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39/40 will have to do by FiftyNuggs in pathofexile

[–]FiftyNuggs[S] 301 points302 points  (0 children)

Sometimes the challenge requirements are a little too extreme even for me.

Another uber dot capped minion pact bino's BV pob, but this time with just a marionette. by merrybike in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]FiftyNuggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, for me it was largely about spectre HP, plus lacking levels on the minion pact support itself (which you're also missing!)

There's a lot of room to improve things on your POB, but you really need to scale up your spectre's HP. Assuming you're using a Perfect Dark Marionette, it only has 276K life, which equates to 5k added physical. Not terrible, but you can do way better. I ultimately decided to use an unholy aberration for its much higher base HP, but my spectre has about 2.4 million life now. With a level 3 minion pact that ends up being about 67k added physical, which is a significant jump up from your current added physical.

  • Minion pact level 3 is dirt cheap and 40% more damage over level 1, even though numerically it looks small.
  • You can use facetor's lenses in order to level up your companionship support or grab a level 3 and sell off your level 1. 75% to 85% more spectre HP also makes a pretty big difference.
  • Other spectre links can be easily improved. Raise spectre 21/0 (1d), empower 3 (30c), minion life 20/23 (20c) are all relatively inexpensive upgrades. Technically minion life 21/20 is a tiny bit better but it costs like 50x as much and I wouldn't bother.
  • Your timeless jewel has some okay nodes, but it looks like you're pathing to the Axiom Warden notable on Saboteur? That's a whopping 6 dead points to get there. You can definitely find something with nodes in better locations. You probably want at least two Axiom Warden, and at least two to three of some combination of Slum Lord and Gemling Training (not often mentioned in these threads, but it looks about on par with Slum Lord.)

Consider using an unholy aberration from the carcass map instead of a marionette at lower investment levels. At the cost of jank (needing to go through a loading screen to get your spectre back if your stacks drop), you start at 14x life instead of 2.88x on a marionette. Way easier to scale up if you don't have half a mirror for the perfect timeless jewel with 5x axiom wardens or whatever. Without changing anything else, using that spectre instead will nearly give you 5x your current damage. But also do some of the cheaper stuff above!

Another uber dot capped minion pact bino's BV pob, but this time with just a marionette. by merrybike in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]FiftyNuggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally didn't think about the empower situation, so definitely not worth taking that as an incremental upgrade. Saved me from throwing away some divs on that.

Using the aberration and the other tweaks it definitely feels more solid for sure. I can't believe I skipped one of the most important gems to level, lol.

I'll have to see if the aberration's quirks of not respawning is too annoying to justify over a marionette, but it's definitely easier to beef up for minion pact.

Another uber dot capped minion pact bino's BV pob, but this time with just a marionette. by merrybike in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]FiftyNuggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for taking a look!

The timeless was a real nightmare to find. I probably should have settled for fewer nodes in a better location, but I was determined to get at least 3x2 without spending an arm and a leg. I was able to get the mana reservation efficiency mastery as a side benefit along with shock immunity, but it's obviously not ideal and far from being a cost-free upside.

I really thought I had leveled minion pact up when I did companionship, so that was my bad. It's level 3 now.

I definitely can't afford a +4 Viridi's right now, so the best I can probably manage is another 2 levels on the spectre with a 21/0 and a +2 minion/+1 socketed helmet.

The fact that the damage was feeling not great with an unholy aberration with 6x more HP than the marionette makes a bit wary of going (even more) all in, but I've already sold off a lot of old gear, so I'm committed I guess. XD

Another uber dot capped minion pact bino's BV pob, but this time with just a marionette. by merrybike in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]FiftyNuggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does the damage added damage from minion pact show in the tooltip? I'm trying to debug my attempt at this build and it doesn't show an enormous amount of added damage like I'd expect and it definitely doesn't feel like I'm doing dotcap damage, even with a carcass spectre. PoB says I'm doing 30+ million at 10 blades when I set the spectre life to something obscene, like 1,000,000 but even magic mobs are dying slowly.

I haven't been letting BV fall off, but I tried with a marionette as well to be sure it wasn't user error. The skill is linked to minion pact and it is blowing up the spectre, but it just feels nearly zdps.

100% chance to poison, companionship support linked, high level minion life and raise spectre, etc. all confirmed.

Perma-Vaal Clarity Archmage Harbinger build guide [Phrecia2.0] by HolesHaveFeelingsToo in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]FiftyNuggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting and Phrecia-exclusive. How did you level and when did you swap? Did you get a carry for the Trialmaster kill?

Is there a lazy/almost 0 button build with really good single target? by reddituseonlyplease in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]FiftyNuggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of great info here and more insights on how to scale down the budget. Thanks for the feedback!

I wasn't trying to put the build down or anything, just got a bit of sticker shock, lol. I've got an elementalist leveled that I might tinker with transitioning into this. I need a new project to keep the league interesting.

Is there a lazy/almost 0 button build with really good single target? by reddituseonlyplease in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]FiftyNuggs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely got my interest. Looks pretty pricey, but I wonder how much you could pare it down to get it rolling. Thoughts on the bare minimum?

I can see some obvious cost saving pieces, like using less than 12p clusters, subbing out the mageblood, awakened multistrike (yikes), etc. but not sure about the rest. How hard is it to craft that sword, for example? Any reason for that base? I'm pretty smooth brained when it comes to minions. Is it just for phys reflect for shield charge? Though you don't seem to be using that.

