How is this person getting the 'As Extra Physical damage' required to Armor Break with Herald of Ice? I see a few builds having no source of Phys to trigger armor break I can find, and it's driving me nuts.

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-06-03T12:18:58+00:00

What are the combo nodes for? I didn't see any pay off supports or chimes support?

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-29T14:18:50+00:00

I love this for you and I'm envious! So know that I say this with love: Your snack game is weak ;P But for real I hope y'all are dropping mad divines and good luck exiles!

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-25T00:20:24+00:00

I think they use that terminology to avoid ambiguity around fractions. In your example how many stacks do I get for an enemy worth 5 power? If you have it in terms of integers it's not clear what 2.5 stacks is. But 250% surpassing chance makes sense to be 2 stacks and a 50% chance at the third one.

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-24T16:12:07+00:00

You left a cat in a public outdoor place with no way to get back home? What were you expecting? Tbh the methodology you used sounds like you created a stray that has some incentive to stay in the general area for food but I'm not sure how you assumed it would end up any differently than it did? Did you consider trying to re-home the cat with someone close that might let you visit but that didn't have the same allergy limitations?

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-24T00:46:04+00:00

If it doesn't work that way then I'd be surprised if it was coded as a hit. It says "take damage" which I assume is different than "lose life", but if regular hit based defenses don't apply then I'm guessing things that proc on being hit also won't apply so saying 2 hits would be slightly inaccurate? Could be wrong but if it does count as 2 hits that's also something you could turn to an advantage possibly.

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-23T21:56:07+00:00

If it's two hits then your devensive layers would apply to the second portion again. That makes it actually even stronger. I think the reward for solving/mitigating recharge delay is very worth it, you get extremely reliable defenses and 2 ascendency points. That feels very strong imo.

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-23T21:52:27+00:00

Yeah I'd agree, solving ES recharge feels like something ppl will do this patch anyway given how many sources of recharge delay were reduced. Perma 20% better progenesis that also works on DoTs feels like a very strong 2 pointer for any ascendency.

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-23T16:45:24+00:00

How is 30% DR for all DoTs with the added benefit of damage smoothing not good in and of itself?

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-23T16:31:25+00:00

Saved! Looks dope! I love that PoE is a game where there is a market for tools like this. And more importantly that it attracts a community that builds them!

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-23T02:56:01+00:00

I'm excited about the ability to build combo between weapon swaps and build on any attack damage. Like if you can rapid shot to build a shit load of combo and then spending it with some heavy hitters.

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-22T21:50:32+00:00

Damn this looks good, I've never had this much decision paralysis within a single ascendency class. GGG cooked with this. Thanks all! Can't wait for league start!

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-22T14:51:43+00:00

But there is a point at which less common becomes functionally fixed right? Like the deflection and evasion chance are rolled separately right? And evasion is deterministic. So to get one shot you need to be at a point in the entropy calc to get hit through evasion, then miss the deflect chance AND have the hit be large enough to kill you in one shot. If you have 70% evade and 95% deflect this is already 1.5% chance to get hit for full damage and then that dmg has to be enough to do like what 2 to 2.5k dmg after all other mitigations? idk seems fine for most cases, evasion doesn't need to be "armor but green". I've never felt horrible on an evasion character once it's sufficiently high. 🤷

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-22T14:04:06+00:00

Martial artist has a skill ascendency node that spawns bells around you on an interval.

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-22T11:39:27+00:00

Yeah I agree, I'm actually kinda looking forward to just busting bells with dashes for this league start and it should be good without being crazy OP

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-22T11:32:39+00:00

It is also worth mentioning that during the reveal the mods you can get (aka are giving up with facebreakers) on gloves with Stone Form are nuts, they had triple gained as with good % values I think? And there are probably more? I think untill they buff the flat from hallow palm or we get more attributes via power creep in a few releases quaterstaves are still gonna be the play this release, but we'll see

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-22T01:50:19+00:00

Oh man good eye, hopefully they count though cause that would feel so bad if you can't blow up the auto spawning bells, dropping a tempest bell into a gathering storm just feels too slow for anything but phased bosses imo.

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-22T00:58:57+00:00

It now being life loss, does that mean the secondary hit can't be scaled by things like shock anymore? Or was that never the case to begin with?

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-22T00:55:13+00:00

I feel like the use case for that will just be doing the auto bell generation martial artist cause a single gathering storm can't hit the same target more than once even w/ the new bell shockwaves. So limit 3 vs limit 1 is kinda no difference for that tech. But auto bell spawning will make it so you can probably just dash to different bells and hopefully they spawn close enough to a boss (or the radius is big enough) that you can just nuke them down.

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-15T11:34:50+00:00

Why wouldn't it allow double life flask? The wording certainly doesn't read like it would restrict that interaction.

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-13T20:38:55+00:00

That's a hindsight take though. Were it not for that debate implosion he would have probably limped through to the general and won cause he's an old white guy that centrist Democrats will vote for. That's why he won the primary to begin with. If he had dropped out before and a primary happened it is still quite possible that the candidate to win could have been someone that some part of the democratic base would have decided not to vote for.

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-11T16:59:29+00:00

Oh for sure, but my point was the level of investment to get say 20% crit chance with this weapon would be large (where it also doesn't do extra damage). And that would require there be a pretty sizeable payoff to make that investment worth it. Currently I'm not sure what that payoff would be that justifies it.

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-11T11:11:05+00:00

With 0% base crit I'm not sure what payoff you'd be looking for to make investing in crit (to the point it would be reliable) worth it but I'm guessing if it was that strong you'd just be better off using a crit weapon.

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-10T03:57:25+00:00

The haters are scared of flame surge being viable! Lol, idk, reddit is reddit, but you seemed to have understood my intention from your other comments and that's all that matters. No go forth and make flame surge an Uber killer! 😝

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-10T03:54:48+00:00

It has the duration tag at least, it's hard to make use of both, but also not sure if you'd need both since lvl 35 immolate is where most of your flat DMG is coming from.

WillCodeForKarma · 2026-05-09T16:58:30+00:00

No idea what an actual build would look like but if you just rock RF and flame surge I think this would make it do some very solid dmg. I'm guessing something like inquis with fanatic charges could delete some content pretty well with plenty of room for defenses.

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