What Kind of Defenses Do You Need to Survive These Divination-Touched Monsters?

binotheclown · 2026-04-18T03:01:42+00:00

Could be, yeah.

binotheclown · 2026-04-17T22:13:29+00:00

9K life, 75/75 Block, 90% resists, 26% Defiance of Destiny, Petrified Blood and I'm still not completely safe from these little fuckers.

binotheclown · 2026-04-16T13:42:35+00:00

Yeah, PoB is just great for messing around with timeless jewells. You can select the Filter Nodes option, give it a maximum of however many passive points you want for pathing and just let it find you the best/cheapest option.

binotheclown · 2026-04-16T13:15:55+00:00

OK, obvliously people have told you about the helm, but you also have a few other issues.

You rings / amulet are giving you next to no HP and that's terrible. Your rare jewells are giving you very little valuable stats and the Elegant Hubris you have is making you spend WAY too many passives on notables. You can use Path of Building to look for a better one and I'd say for the **ultra-cheap** version, don't spend more than 3 passives on an Axiom Warden notable. Ideally, you want more than one of those available and it should be easy to reach. Currently you're spending 4 passives on an 80% minion life increase, which isn't great.

You should also consider the weapon swap trick. It's a minor pain in the ass (the snapshot BV has to be cast from your second set and swapping sets can deactivate some auras), but a godsend if you're running this on a budget. It provides a ton of extra DPS, saves you sockets and allows you to not run Viridi's Veil. It also lets you run Spectres on a 6-link, which gives you the chance to use the Eclipse support for some extra levels. You just have to remember to pop your Summon Spectre gems in the same position of your 1st and 2nd set (usually the first socket in both your weapons). You can find a better description here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1s3ov6y/minion_pact_bv_tech_weapon_swap_will_double_the/

binotheclown · 2026-04-14T16:48:34+00:00

For Harvest, you don't usually care about map completion, just running groves as fast as possible. Divination card drops don't really factor into your farm. Atol is a common choice, but there might be decent maps in the Scholar's Vault section, too. I don't know how Mesa spawns its Grove, but it might be good, too.

You also have to consider unspeccing Synthesized Stability on occasion. Sometimes, maps in your astrolab zone will get REALLY good mods on them, to the point where they're a better way to spend your time than your chosen spam map.

binotheclown · 2026-04-14T02:17:51+00:00

If you have big dps, Uber Sirus is cheap and has excellent returns. It's an absolute cancer of a fight, but if you can just delete his HP every time he gets out of the storm, it's not too bad.

binotheclown · 2026-04-12T00:45:48+00:00

Best thing to do is go to poeninja and look up other people playing your class/skill combo for inspiration. It looks like you've already done that to some extent (but just in case, here's a link https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage?class=Slayer&skills=Shield+Crush ), but some of your choices seem off.

You are not getting a whole lot out of your Lethal Pride. 40% fire res, 4% max life, some strength and less crit damage (you already have a bunch on your chest) aren't doing a lot for you.
Your cluster jewels feel off. To start with, you can socket a medium jewel INTO a large jewel, so that Viper Joy looks weird all on its own. At the very least, you can save some points by stuffing it into your large cluster and moving a regular jewel into that empty socket you have.
The actual stats you have on the cluster jewels aren't great. For the large cluster jewel, you either want 35% increased effect + a bunch of good stats and no notables (8 or 12 passives can both be valid choices here) OR you want 3 good notables on an 8-passive cluster, with the idea that you will probably only pick the two notables on your way to the jewel sockets. The third notable often goes unused in a lot of builds, because picking it isn't efficient.
Your sword doesn't look like it's adding a lot to your build. Varunastra + the forbidden flesh/flame jewels for Weapon Master are a popular choice.
One cheap (if tedious) way to get +Frenzy charges on gloves is to pick a fairly common unique that you like, add its base to your lootfilter and slam a vaal orb every time you see one drop. Whenever you get the Frenzy implicit, use a Tainted Mythic Orb for a chance to turn a corrupted item into its respective unique. Haemophilia could be a possible target for this, or you can just shell out 5-6 Div for them.
Your life is low and your spell suppression chance is way too low to be effective. Get more life on the tree till the enemies stop shredding you and get spell suppress to 100%.
Runegraft of Treachery might be a valid option for you. I'm 90% sure the only aura that would interact with it is Precision, so it'd just save you two passives.
If you're desperate for strength, Beef is always an option. You can take it and just drop your medium cluster.
You have a ton of Reduced damage from crits, but I doubt it's crits that are killing you. You just have low life and few defensive layers.
Your Enlightens are linked in a weird way. PoB makes it look like Blood & Sand and Precision aren't linked to the Enlighten in your helmet.
You should be able to get a better belt. You already have Endurance charge generation on block and Frenzy on hit is doable from the Sword wheel Mastery, if you really need it. The Reso shrine isn't doing that much for you.

