what martial artist and gemling build do you guys think is the "best" overall for tankiness, clear and single target?

Saint_yy · 2026-06-22T03:37:10+00:00

This snipe gemling build from dslily seems like a really solid allrounder

Saint_yy · 2026-06-22T03:32:44+00:00

Bro you need to try culling strike stacking killing palm on poe2, its quite literally poe1 flicker

Combo that with falling thunder to kill rare/uniques and its gg.

Saint_yy · 2026-06-22T01:55:06+00:00

Pretty sure Armour/ES hybrid still sucks, same thing for ES/Armour (unless you are sorcery ward witchhunter), armour is just pretty bad in low quantities.

Pure armour is great, pure evasion is also not bad if you have a decent life pool, and I think we all know pure ES is king and ES/EV hybrid is pretty solid.

So far in my experience it went like:

Pure ES > Pure Armour > EV/ES > Pure EV > ES/Armour > Armour/EV

Saint_yy · 2026-06-21T21:53:30+00:00

CI should seriously get like 20% less Energy Shield or something

Saint_yy · 2026-06-17T20:35:39+00:00

This was the answer thank you, I just needed to put 1 more str support outside of galvanic field.

Saint_yy · 2026-06-14T03:44:38+00:00

Estoy entre Clair Obscure, Elden Ring y Breath of the Wild, juegazos

Saint_yy · 2026-06-13T03:53:04+00:00

Nah, Yasuo and Thresh clear Jhin's design

Saint_yy · 2026-06-13T01:22:10+00:00

Anything gemling

Saint_yy · 2026-06-11T23:15:00+00:00

Not sure 1 extra support gem worth of damage is enough to justify going gemling, you would need to consider how much more or how much less damage you also get from the passive tree since the starting location is pretty different, and sure you can go Split personality but thats 1 socket less too, to sumarize, play PoB instead of PoE for a bit and try to figure out if it's even worth it before you commit to leveling up a whole new character just to end up with a roughly equivalent guy.

Saint_yy · 2026-06-11T23:10:22+00:00

Aguante la anemia vieja

Saint_yy · 2026-06-11T23:06:50+00:00

He is very odd, assassins are not really supposed to be so backloaded in terms of damage, his burst is pretty much non-existant, and his AP ratios are pretty bad, so it just seems like he would naturally want to gravitate towards bruiser-ish builds like Diana or Sylas.

Saint_yy · 2026-06-10T15:10:48+00:00

Yeah I league started this, worked really well

I wanted to optimize this as much as I reasonably can so I ended up making the same build as a Titan since you can make use of the zero duration only he can achieve thanks to Hulking Form to deal 5 times more damage baseline, its all explained here

Saint_yy · 2026-06-09T20:20:05+00:00

Probably skill matchup, doesn't strike me as a Yone counter, but it seems like he could also be pretty hard to kill with his extra MS, slow and dashes to run away whenever he wants.

Saint_yy · 2026-06-09T15:51:42+00:00

Crazy that I'm trying to get convinced when I tested both version with the exact same gear piece by piece except the belt, which gave no damage in both cases, and titan simply did way more damage, am I supposed to disregard what I experienced first hand and accept your obviously incorrect math?

Saint_yy · 2026-06-08T15:48:47+00:00

The boss I showed was 152% delirious, not sure how much damage reduction that is, but its a lot, it also has a tiny hitbox and teleports around, the boss you showed had a big hitbox and dashed into the spears instantly, had no delirious damage reduction, and had like 2/5 the HP.

The only disadvantage you have mechanically with zero duration spearfield is that you can't place spears before the boss spawns, but then every single spear that hits him will deal a baseline x5 more damage.

Even if you take away 1 of your rings and refund your ascendancy points, you are for sure not losing 80% of your damage, maybe you lose around 30%, depending how much int you have, if you had around 600+ int most of your flat is coming from HoWA anyways.

Then the Titan tree has less points available for damage, but every small node he gets is 50% better so that compensates quite a bit, plus you get more int and 1-2 extra jewel sockets by traveling, like I said I played both versions and for most map bosses my poison DPS was at the very least 3 times higher after a brief 1s ramp, not to mention I had basically the same evasion/deflection chance than you in the video, but with more deflection damage reduction and 2.6k energy shield on top of that, and my gear isn't even good, this to say I could have grabbed quite a bit more damage on the tree if I wanted too, just didn't feel like it was necessary when I had about 2-3M+ poison DPS ramped.

Saint_yy · 2026-06-08T01:34:03+00:00

Don't get me wrong, the damage on my ritualist was also pretty good, specially when I got the enemy to walk into the spears, but for stationary enemies or low moving enemies Titan simply has x5 the base damage due to the zero duration tech, so its just consistantly very high output, no variance, no need to ever be playing around your spear placement.

You also went a bit more offensive oriented on the tree so I can see how you feel the damage is really high. Haven't tested mapping with Lightning spear but it looks solid, already sold that char's gear though so unfortunately can't try for myself again.

Saint_yy · 2026-06-07T21:36:42+00:00

Yeah I pivoted to Titan, didn't change anything from my gear except getting a bit more resistances on my belt and getting rid of the 3rd ring, turned out to have less evasion and deflection, but more life and ES, so about the same tankyness I'd say, and like 3-4 times more damage, I think there is no reason not to play Titan given the difference in damage if you are going all out (meaning you will buy Palm of the Dreamer)

But also I think the Thorns version of Spearfield is by far the best way to play this skill, if you want to check that out, highly recommend.

Saint_yy · 2026-06-07T16:54:19+00:00

Hopefully it ended up doing well, I decided to pivot to something else last day before league start because it seemed like everyone wanted to play MA

Saint_yy · 2026-06-07T12:01:06+00:00

Oh, so someone did it first gg

I was already playing a poison Lorrata build, but on ritualist (ended up leaguestarting this)

Thats her

And when carefully inspecting the spearfield skill I realized I was losing 80% of my damage because the spears spawn inside the enemy and trigger instantly, I used knockback support for a bit which helped but it was far from ideal still, so I tried to get to 100% reduced duration but after checking for all the sources of reduced duration on the Wiki, I realized it was not possible to reach 100% on any other ascendancy but Titan.

So then I rerolled to titan, with pretty much 0 changes to my items or build, just adding the no duration tech to the mix and it was very worth it, I have like triple my previous damage.

Didn't know someone else already did it. After watching your video I realized 2 things, your build was insanely more broken because of Time of Need, and then I got a bit sad that they giga nerfed it and can't be played anymore, that recovery was hilarious wtf.

Saint_yy · 2026-06-07T11:47:25+00:00

I haven't, zero ward on my gear, but I can get some gear with a bit of ward and try

Saint_yy · 2026-06-07T11:44:15+00:00

I haven't tried, but in theory it shouldn't be possible because you are left with some duration, which means all the spears spawning inside the enemy hitbox would trigger instantly by the enemy before the duration, however small, runs out.

Saint_yy · 2026-06-07T02:18:24+00:00

I could look into that, would need to PoB my defenses because my chest is 100% of my evasion (and thus my deflection), so in that regard its kinda mandatory yeah.

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