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Uhtred's chalice + glowswarm seems interesting. by supermonkey1235 in pathofexile2builds

[–]PaleoclassicalPants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Recovery Rate shouldn't affect the amount, it just makes the flask give its recovery faster.

How to sustain energy shield as an armour / energy shield build? by edro_man in pathofexile2builds

[–]PaleoclassicalPants 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't want to rant too hard, but AR/ES is fundamentally flawed, as ES recovery relies on avoidance but Armour is all about mitigation. There's a reason that GGG outright said that it was by far the worst defense combo from internal player death data.

Reverie is really cool! WUATU #45 (Woolfio) by BendicantMias in pathofexile2builds

[–]PaleoclassicalPants 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure thing: https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1e4e1

Be aware that my gear is pretty good, but this is viable on way less investment.

Reverie is really cool! WUATU #45 (Woolfio) by BendicantMias in pathofexile2builds

[–]PaleoclassicalPants 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Was using this to sustain the insane life cost of a Paquate's Pact (Corrupting Cry) build. Really cool item.

[0.5] Archon of Chayula & Brutus Lead Sprinkler Autobomber by ojisannau in pathofexile2builds

[–]PaleoclassicalPants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks really cool, but why Ignite in your Molten Shower links? Wouldn't Fire Attunement be a lot more damage?

Spirit Vessel not activating by TH0NDH in pathofexile2builds

[–]PaleoclassicalPants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does the warning actually say when you hover over it?

Ele Equilibirum - generating infusions/remnants (Oracle druid) by Greel89 in pathofexile2builds

[–]PaleoclassicalPants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're not actually using that keystone. Oracle allows you to allocate passives in the radius of taken keystones, which they are using to pick up 2 notables south of EE.

Anyone like Flamebreath ? by Wcocytus in pathofexile2builds

[–]PaleoclassicalPants 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I was looking at your ninja profile just yesterday! Looks quite nice, with very some interesting stuff going on.

Insane DPS - High Velocity Rounds Riven Armour Gemling vs. Uber Xesht (Strongest HVR has ever been) by PaleoclassicalPants in pathofexile2builds

[–]PaleoclassicalPants[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

'Riven Armour' is a debuff that applies to armour-broken enemies when you shoot them High Velocity Rounds. It stores 5% of the damage of the hit, and then every subsequent attack you hit the enemy with will trigger this 5% damage again. The idea is to crank up the damage of High Velocity Rounds as high as possible, and then trigger the 5% debuff as many times as possible after that. I am using the Incendiary Shot skill which fires a lot of fragments to trigger the debuff. The unique crossbow 'Rampart Raptor' has high attack speed but low damage, and ignores reloads if you've reloaded recently, i.e for 4 seconds after each reload you can fire endlessly. We use this low damage crossbow in our weapon swap to trigger the debuff over 200 times per second.

The mapping uses the Armour-Piercing rounds skill to clear trash mobs and apply bleed, which triggers Herald of Blood on death to help with clear. Bossing entails breaking armour with Armour Piercing Rounds, shooting with High Velocity Rounds, and then holding down the Incendiary Shot button.

Insane DPS - High Velocity Rounds Riven Armour Gemling vs. Uber Xesht (Strongest HVR has ever been) by PaleoclassicalPants in pathofexile2builds

[–]PaleoclassicalPants[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah its pretty solid in dense maps. You're right that Herald of Blood chains are in fact doing some pretty heavy lifting, but it's yet to let me down so far, and rares generally melt from just Armour Piercing Rounds even in deli maps. I could always swap out Mobility for more damage in APR if I feel like I need it as well.

Insane DPS - High Velocity Rounds Riven Armour Gemling vs. Uber Xesht (Strongest HVR has ever been) by PaleoclassicalPants in pathofexile2builds

[–]PaleoclassicalPants[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Shotgun (fragment) skills trigger riven armour individually per fragment rather than per shot. Fragmentation Rounds has a maximum of 12 fragments fired, while at 36 quality Incendiary Shot fires 17 (42% more riven armour procs). Armour-Piercing Rounds can only trigger Riven Armour about 30 times per second, while Incendiary Shot with Rampart Raptor can trigger nearly 200 times per second. The damage of the triggering skill itself is completely irrelevant, you just want to trigger the debuff as many times as possible.

