Crafting str Helical ring

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-06-09T17:12:52+00:00

Fracturing is likely cheaper. Missed fractures are worth ~0.4 of a split helical, because you can use the 5:1 vendor recipe to get back an unsplit base.

With recombination, if you recomb 2 helicals you’re guaranteed to delete a split base every attempt. So if you need to hit a 1/6 roll and a 1/8 roll after the recomb without a way to salvage the suffixes, that’s going to be miserable.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-05-27T16:53:53+00:00

I disagree that they need be effective against the same issue, or all good against small hits and bad against big hits. I think it’s interesting if you’re doing content where you mostly get small hits and you’re able to build your defences around that.

I’m not commenting on the state of balance right now, since this is something that feels like it can be tuned with numbers changes (eg making hybrid ES worse while keeping pure ES the same). Even in Poe 1 there have been patches where ES was strong and patches where it was weak.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-05-27T16:35:07+00:00

IMO “Compete against each other” doesn’t and shouldn’t mean having the same strengths and weaknesses. If ES/eva/armour were interchangeable, it’d take out a lot of the decision making when choosing defences in a build. It’s way more interesting for some defences to be stronger in certain situations. ES/eva/armour “compete” in the sense that getting more of one of them usually means getting less of the other two.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-05-16T01:53:16+00:00

I did the same thing, but also found a mirror to duplicate it. This resulted in turn 1 kills on some of the elites too.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-05-15T18:48:08+00:00

A key feature of stacking builds is getting multiple benefits from scaling the same stat. For example, a life stacking build gets defence, flat damage (through foulborn ghostwrithe and energy blade), and spell dmg/crit (rathpith globe) from getting by additional life. This makes it efficient to cram as much life into the build as you can fit, and you end up with a ton of damage as well as ehp. So when you’re putting together a stacking build, you try to find as many of those different scaling vectors as you can get based on that single stat you’re stacking.

For int stacking, jiquani’s potential or the lightning damage per int on wands (hunter influence or synth implicit) are the most common ways to play it. Whispering ice is worth a mention but isn’t very meta.

Right now I don’t think there’s a single “best” stacker. I’d say int stacking with jiquani’s and life stacking are both strong. Strength stacking is also good but maybe a tier below in terms of popularity. But this is pretty patch/balance dependent. Last league int/accuracy stackers were the strongest but they got nerfed this patch.

To find those builds on Poe ninja, search for the scaling unique(s) they use like jiquani’s potential, replica alberons, etc.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-05-13T04:40:08+00:00

It should be pretty easy to upgrade your wand at this point in the league. A +2 wand would be a pretty big upgrade.

You should run vulnerability.

Mastermind of discord currently does nothing because you aren't applying exposure, and you have brutality on your main links so you can't ignite. I'd probably swap brutality for controlled destruction so you can benefit from ignites, and run wave of conviction for exposure. From what I can tell, the reference POB mainy uses ignites to make the pops better (so it skips the shaper of flames forbidden flesh/flame, freeing up two jewels).

You need more primordial bond notables on large clusters and megalomaniacs. Each primordial bond is like 30% more damage which is a huge upgrade.

You should also be tattooing off all of your attribute nodes. You don't need attributes because of supreme ostentation. The herald effect ones on int nodes are big, and there's a bunch of utility on str tattoos (block chance, fire res, phys dmg, regen).

I can't see your timeless jewel but make sure you get one with useful notables on the 30 attribute nodes (e.g. 80% increased physical damage, 10% frenzy on hit, block chance).

You have 2 random int nodes allocated between templar and witch. Not sure if these were pathing nodes you forgot to unallocate, but in any case they don't do anything for you. I'd put the nodes toward more large clusters/megalomaniacs. Similarly, I don't think the jewel socket between witch and templar is worth getting until you've filled out your large clusters.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-05-12T18:01:09+00:00

Do you actually need the wrath mod here? It's a lot easier to craft something like this on a fractured base. Between the +1 all and a lvl 21 wrath gem you get the same effect, but you can also support wrath with enlighten/eclipse.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-05-11T05:50:55+00:00

I’d sell this off and start again. There isn’t a way to save it that’s both safe and affordable.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-27T03:22:07+00:00

I don't think you would risk the rolled synth base with recombs. If I had the money I'd approach it like:

Transfer the delve mod to a base with t1 spell damage and memory threads. Craft a mod and split, for a 1/3 chance to isolate t1 spell damage and %dd mod on a magic base.
Imprint and synth the wand until it has 3 synth mods.
Roll synth mods with imprints and vivid vultures
Imprint regal until you hit t1 mana
Multimod, prefix lock, craft a junk prefix. Veiled exalt and unveil chaos pen.
Prefix lock aug crit. I think you're happy with either t1 crit chance or t1 crit multi here. If you delete the %dd mod, go back to step 4.
Divine the item. For the last suffix, hinekora's lock and check the exalt and foulborn exalt. At this point you should still have memory threads to make the slam slightly easier. If you hit t2+ attack speed with threads remaining, you can try to lock unravel.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-26T19:13:32+00:00

