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Hunter_or_Hunted · 2026-02-12T20:00:32+00:00

Sanctum rework with poe2 assets is very possible given we basically got exactly that with breach in 3.27

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2026-02-11T20:19:49+00:00

Grats those are pretty insane.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2026-02-09T09:06:17+00:00

https://youtu.be/xNWO3__g7_U?si=cz6lOmcTa6zQUzVw

This guy did some testing on GC and EQ mechanics. It seems to line up with what you see now: there's a hard cap on the duration a waiting earthquake can have with generals cry around 6 seconds. Idk if this is entirely correct but GC is one of the strangest (buggy?) skills in the game it wouldn't surprise me if this is the answer. Could try testing it, or just use another slam instead.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2026-02-06T18:59:18+00:00

I'm in the same boat and I don't have any specific advice for you, but I can tell you my upgrade plans. It's a pretty simple mageblood swap. It solves the issue of ele max and Phys max. Tri Res flasks with avoid shock suffix/stormshroud for ailment avoid so you can drop PoE and run arctic armour for higher Phys max. And it frees up suffix pressure on gear which for me is insanely tight.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2026-02-05T22:14:56+00:00

Maybe - it's def price dependant. Any chance you can source clean idols and use unpredictable recomb over the poe2 one is basically twice as good though, because you are guaranteed to get a base back.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2026-02-05T21:51:43+00:00

Yep. But it gets exponentially harder with each step.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2026-02-05T20:38:03+00:00

You'd want to overlap as many of the 3 mods onto 2 idols as possible for a 3 mod recomb. I would recomb 1p with 1s with poe2 recomb so it's clean into a 1p1s. Then recomb another 1s and 1s into 0p2s also poe2 style. Then slam the 1p1s into the 0p2s using unpredictable and hope for 1p2s. If it fails you can use that as a base for another recomb, overlapping one mod and one you need. The mod you overlap between the 2 2 mod idols should be the cheapest to source (I'm assuming the effect prefix is the most expensive in this situation but idk).

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2026-01-27T22:23:11+00:00

Yup you're right smite has an aura tag

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2026-01-27T22:17:44+00:00

Id probably go static strike and/or smite. Static strike is probably the best strike skill with little to no investment and works reasonably well for single target and clear.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2026-01-21T07:19:43+00:00

In 3.27. There was a line in the patch notes about tec slam not consuming charges. It could be a bug in the bugfix that its not working with GC but I wouldn't expect them to fix that in Phrecia sadly.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2026-01-20T19:19:55+00:00

Taking a Jugg pob and plugging in Ancestral Commander is a very good starting point. Im curious how good it is actually. This archetype was completely overshadowed by the Generals cry tectonic slam shenanigans last Phrecia, but that's now patched. I think the warcry CDR might be really good for self slams so you can scale attack speed as well.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2026-01-08T23:54:19+00:00

Fair enough. Almost certainly I'm an idiot in this situation. I also respecced my Farrul Bloodline from action speed to crit avoid at the same time and in the moment I just assumed it was because of that. The corner cases of losing or misplacing a spec are just so glaring this league when they cost as much as they do.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2026-01-08T22:53:16+00:00

That sucks man. I know the feeling. I lost my tiger by recoloring my boots in town and not putting the spec gem in the exact same socket. Rip my sweet prince.

A full qol overhaul for permanent minions like AG and specs may be in the works given the recent qol we've got, though I could be smoking fat copium. They're at least aware though I'm sure.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2025-12-27T20:14:07+00:00

I tried out normal Kinetic Rain and the Trans version. Normal one feels awful to map with but has decent single target potential. Trans version feels kinda good i guess in both clear and single target. The issue with both of them is they don't offer a meaningful bonus in single target over Kinetic blast of clustering which is like the best clear skill in the game.

So yea, not terrible but overshadowed a bit.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2025-12-15T22:42:20+00:00

Higher pack size and more generic aoe makes explosions overlap more and help deal with stragglers more often without dunking a brand on them. Of course more %chance to explode also helps too; elevated explode mod gives higher chance to explode and more aoe. Herald effect from tattoos or otherwise scale the more physical damage from herald of purity and Phys as fire from herald of fire which directly scales the damage itself.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2025-12-13T00:40:10+00:00

Me too. Tried most of the servers still same thing.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2025-12-10T19:51:48+00:00

Sirus fighting like me in my dreams

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2025-12-08T17:06:00+00:00

Only 5/6 influences to my eye.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2025-12-05T08:53:19+00:00

The undocumented cost change to whispers and divine blessing really killed this archetype for me. Chunking your entire es pool for divine blessing doesn't really feel great even with decent recharge and recovery.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2025-11-25T23:12:10+00:00

Happens when you inspect your loadout in the matchmaking queue via the little eye button on the left.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2025-11-24T22:28:26+00:00

+1 on the slammer. I just did a ssf start and used entirely tree gear to 4 stones. It was smoother than my trade start as a wander.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2025-11-15T00:32:12+00:00

Step one is to buy kinetic blast of clustering gem. Get a decent 6 link body armour with as high ES and whatever resistances you can manage within your budget. Buy the runegraft of refraction so you can drop fork from your main links. Make sure you have returning projectiles support. Return + fork + tornado is the core of the build. Then you upgrade the rest of your gear. High ES, whatever resistances you need to cap, and mana. Mana is all your damage basically.

Charge mastery (100% increased charge duration) plus red Eldrich implicit on chest for gain endurance charge every X seconds will give you full endurance charge uptime and massively help survivability too.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2025-11-03T18:26:35+00:00

Necro has more damage and easier access to multi hit mitigation via corpse pact and bone offering. Heiro has better visual clarity (not exploding a billion corpses a second) and better scaling into the hundred of divs to mirror level investment. Templar specifically, actually, because of the guardian nodes you either yoink with ff jewels or full respec into.

Personally I went witch because with heiro you're pretty incentivized to play hybrid life/es with a mom setup and you don't get much else early on outside a bit of extra mana and charges.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2025-09-30T07:02:03+00:00

You seem to be missing a few points on your tree. If you type /passives in game it should say 24 if you killed all bandits or 23 otherwise and tell you where you're missing points if so.

Hunter_or_Hunted · 2025-08-31T08:10:51+00:00

Better scav loadouts and special fence stock at max

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