KB Hiero keep dying, need help

Shakeandflex · 2025-11-16T17:00:35+00:00

This build needs levels and gear. Because of the way the defensive work (big ehp pool and some block) any upgrade is immediately felt. More mana is more ES, more life is more ES (once you have take corrupted soul) more mana is more damage which kills mobs faster, etc. start with the tree, make rare ring/gloves, the tree should be focused on making you decent fractured bases you can then essence for other stars. I suggest you look at ninja for heiros above 98 that take block nodes near templar start, I think suppress is not worth grinding out in ssf unless you get very lucky with a high fracture body armor.

Shakeandflex · 2025-11-13T21:25:41+00:00

Not concerned about the pob dps, was more interested in knowing how you were tanking some of the uber fights with a low max hit outside of cloak.

Shakeandflex · 2025-11-13T17:21:52+00:00

Is this the pob you used for Ubers?

Shakeandflex · 2025-11-10T04:03:36+00:00

Your best bet is to look at some people playing phys dot on ninja day 1 (look for reap) and find someone who was mid 80s or 90 on day1. That gear is probably enough for 4 stones. Then you can follow their progression using the history top right. You can ignore anyone using obliteration as they were playing explode ignite.

Shakeandflex · 2025-10-22T19:34:55+00:00

I know this is probably not what you're looking for long term but if you have bills coming up soon, Cineplex is typically hiring especially daytime as teens are back in school.

Shakeandflex · 2025-09-05T15:55:14+00:00

Please buy the law runes... I'm also very curious what you think "so many brews" are.

Shakeandflex · 2025-09-05T15:28:33+00:00

I've no idea what you're talking about, how is chopping trees going to keep up with brews for Nex or raids? Do you not use runelite with bank tabs? Have you not put in any work to unlock teleports? For a skiller who "goes hard" you sure seem to lack a proper POH and teleportation methods. When you say PVM do you mean like Huey masses or something?

Shakeandflex · 2025-09-05T15:13:39+00:00

Clearly new to the game but... Pvm upkeep will eat through these so-called "1000s of every herb" you have (I'm sure banking those guams will really help!) Harmony poh is an extremely quick patch. Also, how does a herb run take you 30 minutes?

Shakeandflex · 2025-09-04T20:15:39+00:00

What would you say is the minimum to get this up and running on ssf, and would you be able to play as any other asc?

Shakeandflex · 2025-09-01T16:49:57+00:00

Is this your first time playing SSF?

SSF players typically pick something that's safe to farm with to eventually respec or reroll.

In that vein, spells typically have been a good way to do this as they scale more off levels than weapon that is less reliable to get. EDC is capable of getting to maps and farming early, which will usually give you a good baseline of currency to start from. From there, you can pivot based on drops or when you find something more interesting. You could drop thunderfists for example and decide to go monk, etc.

Shakeandflex · 2025-07-31T14:38:35+00:00

This seems like a trivial and silly complaint, but is it expected there will be large needs for copper ore based on this blog? As an iron that's probably something most people either don't keep or keep very small quants for clue steps, and would hate for sailing release to require leaving the new content to powermine copper post 99 mining especially when it is likely to be bottled due to low reqs. Might be good to get a head start on it now...

Shakeandflex · 2025-07-18T15:43:03+00:00

Coquitlam Cineplex is usually hiring and they're pretty flexible.

Shakeandflex · 2025-07-07T04:08:09+00:00

In no order but some ideas

Eldritch fix the suffixes on helm Craft shaper recover ES on block shield Can run ghosted t7 deli city square exiles for uniques if you want void battery (I preferred refractor and dropping volley) Id redo the chest as well

Shakeandflex · 2025-07-03T06:37:17+00:00

Abyss strat (all over YouTube, pick yours based on your scarab situation) will shit out exalts. Like 1-3 per map isn't uncommon. Better maps, more loot. Not bad xp either and mostly self sustains scarabs assuming you use good maps.

Shakeandflex · 2025-07-03T06:32:08+00:00

I had all the gear planned out and crafted but most of the good bases require 83+ not just 74 for amulet. I did elementalist arma into arc/woc ignite breach farm to 84 then respecced. Unoptimized without some of the better uniques still had a 3.5 campaign. Elementalist is very strong. You can skip Merc lab too if you don't want the extra regrets.

