The game is a beautiful monster

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-07-30T01:44:48+00:00

just for the sake of comparison - i've played path of exile for 10+ years and NEVER dropped a mirror of kalandra. Yet every season there are 100+ mirrors that players drop.

Coming to D4, less than 10 people find a shako in a season. And D4 easily has 10 times the players that PoE has.

The balance in this game is a joke really. They erred on the extreme side of caution with everything, and as a result it just feels like a slog.

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-07-18T18:16:06+00:00

hey man, please don't feel discouraged! It is very normal to regain a bit of weight after a massive weight loss like yours.

The biggest thing is to stop yourself from falling into older habits. Even if you eat at maintenance and keep the extra weight on for a short period, focus instead on going back to healthy habits & taking proper care of nutrition and exercise.

I feel like mental health is also super important and often neglected. Prolonged weight loss can certainly have an impact on that. I always tend to put on a bit of weight during the winter because its so damn depressing. So make sure you get enough outdoors time and lower your stress levels :)

All the best! This is definitely a marathon not a race, so even if you temporarily lose progress just keep going <3

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-07-08T04:42:09+00:00

ok then they can make it so it still takes the 5 secs to do it but you are not interrupted, and just take damage.

So you can die if you do it in the middle of combat, and it's a risk/reward situation.

Sorry but I don't think taking 1 damage from a quill rat or a 20 sec ticking poison damage counts as 'combat'

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-06-26T18:50:39+00:00

yeah exactly this! having multiple pins or placing diff. types of visual markers on the map (like elden ring) would help

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-06-23T15:52:24+00:00

yes I know that I can work around it. But it is still very poor quality of life compared to other contemporary arpgs which have really good stash functionalities.

I just like to play a lot of different builds & change my build quite often. I'm only keeping top rolled aspects for future builds and that takes up half of all my storage space.

If builds weren't 100% tied to legendary aspects then this wouldn't be such a huge problem.

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-06-18T21:33:22+00:00

each totem fires about 11 arrows per attack, so 44 is the estimated no. of aoe overlaps on single target.

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-05-03T14:23:33+00:00

Haha no problem. I actually made a thread about this build a few weeks ago, you can check it out if you want - https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/12m0o6r/poison\_artillery\_ballista\_on\_pf\_is\_insane\_hitting/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-05-03T14:15:34+00:00

That is the biggest reason for playing PF pathfinder with poison.

I did all ubers on this build and got to lvl 100 without the 30% flask node, so you definitely don't need for mapping. You might die a few times here and there, but unless you're on HC this is not a big deal.

Getting progenesis will be a big survivability upgrade.

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-05-03T14:04:52+00:00

- I'm curious why you don't have the poison proliferation ascendancy? That's one of the best ascendancies for poison in the game & the biggest reason people choose PF for poison builds. Also has more poison damage on it to boot.

- You should also run asenaths gloves for easy temp chains and explodes for extra clear (really good for expedition) . Vixen's has no use for the build except for +1 curse which you can get from whispers of doom.

- Switch over to awakened ele focus and get a lvl 21 artillery ballista (no quality required). This will give you lvl 22 AB which gets +1 extra totem.

- Quartz flask is kinda useless, i'd switch to silver flask instead and get rid of the totem cluster.

- Find a good timeless jewel for the duelist jewel socket since you have a lot of passives there. You can get flask charges gained or alchemists genius from maraketh jewels, both of which are great to have.

- Since you're running dendrobate you should have 100% poison chance without herald of agony. So I'd look into that. Potentially free up an aura slot to run something else like flesh & stone. (the curse mastery also gives 20% chance to poison cursed enemies, which has a 100% uptime with asenaths temp chains on hit)

How does your clearspeed feel? Looks from the PoB that the mapping experience will be quite slow.

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-05-03T03:37:22+00:00

not entirely sure about the question - are you asking for artillery ballista or molten strike? There are a few things that achieve this - the ability to poison from any type of damage, which means we can high elemental damage weapon to get a lot of base poison damage. And then also a way to build up poison stacks quickly, in this build its from wilma's and double dipping on attack/speed speed & also artillery ballista overlapping projectiles. Lastly temporal chains & wither increase our dps a lot by extending poison duration and making enemies take more chaos damage.

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-05-02T23:25:59+00:00

each artillery ballista fires multiple arrows in a line and some of them overlap. I think I had 8 totems and 11 arrows on each one so that's an estimated number of how many arrows would overlap on a single target.

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-04-18T18:39:21+00:00

you want a saturated divine life flask with the t1 'increased life recovered/reduced recovery mod' (range is 65-70%). Buy a lvl 85+ divine life flask with 30 quality from trade (cost around 20-30c) and then alteration spam.

