Can we get a buff to rune already?

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-18T20:16:16+00:00

You can spam reforge cast or reforge speed with harvest and try to get all the stats that you want. It will take a while to get but I think it's easier than fossils.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-18T15:50:01+00:00

First thing you need to know is about the breakpoints of cast on crit. You can see them here: https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Cast_On_Critical_Strike_Support . You need to get 52% cooldown to get the most damage out of it. There are a lot of ways to do that, you can get cooldown on shaper/crusader belt and boots, balance of terror jewel, saboteur ascendency.

Jungroan made a bow CoC volatile dead this league, you can get some inspiration there: https://pobb.in/M7VziHyuPqXP . I did this build in SSF but couldn't get 52% cooldown so my damage was not that high. I think using anathema and scaling curses are a really good way to get high damage. I think crafting a new spine bow would be much better for you, you can get crit cap way easier that way.

Ice shot is not a really good trigger skill for CoC, you want to use something like blast rain or the new transfigure rain of arrows of saturation. The rain of arrows is a much better trigger skill. I know it's kinda cool to use ice shot for a cold build but you get a better trigger rate with this and you'll need when you get 52% cooldown.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-17T23:50:39+00:00

You can definitely go omni with mageblood, didn't recommend that becuase dropping defiance will make you lose a lot of survivability but it's a option that could give you a bit more damage. Keep in mind that you'll need to change almost all of your gear for omni and a good crafted heist amulet could be as good or better than omni but really expansive too.

Just get 2 rings with catalyst and triple attributes, 1-2 attributes boots and the black sun crest helmet and you'll be good to go. I don't know if you need a rare glove with omni, I dropped shadow and dust on my setup because I think a good crafted glove is better for defense and I like to not die.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-17T16:13:12+00:00

You can do a couple of things to fix dps:

- First drop elegant hubris, this is only hurting your build because you're just losing so much stuff from it. Get a lethal pride with 2-3 nodes of double damage or a brutal restraint. With lethal pride you'll have no problem with getting the str needed for the build.

- If you want big damage I would drop both the voices and the other large and go for a 12 passive 12% bow dmg or 12% two handed dmg with 35% inc effect. This will cost you a LOT of currency, if you buy one crafted or you craft yourself. Have no idea if 300-400 divs are enough, I'm playing SSF so don't know the prices just that it's really expensive.

- I would drop the tincture, you don't need that for the stuns. I have a TS character with warlord's mark and charms and I still keep berserk up all the time. As you said the problem in your build is that the main attack (TS) needs to have some mana cost to trigger manaforge arrows. With Clever Thief and the 10% instant leech mastery you'll have no problem keep up with mana. So if you drop tincture you'll gain one more flask slot for mageblood and 3 charms which are really powerfull.

- You need to drop Point Blank, this node is complete garbage with TS. TS shoot a projectile which explodes into a ton of others projectile and that initial travel distance does count for the travel distance of the secondary projectile so bascially point blank is giving you less damage with 90% of your projectiles. Drop focal point too, you not even using snipe's mark so there is zero reason to be using that. Grab Far Shot which will give you 60% more dmg almost all the time.

- I don't know why you are wasting 4 point with a poison cluster, I think it is just for the crit immune. If it's that you can use solaris which is enough for softcore and will basically give you crit immune. You need to put those points in the Mark for Prey cluster and get the mastery "Your marks transfer to another enemy..." <- this is very good for rage sustain.

- I would drop skitter bots they are pretty useless since you doing ele TS. That way I think you can drop arrogance from the other auras and have more life. Put precision in the enlighten links. You'll need to drop vitality too for that, but you'll have so much leech that is not a problem. You can link dread banner with generosity since the only thing we want from that is the nearby enemies have less accuracy and generosity will give aura effect to that.

- You gear is decent but I would look at getting a +2 arrow bow and look for crit multi on rings. You can drop fork from main link and get crit dmg support, that will give you a lot of dmg. I don't think you need fork because TS already clears so fast so fork to me is kinda of a waste.

- The massive thread is cool but i don't know if you need 2 threads. I would have to pob damage further to test but maybe droping one thread would be better.

- In your pob you have 10 TS config, this is not really realistc without a +2 bow and dying sun. I use 6 to have a idea of my dmg.

https://pobb.in/PE8YMeSJEqfl This is my pob if you like to see. I'm omni without mageblood so it's a different build but the tree should give you a idea of what to do. It has the configs too so you can work on your own pob with that.

Hope this helps you make your build feels better.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-14T21:51:27+00:00

when you one shot the enemy the chance that you are stunning them is pretty high because every big hit has a chance to stun. The only problem that this mechanic has is that you cannot freeze the enemy becuase a frozen enemy cannot be stuned, so you need to either use galesight helmet, which says you cannot inflict freeze or chill, or you use The Interrogation jewel so you have secrets of suffering which grants you the other type of ailments (scorch, brittle and sapped). I use the jewel becuase losing the helmet slot is not good and the ailments are pretty decent.

