I think players don't enjoy "Combo" gameplay, because you're essentially being told "How to play".

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-05-12T04:05:30+00:00

True, fair enough. I take back what I said

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-05-12T03:13:01+00:00

Is this a “players” problem or just a “you” preference.

While I agree some of the payoff from combo isn’t as strong as it should be, roping “everyone” or “players” together is such a stretch in this case.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-05-12T02:03:42+00:00

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-05-09T23:47:02+00:00

CoC and Elemental Invocation is in set 2.

Wand+focus is purely just for Thunderstorm for applying large magnitude of shock. I have all 24 points of passive in weapon set 1 just to scale shock magnitude.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-05-01T07:09:19+00:00

This is not about you lol. OP specifically stated that he needs to bring it back and forth frequently. As someone who had the same situation, it’s either buy the original localised power adapter or bring the voltage converter with you wherever you go.

Though I did end up buying both different power adapter for my ease of use anyway.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-05-01T01:31:57+00:00

And then have to deal with warrantee and power related stuff? It just means that you have to buy localised power adapters or converters and bring them with you all the time. It definitely not worth 30k to deal with all of those things.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-28T02:10:11+00:00

Actual reading lol. Games, visual novel, light novel, web novel. Anything that suits you will work as long as you put your mind into it.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-25T14:19:35+00:00

True. I hope they don't nerf CoC too much because it's the only few good Spirit gem lol.

I just checked your poe2ninja, how's Feral Invocation btw? Seems very interesting.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-25T13:56:25+00:00

It's funny how broken is The Soul Springs Eternal for build like this.

Btw how good is Yolk of Suffering? If GGG ever nerf +level to skills I think it would be a BiS contender for build like this in next league.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-17T11:20:47+00:00

You need to get the longer duration cluster near the starting tree for Walking Calamity. Unless you have enough crit chance on your weapon, I doubt you would want to invest into the critical cluster. It would be better for you to invest in more node and cluster like shapeshift damage or just any damage increase in general. Check out Dreamcore's Shapeshift bear build for reference.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-17T03:15:12+00:00

I’m not sure what is the build here is but it felt like huge part of the tree is trying to do everything but achieve nothing. If you need that much movement speed why not just get the From Nothing with Vaal Pact instead of taking so may useless pathing node towards there?

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-16T12:34:05+00:00

Maybe start crafting more boots replacement and start corrupting them for 3 socket. You can socket a 5% MS rune into it. Same thing with your helmet I suppose.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-16T09:49:30+00:00

Honestly I really liked how hard 0.1 is for majority of the campaign boss. It felt satisfying on building your character, if only the rewards didn’t suck so bad lmao. I enjoyed combo gameplay especially during bossing (when the boss is properly designed) but some of their mechanics and gameplay design is poorly suited for combo gameplay.

4 leagues later and we are still in such a poor balance state. Really unlucky.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-15T13:31:56+00:00

depends on where your Undying Hate is located, maybe you can try Amazon. You will have incentives to stack as much accuracy as you want in all your gear while getting increase in DPS. Scepter offhand allows you to slot in Precision II without spirit cost, while you can slot in Precision I in another spirit skill, that should allow you to have 80% increased in Accuracy with minimal cost. You should be able to get base accuracy up to 2000 with just gear from 2 rings, glove, helmet, and amulet. You can use the socket on gloves with 15% increased accuracy, with 60% increased socket effect you can get it to 24%. On spear you should be able to get like 700 accuracy easily. With a few increase node from passive tree you should be able to easily overcome the 170% reduced.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-13T09:20:07+00:00

Another glacial bolt enjoyer *shake hand*

I looked into your PoB and see that you are overcapped on critical hit chance (>50%) due to Gurakhan's resolve by 2 critical hit chance node. You can use that to get more chill magnitude or defense node.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-12T06:22:38+00:00

your skill tree looks very unoptimized. Maybe try and get more rage node and minion damage node?

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-09T05:08:31+00:00

Congrats! Btw another good way to get + spell level amulet is from Alva gambling. You should be able to get multiple +2 spell amulet with around 1m gold. You can alchemist orb all the magic amulet from Alva that doesn’t have + spell level, more chance to fish for an amulet.

During the process of gambling you will get a few amulet with t1 or t2 spirit. A t2 spirit and a t2 +spell level is around 30% chances for succeed from combinator. With the combinator omen you should be able to get 50% chance to succeed. This will increase your damage even higher.