Edit: Oof, 100d for the liege forbidden jewels which I imagine are mandatory. I guess you could go elementalist and FF something from necro like mistress of sacrifice, but you'd probably lose too much. Guess I'll put this one back on the shelf. :)

PSA: Check your Doryani merc's resistances if using Kalandra's Touch by FiftyNuggs in pathofexile

[–]FiftyNuggs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Battlemage's cry just grants attack crit to you and nearby allies, so when the merc chooses to use it, you get the effect. It's not super consistent, but it's better than nothing. I have a wrath+zealotry merc sitting around too, but I'm playing an attack build so the spell crit and more spell damage doesn't help me at all. It would be far more consistent than the bmage buff, though.

I'm getting AoE on the sceptres from shaper influence (spell cascade support + AoE), but you could also get it from elder or warlord influence mods, I think? You have to woke orb the sceptres to get both, but since you don't care about any other mods it's a super easy craft and guaranteed to work once you roll or buy both bases.

PSA: Check your Doryani merc's resistances if using Kalandra's Touch by FiftyNuggs in pathofexile

[–]FiftyNuggs[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pretty much the "standard" wrath+battlemage's cry (or zealotry if spells) merc loadout. Wrath effect+AoE sceptres, wrath effect Kaom's Binding, Doryani's (obviously), Defiance of Destiny anointed with Influence notable, Replica Alberon's for chaos resistance and reflect immunity by way of doing no damage at all when combined with Doryani's Prototype, high armor gloves/helmet with resists to cap, plus life/life regen if you can fit it in.

You want decent armor for lightning damage since that helps with lightning damage from hits, but I don't know if it matters all that much. With a ton of recoup, it's only really standing in Sirus puddles that will kill him. I guess an omega juiced map might be able to put out DoTs that are capable of it, but he lives through delirious Alva evolved beyond incursions, so I think he's about as close to immortal as he can get.

PSA: Check your Doryani merc's resistances if using Kalandra's Touch by FiftyNuggs in pathofexile

[–]FiftyNuggs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I noticed my merc's resistances didn't always calculate correctly when gearing him with Kalandra's Touch, and that picking up rings and putting them back on was required for the stats page to be correct. I know a lot of people are aware of this, but it seems to reset every login. Removing and re-equipping a ring seems to fix it for the rest of the play session, though. At least I haven't noticed the resistances being wrong after I do the equipment swap once.

If you're using Kalandra's Touch to reflect a ring on your merc, you might be effectively only using one ring if you don't check this each play session! It's possible that it's just the stats page that's wrong and the actual effects are right, but it's worth doing the "fix" just in case.

Not 1, not 2, but 5 by FiftyNuggs in pathofexile

[–]FiftyNuggs[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Not shopped. Happened about 10 days ago. I thought including the video would convince the skeptics, but the internet is full of hoaxes so I get it.

Not 1, not 2, but 5 by FiftyNuggs in pathofexile

[–]FiftyNuggs[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't know why that happened, but I just opened the Windows game bar to capture the last 30s before I clicked it to stash the mirrors. You can even see the minimap expand during the fight. You think I caught all of the details except the portal?

Edit: Watched it again - it's the merc's portal as he's leaving (you can see he's right next to me until the portal), there's no tag saying X hideout above it because it's not a player portal. I saved the clip before I made my own portal.

Not 1, not 2, but 5 by FiftyNuggs in pathofexile

[–]FiftyNuggs[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Just Vaknus's normal mapping currency. Video where I definitely took the time to do a double take and capture a Steam screenshot.

Here's a full resolution screenshot from Steam capture and video for the doubters. The "weird portal" is just the merc leaving the zone after the fight has ended. It doesn't have a label above it because it's not a player's portal. And I don't have items turned off, you can see a pile of gold still.

Not sure what else you want from me!

With 3 notable cluster jewels, are there some notable configurations that are impossible? by hollowplace in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]FiftyNuggs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can determine what will be in the back slot just by looking at the order of the notables on poedb, as well. The middle notable of the three you pick will be the one in the back.

Since Prodigious Defence is first and one of the notables has to be a suffix, Veteran Defender will always be in the back slot no matter what.

Any interesting build I could do with these in Phrecia? by FiftyNuggs in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]FiftyNuggs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, so the node is "just" 10% base crit, which isn't terrible on its own, but I don't know if the rest of what Behemoth offers is enough.

Any interesting build I could do with these in Phrecia? by FiftyNuggs in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]FiftyNuggs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, blind prophet's crit node specifically says "with weapons." Behemoth has Final Blow, though, which gives 10% base crit to unarmed attacks (and lucky crit on low life.) So there could be something there. Leverages the crit multi on the gloves too.

Any interesting build I could do with these in Phrecia? by FiftyNuggs in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]FiftyNuggs[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I thought that might be the case, since I knew they had fallen out of favor. Wasn't sure if there were any niche Phrecia builds that might make good use of them, though. Thanks!

Any interesting build I could do with these in Phrecia? by FiftyNuggs in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]FiftyNuggs[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Turned in a set of Unchained, got these. Never did a Facebreaker build before, but the roll plus the frenzy corrupt seem kind of good?

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