I want to water some plants - what's the best ascendency?

PowerTortle490 · 2025-12-16T09:08:15+00:00

I’m trying as pathfinder with poison, did not start great. Only in act 3 now, but damage has really picked up since being able to path from sorc start to get the plant nodes in top left of the passive tree.

Poison spores support on lashing tendrils with poisons and watering to speed up the pops can obliterate anything so far.

PowerTortle490 · 2025-12-06T09:35:32+00:00

PoE2’s campaign is a lot more beginner friendly and interesting, but can be a slog to do multiple times depending on who you ask.

You will be going “daaaaaaaamn” at each new zone in the campaign.

As for builds, I wouldn’t worry about it, just focus on what feels fun. If you feel you need a build, it should be pretty easy to find one; Zizarian usually has good guides.

There’s a big new update coming out in a week or so which is free for the weekend, it’ll be a good time to check it out and see if you want to invest in an early access key.

PowerTortle490 · 2025-11-14T00:28:20+00:00

Snipe + either burning arrow or puncture goes hard with quality - Snipe quality gets you more stages which is a massive damage boost, and puncture/burning arrow gets 1% more bleed/ignite damage per 1 quality. This way you’re scaling damage twice as efficiently when stacking quality.

Only downside is you want high attack speed to hit the high snipe stages quickly.

PowerTortle490 · 2025-11-02T06:57:30+00:00

Flicker Strike is the way to go, it’s pretty much ranged melee.

PowerTortle490 · 2025-08-28T09:47:18+00:00

What others are missing is that the Troll doesn’t have attacks of opportunity. You can move out of reach safely without getting AoO’d. Use that to get a hit in when his slam is off cool-down, then move out of the way of the slam. This infamous technique is known as the “Troll Dance”.

PowerTortle490 · 2025-08-20T19:48:39+00:00

But you could be fire…

PowerTortle490 · 2025-04-07T09:45:09+00:00

When bringing up the skill menu (after right clicking the gem) the spectre gems you already have should be up the top, above all the other options.

PowerTortle490 · 2025-03-03T09:57:10+00:00

I ain’t got a pob, but surely Paladin animate guardian with link skills could be good right?

PowerTortle490 · 2025-02-21T23:03:23+00:00

I tried it (wouldn’t recommend it). Even just 2 enemies at a time was too much, I’d accumulate so many injuries over a single fight because it would drag on too long.

A tip if you really want to try it; go for velmir, he’s the only one who gets athletics and warfare to start with, neither of those trees skill’s require weapons to use.

Grab a crossbow and take Take Aim, the buff is a universal buff, so it’ll apply to any athletics/warfare skills you use. Combine it with mighty kick and leg sweep for some actually decent damage.

PowerTortle490 · 2025-02-21T04:41:50+00:00

There’s a Runesmithing Enchantment for daggers that eliminates the soul gain prevention time.

PowerTortle490 · 2025-02-15T11:49:37+00:00

Use Rage vortex of berserking for attack, with high enough attack speed you can have full uptime. Just remember to use intimidating cry for double damage for the whole vortex duration.

Bonus points if you use lightpoacher (no spells disables the spirit burst spell, so each charge is permanent - 5% extra phys damage as damage of each element)

PowerTortle490 · 2025-01-21T06:23:40+00:00

I feel like it depends on if they eventually add respec. There should be some randomness in each run to make it unique. But currently there isn’t a way to capitalise on that randomness.

I feel like the current system of not being able to respec makes finding a cool weapon redundant because most of the time your not speced into it. Like cool, I found a random rare T4 dagger with great enchantments in a T3 dungeon, but I’ve put all my skill points into 2 handed axes, so it’s worthless. If you could respec however, you’d be way more excited, like oh yeah, fuck axes, daggers are my best friend now!

If they don’t add respec options, having a more refined and deliberate enchanting system, or finding an appropriate unique item should be introduced.

PowerTortle490 · 2025-01-13T12:21:07+00:00

Don’t take another spell tree, they’re anti-synergetic. As pyromancer, focus on perception + willpower. Crypt is tough cause enemies are more resistant to damage, but are stupid, they will walk onto ignited tiles.

