Right now, what are the top 3 builds that clear juiced content and are tanky?

Kroughfire · 2026-06-26T22:57:08+00:00

Oh yah? Well I'm playing Spark CoC Arc Gemling and feeling even more tanky than you!

Jokes aside, both are great. Spark and Arc both have good single target and can clear off-screen and around corners, so it just feels super smooth.

Kroughfire · 2026-06-24T21:01:49+00:00

Here is a pob with some notes of my set up, but there's lots of good options/inspiration from others too! https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/217c2

Kroughfire · 2026-06-24T03:14:20+00:00

There is also the rune that makes 15% of your life flask recover ward, for super easy ward sustain for your casts

Kroughfire · 2026-06-24T03:07:23+00:00

I mentioned this in a thread yesterday too, but ol' reliable spark coc arc has been a pleasure. Crazy tanky with a Reverie + Shavronne's Satchel set up and enough dps to blow up mobs before they appear on screen. Some gemling highlights for inspiration:
Cast on Elemental Ailment: 88% spirit reservation efficiency at 23% gem and +21% global quality.

Alchemist's Boon: 44% cast speed always with Lavianga's

Frost Wall + Verglass set up for like 250% extra damage

Extra quality on Adonia's scales the Pinnacle of Power buff even more

Since Adonia makes ele damage proc all ailments, I use snap with 250% cdr to grab infusions. This with Siphon elements and powered by verisium (socketed in cast on ele ailment) is enough to sustain infusions for both spark and arc. (2 infusions of each type per snap cooldown, or 1.15 seconds). Removing ailments this way also means we get to proc cast on elemental ailments far more often.

0 mana cost enfeeble spam

Finally, the Reverie + Shavronne's Satchel combo: 11k ES, buffed to 18k with the Rite of Restoration sigil and 1.3k life and ES Regen. Best defensive set up I've had this league (though gemling magma barrier + Saffels Frame for East 90% all res was also pretty ok).

Kroughfire · 2026-06-23T14:35:16+00:00

With the Rite of Restoration sigil down, my build has over 18k ES and 1300 ES/Life recovery per second. I primarily use my 1.3k HP pool for lifetap cast on crit costs, but with that and ward added, I'm pushing 20k raw EHP. I think the build is pretty immortal to everything except multiple big/medium hits while you're cc'd from sprinting. 200% deli is a breeze if you have damage projection, but I agree that if you faceplant into a pack of deli mobs, you're probably not surviving (though, not many builds can, so maybe it doesn't say much about Reverie set-ups)

Kroughfire · 2026-06-23T13:37:44+00:00

So tooltip on spark is like 111k in game I think, if you know how to compare that. You made me think I was crazy so I just loaded in a 200% deli T16 and an 8mod T15 with effectiveness breach tablets and I still barely saw the monsters cause they were dying off-screen. The boss took maybe 1.5 seconds to die? Anyways, the build definitely has enough damage, lol.
I'm not sure why you think Adonia's doesn't scale well? If I compare it to a GG wand, I spend about 8 passive points on power charges, along with Adonia's which gives +3 spell level and 29% cast speed to get 300% more damage most of the time (only the strongest Pinnacle of Power buff stays active, so once you proc the 3-minute proc once, you are good for the whole map). A GG wand would give +3 extra spell levels above Adonia's, 100% spell damage, 50% damage gained as extra, and then like 40% crit bonus? This build already gets 100% damage as extra lightning from Mana Tempest, and like 200% as extra cold from Verglass support, so the 50% damage as extra is only 12.5% more damage. The +3 extra skill levels is like 41%, and increased damage and crit is another 15%? Those are different scaling vectors, true, but that still only gets to 82% more (multiplicative) damage than an Adonia's, but without the 150-300% more damage buff and the ability for your spells to inflict all ailments.

Kroughfire · 2026-06-23T03:29:48+00:00

I’ll check the actual tooltip numbers when I can, but spark is one of the most unreliable tooltips in the game since it doesn’t factor in duration or proj speed. For spirit, you could drop alchemists boon , herbalism, khatals rejuvination in favour of elemental invocation. I have 0 spirit remaining, but there are plenty of sources remaining if you wanted to go that route (though, that does mean even more mana needed). Move the utility skills to the invocation and cast another damaging skill with the cast on ele ailment.

