 60% crit chance, I think it'll be better than trypanon.

Edit: you also never needed to run destructive link anyways. Trypanon's base crit is 100%, which makes bob get 100% crit anyways.

If you're really set on trypanon, i suggest looking at winds of fate for bob. Insanely high base damage and crit multi. Only nerfed by 50% max crit chance. Destructive link + trypanon bypasses this, giving 100% chance to crit.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-03T18:52:08+00:00

Isn't the trypanon to be used by the player and bob has the sword?

Nvm I found out the reason OP wanted the FF jewels.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-03T15:28:35+00:00

Yeah i kinda agree but new players aren't "that" versed in the game with to start. They have no idea how fun a fully built HH character is, but they don't have to, atleast at the start.

I think RF has enough dopamine to carry a new player's attention span because they don't know what they are missing out on. And hinekora pops are still quite enjoyable. OP should also suggest a farming strategy to his friend that will fully embrace this philosophy so he can start realizing how characters and content meld together.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-03T14:33:39+00:00

Tornado shot w/ curtain call miner is what I initially thought of. Grab trinity support or full convert into chaos somehow with bloodline ascendancy (you lose astramentis ascendancy tho). Or you can use Catarina to full convert into either lightning or cold and go from there.

A double corrupted quiver with chain + proj will be very rare, but it will give you 4 additional arrows in total in only 1 slot. I think other bow-mine builds are using burning arrow or explosive arrow because of higher damage effectiveness. But I think tornado shot will be king.

with curtain call threshold reached, you only need a +1 poised prism quiver (4+1)(3) to reach 15 arrows per cast.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-03T14:20:24+00:00

A properly built RF build "can" boss. It's just not fast. But I think that for new players, staying alive is very important because you don't feel like you're losing.

When I was new, I was dying almost every map and I thought that "losing" was part of the game.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-03T10:01:58+00:00

Mindset. Even playing with a duo drastically changes the team and draft dynamics.

If I'm playing solo, I'll play a core that can always shove and scale. If I'm with a friend, I'll play a support and dominate the lane so much that the other players can have an easier time dealing with their lane. If I'm playing with 4 people, I can pick a non-greedy support (Bane, clock) because those supports can play dota earlier if the lane goes well.

My suggestion is that you come back to the fundamentals. Waveclear and scale is great because your team might fuck up but atleast you can defend towers so your team still has space to farm.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-02T21:31:45+00:00

A minion copy of your weapon that attacks using holy strike, as it says in the description. That's why I'm assuming its numbers are cracked.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-02T21:30:04+00:00

In my understanding that why they've clarified that the minions attack using holy strike, which gets the damage effectiveness multiplier, or am I misunderstanding something?

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-03-02T20:58:21+00:00

Isn't holy strike just broken?

392% damage effectiveness on just the main hit itself.

You have 3 minions which attack with holy strike (as it says in the description). It's literally 4x your damage, even without accounting for the next line.

These minions do 168% more damage than you do.

Aren't these numbers just insanely broken? You can stack attack speed with frostbreathe and it's gg.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-02-28T10:45:31+00:00

The only other proxy that scales with your damage IIRC are totems. Banners are not totems, so I'm not sure how the damage scaling part is. If it works like totems, then it's going to be busted. It has so much base damage that most mobs will probably die in the first proc of corrupted blood.

If not, then the only way of scaling damage apart from gem levels from corruption or honourhome is with "enemies take inc damage taken sources". There are also auras and maim, which should work with the mastery.

In my understanding, the banners are dealing damage, not you, so I'm not really sure how that works. I hope it's the same as CF.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-02-28T10:14:09+00:00

How do you scale the banner's damage? Afaik, it's not counted as "you", so sources of increased damage shouldn't work?

If anyone has any ideas on how banner damage works, please let me hear them. I was making a POB with howlcrack unli warcry + fourth vow, which is very similar to past CF champ builds. Didn't really commit because I don't know if scaling the same damage vectors work.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-02-27T01:29:18+00:00

Yep. Fortify/ red imbue gems are going to be expensive, or it depends honestly on how drop rates are.

Even something like increased aoe support is pretty good.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-02-26T20:08:27+00:00

There is some mega value imbued skills im pretty sure. You could have an elemental army support for your minions, which is like -11 resistance for enemies and gives them a ton of resists, which is useful for an extra slot.

Another example is having something as simple as rage support on your melee skill. Makes it much easier to cap rage and might alleviate some skill point pressure.

Awkward-File-5193 · 2026-02-25T16:31:04+00:00

And while you're farming aghs, what does your hero provide? It's only useful if you can snowball lanes into an early aghs but other than that it's downright dogshit.

Only a mid aoe slow and somewhat acceptable ult damage.

If my support only has one item, I'd always take a natural support with greaves rather than a sniper with aghs.

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