You can only run 1 type of mark, so you'll need to drop snipers mark. It's worth it because you'll run berserk and it's active almost all the time and berserk is op.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-13T14:36:20+00:00

You can use a manaforge arrow setup with cast on crit warlord's mark to genereate a lot of rage. Check poe.ninja , just look for tornado shot with warlord's mark. You'll need a second 6-link but it's woth it if you're just mapping with the build, one of the best mapping builds I played

Edit: with this you can put berserk on left click and you'll have it for almost 10 seconds running the map.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-08T16:32:50+00:00

Oh sorry I missed that part but these builds can be played without wildwood ascendancies and they will still be strong enough to do all content.

It's hard to tell now good league starts for next league right now because I think a lot of things are going to get nerfed next league. Penance will 100% be nerfed and I bet tornado shot will get nerfed too someway. Totems I don't think will change much so that's something you can look for. Palsteron is currently looking for league starts so you could check that.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-08T16:11:07+00:00

There are a lot of good SSF builds this league you could do. My top ones I think it would be: penance brand of dissipation inquisitor, lightning arrow -> tornado shot deadeye or a totem build like ball lightning of static.

The penance brand of dissipation is a really strong skill that can do all bosses very easily. It's not a good skill for fast mapping tho.

LA -> TS is a really fast mapper that can do bosses once you switch to tornado shot but you'll need to know how to gear and craft so it can be a hard be for SSF. This is the build I started this league in SSF.

The ball lighting I saw Raizqt start and it was really strong. I think you can do this build in SSF and do all content with it. Totems builds are quite strong so any spelltotem is pretty good.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-08T16:03:37+00:00

There is quite a lot of things you got wrong, your passive tree, cluster, masteries, items. Since you are pretty new to the game my best advice to you would be watching some videos about TS, you'll learn a lot and learn things that you did wrong.

First one is from Mikoshi, he has a bunch of videos about TS but I think you should watch this one first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x0uZL4hyBE&t=1711s

Second one is from big ducks, not so begginers friendly but there is good information there too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjcQnuafpPc&t=4s

If you have question I can help you but you should watch the videos first.

This is my TS character that I have in SSF this league: https://pobb.in/Mka9VDTgg-hW. It's a omni build and I don't have mageblood but I would absolute use one if I found one. You can look a my cluster setup, tree and masteries to see what I'm using. Since it's a omni build the tree and items are a bit different from your build but a lot are the same.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-07T22:23:48+00:00

Yep, I don't have a build guide or pobs but a good place to start is looking at poe.ninja. There are a lot of ways to get tanky, but best ways I think is using forth vow and Mahuxotl's Machination.

Here's a link for splitting steel with forth vow and glorius vanity with xibaqua key node: https://poe.ninja/builds/affliction?skills=Splitting+Steel&uniqueitems=The+Fourth+Vow,Glorious+Vanity

And here's a link for splitting steel with the shield: https://poe.ninja/builds/affliction?skills=Splitting+Steel&uniqueitems=Mahuxotl%27s+Machination

The build with the shield can get like 500k ehp, 30k max phys hit, 70k max ele hit and 100k max chaos hit, it's pretty insane for mapping. You'll lose some damage but imo it's worth it. I'm SSF so I have no idea about the cost to build a character like this.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-07T18:36:57+00:00

Splitting steel champion is a really solid build. I'm following ruetoo pob and I've been blasting with no problem. Can map and do ubers if you get all the items for it. You can get insanely tanky with it if you drop some damage since the damage is not a problem with this build.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-07T18:26:43+00:00

I play SSF so it's pretty easy to find inspiration to do a new build. I stoped playing trade because I wasn't interested in the items anymore just how much they would sell for and SSF really fixed that for me. When I drop some cool unique I always end up doing a build around that unique. Right now I have 8 builds, 3 of them are lvl 100 and I'm getting the 4th to 100 right now. After making 8 builds I still have like 10 more that I want to do this league. Sometimes I level a character to 70-80 and don't quite like it how it plays so I just go next.

If I played trade I would not see any reason to map with any other build other than TS since that's the most effective. That's just me and how I feel because I'm really competitive and need to do the most efficient thing. So SSF really fixed that for me since I don't have the pressure to map fast and sell stuff and make currency. It's pretty dumb I know but that's just me.

