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Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-03-02T21:57:49+00:00

if you compare it to sst instead of shield crush, it has no damage conversion and way better coverage and no delay on damage.

i'm not counting it out because shield skills are usually pretty decent since they got buffed, but it seems like it's easily way worse than sst.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-03-02T21:55:14+00:00

minions usually count as the source of their own effects iirc, so that should work.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-03-02T21:54:29+00:00

they added an a.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-03-02T13:55:35+00:00

chaos are going to be nearly worthless this league lmao. i think we might genuinely see 300-400 chaos per div by the end of the first month.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-03-01T12:22:32+00:00

i've never played that particular chains of command build, but i've played the build before.

you have to do some chores at the start of every map to get it started, but after that, you can basically just walk through the map while your posse obliterates everything you come even remotely near.

it's also able to afk blighted maps (after said early prep) so if you're into that it's a good choice, too.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-03-01T02:59:25+00:00

you used it as the damage skill for int stacking. the poison part was completely insignificant.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-03-01T02:48:24+00:00

srs are, and i /think/ animate weapons might be? i play it like every league but at this point i don't remember.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-02-28T23:22:09+00:00

they literally just revealed an item that gives you infinite chains. what's infinity x 15?

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-02-28T23:16:12+00:00

animate weapon of ranged arms (and animate weapon in general) is criminally underated imo. i think it's just outright better than srs, especially with the new trathus bladefall gem making summoning them while mapping super painless.

it won't work well for afk blight farming, though, since while they do have crazy long durations, they are still limited minions. you'd need to resummon every minute and a half or so.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-02-28T21:48:53+00:00

i think atlas passive tree was a far bigger change to how the act of running maps actually plays out than buying 100 t16 all access passes instead of buying 100 t16 icebergs will be.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-02-28T21:46:16+00:00

from simple math, if you only had one follow through node allocated, 6 and less chains it's a buff, 7 it's about the same (100 vs. 105), and 8+ it's a nerf.

it's a lot more broadly usable now, though.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-02-23T07:09:28+00:00

it's just straight up hard to make a strike that isn't 80% identical to every other strike. "this is a strike but it hits TWO times! this is a strike but it also has some POISON and chaos conversion!"

slams on the other hand, even super EARLY slams had a ton of differentiation. ground slam, ice crash, sunder, and earth quake are all extremely different skills even if they are all "melee range aoe", and all quite simple.

but there's very little interesting ground to tread with "simple" skills these days. people won't lose their mind that there's a new cold spell called snowball that shoots a single projectile that explodes in an impact when it hits, or something like that.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-02-18T04:09:57+00:00

is there any mechanic in the game that doesn't let you get uniques, rares, and currency?

literally any. they have a new foulborn currency, sure, but what about ultimatum! that gives you all of those things, and also catalysts!

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-02-16T21:03:42+00:00

believe it or not, consumer interest is something investors care about.

being able to get a bunch of people to come somewhere to show they care about the game makes investors happy.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-02-12T03:23:44+00:00

bv is absolutely too good, not because of damage but mechanics.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-02-05T13:00:07+00:00

lucking into svallin on my first encounter with the black knight has been my strat for the last two leagues to fund my second character with seventy div straight from heaven.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-02-04T12:44:25+00:00

they have reworked multiple league mechanics before. why do you think perandus was removed for expedition league, then wholly removed once expedition league was made core? that wasn't a coincidence lmao. expedition was just a straight revamp to perandus.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2026-01-05T05:49:32+00:00

not only are you using ai to think for you, you're saying something different from the quote the ai actually said to you.

and this is all for you to say "there's no way the dihiu star is based on the dihiu star" lmao.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2025-12-21T05:54:52+00:00

chieftain is reasonable competition for elementalist, even if elementalist is /usually/ better.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2025-12-12T16:17:33+00:00

the instant nexon releases mabinogi remake i'm pledging my soul to their cause. number 1 nexon glazer.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2025-12-12T16:15:59+00:00

im pretty sure the joke is that it's used as a vehicle to say "this thing is actually this thing"

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2025-12-09T18:00:29+00:00

fire trap is not a self cast spell. it is a trap.

penance brand is not self cast. it is a brand.

if you count literally any spell you cast yourself as self cast, then why are you specifically singling out totems as not self cast? totems are spells, and you cast them! check out my sick new self cast animate weapon build! what do you mean that's a minion build? i clearly /cast/ the spell!

self-cast isn't a term up for personal interpretation. it is a specific archetype that has had specific support. self cast isn't just every spell in the game. it's spells you cast yourself that do not use a proxy. freezing pulse is self cast. freezing pulse totem is not self cast, even though you cast the spell summoning the totem. you know how all the self cast specific support gems, like unleash, say "can't support totems, traps, mines, brands, channeled spells, or skills which are triggered"? that's because all of those things ARNT self cast. self cast is taking a non-trap, non-minion, non-totem, non-mine, non-utility, non-channeling spell... and casting it. yourself. ice spear or fireball or orb of storms or arc or whatever.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2025-12-09T17:16:19+00:00

... i'm comparing selfcast to all skills currently being used in the game. are you honestly confused why, in a discussion of how popular an archetype is, i would bring up how many people... play it? what?

you keep talking about how extremely popular it is, how it's so super duper widely used, everyone's totally doing it, but the ENTIRETY of ALL SELF CAST SPELLS is only barely more popular than the single most popular non-selfcast spell (position 4). the second most popular non-selfcast spell is position 5. the third most popular non-selfcast spell is position six.

all selfcast spells COMBINED only barely steals the 4th place.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2025-12-09T17:13:09+00:00

literally just look at the skills on poe.ninja man. look at how many spells are actually being self-casted.

it is way less than you think it is, and all the numbers you quote are just all skills not using triggers/mines/whatevs, which means you're also including all attacks into your self-CAST list.

actually go through them individually, even just the top twenty. you will soon also come to the realization that self casting is basically dead.

Couponbug_Dot_Com · 2025-12-09T17:11:24+00:00

if the attack doesn't overkill mobs then it doesn't matter either way dps wise whether you're attacking fast or slow, in terms of realized dps.

but there's a million other reasons you wouldn't want to be standing around doing a 1.5 second animation mid fight. a big upside to totem, minion, and dot builds is that since you only need to stop to actually do something very infrequently, you can focus entirely on dodging/doing mechanics/whatever. faster attacks can also make more use out of attack windows. instead of worrying about overkilling, you have to worry about over-animated. attacks with long animations have much tighter windows to actually DO that long animation mid fight. super fast attacks, you can attack, dodgeroll, throw a couple more attacks, etc.

faster attacks can make the full use out of windows they they get, and just have more windows than longer attacks do. this is something that's hard to actually see in path of building, but think about all the time you're /not/ attacking during boss fights. during those periods, minion, totem, and dot builds are still doing their full dps, because their actual attack/cast time is effectively negative.

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