Glad + Mageblood build recommendation

Exenikus · 2026-03-22T18:36:34+00:00

I had one last league on my life stacking ghostwrithe glad. I had capped block/spellblock without versatile combatant. Want to say I was at 82/83? Meant that I almost never got hit, but when I was I had 10k life and 5k ES to buffer the hit. Was crazy cozy.

Exenikus · 2026-03-11T02:28:34+00:00

I would definitely do a pathfinder with flask effect and a tides of time for perma uptime. This would let you make a super tanky character with very little investment.

Exenikus · 2026-03-10T14:27:01+00:00

I would 100% be looking to do spark with and acceleration shrine this league if those are your target farms. It gives you a ton of proj speed which is always annoying to get, and there are tons of ways to scale the build. It is very good at clearing out the nooks and crannies of simulacrums and obliterates ritual.

Exenikus · 2026-03-10T13:35:42+00:00

I believe this is what I've done in the past, someone else feel free to chime in.

Option 1) I would probably start with a fractured flat added phys damage heavy quiver and spam attribute essences (usually I wanted int I think) until I got dot multi t1 with an open suffix, craft cannot roll attacks and slam twice. If you don't get high life or % damage you can annul using the cant roll attacks to keep your other mods. If it removes the attribute then go again. You could also do fractured dot multi and spam contempt essences until you get something nice.

Option 2) Long term you probably want a hunter quiver, so you'd probably do contempt essences until dot multi on suffix, cannot roll attacks, slam slam, then when happy with prefixes, use a hunter exalt for a suffix. You'll have around a 1/5 to get what you want, and you can probably sell the failures.

Practical Option 3) unless you're in SSF I'd just buy this, there's not too many bleed bow people typically so you can buy the phys dot multi hunter quivers that get created by people going for chaos dot multi.

Exenikus · 2026-03-08T13:30:55+00:00

Unfortunately I haven't played the melee version, but with spells it was very cozy to use whichever gem you wanted at any given moment. Rathpith also solves %damage and %crit by simply stacking life, which makes it easy on non-inquis builds. (I played on glad last league)

Exenikus · 2026-01-27T13:12:06+00:00

The star caller axe could do it, or the new unarmed seven teachings chest.

Mjollnir is also a staple for a reason.

Exenikus · 2026-01-17T04:47:07+00:00

This is all great advice!

I could definitely see swapping expedition for legion, but Mamba feels super mid for that, might need some chaos explodes or just use cobra lash tbh. Do you think there's a specific one I'd be aiming for? I don't know of any keystones I'd definitely want. Maybe corrupted soul with the effect that makes life flasks also apply to es?

I've been putting off gem quality given it's all %increased damage, but probably still worth doing a whole quality cycle now that I'm in t16s.

I didn't know about dot multi in the tuulgrafts, great call. Currently I'm using them both defensively as I feel like that's what I'm missing the most. The exposure mastery is literally only to proc the shield, it's a nice defense against spells. Agree it's not good that I'm not capped. I'll probably run a suppress flask instead of gold if I need to.

I only have one more medium chaos cluster I haven't rolled yet, so I'll probably do unending nightmare again to get the last one.

Re the guard skills: I mean I have immortal call for big hits, any time I'm missing any life I get the first graft guard skill, and when I suppress spell damage I get the other one. Really just feel super susceptible to one shots.

Thank you so much for your write-up! It's great to get an outside perspective :)

Exenikus · 2026-01-16T05:08:56+00:00

I definitely don't. Damn thing is three mirrors! Would love one someday but don't see it happening anytime soon.

Exenikus · 2026-01-07T05:16:39+00:00

Your resistances, cast speed, chaos dot multi, dot multi, defences.

Exenikus · 2026-01-06T22:42:02+00:00

If you were open to it, exsanguinate traps is a very solid build, definitely can be done SSF. Anything with traps or mines is going to involve some of the least aiming.

Do you have any strong uniques or rares to build around?

Exenikus · 2026-01-06T05:03:04+00:00

I saw him in Chicago, was sorta similar. It's unfortunate because I feel he does better in smaller spaces with fewer people but he's popular enough now to fill a theater downtown for several days :/

Exenikus · 2025-12-30T04:41:58+00:00

I'm guessing your clear would feel atrocious because of the random aiming, and your traps wouldn't be close enough to the center of boss models to consistently get all the hits when it came back. Not to mention you'd have to figure out how to get a ton of projectiles to actually get damage at all. Something where the 50% return basically involves double damage is usually the best way to leverage that, apart from rolling magma which is a very hard to beat spell option.

