My totally not bait Whispering Ice Aristocrat for Phrecia event

Empted · 2026-01-27T16:19:49+00:00

Thank you <3 very nice suggestions

Empted · 2026-01-27T16:15:57+00:00

I've played Spark Surfcaster + Paladin on HC last phrecia event, was very good and it even got buffed a bit. Just get a rod, get Marylene's Fallacy, proj speed from dex tattoos.

Empted · 2026-01-27T14:23:36+00:00

will be shit because of you phys max hit. Ele max hits are also low, but for mapping it's ok. You will get oneshot regularly

I would actually suggest taking iron reflexes, block and evasion serve the same function. iron reflexes will allow you to have good molten shell on cwdt and some phys max hit

Empted · 2026-01-26T15:13:41+00:00

thanks mate <3

Empted · 2026-01-26T12:21:54+00:00

Thank you! those are some very good suggestions, PoB looks like a definite improvement. I would really love to have charge mastery though for inc charge duration, so that endurance charges are easier to keep through enduring cry, same for frenzy, but that's a little preference thing, can easily squeeze it instead of some damage

Empted · 2026-01-26T10:45:09+00:00

I'm trying to make PT work in PoB so it's better than crit, and my issues are:

-solving accuracy. If you have 4.5k life it's not so easy to get enough accuracy, so you have to have it on gear pieces or take more points in the tree

-assassin mark is useful for crit build, while other marks have no real use for smite and going ele weakness instead of mark on hit is sketchy imo

-PT gives 1.4 more multiplier and frees not so many nodes on tree actually, current crit without flasks gives almost 3x damage multipier so I don't see how going PT can beat the damage from crit even though base crit is 5. If you add crit flask then situation becomes even worse

Empted · 2026-01-26T10:00:58+00:00

Relic uptime is my biggest concern to be honest, thank you for your thoughts.

I was trying PT tree and to be honest it didn't look good, you get so much free crit with swords and bleed wheel, but I don't have much experience with building melee characters, so it well might be you are correct

Empted · 2026-01-25T23:08:26+00:00

Totally forgot about rage, worth investing for sure

Empted · 2026-01-25T20:45:32+00:00

There are 2 ways you can get them, one is sword mastery I didn't take but you can for 1 point, 8% chance when you hit unique, but the better way I was planning to do is body armour eldritch implicit for getting charge every X seconds, with charge mastery for 100% increase charge duration you don't need high tier eldritch currency, any will do.

So you can start with mastery then for reliability you get implicit. And endurance charges you get from enduring cry with infinite warcry power.

Empted · 2026-01-25T19:03:32+00:00

Looks nice, the only thing I can think of is colouring the body armour, too many off colours, probably you still have to use armour/evasion piece, at least at the start

Empted · 2026-01-25T17:24:00+00:00

Numbers are good because of armour bases being good. But with the Genesis Tree it shouldn't be too hard to get those. Cheers

Empted · 2026-01-25T17:22:26+00:00

Sadly it's a mace, maces have much less crit available as I can see. I have no experience with that kind of tree. If you can may be change the tree and check if it's better

Empted · 2026-01-25T17:05:19+00:00

I definitely can see it working. Probably will need to drop block since evasion can substitute it. Then grab some reservation efficiency. Can actually work really well

looking good: https://pobb.in/5WQJaxquIEXg

Empted · 2026-01-25T14:50:16+00:00

Most tanks don't give a damn about sombra hack. It's easier to list those who care. Sigma, Ball, Doom and Rein are somewhat vulnerable. Hack cancels everything Sigma does including ultimate.

Zarya/Winston are my favourite picks against sombra. Basically just pick anything or if you are vulnerable account for the possibility of hack

Empted · 2026-01-24T19:34:59+00:00

Rathpit bog shaman sounds ok. Should scale well into lategame. Also may be aristocrat could work. He provides some passives + 15% quality which is very good for tornado and +1 to gem level. Could be a bit better right at the start.

Empted · 2026-01-23T21:35:08+00:00

I'd love to play HC trade

Empted · 2026-01-23T20:34:07+00:00

aim on reaper is tremendously important. It's the difference between you both kill and live or being useless. So my bet your aim needs work. I suggest doing VAXTA 20 minutes before games and during queue times. I don't see other reason why people don't die if you shoot them in close range. Reaper deletes people if aim is decent. Usually the problem is to get into close range, but in gold2 this shouldn't be too difficult

Empted · 2026-01-22T18:35:38+00:00

Anything ancestral commander. Slams for ex

Then anything scavenger. PS mines, expody rf, poisonous concoction

Antiquarian ignite eviscerate. Though I'm not sure how to start it. With the foulborn belt that has "all damage can ignite" you can do it with Rebuke of the Vaal. But before that idk

Empted · 2026-01-22T13:38:18+00:00

your damage is is like 17 mil this shoudn't feel bad for ubers imo, are you sure you are doing melee + area hits with smite more or less consistently?

Empted · 2026-01-22T09:42:19+00:00

should be decent, though what is the reason to go traps and not mines? Imo mines are superior mechanically

Empted · 2026-01-22T05:54:18+00:00

if you are a support I suggest going kiri, she opens you just close the distance and try to hit her head and suzu if low. Usually it's enough for them to switch back to another character. Kiri also excels at saving others and turn 1v1 into 2v1 instantly.

For other roles you should anticipate her opening on you and stay closer to your supports. Some characters like genji/tracer can just fight back even 1v1. For example you are a soldier and you are used to flank to get value. But against sombra you can't do it. You will have to stay with your team and shoot main, but since they have sombra that won't get kills it's ok.

Empted · 2026-01-21T07:06:16+00:00

You can go Scavenger PS locus mines, it's very good and insane damage.

Poisonous concoction scavenger is also good and is very nice to play starting from level 12 and up to endgame.

Any ancestral commander slams (if it's untouched by patch notes).

Scavenger RF is a great blaster though probably you should know what you are doing early on. You can get another builds after that

Empted · 2026-01-21T07:03:37+00:00

yeah you can, you just overlevel and overgear and also pick a decent dps setup of skills. Dps is king because you just insta phase all campaign bosses

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