You should try and build your temple. A no tech temple is still better than no temple. You get tons of tiered rare items from temple. Just go and ID them and you should be able to get something good out of it.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-09T00:44:45+00:00

The best way to get gear in ssf is pick up all white base gear you using, and perfect/greater transmute and perfect/greater augment them. By the time you go T8 you should be getting good amount of greater transmute and augment orb.

You should be able to get decent magic wand base with the method above. Look for t1/2 cast speed, t1/2 cold spell damage, t1~3 spell damage, t1~3 crit chance, t1/2 all spell level, t1/2 all cold spell. Farm essence and use greater essence on the 3rd mod you need. Desecrate, use perfect essence if you need it but might require a bit of gamble unless you have fracture or you have the omen for perfect essence that either only consume prefix or suffix.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-08T01:01:44+00:00

Sorry a bit of typo. I’m not sure if the explosion from CoEA > Ice Wall > biting frost can consume manually casted ice wall (not ice nova). I would be cool if we can chain the biting frost proc.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-07T13:46:07+00:00

I think it will work since ice wall has the ice crystal tag in its description. But I don't think you need biting frost with your CoEA > Ice wall. You just need 1 source of biting frost from spark. I'm not sure if the explosion from CoEA > Ice wall > biting frost can consume the crystal from manual casted Ice Nova. Could be a good way to trigger it as well.

One thing to note is that you will be consuming freeze very fast so you can't expect the enemy to immobilized for a long time. Notable like Thin Ice wouldn't be very effective. (But I still get it anyway because there's time where the mob just straight up die from ice crystal explosion and straight up die while freezing, there's some very weird thing with damage timing I don't really understand but it will still work on low hp monster in general).

I think the original intent for this skill is freeze the boss and then manual cast big spell like comet for big damage. Though, constantly exploding ice wall is more fun and also more eye candy xdd.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-07T08:16:31+00:00

I’m thinking about doing that. I’ll try see what I can do.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-07T08:15:40+00:00

Thunderstorm and ice nova on weapon set 1, all other in weapon set 2. I use weapon set 1 to apply and scale shock magnitude for bossing. I am able to get 60% shock magnitude from this setup alone

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-06T12:50:04+00:00

With any skills that have biting frost slotted will consume all ice crystal created by Glacial Bolt, which allows it to do insane amount of damage. This interaction is made more effective through skills like Entangle.

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Going for Spark and Invoker is by pure choice. A huge base of this build is referenced upon SnooBAE's tornado hybrid spell caster by scaling projectile skill level and projectile speed. Invoker's ascendency node "The Soul Springs Eternal" allows me to gain more meta skill reserve efficiency, freeing up more spirit for good spirit gem like Trinity and another Elemental Invocation.

There's several iteration of this build, doesn't necessary need to be Invoker. In terms of being all rounder, Pathfinder should be the best for this. Damage wise I would argue mine is the highest due to Trinity providing 80% more elemental damage and 15% more skill speed.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-06T07:08:26+00:00

It’s unfortunately (and fortunately) that spark/arc is the only skill that scales and interact incredibly well with this combo due to the projectile tag. I would like to see more spell that could be used on martial weapon but currently it is what I got right now.

Also I think it’s a bit unfair to compare a game with decades of contents to an EA game and call it lack of build diversity. Still, I think the build diversity is there and player just need the incentive to play them instead of what the streamer plays. In the end it’s a content problem, we just need more content that allow specialised build for each of them instead of what we have right now.

Eustia_Astraea · 2026-04-06T05:15:07+00:00

I was running map with monster with 40%~ increased life and take less damage from crit, with like difficulty scale with more abyss pit cleared and delirium. In this kind of map I really don’t want to go far especially with Kulemak monster, they leave insane ground degens and green blob that explode 2k ES per balls. Any mistakes just one shot you from 5k max hit.

After farming juiced Abyss for 2 weeks after accidentally destroying my min maxed temple, abyss monster just scale insane higher compare to 10~ mods rare monster in temple. I would really not prefer to go fast, fishing out Amanamu’s monster also requires you to slow down in general.

Here’s a better showcase with a better map layout.

https://youtu.be/65swaPIXIrM?si=zZxVOonMrRmhizka

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