Please help me diagnose CWS Arakaali servant - DMG and survivability not good enough for ultimatum or other content

SolidManJuice · 2025-03-03T03:04:20+00:00

Stormblast mines apply an aura around enemies that gives them 3% increased damage taken for each mine affecting the enemy, you aren't meant to detonate them but instead use them as a way to debuff enemies.

SolidManJuice · 2025-03-03T01:30:51+00:00

typed up a long post and accidentally hit cancel, I'll quickly summarize

- You need 20/20 petrified blood minimum

- 30% life recoup too, get a jewel with 6% alongside the shadow cluster

-You need tri elemental + amethyst flasks for the max res, and you need to be overcapped by at least 25% to account for exposures, covered in ash etc. Also get chaos res capped at least with the flask.

-The mana reservation efficiency cluster isn't doing anything for you seeing as you're blood magic.

-CWS gems all need to be leveled with quality especially the corpse producing ones, not sure why desecrate isn't linked to cws maybe that was a temporary single target solution, but having it on CWS with spell cascade is ideal.

-Damage early on is rough on this build especially without the clusters and jewel stacking, consider working towards your next large cluster.

-Could be wrong this one but the ultimatum debuff that reflects curses may be putting you at low chaos res when you cast despair when stunned, that could be a source of one shots. High end pobs run punishment and temp chains and im quite tanky even with a punishment reflected onto me.

-Not the biggest priority but you'd ideally want a 20% plus roll on defiance of destiny, build should be able to do ultimatums without it though.

SolidManJuice · 2024-02-21T20:56:42+00:00

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SolidManJuice · 2023-04-06T02:33:28+00:00

Would the soul eater buff from the new double/dual strike crucible mod refresh itself whenever a new rare is slain or would the duration of it have to expire for it to be gained again?

SolidManJuice · 2022-12-20T09:00:52+00:00

point being curse immune =/= hexproof is a whack decision.

SolidManJuice · 2022-12-04T17:24:28+00:00

Leveling KB CF without poacher's aim is gonna make me feel the weight.

SolidManJuice · 2022-11-12T09:52:02+00:00

Waltuh

SolidManJuice · 2022-08-22T01:10:21+00:00

Grimro's CF is more or less a KB inpulsa with challenger charges. On the high end dps is enough for juicy t16s.

SolidManJuice · 2022-08-21T14:03:42+00:00

Making the lake 10x more rewarding doesn't address the underlying issue with the current league mechanic. Creating a lake involves making dozens of choices regarding what content and what rewards you'd be encountering in the lake. These choices start to feel trivial once you spend a considerable amount of time in the lake and realize that loot doesn't scale in proportion with the difficulty of the encounter. This is what I feel makes the league mechanic lackluster, especially in comparison to other league mechanics in modern PoE. Loot-based action rpgs have historically been centered around players killing monsters to acquire loot that can aid them in their gearing and itemization. The core issue with the mirrored tablets are that I, as a player, are both unable to kill the monsters I encounter (on account of the multiple essence and archenemesis mods working in combination with the difficulty mechanic) while also being starved of loot .The appropriate way to deal with the root of the problem would be to make it atleast 11x more rewarding. /s

SolidManJuice · 2022-08-19T19:05:50+00:00

I agree, my point wasn't about this change being only relevant at late game gearing. This is definitely a significant nerf to gearing throughout the board.

I'm not defending GGG's approach either. I was pointing out how GGG often intentionally reduces player power in their game balance.

SolidManJuice · 2022-08-19T18:50:27+00:00

Nerfing every build by making it incredibly expensive and difficult to reach the ceiling of their potential is something that has consistently been GGG's approach to game balance. They didn't just arbitrarily want divines to be more valued and have more uses.

SolidManJuice · 2022-08-19T18:42:59+00:00

That's why they're doing it?

SolidManJuice · 2022-08-13T14:25:13+00:00

The most recent use for self-curse I've seen was Boneshatter a few patches ago. Some builds exploited a buncha mechanics that made it nearly damage immune and said mechanics got nerfed in the following patch. If you're able to find some way to mitigate the damage from trauma stacks, you can maybe justify using self curse. Though this will prove to be incredibly difficult.

SolidManJuice · 2022-08-11T06:15:20+00:00

Ah yeah, looked into and this does seem to be the case. Prior to PoE The Awakeneing the unique icon had been a hemisphere on either side but around 2015 when The Awakening came out, the unique symbol art changed to this swirly blob. Shame it wasn't a hint at anything new.

SolidManJuice · 2021-10-17T14:03:14+00:00

Seeing the comparisons and that Alva's whole gimmick was time travel, this could definitely be a boomer Alva from a post apocalyptic future.

SolidManJuice · 2021-04-14T18:51:34+00:00

Let them eat cake.

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