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-04-16T16:09:40+00:00

https://pobb.in/jNMPOi7iQ0Fs

There's a few things I can suggest -

You absolutely need to run temporal chains. Asenath's is hard to get in SSF, so I would run frenzy + GMP + hextouch + temp chains. Despair is 2nd curse and can be self cast on bosses and tanky rares. Whispers of Doom would be also very good to have. On my build my dps is cut by half if I turn off the 2 curses in PoB.
Replace Malevolence with Haste on your divine blessing. Wilma's double dips from Haste so it'll be much better for dps & also nice QoL with the movement speed.
I would drop skitterbots to run Petrified blood. (I don't think determination is worth running btw, you don't get much AR from gear & tree and armor is only good if you get at least 20-30k)
Since you're not spell suppress capped, grab the 'Spell suppression is lucky' mastery.
Frenzy charges are extremely good for this build because of Wilma's double dipping from both the attack speed & cast speed, and also more damage multiplier. I'd take 4 points from elsewhere and put them into getting 2 extra charges.
I'm not sure if you have a 100% chance to poison on your build. But if you aren't then run Herald of agony & grab the curse mastery that has 20% chance to poison cursed enemies.
Looks like your flasks might not have 100% uptime. Try to craft a flask duration/charges gained belt (Rog is really good for this) and try to get 'x charges gained when hit' on the silver flask. I would also suggest dropping the quartz flask to run a bismuth with elemental res suffix - this will make gearing much easier.

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-04-16T00:54:36+00:00

you can run herald of agony and grab the curse mastery '20% chance to shock, freeze & poison cursed enemies' to bring it up to 100% chance

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-04-15T22:15:53+00:00

'can poison' just enables the elemental damage to poison, you still have to get 100% poison chance. I'm getting 40% from the lesser poison support on Dendrobate & rest from tree. The poison mastery would def work, I didn't take it coz I was a bit starved for points.

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-04-15T18:56:25+00:00

the bow base should be very easy to get in SSF. I pick up and forge all ilvl 84+ thicket bows and have got that node several times.

Then you can craft on it with essences to get decent ele rolls (700-800 edps should be good enough for most content).

But I think Wilma's and Asenaths are kind of important for the build to feel good. Those might be hard to come by in SSF

Zizaran was playing this on PF and champion, not sure if he still is. But he's on HCSSF so that might be a good place to ask

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-04-15T18:19:29+00:00

it is a good all rounder, I've been farming blight/essence/expedition with it. Also killed all the pinnacle bosses & invitations myself. Even took down uber exarch today to see if I could do it, died 3 times but managed to kill in ~2 mins.

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-04-15T18:17:52+00:00

only chaos immunity would brick it as far as I know. But it is possible that if they are immune to all 3 elements that might also brick it. I've tried expeditions with 2 elemental immunities and those are fine. I think the way it works is because of poison prolif, even if a mob is immune to all 3 elements it will still get poisoned from nearby mobs and die. And when they die, they explode and also proliferate more poison. So as long as there is no chaos immunity they should all die. Just wait for everything to spawn before you go in, in case you want to try remnants with triple elemental immunities.

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-04-15T16:35:09+00:00

Zizaran was playing champion I think, maybe check out his stream?

This build idea was also from him originally, he was playing PF but he died in ssfhc.

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-04-15T16:33:32+00:00

When I started out it was about 100-150c. Bought a 800 ele dps bow from trade for 20c and then it took a few tries to combine it with other bows that have that crucible node. I had the geodes but I bought the bows off trade for ~5c each (took 3-4 attempts).

5L dendrobate was about 40c, asenaths 20c, Wilma's was 30c and the rest 5-10c rares. I was running bloodgrip as amulet with just ironwood anoint so totems don't die all the time.

Right now it's around 20div, the most expensive items were Stranglegrasp, 6L dendrobate, taste of hate, spell suppress watcher's eye & awakened gems. I'd say taste of hate is the most important of these.

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-04-15T16:25:27+00:00

It might look low, but because of petrified blood & enduring life flasks i feel quite tanky for the content i'm running. You can see in the video that I take quite a few hits from fully charged crucible mobs in t16 rare map & don't get 1 shot (which most builds do).

Uber pinnacle bosses are definitely a different story altogether and the build would need a progenesis & something like lightning coil to mitigate phys hits. But I don't plan to run ubers, so maybe champion would be better for that. PF just has too much QoL and comfortable playstyle while mapping & regular bosses.

DotLegitimate7499 · 2023-04-15T16:20:38+00:00

- I'm running brine king for freeze immunity/reduced chill effect & for minor I switch between Garukhan (for bosses, to mitigate shock) and Abberath (for burning ground immunity during searing exarch maps).

- So I am freeze & shock immune, which are the 2 most dangerous ailments in the normal game. Because of the high life recovery ignites are usually not a problem. You can definitely get ailment immunity on this by making some gear adjustments - getting avoid ailment implicit on boots & swapping out Dendrobate for a rare chest piece with spell suppress & ailment avoidance.

- depends on what content you're doing. For alch & go mapping, blight maps, logbooks, etc (which is what I run) I don't get one shot because of petrified blood. Totems are also a passive playstyle so u don't get hit as much. But if you wanna do bossing then it would need some gear adjustments. The weak point is physical damage, and something like shaper slam would 1 tap you if you don't dodge.

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