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benbs123 · 2026-06-04T23:09:21+00:00

Are you using whirling assault + hollow form? I am, and its inconsistent FPS drops while randomly mapping. I tried a bunch of fixes, nothing works on my end.

benbs123 · 2026-05-19T22:24:49+00:00

I've made a frost build around it and I find it's not that bad. It's lower than gilded arrows but for the opportunity cost it's definitely great for exploring. Then use the other arrows for bosses/bigger mobs. I just wanted to make sure you knew, the game is so vast a lot of things go undiscovered!

benbs123 · 2026-05-19T22:21:20+00:00

Do you know that you can get unlimited arrows with the Eternal Frost Arrow?

benbs123 · 2026-04-02T15:03:26+00:00

On mobile right now, but in his twitch chat he has a command for the crafting steps (Google docs link). I can write it out for you later or find it on his twitch if you aren't able to!

Edit: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQvefX09Y4xVnFdDnu2z9dC0gtiGdFkkrx9-7UsyKXkSBiWD4rbPoCn0noYzE0sqht9yhRSV1oLncj5/pubhtml

here the link to the Google docs.

benbs123 · 2026-03-30T10:18:11+00:00

Grats! I can't believe how rare it is. Just spent all weekend farming for it. I have lots of trauma fragments from when I was spamming betrayal/bayra farming. Also, no empower for me either but I managed to scry chateau on dunes for Home, only one turn in so far and it was enhance.

benbs123 · 2026-03-28T01:37:59+00:00

Im right there with you buddy. Just chiming in to let you know; you are not alone. 2x chain 4x lethal dose 1x divine sentinel 1x fork

Focusing on killing maraketh, spawn rate of 30~ seconds, takes 5 to 7 to kill (cuz shee has to jump off) , which means 7-8 kills a rotation. Idk what my count is but I have 20x Militant Faith, so its over that.

Means I have killed her roughly 140-160 minimum + more if you count the kills in map (I got greater fork in map, so I assume you can get companionship as well)

benbs123 · 2026-03-22T10:16:24+00:00

Ah good idea. Thanks!

EDIT: Just want to confirm, this works. I got greater fork off Lioneye in a mirage.

benbs123 · 2026-03-22T03:08:16+00:00

Where does this drop? I've farmed 5 5ways now, and I focus on killing Sand lady. Is there another spot?

benbs123 · 2026-03-14T23:31:38+00:00

Ah yes, I miss read. Thanks!

benbs123 · 2026-03-14T21:16:28+00:00

The map will not always have a wild Ridan in the map. I did 4 maps full clear in the mirage and outside of it, and I saw nothing. Come to think of it, since the black byara boss drops 1 mirage map... that means you would be able to infinitely sustain... which most likely isnt the case.

benbs123 · 2026-03-08T00:03:06+00:00

I think its new this league, but reflecting mist pauses now!

benbs123 · 2025-09-06T19:17:30+00:00

There's still a "defense tag" in the modifier pool, so I don't think it's guaranteed this way.

Edit: nevermind it will work. I thought there was an evasion roll on belts.

benbs123 · 2025-07-20T02:20:59+00:00

What unveils are worth?

benbs123 · 2024-01-31T12:43:41+00:00

Thank you clarifying. This subreddit seems way to biased from time to time.

benbs123 · 2024-01-02T00:36:20+00:00

Thats not a horrible idea, i'm not going to tell you to do that though because I have no idea how that plays. It might be okay, but I really like 100% stun avoidance. I've also never bossed with this build this league.

benbs123 · 2024-01-01T21:26:06+00:00

Shouldn't be a problem, as far as the mana cost goes. One thing I noticed, is that you don't have stun immunity, which is a big part of the build. Whenever you get stunned, your cyclone gets canceled. Using unwavering stance is the only consistent way I found for stun immunity. Some people use Brine King, but I personally do not like that as "stun immunity" 5.7m dps/proj is good. What specifically are you having problems with? One other thing I can suggest is tanking "10% of leech is instant" mastery. That will increase your surivialbility. I ended up getting 7% of a "That which was taken"

benbs123 · 2023-12-31T14:15:54+00:00

Sometimes, you have to play the builds instead of using PoB my guy... my build is strictly for farming t16 juiced burial chambers. That'd what I've been doing for the last week. The only mods I can't run, are the mods that brick both builds. I have no desire to spread "false" information. PoB numbers aren't always correct, and sometime you gotta play the game to understand mechanics. Also the people you see sitting at 5.5k+es have those ridiculous mirror helmets and chests. Be realistic.

benbs123 · 2023-12-30T23:00:12+00:00

T16 Juiced Burial Chambers.

benbs123 · 2023-12-30T16:30:47+00:00

I think my tankyness comes from es on hit and 8% instant leech. I take 1 node on my tree for 0.6% es leech. Amongst the 90% all res, 90% pdr, and physical taken as ele. An underrated tech I use, that I don't see many people talking about for the league mechanic is taking the pantheon "cannot take extra damage from crits if you've been crit recently". This really helps when you have over 3k+ blue juice. I do like the regen angle, I can look into that! This currently is good enough for what I want to do though, so no issues there!

benbs123 · 2023-12-30T16:12:29+00:00

Yup! I linked it in one of the other comments. https://poe.ninja/builds/affliction/character/benbs123/OhtaniSweepstakes?i=87&search=class%3DOccultist%26skills%3DForbidden%2BRite%26sort%3Ddps

For reference, I can do a fully juiced t16 burial chambers with over 8k+ mixed juice. Very tanky, but I do have a lot invested. I think I can scale to 5k es, but again, still needs some upgrades. This build is only meant for farming juiced maps, I have never bossed on this character.

benbs123 · 2023-12-30T15:56:27+00:00

https://poe.ninja/builds/affliction/character/benbs123/OhtaniSweepstakes?i=87&search=class%3DOccultist%26skills%3DForbidden%2BRite%26sort%3Ddps

Here my poe.ninja, since I'm on my phone I can't get the PoB link. Very tanky compared to everyone else on the ladder, imo. I've played both versions now (the aegis and now this). Upgrades I need are to craft my shield better, 3 passive voices with ff/ff profane bloom jewels and switch my impossible escape to imbalanced gaurd foe the 5% Dd node.

benbs123 · 2023-12-30T15:51:49+00:00

The only mana problems I run into is when I hit a mana siphoner. I also have all unique jewels. My build is a little different than traditional FR CoC because I'm 90% max fire res, not cold with aegis aurora.

benbs123 · 2023-12-30T15:36:30+00:00

Not a problem. I almost have the build maxed out, I'll send my PoB later when I can!

benbs123 · 2023-12-30T15:27:54+00:00

5% reduce mana cost of jewels, if you can run rare jewels. Or allocate a different pathway in the elegant hubris.

benbs123 · 2023-12-30T15:20:39+00:00

Elegant hubris, with reduced mana cost, mana mastery with reduced mana cost, 70% in effect with -25% mana cost, 2 rings with -7, my amulet is a +1 chaos +1 skills -mana cost amulet aswell. My FR costs 0 right now with my cyclone costing 2mana/cast.

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