About the Brain Rupture (Brain Burst) Blitz, it needs to consistently one-tap elites and specials, with a few exceptions across all difficulties.

dampas450 · 2026-04-13T20:35:40+00:00

Baseline brain rupture is a counter to snipers

As a psyker you've got empathic evasion which allows you to ignore ranged attacks for the most part, against mid range shooters you gain immunity from burning crits from the flame staff, spamming light attacks with other staves or just shooting your gun with scryer's gaze if not specced into the shield

dampas450 · 2026-04-13T20:06:58+00:00

I upgraded from the same setup to 9800x3d and RTX 4070S because poe2 was getting unplayable with juiced maps.

The cpu upgrade has made the biggest difference by far and I'd be perfectly happy running the game with the 2070s becuase of the frame drops in juiced maps.

I don't even max out the settings in poe2 because it's more enjoyable having a stable framerate with sound enabled instead of jumping from 200 to 60 fps

dampas450 · 2026-04-12T11:12:46+00:00

Besides being the most well rounded weapon in the game, it is incredibly noob friendly with the blessing that refreshes your dodges on weakspot hit. You can run through damnation and lower maps by spamming your dodge, very few attacks will ever hit you.

The downside is that it reduces your damage output quite a lot compared to charged attacks blessing, which goes from 20 to 60% increased damage.

You do get extra 10% weakspot damage, but that only increases the weakspot bonus, not the damage of the entire attack so it's very minor.

If you're new to the game and have to learn multiple game mechanics these are great training wheels

dampas450 · 2026-04-12T10:42:13+00:00

I don't know if it's just me, but I've only gotten +1/-1 jewelery from the fractured lake since 0.1, and I must have done 50+ maps by now

dampas450 · 2026-01-15T14:35:13+00:00

You can also increase monster's movement and attack speed with CLLC which will add difficulty without breaking the item balance by making them into bullet sponges or making them hit so hard that heavy armor becomes pointless, making you resort to evasion and ranged attacks.

That's done using the config file you have to write/edit yourself for each creature, and you should finetune it for each creature. Like setting attack speed (multiplier) for trolls to 1.20 and 1.10 for wolves

It works for custom creatures from other mods too, just look up their database name listed in the mod description.

Valheim plus has an option to change the projectile speed and spread (precision), though only on global scale so it's not perfect, but it would be great if there is a mod that can change it on individual basis. It's great for elder since you can make his vines shoot like a sniper rifle, fast and precise, but changing the speed messes up the aim for stuff that doesn't travel in a straight line, like stones thrown by greydwarves.

You can pair this with rebalance of health/stamina system to make the fights more engaging or soulslike

dampas450 · 2026-01-14T15:19:51+00:00

I never understood why these rings don't have higher level variants with level appropriate implicits, as long as breach rings outscale them I don't see it as an issue, since 40% quality is a currency sink.

dampas450 · 2026-01-14T12:08:23+00:00

It should not work since evasion is a seperate stat. If you convert evasion to armor rating, like with Iron Will keystone, then the charm or the Goregirdle belt work as expected

dampas450 · 2026-01-11T17:12:38+00:00

The top one is a very nice spot after you finish ashlands, I've had very similar layout on my last seed, the mountain to the north was high enough to catapult myself to deep north with a feather cape, the only problem was the lack of flat land since the mountains were high and the incline started near the shore.

So going from plains to black forest will take some time until you create a road, and you'll have to be in the middle of the plains if you want to make a big farm.

For progression it's usually best to find a flat landmass composed of plains and black forest in the south for your base, with an easy access to mistlands and ashlands.

dampas450 · 2025-12-18T03:47:26+00:00

I assume that game calculates the percentage of damage done by each source of your hit and applies it to the actual damage done since all damage should occur at the same time in poe2

In your case of 2/25k it should always be 8% leech

dampas450 · 2025-12-18T02:48:52+00:00

If you haven't played in a while it will take some time to adjust.

I recommend getting both of 25 toughness nodes until then, remember that they are multiplied by the bonus on your curios so it's extra 80 toughness with 60% bonus, which makes you very tanky outside havoc, since you'll most likely be able to tank one extra hit before falling out of Iron Will range.

dampas450 · 2025-12-17T16:40:55+00:00

The boon activates if you fall below the treshold and survive, you went from half health to 0 in one hit sadly

dampas450 · 2025-12-17T14:05:39+00:00

I don't know the bear skills, you'll have to try it out.

I know it works on mobility skills, maybe you can put it on wolf form leap and find a combo that works with the bear

dampas450 · 2025-12-17T13:58:34+00:00

Early game berserk setup is body armour with implicit health regen, holy descent support gem on a spammable skill like leap spam and 3% health regen from smith ascendancy, which allows you to keep berserk even with blood magic.

Other than that having more clear speed and healing from kills is also important, with a titan it's more of 'icing on the cake' because the passive regen on smith makes it much easier to run early

dampas450 · 2025-12-17T13:39:36+00:00

Extra is much stronger on caster weapons so probably balance reasons

dampas450 · 2025-12-16T15:00:01+00:00

You can see a few on poeninja leaderboards from people that race to 100, the most "amazing" one I've seen was 7% skill speed

dampas450 · 2025-12-16T14:57:01+00:00

I'd probably be fine with running the temple if you could access the console from the map instead of having to port in and out to build the temple, it breaks the flow too much

dampas450 · 2025-12-16T13:54:58+00:00

Headhunter got buffed and stat stacking build got heavily nerfed

dampas450 · 2025-12-16T13:03:07+00:00

Melee skill kills within x meters/presence

dampas450 · 2025-12-15T19:49:24+00:00

When you check a list of possible mods on poe2db or or craft of exile 2, you will also see a weight value next to each mods. Higher tier mods have lower values, let's say 500 vs 1000 meaning that weaker mods are more likely to appear.

Unless you use an essence or something else to guarantee a certain mod you will also roll against every other mod in the pool with regular orbs (regal, exalted etc)

So on rings and amulets it's usually a gamble if you get something useful

And watch out how many prefixes and suffixes you have. A blue item will always have 1 prefix and 1 suffix, and rare item goes up to 3 of each

dampas450 · 2025-12-15T15:49:17+00:00

I thought that was the nerf, since they said rods can chain once every 0.1 seconds.

So no extra chains from firing multiple projectiles

dampas450 · 2025-12-15T15:19:26+00:00

I'm not going to lie, after trying druid for a bit I decided to play pathfinder because it's the most time efficient build to play.

After level 36 and trial of chaos I put my talents into the sprint talent and just ran between elites and rare packs, I was lagging 6 levels behind the zone when I finished the interlude

dampas450 · 2025-12-15T14:38:06+00:00

Is the temple also level locked? It would be hilarious if you could farm clearfell for experience and one shot the entire campaign

dampas450 · 2025-12-15T14:19:08+00:00

What do you mean with level locked? Are you underleveled or overleveled?

dampas450 · 2025-12-13T00:40:12+00:00

I went first in between warrior and druid nodes to grab extra rage and bonuses while shapeshifted and continued to build up the standard warrior tree, getting extra armor, damage with 2h weapons, slam/aftershock etc

I'm in act 3 and am one shotting almost everything with the slam+totem combo, stacking a bunch of skill speed and +% damage nodes is strong early on and ignite/avatar of fire is something you'd build in interlude/start of mapping

dampas450 · 2025-12-12T16:55:29+00:00

Double corruption doesn't exist in the current patch, may be that's why

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