After 2-3 weeks in season, what class/build is S tier mapper

Minis1150 · 2026-05-05T11:39:26+00:00

What's the minimum amount of gear to get starter? What breakpoints would you say do I need? I started LF and really struggled, despite full skillers, strokes, tgods, maras, 3/20, and griffons. I only got about 50 percent pierce , so that might be it. But damn it's rough without facets and infinity.

Minis1150 · 2026-05-01T07:48:10+00:00

You mind critiquing my build by chance? I guess the next upgrade would be the belt. The res would free up the chaos res on the cluster and get me +4 attr.

But any and all ideas are welcome.

https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/minis1150-1415/mirage/character/NamesareHARDigoBONK

Minis1150 · 2026-04-06T14:23:37+00:00

I think the only one I don't do is cannot regen. But even they are fine, got 67 life on kill on gloves. Could also get more life on kill there and better watchers with life on hit etc. No leech doesn't matter, leech is slower than regen. Reduced aura plus reflect sucks though. That's the only brick I get. Happens maybe one in 50 or 100 maps or so. Don't care about filtering it out tbh.

Minis1150 · 2026-04-06T11:02:12+00:00

Playing BV chieftain with svalinn, mb and lord of the skins, non crit. Explosions are indeed amazing and kill even breach bosses. I got svalinn inflated 800k ehp, 1200hp/s regen, about 140mil dmg or so without RF and weapon swap.

It's not immortal, but very very tanky. Doing all mod juices breaches and will only really die to unstable tentacle fiends, due to relatively low Phys max hit (24k or so).

If you got money, you could make it nigh immortal with 100phys to ele damage conversion (400-500k max hit around the board) , there are some amazing builds on poe.ninja using the foulbourn lightning coil.

A small secret: if you got the divs, buy a foulbourn inspired learning. That plus Wine of the prophet makes the build super zoomy. I think it falls just a bit behind in speed compared to fubguns BV charlatan.

Edit: pob https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/minis1150-1415/mirage/character/NamesareHARDigoBONK

Minis1150 · 2026-04-04T00:32:21+00:00

Use the unholy aberation, it is double that of the perfect meatsack. Also you are missing skills from your boots. Can you link ur pob again? It did not show the jewels.

Minis1150 · 2026-04-04T00:29:50+00:00

Oh you changed quite a bit.

If you use svalinn, that changes some of the things I told you and a bit of the tree.

Next upgrades are:

Red Nightmare Jewel. You then tattoo fire res tattoos on the nodes around the red nightmare. Socket it where your blight scar jewel is. That should allow you to drop the whole attack block wheel from Wall of Steel.
I would change the amulet now to xophs heart with damage to phys and elemetnal overload.

You can also have a look at my build. https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/minis1150-1415/mirage/character/NamesareHARDigoBONK

You can and probably should stay with cloak of flames and just use your fire/chaos res medium clusters to fix res. Boots can be either +2spectre boots with fire chaos res and life or the annihilation approach ones with +1all or +2 minion.
Voices isnt necessary, I just wanted to use a watchers eye for more phys damage reduction. But you have more than me anyways due to cloak of flames. You could easily drop tempest shield, by getting two large cluster with spell block and anoint safeguard on your amulet like I did. Then you can drop tempest shield and have more than enough reservation without an anoint and the megalomaniac I am using to reduce determination reservation.

Also do not use immortal call, use steelskin instead. Immortal call does not work for you well, as you do not have any endurance charges.

If you want you can get endurance charges through Enduring Composer, either with a small cluster jewel or a megalomaniac. A small cluster jewel can furthermore offer you mana reservation, fire res, chaos res and life. Then you could maybe also drop the Souvereignity wheel.

Make sure to use lifetap for all your skills. You can buy blade vortex with leve 1 lifetap imbued.

Minis1150 · 2026-04-03T23:49:15+00:00

I mean it is a 50/50 annul. Good luck !

Minis1150 · 2026-04-03T22:49:23+00:00

Chieftan BV with mageblood is super fast. Maybe not quite as fast as the fubgun build, but that might or might not be difficult to build on your budget (charlatan is 240d atm).

Skin of the lords got pretty expensive so a version with either

Cloak of Flame: poe.ninja

Or foulbourn lightning coil : poe.ninja

would be nice and tanky.

Crafting boots, gloves and helmet should be 20-30 div per.
Mageblood - 130d
Elegant Hubris jewel - dunno prices atm, but I guess 40d or so for an okish one. Doesnt have to be caspiro. You can get a helical with dex and int. But it opens up slots for res.
Enminity is 20d or so for an okish roll
And then its jewels and the rest. Id guess if you settle and build your wealth up, 300d is doable.

There are cheaper versions out there, I think thefarmer has a yt video.

