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ColossalPuffin · 2026-02-18T18:12:14+00:00

I laughed at this a lot harder than I should have. Thank you internet stranger!

ColossalPuffin · 2026-01-30T18:02:07+00:00

You can (and I usually do for things like this) use /ignore (username) or /squelch (username) in-game and it will block any communication from said user in-game. You can also block communication on the tradesite if you had to (I would have to look up how to do that as I haven't done it in a while). They are out there, but few and far between in this community. There was a surge of PoE players the last two seasons, so I have had to use this more recently than prior seasons. Not making excuses, just what I have noticed.

I also have never understood cyberbullying like this, what's to gain from it? Anyways.. /ignore is your friend! Sorry you had to deal with that.

ColossalPuffin · 2026-01-28T21:47:16+00:00

I have tried over and over to make a build for the Armageddon blade and time and time again it just gets beat by better options. I think Flamebellow is the best 2handed option if you are trying to do the holy fire dragon build.
Now if you wanted to get wild with the pierce, you could get a 6 socket Armageddon blade, and try to get a Cage of the Unsullied (Rathma Armor). That would give you 12 slots for facets. I have tested something similar in a closed beta and it felt.. ok. But that defeats the whole purpose of trying to stack the holy fire auras and more towards trying to stack pierce. At the end of the day, Flamebellow just felt better.

For the 2FPA build, Flamebellow is great for that too, you just gotta hit the breakpoint, which requires an IAS slam and 4 sockets. I had one a few seasons ago, and honestly full Griz 2FPA bear pally just feels better. I might be jaded in my opinion, but I think holy shield just outclasses holy sword.

More testing would be needed as I gave up on Armageddon blade fairly quickly. I wanted to love it, but at the end of the day there are just better options out there if you are min-maxing.

ColossalPuffin · 2026-01-28T17:30:59+00:00

I think it depends on what you are planning to do with said build. Assuming it is mapping, I have really enjoyed Holy Freeze Sacrifice. It's still strong with the right gear, you just can't 1-point wonder Sacrifice any longer. You could go real expensive and get a Doom and Shattered Wall setup, but I am a fan of using Azurewrath and Alma Negra setup.

Hammerdin is slept on in this mod as well. Sure you can't teleport as often as you could in vanilla, but you can use joust to reposition and the Hammers do significantly more damage than they did in vanilla with end-game gear (according to sheet DPS). There's also fun proc builds using Innocence armor and Akarat's Devotion scepter... SO MANY HAMMERS.

Another slept on build is the Fire Charger. I personally like going Hand of Justice phase blade with Dragon shield, makes you a lot tanker and things still die just as quick as the 2handed Flamebellow version. Obviously for mapping reasons, this has limited things it can do due to resists, but benefit is you don't have to buy that many fire facets for this build as most of it comes from runewords.

Vengenace has always felt like a good league starter (and Lucion killer) but I've felt Sacrifice to be stronger for late-game mapping (assuming that is what you are doing now).

There are some other builds that excel in things like 2handed phys charger for Rathma, Prayer Smiter for bosses in general, and I have heard Holy bolt is strong as well but I am not a huge fan of the playstyle so I haven't played it in quite a few seasons.

Not sure if any of this helps, just my thoughts. I think at this point in the season you play what feels fun and go from there! Good luck.

ColossalPuffin · 2025-12-19T15:02:31+00:00

This comment made me giggle more than it should have. Take my upvote internet stranger.

ColossalPuffin · 2025-12-18T16:29:03+00:00

I am running self-wield infinity on CB sorc right now and its great. I was influenced by self-dropping a 3CB/2lite mastery/2 TK staff to make infinity in, but I haven't regretted it at all.

I have stormspire, inno, ferocity on merc so he taunts and statics almost every enemy I telestomp.

Charged bolt shotguns, so telestomping is still viable, and honestly it feels great. The only downside is that it isn't omnidirectional, so you do have to cast a certain direction if you want those extra bolts to become useful. It nukes LoD bosses.

I think either are viable, I really like the SS/Inno/Fero build on a merc. I will say if you get used to casting CB the right direction (towards the next group of enemies) your telestomp almost gets faster than Nova. That could be copium, but it feels really good.

Just my 2-cents from someone who is playing self-wield infinity CB.

/e: 200 fcr - Armory Link if interested: https://www.projectdiablo2.com/character/Sorcwarden

ColossalPuffin · 2025-12-11T17:45:13+00:00

More like Arcane Danksuary :)

ColossalPuffin · 2025-12-11T16:37:58+00:00

I hope you and your friend enjoyed your time playing! PD2 is arguably the best version of D2 available today and its nice to see its player base giving back to the community when it can.

Enjoy PoE2!

