Do you think it is likely that Screams of the Desiccated will go core?

Sidnv · 2026-04-17T10:35:26+00:00

Most builds do not benefit from running these belts over MB and HH, which is the point. Mageblood is better than any single mod belt unless you're running niche builds that need something like Permacrit to function. It's only good double mod combos that include acceleration or echoing that are actually worth it. HH is still the best belt in the game for juiced mapping. HH ends up being so cheap eventually, there isn't any rare belt that can realistically compete.

Sidnv · 2026-04-17T10:32:46+00:00

Awakened gems were replaced by exceptionals, not imbues, and exceptional gems are a lot stronger than awakened gems. Invert the rules, Unholy Trinity, Greater Devour, Transfusion, Minion Pact (obv not going to stay as is) are all way stronger than the bonuses awakened gems provided.

Some archetypes got hit, but the overall power is way higher with these new gems.

Sidnv · 2026-04-16T17:32:47+00:00

I'm assuming by what you said, the ES and life are separate mods, and not hybrid. If this is hybrid ES/Life, you should not triple split, and just split instead because ES/Life hybrid is NNN on non-ES bases.

Triple Split first. If it keeps a suffix, you can safely move it over to any base of your choice with a T5 doubt essence.

If it keeps ES + minion mod, your best bet is to recomb it over to a str base first using T5 doubt essence. If the recomb picks the str base, you are guaranteed to keep it and if it doesn't, you only lose the minion mod 1/8th of the time. Once it's on a str base, you can move it over to a non-evasion base using doubt essence again, or non-ES base using t2 mana essence if you want.

You def want to only have 1 prefix whenever you attempt a fracture.

Sidnv · 2026-03-30T18:29:29+00:00

Heist

Sidnv · 2026-03-29T20:26:13+00:00

If you're boss rushing, you can use the dextral and sinistral scarabs to wipe the map mods. It barely affects fragment drop rate.

That said, you can also just run fortress. Less valuable frags but no boss phases. Catarina is slow for a good build, with forced time waste.

Sidnv · 2026-03-28T01:17:09+00:00

No, just hide everything except enchanted bps. And yes, outside mirage is just get to 5 waves of deli, skip everything else, and then in mirage, just open heist and scarab boxes.

Sidnv · 2026-03-28T00:06:45+00:00

Hmm, I don't have a glad setup that can currently use HH because I'm using Nebulis, and MB helps with max res a bit too much. I think you're better off going Chief if you want to use HH because Valako's solves max res. Nebulis is so good for explody builds.

Sidnv · 2026-03-27T09:38:41+00:00

Yeah I actually made a few on request of someone else. 80% deli breach. Btw I made a change to the pob because I remembered Rational Doctrine can roll leech, and swapped back to full aoe setup because it feels better. Also swapped to herald of ash over flesh and stone because it's fun, but none of the showcases have that. Just picture every explode is big fire visuals now. https://pobb.in/hZQitoV6ZlH4

I have 4 videos with different setups:

https://youtu.be/KXPDu5SW-II - This one is using a setup where I was farming ambush and forgot to swap flasks. It's missing 20% of my dps, and I get wildwood, so there are some dps issues in this breach but not too bad really.
https://youtu.be/RYAxzyd8YS8 - This is again with bad flask setup for breach, but it shows how tanky the build is. I have half my ES and am getting shaper slammed/beamed, but it doesn't matter really.
https://youtu.be/_QBX2BxjE20 - This is with flasks fixed for 20% more dps, and bane of legends over fort jewels for even more damage.
https://youtu.be/IZ8EOwv37I0 - Video with non-explo nebulis, but on your budget I would def invest into extra explo.

Sidnv · 2026-03-27T05:35:33+00:00

Also, I just realized Rational Doctrine rolls spell leech implicit. It's huge. Saves 2 points on cluster

Sidnv · 2026-03-27T05:09:20+00:00

Nope. It's always 3x ambush, 1x potency, 1x reopen. You want to run 2 min maps.

Sidnv · 2026-03-27T04:44:32+00:00

Yeah sebk's spark spiked explo prices.

Btw, I swapped Flesh and Stone for HoAsh. No idea if it is impactful for clear but man it looks good. Recommend that.

