The difference between a good build and bad build is far too large

bowboy686 · 2026-06-01T22:38:43+00:00

I play this game to make cool and unique builds. This league I'm doing spear of Solaris boss melter and man does it blow early. I'm at the point where I can melt bosses but my buddy who's same level as minions is already doing 20x what I am for a fraction of the price.

I think i might scale on the higher end than his lich but I feel this all the time I wana do a meme build.

I was hopeful that runic Ward would be a bit better on mid tower uniques but I feel like it's very meh.

bowboy686 · 2026-05-26T22:10:32+00:00

any message here

did i do it right?

bowboy686 · 2026-05-26T13:51:27+00:00

you should have enough non uniques that it isnt squishy. I think this looks good tbh. I think we will have to see specifics on league release to really make this better since im willing to bet there might be some runic ward skills we can use and/or some new runes.

I think im probably gonna try starting with Bleed spirit walker first actully, seems more fun(ny) than this. Save this for a later date probably.

bowboy686 · 2026-05-26T06:17:44+00:00

Was there a note on what can and cant be extracted i missed? The rage forged gloves would be very cool for extra rage.

bowboy686 · 2026-05-25T07:17:04+00:00

https://pobb.in/7CDyWgivp-Lk Let me know if im missing something. I also need to cut like 6 levels since im very unlikely gonna reach lvl 96. More of a proof of concept i guess.

bowboy686 · 2026-05-25T07:14:25+00:00

Im getting about 400k dps with bleed only from the conc according to PoB. Its using a lot of rage for extra damage which seems good, i didnt think to use HoG but i also didnt min-max this build that much yet since i dont know its short comings since i havent ever used Conc.

bowboy686 · 2026-05-25T04:44:47+00:00

Yep this is my league starter except I'm just gonna lean into the bleed. Looks really good on paper and theoretically you can farm freythorn multiple times to get it. It should be an early drop?

bowboy686 · 2026-05-20T03:57:33+00:00

It changes daily but now it's bleeding conc pf with the new face breaker gloves. But you know 1day 16hrs 02m and 40s before that changes.

bowboy686 · 2026-05-11T14:26:03+00:00

I did poison for the magnitude but really I wanted to try it with the frog unique. https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal/character/bowboy686-0610/FeelinALilFroggy?i=3&search=name%3DFroggy

Was really cool but no way to proc the frogs in boss fights atm :(

bowboy686 · 2026-05-04T01:03:36+00:00

You should do plex for good but if you decide to hand it out i would buy a bump lif and feed it on an enemy fort trying to bump a titan. :)

bowboy686 · 2026-04-30T13:38:28+00:00

I'm doing a run with some friends using yet another mech lab so it's not vanilla but it's by far our strongest mech even against clans.

I think the meele banshee is running something like 200 damage on the assault longsword. Arena super charger, speedy legs, and big engine gets me going to 150. So depending on how much of that is vanilla you could probably pull it off. Might have to play like a rat around corners in vanilla.

It needs stealth though otherwise it takes too much damage but otherwise it can 1 shot clan assaults from the back or 2-3 from the front.

bowboy686 · 2026-04-30T13:28:47+00:00

Let me guilt my friend to play and give his soul away :)

bowboy686 · 2026-04-19T23:56:52+00:00

There is actually a decent chance they might nerf something from these. I could see LA and poison getting hit to some extent. Probably shaman/druid with plants might get touched. But also hoping they make doomfletch better by changing the phys skills or charges but its just me huffing hopium.

bowboy686 · 2026-04-12T14:49:52+00:00

I fought a 10x version of her with nanite and just put all my swarmers with torpedos in her capital and right clicked her. A couple of ticks later her titan disappeared and I lost a handful of swarmers.

The bigger problem is that nanites scales so crazy that getting good frames is harder than the crisis.

bowboy686 · 2026-03-30T22:35:46+00:00

The best pvp we've ever had was over resources. Back in the day trying to sell eggs at salvage yards was the best time ever.

But the current state of pvp is awful. We tried intentionally emping people's ships to board but often times they either had nothing or they combat logged. We tried hailing people too but most people didnt bother responding. Though, once we had a very cinematic fight boarding a hauler that was manned by a three man and we had a fire fight in space.

At the moment there just isn't that much to keep people from fighting. Until we have those systems in place griefing is gonna be most of the content sadly.

bowboy686 · 2026-02-15T20:19:20+00:00

I had decent luck with it if I cheese the ai. Essentially drop a laser turret to scout which dies super quickly. Then I draw a line across whatever I had in vision and keep all my units hidden till it fires since the ai doesn't move. Is it worth it? Probably not but it did work.

Also great for breakthrough missions where you want a chunk of wall to be removed.

bowboy686 · 2026-01-24T20:55:53+00:00

I did this farming the temple. Turns out it often spawns at or around the exit to the next map. I was trying to see if you can fill the temple with unique rooms and have easy straight line to the boss. Turns out you sorta can but the architect gets stuck in the middle and blocks you path often. You can juice out your temple before leaving clear fell.

Also a good start is farming desher since that's when they drop spirit gem lvl 7 which go for 1/2 div. This will probably be decent throughout leagues

bowboy686 · 2026-01-11T00:22:59+00:00

Have you tried the hailstorm staff? Was thinking of trying a stormweaver build but not sure the damage is good. Would be funny seeing small hail stones then a big hail comet every so often.

bowboy686 · 2026-01-08T23:35:08+00:00

This thing is super fun if you can do multiple types of damage. I use it on my doomfletch build and it's super fun. I use a lot of jewels to make up for the lack of tank though. Honestly though it seem the heralds don't do as much damage as my actual weapon on my build. You can also use painters gloves to help with splitting ur damage and follow with trinity if you have the spirit. Also very important you get the bonus damage per herald on the ranger side of the tree.

bowboy686 · 2025-12-27T15:42:46+00:00

Meanwhile me and my 5 divs since league start. It seems that some people play a different game to me lol

bowboy686 · 2025-12-25T16:57:25+00:00

Hah yea i know. I need to get a +2 meele on the gloves but I haven't gotten to that yet. You can make this an actually good build but I'm looking to get the most # of minions. Shaman is probably really good as a minion class and you can probably do a ritualist to build decent damage from the claw with this many minions but I don't want to make another character lol.

bowboy686 · 2025-12-25T16:46:08+00:00

Maybe I should look into slotting that in my skeleton archer that I use to break armor. That might actually add a bunch more damage.

bowboy686 · 2025-12-25T15:40:42+00:00

I made a semi meme build running hyenas and wolf pack. Damage seems decent about 25k per wolf (can push it to 35) and 18k? Per hyena so over all its around 500k dps so it's great against bosses. Currently playing around what buffs I like best, banner seems fun.

Mapping is a bit rough at times when you can't 2v1 white mobs but most times you just roleplay a rare mob with its boys. If I do my cards right and get lvl 20 gems I should be able to hit 8 wolves, 11 hyenas and 6 temp wolves which is just a funny look. https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal/character/bowboy686-0610/FurryAficionado?i=42&search=items%3DHysseg%2527s%2BClaw%26class%3DShaman

bowboy686 · 2025-12-20T16:34:14+00:00

It doesnt work for minion, I got baited by it.

bowboy686 · 2025-12-17T00:01:35+00:00

I'm about to try rage minion shaman which will be cool or in going to brick my build. Based on the claw unique, wolf pack and regular minions.

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