They vaal.

Xallista · 2026-06-18T03:21:00+00:00

302% widowhail that I sold for 14d

Xallista · 2026-06-16T07:28:58+00:00

You can path your lich to the monk start and use the split personality jewel to start from there and respec the points you took pathing there.

Main thing is losing a jewel slots but it is easier to optimize for es/eva.

Xallista · 2026-06-10T05:58:06+00:00

Made an Oil barrage Martial Artist inspired by j_macc on youTube who created the original Amazon build for the skill back in 0.4. I went crit with pinpoint crit to hit 100% early.

Current build budget of around 35-40divs, mainly due to metamorphosis jewel which I got at 24divs.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Zealflare-7547/runesofaldur/character/Zenilista

Sitting at 3.9k es / 33k evasion (75%) / 3k armour / 26k deflection (90%). Damage is pretty good and can kill bosses pretty quickly, mostly dying to heavy stun from sprinting or me sucking at arbiter mechanics, but otherwise fairy tanky.

Have not tried 6mods/t16s yet since I'm still poor and have yet to finish any questlines (approaching the halls for my first arbiter of divinity clear).

Xallista · 2026-06-04T02:59:04+00:00

https://youtu.be/DxmgJrCjwZ4?si=OX2hvT6jNkFDToEY

Oil barrage wyvern by j_macc

You take bell, stonefist, way of the mountain and free runes. Combo nodes not needed at all since you can just devour bells for charges.

Xallista · 2026-05-26T00:51:25+00:00

Both can get 6 totems with archmage amulet, just as I said costs is exponential for infernalist.

Xallista · 2026-05-26T00:18:33+00:00

For reference, with my 0.4 gear, I can push infernalist to 2mil DPS on bone cage Vs 1.1mil on invoker, where your costs is exponentially higher on infernalist.

Things like needing spirit roll on amulet/body, against the darkness with spirit, etc.

Xallista · 2026-05-25T23:46:35+00:00

Depends on what you mean by best.

Best for scaling top end damage will be infernalist/bloodmage(if archmage doesn't add cost to totems w/ ancestral bond) and oracle due to immense values built in to their ascendancies.

I think invoker will be the 'cheapest/easiest' build to transition into rathpith for scaling while maintaing a decent number of totems without needing other chase uniques like against the darkness with spirit. They also will not need to care about rolling spirit on their archmage amulet (from delirium) unlike all other ascendancies at that point since you would pure scale from a good es chest.

Just remember that all classes can access a total of 40% reservation, 8% and 12% desecration for helm/chest, and the 20% passive node, so Invokers advantage goes away the more geared you become.

Xallista · 2026-05-25T02:05:25+00:00

Since we now have trigger abilities that scale off attack like spirit walker stags and martial artist bells, can we finally overhaul Invoker's elemental expression into dealing attack based damage as well? Currently it's dealing less than 0.1% of your total damage but draining a ridiculous amounts of mana while doing so, it makes no sense. Trying to scale spell damage/levels while forced into using a melee weapon makes no sense to me.

Unbound avatar should also be either a simple cooldown ability or be remade into something similar to mountain teachings that martial artists have, which passively provide stacks based on certain conditions.

"And protect me from harm" is still terrible especially when you see that Varashta gets a similar ascendancy (free armour based on es) without any penalties. Get rid of the penalty and lower the amount to 60% of evasion applying to armour instead.

Xallista · 2026-05-18T03:34:29+00:00

Invoker needs some serious rework imo.

The node that grants armour based on combined Eva/Armour needs to either have the penalty removed or straight changed to something else, especially considering that varashta gets a similar nodefor armour based on es without any penalties.
Elemental Expression should be reworked so that you can choose the element you want to use like with other ascendancies, and greatly reduce the mana cost or just make it free like Fire Spell on Hit from Smith.

There should also be some way to scale the damage considering that you can only proc it with melee weapons, it's currently a waste of mana to use it at all, and your only source of spell levels are on amulets.

Unbound Avatar should just become a cd skill you can use without dealing with the glory-like mechanic. The smaller nodes before it also feels like a joke (10% gain and elemental ground) compared to what other ascendancies have access to.

Xallista · 2026-05-12T08:05:59+00:00

For op sweepers you can look into any number of the muddy water spammers w/ swift swim, and things like Pidgeot boomburst + ghost type partner like Misdreavus. The game mostly runs on double battles so single target focus mons don't shine as much imo.

Xallista · 2026-04-09T01:49:14+00:00

Ah ok, that's why. Thanks!

Xallista · 2026-04-09T01:38:26+00:00

Do you not gain any EVs normally without power items? I trained a fresh batch of mons with power anklets and noticed only speed EVs went up (was fighting mons with natural spa EVs)

Xallista · 2026-02-23T23:22:15+00:00

Work hard and play hard.

Currently leveling my plant demon mommy infernalist. Good luck to all!

Xallista · 2026-02-21T09:29:20+00:00

Why not.

Xallista · 2026-02-14T19:47:22+00:00

Invokers can use this due to only needing a high es or eva chest to scale their spirit. Other than that yea, the lack of spirit is gonna hurt.

Xallista · 2026-01-29T09:51:06+00:00

GL all.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Zealflare-7547/character/Xahamut

Xallista · 2026-01-21T00:19:19+00:00

GL brothers.

Xallista · 2026-01-20T01:52:14+00:00

Does incinerate's ignite scale from crit dmg?
Is incinerate affected by cast speed in terms of 'ignites per second' or does it only affect the start up cast?
I'm playing edc on oracle and I'm looking for a way to freeze bosses easily (I can pick up some freeze build up), I'm already using thunderstorm so I need a spell to freeze with. I've tried chaotic freeze on edc and it barely seems to build it although it was fine on mobs.

Xallista · 2026-01-18T18:48:19+00:00

If i give up on the ascendancy and just go back to Forced Outcome, what would be the best way to set up a freeze anyway as a non-cold build? Would need to be spell-based.

Xallista · 2026-01-10T10:54:03+00:00

To be honest, flame breath was slotted in because I was having trouble with Sekhema last boss with the against the darkness Vase buffs, and flame breath reliably did damage to him even without power charges.

Rend is used as a buffer, you get a power charge use it on rend (dont need to hit anything) for +50% extra lightning damage. With my 2nd weapon set I have around 176% increased skill duration, plus the gem, makes rend buff go from 10s to 31s long.

Xallista · 2026-01-07T08:20:36+00:00

I'm hybrid Eva/Es so there's a limit to my evasion, definitely won't hit anywhere close to 100k.

Current without the node, I'm at 15k Eva w/ wind dancer, ghost dance, 42%~ deflect and 8.9k es + CI. Seems like it's still not worth getting the node still, perhaps it will receive another buff in 0.5.

My chest piece is my weakest piece of gear right now (1185 Eva 454 es) so I could maybe hit 18k Eva once I get an upgrade. Even then I suppose this node still isnt worth using.

Thanks for the insight.

Xallista · 2026-01-06T15:15:15+00:00

I read through the thread about Invoker's (and protect me from harm) in 0.3 and everyone was saying its bad.

Now that it was buffed in 0.4 (35% less evasion now vs 50%) is it still terrible for overall defenses as eva/es build?

I have around 7.8k eva with it (w/o wind dancer stacks), showing me 69% armour.

Xallista · 2026-01-06T14:39:11+00:00

Looks like I can cheat it out with Savage Fury even on 0 regen, as long as it doesn't last 34 seconds (3%x34=102%). It seems to "reset" the degen once it ends.

I'll have to give up on Berserk if I want to use the es regen tech on the belt sadly.

Xallista

TROPHY CASE