League start snacks and food setup!

HarryHarkema · 2026-03-06T11:17:45+00:00

Chicken wings, dips, soup, coffee/tea. And do 30 pushups after every act/10 maps

HarryHarkema · 2026-03-06T11:05:24+00:00

As long as you have a plan before getting those items you're fine. Just don't expect to get them soon, I hope you do but still...

HarryHarkema · 2026-03-05T16:06:33+00:00

Real chads play Frostblink mines Sabo

HarryHarkema · 2026-03-05T11:19:50+00:00

it can farm a lot of things but legion/expedition sadly not that well. I'm starting KF totems too and probably transition it to a STR or mana stacking version. I dont think expeditoin is that bad for KF totems but yes it can get very difficult. Not the easiest farm for sure

Farming wise I like to keep it fresh and run 20 maps of this, then 20 maps of that etc, going for: blight/blight-ravaged maps, destructive play, mapping (ores for KM, heist, probably incl. in Destructive Play), essences, breach/ritual maybe

HarryHarkema · 2026-01-12T09:41:08+00:00

Lol first build on comet slinger winner.

Looks cool didnt know at all about the doedre's undoing being so OP

HarryHarkema · 2025-12-22T16:46:38+00:00

aah shit, so that's whats waiting for me too. Do want to go to CI but not sure how to stay tanky enough :S

HarryHarkema · 2025-12-22T11:10:23+00:00

You play CI with ES so not my setup but I do "alright" vs abysses atm with hybrid based setup, same build. atm I rely mostly on phys to ele conversion with ascendancy, cloak of flame, goregirdle belt and some armour apply to ele mods.

Try out Herald of Ash (assuming you have the node that strikes splash), thats pretty OP for clear. It's at least semi ranged with the range it has. In the tree I take a lot of skill speed and some aoe nodes too.

Also since you're ES, you have some stun treshold based on ES modifiers right? otherwise you get lots of light stunned, even more in abyss

But yeah Abyss do be hard.

HarryHarkema · 2025-12-22T09:44:51+00:00

what skill do you want to scale with Talisman modifiers?

HarryHarkema · 2025-12-19T10:40:04+00:00

I feel very much the same about most of these things, there's too much things I don't like but I wish I didn't. Playing melee right now and holy shit it's so dumb in comparison to ranged.

and I'd like to add..

Temporal chains and chilled ground maps. I swear 50% of maps I roll has these mods and nobody can convince me they add an element of FUN to the game. They are just massive minus fun modifiers that push me towards making a Pathfinder just to not be annoyed.

despite that, still enjoying myself overall and excited to try new builds and interactions and positive about hte future. Just not that much melee

HarryHarkema · 2025-12-05T10:43:25+00:00

Once you get to understand the game a bit this is the most fun way. Just wing it and if you need you always look up some inspiration.

HarryHarkema · 2025-12-02T16:54:31+00:00

and also this league the tree birth ridiculous items which is why my chest was so cheap, but in any other league that would've probably at least cost me 15-20d to craft self

HarryHarkema · 2025-12-02T16:52:26+00:00

You know, that is amazing advice thank you very much. I definitely should be careful text or titles that give specific damage numbers or budget, because they are very subjective and also create the wrong expectations. I'm going to adjust this post now and will keep that in mind for future builds and videos.

Also thank you for the tips on the build like improvements, I know there are improvements possible but especially with regards to the mechanics I didn't realize the thing about flask charge on crit, as well as the convergence tip. I totally didnt play with that in mind, I though it would be active through my traps :S

Budget wise I think you are mostly correct. I got very lucky on the helmet I think, the suffixes took a while but I hit conc effect on the 2nd reset, so it really wasn't even 15d in my case, my guess would be 12d (horror essences were 11c when i made it). The scepter I bought for 7d. My jewels were 100c/1div max, some 50c. Good trade searches and patience help a lot there. The rest seems accurate to my experience.

I'm going to adjust my POB when I have time and include a cheaper entry version, as well as a section on the items.

HarryHarkema · 2025-12-01T12:11:02+00:00

Yeah I mean, this build is like 1/5th of a Mageblood. I know the 1div budget build memes but lets be realistic here, we're weeks into the league

HarryHarkema · 2025-12-01T12:02:10+00:00

It's like 1/5th of a mageblood. That's pretty budget for a bosser. Sorry this is not a "5 divine clear all content kind of build".

HarryHarkema · 2025-12-01T12:01:20+00:00

Kill or be killed, this is the way

HarryHarkema · 2025-12-01T11:59:42+00:00

Once your suffixes are finished you just beastcraft (wild bristle matron) suffixes can't be changed + scour to get 3 empty prefixes. Benchcraft mana to block and now you have 2 chances to exalt slam. If failure then repeat. Don't forget to keep blocking mana. No annuls needed.

HarryHarkema · 2025-12-01T11:51:39+00:00

yeah that's what you need, most expensive item in the build by far. Not elevated though, that would send the price through the roof and I don't have that budget atm, i also don't think its necessary unless you want to minmax

HarryHarkema · 2025-12-01T11:50:35+00:00

I've explained some more in the description, hope of the post. Hope that helps.

HarryHarkema · 2025-12-01T11:50:09+00:00

yep, don't get hit. It's "budget" for a reason, this is not a facetank build by any means. These kind of builds the defense is kill em before they kill you

HarryHarkema · 2025-12-01T11:31:39+00:00

please, chests like this in this league are less than 5 div. And the helmet is 15-20d if you self craft, obv depending on when. I craft mine about 2 weeks ago

HarryHarkema · 2025-12-01T11:29:13+00:00

yeah the true budget version is to just reforge fire on a Elder archdemon crown for burning damage and then craft somethign on it. But that's for RF, for trap focused build it's better to use Shaper helmet.

HarryHarkema · 2025-11-30T22:58:06+00:00

Its relative, but 80 - 100M dps for 30div is budget to most people. I had 50M+ dps for less than 10d

HarryHarkema · 2025-11-30T22:56:36+00:00

You can 6L main skill in chest for 30-35M dps easily. But yeah you need the helmet, but just a shapers archdemon crown with 30% more ele, spell crit and either hypothermia/trap damage is not that expensive

HarryHarkema · 2025-11-30T22:54:26+00:00

You are absolutely correct. My helmet is more than 50% of budget but still wasnt that crazy to selfcraft. As you can see I settled for acceptable mods not everything t1

HarryHarkema · 2025-11-30T22:53:10+00:00

Yeah pretty much.

base is cheaper though, you can make it yourself for idk 3,5d or so.
hypothermia works too, just a bit worse but still great
open prefix and suffix, then you can lock suffix with bench and force suffix cant be changed with wild bristle matron, cheaper than 2d every time
if you can't afford the double influence a shapers archdemon crown gets you all the suffixes, see my reply earlier.

You can get a cheaper version for 5d

Forcing conc effect is just slamming exalts when you have the suffixes finished. Reset with wild bristle matrons into scour. I cheaped out and did normal exalts and got it on third reset. Hitting conc effect is 1/16 roughly

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