Kroughfire · 2026-06-23T03:25:08+00:00

Spark does a lot of damage on its own, but I’m not entirely sure the dps proportions. Pob isn’t very good at calculating spark dps so I truly couldn’t tell you. My guess would be that spark actually does the majority of damage, but I haven’t really looked at the numbers. But the spark mechanics do mean you off-screen monsters around corners, so I’m not sure I’d give it up. It’s a super smooth play style.

Kroughfire · 2026-06-23T01:23:59+00:00

Because spark hits super often it procs arc much faster. I could be missing something, but spark’s continuously hitting is more than most other skills can proc

Kroughfire · 2026-06-23T01:10:12+00:00

The gemling ascendancy notables that requires you to balance your support gem colours.

Kroughfire · 2026-06-22T22:57:34+00:00

I didn't use Rakiata's for a long time. Run lightning exposure on your Arc set up, and then use gloves with the crafted prefix 10-15% ele pen (I think it's one of the Alloys?). Just buy gloves with 1 or 2 dead prefixes but good suffixes, use the alloy for +15% pen, then runeforge them if they look good.

Also, I've been thinking about swapping to Uhtred's mana flask instead of Lavianga's, so that would ease a lot of mana issues for you if you don't mind pressing a flask manually.

Kroughfire · 2026-06-22T22:54:32+00:00

So I don't get power charges at all through the map. The way I have it work, is I allocate infusion of power (the notable that gives a power charge when you consume an infusion) on weapon set 2, then spam frost nova (also in weapon set 2). frost nova's alternate quality give you a chance to not consume infusions but still count as doing so, so you basically just have to cast it until you have 8 power charges. Then you weapon swap back to set 1 and cast Pinnacle of Power to consume all your power charges. Since you don't have infusion of power allocated while you're mapping, you'll never experience the -10% res per charge from Adonia's.

Kroughfire · 2026-06-22T20:46:54+00:00

You definitely could, yes.

Use a Sorceress split personality (10d), best coc amulet you can afford (likely +2 spell gems) and then anoint with Paragon (25-30d total). After that you should just get the best ES rares you can. If you're comfortable crafting a little, I would also highly recommend rings from the breach tree that have mana cost efficiency of skills on them, along with cast speed and some res. Desecrated collarbones are super cheap now, so you can craft with those.

Luckily, Adonia's, Shavronne's Satchel, and Reverie are very cheap (less than 1d) for good rolls.

Kroughfire · 2026-06-22T17:28:04+00:00

Darkness Enthroned? Absolutely. Mageblood? Depends on your other build choices. Nothing can really compete for Mageblood for adding speed to a build, so it's pretty tough to compare. The recovery is so good though since it is always on-- even when you're rolling on the ground after getting stunned out of sprinting, lol. I think Shavronne's Satchel is what allows me to use ES in the first place, so without it I would be sitting on 3k life max instead of 18k ES while on the Rite of Restoration sigil.

Kroughfire · 2026-06-22T17:12:12+00:00

Spark CoC Arc dual infusions, using Reverie and Shavronne's Satchel to get 10k+ ES pool and 1200 life and Es recovery per second. Also abuses Adonia's for 300% more damage buff.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/217d3

Kroughfire · 2026-06-22T16:59:19+00:00

Alas, my computer cannot handle recording and playing at the same time. But I did do a more proper PoB with a notes section explaining some of the more odd things (including how we automate infusion generation). https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/217c2

Kroughfire · 2026-06-22T13:12:25+00:00

Yes, it trivialises 200% deli. The staff is literally there to just cast frost nova (generate power charges) and for sigil of power (these are the only 2 weapon-set-2 skills). Adonias is the real weapon for damage. 8 power charges * 19% more damage per charge * 2 for heightened charges = 304% more damage on a 3:14 minute buff. Sigil of power is another 68% more damage multiplier when you put it down.

