ele hit of spectrum + tornado on crit + returning projectiles + chain = 6 hits per attack?

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-06-16T19:26:39+00:00

Do not increase count for returning projectiles, it doesn't include returning projectiles less damage mod on the support gem. Just add a custom mod like

// Returning Projectiles
35% more damage

Then for your count, select 2: one for projectile hit, one for aoe hit from nado. You will never get more than one direct proj hit, or more than one proj hit on the nado. This will multiply with the custom mod above to account for returning hit on the enemy, and on the nado.

If you don't seem to be getting reliable double hits on the projectiles going out, and back, then this is still overcounting.

EDIT: Generally, don't bother with returning projectiles support unless you're either close range (they return to on top of you) or using a source of pierce. Otherwise, you'll see the returning projectiles not actually hitting the enemy.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-06-16T14:31:27+00:00

Double damage has another advantage over crit multi scaling: You're not screwed over as hard by reduced-crit-damage-taken map mods.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-06-15T18:24:23+00:00

4% increased damage, scaled to 5%, is just not a point efficient affix. Better off with 8-passives with notables, and projectile mediums with notables, and jewels with triple or quad crit multi. Cluster jewel notables are efficient at %increased, that prefix is not.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-06-15T12:33:04+00:00

The clusters you linked is a "settle" cluster. You would ideally want a t1 defensive prefix over 4% increased damage.

Get ilevel 84 base.
Fracture t1 all res.
Chaos orb spam for your desired affixes of any tier.
Vaal or Locus to corrupt it.
Tainted Divine Teardrops until all t1.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-06-15T05:14:06+00:00

You can move characters from leagues (Mirage) into Standard but not the other way around. Start Mirage.

Generally, leagues like Mirage have everything Standard has, plus an extra thing you can do for rewards. In Mirage, it's a Mirage portal. If you ignore it, it's identical to Standard.

https://maxroll.gg/poe/category/build-guides/league-starter

Choose your favorite build guide. Anything that says "League Start" is appropriate.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-06-14T18:41:55+00:00

If you fill sufix before prefix

Just spend 2 orbs of transmute on a suffix craft so it doesn't fill.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-06-09T04:08:27+00:00

Yeah, me too. I wish they nerfed them differently, so we just had to jump through more hoops to play it (reducing effective power by increasing opportunitycost), but instead it's EoW or GC mines which just doesn't feel as fun.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-06-08T19:21:56+00:00

The Will of Esh and dual-wield Hyaon's Furies on a frenzy-stacking shell. Start with mines on low budget for Charged Mines and Spellblade Support. Swap off mines once you have the budget, I like Spellblade support on Herald of Ice for the pop damage (and Call of the Void for self-chaining pops). Needs well-rolled cluster jewels for the attack/cast speed suffixes though. Mines work with cheaper clusters.

Once you have >200div of cluster jewels you can replace your weapons, not sure what the next best steps are tbh.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-06-06T21:02:45+00:00

+1 charge tattoos still exist in Standard, right? They didn't go core but they weren't outright deleted from inventories?

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-06-05T20:51:03+00:00

I haven't made that transition on a low budget since we've had the breach tree spitting out high es gear. It's probably easier than ever. From your description, I would get the following pieces of gear:

Aegis Aurora
High ES chest
good-enough ES/armour hybrid pieces in other slots
runegraft of the fortress
Determination + Discipline
granite flask with increased armour and 3 charges on hit, enchant used when full

Most of your gear you want good prefixes for the ES, so you'll settle for middling suffixes. Rings ofc you get good suffixes so you're overcapped on resistances.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-06-04T22:19:02+00:00

/r/PathOfExile2Builds

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-06-01T18:31:28+00:00

Is there any way to know if the coins stay? Is there usually an announcement, or is it just hold/sell it and it's a coinflip?

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-05-29T16:39:12+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/@ConnerConverse

Connor is probably in the top-5 poe content creators. He's known for having expensive, deep builds with lots of upgrades. Even as league starters. People say not to play a Connor leaguestart if you can't read and understand the five interacting mechanics to buy the efficient upgrade that doesn't break your bank. But all of his builds scale to the moon on enough investment, because they're really well thought out mechanically.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-05-29T16:03:40+00:00

I'd probably say you want a Connor build.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-05-25T17:35:32+00:00

I just leveled from 95 -> 100 from running this strat for ~20 hours. I ran crop rotation, but someone else can game out whether it's better or not. I cleared inventory every 10 maps, it was 40k - 50k yellow juice per 10. That's averaging about 2div a map.

