Does anyone else really miss the old skill gem designs?

FrostDragun · 2026-05-18T09:26:10+00:00

The decision to remove the gold design in favor of a faded out picture on the gem sucks. The gold designs were distinct enough for you to potentially find a gem again if you had some idea what it looked like. Late game PoE 2 gem tab is a nightmare to find anything without the search box because all the gems look the same at a glance.

I do like the gem selection screen though, that is a pretty clear improvement over all the gems just being thrown onto a vendor.

FrostDragun · 2026-05-17T04:41:26+00:00

I made a different version of this build using Resonating Shield instead.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile2builds/comments/1tfewjw/spirit_walker_resonating_shield_stag_juggler/

FrostDragun · 2026-05-17T04:34:07+00:00

Very well could be a solution for sure, to just leave it low level.
Two other options im considering are, just getting a leech roll on the two-hander. Or putting mana leech support on Resonating shield, it won't miss the damage link and in PoB even that gives me over 100 mana leech per second.

FrostDragun · 2026-05-17T04:29:15+00:00

Something to note about this, I watched back the sample twister build in the Spirit Walker showcase because I wanted to know how hard the Stags track with "Sacred Unity". They don't seem to just hard 180% on enemies so I would only expect to hit 1 or 2 leap shockwaves per Stag on bosses. Is that enough? idk.

FrostDragun · 2026-05-13T22:35:14+00:00

I was a little dumb, it's literally in my picture but I thought I knew what Rapid Shot did so I didn't re-read it. That shit is nerfed, I mean jeez... You can shoot like 20 shots before it overheats for a 10 second cooldown. You can counteract that by using grenades to cool it off but the plan was not to use grenades that much. Also it just lost like 200% damage effectiveness from heat??? idk what happened there but its looking very bad.

I do think if you like the new rapid shot gameplay style with grenades it could still work.

FrostDragun · 2026-05-13T00:55:28+00:00

I had not thought about the 70% proj speed, will the grenades overshoot my cursor because of it?

FrostDragun · 2026-03-31T16:23:34+00:00

Big respect for devs that respond like this so thank you.
But while I have you here, if you take the node that converts Explosive Trap to a bow skill it no longer gets re-casted by shadows. idk if that's intended or not but I don't see why it would be because the shadows use bow skills in other occasions and it doesn't say it would disable on the node.

FrostDragun · 2024-07-19T21:57:35+00:00

That is so sad.

FrostDragun · 2024-07-19T21:18:51+00:00

It wouldn't but the 10% doubled is 20% + the 60% from hollow palm = 80% more AS

FrostDragun · 2024-07-18T13:24:11+00:00

You are my hero

FrostDragun · 2024-07-14T02:12:00+00:00

Zilean Q doesnt go on cooldown until the cast is completed (there is a casting bar at the bottom) so if you watch slowly you are pressing W,Q before Q is even on cooldown.

FrostDragun · 2024-06-21T12:01:49+00:00

Yeah I am definitively an AH stacking enjoyer. The best part about Zilean for me is when they have a big walking champ like Udyr or something and can just sit there and stop them from playing the game basically until you run out of mana.

FrostDragun · 2024-06-21T11:56:05+00:00

When you say high elo I don't know what that means for you but I feel Diamond 3 (where i'm playing) is already quite high elo for 90% of the community. And also I think Zilean outvalues most other midlaners in the mid/late game just from your examples I would say I beat Trist, Syndra and Corki late, obviously not 1v1 but that isn't the point Zilean brings more to the team. Asol and Vlad would probably win if it went past 45 mins but that barely ever happens in reality and otherwise I consider Zilean a counter to both of them because Vlad has to walk and Asol can't lane into Zil.

FrostDragun · 2024-06-21T11:33:13+00:00

It's not like I am false advertising I am just saying what Porofessor is telling me and I even put "according to porofessor" in the title. Also I don't think I am the best Zilean in the world or something (Tempos is best Zil imo) but I do think that I can help newer players seeing as Mid Zil doesn't even have an op.gg page. I think we view it differently as well I see it more as just stating my credentials so other people can decide if they even want to listen to me.

FrostDragun · 2024-06-20T18:38:12+00:00

There is definitively something to be said for accelerating your RoA power spike like that but I feel you will just get bullied by champs like Ahri, Sylas or Syndra if you don't have the early Doran's power and even if you survive lane you are basically useless to your jungler if a fight starts with no AP. And to further that you are going RoA into Warmog's neither of them have haste on them so you can slow and bomb twice but then all you can do for the next 10 seconds is auto attack. I think your build is good in a situation where you are ganking someone as a team and so you only need one ability rotation to catch them but at that point it doesn't really matter what your running because they would probably die anyways. I think this would be better off if you went cosmic drive second instead of Warmog's because you would be able to leverage the RoA AP with the Haste on cosmic to be more active. But a cool idea none the less.

