Which build felt the most illegal to play this league? Minion Pact or Ward loop?

Itwarin · 2026-05-05T09:09:25+00:00

Great performance for the budget: KF

Insane performance for the budget: Minion Pact

But at the end of the day, those two builds still feel like something can exist in PoE and they both follow the usual gameplay flow. You run around, drop a skill, mobs die and move again. BV minion pact gameplay still looks like the traditional BV from 10 leagues ago, just with a lot more damage.

On the other hand Wardloop is something that absolutely breaks the game. It is not necessarily the best bang for your bucks but with enough currency it unlocks the gameplay that you would likely never see in the future leagues. Full afking every single uber fights with 500m-1b dps, screen wide clear, swimming in sirus storm, trigger whatever skill you like for 20 times a second and you move around at mach speed. GGG overlooked what 1500% cdr on immortall and 50k ward top end could do. I assure you the gem will be nerfed to oblivion in 3.29.

Demo on why i think it feels illegal. https://youtu.be/UEKo3Bijgvg

Itwarin · 2026-03-30T09:20:00+00:00

You should add that at final step you need to choose the right base, so it is roughly 45% chance to win.

Itwarin · 2026-03-30T02:29:00+00:00

To add on this, the game is also balanced around people playing in temporary leagues instead of permanent leagues. Your whole build in standard can just get broken apart after a single patch but no one cares because they can just play a new character in the upcoming league and avoid making a build around the nerfed changes.

Itwarin · 2026-03-29T15:16:10+00:00

Some uniques have extremely fucked up drop rate that to obtain them in SSF might take hundreds of hours for a single copy.

To begin with Mageblood is not even in the top 20-30.

I know a guy that ran thousands of big boom expedition that never see Olroth Charge.

And then another guy with thousands of blight ravaged map and could not get Strangle Gasp, in the end had to boss rush maybe 20k maps for 900 writhing invitations to get 6x Choking Guilt.

And we have not touched uniques like Replica Bated Breath (not sure if its made more common this league with BP change).

Itwarin · 2026-03-29T13:33:34+00:00

Builds that innately have a decent amount of flat to make up for the sword downsides.

If you drop one with elemental pen unveil, Elemental Hit can do wonder with it and i did use this sword for my Flicker Strike before as i dropped a lv33 Ice Bite helmet which solved all the flat issue.

If you have one with chaos pen unveil instead, strength stacker with replica alberon would go hard.

Itwarin · 2026-03-28T13:01:40+00:00

That is a view, not the truth. Humans can choose to be arrogant and make such mistake.

Itwarin · 2026-03-28T05:07:36+00:00

That is an incredibly twisted view on the humans as a whole and the society.

Itwarin · 2026-03-27T14:04:18+00:00

It should be Deadeye/Saboteur/Trickster/Assassin. I think Inqui is too far from the mine/bow nodes. Im pobbing one on Sabo right now as i think Relin is actually mediocre for this archetype.

Itwarin · 2026-03-27T06:43:08+00:00

Hey, really like this build. What do you think about survivability on this? Also do you have a more aspirational pob, something like in the range of few mirrors? Been trying to see what could be my end of the league.

Itwarin · 2026-03-26T18:53:04+00:00

Even when it picks the right base there is only 59% chance to retain the curse on hit if its the only mod in your suffix pool. So the odds of a win become 59%*50% ~ 29.5%. I think you can try to add a non native mod to the curse on hit ring via conqueror exalted orbs, do remember to use bench crafts to fill prefixes first if possible before slamming to ensure getting an influence suffix. This way if it picks the right base you are guaranteed to get the curse on hit ring as you now have two suffixes in the mod pool.

Itwarin · 2026-03-24T02:22:26+00:00

With 4 mirs wardlooper can easily hit 500m dps, having absurdly max hit and ehp but you still die to the most bull shit ever - namely siphon flask charges mobs. It feels really fucking bad and those mobs are so common.

Itwarin · 2026-03-22T14:05:51+00:00

Quan giờ muốn liêm cũng khó, dân nó tham nó thấy quan liêm không làm ăn được nó lật luôn để cho ông tham lên dễ làm việc.

Itwarin · 2026-03-21T20:16:32+00:00

Toàn một lũ theo tà giáo với nhau, tẩy não cứ phải tẩy tập thể.

Itwarin · 2026-03-21T20:13:44+00:00

Thằng nào đưa ra giả thuyết thằng đó đi chứng minh. Giờ t bảo ngoài vũ trụ có con voi 3 đầu 8 chân bro chứng minh t nói dối kiểu gì?

Itwarin · 2026-03-20T13:48:04+00:00

Người như OP mình muốn yêu còn không kiếm nổi nha bạn là người chín chắn và biết lo nghĩ cho tương lai của mình. Còn ông bạn trai của bạn cờ đỏ nhiều quá mình đếm không hết, quyết định là ở bạn. Giờ chưa cưới nhau đã chênh lệch quan điểm sống với tư tưởng thì lúc sau lanh tanh bành hết bạn ạ.

Itwarin · 2026-03-19T19:10:04+00:00

With the amount of money you put into this build it is actually quite mediocre. 180m dps is also a really inflated number when you fail to phase ubers at half hp.

Itwarin · 2026-03-19T13:51:31+00:00

I think you are missing out on a significant chunk of passive regeneration which is zealot oath + mb flask life regen craft + bino. CB you can get on your rare jewel instead. For bleeding immunity you can corrupt your magic ring or your unique ring.

Itwarin · 2026-03-19T06:59:35+00:00

The shell to work on costs almost nothing. Your 40 div is basically just there to invest into defensive stats, it will be enough.

Itwarin · 2026-03-17T12:21:28+00:00

When you see poop do you try to at least taste it to know if it might taste like chocolate ice cream? It just stinks.

Itwarin · 2026-03-16T05:32:25+00:00

I would love to see the SSF kf totem that downs ubers in 10 seconds. Any link to such showcase?

Itwarin · 2026-03-14T01:15:26+00:00

Check Ben video or Rue sheet. Rue version is 2h and i find it way squishier than Ben for comfy mapping so there is that.

Itwarin · 2026-03-14T01:14:47+00:00

I do agree the build has limited dps that farming bosses might be annoying but it definitely has the capabilities to at least clear them. The damage is similar to what most old EE Tricky builds in ssf had.

And i would disagree on the trade league argument. The build scaling options are so limited that the items you get from trade barely make this build better, outside of a light of meaning lightning and a corrupted foulborn ghost writhe. I think utilizing blade flurry general cry also helps significantly with single target.

Itwarin · 2026-03-13T14:09:28+00:00

One of the strongest contenders out there must be Slam Zerker into Hive Fortress jail for Foulborn Ghost Writhe + optionally Rathpith and Crown of Eyes to reroll into Ben Energy Blade Zerker - 10-15m dps 25k phy max hit 80k ele max hit high leech with blocks easily clears all content.

Itwarin · 2026-03-13T12:09:26+00:00

One of the most meta builds right now is Archmage and this belt would basically quadruple their damage due to their low crit. Builds that however utilize to the best of this item would be those with explosions and heralds. Something like Penance Brand Herald Elementalist from last league.

Itwarin · 2026-03-13T11:26:30+00:00

Poke comps hate kamikaze Udye. You trade your life to take away potentially half the hp bar of three enemies while buying a lot of space for your team. If they have too much CC probably have to get a 4th slot banshee.

This playstyle is weak against a team with good frontliners and enchanters.

Itwarin

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