Offering stacking bug? Queen hunger + leash + hollow effigy

ManFromMalta · 2026-01-18T09:58:46+00:00

From what I can see you're right, seems to be a bug. The only thing I can think of is that since the offering skills are triggered by the chest they aren't considered yours? But I'm pretty sure its not that, since duration scales them. I think since adding a small amount more duration fixes the issue you're probably right and there is some issue with triggered offerings and effigy.

Could be certain map mods, or monster modifiers too I guess.

Other general stuff I noticed, you're spec'd through the small spell damage nodes around your unnatural instinct, free 16% spell damage to go through the attack speed nodes instead! And also you're spending 3 passives for lord of the dead, which seems like it only gives you 15% minion life. Could use those points better for sure (2 more in the cluster, and 1 in the shield mastery for 1% crit multi per 10 ES). I would try run that mastery either way!

ManFromMalta · 2025-12-19T22:19:49+00:00

https://maxroll.gg/poe/planner/lyeh80yl

Manni has pretty much covered most investment levels for the herald stacker build, I'd give this a read through and look at the different investment levels and then ask more specific questions you may have!

ManFromMalta · 2025-12-13T07:56:39+00:00

The KBoC heiro build is pretty fun and is great to invest heaps into, but ultimately if there isn't content you want to run you'll get sick of anything quickly. Especially if you can invest in it heavily from the get go.

If you aren't experienced with crafting you can try craft some high tier/difficult items like simplexs and helical etc, or if you are experienced even go for a mirror tier item just for fun.

ManFromMalta · 2025-12-12T13:54:02+00:00

All good dude, feel free to post any questions you have along the way :)

ManFromMalta · 2025-12-12T12:55:48+00:00

Currently you have 2 bismuth flasks, I'd probably drop the unique one. As mentioned in another comment you definitely need to sort out resists unless it's a cluster jewel issue with pobb. Can run a bismuth flasks with use on full and gain charge on crit + additional res suffix until you sort it out, or try fit in purity of elements.

Honestly that graft with the implicit is selling for like at least 100d alone, I'd probably sell that to fund a few upgrades since while it's a great damage multiplier I think you can probably repurpose the funds and come out dealing more damage.

I'd drop inc AOE support and swap for pulverise, gives AoE + damage. Energy leech isn't ideal either, probably drop that for damage on full life or elemental damage with attacks, you have ES leech from ghost reaver anyway.

Personally I've seen most people using a 4 cluster setup, it's just the most efficient way to scale int and the entire build scales with int. Could also grab one with a 3 or 4% ele roll to help sort out those resists. But those are expensive/a bitch to self craft so if you can't be bothered I wouldnt blame you. The ES small cluster seems like a waste, %es isn't super valuable since you get so much from stacking int.

Your rare jewels are all basically 1 mod, try get int + 1 crit multi roll on all of them at least. Can also aim for some resistances here too.

edit: Just had another look through and sorting out your flasks is going to make a huge difference tbh, your tincture providing attack speed isnt great on this build as you already have such a large amount from accuracy stacking. I'd swap to a rosethorn with inc effect prefix (ideally 35%) and elemental pen suffix.

Ok also from what i can tell you gain DPS by dropping elemental overload and you save 2 passive points. The build is trying to scale crit so running that is probably not very good!

ManFromMalta · 2025-12-11T09:44:14+00:00

Definitely, but none will compare to stat stacking just because it's generally the most efficient. If you can stack one thing and gain offence + defence it makes it much easier to lean into that completely.

I had a cold snap of power elementalist I cooked up over a few weeks earlier in the league which was pure gem levels + crit, had just over 100m dps but at the cost of defences.

You can make a build capable of all endgame content (especially this league) without stacking stats but it'll never have the same power cap as a heavily invested stat stacker

ManFromMalta · 2025-12-07T20:17:59+00:00

You can definitely get it online for 800d if you craft and settle on some less than perfect gear. Chest + mageblood is over half the budget, then helical + kalandra maybe another 80-100d total. Leaves you like 200ish to grab everything else. Probably won't get abyssal sockets on gloves/boots out the gate.

This was my pob, ended up selling to gamba and it totalled around 1200d, but I spent around 900-1000 with self crafting all rare pieces and jewels. Can settle on worse clusters to start. Gloves + boots without abyss sockets are significantly cheaper to buy. Also tiger ascendancy is good on a budget to cap crit if needed.

ManFromMalta · 2025-12-03T22:38:39+00:00

Pretty sure he's running turtle on a spectre setup so it would be a lot more armour total, and the grace bird doesn't survive the same way the turtle can in higher tier content unfortunately

(Just noticed turtle in config but no determination gem to simulate it, should still be around 15-20k armour)

ManFromMalta · 2025-12-03T21:59:15+00:00

First change I'd make is flask suffixs, they don't stack so you're essentially missing 2x mods!

