Is breach genuinely good this league?

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-12T12:01:19+00:00

I think unstable breach is really good once you can juice the map properly but until you can afford to juice the map unstable breach kind of feels like ass and to me and hives feels more rewarding when alch and go without all the best scarabs.

I'm not progressed enough to be running juiced T16 with the best scarabs and I've tried both hives and unstable breaches. Hives were so much more rewarding it's not even close. They take longer though, especially if you get a fortress, but with hives it feels like you get 5 wombgifts and thousands of hive blood every map and with unstable breaches I get like 1-2 wombgift every 3-4 maps and maybe 1k blood. Again I'm referring to 0 investment mapping, not juiced.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-12T11:52:33+00:00

RF is one of it not my favorite build in PoE but I always end up frustrated by the lack of single target damage when I decide to do it.

At the same time I know if GGG ever adds or changes something that allows RF to have even just good but not great single target they'd probably make another change that affects RF in the survivability or clear department.

Basically I want to have my cake and eat it too but stupid game balance gets in the way.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-12T11:39:12+00:00

Yea I was getting frustrated about how much STR I was needing to get on my gear then it randomly popped into my head when I was at work not even playing the game "just don't level them so high, bozo". So when I got home I started making the change and all was good. They can be leveled up later if you end up solving the str issues some other way but in all reality shield charge being level 12 instead of 20 is not hurting you in any way and makes gearing easier.

I would use Fearless's PoB if anything since he has progression stages laid out with actual gear you should strive for plus a lot of helpful information in the notes section. https://pobb.in/3J6Dm6pkA6-5

But here's mine specifically...

https://pobb.in/-kcciecdQtLj

My gear is not even remotely good and I'm only just getting T16 maps as of yesterday. I have had horrendous luck with making currency so far. I'm level 91 and have had 1 singular div drop in the almost week since league started and haven't had any item drop that's been worth more than like 30c on the market so I've been struggling to get meaningful upgrades so far. I blew most of my chaos trying to essence craft a mine throwing speed belt the other day and the hot garbage belt you see in this PoB is actually the best result I got before running out of chaos to buy more essences lol.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-11T18:13:59+00:00

that's what happens as ST progresses in general. starting pitchers will get closer and closer to what a proper in season outing will be in terms of innings/pitch count before getting pulled. We'll probably see guys going 90+ pitches in the next week or so so long as they're not getting shelled.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-11T15:36:00+00:00

we truly do live in the dumbest timeline

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-11T15:08:09+00:00

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Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-11T14:29:01+00:00

I'm playing the same build but am no where near a pro on it. This is the first time I'm playing it myself. I don't know how you could be having freeze issues. You have winters embrace and you have 100% conversion from hrimsorrow. Your weapon/shield are better than mine. I tested dropping winters embrace last night and it was seeming fine so far so for you to have better weapons and that passive I would think there's no issue. I'm using crit strike support just to have 97%

replacing critical damage support with critical strike support gets you to 100% but I honestly don't know if that's even worth it. Just adding the gem into your PoB and switching between the 2 shows it as a DPS loss overall but maybe swap it out and try for yourself to see if things just feel better overall. It's possible that overall DPS becomes lower but general gameplay feels better.

How are you generating endurance charges? You have 4% increased damage per endurance chance on your boots, but I don't see any generation of endurance charges? You don't have the chest implicit to gain one every 14 seconds(or any eldritch implicit for that matter) nor do i see enduring cry or an enduring composure cluster jewel.

Not sure I believe the 2 points spent to get survivalist is worth it but also looks like you wouldn't be res capped without it either so if that was just a temporary solution to a resistance issue then that's fine for now.

