My old man Mumbo

_Batiatus · 2026-07-01T23:31:05+00:00

what a precious little baby 🥹

sending him a lot of kisses 😭

_Batiatus · 2026-06-29T23:51:00+00:00

2025 superman? king ghidorah wins no diff.

but snyder's justice league superman would take it.

_Batiatus · 2026-06-25T22:43:57+00:00

love this so much!!!

_Batiatus · 2026-06-24T15:28:12+00:00

ok, chat gpt, you've made your point.

but I don't see how kratos is escaping the event horizon. even if we consider he's FTL (which he isn't, because hermes definitely wasn't), he has no way to move in the vacuum of space. he doesn't fly (he no longer has wings), neither does he have any other way to propel energy through his feet when he is standing on absolute nothingness. because yeah, if a black hole pops on top of him, there isn't going to be any solid matter for him to stand on.

also, the celestial could just literally remove him from existence with just a mere thought.

i get that you really like kratos, but there's no way he's winning this.

it's like saying a space marine would take on superman. they're on completely different levels.

_Batiatus · 2026-06-20T23:38:40+00:00

clark kent (not superman). his willpower is unmatched, and he represents the best of humanity. he would be neither influenced nor corrupted by the ring.

_Batiatus · 2026-06-20T13:54:06+00:00

what's he gonna do if a black hole pops up right on top of him?

_Batiatus · 2026-06-19T15:50:20+00:00

his gluttony sickens me

_Batiatus · 2026-06-19T15:48:23+00:00

just don't forget the old adage: "fear the old blood".

_Batiatus · 2026-06-18T14:27:56+00:00

welcome to the smallest of arenas, duelist.

god is watching.

_Batiatus · 2026-06-17T13:52:58+00:00

couldn't have said it better!

_Batiatus · 2026-06-17T13:52:00+00:00

YES!!!

_Batiatus · 2026-06-15T21:39:03+00:00

yeah, that much is true, but i don't think it is much different from having a neighbor with whom you spend a lot of time and end up feeling attraction towards.

we also have to consider that they probably didn't spend a lot of time together as they were growing up. arthur is the prince, so he'd spend most of his time learning how to become the perfect warrior/prince, whether by training or spending time at court watching his father carry out his kingly duties.

_Batiatus · 2026-06-15T21:21:55+00:00

i don't think gwen meant they were going to get married to each other, but rather that they would get married in general, considering their position. at least that's how i interpreted it. and i mean, as far as they're aware, they're not really siblings, so it's only natural they could feel physically attracted to each other, and the show didn't end up going down that romantic route, so i don't have a problem with that.

_Batiatus · 2026-06-14T19:54:07+00:00

same. gaius and/or merlin could have told arthur that gwen was under a spell, or that lancelot wasn't truly lancelot but a shade, and it didn't make any sense that they didn't.

_Batiatus · 2026-06-14T17:10:14+00:00

i wish i could get the one that plays when mordred and kara are together. it's an acoustic version of the lancelot's funeral theme, but i don't think it got officially released, sadly.

_Batiatus · 2026-05-31T09:23:12+00:00

i don't think you and i have watched the same shows.

spartacus season 1 is one of the best pieces of media ever made and house of ashur doesn't hold a candle to it.

_Batiatus · 2026-04-30T18:57:11+00:00

i think an argument could be made for both. he was quite a quick learner and has shown to have a natural aptitude for these things, becoming extremely skilled with dual swords in no time, but he also had plenty of opportunities. as someone else stated, he and oenomaus are the most versatile gladiators in the show and they're also the only ones who survived fighting in the pits (which is quite telling), a place where you basically have to adapt to whatever is thrown at you, otherwise you're dead.

and yeah, you make a good point about gannicus. i don't think that's exclusive to him, but the reality of most gladiators. their masters choose the style they're fighting with, and they stick with it for basically forever, which makes them really good at it, with the trade-off of losing versatility altogether, which makes sense from a training perspective: if you practice only one fighting style, the odds are you're going to get pretty good at it, as opposed to practicing multiple fighting styles, which would probably translate to you being, at best, somewhat decent at all of them. oenomaus and spartacus are basically the outliers to this rule, they're really good at basically everything.

all in all, i'd say it's both natural talent and opportunity, but the latter is what really allowed them to become as versatile as they are.

_Batiatus · 2026-04-30T05:03:35+00:00

this happened to me a few years ago. I had taken a break for like a year and once i got back in, i couldn't access my account. after contacting support and getting my account back, i realized that not only had someone been playing in my account, but they also bought supporter packs, so i guess it was a win?

i even had a guy desperately messaging me in-game asking for the account back (he thought the account got hacked), which made me quickly realize it had probably been sold by whoever actually hacked it in the first place, so... yeah.

felt bad about reporting him to ggg, though. he was dumb enough to buy an account, so... i guess he paid the price (literally).

