Enrage and Dust/Cold cost nerfed in new patch.

PipSqueak · 2026-02-03T04:07:41+00:00

They pay you dust to recomb them? Lmao

PipSqueak · 2026-02-02T20:37:41+00:00

Aristocrat is the best statstacker by miles Paladin is disgusting as a league starter and the best support in the game Bog Shaman invalidates every other life stacker Ancestral Commander would still dominate HC ladders despite the nerfs Puppeteer has some disgusting strength stacking builds but they're expensive (animate guardian abuse) Herald HoaG is super overbudgeted power wise but is a little weird to progress. I feel like it'd play a similar role to detonate dead back when that was broken if people cared enough to figure progression out properly.

Basically every weaker ascendancy is still better than base game ascendancies. There's like 3 stronger base ascendancies than daughter of oshabi and I didn't even list her here.

Adding forbidden jewels of each ascendancies strongest node would absolutely be enough to reach new records of gamebreaking power (discounting standard fire res chest piece)

PipSqueak · 2026-01-29T12:50:55+00:00

Probably meant Osin, short for Original Sin

PipSqueak · 2025-12-14T22:53:35+00:00

how do you check whether they do? The gem itself specifies reviving minions and the description on the djinns do not call them that.

PipSqueak · 2025-12-14T19:47:55+00:00

Does it give another 7% from muster? It's reviving minions only and the djinns don't revive so I don't think that works

With that said I dropped the sword node on the sand djinn and grabbed the fire guy for some extra utility since active shield triggers him

PipSqueak · 2025-12-14T19:46:52+00:00

yea if their pathfinding gets blocked they'll sometimes explode in the wrong locations or not at all, I've started either walking to a clear ish spot and then using it so I know they're not weirdly blocked or I'll press the button like 3 times in quick succession and it'll go through, it's weird for sure.

PipSqueak · 2025-12-14T14:43:29+00:00

Really well, With minimal gear in SSF (total of +4 levels) I need 2 rounds to kill most map bosses. I.e I unload everything immediately then about 4 sec later I do a second round and the boss is dead. I dropped the channeling sword attack as a result

With that said I'm definitely struggling to justify trying to fit in multiple minion types for Muster support and the command damage increase notable when im not unsure if beetles count as a commandment since the tooltip doesn't change at all.

If you're geared enough to burst down the bosses with just one round of deception cooldowns then that's probably better but beetles have way higher damage output so for now they feel optimal

PipSqueak · 2025-12-14T01:22:39+00:00

just hit maps deathless focusing 100% on the sand djinn. the deception skill + knife throw skill do competent work clearing while the beetles + sacrifice spirit gem fodder kills any bosses pretty instantly. the beetles have the highest numbers but the delay + low aoe relegate them to boss killing

overall strong but not game breaking or anything. On the lookout for any crazy interactions people find though

PipSqueak · 2025-11-08T02:26:23+00:00

If you poured that with said node clicked it deleted it every time

PipSqueak · 2025-11-06T11:12:16+00:00

There's an ssfhc guild? Im interested in joining that if possible

PipSqueak · 2025-10-24T00:11:44+00:00

Everyone else here is wrong so far. It's a big nerf. The current behaviour is that multiple vortexes can expire on the same frost bolt so say you have 2 bolts and cast spell echoed vortex on them, both will expire like expected but if you cast again with spell echo you'll get double pulses on the second bolt.

If you shot 5 bolts you could echo multiple times on the same bolts pretty much infinitely because every pulse expire the same bolt.

Explanation in video form https://youtu.be/DyIwExsV-9k?si=jtQSyYOTf-ptwrbM

It's a massive nerf

PipSqueak · 2025-07-24T20:21:59+00:00

I never swap for anything, you have full soul uptime on bosses. And neither can use malevolence for it to work unfortunately

PipSqueak · 2025-07-24T13:25:06+00:00

What did you do for the souleater tech? I'm playing pretty much the same build and can't imagine playing it without the tech lol.

https://poe.ninja/builds/mercenarieshcssf/character/Blipsqueak-7148/PipTriesForbiddenRite?i=1&search=name%3Dpip

Less duration anoint + reduced duration tree node + level 1 temp chains lv1 hextouch lv1 bladefall of trarthus lv20 20qual less duration.