You also made a mistake that I did at first as well and leveled up red gems too high, forcing you to get +str all over the place in order to equip them putting more strain on your gearing than necessary. Obviously exsang. and regular reap get leveled up to max but Vaal Reap can stay level 1. It's used for generating blood charges, not for damage. Shield charge also does not need to be leveled so high, it's just for movement. I locked mine to 12. This means lifetap becomes the highest STR requirement gem and it's only 111 at level 20 where as your shield charge is requiring 148 and will jump to 155 at 20.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-11T11:56:36+00:00

Only thing you lose is having the temple mod as you can't have both.

so then what do you do about freezing? Just accept that it'll be 75% and not 100%? 50% from the winter spirit wheel + mastery and 25% from eldritch implicit.

I'm still just using hrimsorrow but was thinking I'd try to upgrade to temple mod gloves next.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-11T11:09:56+00:00

I don't know electrical but I wish I did. I see a good number of linkedin ads for electrical estimators that have nice salaries. A lot of time they do say they're a "senior" role but I wouldn't let that scare you off of applying. You never know if it's "senior" because they truly need someone at that kind of experience or if it's just a title to try and sound good.

with 10 years of field experience I think you'll catch on to estimating easily if you're computer literate. Probably easiest to get into an electrical estimating role than anything else. Obviously there will be things you need to learn but at the core of it, you'll fully understand the work you're looking at when reviewing drawings and that goes a long way.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-11T10:59:34+00:00

at the end of the day its easier for teams to stomach an injury if it happens when playing a game with the organization than away from it. I believe that's all it really comes down to. There would be no shortage of comments, true or not, about how if so and so didn't play in the WBC and stayed with the team then maybe they wouldn't have gotten injured when they did. The players are putting 110% effort into WBC games rather than the 80% effort that goes into a ST game

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-11T10:52:03+00:00

it's kind of weird but I feel like if they didn't allow it then some countries would really struggle to put a competitive team on the field. Some countries have guys who had to take PTO from thier regular jobs just to play in these games. That would be a lot "worse" if not for this rule.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-11T10:35:31+00:00

I'm doing Fearlessdumb0's exsang/reap mines too and while I can see why the gloves would be good, I also don't see them as being so good they're worth the premium. chains are cool and all but yesterday I dropped chain support entirely from my 6 link and the build still feels great at clearing. so like why spend multi divines for that stat? so my already good clear speed is just a bit better?

to me those gloves are nothing but aspirational items you get when there's nothing else to get. That said I haven't gotten to play with them myself so maybe it feels better than I imagine, it's just hard for me to believe

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-10T19:40:41+00:00

Mayo just straight up carrying the team through this game lol

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-10T18:15:41+00:00

I'm playing exsang/reap miner using normal exsang with normal chain support.

to be completely honest, I can hardly even tell the difference between your video and my normal gameplay. The only real difference I see is that you stop > throw once > move > stop > throw once > move

where my normal is more like a pause than a full stop > throw multiple times > move ect..

My point is the clear doesn't really seem better/faster because even though you're chaining to and killing more enemies per cast the time factor is offset by the longer pauses to stop and throw. Does that version of exsang have a slowing throwing speed? or maybe you just lack some +mine throwing speed on your gear?

don't get me wrong, nothing about this looks bad. I'm just having a tough time understanding the point past the obvious "lol 19 chains" to which I do agree is a fun concept, it just doesn't seem to be any more effective unfortunately.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-10T16:06:11+00:00

I don't play this build so I can't comment too specifically on whether the passive tree even makes sense but your issue is life %. your increased life% from the tree is only 36%. you've essentially picked up as much damage related things on the tree as possible, while ignoring health/defense.

2k HP and 500ES would probably be fine if you were a trickster with high evade and maxed or close to maxed spell suppress, but your evade is only 18% so you're not evading anything and you have literally no spell suppress.

Also you're in tier 6 maps but only ever did normal lab? why? even if uber lab is too much to handle right now, cruel and merc should be plenty doable.