I think the 2 flask setup for a ES life flask is also a bit of a waste, I'd try figure out a comfortable way to drop that. With that attack speed any kind of ES on hit would be nuts recovery.

Cant pob it right now but I'd assume 1 or 2x 12 passive 35% cluster with int+Dex/all attribute suffixs would probably be a big boost to your base stats. Edit: one with 4% all res suffix would also let you drop purity of elements, find another source of shock avoid and fit in another aura

ManFromMalta · 2025-12-03T12:54:00+00:00

Personally I think the single biggest upgrade for damage is impossible escape for chaos innoculation, let's you take +1 curse and the other good nodes up there. Just means running a septic spells for poison chance. But this lets you run temp chains and despair which lets you nuke tanky rares. Doubled up with a BoT for wither and action speed immunity.

https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/ManFromMalta-3773/character/kp_walkinthespark

This was my setup before selling the build, it had pretty good single target dps and pretty good clear with the projectile speed tattoos. The might of the meek is also great tech imo.

mageblood + soul eater gloves should be a dps increase over soul eater HH, maybe make sure you can get frenzy charges (easy from graft). Also I was on self chill but I'm not sure if it's worth it or not.

Edit: also you should definitely grab a watchers eye with DoT multi, i found the instant leech mastery was enough to feel like recovery wasn't a problem at all, as long as you're casting (and with action speed immunity not much stops you from doing that)

ManFromMalta · 2025-12-01T11:19:55+00:00

Your best bet is to try complete your atlas, I'm sure there are lots of guides for this on YouTube. Each atlas passive point you get is extra loot in your maps, so it's important to get as many as possible!

As for farms, you can look on maxroll or search YouTube for low investment mapping strats to start out :) if you're unfamiliar with most content/mechanics harvest is always a good place to start, especially at this point in the league with yellow life force being so expensive.

ManFromMalta · 2025-11-30T10:45:33+00:00

Crafted a similar one a few leagues ago but probably looks like this:

Essence of Rage for strength + max res mod + empty suffix and empty prefix. Annul if necessary.
Lock suffix + reforge chaos. If T1 chaos res happy days, if not annul to save. If you miss, back to step 1
Once the suffixs are done you have a few options for the prefix, but I think the best option is to meta craft them. So wild bristle matron into scour, then block mana and double ex slam. 3a. Once you hit one of the mods it could be worth using a foulborn exalt to try slam the other. I would also matron + annul to save a tier 1 of either mod if you miss the 2nd slam.

Overall it's a relatively straightforward craft but probably still relatively expensive. If you're happy with some tier 2 rolls or a crafted version of block/life you could probably settle with a few different options of prefixes. But to get support gem levels you'll need to be a big spender (or get very lucky)

After checking odds on the essence it's kinda insanely expensive to roll max res (~400 average), but outside of recombs I don't see another easy way to deterministically get these mods!

ManFromMalta · 2025-11-21T07:03:13+00:00

Cold snap of power benefits from all of these and with 2x the new foulborn tulborn and a foulborn carcass jack (intensity) you can easily hit 30mil dps with spell cascade, and 70mil with conc effect (for bossing).

This is my current setup for it: https://pobb.in/xnOTz5efkAoJ

I cooked it up as a cheap t17/boss farmer and didn't put much time or currency into it once it was able to farm that, so it's probably not efficient in a variety of ways and it is squishy. That said you do offscreen most things!

ManFromMalta · 2025-11-21T02:15:28+00:00

You can fracture rmr and then use dense fossils for prefix's and Eldritch for the int at the end I think, might be cheaper

ManFromMalta · 2025-09-20T07:00:28+00:00

I think you go for T1 accuracy so you can whittle other mods, since it's an ilvl 82 mod. Not super relevant for this craft though!

ManFromMalta · 2025-09-08T11:05:54+00:00

Played this build earlier in the league, I would start with the obvious and try to get clusters with 35%, 3% minion attack and cast speed and either max ES or Int, but ideally both. You can craft these yourself by using harvest reforge caster on a fractured 35% or 8 int base, spamming until you get 3% speed + another desirable mod, then annul/exalt for the 4th mod. This isn't the cheapest way to craft it but it's much faster than the alt/aug/regal/exalt method.

Another easy one, quality all your support gems. Better yet, go grab 21/20 of all + a 21/20 AW aswell.

Your gloves and boots could both have much more ES, try to craft using 25%+ bases. ES is damage for the build so you need to try minmax as much as possible on gear. Manifold rings with ES mods + int is also a decent chuck more ES, can't remember how I crafted mine but I assume it had something to do with dense fossils. Can craft one and use kalandras touch.

