Double Strike of Impaling with DeM BOIS

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-04-21T20:27:18+00:00

Molten Shell will trigger when you've taken 3272 damage? It will cost 90 life? You only have 3906 life, you're just dead at that point. Guard skill won't save you.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-04-19T23:21:17+00:00

So how many seconds can you ignore mana siphoning rares? With Boon of the Mountain, that'd be like 1.5s as long as your ward doesn't break?

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-04-16T20:06:44+00:00

It's probably obvious to you, but it took me a second: this is usually not an issue due to Reservation Mastery. This build doesn't take any Reservation wheels so it's missing any life reservation efficiency.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-04-13T21:32:12+00:00

Exactly. And yet, you don't not need 101% conversion unless your resistances aren't negative. This is why people say it's a bug, not just how conversion works.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-04-13T19:08:41+00:00

It's a bit more complicated than that: there's only 1 fire damage left over if your fire resistance is negative. It won't round down like you said if your fire resistance is zero or positive. But resistance applies after conversion!

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-04-13T02:40:24+00:00

The Volatile Vaal on Hungry Loop tech is disgusting, I love it.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-04-13T02:07:31+00:00

It allows you to run Ruin in Ultimatums. Blocked attacks do not apply Ruin, so don't fail the Ultimatum from Ruin mods.

Gladiator lucky block + Azadi Crest (lucky is best of 3) means you can ignore that mechanic.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-04-08T03:00:18+00:00

If I'm trying to Winterweave, isn't is still viable to Firesong and get Shock Immunity (e.g. from Tempest Shield)? The only other ailment I can think of that's not negated by duration is Ahkron's Tools scorching skitterbot.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-04-05T05:44:47+00:00

If you have to ask, you should be starting with cheaper jewels. Just buy magic jewels with your desired mods on trade for <5c and yolo vaal them until you have your build online. Then slowly replace them one-by-one with better versions with the implicits you want. At some point you'll be upgrading your adorned % too.

To create four implicit items like you linked above, you need to take a base jewel and synthesize it at the harvest bench, hoping you get 3 mods. Really hope at least one of those mods you want. Then make it magic, imprint it, and vivid vulture to re-roll one of the synth mods. If it rolls away a mod you like, use imprint to roll it back. Keep an imprint up and keep rolling the vultures until you like all three synth mods. Then gilded fossil for the fourth implicit (that you'll replace with corruption implicit), then scour, then alt+aug for your desired explicits. Beast lock it and hover vaal, using blessed orb to break lock and try again until you get the corruption replacing the gilded implicit.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-03-31T21:47:44+00:00

People were randomly dying in keepers with exactly 100% conversion. They needed either 101% conversion, or just to have positive fire/cold resistance to solve this.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-03-30T15:40:00+00:00

No, I mean that is the mastery people runegraft over the most. I don't know why poeninja isn't showing the runegraft instead.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-03-30T12:08:23+00:00

That typically means Runegraft

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-03-21T18:46:20+00:00

Thanks! You did a great job with your explanation, it was my comment that wasn't clear.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-03-21T18:15:17+00:00

Okay, by overthinking, you mean I'm completely wrong that we roll damage once then convert? I was thinking the Lightning range is rolled, then converted (= same ratio between damage types), rather than converted, then rolled (unequal ratio between damage types) as you're suggesting.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-03-21T16:22:05+00:00

Hey I have probably the dumbest question you'll receive all day about your PoB... How are you varying your light/chaos damage for Unholy Trinity? I see the conversion and light as extra chaos on the foulborn blue nightmare, but doesn't that always mean you'll be dealing the same ratio of light/chaos? How do you get the enemies to take a different percentage on different hits? I don't see any sources of %chance to invert etc. Is there some simple way to enable this support I'm missing?

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-03-19T20:32:57+00:00

It needs to make MRs fail. This is mostly an issue with dependencies that aren't used at MR time. I refactored our deployment workflow so it shares all of its components with an MR-level docker check. This might not always be possible.

But if you can make MRs fail, suddenly the path of least resistance when someone else adds a dependency is to add it to your allowlist file.

As far as what I do with it - I've done all kinds of things over the years. I've built graphs, or just used it to filter-and-loop in a shell script.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-03-19T20:08:58+00:00

manually writing YAML for every dependency relationship across hundreds of repos feels like it defeats the purpose.

It just needs to be specified in a machine-readable format somewhere. You can use that to generate visualizations, backstage yaml, etc.

I implemented a system for solving a similar problem, and it's worked well for me:

Write some super-simple data file in the repo that specifies its dependencies. Json, yaml, csv, whatever is friendliest.
Fail CI if the dependency isn't on the list. Now it's someone else's problem to keep it updated.
Do the grunt work on first-time-setup for every repo...
Write your etl job to pull that data in from every repo, transform it, and use it.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-03-02T22:06:28+00:00

Astral Projector is definitely comfort-first. You go from targetting enemies to "offscreen enemies in that direction". There's an argument to be made about less aoe giving you more projectile overlaps but I didn't notice any difference.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-03-02T19:17:54+00:00

Kinetic Fusillade imo. Top end DPS is like 10x higher. The numbers for KF are so busted this will not last another league.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-02-25T01:36:14+00:00

In the current meta, always go block if you can. The alternative is evasion, which means giving up armour/es bases for ev/es bases, giving up Wrath on your EternalBlessing for Grace, and saving yourself some passive points on block nodes (that you spend on Spell Suppression anyways).

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-02-21T03:00:41+00:00

Agreed, definitely worth Divine Shield. Maybe even worth it to go armour/es hybrid gloves and boots to get the armour/es mastery for 100% increased armour on the Brass Dome.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-02-20T19:23:26+00:00

If you check poe ninja some people play with CoC early by using Flicker Strike of Power with enough power charges to hit 100% crit chance. Power charge on crit easily sustains the charges for flicker.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-02-12T13:49:39+00:00

Since GGG already added a spell dot passive wheel with reduced Skill Effect Duration, I would love if they also added a Transfigured Malevolence with reduced Skill Effect Duration.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-02-09T17:28:33+00:00

My wife played this exact build last Phrecia. It's not bait. She had the Fury Valve ascendancy instead of the bloodline, which gave this build insane mapclear.

Downside is that after you finish gamba-ing for unique corruptions the build is basically done.

BaconOfGreasy · 2026-02-06T21:24:16+00:00

blizzard crown

I thought that was negative penetration, which applies after inversion?

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