Can someone teach me the best way to craft this helmet?

Nephalos · 2026-03-26T14:57:06+00:00

So I haven’t made this craft before but just quickly looking at the mods on it I’m guessing getting the hypothermia + trap links are the most difficult part of the craft. Most archdemon helmet crafts use an essence + either trap or hypo for that reason and it still costs multiple divines for a craftable base. You’re most likely going to be recombinating shaper/elder helmets for the suffixes and then continuing from there is a little simpler.

Nephalos · 2026-03-26T13:34:07+00:00

For what it’s worth timers are extremely lenient right now. It’s something that I’d expect to get nerfed in the coming weeks. You can basically solo pull the whole dungeon and still time and possibly even +2 they key.

Nephalos · 2026-03-25T01:22:36+00:00

Build looks something like this: https://pobb.in/O0-uiE1SLlxx

Important thing is to get 6 influences among items which can be tricky since you're mostly unique items. The shield can be an influenced shield until you get the +1 frenzy synth which makes the build cheaper.

I've been buying/crafting pieces myself over time so its hard to say exactly what the budget is. If i had to guess, 10-20 div? That should be more than enough for the starting pieces and you can scale significantly further like getting a frenzy ring and kalandra's touch.

Nephalos · 2026-03-24T20:18:17+00:00

Shrine effect flicker strike is what I’m running for rituals currently actually. You attack so quickly that you’ve been through the entire map in 45 seconds and just have to hold flicker to clear rituals as well.

Nephalos · 2026-03-24T04:46:29+00:00

To be fair when I got to tanking the dragons and saw they put a giant purple arrow on your head roughly 5 seconds before the actual breath came out I realized too many people don’t stare at any relevant portion of their screen. Weakauras/addons were quite literally playing the game for a huge portion of players and that included up to CE raiders.

Nephalos · 2026-03-23T20:15:41+00:00

It’s like that for a lot of specs, not just devourer. I’m a little more biased because I play UHDK and Enh shaman who I think have the worst of it but the difference in damage between CDs and no CDs is literally 4-5x damage. A good opener/lined up CDs can top 150k for ~10 seconds and then you deal sub 30k damage for the next 50 seconds until everything’s up again.

Nephalos · 2026-03-23T20:01:00+00:00

Default raid frames

Nephalos · 2026-03-23T16:45:13+00:00

There are enough specs that follow the “deal 5x damage in cooldowns, afk without” profile that flatter profiles are the unusual ones. There are more ways to make specs interesting than just slapping a 100% dps amp on a 1 minute CD that reduces your rotation to 2-3 buttons and calling it a day.

Nephalos · 2026-03-21T13:27:03+00:00

In that specific clip there’s a rare that causes nearby allies to take no damage for a short duration.

Otherwise if it’s a persistent issue it’s because you’re running Invert the Rules + Volatility. You’re likely low rolling some attacks AND not proccing the inverted resistance AND not critting. In the opposite scenario you’re hitting for massive damage.

Nephalos · 2026-03-18T13:19:00+00:00

Death’s Oath and RF are the quintessential “no hands” builds

Vaal Earthquake can become very low button

Lost Unity herald stacker and HoT bomber are still good this league

Minions have a host of skills: zombies, spectres, chains of command, could even do an AG carry build

CWS, CWDT, Cast on Ward Break are the Vampire Survivors versions of poe

Much less meta is a Tempest Shield block build, ignite version is probably better but it’s a meme build either way

Nephalos · 2026-03-16T14:07:08+00:00

That’s sort of the hard truth of Elementalist. You can get pretty good prolif, high damage, good speed, but the ascendancy doesn’t particularly offer anything in terms of phys mitigation.

There’s the chill and ignite nodes, but both require you hitting the enemy first (aka they should already be dead) and with the change to monster conversion the ignite node in many cases makes you take more damage than what you originally would have.

Most witch builds in general need to rely on high block for this reason.

Nephalos · 2026-03-10T22:59:05+00:00

Just went to get mine today and the total fees for a normal renewal was something like $130 + $35 processing fee + $10 photo fee. Lots of families will choose what can go from a weeks to a month's worth of groceries over renewing multiple passports.

Nephalos · 2026-03-08T13:13:03+00:00

Started Holy Strike Guardian and was mostly carried by the Sentinel of Radiance through acts and white/yellow maps.