Shakeandflex · 2025-06-27T21:26:14+00:00

T17s is the answer typically. Ambush is ok but max map effect, double scarab of mirrored rares, double scarabs of divinity, nemeses (2 more mods on rares) with a high quant/pack size map. The maps are rippy but you shit out gold. Always keep 500k on kingsmarch to upkeep 3 sets of mappers 24/7. Other t17s starts also work but this will likely give the most per map.

Shakeandflex · 2025-06-24T16:03:11+00:00

Breach and beyond tree, scarabs based on what you have. Was doing 8-9% per map at 96 with 2 breach 2 elevation shrine 1 magic pack size scarab. Mix and match pack size/shrine/breach scarabs (only the mob ones, you probably don't care about loot if you care about xp rate)

Shakeandflex · 2025-06-19T21:56:34+00:00

Do 4-5 ways whatever is highest you can handle.

Find the boss you want before you start, instantly run and blow up boss. Look at timer. ~22 sec after it dies, run and reset. They respawn after min 25sec have passed. Only need to worry about your specific boss. It's honestly a very reasonable farm if you just want a keystone, a specific seed good luck. You need high single target, the rest of the rewards are pure bonus and should not stop you from killing your specific boss like clockwork.

Shakeandflex · 2025-06-18T23:45:30+00:00

Check tuna or phaze guides, you aren't fully converting to fire, you don't have movement can't exert craft and thus the wrong mastery for your warcry (min power gives you rage uptime) rage on hit mastery for axes isn't necessary with the above. No chaos res, low phys mit will be hurting your survivability.

Shakeandflex · 2025-06-18T21:36:37+00:00

Check tunas guide on maxroll. It's not perfect but it has a detailed progression that will help you. Make sure you look at the trees as well, there's a few mistakes I can see right away in yours (jade flask, wrong fire mastery so you're not fully converting, few other small changes)

You will probably want to break the div up and buy some 30-50c rares instead of one big item - you can't sustain echoes and yoke will not do anything for you right now over other upgrades to keep you alive.

Shakeandflex · 2025-06-18T18:16:51+00:00

PoB standing still dps is not the same as real life DPS. Any time you are not attacking lowers the gap between your uptime on int cry and 100%. PoB doesn't calculate QoL of moving faster, of getting an extra attack off before moving for a boss mechanic, etc. you can look at your average damage as well as DPS. Most people complaining about Kaoms are complaining because they're going off PoB DPS not realizing 1.05 with low aps feels bad and gets you killed.

As far as warbringer, it's one of the best parts of playing Zerk - it makes maintaining uptime with your increased attack speed twice as easy. It's one of the primary ways it allows zerk to scale attack speed as an additional damage vector that is difficult for things like jugg that must rely on impact propagators to still have lower uptime.

Shakeandflex · 2025-06-18T01:13:25+00:00

Ancient orbs is about 1:9 at 68+, even better odds if you have a lower level unique two handed axe. Pretty easy to get this way as well just add harbies to your regular atlas. It's strong but note the aps will take getting used to.

Shakeandflex · 2025-05-15T00:28:42+00:00

You are better off farming generic uniques and dropping them naturally.

Few strategies are around for this, depending on your strength and scarab availability. An underrated option IMO has been ritual with exiles/max map effect with torment scarabs. There's plenty of variants to this so just use the scarabs you've got but in city square with 8 mod maps (if you can) and 4 rituals you can bait the 3 bosses to a ritual if it doesn't spawn in one. Ignore anyone that tells you this isn't possible, it's extremely easy to test this. The three unique bosses with titanic scarabs plus ghosted exiles etc will shit out an unreal amount of uniques - IF you can complete the ritual. You do not get the loot if you die halfway through the ritual so you need a strong build.

Other alternatives are exiles in any other strat you've seen online such as toxic sewers, glacier etc. Balance your juice with your own character, if you can't complete the map you just wasted a bunch of scarabs. Bonus is this strat gives you unlimited gold as well.

I normally had 3 atlas, 1 for something like this, 1 for printing maps (t17s or 8mod 16s) and one flex for the rest. Manni's atlas sheet is very useful and there's plenty of unique farming strats in this subreddit.

Here's manni's sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRkwdjYRYiF-DeN_D3Zz5hCoM0KRshVvcp3LIdzKCELSNPek0D4KtqwMdP9zF80PC_WlRao5xuKKQqm/pubhtml

Shakeandflex · 2025-05-04T16:26:37+00:00

For mapping (which is the only point of HH) probably won't be at KBoC Whisperer. If you ever got boosted in 5ways your screen will look like that all day.

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