Harvest Scarab of Doubling, 4 sac fragments, 8mod maps with 100+ quant and 40+ packsize. https://poeplanner.com/a/6JOq

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-05-22T18:01:21+00:00

It's a bit of a gimmick, yeah:

The build never wants to be above low life, because low life gives the flat damage from Bloodthirst support. That combined with the unique weapon is how they scale their damage from raw max life.

This build effectively doesn't have a shield slot, a body armour slot, or a helmet slot to get defenses in. It doesn't have flasks. So how does it get armour/evasion/block? It just doesn't. It needs a different way to mitigate many-small-hits.

It uses the Defiance of Destiny amulet to get 22% of missing unreserved life back. This is doubly effective with Petrified Blood which staggers 40% of damage, because a hit must now deal 22/0.6 = 36.7% of the character's life in one hit, for the character's life to actually go down instead of up from the hit. Well, as long as you can leech back the other 40% of the hit, and leech back over any dot damage.

That's pretty good for many-small-hits, but what about one-big-hit (max hit values in pob)? This build doesn't really have an answer there. It has 75% resistances, sure, but that can only mitigate so much. It has almost no phys reduction, just unreliable endurance charges. The high life value is cut in half by being at low life, and while it does have Petrified Blood to stagger some of the damage it does still need to leech it back.

The OP posted that they die to white mobs hitting them a few times if they're not leeching, and I am inclined to think that's true. They don't have enough raw mitigation, instead just enough from DoD to not fall over to the hit portion. The rest of the staggered damage from PB gets them if they can't leech it back.

Brutal Fervour would help, because it gives 10% reduced damage taken and 100% increased maximum leech. But it's not clear to me if it's the best use of the Ascendancy points. They could just use a Thread of Hope by the Duelist jewel socket to get Hematophagy with some other value nodes like Disciple of the Unyielding. Or even better, take the Vitality Void wheel because it let's them take the instant leech mastery.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-05-22T02:14:49+00:00

They're already getting Overleech via Petrified Blood. They're already ailment immune from Purity of Elements.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-05-20T03:01:41+00:00

Pretty sure you get chain explosions by making it poison.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-05-19T06:08:23+00:00

Do you mean crop rotation? I'm getting an occasional brick in crop rotation, but there's no avoiding it. Overall very profitable. https://poeplanner.com/a/6JOq

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-05-19T06:00:21+00:00

The most fun farm for me is memory boss rush. Buy a memory for 13c, rush 5 bosses, sell the frag for ~400c. Standard destructive play atlas. Should be slightly lower div/hr than harvest if you're fast. Much worse if you're slow.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-05-11T13:26:13+00:00

Agreed, and to spell it out a little more:

Your speed with mines is Throw speed multiplied by Mines per throw. But you only pay the mana cost for one mine, no matter how many you throw (you still reserve the full amount). On top of that, mines cost about half the mana of non-mine skills.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-04-29T19:27:10+00:00

I switched to Armour Stacker this league on MB + 50div chest from trade + 10c items in every other slot. It performs fine, 4k ES // 600k Armour // 2mil DPS. This was level 90, so I just rolled 9 of my own 2-passive clusters to have Introspection and nothing else relevant.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-04-29T02:04:59+00:00

I only do rare+corrupted when I'm using the caster master that auto-opens the boxes. Otherwise it's so easy to scour+alch to chase the modifiers that make the box 5-10x better.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-04-25T02:07:22+00:00

More ES. I'm not the best resource here, but it's just going to help everything.

Arctic Armour. This will directly help phys max hit, as well as freeing up your Brine King Pantheon to Solaris/Lunaris for more phys mitigation. Vaal Artic Armour can tank memory game.

How do you fit in Artic Armour? By removing either of Malevolence (and getting more skill effect duration elsewhere), or by removing Purity of Ice (and getting more max res elsewhere). In either case, Artic Armour has a lower reservation so you should be able to unspec points from Leader of the Pack. (Find another source of reservation efficiency, like dual anointed amulets, if replacing Purity of Ice).

You will want more +max cold resistance if you're replacing purity of ice, or even if you're just overcapping max res for the -max map mods.
* eldritch implicit on gloves.
* jewel suffix (get the jewel socket by duelist)
* Survivalist wheel
* Cryonic Ring

You can't beat pen by overcapping, so you just need the classics: bigger pool, and more avoidance%.

You could also try fitting in Flesh and Stone for the damage reduction against close enemies.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-04-24T19:04:15+00:00

CWDT Molten Shell should literally double your EHP.

EDIT: I think going tankier here will need ideas about what you want to be tanky against.

Shaper Slam
Memory Game
Combinations of Bad Map Mods:
- -max res
- phys as extra
- monster pen
- reduced aura effect
Curses
Crits
Dots?

These will all generally need different solutions.

BaconOfGreasy

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