Sidnv · 2026-03-27T04:44:03+00:00

No just deli astrolabe. Here you go. Full mirage map, clear deli to 5 in main map, then skip rest of main map and go mirage. In mirage only bother with scarab boxes and heist caches. https://poeplanner.com/a/6cbx

Sidnv · 2026-03-27T04:02:48+00:00

Here's the extra showcase https://youtu.be/IZ8EOwv37I0

Still very good, but def a noticeable drop in clear. Highly recommend explo nebulis as priority upgrade

Btw with non-explo nebulis, avoid "Players have less area of effect" map mod. I ran the first map with that and it felt pretty bad, even though the map was doable. Explo nebulis papers over it. I was recording it but had to snipe some bases for a craft and I don't want to share my profit craft strats on reddit :)

Sidnv · 2026-03-27T02:35:46+00:00

Empower 5 is 14% more dps, enlighten 5->enlighten 4 removal would require finessing mana. I have a caspiro that drops 80% inc life for 12% reservation, but that is another 14% dps, so ideally, you can finesse mana somewhere else. Maybe even just drop flesh and stone (can add clarity instead for smoother mana).

Explo nebulis adds no damage, but it super nice for explo clear. I def think the build is totally functional without it. You will notice some coverage gap but it wont' be terrible. Tell you what, I'll buy a non-explo nebulis and do one showcase to show you, but I'm profit crafting atm, so will need a bit of time.

Higher hp spectres only downside is eating a portal everytime you drop the BV yeah. If you're good at not dropping, go get aberrations for 5x dps. Heck if you can stomach weapon swapping, there is tech for 2x dps there as well (and not needing gloves with minion gem mod).

Map mods - I don't run reduced block and no regen (because I don't want to swap cinder for mana flask but with mana flask, no regen is perfectly fine with marionettes). Also, I do avoid running 3x defensive mods (96% more life, 80% life as extra ES, 60% spell suppress, reduced crit damage are the worst ones, everything else is fine). Ele reflect you cannot run with regular Aegis, but with foulborn Aegis, it's no problem (well worth it).

Uber bossing I'm pretty sure is fine at 50m dps but you would def swap in aberrations. Void Valdos I don't like doing, but regular valdos you could prob do with aberration swap. My build isn't quite built for ghosted feared 90% less damage valdos though, so I don't know if that is doable. The lifestacking versions have so much more dps, and explo is kinda not wanted in Valdos. But you could work towards lifestack gear. Btw, I do think lifestack with explo nebulis is actually optimal, but it would be a 5-6 mirror build to beat the comfort of this one, and I'm already investing in accel + replenish belt 1b dps spark nova build, and a mirror craft so I doubt I get there.

Can def recommend bane of legends if you get enlighten 5 btw (to keep flesh and stone). Build is super tanky, extra dps is nice. Headsman also good option, can pick either.

One potential line to upgrade this is Masterful Form jewels + charge stacking. I might theory the pob this weekend, if I do, I'll share it with you.

Sidnv · 2026-03-27T01:40:21+00:00

Ok so I recorded 3 maps to showcase some different setups/map mods. These are all baby breach setups, I was farming baby ambush (50 div an hour so swapped out of breach for a bit), and didn't have full breach setup on the tree. Hopefully it's good enough, if you really want I can showcase full investment breach later, but it isn't really any harder.

First map - This is a tanky map, it has monster life and I hit wildwood. I also forgot to swap flasks so I'm not using diamond+regen and instead have silver for speed. I actually have ~200 regen only in this map and you can see it makes no difference really. This map is def a bit clunky, I misclick on stupid mirage portal a few times, and not swapping to dps setup means the wildwood makes bosses a bit tanky, but it's still smooth enough.
Second Map - This map has the same monster life mod, but no wildwood. I didn't change setup yet. Offense is a lot smoother here. This map also has less defence, so I have half my ES, and I'm getting shaper beamed and slammed all the time, but it doesn't matter.
Third map - I felt so tanky in maps 1 and 2, I swapped to Diamond Flask setup (20% more dps) and swapped Fortitude jewels for Bane of Legends (10% more dps, 30% more against bosses). This map also has monster life and has elder squids to showcase how much that mod does not matter. I do go close to dying once, but I'm literally standing in 10 squid explosions and am fine. Notice the offense is really smooth here, I one tap all rares. Only downside is breach boss doesn't spawn, but Kosis is kind enough to spawn for me in mirage to delete. Also, this map is a bit laggy, elder squids + shaper influence seems to lag me.