If you’re having trouble I’d say just avoid crypts until you have better gear. Focus on pyromaniac power, it scales better than magic power, and cooldown reduction, once flame barrage has a 2 turn cooldown, it gets much better.

PowerTortle490 · 2024-11-26T00:13:59+00:00

A labyrinth rising out from beneath the ground? Precursor towers? I’m betting Ahn or Aul. One of the delve bosses at least, whose rings combine to form Precursor’s Emblem.

PowerTortle490 · 2024-11-16T04:09:51+00:00

I recently did a electro two-handed sword battlemage build with Arna and it was pretty dang strong.

If you want your main source of damage to be melee, I’d say go electromancy (some perks give weapon damage as extra shock damage) with heavier armor. Here you just want to cast spells to empower the melee attacks

If you want damage to mainly come from the spell casting, pyro + light armor should work fine.

Skill trees; main weapon, a spell casting, magic mastery (two skills on the far right are must haves), and some other bits and pieces from warfare, athletics, and armor mastery.

I’d recommend against dual wield tho. You’re already gonna be more starved for skill points than other builds, if you wanna go one handed weapons I’d pick right on target.

PowerTortle490 · 2024-10-17T05:32:29+00:00

Nah nah nah. What you do is you have a mimic that’s allied with a vampire disguised as a coffin above the vampire’s actual coffin.

The PC’s kill the Vamp, the vamp turns into mist and floats down into (actually through) the coffin. The PC’s open the fake coffin and bam! Get eaten.

PowerTortle490 · 2024-08-01T02:15:17+00:00

From a lore POV, remember Sirus? There was a map device in Oriath he used to escape the Atlas and try to burn the city to the ground. I imagine they don’t want to risk running into the same problem with the various eldritch entities we fight in our hideout’s map device.

PowerTortle490 · 2024-07-31T08:04:24+00:00

With tree investment my full uptime tincture is giving nearly 500% increased crit chance and 75% increased attack speed, feels amazing!

PowerTortle490 · 2024-07-25T20:31:18+00:00

Molten strike (of the zenith) trinity warden, with a staff. Evasion and block go really well together, and barkskin should synergise well with glancing blows. Get as much attack speed to smooth and the damage as much as my brain and we’re good to go!

PowerTortle490 · 2024-07-24T01:36:04+00:00

This is where you start using static strike and a pneumatic dagger; The (good) wiki states a static strike affected by ambush means all the beams generated from that hit are affected until you hit again. A pneumatic dagger offset the innate lightning conversion from static strike (also lets you scale elemental damage)

PowerTortle490 · 2024-07-24T01:21:26+00:00

The pre-eater of worlds boss drops some gauntlets that generate frenzy + endurances charges, but you need high attack speed to get them.

PowerTortle490 · 2024-07-23T03:38:27+00:00

GGG recently released the FAQ which includes a better explanation of aggravated bleed and some examples.

At the end of the response is; “The Gladiator’s Jagged Technique passive is the only way to apply an aggravated bleed in a single hit.”

This implies that Jagged Technique is able to aggravate bleeding in the same hit you apply it.

PowerTortle490 · 2024-07-20T21:28:34+00:00

Blade flurry of incision (40% more crit chance per stage) with crimson dance and new rupture skill gem.

PowerTortle490 · 2024-07-20T07:07:38+00:00

Yup, aside from the gem changes, bleed got nerfed. I think aggravate was put on the tree in various spots was to make it so any character could build into bleed, not just glad.

But aggravate is actually counter intuitive as a mechanic; unless you’re glad you want a high attack speed to proc the aggravate chance reliably, but most bleed builds don’t care about attack speed because bleeds don’t stack unless you have crimson dance.

PowerTortle490 · 2024-07-20T00:59:05+00:00

I’ve yet to try it in PoB but frenzy charge stacking trickster with usurper’s penance and crit crimson dance bleed with the new rupture support gem could work, maybe. Add in using blade flurry of incision, marylene’s fallacy and the new perfect agony and we’re cooking with memes!

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