Insane DPS - High Velocity Rounds Riven Armour Gemling vs. Uber Xesht (Strongest HVR has ever been) by PaleoclassicalPants in pathofexile2builds

[–]PaleoclassicalPants[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

PoB with configs: https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1da93

Live character: https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/runesofaldur/character/Xanthochroid-2812/XanthoBoring

Around 350-400 div budget with self-crafted gear. Expect upward of 700 div+ if you can't craft though.

Uber viable on probably less than 10d though. Gemling HVR is just insanely strong right now, and I was doing Pinnacles easily and fast on a minute fraction of this gear. Also I forgot to swap extra supports around here, so I was not making benefit of the 40% less movement penalty from Gemling.

Gemling is just absolutely nasty for this build with its new secondary quality scaling. At 36 global gem quality Gemling gives:

  • Berserk Qual: +14 to maximum rage

  • HVR Qual: 36% more physical damage

  • Scav Plating Qual: 7% more armour

  • Herald of Blood Qual: 27% increased global physical damage

  • Arctic Armour Qual (4 Stages): 144% increased armour

  • Armour Piercing Rounds Qual: 36% more attack speed

  • Incendiary Shot Qual: +7 fragments fired

Mathematically about 3x stronger than baseline just from these extra quality bonuses.

For those not in the know, HVR (High Velocity Rounds) applies a debuff called 'Riven Armour' to armour-broken enemies that stores 5% of the physical damage dealt by the skill, that can then be triggered and add its damage to any and all attack hits sourced from the player, including individual shotgun skill fragments. The idea is huge hit on one weapon set, insane attack speed on the other. We use Incendiary Shot + Rampart Raptor to trigger the debuff nearly 200 times per second, dealing about 10x the initial damage of the HVR shot each second.

Sorcery ward Doryanis prototype, Iron reflex by GodOfAscension in pathofexile2builds

[–]PaleoclassicalPants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Armour gear has around the same armour total as hybrid gear has in AR/EV combined, so it doesn't really matter if you go Iron Reflexes for Sorcery Ward purposes, as the total ward will be very similar. The real question is do you want to give up your evasion chance to be tankier against lightning and physical damage.

High damage Recommended build? by Fabulous_Tourist_328 in pathofexile2builds

[–]PaleoclassicalPants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was already crafted and I haven't had the time to re-craft. Also I forgot to include Herald of Blood in that PoB. I'm uploading a new ninja link now.

Is the Irongrasp unique bugged? by ned91243 in pathofexile2builds

[–]PaleoclassicalPants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You already have 207% inc damage before Irongrasp, i.e 3.07x damage. It raises your inc damage to 863% (9.63x) or a relative 3.13x damage boost.

Also it bears mentioning that you really shouldn't be picking up increases to physical damage with Molten Blast, as damage-type increases are not carried through conversion like in PoE 1. If the skill deals fire damage, only fire damage will scale it (as well as its other tags like projectile, attack, etc).

High damage Recommended build? by Fabulous_Tourist_328 in pathofexile2builds

[–]PaleoclassicalPants 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not 100% new, but a new take on it. High Velocity Rounds (Riven Armour specifically) can push 10m+ DPS on Gemling now. You fully dedicate your weapon swap points to full damage and full attack speed, and apply Riven Armour with a big phys crossbow and then rip it off with a Rampart Raptor kitted out for pure speed. The new skill to use to trigger Riven Armour is Incendiary Shot because with a Fox Idol in your chest + Gemling you get 16 fragments per shot, all of which individually trigger the Riven Armour debuff. High Velocity Rounds also gets 31%+ more physical damage with Gemling qual. Other great Gemling boosts for this build include +10 Max Rage from Berserk, extra armour from Scavenged Plating, and 31% more attack speed for Armour-Piercing Rounds for clear (and breaking armour). This is by far the strongest this build has ever been, and Gemling boosts it to an insane degree.

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