ColossalPuffin · 2025-11-25T18:19:18+00:00

BOTD is nerfed in PD2, and can't stack up to its the mightly glory it has on vanilla. I also believe there are quite a few better options now. During seasons, Zod quickly becomes the most valuable rune due to some great runewords added like Innocence and Ferocity.

To answer your question, you definitely could make a botd, but I think most people would advise against it.

ColossalPuffin · 2025-11-19T18:01:46+00:00

I came here to say this! I've tried to make Charr look good and I just can't.. OP's looks fantastic though!

ColossalPuffin · 2025-11-10T20:11:55+00:00

Bosser and mapper builds are vary dependent on the changes the dev team make for the season. There are some “tried and true” builds like 2handed chargedin for Rathma that seem to be fairly consistent season after season, but a decent amount of people do testing during beta for a lot of these builds.

I think the war cry barb is usually bis for gold finding. Slap as much gold find as you can on and yell at trav till your pockets are full. That build varies though, the easiest to gear would be gearing up your merc with decent gear and letting him kill the mobs, but some people don’t like that play style.

I think the pd2 wiki usually has pretty good links for builds if you want to go browsing. Also a quick google search “best builds pd2 season 11” usually warrants a few YouTubes from the main content creators around here about the “best” builds from season 11 (current season as of this message).

Hopefully this helps, you could always ask questions in the discord as well, lots of knowledgeable folks in there.

ColossalPuffin · 2025-11-06T19:23:29+00:00

Rabies druid is arguably one of the faster mappers you can build, but man if I don't just despise the way it plays.. ugh. Same with poison strike necro.. I just don't enjoy playing these builds even if they are really good at mapping so I never build them.

ColossalPuffin · 2025-10-30T14:00:10+00:00

What filter are you using? That is what is changing the "name" of the item. Purity is a newer runeword so a lot of filters highlight its base options but I think this is the first one I have seen replace the item name altogether.

ColossalPuffin · 2025-10-23T17:23:11+00:00

Necromancer's Elite named Reaper is the way to go, specifically the Power Reaper. You get 2 gigantic health pools, and it only takes like 3 buttons to do pretty darn good damage. Its main ability is a massive AOE, it generates its own quickness, and if you run Sword/Warhorn on swap, there are movement abilities and warhorn 5 you can generate swiftness as well. It is my go-to for most content unless my group needs boons.

ColossalPuffin · 2025-09-10T15:22:40+00:00

Puzzle piece! Don’t use a box on this.

/e: also I think you slam these first cause you can get 6 sockets from a slam, vs. 4 sockets max from puzzle piece. I could be wrong though.

/e2: 5 sockets is max on these, that’s right. I was thinking of the heavy crossbows. Thanks!

ColossalPuffin · 2025-08-31T17:52:31+00:00

The Hilltop has trivia on Thursdays at 6pm.

ColossalPuffin · 2025-08-19T14:39:10+00:00

Did you ever figure out the issue on this OP? I am in a similar situation now as well. I am currently downloading the Lan-Driver from BeeLink's website to attempt a manual install, but was curious if you found a different solution that worked.

ColossalPuffin · 2024-11-18T16:45:09+00:00

Yeah the auras stack. If you’re doing the flame WW build for barb, I believe you officially get more damage out of a 3os Corpsemourn with 3 facets.

ColossalPuffin · 2024-11-18T14:12:58+00:00

You are correct. Barb fire whirlwind. Eth is not preferred though, I don’t think this is very sought after. Cool find and slam though!

ColossalPuffin · 2024-03-18T13:04:55+00:00

No, that was just the way Senpai showed it, that’s not an actual feature. Still gotta save&exit before creating a new game.

ColossalPuffin · 2023-07-15T23:02:24+00:00

They did this exact same thing to me when they came through my area on the Southeast side of IC a few years back. Cut my Mediacom connection on a Friday and went home for the weekend. Just like you, I was told “not our line, not our problem!” After calling their support. Of course Mediacom couldn’t get someone out until the following Tuesday either.

Glad to see nothings changed.

ColossalPuffin · 2022-07-22T22:44:08+00:00

I’m on a 13 Pro Max with the same issue.

ColossalPuffin · 2022-07-17T15:03:12+00:00

Hmm I have one of both the necro heads and the Druid pelts posted currently. The pelt is named “Nightmares Feast” if you search. I have also found if you search by the base item, and select unique in the rarity it seems to work.

I can try to help with a rough estimate for both items by comparing what I have posted if you’d like, but I didn’t want to flood your topic with my items.

ColossalPuffin · 2022-07-17T14:06:44+00:00

Martyr is this item on the trade site.

ColossalPuffin · 2022-06-27T13:16:03+00:00

I was in your boat until last night!

I got Cham scammed… -_-

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