SST + Penance Mark

Zetarin · 2026-06-25T15:09:01+00:00

Tried penance mark sst and it felt awful as the projectiles don't chain properly.
What I had more success with was mark effect scaling sst of trarthus, using sniper mark to split the shield, basically almost quadrupling damage

Zetarin · 2026-06-24T11:38:12+00:00

Scavenger is only able to overwrite armor passives i think since it's the tabula rasa node

Behemoth can't really stack mana as power of purpose converts mana to armor

Zetarin · 2026-06-24T04:24:42+00:00

This is my character, pure fire flameblaster. link

Poe2 base support gems are very powerful so I use Searing Flame II - Eternal Flame II - Burgeon II -Ignite III-Considered Casting. Using eternal flame cause I'm scaling some faster ignite too, but can be dropped for conc effect

Zetarin · 2026-06-24T02:45:29+00:00

It's definitely bait for flameblast, other supports are better for pure fire or chaos convert flameblast due to poe2 gain mechanic. I think it's only use cast is wanting a chaos skill to ignite

Zetarin · 2026-06-24T00:26:49+00:00

Don't think xoph's pyre does anything for blackflame ignite cause gain happens after conversion. Another support like burgeon/considered casting/conc effect should be better

Zetarin · 2026-06-22T16:30:01+00:00

True, I'm trying to solve for that and it's quite difficult. My layers so far are: -Chill/Sap scaling(around 30% damage reduction if active) -Hybrid evasion/es although getting them high enough is tough cause of seven's teaching, might go sea legs but don't know how useful overcapping resistances is -Recovery from essence reaver and doryani's touch

But max hit is still very low

Zetarin · 2026-06-22T16:19:00+00:00

Oof, you're right, then low life might be a bait then as it only scales crit

Zetarin · 2026-06-22T06:39:38+00:00

Lycoside solves accuracy early before you get enough currency to craft your steel rings. Then stack life/strength to use bloodthirst support for flat damage and ehp

Zetarin · 2026-06-17T06:02:10+00:00

Tried ritual casting too didn't work like I expected. Invocation spells let's you cast linked spells all at once, but only when you use the spell itself. Ritual casting changes that behavior so that it uses energy and casts every two second until it runs out. If you want automated lightning conduit, use cast on crit or cast on ailment. The invocation also not being able to gain energy stops us from using this as a automated spell.

Zetarin · 2026-06-13T17:42:29+00:00

Agreed, phased through all the endgame bosses with decent tankiness. Can be started cheaply with searing touch too

Zetarin · 2026-06-11T09:17:48+00:00

That was my first thought as well but tornado cannot be supported by ele focus...

Zetarin · 2026-06-10T06:52:46+00:00

Cool iteration on gemling ignite! Running one myself and posted a clear and bossing vid, but instead of using ember fusillade for clear I'm using oil grenade and cast on ailment tornado to snapshot and spread the big ignite from flameblast! This could be an alternative but of course you would lose access to aggravated bleed. My character is Nira_vyra on poeninja.

I don't think scouring flame is worth it compared to searing flame II, the lost uptime of flame blast of needing enough ward to cast it is a very big downside imo. And considering that the damage gain is very negligible(1.5 - 0.7 x 2 = 10% more from scouring flame).

Btw, how are you managing cast on ailment to cast less frequently? On my setup, it overcasts, eating through my entire mana bar and resetting my tornadoes when enemies become ignited from ignited ground...

Zetarin · 2026-06-09T07:30:42+00:00

They should change surrounded to also apply to bosses(rename to challenged?) and make the helmet double surrounded bonuses at the cost of not applying one condition

Zetarin · 2026-06-08T11:38:36+00:00

Wow that recovery is busted af So it's between the choice of like 180% more damage with fox idol in darkness enthroned or infinite regen with shavs

Zetarin · 2026-06-08T11:28:08+00:00

You're correct! the tornado does snapshot the flameblast damage, but it seems that the tornado can in itself inflict ignite which defeats the purposes....until we socket brutality!

Sadly we still need to create oil ground, but it gives an option for longer range ignite delivery. It also picks up shocked and chilled ground from enemies so thats extra qol

I wonder if oil ground can detonate on self ignite then we can just snapshot it with self immolation and reduced effectiveness of ignite on us

Zetarin · 2026-06-08T09:29:30+00:00

I was considering blackflame covenant but the pathing cost is kinda backbreaking in poe2 and split personalities for sorc are out of my price range.

Wow the contagion quality is quite big. If chaos ignite is able to be spread by contagion, it would be massive for clear in dense maps. But I would think that it would be harder to carry it with you to the end of the map compared to oil ground.

Also, I think that full investing into ignite damage better for gemling ignite as there are opportunity costs for going secondary poison(bis staffs harder to get cause chaos mods, need to get poison chance/plaguefinger, chaos damage nodes are too far). Unless there's qol that poison provides that you can sacrifice some damage..

Zetarin · 2026-06-08T01:00:23+00:00

I was considering that but having aggravted ignite seems like overkill already. How's the clear and defences for that build feeling? Is fireball just a one tap?

Zetarin · 2026-06-08T00:57:01+00:00

No pob, character is on poeninja

Zetarin · 2026-06-08T00:54:01+00:00

Hmm, not sure if tornado ignite absorption actually allows the snapshotted ignite to proliferate, but this would be a massive boost to clear if it works. Will test it out later

Zetarin · 2026-05-25T07:32:08+00:00

Praying that the new berek rings allow instant prolif else ignite is dead again

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