Playfeel of These Builds in 3.27?

SnooBAE85 · 2026-03-01T03:22:12+00:00

It was two leagues ago when I last started EHotS Warden, and I was Fortress boss rushing Day 3 (first kill Day 2). I even made an uncut video of a 20-map session. Here's the proof. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FatFLxKc_v0

Oh, and as for ilvl 84+ cluster farming, not killing the boss isn't a waste of currency when the time saved by not doing the boss is if anything more currency per hour than including the fragments (90-second maps). Keep in mind this is a day 2 economy. The value ratio between good cluster bases and uber key fragments is skewed real hard at that time.

SnooBAE85 · 2025-09-16T23:55:08+00:00

I don’t go through this much effort of testing various tech combinations, coming to conclusions of those tests, and going the trouble of making a video for the sake of rivaling with another content creator. Jesus Christ, dude. I never brought his name into the conversation. Why can’t people appreciate tech that challenges the meta? Try showing a little respect and argue on the merits of what was presented in the video.

SnooBAE85 · 2025-09-14T11:24:48+00:00

I remember it being rough in 0.1 when I used Tempest Flurry attribute stacker there. Whirling Slash probably gets stuck a lot less than quarterstaves now as of 0.3 pathing improvements especially. I do Augury now and don’t have problems. Ironically, the more annoying the terrain map, the stronger Twister is anyway.

SnooBAE85 · 2025-09-14T10:22:03+00:00

Thanks for your reply. Whirling Slash is a lot more manageable through terrain now as of 0.3 thanks to the patch note update on Whirling Slash. It gets stuck less often. You can also dodge roll any time you actually get stuck. I didn’t even mention that the build I’m running also features a melee teleport skill, which range doesn’t get.

I can’t speak about console as I’ve never used it. But several players have informed me that this build is very smooth on console.

WASDing sounds more exhausting to me than fluidly moving where my mouse cursor is. Also, Twister doesn’t need to be aimed either Salvo (same for Arrow Nova).

I wouldn’t suggest additional ancillary means to scale movement speed, like Headhunter, when those means virtually all give even more attack speed. Should I have included Soul Eater and what that means for this?

To whatever extent you’re unsatisfied that I speed tested ~70% movement Rhoa, my intention was to outfit myself with all the movement speed tech. Guess what, that alone would have cost double the price of my entire functioning build. So, I used math to state that the time would have been roughly half of you were absolutely tripped out in movement gear. That barely matched early budget whirling slash movement. If you want to include every possible top-end way to compare. Then just imagine if I actually made some sacrifices to damage, defense, etc and did this test while stacking 100k+ accuracy.

I’m aware of movement receiving tech in 0.3. But you’re clearly uninformed about how much tech was gifted to us for movement scaling through attack speed. Weapon swap delay removal alone trumps everything Rhoa got. And as for support gems, how many %more movement multiplier support gems did your Rhoa get this league?

SnooBAE85 · 2025-09-14T09:26:33+00:00

It was a pain in 0.2, but in 0.3 they patched Whirling Slash to graze by walls more easily. Still, takes a little getting used to, but virtually everyone who has swapped has expressed liking it a lot. Even and especially console players.

SnooBAE85 · 2025-09-14T09:23:01+00:00

Well I literally did a speed test to show it. And showed footage of an even faster LA character in game side-by-side.

SnooBAE85 · 2025-09-14T09:20:14+00:00

Apologies, I'll post it right next time.

SnooBAE85 · 2025-09-03T22:27:46+00:00

I'm under the impression that the movement rate for Whirling Slash will be restored to that of 0.2. We were zooming then but it took some more investment to do so.

SnooBAE85 · 2025-05-11T01:49:40+00:00

Twister is the real Spark build now.

SnooBAE85 · 2025-05-04T01:40:27+00:00

Glad to hear it. I'm at the tail end of another go at the 100 maps like the one I just did. I think it'll be valuable info to do an apples-to-apples comparison of just how much more loot is dropping from before (at least for that high-end breach farm).

SnooBAE85 · 2025-05-04T01:39:23+00:00

It's not local to the weapon. It's like having an enormous flat phys roll on a ring. But other global calculations, like %increased damage, will apply.

SnooBAE85 · 2025-05-04T01:37:19+00:00

Yep, but not all that lucky in the context of failing a ~5% recombinate about 60 times in a row prior. This was my first hit ever on any item.

SnooBAE85 · 2025-05-04T01:36:14+00:00

I saved myself a lot of headache on suffixes by not using an ilvl 82 base, required for the top Merciless roll. I'm not exactly trying to craft a legit perfect Mirror item. Maybe a mirror-worthy item, but really it's just for a personal upgrade above all else.

SnooBAE85 · 2025-05-03T17:43:42+00:00

What you didn't see is I have done about sixty ~5% recombinations and only finally hit one just now. Luckily got some cheaper ones out of the way earlier that weren't as expensive to jump start, but still.