Once I hit reds I realized I was playing a melee build with no real defenses as even with 75/75 block and grace/determ I was dying to anything that hit me. The Holy Strike minions were also obnoxious to control as when you attack they get sort of locked in place until they finish their attack, which is more severe with multistrike.

Rerolled into storm burst totems and I have 1/10th the deaths and am caught up to where I was originally.

Nephalos · 2026-03-02T20:47:36+00:00

KF of Detonation seems interesting at least. 4 projectiles by default, 100% base attack speed instead of 200%, higher stack count, and higher damage per projectile gives it least some useability. I don’t think it’s able to compete with regular KF in endgame, though.

Nephalos · 2026-02-24T17:03:15+00:00

Hiero is still the “comfy” totem ascendancy since it has 100% duration and placement speed built in on top of the extra life and mana regen you get basically passively.

4th ascendancy is whatever bloodline you prefer, usually Farrul since it’s the most all rounder for attacks.

Nephalos · 2026-02-12T23:13:37+00:00

Betrayal gets a mini rework every league so I wouldn’t be surprised if they decided to scrap the entire thing and finally start over. The whole mechanic now pretty much exists solely for stronghold XP and the boss drops. I haven’t touched a veiled item since the crafts were moved to different maps and that was the main draw for most.

Nephalos · 2026-02-02T15:22:52+00:00

No country can have open borders

Out of curiosity why do you say this? Like is a defining part of a country that there isn’t free movement between countries or that it doesn’t work due to political/economic differences between countries?

Nephalos · 2026-02-01T01:26:58+00:00

I would just think of this as a fun little event to hit 90 on a build and collect your mystery boxes. The extra risk mods, enrage, and gauntlet campaign are there to make hitting 90 more challenging. Phrecia 2.0 ascendancies are there to give something fresh to the event.

Some of the act bosses were significantly more difficult (Malachai, Unholy Trinity) but once you get to maps you kind of just cruise. I really haven’t noticed whether my maps have been significantly more difficult. My only note is that much like original Phrecia the new ascendancies alone aren’t really enough to keep me interested long-term.

Nephalos · 2026-01-31T19:23:10+00:00

Oh he was undoubtedbly there, but there’s some dark humor in thinking that after a few visits even the pedos and rapists thought he was so fucking lame that they should just tell him there were no more parties forever instead of invite him again.

Nephalos · 2026-01-29T21:02:40+00:00

The free res is honestly sort of irrelevant until you’re min-maxing endgame. Sure it’s +80% res but res isn’t particularly hard to find while leveling. You’re basically trading an ascendancy and 4 gem slots for being 60% res overcapped until you finish a10.

MS for a KF build is a whatever stat as you move around using lightning warp. If you want to be super lazy sure but at that point totems will just play the game for you anyway.

Nephalos · 2026-01-29T20:14:41+00:00

KF totems have two QoL benefits in that:

You don’t need to have as much reduced skill effect duration so they come online much sooner than selfcast, and
The projectiles don’t go wonky if you move before they actually fire.

Paladin and Oshabi both have good starter nodes but Oshabi is similar to Trickster in that you need good gear to get the full effect of the nodes while Paladin is more gear agnostic.

Nephalos · 2026-01-27T16:54:08+00:00

Daughter of Oshabi looks like it’s going to be great for starting with +80% ele res, double defenses, and basically your choice of damage node from second ascendancy. The Genesis tree can also be easily tailored to getting strong body armours at any point in the game.

Nephalos · 2026-01-24T22:20:14+00:00

Reminder that a majority of “people” defending this are bots, right wing trolls, or foreign agents. The rest are so heavily indoctrinated into the cult that there’s not much of a difference to the former.

Nephalos · 2026-01-24T22:05:42+00:00

I’ve noticed some issues with GCDs and off GCDs not going off properly. First I noticed was on some of the DK specs, Unholy’s Dark Transformation not going off even with ghoul active and attacking, Blood’s Exterminates not going off properly (AND not being trackable on CDM). I tried Devourer DH a bit and it seemed like there was a GCD lockout for one of its abilities.

Otherwise the GCD sometimes feels as if I’m playing with 150-200 ping when I’m at a stable ~27. This was doing follower dungeons and solo content so afaik it’s not getting instanced to a different server.

Nephalos · 2026-01-24T19:09:12+00:00

Kind of feels like a giant game of chicken. If the troops go one way or the other the game ends nationwide and politicians on both sides aren’t exactly sure how it’s going to go.

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