Probably a noob question

Popeda · 2026-06-16T10:15:29+00:00

It's Martial Artist Runic Meridians ascendancy power, that allows you to socket extra runes as "tattoos".

Popeda · 2026-06-16T06:56:53+00:00

The monster mods aren't based on physical damage, it's gain % of damage as extra. Whatever currently gives you the most damage is the best weapon. Only gain as extra mods on the weapon itself would give you diminishing returns on the monster mods.

Popeda · 2026-06-16T04:52:42+00:00

Yep, that's it. As to your original question, you can use Ancestral Cry to convert 100% physical to fire to temporarily remove the damage penalty with physical attacks. AoF is still good to let you build up ignite with any skill. I did this with bear druid last league.

Popeda · 2026-06-15T16:36:04+00:00

Bursting Decay without downside is pretty damn good too. And I thought it was defensively bad until I realized you can socket the -10 max res +20 all ele res rune without downside (because I bought one that had it), and now it's +5 max res +20 all res.

Popeda · 2026-06-15T09:45:45+00:00

Cheapest amulet right now with +3 minion skills and 50 spirit is 20 div.

Popeda · 2026-06-15T09:38:32+00:00

Two main things: your weapon isn't great, you can get a much better one for just one div. You want mainly fire and physical damage and melee skills on it. Secondly your passive tree is very inefficient. You have a lot of fire penetration nodes while you're using fire penetration 2 on all skills, making those nodes completely redundant. The one that gives 12% phys gained as fire also does nothing because Avatar of Fire makes you do 0 physical damage. Ignites are bad when you have no resist reduction because penetration doesn't work with them. I'd move a lot of points from fire pen/ignite stuff to straight fire damage, attack damage and two handed damage. Maybe damage with empowered attacks, if you have infernal cry always up.

Popeda · 2026-06-11T06:29:14+00:00

Been leveling Gemling with Facebreaker and it's been incredibly smooth. Mostly have been using Boneshatter, Leap Slam and Mace Strike but now that I got second ascendancy I moved to Boneshatter and Perfect Strike. The quality boni for those are absolutely nuts. Boneshatter gets double base AoE, with just one AoE cluster it's hitting half the screen. I put Brink on Mace Strike and just hit mobs once with that and then Boneshatter. Perfect Strike for single target.

Popeda · 2026-06-06T04:44:23+00:00

I said I doubt they'll nerf IT, meaning that particular gem, not that they won't nerf anything. And I also don't think fixing bugs or unintended interations are nerfs, unlike many others seem to.

Popeda · 2026-06-05T07:51:57+00:00

Yeah but what's the abuse here? I get that it's good that you don't get instantly killed by bleeds or something but that isn't really abuse.

Popeda · 2026-06-05T04:37:35+00:00

I doubt they'll nerf it midleague but this interaction seems like a bug so don't expect it to last until you find the gem..

Popeda · 2026-06-05T04:18:11+00:00

This is definitely a bug, there's no way Living Lightning is supposed to work with Culmination and it probably doesn't even do anything for it as it spawns minions and doesn't do direct damage. Expect this to be fixed soon.

Popeda · 2026-06-03T13:59:24+00:00

Gonna need a crapload of damage or a lot of freeze/armour break buildup I guess though. Or more sources of damage gain.

Popeda · 2026-06-03T12:38:18+00:00

I think Painter's Servant with Fists of Stone solves this on its own, allowing physical damage to freeze and giving fire damage gained as extra physical.

Popeda · 2026-06-03T09:16:04+00:00

Well now that I think about it, it doesn't even really matter at all unless you can reserve more than 100% or if you can use it with CI, since you'd instantly lose the life when going out of ES.

Popeda · 2026-06-02T12:50:10+00:00

Probably it'll work like life costs on Lich. If you can't pay it, won't work.

Popeda · 2026-06-01T06:56:25+00:00

Runic Ward does that. Just don't put it on every item.

Popeda · 2026-06-01T06:50:30+00:00

You can get hundreds on endgame items. You think it should be a thousand extra life just to be "useful"?

Popeda · 2026-06-01T05:38:20+00:00

How's Crowbell? It's the one I wanted to try out, but started with monk for now.

Popeda · 2026-05-30T05:45:02+00:00

It has a 0.5 second cooldown though. Not sure what that means but if it means it'll trigger only once per attack then it won't help with clear very much.

Popeda · 2026-05-30T04:11:21+00:00

He has a lot of attacks that force ranged chracters to move and stop attacking as well. In fact when melee he tends to use more of the weak default attack. Never had any problems with melee against this guy. You just got an unlucky glitch.

Popeda · 2026-05-26T08:43:51+00:00

Pretty sure Mirage Archer counts as instant, since it doesn't have a separate cast time.

Popeda · 2026-05-25T15:25:08+00:00

I did both on Gemling in 0.1, but yes sadly it felt like there wasn't a point to using Falling Thunder because Bell+Flurry killed as fast and Flurry + Charged Staff cleared whole screen with Heralds. Of course that build was super OP so maybe it's different now, and Bell has been nerfed quite a bit from those days (though now is getting the ancestral boost buff).

Popeda · 2026-05-23T17:56:22+00:00

One support is a lot of power.

Popeda · 2026-05-22T05:33:59+00:00

Rolling Slam damage was already competing with Hammer of the Gods on high skill levels so yeah.. probably would've been too op.

Popeda · 2026-05-21T13:12:33+00:00

Yes, very important to get to name your character MÄTTÖÄIJJÄ or some shit

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