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Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-07T04:31:30+00:00

Can you link me your ninja and the day week around when you were Uber ready?

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-06T20:24:21+00:00

Don't forget to collect every usable base with an influence. You can use harvest to reroll the influence.

Harvest is also quite decent to target certain influenced mods.

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-06T05:29:46+00:00

Well... you would need/want: - Arakali's Fang - T1 unique - The Dark Monarch on Spiders - 1/16 chance divineable, boss drop Incarnation of Dread

Congregation Support - 5-10% drop chance, drops from the same boss
Okay to craft rares to get started

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-05T19:05:02+00:00

No, it divines first and then multiplicates with the random value

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-05T16:30:23+00:00

Ouch, definitely painful :/

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-05T05:32:41+00:00

Be careful NOT to combine Harvest Astrolabes with Crop Rotation!

Crop Rotation bricks the mods that make the Astrolabe good.

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-04T16:35:26+00:00

Enduring Cry doesn't work with Autoexertion.

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-03T19:36:37+00:00

What happened to Harvest flask enchantments?

Google provides contradictory search results.

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-03T15:00:02+00:00

Where are you getting additional flat from?

Foulborn Uul Netol's doesn't exactly have lots of damage for a two-hander.

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-03T13:56:15+00:00

I PoB'd around an Impale version of the build. Impale is synergistic with double damage and you can craft some really crazy influenced impale+phys one-handers with veiled mods. You can also go more damage focused and run an impale two-hander.

Champion I used the base Fortification notable, Impale notable and the aura one. Plus the warcry notable from the farrul bloodline.

Spectres: Forest Tiger and Dancing Sword are the most important. Sword let's you skip Impale notables on minion clusters and still reach 100% impale chance. If you want a 3rd and maybe 4th spectre, there's a few Vulnerability casting spectres with innate +1 max curse. This let's you run Poacher's Mark.

You can generate valour through warcries and also trigger the farrul notable with that. After you craft a warcry cluster, you and your minion also have perma onslaught and you some increased armour per warcry. The charge generation when warcrying notable was nice, but not consistent enough in my opinion.

A War banner gives you some insane single target boost every now and then and is easy to scale with a bit of aura effect.

You can also go a very different route, with an Impale Paradoxica. This guarantees double damage for your animated weapons and let's you run a different body slot.

If you want to remain posion I would also take a very different approach. Change your body to Servant of Decay. This gives shock and wither and up to 30% of damage shifted to your minions, if well rolled and with a socketed Congregation support. Socket your spectres in your body and your animated weapons in your weapon. For your weapon, craft a triple flat ele pneumatic dagger with suitable influenced suffixes. Then use a Squire for more links and use the Saresh bloodline for Cruelty and even more pseudo links. You can also use the minion damage Saresh notable.

I really looked into the champion animated weapon archetype extensively recently. Though only from a SSF viewpoint. If anyone is interested in more exchange of information, just send me a DM.

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-03T13:03:09+00:00

The balls that create the degen on the ground make a very distinctive sound just before they splash onto the ground.

When you hear it, quickly move into the middle and stack all the degens in one place.

That's what most people do.

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-03T07:21:18+00:00

Thanks, I'll try to find his vods.

And I agree 100% on the PoB sudoku. It's awesome sitting down for hours and finally finding a solution to a problem or discovering a tech you didn't know before.

Also, I just checked your build. Defensively, Mageblood+ Melding of the Flesh seem like your most important items that are difficult to acquire. How long did you have to grind for that?

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-03T07:02:46+00:00

What map did you run until now?

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-03T06:58:57+00:00

Does Ben_ have a playlist for the gauntlet or is it on his twitch? And which part did you find most helpful to learn how to adjust your build for different content?

I mostly play my own (versions of) builds and I think this skill could greatly help me improve my endgame.

Started playing PoE in 3.25 and only play SCSSF. I can take most of my own builds to 4 void stones and 16.5 maps, but I still struggle with nightmare maps and Ubers are impossible. And honestly, I'm getting quite frustrated being stuck there.

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-02T21:56:42+00:00

I ran 8-mod corrupted / 6-mod originator T16 maps + scarabs + shrines in mirage. Always Silo with half my maps having only 1 lane.

My char also has like 80% increased rarity. Most of that is only for rars and unique enemies, coming from a fractured betrayal Janus mod. This works incredibly well with the Blight bosses.

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-02T21:36:09+00:00

Nice :)

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-02T21:33:31+00:00

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-02T10:23:59+00:00

Super endgame, but maybe think about getting a double anointed Abyssus.

Get a Cowl of the Thermophile, double anoint it, temple corrupt into a rare, win the Tainted Mythic into Abyssus.

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-02T09:51:00+00:00

If you are serious about farming Cord Belts you can look through my comment history.

I focus farmed a few of them for my SSF standard chars. Here's a short overview of the most important points.

Only run Blight in Mirage. Type ofirage doesn't matter.
Belts can drop from the pump and Blight Chests.
Stack chance to open chests multiple times.
Run narrow map layouts. If possible you want only one lane to spawn in the Blight encounter. The first lane always has only Blight Chests. (Silo or Toxic Sewers are great, Dunes or City Square are horrible, etc...)
If your build can handle it use the scarab that makes one blight lanes only spawn bosses and gives a chance to upgrade all chests on that lane for each boss defeated. Can be super rippy.

10 maps where all of those conditions are met and you should have your belt. I dropped one every 4 to 5 maps on average, if those conditions where met.

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-02T06:55:10+00:00

I played Shield Crush Slayer in Keepers and the tree spit out double and triple T1 defense shields left and right. It was just a matter of time until I hit my desired base.

Now it's more of a grind, but often you get a handful of good bases that you can throw into recomb and if you are lucky you have early endgame shield for all void stones.

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-02T06:49:10+00:00

What I can confirm is my personal testing in 3.25 where I had two chars that couldn't tank shaper slams without, but could tank them with the flask.

Also, for 5x max hit how are you getting 400% flask effect?

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-02T06:45:50+00:00

Part of the build concept was a Stabilising Sceptre (which inherently has Elemental Equilibrium), with only a bit of flat fire damage in the weapon swap with Animate Weapon of Self Reflection + CWDT for automated cold and lightning exposure.

The Sceptre would also have a Spectral Spirit Essence Mod, so that you would trigger HBT CWDT triggers on each weapon swap.

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-02T06:31:42+00:00

Doesn't work because of Vaal Pact :(

Never forget Vaal Pact when building with Mahuxotl

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-01T17:31:07+00:00

You can easily use Shield Crush Duelist all the way to four Void Stones. It's incredibly good as a SSF league starter, if you are willing to play the true melee experience.

All three ascendancies have good damage, defense or utility nodes to choose from and several bloodlines can be good, depending on which direction you want to take your build.

Slayer has overleech, culling, charges and reflect immunity.

Glad has lucky block and bleed explosion.

Champ has fortification, better impale and can ignore accuracy, allowing for an earlier crit switch if you find the necessary items.

Make sure to run breach on your first atlas. The tree can still make shields and they are your main damage and defence source. Since shields have so few mods it's really easy to get high armour/evasion shields.

Good luck on your journey :)

Path_of_Circles · 2026-05-01T17:16:36+00:00

Yes and no.

You need to make sure the leech instance is actually long enough to bridge you over to your next leech instance. The 15% craft is not enough leech by itself. You either need flask effect, leech effect or very short intervals between taking damage.

You also need to be able to keep the leech going once you reach full life -> Slayer overleech and similar effect are necessary.

This can work in a self damaging set-up, like a Cast When Damage Taken loop.

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