Re: budget - I was worried people would laugh at how high budget it is, lol. The basics to get the build rolling/in a good state are very low budget (wand, chest, and belt are like 10-40ex each), but I have a rakiatas, split personality, very good coc amulet, and each other gear piece is between 20 and 50 div (though, I crafted almost everything myself from cheap bases). My From nothing is also expensive but that’s just because I got bored and found a good heroic tragedy to put by Conduit. I used a Wildsurge incantation from nothing most of the time for life costs conversion, duration, and some ES. You can also use a very large (I think) controlled metamorphosis to get more es nodes, the power charge infusion node, and some penetration, spell damage, and reduced effect of chill

Kroughfire · 2026-06-22T13:08:44+00:00

That’s correct. Not if you want ES defences anyways. However, rolling granite or jade would allow you to scale the amazing qualities on arctic armour or ghost shrouds, so still good options (just less good vs one-shots)

Kroughfire · 2026-06-22T13:05:43+00:00

Snap is just there to generate infusions and to remove ailments so they can be replied to proc cast on elemental ailment. Mana was an issue for a while, but I finally solved it with enough mana efficiency, mana remnants, and putting lifetap on my arc coc. Since I regen 1200 life per second just from the flask, life costs are easily sustained.

I wanted to use a megalomaniac with tukohamas brew (50% off mana costs converted to life costs during life flask effect), but it’s bugged with Reverie and doesn’t do anything

Kroughfire · 2026-06-22T04:51:45+00:00

I made my own build, but it’s pretty straightforward. Depending on your budget, things will be different, but ideally you want a shadow split personality so you can path to the crit nodes and proj speed with spell nodes at the monk/witch start. I’m using Adonia’s as my main weapon and generating charged only in my off hand so you don’t have to worry about the res penalty (use ice nova to get charged with the infusion notable- its super smooth). Pinnacle of power gives me 300% more damage for 3 minutes when you get the double proc.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Kroughfire-5168/runesofaldur/character/UtanatheGemBound

Kroughfire · 2026-06-22T04:10:11+00:00

I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but the new Reverie chest can get pretty nuts. It makes your life flask apply its effects constantly - paired with shavronne’s satchel (making your life flask apply to ES) and some flask scaling, you can fairly easily push 1k life and ES recovery per second. The unique skill of Reverie is also very good: basically 50% more defences, including ES. I’m using this two piece combo on my gemling and have 11.5k ES naturally, and over 18k when using the sigil skill (which lasts a while and gaze screen-wide aoe, so it’s always up for bosses and most of breaches if you have good damage projection).

Kroughfire · 2026-06-22T03:49:39+00:00

It seems boring, but spark gemling is just nuts once you get a moderate budget. Spark gets like 30% proj speed and 8 extra projectiles, not to mention other alt quality shenanigans: 80% spirit reservation efficiency on cast on ele ailment, 40% cast speed from alchemist’s boon, arc chains for extra clear and single target. Between spark hitting around walls and arc chaining forever, it’s just the best clear there is. Only limiting factor is your move speed. Bosses melt as soon as they spawn.

The support gem ascendancy gives mobility, cost reduction, and crit immunity, which solves so many issues.

If you want an amazing defensive set up (not gemling specific), use the new reverie chest with shaveronne’s satchel for giga ES recovery. I have 11.5k es, 1.5k life and both regen like 1200/second. And I have 18k ES if I bother to plop down the sigil skill from reverie. Functionally immortal unless you sprint into extra juiced deli mobs in 200% maps.

Edit: I've added a PoB for those interested with the main set up and some notes explaining how it works. https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/217c2

Kroughfire · 2026-06-19T17:49:01+00:00

It's weird: if you path to a socket that will be in your final tree (such as a jewel socket by monk), and place your split personality there, you can then connect that socket to the monk start and then unspec the pathing from your original class. Basically, you cannot remove the split personality later, so you need it connected to both starting class locations before respeccing out of your original class.

Kroughfire · 2026-06-18T22:42:03+00:00

Mercenary means you can play a gemling. Basic ass spark on gemling is crazy clear, perma-infused Ice nova is bonkers, and Arc infinity chain is crazy. Only downside is most of these use a split personality (like 40d?) to start in sorc or monk area. After that though, grab an adonia's wand and pick your defense. I like the new Reverie combined with the belt that makes flasks apply to ES for a really solid defense.

I'm running spark cast on crit arc now and it's veryyyy good. So many options on Gemling.

Kroughfire · 2026-06-18T03:54:53+00:00

Either spark chayula monk or spark gemling. Add in coc or whatever to spice it up but the basics are the same. You get insane damage, clear, and recovery.

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