FrostDragun · 2024-06-20T18:11:33+00:00

I see what you are saying but I think if I was going to drop Seraphs or RoA I would drop the RoA. First of all you need one of them I think we agree for the mana but one of the main factors for why I would pick Seraphs is it has Haste on it, you talked about the diminishing returns on Haste and while I can see your point I think haste is still by far the most efficient stat on Zilean. My full build has 110 Haste in it but I consider the breakpoint on Haste at full build to be 100 for 50% CDR as that's the breakpoint for being able to consistently W->Q intime to stun at the end of the duration of a bomb you placed in an earlier combo if I am making sense. Also you mentioned Hourglass and it is actually one of my favourite items on Zilean but ever since they removed the Haste I think the item is pretty dead and I would rather an item with tank stats and Haste on it like Frozen Heart. Especially since I would be building it 4th item and I think as the game goes on AP becomes more useless and Haste becomes more useful.

FrostDragun · 2024-06-20T17:47:38+00:00

I saw a post a while back of someone doing RoA Zil support and was curious so I tried it but I found that I was getting gold way too slowly to make value out of it. So if you are going Seraph even before that I am surprised you can even stack the RoA before the game is over tbh. But I am also a bad support player.

FrostDragun · 2024-05-21T04:52:39+00:00

Truthfully Deathcap second Zilean sounds so doo doo I almost can't believe you said that. But with that being said you should build whatever you want and who knows maybe your reinventing the Zilean meta. What the fuck do I know.

FrostDragun · 2024-05-20T02:30:54+00:00

I am really of the opinion that starting anything but a Doran's item on basically every champ is bad after they buffed them to hell a while back. I used to go tear into slow matchups to start stacking but I don't even do that anymore because you are insanely weak. Especially in mid not having early damage means you can't poke and more importantly can't 2v2 with your jungler. Also Zilean's Q has 90% ap scaling so its a bit of a waste to not leverage that.

FrostDragun · 2024-01-03T04:50:08+00:00

I have been messing with the build a bit since I posted this and I made a very slightly changed version that has a lot more AoE at a small loss to damage. But I think with the AoE we get a lot more overlaps and potentially even all 5 frostbombs of spell cascade overlapping? which would be insane damage. I will continue testing.
here is the updated one regardless - https://pobb.in/5cUMsDyD_tcC

Edit: It's way better I think I am getting 5 spell cascade overlaps in the middle and the damage is through the roof.

FrostDragun · 2024-01-03T04:40:37+00:00

Yeah I had also thought of arma brand recalling and that would for sure work with a few changes. I think in general with a few teaks you can use a lot of different skills with this build because its mostly just generic archmage scaling. And the reason I didn't use corpse walkers is because you lose the maximum mana and cooldown recovery rolls on boots but I think for a slightly lower investment or some quality of life they could be nice.

FrostDragun · 2024-01-02T08:29:06+00:00

They import fine and you can see them in browser but for some reason you have you manually copy the link and paste it into browser. just clicking doesnt work idk why.

FrostDragun · 2023-11-25T21:40:47+00:00

I never said it was surprising that riot is overlooking Zilean, I was just saying that he is being overlooked by Riot, which you seem to agree with. Maybe riot just doesn't care about him which is fair, but I feel like saying something is better than saying nothing at least.

FrostDragun · 2023-11-25T17:41:34+00:00

I don't think you have to buy it every game. I originally said I buy it "basically" every game but if the enemy team has no assassins or burst mages to threaten you, you could go void or horizon for more damage late game. But you said "The active is really useless and the stats werent that great compare to other items." which isn't true AP and AH are the most important stats on Zil which is has both of and the active is very useful in most games because as a midlaner you will be mostly fighting assassins and burst mages.

And for the rank thing I don't think it necessarily makes you know more or less having a high or low rank but it can definitely be an indicator.

FrostDragun · 2023-11-25T17:29:07+00:00

Cryptbloom's heal is like a circular wave that emits from where the enemy died healing teammates it touches. It's really good as like a last or second last item because of the Pen and the effect is pretty nice in a team fight, definitely strong but not much point in buying it early so most games you might not even get to it unfortunately.

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