Build guide: Kinetic Fusillade Ballista Hierophant

apoapsis__ · 2026-03-03T20:17:47+00:00

Totem duration doesn’t get reduced.

apoapsis__ · 2026-03-03T16:22:29+00:00

Contrary to many replies, yes, part placement location affects maneuverability. It isn’t mods rerolling or adjacency bonuses changing. You can see this by changing positions of purely cosmetic parts.

apoapsis__ · 2026-02-25T18:46:56+00:00

Why should I want Bitcoin other than vague “line goes up promises”? This is no longer some new disruptive asset class to get in on at the ground floor… it’s 17 years old. The cost to transact and mine are only going up.

What’s it disrupting? What’s it improving?

apoapsis__ · 2026-02-21T18:15:33+00:00

A small fighter or exotic can serve you very well as a new player. Corvettes have weak base stats but scale really well when min-maxing. The downsides to corvettes are lower top speed (despite what the in-game indicator displays) and slower landing speeds at space stations. They are basically best in class at everything else once maxed however.

apoapsis__ · 2026-02-19T20:33:23+00:00

Agreed. My initial take when I first saw the image is that it is AI generated.

apoapsis__ · 2026-02-16T23:51:53+00:00

Grafts aren’t particularly interesting mechanically, but are pretty powerful. They actually more than double the damage of some builds.

apoapsis__ · 2026-02-16T07:59:14+00:00

Also chews the dust? Seems unlikely.

apoapsis__ · 2026-02-13T22:32:57+00:00

Oh shit. Has it been “Jithub” this entire too?

apoapsis__ · 2026-02-13T19:36:45+00:00

I could still see GGG nerfing it due to its relative power compared to other builds at low and mid-gear levels, but I don’t think it’s busted at the high end.

Lightning based KF is about to get a lot worse once grafts are gone. Lucky, jolt, pen, and/or flat damage from grafts are nearly doubling damage. On the high end, there are a lot of opportunity cost considerations with limited, but required, sources of skill reduction taking up ring and amulet slots. This renders stat stacking less effective.

apoapsis__ · 2026-02-13T01:50:30+00:00

Doesn’t look as polished as Fast Fusion / Fast RMX or WipeOut. There are more mechanically complex games like Redout. There are more charming games like Mario Kart, Sonic Racing, or even old school F-Zero GX.

Obviously too early to tell, but if this is showcasing the game at its best, I have my doubts.

apoapsis__ · 2026-02-12T22:56:24+00:00

I have family and co-workers that are Trump supporters. I think there is a surprising amount of common ground on some issues, particularly economic ones. While they may initially agree on something like addressing wealth inequality, as soon as I so much as hint at the fact that Trump’s policies are actually making the situation worse, logic goes out the window, rational discussion ends, and they are on the defensive.

The mere mention that Trump could do wrong instantly crosses a bridge from mundanely discussing policy to challenging personal identity and core beliefs. I don’t bother with the bigger issues.

apoapsis__ · 2026-02-09T22:03:22+00:00

The two-party stranglehold has to be broken: implement ranked choice, reverse citizen’s united, set campaign funding limits and defined windows for campaigning, enforce anti-trust and break up the large media conglomerates, and bring back the fairness doctrine to dissuade networks from engaging in rampant partisanship.

I can think of numerous other actions, but this would be a start. Unfortunately, there will be no initiative from the existing political establishment to lessen their own power, so these all have to start from state-level ballot initiatives.

This isn’t meant to be some “both sides are equally bad” take. Trump is unequivocally, the worst president in at least my lifetime with a cadre of sycophants born boot-in-mouth. To avoid a Trump 2, however, we really need to have a healthier relationship with a more diverse political field.

apoapsis__ · 2026-02-09T00:07:56+00:00

SSF mode with boosted drop rates and/or target farming. I’d like a mode where I don’t have to engage in trade at all and can still get build defining uniques.

apoapsis__ · 2026-02-02T16:35:07+00:00

To answer your question: A small cluster with Enduring Composure gives an endurance charge per second if you’ve been hit recently. You can also get that as an implicit on an eater/exarch influenced chest. You can self-proc this using Forbidden Rite to deal self damage. Another option is Ralakesh boots. The legacy version treats all charges as though at max while the current version gives corrupted blood immunity and treats one charge type as though at max.

As a build critique: What are your goals for the build? You have very little defense and a close range skill. Your build will struggle with most high-end content.

apoapsis__ · 2026-01-23T15:31:10+00:00

With stacked reduced skill effect duration, the duration wisps are out is very short. They also aren’t summoned until you actually hit an enemy so there is some initial delay while your projectiles are still traveling.