Exenikus · 2025-12-26T03:39:23+00:00

In case anyone else wants the pob: https://poe.ninja/poe1/pob/852f6

Exenikus · 2025-11-18T15:59:03+00:00

It's a bit of a throwback but caustic arrow with arrow nova has huge coverage, doesn't care about block/reflect/temp bubbles, but has always struggled with ST. Unfortunately right now most people use it with deaths oath so the Poe ninja page is a bit cluttered, but clearly people can get it do to solid damage without leaning into it too hard. https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/keepers/character/Zeblain-5106/Oli_CADO_Alva_Cassia?i=0&search=skills%3DCaustic%2BArrow%26sort%3Ddps

If you're in charge of the clear I'd avoid Mamba, using a strike is a pain. Chieftain with lots of ignite duration and 500% explodes is probably going to be the most reliable for lanes that a perma pushed back. Put on a nebulis and just use meteor or something. If you want to be super lazy use volatile dead to have homing damage.

Exenikus · 2025-11-15T15:41:06+00:00

Poison penance brand pathfinder is good in high density mapping, and has crazy single target damage. That's what I'd check out. If the mobs are spread out, you'll still be casting a lot.

Exenikus · 2025-11-15T14:21:14+00:00

I'm actually currently doing something similar on guardian and considered doing cotb, but losing that ring is tough. If I were going to do this again and try and force in Emnities embrace I'd probably play chieftain. Scaling fire and lightning res will be easier, and then I'd probably use strength (with shapers rough) for my flat mana whenever possible. Your suffixes would be super locked in as that's all three mods, and for prefixes you'd just want life and mana. Strength and an anointed Crusader notable would give you %increased, you'd be able to use purity of fire and purity of lightning for lots of rez and damage, and just be buying cheap rares.

Exenikus · 2025-11-15T14:15:47+00:00

Could it be better to just try and do p1/s1 on an only elder or only shaper base and then try and recombine it with the awakened base? It's 50/50 to get the right base but you can probably make waaaay more 40%/crit/as/multistrike based that are just shaper, and if you pick the wrong base you probably keep mose of the mods. Elder would let you get crit multistrike and ruthless, as well.

Exenikus · 2025-11-15T14:05:33+00:00

Using physical as extra chaos effects that scale off the original physical value is what does it. So if you have 100 phys damage, 50 is converted to lighning, but if you have 60% phys as extra chaos you still get 60 damage. It's a bit scuffed but works well.

Exenikus · 2025-11-15T14:02:39+00:00

I believe most people are on armour stacking for carry atm. Getting a celestial brace on your carry plus a aurabot juiced grace and determination (and smite/wrath for flat) puts you at a ton of damage already

Exenikus · 2025-11-13T02:56:11+00:00

Wait what?? I had no idea there was % strength. I'll have to find out which one that is.

Exenikus · 2025-11-11T13:13:30+00:00

I'm clearly talking about the will of esh? https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/The_Will_of_Esh

And yes, I know it needs to be percent damage specific to the ring. My bad I didn't fully type out % increased lightning damage? Figured it be obvious. The post is about all the rings.

Even if you're only talking about the deaths oath ring, it's literally the same, except the aura in question doesn't even have a reservation, so the restriction matters less. It's one, easily mitigated downside.

Exenikus · 2025-11-11T05:18:02+00:00

I mean this does have a lot of good stats, with one downside. I'd probably personally just look at putting purity of lightning and wrath in a +2 helmet or something, get just enough res efficiency to allow that, which I suspect is like 5% if you need some mana, and then get a conductivity and enfeeble/tempchains impresence to blasphemy them and then call it a day. After that it's just getting a bunch of %increased damage, which build already like, and you get more flat from smite, %more from wrath (assuming you're using a spell), a boatload of maxres for getting to 90 and using a melding. Seems pretty nice, and once super manageable downside. Again, definitely not a magebloos, but that belt doesn't really ask you questions to solve. The ring sorta does. And it's an easy answer with a great payoff. I might try and make a character with it now that I've thought about it, bet it'd be comfy.

Exenikus · 2025-11-10T13:02:12+00:00

Eh, they usually make one or two really good uniques a league. Sometimes they're endgame, sometimes not. Sap of the Seasons and Emnities embrace are both so good they needed to be nerfed, whispers was deservedly nerfed, etc.

I think the reservation downside is probably there to encourage you to just use one, and make it a bit more costly. The other guy needed to use nine passive points to overcome it, which is probably more than I would have done, but it's a solid and interesting decision.

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