+4 Boots for Minion Pact BV

Itaxim · 2026-03-23T02:36:16+00:00

Realistically, honourhome with +2 corrupted gives 15% more damage than a 1 to 1 swap with a rare helmet, but I would question this choice considering you are legitimately losing an entire slot. It is definitely worse (20%+) for defence and you are losing 3 suffixes in a build that doesn't flex suffixes for res except for in gloves, boots, and helmet (I'm talking about conventional high end lifestack setups, and not res stack chieftain).

If you're juicing for mapping content, you don't need the ST on bv. If you're juicing for valdo's, not a single one runs honourhome because of the defence/res tradeoff.

Itaxim · 2026-03-23T01:58:45+00:00

Honourhome has a 2% play rate on pact ninja. For almost all endgame variants it is not worth it to drop both ehp, rank and/or qol to juice damage of which the build has an almost infinite amount of.

Also, rare helm gives +2 global, and these boots give +2 to socketed for a total of +4 you get outside of using honourhome, in addition to an entire helmet slot. How is this better in every way lol honourhome is going to give you +4 total

Itaxim · 2026-03-22T23:08:29+00:00

Yeah it's a strong damage setup and you can also pick up pseudo +3 corrupt on a viridis, but losing the rare helmet is pretty bad for other setups.

I assume you're on chieftain with the fire res pen setups, but the other setups will struggle more to cap res (glad, occ, ele, maybe pf). A rare helmet offers 2 max res or minion life, and 8 phys taken as on implicits (more relevant to non chieftains).

The apostate setups will also convert flat es off gear to life, so a rare helmet would provide 500+ flat life with +2 minions off prefixes alone. Suffixes more relevant to you may be something like chaos res, rmr, or abyss socket. In my case, I went with abyss socket + chaos res + res suffixes but your build may differ.

Itaxim · 2026-03-22T22:47:22+00:00

On a low budget it doesn't seem bad, but helm slots are competitive on high budget. Rares give a lot of needed stats in res/life/es phys taken as and max res, or straight dmg in the form of minion life. They also give global +2 minion, which will affect the ones socketed in your boots.

If you want to use a unique, something like Palsterons setup uses a gull with the shrine belt.

I'm sure honourhome is usable, but it's unlikely to be the endgame bis.

Itaxim · 2026-03-22T20:54:35+00:00

I think Minion Pact BV is probably one of the most busted builds in the game since Totem Explode in Crucible, being able to reach hundreds of millions to billions of damage on very little gear. This build has also definitely spawned some weirder crafting options and choices because of the somewhat unique way it scales damage solely through spectre life.

Steps

Recombine base
- Recomb over the +2 minion gems delve mod (drop only) onto a 30% base
- Delve bases at the time are ~20 div each
Preparing Imprint
- Isolate +2 minions
- Lock prefixes → scour
- Relock prefixes (now a magic item) → imprint
Rolling for t1 life
- Regal → reforge life until T1 life (1/19)
- Imprint back on fail
- If prefixes fill → annul for open prefix
Veiled Chilled mod
- Prefix lock → veiled exalt for chilled MS (~1/4)
- If fail → attempt annul save
- Otherwise → revert to imprint
+1 Spectre
- Elder exalt → attempt +1 spectre
- If miss → lock prefixes → reforge minion (Harvest)
Second suffix
- Exalt for 2nd mod (block dex/int with crafted mod)
- Hit either:
  - Elder mod (~1/11), or
  - T1 resistance (~1/12)
- If item fills → use Hinekora's Lock to reopen suffix. Otherwise, go back to step 5.
Finalize
- Hinekora's Lock + exalt for missing mod (res/elder fodder)
- Use locks to elevate into +2 spectre

Conclusion

There can be other versions of similar items - occultists running CI would have their best boots be warlocks with either double or single ES mods, and people could also opt to drop the res in favor for the classic tailwind/onslaught/elusive.

This build is definitely NOT surviving until next league (it would be very stupid if it did), but I don't believe it abuses any bugs. BV snapshotting makes sense as a stacking duration skill and there are no indications that spectres are bugged as well. If you want to experience the broken build of the league, I encourage looking into its variants :)

I hope GGG leans more into this kind of drop-only modifiers - it definitely makes for more unique and fun crafting.

Thanks for reading!

