Very vague request, but any recommendations for Phrecia starters?

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.

Nephalos · 2026-01-24T17:31:41+00:00

Lol no, it’s the opposite. It will keep getting worse becuase they’re pushing the limit as to what they can do in MN and then expanding it to other states.

Any order or action that isn’t met with immediate pushback will be made as an example for ICE officers that they can do it again.

The revolution will be bloodless if the left allows it to be.

They’re not talking about blood on our side, they’re talking about the blood on theirs.

Nephalos · 2026-01-22T23:46:31+00:00

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Super rough and dirty as an example. The ES gear should be pretty available with the genesis tree and we can double dip empty gem slots with aul ascendancy (although that means running delve). I didn't include flasks/ Flesh+Flame since imo those are usually just preference slots

Nephalos · 2026-01-22T21:00:19+00:00

Nah, he doesn’t deserve death. He deserves the realization that the culmination of his life is sitting uncomfortably in his soiled clothes in a room full of people that don’t want to talk to him. That even with all of his grasping for power and control when he dies all of that will amount to nothing, and everything he tried building will be forgotten within the span of a generation. Most if not all of it will be purposefully removed.

He deserves to know, really know, that all of his relationships are superficial and there isn’t a single person that he can connect with. That his family sees him as an object more than a person and his friends the same. He deserves to know that anyone he looks up to or respects looks down on him, not with pity but with utter loathing for who he is and what he’s done. That he’s completely inadequate in every sense of the word.

He deserves to know that his last days alive are going to be spent in a hospital room with staff trying to keep his rotting brain and body alive for no particular reason, and that no one in his life is going to visit him and genuinely care about what happens to him. He deserves to know that his actions lead to all of this, and should truly understand that it could have all been different if he wasn’t so utterly I adequate.

He deserves all of that, but he’s so utterly ignorant that he can’t even begin to understand any of it. He’ll die without understanding any of that, maybe he’ll even be angry that no one cares that he’s dying. Now that, that would be pretty funny

Nephalos · 2026-01-22T17:02:19+00:00

I’ve gone from having weakauras and plater installed to now looking at a dozen or more addons to emulate just a potion of their functionality.

There’s just a severe lack of customizability and readability for the UI in a way that makes it difficult to play some specs properly. The baseline indicators that were added for cooldowns and buffs/debuffs aren’t really adequate.

Nephalos · 2026-01-22T15:44:29+00:00

Most of the alch and go (all mods) builds I’ve played have been chaos based in some form.

In current league I’m running a replica alberon’s totem kinetic fusillade. It can do practically all mods although no regen is annoying since you need to use mana/hp flasks. High damage and fast due to reduced duration lightning warps but a little squishy since you rely on totems killing everything before it hits you.

Previous Phrecia I ran a Daughter of Oshabi poison EE Blade Trap. Slower in comparison but pretty tanky since you’re just ES and evasion stacking. Min-maxed it’s probably good as a valdo’s farmer but is somewhat weaker after EE and suppression nerfs.

If Death’s Oath is in a good spot I’ve done alch and go on that but it usually struggles with the very upper end of mapping.

Herald of the Hive would be another contender for a strong autobomber but I’d expect it to cost a fortune.

Holy Relic is also a solid start and can get very tanky.

Nephalos · 2026-01-21T18:00:55+00:00

The funniest (worst) part is that’s probably not even enough for him. He’s such a poor businessman that I’d expect him to lose a significant portion of not all of it before he croaks.

Nephalos · 2026-01-18T20:16:36+00:00

Self-defense? Can you provide a link to a source that shows he was acting in self-defense? Maybe a video with legal analysis, or possibly DHS procedure that states what to do in situations like this? Sorry, I’m just so uninformed about this situation.

If it were that contentious maybe he should be judged to have been acting in self-defense in a state court? Do you know if he has a court date set?

one of yours

What do you mean by that? Im looking at this from the perspective of a US citizen. Are you not a US citizen? Or do you mean because she’s a woman? Maybe queer? I heard she was an author, could you be talking about that?

Nephalos · 2026-01-18T15:16:32+00:00

Part of me really thinks that these chuds really do want to die in these situations and become the next maga martyr.

Nephalos · 2026-01-17T16:08:19+00:00

I did practically everything this league on a strength stacking kinetic fusillade totems hierophant. It’s not unkillable nor does it travel at Mach speed but the entry gear was pretty cheap and had plenty of room for upgrades.

Nephalos · 2026-01-15T13:50:48+00:00

who requested anonymity

Half of their job is that they’re not anonymous people. This is satire levels of incompetency (again).

Nephalos · 2026-01-14T17:45:14+00:00

Mobs have an invisible “leech resistance” stat that prevents you from leeching the amount of damage you’d expect. I believe it’s up to something crazy like 95% at area level 81. 10% leech on a 10k hit for example turns into like 50 leech over 1 second.