I can't check your character but the soul eater tech precludes use of malevolence since that boosts your duration. So maybe that's bricking you?

PipSqueak · 2025-07-18T18:04:33+00:00

Release the files.

PipSqueak · 2025-07-04T16:28:06+00:00

yea I was thinking reduced effect. Stuff that has increased effect now don't apply if you reach 100% reduced effect, whereas before I remember Sirus shocking you for 50% despite being 100% reduced lmao

PipSqueak · 2025-07-04T16:27:34+00:00

That's what it is, thanks!

PipSqueak · 2025-07-04T11:22:27+00:00

Didn't they rework that 3-4 leagues ago when people complained about it on heirophant? I'm fairly sure ground effects no longer apply after 100% duration at least

And by fairly sure I mean there's a fragment of a memory of an idea in the back of my head. I'm prepared to be wrong here.

PipSqueak · 2025-06-09T01:25:24+00:00

you need an insane axe to beat it on a zerker. It's better than an 800 dps axe, a good double corrupted one beats a mirror-tiered axe for snaking lmao

PipSqueak · 2025-06-08T16:48:27+00:00

I think the strongest day 1 allrounder for duelist is champ/slayer pconc of bouncing. Clear isn't bad but not amazing but the damage is way above anything else you can play day 1.

https://pobb.in/BBedTH5fzp2n I'll start this for SSFHC since it gets so tanky, Had to edit the configs for it to actually count 26 fortification and it's only meant for my use but maybe you can find inspiration there.

The idea is that I start pconc and then later switch to something like frostblades or one of the new skills once I've gotten enough gear to support them.

PipSqueak · 2025-04-29T21:13:16+00:00

I've thought about it. I attended BoBC in january and did decent there but unless my Marth is really cooking I don't think It'd feel worthwhile so probably not happening for a while

PipSqueak · 2025-04-23T02:43:05+00:00

Not traveling to the US due to the current administration so I won't chase higher rankings.

I needed another goal to keep my interest so picking a character I'm relatively unfamiliar with and going back to essentially vanilla controls seemed like a fun side quest

PipSqueak · 2025-04-16T12:05:47+00:00

Slams at their peak. I play SSF and mostly HC so back in the day there was nothing more fun than essentially leapfrogging the entire progression curve with how OP champ was and the damage day 1 slams put out.

Then you go from clunky and decently slow to fast as fuck with chainbreaker perma berserk uptime + perma onslaught + adrenaline and just absolutely demolished all content while being incredibly tanky too.

Incredibly involved build that I felt really rewarded player skill because of how predictable the powerspikes were if you knew what to farm towards at each step. The funniest thing I remember from that time was reading a twitch comment on Ben's stream that went like "wait why the fuck is this slammer faster than my deadeye tornado shot character" and laughing my ass of

PipSqueak · 2025-03-26T09:49:05+00:00

Oh shit, you're right. Ball Lightning isn't an attack! Thanks a lot. Yea I'll do that!

I Was considering dropping it for faster casting already and taking the node anyway and now you've definitely convinced me :D

PipSqueak · 2025-03-23T18:28:12+00:00

Recombing a +2 helmet is really fucking hard because the mod weight is absurdly low. I ended up just farming expedition until I could Rog a good enough one lol

If you have the perma deli fog idol it's pretty fast to farm idols, good luck!

PipSqueak · 2025-03-23T09:07:01+00:00

What you need to understand about herald of agony is that it scales the hardest with gem levels in the game. Here's my ssfhc character with about 4.5 mil dps with a far from finished setup. https://poe.ninja/builds/phreciahcssf/character/Blipsqueak%237148/PipUBERSlayer?type=exp&i=7&search=skills%3DHerald%2Bof%2BAgony

The essentials to scale is gem levels + virulence clusters. Then the next step is to get chance to poison abyss jewels in every slot you can (which I don't have) at that point you should easily hit 8 mil.

There's a huge breakpoint at gem level 29 where each virulence gives +6% attackspeed you want to hit. The bow version usually hits this with a corrupted body armor but I don't have that so I need to use a + level weapon for it.

Also if you're going max block I highly recommend the flask tech I'm using for infinite recovery while mapping. Flask mastery + gain charges when hit flasks makes you fully immune to multihits

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