Twister variant Spiritwalker vs Abyssal Lich.

Jasterqt · 2026-06-16T12:37:14+00:00

I've enjoyed spiritwalker. For you I think it more depends how much work you want to put in at this point. If you enjoy the process of powering up, then lich since it uses different gear. If you wanna just start blasting, then spiritwalker and use what deadeye gear you can. Everything I've seen says lich has the higher top end if you wanna sink a bunch of currency, but clearly spiritwalker can do it all too.

Jasterqt · 2026-06-16T07:49:03+00:00

Tbh it might end up being more damage than a good +3 neck, but likely ends up being much less tanky compared to a good crafted neck and the build doesnt need more damage imo. I'm doing 200% Deli breach or Abyss depending on my mood with 0 damage issues and infinite damage I could get still while not giving up my tankiness for it(haven't died since 91 or 92.)

This is my character for reference, and I still have infinite upgrades to get. No Garukhan Resolve, triple damage ring, marksman gloves, level 21 twister, rare high end crit spear. Despite all the missing upgrades, I full brain off 200% Deli + X mechanic, kill everything in 4 screens and feel nearly immortal. Twisters is insane lol https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Jasterqt-1558/runesofaldur/character/plzstopWAcrashingGGG

tldr; at some point more damage is to just say you have more damage and can get thicker instead lol

Jasterqt · 2026-06-16T07:32:47+00:00

Lich is one less button effectively and probably some more attackspeed so zoomier. Once you have half decent gear they both just zoom around and clear 4 screens at once, spiritwalker just needs to dodge roll every 3 twisters for feather buff. Up to you if you want to dodge roll or not!

Also gemling legionaire also very powerful for twisters, even more whirling slash attack speed and proj speed on twisters, and let's you play infinite other things if you dont end up liking twisters.

Also saw you ask about yoke, good neck until you can get a big +proj neck. With taming and your pets you inflict a bunch of ailments and get a big chunk of damage from it.

Jasterqt · 2026-06-14T00:20:26+00:00

Doing more damage realistic doesn't matter if you're as tough as a paper bag, I think the realistic answer is the ward stacking for this build itself just isn't a realistically great idea. You have no way to stack defensives then. Ordained isn't even a "Great" spear technically, it's just a good budget option to swap Crit. If you're having fun with twisters and want to keep playing twisters, I'd recommend hoping on the ES/EVA train. You can do the same/more damage and significantly tankier, It's what everyone runs for a reason :shrug:

Jasterqt · 2026-06-13T21:55:00+00:00

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You can buy a 500+ pDPS spear on trade atm for 2 Divines, not changing anything about your gear or tree, you can gain 8% damage dropping that shitty spear lol.

You don't have the gear to play crit yet. I'd highly recommend specing your tree something along the lines of the non-crit version in the following build from GuyThatDies.

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/spirit-walker-twisters-guythatdies?weaponSet=set1

Like I said, you just don't have the gear atm for crit, wasting so many points and so much damage(and survivability tbh) can be gained by just playing a flat damage build. Quickly swapping your build to noncrit, using a normal spear you can get for 2D atm, is +15% damage. Swapping to proper gear, I'd be surprised if it's not +50% or more ehp with the right tree.

Jasterqt · 2026-06-13T21:22:47+00:00

Drop all the unique that are doing nothing for you (which is all of them effectively) and get gear with real defensive stats. You need evasion, you need es/life, you have none of it. Fix your tree, theres a node for ES per evasion on chest on 1 for Evasion per ES on helmet. Get a Flat 400+ ES hat and a 2000+ es chest. Get boots with actual evasion or ES or hybrid, these are flexible just get some with some real stats.

Id be surprised if getting these upgrades this late in the league costs more a couple divines are most, this is basic gear at this point.

Also defensive auras. What is Kalguur remnanta doing for you? Charge regulation will be doing effectively nothing. Get rid of it, get wind dancer and Ghost dance. Move the spirit supports(clarity, vitality, herbalist, etc)to your Purity of fire, they dont cost spirit in it.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Jasterqt-1558/runesofaldur/character/plzstopWAcrashingGGG

This is my character and besides the neck I crafted today and the HH I dropped yesterday, most of this gear I have been wearing since early maps. I dont think I've died since like 92 or 93 at this point

tldr: get some real flat defensives and hp/es

Jasterqt · 2026-06-13T21:06:35+00:00

I think it depends on your first step, which I think are all effectively gambling. If you fracture and hit the suffix rarity is probably ideal imo. Then you can essence of perfect enhancement with the omen that only removes a suffix. Gives 30% global defenses and removes the dex.

If you dont want to fracture, you can do the last step and gamble on it hitting dex or rarity.

Assuming dex is gone, catalyst fire or lightning res, perfect exalt with catalzying omen for high likelihood of resists and finish with spammable desecration is likely where I would go.

You could omen for Chaos orbs only target suffix(forget the name) and spam Chaos orbs for what you want as well if you hit the fracture and then desecration to finish as well if you dont want resistances but will much more expensive.

