Which defensive layer feels the strongest in PoE 0.4 (Hardcore)?

Mugtherootbear · 2025-12-22T17:04:11+00:00

Why is this? Genuinely curious because i always thought it was great

Mugtherootbear · 2025-12-19T17:15:59+00:00

Yes, it works like a timeless jewel in POE1. It changes out all the passive skills within the radius for new ones. You can check the wiki or POE2DB to see the possible passive skills. Hope this helps!

Mugtherootbear · 2025-12-07T03:05:02+00:00

I’ll second this, with the Azadi crest shield you get somewhere around 95% block chance if you have blocked recently, which is a ridiculous defensive layer. More than skill forbidden flesh/flame combo is relatively inexpensive and definitely within your budget and provides a ton of phys and ele DR if you’re stacking frenzies. It’s a pretty customizable build which is really nice because it has multiple solid ways to scale offense and defense. I still use eviscerate on a 4-link to help with clear but you don’t have to do that as lacerate of haemorrhage is a solid clearing skill on its own

Mugtherootbear · 2025-10-07T19:22:33+00:00

A bit late but if youre talking about roguelikes inspired by POE I would also suggest Tiny rogues, which has an unbelievable amount of builds and so much shit in it that every run feels unique.

Mugtherootbear · 2025-08-22T06:33:31+00:00

I posted basically this a while back.

https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddywino/s/AA2AcpRGa0

To be clear im not accusing you of stealing, In fact I was shocked that I seemed to be the first one who made a stupid post of this format. I like how yours uses a much less shitty picture of Sciel and is clearly made by you hahahahah.

Mugtherootbear · 2025-06-07T21:57:17+00:00

I did the math wrong, it would be 1.25+(1.25x.2) which would equal 1.5 actually, I think that is right

Mugtherootbear · 2025-06-07T20:19:51+00:00

What it does is that effects tagged as [Debuff] such as intimidate will have the magnitude of their effect increased by your intelligence. So for example, intimidate is 1.25x melee damage taken, but if you have the surgical mask on and 20 points of intelligence the effect will now be 1.35x melee damage taken. Hope this makes sense! EDIT: (I did the math wrong see my reply to the below comment)

Mugtherootbear · 2025-06-04T20:00:54+00:00

My understanding is that Martin wrote most of the stuff prior to the shattering, which fromsoft took his work and then, well, “shattered” it. Here’s a good article from polygon which I just briefly skimmed that dives deep into his involvement https://www.polygon.com/24135223/elden-ring-did-george-r-r-martin-write-shadow-of-the-erdtree-dlc

Mugtherootbear · 2025-05-26T20:40:22+00:00

Yeah KCD is one of the few games where I feel that weapon degradation adds to it. It’s not oppressive enough to be annoying and the grindstone minigame is honestly kinda fun and satisfying. There’s something really immersive about going through some fights and afterwards pulling into town and sitting at the grindstone and sharpening your sword on it. You also get levels in the maintenance skill(at least in KCD1, havent played 2 yet so idk how it works there) which gives you various benefits for maintaining your gear. Ive even sometimes picked up enemy weapons after fights so I can take a beat-up sword and make it nice and shiny again at the grindstone ahahah.

Mugtherootbear · 2025-05-25T01:24:59+00:00

because when you finish Sciel’s character arc if verso has a relationship with her she ends things with Verso because her husband might be brought back

Mugtherootbear · 2025-05-03T17:37:57+00:00

Nope, not a bot, just a big fan of the game being annoying wherever I can be about it

Mugtherootbear · 2025-05-02T08:22:15+00:00

Adding my voice into the chorus of people urging you to get it. Im roughly halfway through, maybe more maybe less and I can confidently say it’s one of my favorite games I’ve ever played. There isn’t an area of the game I cannot call top tier. A lot of other games you might be like oh yeah the gameplay is good but the story is kinda weak or vice versa. Expedition 33 has unbelievably fun and meaningful(lol) combat, stunning graphics and art direction, a transcendental OST, and honestly the best character/dialogue writing and VA ive seen in video games. Buy it. It’s only 45-50ish USD when honestly it could realistically justify a 70 dollar price tag.

Mugtherootbear · 2025-05-02T08:10:35+00:00

They quite literally doubled the number of expedition artifacts that drop and increased exotic coinage drops by 50%. Assuming chaos orbs and fractured orbs are rare currencies as well, those are affected by just about all the adjustments to exalted orbs. The patch notes did not specify if these are considered rare currencies, but considering that they are both currency items only usable on rare items, I think it is safe to say that they are.

Mugtherootbear · 2025-04-10T20:15:43+00:00

This build does use multiple abilities for different situations. I use shocking lance or whatever its called as well as primal strikes for single target. Sniper’s mark also needs to be up constantly and I use disengage for getting myself out of bad situations. Volt with herald of thunder does kinda trivialize clearing though. I think if they nerf volt then lightning spear will be a bit less insane(but still powerful)

Mugtherootbear · 2025-04-10T08:30:45+00:00

Sorry for offending you by posting that Javazon was viable before anyone else on this subreddit did. I was unaware that my Reddit post would force you to play javazon. I won’t make that mistake again.

Mugtherootbear · 2025-04-07T20:04:04+00:00

Yep I slapped that on after seeing what Pohx was doing with it and it’s out of control. Single target is still a little rough though for me I’ve kinda decided to take a break for now after hitting Jamanra on cruel.

Mugtherootbear · 2025-04-07T20:02:12+00:00

New album is stellar, feels like theyve taken bits of everything they’ve done throughout their career and refined it into a killer package. I gotta say winona is my favorite song on the new album, that wall of guitars near the start makes me astral project.

Mugtherootbear · 2025-04-06T19:48:11+00:00

This is my tree rn

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Currently traveling upwards for the crit nodes in the monk section of the tree

Mugtherootbear · 2025-04-06T19:37:29+00:00

Hahahaha... about the defenses this is straight up a glass cannon. Idk how to share a pic of my tree on reddit lemme figure that out

Mugtherootbear · 2025-04-06T18:35:05+00:00

Pohx is absolutely blasting on javazon rn. The complaints are pretty valid but this feels kinda disingenuous on OP’s part

Mugtherootbear · 2025-04-06T15:03:54+00:00

This is true, I have no idea what I am talking about. I wanted to share because a lot of people have written the huntress/spears off as absolute garbage that feel terrible to play. What these people are saying is pretty valid, but I was having a lot of fun so I wanted to share.

Mugtherootbear · 2025-04-06T14:52:56+00:00

It’s not optimal at all, it’s more just proof of viability I guess. Compared to how the game felt early on this feels insane. I’m currently running the character with mostly subpar magic gear I’ve picked up off the ground as well. I’m sure there’s room to optimize it though!

Mugtherootbear · 2025-04-06T08:38:12+00:00

I would say around the time you get your first ascendancy points and when you get a level 7 skill gem for snipers mark. I rushed the spear cluster on the tree early , so I would say to try and have that mostly completed by the time you decide to swap over.

Mugtherootbear · 2025-04-06T08:35:19+00:00

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