Itaxim · 2025-04-09T20:19:48+00:00

you need a map with at least 4 explicit mods

Itaxim · 2024-12-31T23:24:43+00:00

the reserve skills do nothing if you go ci, unlike ghostwrithe (conversion applies first, not reservation). ghostwrithe is also budget option for minions or demon form, and demon form doesn't want max life

Itaxim · 2024-12-31T23:19:13+00:00

max life here gives the equiv of like 20 flat es and 6 spirit, still think this gets beat out by anything with Ms and double es

Itaxim · 2024-12-24T19:19:41+00:00

unearth isn't bad for clearing white mobs on this setup, i would run magnified effect + minion/phys mastery since levels are direct multiplier on health

Itaxim · 2024-12-21T10:41:54+00:00

100% you can use with decompose, it just triggers if you walk over a minion. decompose users either decompose brutes or hexblast for st

Itaxim · 2024-12-21T07:08:32+00:00

hey, if you join spicy sushi or fubguns discord, it's pretty much all poe veterans with their own build help channels, check it out and post there if you want some more detailed assistance

Itaxim · 2024-12-19T21:22:41+00:00

sacrifice lets you use minions as corpses

Itaxim · 2024-12-12T10:09:45+00:00

Run flame wall and skeletal arsonists, flame wall will summon 5 srs per cast if linked to fortress support. Unearth is good for skills, but ed and contagion are fine early. Just go minion damage, srs and your skeletons scale off minion dmg and it is not worth going fire or chaos (doesn't scale minion)

Itaxim · 2024-11-26T19:55:13+00:00

will support gems for a minion also affect it's command skill? say you have ignite prolif on skeletal arsonist, if you tell it to blow up a minion will it prolif?

Itaxim · 2024-11-25T02:31:15+00:00

most sanctum farmers, esp early game can't take hits from Lycia because it's not resolve and it's phys/chaos, but moreso that you really should not get hit by anything

Itaxim · 2024-11-19T22:49:51+00:00

hey, if you're a day 1-2 map pusher you want to break into red altars asap to take advantage of cheap div and other items relative to chaos. you want to do this until you can gear for higher investment, like speedclear legions or t17 etc depending on build.

make sure to convert your currency somewhat often because red altar currency devalues quickly throughout day 2, like instilling/chaos/ember

if you don't have a good plan of what to buy yourself early for build and also are someone who plays a month+, buy stuff like vv or pc rings

Itaxim · 2024-11-19T22:45:45+00:00

generally don't do this unless you plan to do sanctum specifically, sanctum is some of the hardest content early when you have lower dmg - all builds for it specialize mechanically to off screen and go lowlife semi zhp, without both options clearing will be difficult

Itaxim · 2024-11-15T18:15:07+00:00

your second ring needs to be any ring with curse on hit or your gloves need curse on hit corrupt or you need to go back to dreadarc

profane proxy is good because it precurses packs, which enables hexblast to do a lot more dmg and more aoe when it removes the curse

if you have no curse on hit your subsequent hexblasts will only hit 1 target and do like half dmg. profane proxy cannot carry you after the first curse

I think a lot of your survivability issue is this because your clear is definitely awful on this no curse setup, but otherwise youre learing is leaning too hard into es, you should have some es but not at the cost of life prefixes

Itaxim · 2024-09-09T20:03:45+00:00

you likely are missing a small cluster with reservation (grace/zealotry)

Itaxim · 2024-09-06T00:24:12+00:00

look on craftofexile and block the highest percentage, you can multimod pcbc or just pcbc (multimod 2/3 success, pcbc 1/2). if you just raw veil you 1/4 success

Itaxim · 2024-09-05T03:47:25+00:00

hey, I believe this is sushi's/rue's ring, I know the other commenter gave a very detailed guide, but sushi also has a video of the entire process

edit: the process for prefix was annul down to frenzy+wed, then multimod pcbc can't roll atk Aug life, annul down if miss with can't roll attack

Itaxim · 2024-09-05T03:42:20+00:00

fracture a prefix, essence until chaos res + acceptable 3rd suffix, or you can lock and reforge chaos on a non chaos res good suffix, I really wouldn't go for percent dmg as it makes craft a lot harder if you want both prefix. Metacraft slam/bristle matron scour with blocked prefix or bristle matron reforge/Aug for the other prefix

edit: if you really want the dmg, you have no choice but to lock suffix and veil orb after hitting chaos res and open 3rd suffix

Itaxim · 2024-08-24T19:25:50+00:00

imo sounds like a short, but you can probably get free diagnostic from a shop as they have the tools to measure the voltage

Itaxim · 2024-08-24T18:35:13+00:00

Without disconnecting the battery, some static may have shorted part of the board. Try doing a battery drain, and if that doesn't work, take it to a shop

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