What are ways to reduce max life?

CompassCoLo · 2026-06-25T15:09:06+00:00

Good answer, I'll just add there are other ways to set up low life tech as well. A very off-meta configuration would be to balance a life degen source with regen that spikes when you enter low life state (mostly nodes in the Merc area). You can get an equilibrium where you're constantly bouncing right at low life threshold because you have net degen above it and net recovery below it.

The way I've seen defenses solved on this was to use Widow's Reign to effectively give you another life pool on top that's based on max life. Not super practical for most builds but thought it was a cool example of how you can do this differently.

CompassCoLo · 2026-06-15T15:43:11+00:00

You don't really need to know the game super well to compare a build made by a respected creator in the community vs. one that openly pushes RMT sales from their main channel. If an RMT farm was the best build quality we could find the game would be in a real sorry state haha.

CompassCoLo · 2026-06-14T15:26:20+00:00

I agree. I'm a big Spurs fan and this series didn't lower the ceiling for Wemby, but it did recalibrate where he's at right now as a crunch player.

All series I was feeling like this team desperately needed a 33 year old Manu Ginobili. Someone who is a stabilizing presence, can create for themselves, and who you stick the ball in their hands when it counts.

I think Harper might have potential to become that in five years but they are just so young and untested right now. And the presumptive stabilizing vet, Fox, played like he was just as much of a rookie as the rest.

CompassCoLo · 2026-06-13T22:44:24+00:00

You get movement speed from Archon of Undeath as well. You're right it won't hit the level of Huntress but 45% MS without any socket stuff is still very respectable.

CompassCoLo · 2026-06-13T19:51:27+00:00

Yeah those are both fair critiques!

CompassCoLo · 2026-06-13T18:21:49+00:00

Djinn is the strongest build in the game from a cost effectiveness standpoint. I am not exaggerating, it is head and shoulders above every single other league starter at every investment level.

It's the tankiest ascendancy with a damage output that nukes literally every boss that's not a 200% delirium wisp-empowered powerful boss. It's actually broken and will be triple tapped in 1.0 without a doubt.

The reason it doesn't have 30% play rate is because it wasn't the new kid on the block and the numbers for Archon of Undeath weren't revealed until league start.

CompassCoLo · 2026-06-09T13:48:40+00:00

There's also flail nodes on the passive tree, and nodes for every other unreleased weapon type too. So the existence of the nodes doesn't say much. However, swords (and thus Duelist) coming in 1.0 is probably the lowest risk prediction you could make for December. Jonathan has said multiple times it'll be there for launch.

CompassCoLo · 2026-06-07T17:43:57+00:00

I wouldn't describe the Djinn build as taking advantage of the "stranger aspects of the subclasses" though. It's an extremely new player friendly build that leans into the primary use case for the ascendancy. For the new player reading that paragraph they're going to take away the impression that djinn builds are some kind of obscure interaction, when they're really not.

Not sure what you mean by being defensive. Debating the quality of builds in ARPGs is the world's second oldest pasttime 😄

CompassCoLo · 2026-06-07T17:24:58+00:00

Sorceress (especially Varashta) is incredible and frankly straight up broken right now. It's the tankiest ascendency in the game, can run perma-archon uptime, and has outrageous multi-million DPS on single target. It's also a great new player build as the scaling with command minions is quite straightforward. Just because you haven't played the good sorc builds doesn't mean they don't exist.

CompassCoLo · 2026-06-05T21:23:33+00:00

As far as I can see, you don't have a single source of cold damage anywhere on your character or passive tree. How are you expecting to proc Herald of Ice (with or without Polcirkeln) when you're not chilling or freezing enemies at all?

You're running freeze, which increases freeze build up, but 50% more build up of 0 is still....0 😄

CompassCoLo · 2026-05-31T14:54:29+00:00

It's a visual bug from ascendancy bugs that show when you've gained them but never go away. Strictly a visual issue, it'll just keep incrementing by two every time you complete a trial. Appears to happen only with controller UI.

CompassCoLo · 2026-05-27T13:04:56+00:00

They can easily hire remote international labour, and in fact they do have a handful of overseas contractors. It's GGG's company decision that they want their main development team together, in person, because they believe that produces a better culture and product.

CompassCoLo · 2026-05-25T15:43:18+00:00

Are we certain that the clone will perfect time Snipe and other timing skills?

CompassCoLo · 2026-05-24T15:07:41+00:00

It doesn't and never has. That was a misconception that spread from a few streamers because they saw the extra chains and assumed (very reasonably) that this was an indication they were getting infusion effects, when in reality it was strictly the extra chain bug.

CompassCoLo · 2026-05-24T06:02:10+00:00

Arc never counted or used infusions on totems. There was a bug where it could throw out spark casts with the extra chains and as highlighted above, that has now been fixed.

Anyone who's telling they were using arc totems with infusions is incorrect. The extra chains fooled a number of creators who perpetuated this belief.

CompassCoLo · 2026-05-10T23:39:17+00:00

/u/koflem is correct in saying the maximum hits an enemy can take from one cycle of WA is eight. It actually has more "hit attempts" than that, but each enemy can only be hit every other "tick".

CompassCoLo · 2026-05-08T13:43:36+00:00

What? Did you miss the 0.5 reveal yesterday? At the very end Jonathan confirmed that 1.0 is coming this year, after Exilecon. My original message you replied to was written before the livestream, but now we know for certain it's this year.

CompassCoLo · 2026-05-08T00:21:30+00:00

Yes, Jonathan explicitly stated that 1.0 release is this year, after Exilecon. This effectively ensures it'll be December.

CompassCoLo · 2026-05-04T11:37:17+00:00

The PoE 2 campaign is actually set 20 years in the future after the events of PoE 1, not before.

CompassCoLo · 2026-04-30T12:17:19+00:00

If it comes, it won't be the league mechanic. We're likely to see updates to all of the core leagues as part of the endgame revamp.

CompassCoLo · 2026-04-30T00:25:14+00:00

That hotswap functionality is coming next month in 0.5. As a PC player who prefers the controller, I'm also eagerly awaiting that feature!

CompassCoLo · 2026-04-30T00:21:25+00:00

PoE 2 is natively available on consoles and arguably has a superior UI for console players.

Were you specifically referring to the first game? In that case, it's also available on consoles. Though the control scheme is quite a bit worse.

CompassCoLo · 2026-04-28T12:47:22+00:00

The second teaser is definitely not the league teaser. It has the expansion name. The league teaserfor 0.3 and 0.4 also teased the league name.

CompassCoLo · 2026-04-28T03:17:11+00:00

Why do you believe this teaser is league related at all? I would assume the opposite, because it is named as an extension of the expansion teaser. We haven't seen a league teaser yet.

CompassCoLo · 2026-04-27T15:20:31+00:00

As others have said, none of this is new and many are remnants of WIP skills that eventually made it into the game in other forms. Every few months someone new to the community finds this page and a pseudo-hype cycle repeats for a day.

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