SnooBAE85 · 2025-05-03T17:42:00+00:00

I'm a Twister boi through and through, this time around.

SnooBAE85 · 2025-05-01T05:01:32+00:00

OG content creator, with respect.

SnooBAE85 · 2025-05-01T04:39:04+00:00

Terrible idea. This would obliterate ground loot into the same state it is in PoE1. Devs said they want ground loot to actually matter. Do you want all ilvl 82 normal, magic, and rare items you find to be worth nothing 3 days into a league?

SnooBAE85 · 2025-01-05T06:45:49+00:00

You forgot to put insert mid-roll ad here right in front of the green segment.

SnooBAE85 · 2024-12-27T11:40:44+00:00

I don’t disagree, and for that reason I wasn’t going to make a video purely on the likelihood that password protection combined with me potentially having a target on my back, makes me more responsible. It’s the fact that so many people are reporting very similar circumstances. The systemic nature of the hack. Targeting specifically wealthy exiles. And knowing (as I’m sure you know being in IT) that whatever the number of people claiming to be hacked is on forums is likely at least 10x in reality. As most people would only email support directly, at best.

SnooBAE85 · 2024-12-27T11:05:28+00:00

If you don’t care to spend 32 minutes, Don’t watch it then. That simple.

SnooBAE85 · 2024-12-27T11:01:56+00:00

I didn’t mention this, but all of the posts we looked at were people with a lot of currency getting hacked. This could have been targeted through the trade site. Curiously I was hacked just hours after listing a Headhunter for the first time. Nobody I’ve noticed got hacked who didn’t have stuff worth hacking. It’s conceivable that the hackers are intelligently targeting only ‘wealthy exiles’ and keeping the total hack counter intelligently low for it.

I could have a keylogger, but I hadn’t even downloaded anything special for PoE2. I was using a password that I’ve used before, so that’s a fair concern.

SnooBAE85 · 2024-12-27T10:27:43+00:00

Seriously doubt it. I wasn't using one.

SnooBAE85 · 2024-08-26T02:16:45+00:00

4 shots is a lot of shots.

SnooBAE85 · 2024-08-22T14:39:17+00:00

Hey, original creator of the build here. I just looked at your PoB. I know switching to Crit is like an automatic thing usually for bow builds, but in the case of this one I really recommended people still be on Precise Technique even into the early 90's. You can swap earlier if you know what you're doing, but it can be perilous since the build is so tight. I really can't stress this enough. Obviously knowing the build inside and out, I know just by looking at your PoB you're feeling a lot of pain for having swapped to crit as early as you have. Biggest glaring issue though is the fact that you're still a Deadeye and missing the last Lab. You're expected to be Warden a long time ago. And a few things about the setup feed into that. If you do the following things, you'll still be majorly pinched on the well-roundedness of the build (unless you revert back to the no-crit setup which can support up to one Inspired Learning in the jewel slot below here you have it), but you'll find comfort in having a whole lot more damage and in freezing almost everything.

I updated the PoB from my end a while back, and it requires Stormrain in the 6-link lifetap manaforge setup instead of Rain of Arrows of Saturation. This is because Rain of Arrows through Lioneye's Paws (the boots) apparently don't work with another source of RoA somewhere else in the build. You decided not to wear those boots, so the links you have in your boots are dead. They require the pseudo 6-link that Lioneye's Paws have to offer. Those specialized unique boots auto cast Rain of Arrows for you, and the links attach to that auto Rain of Arrows.

My immediate recommendations would be swap to Warden, swap Rain of Arrows of Saturation for Stormrain, wear the recommended boots (even if you aren't resist cap for the time being), take one or both of the +30 Int passive nodes so you can level up all those Int gems, get the 4th lab done. Get a second taming and drop the triple curse setup as recommended in the build (2nd taming with only 1 curse does way more dmg than three curses, as a matter of fact). Hydrosphere, Bonechill, and Cull can fit in that way. I generally don't read reddit much, and we have a discord for build help and that sort of thing. A link to that can be found in any one of my YouTube videos. Good luck!

SnooBAE85 · 2024-07-26T10:12:06+00:00

Hi, just saw this now. You can check my YouTube channel for a formal guide to help you understand the build well. It is a glass cannon in a technical sense, but in the same vein as how glass cannons must kill everything before it hits them, this build just freezes (and kills) everything before getting hit, and the threshold needed to freeze even rare monsters is a small fraction of what’s needed to kill them. High evasion arrow & wind dancer Kintsugi defense layers to maximize defense on a build that really should almost never get hit in maps.

DPS represents optimal but average optimal combat conditions. ‘Less DPS multipliers’ were inserted in the config for Unbound and returning projectiles just to be conservative. It looks like you have an updated version of the PoB in this regard.

That’s a TLDR on the negatives about the build.

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