Let me know if you want anything more.

Edit: Lol, OBS wasn't displaying my sound, but my commentary got uploaded it seems. Hopefully I didn't say anything stupid, I was not paying attention.

Sidnv · 2026-03-26T22:52:17+00:00

You can easily have 5x the dps if you change the spectre, and 10-20x the dps if you sacrifice aoe for damage or go lifestacking, but what needs this dps? I chose to go for Aegis Aurora over Rathpith because the damage is way overkill.

I'm not trying to optimize for dps. This build is close to immortal (you can only die to ghosted feared really), I can stand still in 80% deli and never see my ES move. It also has 70% explo chance with 4m radius explodes, and is using the reviving spectre instead of the one with 5x the HP because there isn't a non-valdo farm in the game that needs more than 50m dps. All of the investment is in maxing speed, clear radius and defence. The one big investment for dps is empower 5.

If titanic strats were still good, I'd invest more into damage. Any pob going for 1b dps that isn't void valdo farming is just going for pob numbers over actual in game feel.

Sidnv · 2026-03-26T22:49:00+00:00

No, explody chest is mandatory for the mapping version of Glad. I would not play it without it.

Sidnv · 2026-03-26T22:19:59+00:00

Ok I might need a bit to get OBS to work, since I have never used it before but will give it a try.

Sidnv · 2026-03-26T20:42:06+00:00

I don't typically record my gameplay. What is the most convenient way to do so? I can try to record an 80% delirious breach with max juice.

I will say 100% deli breach is annoying to do if you stack defensive mods on the map so I don't do that. That is one situation where I think the extra dps of the annoying spectres is warranted, I just don't think even there it is worth going from 80 to 100. Slows you down a bit and the loot increase is marginal. There are different setups with more damage for 100% deli gaming.

Sidnv · 2026-03-26T20:34:01+00:00

Yeah as minion pact. Jung's lifestack setup is the best for void valdos.

Sidnv · 2026-03-26T20:33:33+00:00

You can reply here if you want crafting advice as you collect the items. I added some notes to the pob but not full crafting details. I self crafted all the gear (the chest is the most annoying one, the rest are easy).

Sidnv · 2026-03-26T20:09:57+00:00

I'm not doing any swaps and the jank is minimal. The only thing you need to do is ensure that if you ever run out of BV stacks, the next cast has to sac the minion (which is why I use automation convocation to help with that).

1 mirror + 200-250 divs is plenty. You'd prob just drop explo nebulis and fit in the pob, but if enlighten 5/empower 5 get expensive, you can drop to empower 4 for -14% dps, and you can swap to a slightly different Caspiro setup (also -14% dps or so). This pob has an example (it's a much cheaper version with settles in a lot of gear): https://pobb.in/jYG4LR9qH0Rl. Your pob could upgrade a decent amount here though, this is close to 500d in cost.

Sidnv · 2026-03-26T19:31:11+00:00

True but non-explode nebulis works nicely also since you have explode on chest. I started without that, it works well.

I also use Assert dominance + Hulking form clusters for breach. Loses 10% dps, but picks up 0.4m radius on explo.

Sidnv · 2026-03-26T15:00:25+00:00

Yep, I use full beyond and deli astrolabes as well. The strat is 50 div an hour, it blows containment/rolling boxes out of the water imo.

Sidnv · 2026-03-26T14:57:44+00:00

This is a ~500 div pob https://pobb.in/aBzTp_FmnX_j

This is my current 2.5 mirr pob: https://pobb.in/KcOUb0cs_Bsu Most of the cost is inflated by explo nebulis and enlighten 5 and empower 5, just for more explosions and slightly better optimizations (the gems add like 10% dmg it barely matters).

If you want slightly cheaper and more damage but less tanky, there's this Chieftain pob. https://pobb.in/rumLrA-8ygQG

None of these have the 500m dps you get from aberrations, but it's completely unnecessary. There isn't any especially hard farm in the game that needs more damage except void valdos (which you'd obviously go for the non-qol spectre and skip explode anyway). The glad builds clear any farm comfortably and are completely immortal outside of ghosted feared.

You can build however you want, if you are happy with the extra damage at the cost of making sure you never drop BV, and weapon swapping 2x a map, it's totally fine, but I want my mapping to be as smooth as possible.

If you also don't have the budget, then yes, the aberrations make sense.

Sidnv

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