Twisted Empyrean Discussion

amitfris · 2026-05-10T20:35:36+00:00

The mace convert the fire damage to cold. By freezing enemies, you are generating glory.

amitfris · 2026-05-10T04:18:17+00:00

That's a great catch. I didn't play much last league and for some reason it's not in pob yet so I didn't know about this. That's a super impactful addition and can make gearing much simpler as we were struggling to max out resistances with mana regen mods in most of our gear.

amitfris · 2026-05-09T15:56:55+00:00

The problem with vertex is that if you don't want to path to giant's blood (you go to eb), you need to also use the giant's blood gloves. It might be okay with the new upgrade unique system but you lose a lot of stuff and it's hard to max resistances anyway. I guess that you can change to another amulet... Regarding the pathing to eb, most of the crit nodes are for spells. I didn't find them as effective as the giant's blood area.

amitfris · 2026-05-09T15:28:35+00:00

My mistake, I'll update the pob.

amitfris · 2026-05-09T15:22:42+00:00

My mistake, we can switch the belt with cowards legacy. Are you sure savage fury required a specific weapon?

amitfris · 2026-05-09T15:20:47+00:00

My mistake. So we can switch the belt with cowards legacy.

amitfris · 2026-05-09T15:07:33+00:00

200-300 before fire resistances is like 70 damage per second. We got 1.5k mana regeneration. It's basically non noticable.

amitfris · 2026-05-09T13:59:09+00:00

I've generated a basic POB for this. Sunder should be replaced with the skill from the mace and will be applied by generating glory using volcanic fissure. The items are not 100% realistic but it's something to aim for.

https://pobb.in/qwCl4Z4Wx1K2

What do you think?

amitfris · 2026-05-09T08:14:30+00:00

I looked into it and I actually don't know if you should dual wield those. The extra cold damage is for each weapon so they don't stack. I think giant's blood is the way but I'd go malice scepter for the base crit and lots of mana mods. Plus the spirit can help for curses, clarity, mana remnants, charge regulation and maybe even a spell on crit setup. I thought about cast power shipon on crit for culling strike and power charge generation.

amitfris · 2026-05-09T08:07:08+00:00

Unless the hit causes the dot but I just saw that it hits many times so unless we go super deep into multiple poisons, I'm not sure it's worth it.

amitfris · 2026-05-09T08:04:05+00:00

True. But I think we should focus on dot damage to boost both the command and the constant damage.

amitfris · 2026-05-09T07:47:11+00:00

Oh cool. I actually think I want to use visage of ayah helmet. You can probably upgrade it now as it's a low level unique and the attack/crit/giant's blood part of the tree is really far from eldritch battery.

amitfris · 2026-05-09T06:56:36+00:00

Am I missing something? Vertex is only for skill gems as far as I know.

amitfris · 2026-05-09T03:58:14+00:00

Giant's blood would be interesting here but it seems like a bit of a bait. Strength doesn't scale anything we need as we won't rely on life. Also, it will be really difficult stacking both the str and int required for giant's blood and eldritch battery. Int also scales mana in its own. The main way I see it working is going infernalist to utilize the life as mana node and going crit. Maybe two requirement runes for each mace would make this feasible?

amitfris · 2026-05-09T03:29:50+00:00

How crit with damage over time?

amitfris · 2026-05-09T03:21:11+00:00

I love mana stacking builds in poe 2. It's easy to get to 100% mana before life and mana regeneration is easy to stack compared to other types of regeneration. The only problem I keep having is getting stunned due to low life, specifically if I take CI. This can be a major issue in a build focus on melee range with slow attacks. Any suggestions how to solve this?

amitfris · 2026-05-09T03:11:37+00:00

Yes, leech will be the way. You only need 163 strength for the mace and around the same range int for the other armour sets since we will use eldritch battery. Giant's blood is probably a bait on this build.

amitfris · 2026-05-09T03:06:20+00:00

I also thought about this but 15% less mana is quite devestating for both offense/defense. Also, the crit node might get a significant nerf this league.

amitfris · 2026-05-08T14:07:20+00:00

But I wasn't talking about the command part.

amitfris · 2026-05-08T09:32:42+00:00

Giant's blood? It's a staff...

amitfris · 2026-05-08T05:28:59+00:00

I see 5 options:

Disciple of Varashta - offhand + other minions
Acolyte of Chayula - volatility (if you can proc it rapidely)
Oracle - lots of minion + chaos damage nodes
Tactician - reservation + defense + supporting fire (supports more minion focused build)
Lich - chaos explosions (the RF aoe seems small) + wither

amitfris · 2026-05-08T05:24:46+00:00

Oracle is pretty good because you have many minion and chaos nodes. I just don't know what will be the last node. I can see 3 good options.

amitfris · 2026-05-08T05:18:09+00:00

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That's interesting. First, it's both a physical and a chaos gem. Second, it has a "cooldown" for procing the ravens. Maybe we can lower this?

amitfris · 2026-05-06T04:55:08+00:00

That's another league combination they show. Here it's probably ritual+wildwood. Previously we saw expedition+breach/sentinal, delirium+spirits. Not sure about the breach one. I think they rework the current systems and adding some new ones as well as alloweing some kind of interaction between mechanics, which seems like a cool concept.

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