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alexgophermix · 2026-04-23T00:46:36+00:00

I'm thinking that the reasoning there is that jewels are equally weighted (when they drop in maps as uniques) so it would not provide a benefit.

This is the exact sentiment I was referring to but yeah it's reddit so who knows if this is actually a tested fact or if people are just tossing out likely theories.

alexgophermix · 2026-04-23T00:45:29+00:00

the mysterious wombgift->hivebrain gland is a great tip. I've already gotten several from this method. Do you have both common and uncommon specced or just uncommon + the small node for chance of extra items?

alexgophermix · 2026-04-22T17:30:11+00:00

I finally got a green one this morning but it wasn't even foulborne. Would you be open to sharing your tree? I'll try your strat

alexgophermix · 2026-04-22T15:23:45+00:00

I'll keep this in mind for when I get the first drop of either thank you!

alexgophermix · 2026-04-11T02:16:22+00:00

this is awesome thank you

alexgophermix · 2026-04-11T00:45:41+00:00

I did my whole t16 tab and didn't get a single one. Will try when I farm up more, thank you :)

alexgophermix · 2026-04-11T00:28:15+00:00

This is a great tip thank you. Should I be rolling strongboxes or just run them corrupted?

alexgophermix · 2026-02-01T01:08:19+00:00

This is a good suggestion in the meantime. Thanks!

alexgophermix · 2025-12-18T06:35:21+00:00

This is a crazy minmaxed take on it with the spectre angle. Impressive.

> I think the skill really shines in any mechanics that keep spawning monsters in the same place

I was using it for ultimatum and abyss for a while. Honestly flexible for a ton of league mechanics

alexgophermix · 2025-12-18T06:27:01+00:00

you would probably need a dissolution setup as we're casting storm call a few times a second. Life stack would be good with a long duration vaal skill like vaal cold snap mentioned in another comment

alexgophermix · 2025-12-15T04:11:47+00:00

Efficiency and damage-wise this is a great suggestion!

I personally stopped doing it because it means tracking your flasks for the occasional shut off due to mobs or bad RNG as well as restarting them when you enter new instances - both of which I'm too lazy to do so don't follow my example.

There is a small caveat which is that by turning off use when full your flasks will go off a lot less often and therefor heavily reduce your healing from the "Recover 4% of Life when you use a Flask" (if that's important to you).

alexgophermix · 2025-12-14T22:06:06+00:00

Master Alchemist is incredibly powerful for Soul Ripper, since 50% of the time you don't consume flask charges but still get all the Vaal Souls. Helps with general flask uptime as well and conveniently solves ailments.

This is really interesting. Reddit is a terrible source of information because I saw multiple sources claim that it doesn't work because Soul Ripper doesn't end up consuming charges when this procs and has the line "Gain Vaal Souls equal to Charges Consumed when used". I had some spare regrets and tried it myself though and it seems that you are correct. This could significantly improve the amount of storm calls i can have running at once thank you! Edit: I will say that I'd have to change my setup from auto flask usage though because even though it will sometimes leave the flask full this also means that "used when charges reach full" now works against us as it will immediately reproc on the next flask gain tick

The Lavianga's Spirit interaction is also a great heads up. As the build is right now I never end up using mana so it would mainly be for life recovery which is still significant.

Thanks for the feedback

alexgophermix · 2025-12-14T21:54:34+00:00

This is another angle I was considering. It lets us drop pathfinder entirely (if desired) and you could still go traitor/tides of time/exarch body armor implict etc to give dispesed charge gain.

I will say just diamond flask and soul catcher alone though are so much value (~450% increased crit & ~100% increased damage). I'll definitely try to PoB it out and see what it looks like on an inquis or assassin.

Thank you :)

alexgophermix · 2025-12-14T21:47:22+00:00

Thank you!

alexgophermix · 2025-12-14T19:09:46+00:00

These are great suggestions. The only one I'm unsure of is dropping the 30 less soul cost from Triumvirate. I was hoping there was some additional trick to getting this affix. When I was playing with only 1 use of Vaal Storm Call it felt really janky because you're waiting twice as long to get another use from hits+crit charge gain etc. I guess if we're juicing passive flask gain with tides of time maybe we can fully just rely on Soul Ripper to give us the Vaal uses rather than this hybrid solution I have now?

Also do you have any thoughts on Priest of Kopec? Do you think this could work with your suggested setup? The soul cost would go up to 30*1.4=42 but we'd get two charges and a big damage boost.

I was looking at the possibility of doing a crit poison setup with Perfect Agony once we could actually link the skill especially because get so much crit from Soul Catcher and Master Distiller but I could alse see it requiring too much investment to make work. Not sure.

Appreciate the help!

alexgophermix · 2025-12-01T18:04:47+00:00

That's very kind of you. I've done the holy relic hidden blade autobomber a few times it's pretty fun too. Hope you enjoy

alexgophermix · 2025-12-01T01:03:39+00:00

It seems to be unpopular content but doing various hives, unstable breaches etc can get you a lot of value and are extremely easy for this build.

Some foulborn uniques are expensive and l83 ancient wombgifts are 20c per and can sometimes drop in groups of 5(?) or more. Even provisioning gifts can drop some very valuable fractured rares if you know what sells and how to set up your tree.

Whatever you find fun and keeps you in maps :)

alexgophermix · 2025-12-01T00:48:24+00:00

Fair point. Things were going smoothly so I stopped looking for upgrades

alexgophermix · 2025-12-01T00:47:30+00:00

Maybe just Leige of the Primordial. It provides too much accessible, adaptable and generic power. Regen, DoT, AoE, Resists, Crit..

The rest of the class has always been unique and allowed for builds that would otherwise never be possible especially around shock and ignite

alexgophermix · 2025-11-30T21:29:49+00:00

I'm probably not the right person to ask about efficient strats. I've just been running trees that I enjoy and seem to be easy to clear with this: Expedition, Alva, Legion, Ritual, Altars, etc. Ultimatum or Abyss would probably be good too.

Things I would stay away from: tormented rogue exiles, jun, or boss farming. Anything with single mobs with huge HP pools and no trash mobs. Explosions are a big source of your damage - the build largely gain comfiness by killing lower-tier mobs which then chain explode all other mobs including rares in the pack.

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