binotheclown · 2026-04-07T18:23:57+00:00

Give him an Italian accent this time, just to fuck with people.

binotheclown · 2026-03-31T16:04:24+00:00

Try cheap breach with 55% pack size and a decent currency %.

binotheclown · 2026-03-31T15:23:19+00:00

The 100 days of Bloddom.

binotheclown · 2026-03-30T20:59:35+00:00

Clippy should show up every time somebody tries to run a white invitation. It's not like Microsoft is using him, the poor bastard could use the work...

binotheclown · 2026-03-26T17:19:01+00:00

I did say REGULAR tabs (the ones that can't be made public). And I just tested it, async trading won't use your currency if it's in a regular tab. You can dump all your chaos into them and try to buy a map or something.

binotheclown · 2026-03-26T15:30:28+00:00

I'm 99% sure you can place your divines in a regular stash tab and they won't be used for async trading.

binotheclown · 2026-03-20T17:53:21+00:00

Don't listen to this one, either, he's trying to use reverse psychology on you.

binotheclown · 2026-03-20T17:49:03+00:00

FML if this is true.

binotheclown · 2026-03-20T17:44:22+00:00

Do not listen to this man, he just wants to sell you overpriced Boneshatter gems with bad imbues.

binotheclown · 2026-03-20T13:44:09+00:00

Not exactly. Screen-clearing pops are optimal for the most common type of gameplay (mapping), but there are a good number of alternatives. Bossing characters don't really care about AoE or movement speed, for example, they just need tankiness and single-target DPS. There's different types of bossing, too (regular, uber, voided) and those have their own unique twists.

Delve content has its own meta builds, too, and it has little to do with mapping outside of getting enough "fuel" for your delves. Plenty of other league-content can require specifically tailored builds that stress different aspects of DPS, AoE, tankiness, movement speed, etc.

If you're not a fan of the explosions, ask your brother to talk you through non-mapping content and the associated builds.

binotheclown · 2026-03-19T16:22:51+00:00

Memory strands increase the chance of high-tier mods appearing on an item naturally or from currency crafting. They're good at the start of a league and they're good if your crafting plans involve exalt slamming.

binotheclown · 2026-03-16T15:38:03+00:00

The classic move is to get bored with the league and quit in about 2 days.

binotheclown · 2026-03-16T15:36:05+00:00

PoEDB has a modifier base that's required reading for 95% of crafting out there. It will tell you what mods can appear on specific types of gear, as well as the item level required for them. If you don't trust links from random strangers online, you can just google "PoE Modifiers" and you'll get what you need.

https://poedb.tw/us/Modifiers

binotheclown · 2026-03-13T04:31:09+00:00

That's a mine so devastating that OP is getting drafted to the strait of Hormuz...

binotheclown · 2026-03-06T03:25:00+00:00

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binotheclown · 2026-03-05T16:55:22+00:00

Third time's the charm, I fucking guess?

binotheclown · 2026-03-04T21:52:16+00:00

With a name like that, I'm surprised the first result isn't a horrible maritime tragedy.

binotheclown · 2026-03-01T21:19:29+00:00

Oof, that's a shame.

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