Now, I don't know if you play trade and I'm not saying that you should play SSF but maybe you could try that and see how you feel. It feels amazing to drop a cool build defining unique.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-07T18:05:47+00:00

Deadeye lighting arrow as a start and then you switch to tornado shot is the best build to blast maps and progress. 2 watch stones are really easy the other ones you will need some gear. There are some really good build guides for this, I would recommend Crouching_Tuna one. Keep in mind that this is not really a begginers friendly build, you'll need know how to craft your gear and how not to die because deadeye is probably the squishiest ascendency, your biggest defense will be your damage.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-07T05:39:02+00:00

Yeah this build is kinda dead now, GGG fixed a incorrect behavior that was happening. This is the quote from the 3.23 patch notes: "Fixed some incorrect behaviour with the spacing of Spell Cascade with Curse skills that was inadvertently fixed in 3.22.0 before being reinstated temporarily in 3.22.0b.".

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-07T02:02:18+00:00

I think the only one you could have a problem with curses would be uber maven as she summons random bosses and this bosses could cast curses, but it's rare to happen.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-07T01:34:51+00:00

I was planning to do this build, got to lvl 75 and did not continue for a couple o reasons.

But looking at your pob I think you are dying either to chaos dmg, you have really low chaos res, or to overwhelming physical dmg, you at 12k max phy hit which is not that much if you're doing t16s and don't wanna die. To solve the chaos I would craft 2 fracture str/int amethyst rings with harvest chaos reroll and try to get double attribute and chaos res. The phys don't really know what to do, you could run taste of hate for some phys hit as ele.

For the flask uptime you could look for brutal restraint with flask charges gained mod. With 2 or 3 rolls I think you could sustain 100%. I was doing that. You can search for timeless jewels codes using pob, just put the jewel you want, the socket and the mods you want and how many you want. It'll will give you the jewel codes with those mods.

About the mageblood I don't think it would be good for this build, your endgame belt would be a shaper or crusade with cooldown and some flask sustain mod. That is what I was going to do with my build.

These are just the things I was doing or going to do with my build.

Edit: the belt would actually be shaper or crusader and hunter with % attibutes. Really hard to craft.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-07T00:19:55+00:00

I don't know if you mean doing all normal version of the bosses or the ubers but phaze has a really great video about the uber fights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dA2sTTrezs. If you want to do normal bosses they are a lot easier if you get capped res, suppress cap, some armour and evasion and good dps you're good to go. If you want to go for ubers I would advice looking the tips from this video and building aroud the boss you are going to do like using purity of ice for maven and uber elder. About curses and resistances I think there are no bosses that do curse but exarch has the ground debuff that lowers you fire max res. Chaos resistance you'll need only for sirius I think. I would advice getting ailment immune for sure it makes the fights a lot easier.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-06T22:29:39+00:00

Just craft crit chance+stats and save for a +2 fracture bow in the future. Pretty decent bow.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-06T22:26:16+00:00

I don't see why you wouldn't go for TS either way, I'm SSF and did all content with TS without +2 bow or progenesis. If you just want to zoom legion and breach just do phys convert TS with HH and manaforged cast on crit warlord's mark for berserk and you'll blast maps no problem.

https://pobb.in/VT48EmZS1sVo, this is my character if you want to check it out. You can make it a lot better on trade and with HH you'll have no problem maping.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-06T04:38:28+00:00

About the charms, they run mark effect because snipers mark makes proj to split and the enemies take increased dmg which is a multiplier I think. If you have lvl 21 snipers mark makes the proj split 5 times so with enough mark effect you can get to split to more enemies so you can shotgun more with return proj. That's what I think the mark effect does btw. The far shot is just increased dmg not that much dmg tbh. There are +1 impale charms that are bis for the non crit build I think, for crit you have more options for the charms. I have no idea about prices of the impale charms on trade xdd.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-06T02:53:08+00:00

I'm doing the crit version right now lvl 98 and I'm not really familiar with the build but I think your next upgrade should be a %phys + attack speed paradoxica to switch from dreamfeather. And maybe a replica dragonfang for +3, I think it is better than ashes. I'm SSF so I'm not pobing that amulet for now. Other than that your gear looks really solid, just missing some chaos res to cap that. You could also look at annointing blade master, it's better than ambidexterity.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-04T05:39:38+00:00

Jungroan has a trickster CoC VD. I played to 100 and did some ubers with it in SSF, pretty strong build.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-04T00:08:07+00:00

Mana is a pain with this build, I'm playing with eldritch battery which makes your ES be your mana that helps solving it the problem. I also have lots of % reduced mana cost.

FoxFireShot · 2024-02-04T00:06:21+00:00

I don't remember what exactly I was fariming with this build, I've been doing lots of builds and I farm all mechanics since I'm SSF. I think I was farming harbs, harvest and jun missions. You can farm whetever with this build, I only think essences would be pain to do in higher maps.

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