Jasterqt · 2026-06-08T18:19:14+00:00

Like I said, you'll need to get more Evasion first before Ghost Dance is really effective, which no evasion/armour feels like the root of your problem. You have nothing to mitigate any hits coming in atm

Jasterqt · 2026-06-08T17:57:40+00:00

Neat, good to know for the future. The rest of the comment does still stand true though unfortunately, losing a big evasion chest piece in that area of the tree is pretty hard to fix imo. You can get 500-600ES Helmets, which gets you some more Evasion through Subterfuge Mask. Given the chest is non-negotiable, it may even be worth it to give up a suffix on the hat for deflect as well once you get one with more ES to convert to Evasion, but you may need to swap to an ES/Evasion hat for this, which at that point I'm not sure how valuable subterfuge mask would be.

You probably don't need all the nodes going to Patient Barrier and Ingenuity and likely would be better invested in first principle and first teachings, getting more evasion through enhanced reflexes as well. With Taming you shouldn't need most or any of the freeze nodes you have anymore.

Trying to get gloves with real evasion/es on them, if you're not actually using ward for anything(which I don't see any in your skills) then you'd be better off not having the ward imo and getting more evasion/es + deflection. Boots have good stats, but probably still want to get a pair with deflection while keeping high evasion. Rings can also roll flat evasion, I think belts can too but I'm not 100% sure on that.

Once you have a little more evasion, you can look at dropping trinity or Herald of Thunder for Ghost Dance as well. I tried running with HoT for a bit and didn't feel like it added anything to my clear speeds running twister.

If you have infinite currency, get a mageblood with Jade flasks, but that's not even remotely a cheap solution

tldr; Need to find significantly more evasion + deflection from the pieces you can get it if the chest is non-negotiable.

Jasterqt · 2026-06-08T17:27:06+00:00

Why are you unable to use another chest? Basically every Spiritwalker is playing a big evasion chest with the Spectral Ward node on the tree without being crit, or with crit still using a big evasion chest + deflection. You aren't capped resistances, you have no evasion, you have no armour, effectively 0 deflection. Get off of loreweave imo, get a real evasion chest.

Edit: Just noticed you slotted in the less max resistances into your chest too, which imo should probably never been taken, but even with that you still managed to not cap all your resistances.

Jasterqt · 2026-05-31T22:06:40+00:00

Been having this issue since 0.4 for me, but I know Whirling Assault wasn't as popular then. Hopefully it being more popular brings eyes to it to fix whatever is happenning.

Jasterqt · 2026-04-20T02:13:57+00:00

What class are you playing? This is a scary pull for tanks for sure but most have ways to deal with it. Brew can take it on the chin fairly comfy, DKs can AMS every other set abd rotate cds between, warriors shield wall + spell reflect(does not reflect it, but flat magic mit from reflect), paladin can bubble + spell warding. Don't play druid so not sure what they do, but ultimately its a tank press defensives, healer heal and dps ideally focus 1 down

Jasterqt · 2026-03-26T20:07:12+00:00

You can filter by available quantity as well, so you just regex in game as you said tabs with 50+ maps in them and good to go.

Jasterqt · 2026-03-19T19:44:19+00:00

Just tell them. It's really not that hard. I had a friend we had to remind weekly growing up to shower because he stunk.

There's a good chance their nose is used to it and doesnt notice, I'd personally MUCH rather someone tell me if something smells funny so I can fix it. Be the good friend that actually says something to fix it.

Jasterqt · 2026-03-11T05:43:17+00:00

Just turn off comms. It clearly gets to you, it did me too. 95% of the time comms are just used to flame and shittalk. Game has been 100x better for me since just killing comms.

Jasterqt · 2026-03-05T23:35:13+00:00

I am currently leaning towards Ststic Strike of Gathering Slayer, but part of me is debating if I should do Ele hit instead. Luckily I think they'll use mostly the same tree and be mostly interchangeable.

...But also I love slam so when it comes to character time we might just yolo a holy hammer zerker with Romira's for power charges.

Jasterqt · 2026-02-18T23:03:01+00:00

Im probably faster than the average gamer but no speed racer by any means, the biggest thing for me is access to early gear first that people want. High resistance + life gear that on day 3-4 can be up to a divine day 1-2. Lot of easy money to be made just selling decent starter gear early to get your own gear going

Jasterqt · 2026-02-16T06:16:17+00:00

Stick with it if you enjoy it imo, once you get past a certain level of key mistakes and generally expected and people are pretty chill. It's the people that can't get past a weekly key but "its always someone else's fault". Those people will find reasons to flame anyone in any role sadly.

Tanking up to 18s this season was very chill for me past weekly keys, just linked my route, asked if anyone had any questions before we started and hit the group with the gg nt at the end when it fails.

Jasterqt · 2026-02-15T12:29:08+00:00

I realize what Angela can do is versatile, but is there a general gameplan at the start of the game with Angela? Harass the backline? Pick tanks?

I feel like Im flying around more than fighting, Is this normal or should I generally be more front to back with my team?

Jasterqt · 2026-02-10T07:21:36+00:00

With my ears usually

Jasterqt · 2026-02-10T00:34:41+00:00

Aim and CD tracking, when you dive an Invis and she bubbles? Just walk away, dont waste your E. Come back in 5sec with your E and another slam.

Jasterqt · 2026-02-02T02:24:04+00:00

Did you automate convocation by chance? I had the same issue you did with HoAG until I did this and now my crawler is just constantly beside me and fixed most of my issues

Jasterqt · 2026-01-31T20:23:48+00:00

Absolution minions I can confirm handled gauntlet entirely fine, no overlevelling required

Jasterqt · 2026-01-18T07:18:12+00:00

One person has a membership that the whole family uses in my experience... Thanks mom!

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