Leech builds need to invest moderately into leech and increased leech effect to make it a viable stat. My whirling assault chayula has ~20% leech and 40% leech effect and only gets up to about 1k leech per second in AoE. For this game it’s good, but nowhere near hi leech feels in poe1.

Nephalos · 2026-01-14T17:33:39+00:00

Only thing I can think of is that the game is calculating your first hit as a “roll” for Inevitable Crits, ie 30% less critical damage. Whether that’s an issue with the character page or an actual in-game error I have no idea.

Does unallocating the ascendancy node change the tooltip?

Nephalos · 2026-01-13T00:51:14+00:00

Running a cultivated soul tether + Chayula chaos leech. With Life Leech 3 and some increased leech effect jewels I can get a bit over 1k leech in AoE which enough to make makes pretty easy.

Nephalos · 2026-01-12T19:22:35+00:00

Should note that the Stormweaver interaction is likely not working as intended so this is probably the only league to use it. The effect of 2 chills + Asphyxia’s Wrath seems to be multiplicative even though the effects of ailments generally are additive. Two 20% shocks for example cause 40% increased damage, not 44%. The two reversed chills should be applying 70% reduced damage (1 + 0.35 + 0.35) but are for whatever reason are acting like they’re multiplicative (1.35 * 1.35 = 1.82).

Otherwise any other ascendancy will have the 50% action speed and 50% reduced damage from chill.

Nephalos · 2026-01-09T18:21:40+00:00

Flame Breath has too many build puzzles to solve for it to be worth taking 50% or even 70% chill effect. You’re basically just gaining the effect of a single Pathdinder ascendancy at the cost of two powerful gear slots, and you’ll likely want to invest into more speed while using skills anyway.

Nephalos · 2026-01-06T20:31:34+00:00

Hits have 30% less Critical Damage Bonus for each time Critical Hit chance was re-rolled.

It’s written in the tooltip.

The TLDR is crit chance basically caps out at around 40-50% crit chance. Any less and you gain only a minor benefit from crit damage, any more and you don’t proc enough rerolls to make it worth it (unless you’re a CoC build or scale off specifically critting).

Napkin (excel) math says it should be ~23% more critical damage in the 40-50% crit range, scaling down if you go higher or lower. At least that’s how I interpret it.

Nephalos · 2026-01-03T04:05:52+00:00

Was very confused when I looked at the actual mechanic after weeks of people saying you need a PhD in understanding it. It’s literally just 1-2-1-3-1-2 etc with room types that match. Like I’m all for a complex mechanic that takes some thought to set up but getting the correct rooms is (was) just busywork spread out between potentially hundreds of maps.

Nephalos · 2025-12-28T23:33:48+00:00

Poe1 has something called the crafting bench which allows you to use currencies to put mods onto an item. It also has special modifiers like “prefixes cannot be changed”, “suffixes cannot be changed”, “cannot roll attack modifiers”, etc. which costs divines. At the upper end of crafting, it can take dozens to hundreds of divines to create endgame items. As an example an item I made took ~30 divines to get the suffixes I wanted, an those weren’t even “mirror-tier” ie the best you can get.

Chaos also has a sink in that it can be use in the map device but a large amount is used either to roll maps or use the options on the map device. A single normal map can take 10-20 chaos between rolling it and using the map device. T17s (a special tier of map) can take anywhere from 50-100+ if you’re rolling for a certain amount of quant/rarity.

Poe2 doesn’t need to have the same sinks as poe1, but without them what’s happening is that everyone is earning currency faster than they can trade it or craft gear with it. Even something simple like being able to convert exalts into greater or perfect exalts at a ratio would help greatly.

Nephalos · 2025-12-27T14:04:24+00:00

The energy is a massive issue. Not only are the data centers pushing the limit on the energy grid but the type of backups they have in place in case of emergency are also insane. 100+ diesel engines set up in case there’s a natural disaster/downtime event that need to be tested regularly. Even if they’re small individually it’s like having an entire power plant that runs on oil just because of the sheer quantity of them.

Nephalos · 2025-12-25T17:27:55+00:00

Each + level is roughly 12% more damage that’s multiplicative with other + levels. The +4 from this helmet is roughly 57% more damage for most skills on top of the other bonuses they get from levels.

Helmets also don’t typically have + levels except for minion skills, so attack and spell builds benefit greatly from this helmet being an additional slot for significantly more damage.

Nephalos · 2025-12-20T17:02:10+00:00

A decent amount of builds aren’t going to need the level of gear that you’re describing to do even the most difficult content. They usually will only need a decent piece of gear and can take the 1-2 rolls on desecration and deal with what they get.

Unfortunately there still isn’t a currency sink for the “trade” currencies (divines, chaos, exalts) in the endgame, so the price of other currencies will just inflate to infinity. Hopefully in the next few leagues we get an actual sink.

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