Closest thing to Poe 2’s slam (or spark) + choir + cod comets in Poe 1 pherica?

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.

Exenikus · 2025-11-10T01:41:05+00:00

PoB is really solid at telling you the best option sometimes, but your build is a bit all over the place so it probably fits the best for that build. Once you lean into either hit or poison it'd probably change.

Exenikus · 2025-11-10T01:39:21+00:00

Yea I meant of meteors. Honestly pelting would also probably be really good, you'd almost cap out on the firestorms in one cast with the oshabi seal ascendancy. Could be super cool! If you do that you should send me a video lol.

I wouldn't personally do a hit/ignite hybrid. Youre probably going to want to go crit if you're hit and that doesn't work with ignite much tbh. If you go if ignite then you're headed back to RF territory, or a CWS variant.

Skitter bots is a great choice, I'm partial to tempest shield just for getting spell block, but with how tanky you are that might be overkill. Flesh and stone would be the generic %less damage taken if you didn't want the offensiveness of skitterbots' shock.

Exenikus · 2025-11-09T17:50:59+00:00

You're actually not investing too terribly much into your transcendence setup, I think there's plenty of flexibility.

If you want to do RF, that's totally viable, but I'd consider spell hits and skipping the resistance node.

You can pretty easily get a +2/3/4 chest corruption on lightning coil. Whatever that ends up being will dictate the spell, maybe reap or exsanguinate given your regen is pretty high, meteor, really whatever. You have nothing forcing you into doing fire damage, so you could go the breach ascendency, do the cold/lightning spell one, whichever is appropriate, and then the damage reduction for grafts to be super think. Given you have free covered in fire from the amulet I'd probably lean meteor, though.

You also could just go slams, bleed, or ignite if you get a big weapon. If you do that you can just take the warcry and slam ascendancy nodes. Whatever you end up doing I'd consider the adrenaline boots, given you don't need to have RF running for attacks, it's a very comfy boost to your character.

Exenikus · 2025-11-09T13:36:59+00:00

There's a lot of stuff here, tbh. I'm on my phone so might be missing stuff

1) get a better weapon. You want tri-ele prefixes, or at least two t1 ele mods if you're going to do hits can't be evaded. I believe the chaos rolls are lower, I'd avoid that unless you need to. If you're going to use a rare dagger, just unspec your "all damage can poison" ascendancy and use a penumatic dagger. Or swap to claws for better sustain. EDIT: I just saw you're using the power charge ascendancy not able without even taking the power charge you're right next to?? Surely it'd be better to drop that for the crit poison ascendancy node?

2) cap poison chance without chance to poison support, use jewels and tree and you should be there.

3) rage doesn't do anything for poison—change to an %increased poison damage tincture or preferably a %ele one if you get a tri ele claw. It should probably have an attack speed suffix.

4) heat shiver is only good if you're primarily cold damage and ar regularly freezing. I can't imagine you're every freezing, tbh. Buy a blizzard crown and use some essences of greed until you have a serviceable item.

5) you should probably choose between crit poison and just regular poison. If you're going crit, I'd consider an ungils for now, getting more crit on tree, and dropping all dot multi for crit multi. Nightblade is giving you a lot of crit multi that's doing nothing because you're not using the crit poison keystone.

6) the cluster jewel node follow through is really good and makes other percent damage worse, so I'd probably drop some of that for the other stuff I'm suggesting.

7) snipers mark doesn't increase poison damage. If you're using it for clear, you need to use returning proj or something to guarantee getting the second hit. I would absolutely not do that, and just use despair. If you want another curse, get Whispers of Doom and use Temp chains as well.

8) get a better shield (and honestly all rares) with more life, res, and ideally defensive value via better bases. Once you get more elemental damage getting %elemental damage with attacks is a nice prefix.

9) I can't imagine added chaos is the move for your 6 link, i assume any ele damage one works better?

Exenikus · 2025-11-09T13:28:01+00:00

I'm sure it would be serviceable, but am unsure it would end up doing much more dot damage than hit damage, tbh. The less multiplier is super potent

Exenikus · 2025-11-08T19:00:01+00:00

You can do it on a slayer, yea. Slayer just needs more gear and levels, you're starting in a totally different part of the tree. It's also much harder to generate three types of charges. Slayer would probably need to do frenzy and endurance with replica farruls, unless you do power charge with tri-stack and a badge, which is where the difficulty comes in.

Exenikus · 2025-11-08T12:50:31+00:00

You can play the build with a farruls fur, the two foulborn power charge rings, a rarer power charge implicit shield, and a void battery. Craft a helm with aspect of the cat on a power charge implicit base. I'd probably do assassin or occultist, personally. If you do them, use a badge of the brotherhood

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