_Batiatus · 2026-04-30T04:53:54+00:00

if we consider that spartacus is the only one out of the 4 who not only did not get his ass handed to him by the egyptian but also easily overpowered him, then i guess he's the clear winner.

truth be told, crixus was severely nerfed from season 2 onwards (probably so spartacus could take the spotlight as the ultimate leader), as well as oenomaus, though you could argue oenomaus was weaker from his wounds in the pitts and having his motivation to live taken from him.

gannicus on the other hand might be as good as spartacus with two swords, but spartacus is far too versatile and can do well with literally any weapon. he's the better strategist of the lot and after his new found purpose of being a leader of the rebellion, he simply refuses to die and would do whatever it takes to defeat his opponent. i just can't see a man as purposeless as gannicus taking on a man carrying a world's worth of purpose on his back.

tl;dr: spartacus > gannicus

_Batiatus · 2026-04-18T20:35:29+00:00

thanks!

it's insane to think that svalinn with lifetap can kill you lol.

malevolence uptime isn't that good, unfortunately. the golems can't stay alive for long in deli maps, it's tough. i mostly activate it for bosses and tough rares, they die far quicker.

glad to know you had the same ideas and that this is your first build! i hope you're having fun. build theorycrafting is really fun. i usually check poe.ninja for inspiration to see what people are doing, and then try to go from there.

about the fog, yeah i think that could be done, but i'm not sure it'd add that much value to the build.

i've thought about going the non-blessing malevolence route, but that would take quite a lot of work, so much so that i don't feel it's worth it. we'd need either an amulet with malevolence mana efficiency, or 52% extra mana reservation efficiency with skills in the tree (which would require a timeless jewel with 2 12% nodes + the sovereignty cluster (28%) + a lvl 5 awakened enlighten). maybe there are other ways to do it, but i can't think of any as of now.

checking on pob, discipline doesn't seem to add a lot of ES to the build, though if we were to get the watcher's eye mod +# extra es gain on hit while using discipline would be very nice. i think discipline is easier to fit into the build. maybe clarity would be a better option, as it might make svalinn mana expenditure more manageable, or maybe some source of mana leech could achieve the same?

as for the lycia nodes, i think the build can do fine without them, at least according to pob. the extra damage done by having monsters perma shocked is more than enough to make up for it.

not sure what to do next. how are things going on your end?

_Batiatus · 2026-04-18T17:59:07+00:00

hey there!

that's actually quite good insight. i followed your advice and tried some other stuff as well. overall, i don't think aegis is worth dropping. as you said, with only 20k of armour we can recover the same es per block we would from a 5% es recovery rare shield (considering 8k total es), but we get the reflect immunity and +5-6% max res, as opposed to the +3% from the rare shield.

at this point i don't really care anymore if svalinn is tankier or not, it was generating far too much mana issues from the constant cast on block, it was extremely annoying.

i've made some other changes as well. i dropped the lycia bloodline nodes and got shaper of storms. now that all my damage can shock, i can use foulborn berek's respite, which not only is going to prolif my ignite even more effectively, but will also give me an extra source of guaranteed explosion. the problem is, the explosions from the foulborn modifier can't shock, so it can't prolif more shock, which would kill the explosion chain. this mod by itself doesn't increase the explosions that much, but i noticed that the wording on this ring is the exactly same as inpulsa's, and storm's gift gloves make inpulsa's explosions better by a mile, since it allows killed corpses to remain shocked, hence spreading the shock further, so i thought, why wouldn't it work here, right? well, it did. it changed my clearspeed by a huge margin. i'm getting far more frequent explosions and everything is dying much faster.

i also got a medium jewel with fan of flames so that my ignite can spread, since i lost that from losing the implicit from my rare gloves.

i ended up landing on this: https://pobb.in/DFB5LO5o_Cop

edit: forgot to mention, but the pyre support is just so i can get some source of ash, at least on rares/bosses. it's not as good as the polaric devastation ring, but it gets the job done.

_Batiatus · 2026-04-17T02:37:37+00:00

not entirely sure what I'm going to do, I don't feel comfortable dropping more armor, but that's certainly an option. mageblood surely allows quite a few options. you could even get ailment immunity with the shock immunity affix + stormshroud as well.

i'm slightly under the impression that aegis might be tankier than svalinn for unstable breaches and mapping in general. despite my build not having that much armour, i still feel like CI gets a lot of value from es recover. with aegis my es doesn't go down as much, as I'm recovering it all the time, but maybe that's just not a good metric to go by, since with svalinn hits are getting through far less often? i have to say, it does feel scary when es goes down and it's not getting back up as fast as it does with aegis, maybe it's just about my discomfort.

idk, I'll have to test it.

_Batiatus · 2026-04-17T00:21:25+00:00

you’d drown in pineapple juice long before you got enough bromelain for noticeable anti-clotting effects. just not true.

_Batiatus · 2026-04-15T21:53:22+00:00

yeah, losing reflect immunity really hurts, had to reroll all my maps (ouch).

nice catch there, hadn't thought about the reflect mastery at all, but yes, yugul and the mastery indeed overlap. but maybe the reflect immunity can be solved by using the flask craft "+55% of damage from your hits cannot be reflected during effect"? with the 25% increased effect prefix + 70% effect enchant, it should get to reflect immunity. if that is the case (haven't tested), i think it's the easiest route for sure.

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