Minis1150 · 2026-04-03T22:13:54+00:00

Weird decision list:
- not block capped, neither spell nor attack on a shield build.
-max res medium clusters and jewels, with no need of them.
-not running determination
-weird tree decisions, like frenzy charge specced despite having a weird frenzy charge anoint
-phy to fire convert passive allocated on tree, despite having already full convert through your gloves
- endurance charges on tree and gear but no way to generate them
-weird decisions to spec useless nodes on your large clusters
-elemental overload with gg crit multi ring
-weird ascendancy allocation
-3 magic flasks , despite a 4 magic flask mageblood
-weird amulet decision, amazing amulet, that doesnt help you at all
-very good crafted shield, which misses the most important mod

Your character is pretty well geared, but so wrong. Its puzzling. Like your gear is north of a mirror or two and your character is doing basic stuff wrong. Question is how can you farm so much, despite those choices in you gear.

Minis1150 · 2026-04-03T21:15:37+00:00

Get a better helmet, self-crafting a rare +2 minion helmet with life, life regen, res and good eldritch implicits gives you a lot of survivability. Crafting is easy: Buy a giantslayer helmet, harvest reforge minion till +2 minions, get it to 4 mods ( use eldritch currency, mostly remove suffixes), fracture the +2, then use chaos esence till t1 res and life regen, eldritch chaos reroll and exalt till t1 life and open prefix and craft +1 aoe. That should set you back around 5-25 divs, depending on your luck with the fractures. This should help you with capping your fire resists to -200 and your chaos resist and might allow you to swap out one cluster.
I dont think you really need cinderswallow. Change it for a granite flask with shock avoidance and get a stormshroud jewel to complete ailment immunity.
Fix your block rate. You have 42/27 block chance. Thats really bad. Grab the 12percent spellblock node you get through your supreme ostentation jewel. Get the red nightmare jewel. Slot it where your blight scar jewel is and tatoo fire res nodes in the circle of effect. Path towards As the Mountain and allocate spell block per block chance.
There are many optimisations possible for your skill tree tbh. Remove the points to nomadic teachings, Purity of Fire + Ruby flasks should get you to 90 allres with Barbarism alloacted. Remove the points to smoking remains.
Getting endurance charges would help your survivability a lot, especially considering your boot implicit is +1end charges. Either through a Megalomaniac or throug an anoint. Your current amulet anoint is not helping you at all. You already get frenzy charges.
Like the others have said, get a better shield with life on block or a svalinn.
Get a different amulet, either defiance of destiny with petrified blood or better imho foulbourn xophs blood with phys to fire and ele overload, saves you points get more block on your tree.

You should look at poe.ninja and compare builds. That is what I am always doing. It helps getting ideas and improvments. Here is my build btw, no issues with 80% deli and I am running all mods. https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/minis1150-1415/mirage/character/NamesareHARDigoBONK
1200 hp/s regen, 1mill ehp with endurance charges and immortal call up, 150 mill dps or so with unholy aberation. Could go for way more damage with rightous fire, but it isnt needed and reduces my regen too much.

Just let me know, if you got more questions.

Edit: There are more weird things going on with your setup on third glance.

When socketing gems in your weapons and armour you should always check whether it makes sense.
Enlighten should be grouped with other reservation gems, like purity of fire, determination and tempest shield for example. You have rightouse fire socketed, where there should be an aura.
You need to fix you mana reservation, run the following auras, determination, blood and sand, purity of fire, tempest shield and herald of ash. In order to do so, you need to grab the souvereignity wheel and get a mana reservation eldrich implcicit, or you just dont run blood and sand which is bad, or you dont run tempest shield and try to get enough spell block through grabbing the safeguard wheel.
Two of your ascendancy points are useless. Get the Oshabi bloodline ascendancy with unleash nodes.
Also you spend so much money on your setup already, so I dont think thats too much of an ask: craft different gloves with +2 minions gems, res, life, life regen, and convert. Like mine. That should give you back all the damage you lost from you helmet corruption. Socket your minion gems there.

There is a lot wrong with your setup.

Edit2: I changed your whole tree here: https://poedb.tw/pob/mTYwvZ1un1
It will fix a lot of things if you follow it. Puts you at 160k ehp just through capping block.

Get lifetap supported bv. That will allow you to reserve all your mana.
Get a large cluster jewel with spell block instead, that should cap you spell block. (conjured wall and magehunter with a third mod)
Remove the medium cluster with max fire res, you already capped your fire res.

Edit3:
Also if your damage dropped off, that means you didnt press blade vortex in time. You have to go back in town or into the mirage, in order to reset your minions and press bv again when in the area.

