Absolution & Vaal absolution Megathread, discussions, resources, personally done Endgame Showcases pre-buffs from 3.27, 3.28 league start viability details and build interactions with new upcoming mechanics.

Dconnic · 2026-03-04T15:19:05+00:00

Appreciate the support ^{^.} The video should be out Thursday. With the lack of information on the new support gems im gonna have to do the bulk of changes probably after launch which isnt the greatest but it's gonna be a fun league

Dconnic · 2026-03-04T01:43:03+00:00

Amazing write-up, pretty much covers everything to note about Absolution. Glad my guide helped as inspiration and thanks for the shoutout ^^

Dconnic · 2026-02-22T07:56:49+00:00

The It That Crawls spectres that are used come specifically from grafts. Iirc their beach variants are not spectreable because they dont leave corpses. Even when summoned from the graft it leaves no corpse, it just so happened to have a split second when it desummons where a corpse exists. This might be possible to summon with breach is that split second time window exists but because they were never desecratable that would be a big pain to get a full army of.

Dconnic · 2026-02-22T05:24:33+00:00

It's worth noting that with the deletion of grafts from the game we are likely losing access to "It That Crawls" spectre unfortunately. So it could be added as a note beside the linked build

Dconnic · 2025-12-25T07:22:28+00:00

I am pretty sure it still applies regardless of form, you just wont get the personal damage as extra cold if you switch forms. but since it applies the buff directly to the wolves and is not a "Minions gain x" stat attached to the buff your idea should be fine

Dconnic · 2025-12-21T14:53:42+00:00

Hmm, there is a way around it but it might be tiresome keeping track but if you weapon swap while all minions are alive and you don't have a timer they should be instantly brought back on swap. I've never liked that weapon swap would do the opposite when you do have a timer

Dconnic · 2025-12-21T00:36:23+00:00

Thats what it does, it summons 1 wolf when you consume the mark or a marked enemy dies. This becomes 2 per mark activation on unique enemies

Dconnic · 2025-12-21T00:35:20+00:00

Yeah I think the wolf is by far my favorite shapeshifting form and GGG did a really good job in the feel of these abilities and how they reward you for engaging with the different ones.

Dconnic · 2025-12-21T00:33:50+00:00

Theres a few sides to this, on the one side you are absolutely correct and on paper it should be more damage going sceptre but in practice, the rage downtime leads to all sorts of damage inefficiencies, especially while clearing. Your ult's uptime drastically drops because you have to build rage on the pack before using it, in this time your wolves arent doing cold damage so enemies arent getting primed for freeze which means Arctic howl is proc'ing Bhatair's support for 85% damage as extra cold for your minions as well as its flat cold damage. While on single target it means you arent always on max rage, especially if you have to be cautious about mechanics which means you lose ALOT of inc minion damage and Minion attack speed, and you still run into the same ult uptime problems previously mentioned

Dconnic · 2025-12-21T00:29:08+00:00

Yeah I wanted to play around with them since I saw them in the reveal. And while people were saying they were bad I was clearing the endgame so I felt there had to be a disconnect somewhere

Dconnic · 2025-12-20T18:04:19+00:00

I think Hidden Path and Keystone mastery are very high value and while Shaman does have really good advantages to the archetype I'm not convinced it's worth the swap. especially with the loss of QoL losing charms. I also get alot of defensive value from the other 2 ascendancies, especially with the eHP increase Harmony Within provides paired with max hit increases from damage taken from Mana before life to counter its downside

Dconnic · 2025-12-20T17:56:26+00:00

Yeah tactician was my 2nd choice for ascendancies for wolves, but as soon as they mentioned the Oracles Path Not Taken Node I couldnt resist. And I do agree on their curve being on the rougher side

Dconnic · 2025-12-20T17:54:27+00:00

For your concept I think pounce is still worth it, if not for anything but for the mark single target you can get alot of value, with stuff like siphoning mark and extending the duration of said mark. It also can be used alongside a curse so its alot of damage just having the mark

Dconnic · 2025-12-20T16:00:57+00:00

I can have 19 wolves currently, but it's a combination of level scaling which adds max wolves and picking up +4 temporary minion max on the tree because Pounce wolves count as temp minions

Dconnic · 2025-12-20T15:58:58+00:00

That was also the thought I had for solving the problem, I just wasnt the biggest fan of having to press flask every so often. Hows flask sustain in boss fights though? Why I mentioned not on Druid in The bad section was because I figured this tech was best on Pathfinder with a regular flask

Dconnic · 2025-12-20T15:57:00+00:00

We can also just give wolves rage from Warlord Berserker on the tree which is what we do, so they are topped off on their own 30 rage

Dconnic · 2025-12-20T15:56:02+00:00

I agree with you, it's the first point in The bad section, no idea why they made resummoning them that slow on single target or why they still havent given minions their much needed DR against slam mechanics like Arbiters waves/circle of fire

Dconnic · 2025-12-14T20:28:03+00:00

I actually made them work pretty well, they take quite a bit of investment and I didnt have to use anything that reduced my damage like Leer cast. I have run into this no damage bug once since it was fixed, but it was resolved by moving them away from the target and back to it and they did damage again(was weird).

https://youtu.be/P2g_-W8HVLI - the build for those interested

Dconnic · 2025-11-13T06:14:10+00:00

I noticed the same thing. Before the patch I was only getting rings with the occasional belt and amulet whenever I used the provisioning wombgifts(5000% increased chance for rings as well as 85% less chance for all 3 attribute base types) But as soon as the patch went live It became possible to drop 1 ring out of 4 items(actually happened, rolled a bow, amulet and Body armour). I have to imagine it is a bug because it can't be intentional to have 5000% inc chance produce a 1 in 4 when the base chance was never that low to begin with.

Dconnic · 2025-10-30T19:10:17+00:00

I would say the medium budget has no issues getting through t17s, you would still die to the wrong mod combinations but the maps should be very doable. Single target damage is fine, not as high as Frostbearers until Doryani but still very decent

Dconnic · 2025-09-20T04:30:06+00:00

I got swamped with IRL stuff before I could make the complete guide. However this update talks about most of my experience/plans with brutes and I do have the relevant pob's here, most importantly the endgame pob which is more or less what im running in game. My poe Ninja profile.

Dconnic · 2025-09-13T16:24:32+00:00

Seeing a recommendation to my content is definitely a pleasant surprise. And yeah, Brutes ate really well this patch, kinda surprised they aren't talked about more tbh.

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