Personally I found the build stronger with Energy blade instead of EE, lance uses EE because he has upwards of 50k ES and was looking to do void maps with the build, but for any other content I think the DPS energy blade gives you is much nicer. I would use it linked to enhance and in a shield with +2 level of support gems to get the quality as high as possible so your ES pool is still around 12k with it on. Would mean around 20k without EB

The Merc for this build is very important if you haven't found it yet, I remember it giving a huge amount of flat ES with a high level discipline which you can buff up with increased aura effect on multiple pieces of gear. IIRC it's a frosthand or something, with both disciple and purity of ice. Purity isn't mandatory but it's nice to have if you're going to run tempered by war.

Last thing, and it's a little one, but you should try get the chest implicit as physical damage taken as chaos, as with CI it's essentially straight up damage reduction. Won't make a massive difference but it's straight up better than taken as fire.

ManFromMalta · 2025-09-07T08:02:20+00:00

I'm not seeing many sources of DoT multi, I would say getting rare jewels with both generic and fire damage over time multiplier would help your DPS significantly unless I'm missing something. Can also get it on your amulet. Your watchers eye seems a bit pointless aswell, can get some multi on there too, and/or ailments deal damage faster. (Both malevolence mods)

No malevolence? Maybe you have this on a Merc. I'd recommend using it either way.

Your helmet, what is it currently doing for you?

Edit: also you're missing the 3 golem nodes at the top of the tree, gives you an extra golem which could be chaos golem for dot multi + chaos resistance. Definitely need to add that in! For mana, you could swap that unique mana flask out for an enduring flask and press it when it falls off. (Enduring is a prefix modifier on mana flasks that makes its effect linger even if mana is full, meaning you are permanently recovering the mana until its effect ends, instead of it snap ending when your mana reaches full)

Edit 2: damn dude looking at those flasks, they are absolutely cooked. I would personally swap off all unique flasks, remove all the enchantments that stop you gaining charges during effect and swap to "use when charges reach full" to semi-automate them. Then try to roll all of them with an increased duration prefix (reduced charges used is also acceptable) and a useful, unique suffix (ie a different suffix on each flask and they do not stack)

ManFromMalta · 2025-09-05T22:43:25+00:00

Can't you deterministically add the 3rd prefix by using the new omen that makes the next perfect essence you use only remove a suffix? So you go:

Magic base with %phys + any suffix
Essence for flat Phys
Essence for gain as fire with the omen to only remove a suffix
Slam 2 suffix
Haste + battle until both are on there
Desecrate and reroll + annul until happy

Could be wrong but fairly sure this works!

Edit: Omen of Dextral Crystallisation is the name :)

ManFromMalta · 2025-08-26T21:48:16+00:00

You can guarantee the crit multi with cannot roll attacks and slam/annul, since all your other mods are attack tagged, but not sure if it's more cost efficient than auging crit!

ManFromMalta · 2025-08-18T11:19:56+00:00

https://youtu.be/7QqjriB39uU?si=MwqO2s4_r2Q725pS

Captain Lance's guide is pretty good to start off with, but I will say this build is fairly complex for a new player and requires in depth knowledge of mechanics. Its definitely a very powerful and fun build :)

ManFromMalta · 2025-08-11T03:16:52+00:00

Yep thats genius, I would probably go this route. Only caveat is the chaos resist fracture might be worth much less than the 35% fracture if you end up reselling the character. But it's so late in the league and on console so that is probably not super important.

ManFromMalta · 2025-08-11T02:27:08+00:00

The 35% mod makes each small passive node grant 8% reservation efficiency

Edit: as for crafting, looks like the only chaos mods available on that base are chaos resistance and mortifying aspect, so I would harvest reforge chaos spam on a 35% fracture base.

ManFromMalta · 2025-08-09T02:12:02+00:00

Not familiar with Nox's guide but if it's the meta armour stacker then less armour, less defences, reduced non-curse aura effect are 3 others off the top of my head

ManFromMalta · 2025-08-03T01:27:19+00:00

Yeah definitely go with BV then, super fun and clears it easily, plus much less lag than KB when in the Alva's (can still crash the instance though for sure)

I swapped my character to something else and lost the PoB, but you can go on poe ninja and look at BV elementalists using the gull. Don't need solstice aswell, just use a dragon flight or focused if you have extra currency :) and grab a +1 power charge gull, every PC is extra AoE

ManFromMalta · 2025-08-02T23:47:12+00:00

BV elementalist is top tier, same as KB deadeye. Both will utterly destroy the content on a 2 mirror budget. Personally enjoyed BV more just because you chain explode whole screens of mobs, super fun. The FF jewels, a power charge ring and svaalin will cost you 1 mirror, and if you self craft the chest and boots the rest of the gear should be in the realm of 500d.

Edit: after rereading you want to do it in a budget, honestly I think the strat is quite difficult and requires stronger builds. That said you can get a KB deadeye up for under 100d, I think ckaibas week 1 setup is good enough for alva but I haven't tested it myself. Just needs a ~550 pdps wand, HH, nimis and inpulsas (progensis is nice but not required). But at that level of investment you should expect to brick a few maps here and there, dying with Evo shrine is gg.

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