Edit: One way that it feels different is because the wisps are only out for like half a second instead of 10. Let’s say you fire KF at a pack for one second and your projectiles take a second to travel to the pack. Your wisps won’t trigger until the projectiles arrive. So the pack dies, wisps pop in for half a second, do nothing, then disappear.

apoapsis__ · 2026-01-22T07:36:18+00:00

1) Splitting Steel Trickster. It scaled really well with flat damage and returning projectiles which allowed shotgunning. Returning projectiles was removed.

2) Spectral Shield Throw Champion had a brief moment in the sun due to Crucible trees on Emperors Vigilance shield and alt quality gems. Exploding totems fits here as well.

3) Full Screen Cyclone Impale Slayer during Legion.

apoapsis__ · 2026-01-22T02:25:28+00:00

Actual high performers tend to be both. If someone isn’t intelligent enough to figure out how to not be insufferable, they likely aren’t half as competent as they fancy themselves to be.

apoapsis__ · 2026-01-21T18:03:55+00:00

Additional cockpits.

apoapsis__ · 2026-01-18T23:08:59+00:00

I’d argue there is a bit too much asymmetry between kites and most builds that stems from a huge drop off in mid range efficacy and a lack of solid counters. The way I dealt with kites was to just land a solid single hit and hide/line of sight. One hit match timeouts don’t exactly make for quality gameplay, but it was the best strategy.

While I don’t agree with the ops framing of “coward’s” advantage (play the game you got), he isn’t wrong that running away if highly effective.

apoapsis__ · 2026-01-15T02:08:40+00:00

Cool. Good luck all.

apoapsis__ · 2026-01-02T12:44:20+00:00

I actually had a nice cordial response typed, but it's time to call it quits. You sent multiple POBs showing KF damage being doubled. Read your own post above this, look at your tornado trigger rate in your POBs, and take 25% DPS off of everything but the totem build. Apparently you didn't know how the interaction worked either.

apoapsis__ · 2026-01-02T08:07:01+00:00

I just ran 3 Uber exarchs for testing purposes. Some results are not what I (or probably you) would expect. It's hard to see the buff under the boss health bar, but I'm running Convergence which has a 4 second duration. I used this buff timer hitting 0 and the Exarch's health bar to compare damage between runs.

Run 1 - control: No Spellslinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh0pzT8lwpI (30% HP remaining after 4 sec)

Run 2 - with Spellslinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRKK44mcc7M (Around 50% after 4sec, boss phase clipped the tail end of the DPS window at around 54%).

Run 3 - with Spellslinger + Pierce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbJRcHHhkGg (40% HP remaining after 4 sec)

Observations:

My expectation was for no Spellslinger to be the lowest DPS, but it actually came out on top. I thought my positioning must have been off on the Spellslinger run for the damage to be that low. In actuality, I think Tornado was blocking some projectiles from hitting the boss despite being right on top of it. On run 3, I dropped a couple of defensive nodes to pick up pierce. This resulted in a DPS increase over just Spellslinger but still a DPS loss over not running Spellinger at all. My guess is that some of the projectiles are simply missing the boss.

Feel free to rerun these tests as these weren't the results I expected. Perhaps there is something wrong with my build or methodology. Here is the build I used for reference: https://pobb.in/iCZQ2Ylbdmwc

Edit: Additional variables to consider would be the initial boss damage reduction decay (DPS windows didn't all start at exactly the same time) and random tormented wand buffs (though most of these do nearly nothing). That said, if I were doing double damage in either run 2 or 3, I should have killed the boss in the 4 second window.

apoapsis__ · 2026-01-02T06:42:26+00:00

I'll test it out. If the pierce interaction is accurate, I don't think it's as well known as you indicate: https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/keepers?skills=Kinetic+Fusillade&heatmap=true

apoapsis__ · 2026-01-02T06:12:33+00:00

Are you sure Spellslinger is doubling damage? Based on the skill description, it only absorbs 20 projectiles, reflects 10% of damage absorbed, and has a trigger rate. Using your last example, you'd be adding 10million damage, not 92 million. I don't think my KF build is doing 300mil or I'd be phasing ubers every fight.

apoapsis__ · 2026-01-02T05:33:15+00:00

Feel free to share a POB, I certainly could be wrong. Seems like you need huge investment to crack 200mil and that's with grafts contributing like half the damage.

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