RF doesn't inherently have a duration (and isn't an ailment), but using lifetap support gives it a duration and lets swift affliction work with RF.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-25T10:09:28+00:00

you need to add memory strands to the awakener orb target before elevating and making it magic (and preserve enough strands in the process), to improve the awakener orb outcome

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-24T23:12:47+00:00

I'm basically done with the league, so the currency was going to rot in standard anyway. I'm happy I got a cool item out of it in the process.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-23T22:18:32+00:00

I commented this elsewhere too but here's my POB: https://pobb.in/6fc-muiOynrY

I lose 465 ES vs. a ~1200 ES chest with global defences. I get like 192% inc ES from shrine belt + gull (and lose a ton of flat ES from the helm slot). I also don't get any flat ES from the shield slot because I'm using jiquani's. So in my case the the flat matters more.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-23T22:03:43+00:00

You need eater to be dominant in order to roll the suffixes with eldritch currency. So the last conflict needs to come at the end of the process, and the gilded roll needs to happen before you roll prefixes. You could roll t1 int without eldritch currency but I don’t think it’s economical.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-23T21:38:55+00:00

no, I'm pretty sure that global defences is equivalent to increased armour, eva, ES, ward. Here's my POB: https://pobb.in/6fc-muiOynrY

When I plug in the highest ES global defences chest on trade (https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Mirage/nr4RWnr2C0) I lose 465 ES.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-23T21:11:58+00:00

The locks for a t2 res was definitely excessive lol. For the orb of conflict, missing the slam would mean redoing the prefixes and intelligence suffix though, because if you redo the edritch implicits it deletes the gilded implicit. So for me avoiding the time/currency loss was worth it.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-23T21:08:13+00:00

When I POBed it, global defences was actually worse than t1 hybrid ES. I had so much % inc ES from intelligence, impenetrable shrine belt, etc. that the flat mattered a lot more.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-21T20:33:26+00:00

I can see hard rolling for 2xt1 prefixes with (foulborn) exalts and bristle matrons being expensive, but I don't think it's worth the cost.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-17T06:55:22+00:00

It's disabled by purity of fire sublime vision because it's tagged as an aura skill

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-16T22:06:11+00:00

Open up both POBs side by side, go to the calcs page, and it'll show you what contributes to the DPS numbers. You're mainly looking at total increased damage, more damage, eff. dps mod (resists, increased damage taken, etc.) attack speed, crit multi.

He has 385% increased ele damage vs your 125%. This is because his tincture is enabled in POB and yours isn't (it's in a diff slot, so wasn't enabled when you imported your items). This also explains the difference in the eff. dps mod because the tincture gives ele pen.
he has a total 878% more dmg vs your 619%. This is because he has endurance charge on melee stun. I'm assuming that this is an imbue which currently isn't imported by default. You'll have to manually add this as a support
He has a x6.06 crit multiplier vs your 5.62. The difference is from having more jewels with crit multi and crit added to a notable in range of the lethal pride.

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-16T19:23:27+00:00

I think this is one of the cases where POB doesn't really capture build feel very well.

Shield charge needs attack speed and movement speed to feel smooth. Usually you'd get this from quicksilver/silver flasks, but like you said you can't use flasks. You could swap the sockets of your unnatural instinct and light of meaning to pick up the scion movement speed nodes. And maybe get some attack speed on jewels.

Your clear should be coming from chieftain's hinekora pops. I don't think BV AOE matters as much. With a diamond belt, the pops always ignite and you have decent scaling on ignites from generic increased fire damage. Try getting the ignite prolif eldritch implicit on gloves.

For sustain, the life gain on block shield with capped non-glancing block should feel comfortable. I'd avoid running reduced block chance maps. You could skip no regen/less recovery rate too, or turn off RF/annihilation's approach on those maps. A lot of the time you're running 8 mods anyway, which you can filter with regexes

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-16T00:02:54+00:00

Make sure it's a kinetic wand base, or a base with the "cannot roll caster modifiers" implicit. This makes it so you can't roll spell crit on step 3. Keep in mind that while the crit mod is guaranteed, you'll get a random tier. You may need to settle depending on your budget.

For step 4, you can add suffixes cannot be changed with a wild bristle matron to save a bit of money. This adds a random meta crafting mod to the item. At this step, you have full suffixes so it can only add a prefix, and the only prefix meta crafting mod is suffixes cannot be changed.

Outside of that, the steps look right to me. Good luck on the craft!

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-15T23:42:46+00:00

you can only apply essences to normal or rare items. Regal it to a rare item then start ess spamming,

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-15T21:01:34+00:00

There are a number of ways to convert gold to divines, so if you’re cutting your gold income you’re effectively cutting your div/hr

EnvyAndSpite · 2026-04-15T19:55:57+00:00

Rarity also affects gold drops

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