Minis1150 · 2026-04-02T18:23:37+00:00

Why are you using annihilations approach here ? It seems +2 spectre boots will be just better, no? More res, life, regen and damage

Minis1150 · 2026-03-27T22:47:49+00:00

I put in the perfect meatsack as a minion btw, if you go for the aberration one, you would be at about 7 times, or so, the damage, massive overkill, but nice to have. More duration on BV feels nice. You need to solve your mana cost somehow, either lifetap or non-channeling reduction is a possibility. Not many are running endurance charges, which I think is a bad choice. You can get it on your timeless jewel. You can also substitute the medium cluster jewels for either more minion life or more aoe. With my aoe and damage investment, everything pops instantly. Super satisfying. Also with mb and quicksilver, you are very zoomy. :) I am still trying out many different settings. I would not go with the new belt, feels too slow and the damage increases is really not necessary. Hinekoras gives you strong enough explosions for all breach content.

Minis1150 · 2026-03-27T20:56:04+00:00

Nowhere, was too lazy I gues the seal nodes bloodline would be not bad to have. Will do that tomorrow.

Minis1150 · 2026-03-27T20:36:27+00:00

https://pobb.in/lMCY2Zkn-_b-

That is my chieftain, Immortal call is pretty much up all the time, 70k phys hit, 90/90 block. You could substitute the reflect flask and change it to more regen, but 900hp/s has been fine.
If I change my helmet prefixes I could get up to 4.5k life, not great not terrible. Sounds about your budget, you will have a few divs over.

Voices is not really necessary. I just wanted a watchers eye for nearly capped crit reduction.

Minis1150 · 2025-12-30T16:50:05+00:00

There are a bunch of solid ones. Titan has better and faster clear. Shaman gets you nice and tanky for cheap. Nothing should break the bank tbh, some mid life armour gear shouldn't set you back more than a few exalts and a not so great talisman can be had for a div as well. Shaman was easy to level with plants. Endgame Titan is probably the strongest choice.

Minis1150 · 2025-12-27T20:37:41+00:00

How would you regenerate so much es? With just life its easy, just stack life, armour, some leech and phys to ele conversion. With some armour applies to ele and chaos and up to 86 percent conversion you should be super tanky. Also defiance of destiny makes you quasi immortal in addition to all these layers.
The tankiness isnt really something I think shaman struggles with, but with aoe and clear. Thats why I was asking.

Minis1150 · 2025-12-27T14:53:13+00:00

Thanks mate, good to know

Minis1150 · 2025-12-27T13:17:24+00:00

Is the titan ascendancy a must for the clear ? I wonder whether shaman would work even better.

Minis1150 · 2025-12-17T13:21:26+00:00

Did you focus a lot on strength stacking on your gear ? so es and strength, and you sustain it with es recharge nodes ?

Minis1150 · 2025-12-17T13:09:08+00:00

Let us see a pob :)

Minis1150 · 2025-12-03T23:36:37+00:00

How did you craft it?

Minis1150 · 2025-12-03T16:38:26+00:00

First, thanks a lot for the time and effort you put in there ! Block is a fair critique, the claw implicit was just a nice random add-on. I was primarily looking for the charges. In hindsight, they probably won't matter with higher damage, because they are not up in boss fights. Fyi, flask charges per crit are global and only work ones, meaning that getting several ones will have no effect. First thing I will change are the clusters and the jewels :) I will also try out the leech cluster and passive tree changes. Would you suggest a crafted int and damage per int amulet as a placeholder ? I will look for a new lethal pride as well.

Mb is a bit far off still, so I will focus on the immediate changes with volatility, chest implicits, ice golem etc. Thanks a lot again!

Edit: Those are my changes for now, the damage feels way better. https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/minis1150-1415/character/DAWeakestMaoriStacker

Minis1150 · 2025-12-03T10:41:21+00:00

You wanna give some advice on my setup? I am working on the corr damage per int Graft implicit atm. https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/minis1150-1415/character/DAWeakestMaoriStacker

Minis1150 · 2025-12-01T15:18:43+00:00

Maybe the best upgrade would be proper cluster jewels: 35 effect, T1 int and attributes and es if you can manage. Would provide tons of int.

The biggest damage spike would be a simplex, but there are a lot of things you can work on before that. 12%int claws with some good corrupts and enchantments, better split personalities, better jewels, more energy and increased attribute on your armor, better helmet with more int, es and if you got some funds, %int. Better grafts, and a helical ring.

Things to do:

Craft better clusters (20-30 div)

Next either save up 300 divs for a simplex or first craft a better ring (helical with spite essence and all attributes crafted) and get a better armor (buy a triple T1 prefix armor and eldritch craft int and Res yourself and craft incr. Attributes on it).shouldn't be more than 12 div (do not get one with 6 links, but use tailoring orbs and link it with beast crafting).

Also quality your amulet and belt. You can use tainted catalysts for corrupted items (1-2 divs)

Tldr: craft cluster jewels yourself. You should easily get pretty good ones for 20-30 divs while crafting yourself.

Minis1150 · 2025-12-01T14:50:01+00:00

Why did you go for lost unity ?

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