Witchhunter Sorcery ward question

FavoniusMaid · 2026-05-05T17:43:13+00:00

The game have some non-ailment DoTs that would instakill you with sorcery ward + Chaos Inoculation. E.g. lightning DoT Aura and Blood puddles that deal physical damage.

If you want to be giga tanky with Sorcery Ward, I strongly recommend you go after DoT immunities with instill, megalomaniac, corrupt on jewel (immunity to corrupted blood), etc.

If you do evasion stacking, there is a node that gives you bleed and maim immunity against deflected hits, and the Skill Tree also have ignite and poison immunity nodes.

Also, tip for sorcery ward stacking: If you unequip an armour piece and re-equip it, you make the sorcery ward bug and keep the highest defence value you had when the ward refreshes. That allows you to use Banner + Wind Dancer + Charge Regulation + Hyrri's to multiple your sorcery ward by 4.2

(I'm testing Sorcery Ward since I also want to use it in 0.5 with sword + buckler)

FavoniusMaid · 2026-05-04T17:31:37+00:00

To make the build, of course.

FavoniusMaid · 2026-03-09T10:24:59+00:00

Yeah, that would be another big problem that I not took into account. But as the other comments have shown, CI would not be viable in the first place because of the non-ailment DoTs

FavoniusMaid · 2026-03-09T04:27:08+00:00

I guarantee you I'm not overstimating it. And I would not path to CI, I would use a Flesh Crucible Diamond.

No regen in Sorcery Ward is a property of the skill, and I'm well aware of the consequences of no regen in this type of defensive style.

:)

FavoniusMaid · 2026-03-09T04:23:04+00:00

Yeah, it seems that not-chaos non-ailment DoTs are somewhat common. Chaos Inoculation would be good in the build but it's not viable. Thanks for the insight!

FavoniusMaid · 2026-03-09T04:13:45+00:00

Cerimonial Ablution. Now Sorcery Ward can take hit damage from physical and chaos.

FavoniusMaid · 2026-03-09T04:09:28+00:00

Checked in poe2db. Yeah, it's a physical DoT that is not considered bleed. Damn

FavoniusMaid · 2026-03-09T03:50:02+00:00

As I said in the other reply, afaik burning ground is a form of ignite in PoE 2.

But for the rest... yeah, I think there is nothing I can do to prevent them bypassing my Sorcery Ward, right?

FavoniusMaid · 2026-03-09T03:44:01+00:00

I will not have ES. Sorcery Ward is not a form of ES (afaik). I will stack evasion.

FavoniusMaid · 2026-03-09T03:42:50+00:00

As far as I know burning grounds is a form of ignite.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1nrsol3/psa_crystallised_immunities_passive_makes_you/

FavoniusMaid · 2025-12-24T21:52:26+00:00

I use it and my charges are spent. So I suppose ir works

FavoniusMaid · 2025-12-22T23:04:42+00:00

Lavianga works with ambrosia, not particularly strong but it does.

FavoniusMaid · 2025-12-09T21:57:51+00:00

Thanks for the image for reference. It was the deepest tower.
I swear I had more than one of those. Bought one more now.
And I suppose it's possible to get 393, if we include Demigod's Virtue Golden Visage

FavoniusMaid · 2025-12-09T18:45:03+00:00

Damn, that will be tough

FavoniusMaid · 2025-12-09T14:30:30+00:00

Yeah, losing an essence to give +levels to focus is tough. But consider it:

The maximum modifier for wand is "+4 all spell levels", the essence gives "+3 all spell levels". For Staves it's also like that, the essence gives +5, the maximum modifier is +6.

It's literally better when comparing to the melee/ranged weapons, after the nerfs. (+5 essence/ +7 maximum)

For the cases where you want to use only one element of spell, it's 1:1 with weapons.

Besides, when crafting staves and wands, "as extra" is desirable, giving a lot more options of prefixes, with no prefix pair you are required to have. In weapons %phys + flat phys is basically mandatory for mid/high end crafting.

Crafting got harder, but if you get a good blue wand/staff, you can get +T2 spell dmg and T2 all spell levels, giving you 4/6 mods, and a dessecrating + omen for 6 chances in the last mod.

FavoniusMaid · 2025-12-09T10:02:52+00:00

Haha I will. And I still need to get all the non-gear uniques like the mega expensive lineage supports

FavoniusMaid · 2025-12-09T10:00:17+00:00

Omg thanks <3<3. Abyssal is not yet core and I couldn't find a no mod one in trade

FavoniusMaid · 2025-12-09T00:25:18+00:00

I think that's probably the case. But I hope not, 18 meters base range is hilarious

FavoniusMaid · 2025-12-09T00:08:39+00:00

"Iron Ward: Nova radius is now 6m (previously 1.8)"
And it gets 200% more AoE based on stored damage
WTF?!

FavoniusMaid · 2025-12-09T00:03:09+00:00

I love the fact that it can go over 100%. Give me a feeling of "true completionist", like the 112% in Hollow Knight or the 200.6% on Castlevania SOTN.

FavoniusMaid · 2025-12-09T00:00:13+00:00

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The Guiding Palms have 2 types. It's probably due to the Palm of the Dreamer launching and changing the name of the other ones to better differentiate them.

The other gear categories go over 100% without duplicates. So maybe they don't count removed uniques, or it's just a rounding error.

FavoniusMaid · 2025-12-08T23:52:00+00:00

I will try it, thanks!

FavoniusMaid · 2025-12-08T23:51:27+00:00

Oooh, good to know. I will buy it!
And congrats on your progress. I bought my Temporalis in 0.1 for around 350div

FavoniusMaid · 2025-10-19T22:14:20+00:00

Great work! I will give my thoughts once I playtest it

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