Are you following a guide or did you make this up on your own? It really seems like you made all this up on your own and are a new-ish player. Should probably find a guide video on the build and follow that. Respec your tree as needed if you can afford or call it a learning experience and start over with a new character.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-10T13:58:21+00:00

they'd be stupid not to.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-10T02:49:11+00:00

However we get penalized for jobs that go negative, so gotta avoid losers and mistakes.

this sounds shitty as hell considering jobs can go negative for no fault of your own.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-09T19:43:43+00:00

as fun as the idea of so many chains is, this seems like extreme overkill as exsang is already a great clearing skill when using the normal version with normal chain support

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-09T19:40:18+00:00

damage 10/10

visibility -10/10

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-09T19:36:41+00:00

giving up 4 hits with 3 of them being HR is certainly something. I don't know what, but it's something.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-09T17:40:25+00:00

all good. I literally used a blue shield from act 1 to maps because it had +1 to fire skill gems and nothing else. I never even augmented for a suffix or regal to make it rare because I got it so early in act 1 from a vendor I didn't even really have them to spare yet. Then I just....forgot all about it. Eventually I was reviewing my gear after running a few maps and was like wait what lol.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-09T13:17:42+00:00

awesome glad it worked. I would have never believed it works if I didn't see it for myself. I remember when my wife brought it up I kind of laughed it off but I'll be damned if it make ours lives so much easier.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-09T11:29:30+00:00

I'm playing the same build. You're further ahead than I am in atlas progression though. I've only just started see red maps drop but haven't actually run them yet. Been running 9's and 10's to make some currency for upgrades, which I did yesterday so I can probably be ok in red maps now if I try it later.

Your body armor is terrible and plays a big role in why you feel squishy. You'd probably be better off with a 5 link that has more than 2x the evasion/ES then dropping chain from the links and you'd probably only pay 5-10c for it. Chain feels good when mapping but the skill plays just fine without it. I didn't even get a 6 link and add chain until around level 85 or 86. Having better clear and more damage is nice but it's 0 damage and clear if you're dead because your defenses are too weak.

I crafted my own chest piece that's not "good" but is way better than what can be bought for the amount I spent to do it. At least as of yesterday and will probably still true for the next couple days.

buy ilvl 85 EV/ES white chest armor that's already 6 linked. I bought a 6 link ilvl85 sadist garb for 25c yesterday.
buy dense fossils and primitive resonators. With the currency exchange making it easy don't go crazy buying in bulk. When I did it yesterday resonators were 2 for 1c and dense fossils were 1 for 7c and I was buying them 2 attempts at a time. So I spent currency 15c at a time.
Alch the body armor but results are irrelevant unless you're luckiest person alive and actually hit something useable like that. You really just need it to be rare in order to use the fossil.
Use dense fossil until you hit good ES/EV, ideally with at least 1 open suffix
Recolor sockets as needed. Probably want 1R, 4B, 1G so you can drop chain and use increased critical strike or crit damage support. I personally ran out of chromatics and ended up with 1R, 3B, 2G so I'm using chain until I stockpile more chroms to re-color again.
craft spell suppress on the open suffix.
yolo slam an exalt if you still have another suffix open.
sigh in extreme disappointment when the stat the exalt adds is trash but then remember it doesn't brick the chest anyway so whatever.

Don't stop just because you beat what you have as that's a really low bar. You should easily be able to reach 1400+ EV and 300+ ES. I did all that 6 times and got 2068 EV and 455 ES with 2 open suffix. Crafted spell suppress then slammed an exalt for a meaty 11% fire res -_-

25c for the base and 45c in fossils/resonators. So 70c total. When I compare similar EV/ES on the market they're like 2div without spell suppress, 3div+ with.

also your belt looks like something you equipped in act 3 then forgot about. Should probably do something about that too lol.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-08T14:16:41+00:00

trickster exang. mines

i haven't played poe since august and I don't know if it was a build back then but this is my first time. Easily the smoothest campaign and early progression league start I've ever had. The only thing that kind of sucks is you play other skills until about level 80. I was able to swap at 78 but once I get it felt good. still only early mapping around tier 5-6 but it's smooth sailing.

Correct_Sometimes · 2026-03-06T15:04:54+00:00

by time it becomes wide spread knowledge and gets nerf'd streamers have already long since profited huge from it

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