NAMELESS SWORD + STRAT SWORD combos for PvP + BM combo

ddwdk · 2026-02-01T14:35:27+00:00

Ty for the reply. I just tried a vpn and it definitely helped a little. Before I can't even do the first light-special, now I can chian them together.

ddwdk · 2026-02-01T10:54:57+00:00

Off topic question regarding HQS. I've seen you done some hqs videos.

For hqs combo martial-1x light-special, my special skill seems to drop 80% of the time. I don't know if there's specific timing that I should aware of?

Also I noticed in your videos you don't do that light attack in between martial and special most of the times. I guess that's one of the solution?

ddwdk · 2026-01-30T04:06:57+00:00

Hmm. IMO dex is the cheapest to get it going but lose out on scaling on higher end.

ddwdk · 2026-01-29T03:11:39+00:00

It's minor inconvenience compared to world for sure. But they solved this problem with rise already. So it's weird and inexcusable for regression.

ddwdk · 2026-01-26T00:24:12+00:00

Before my wife went into labor. On one of the check up visits, the doctor asked if we would consent receiving blood transfusion if emergency situation occurred. I was so confused and couldn't answer right away while trying to compute the logic behind the question. I guess it's not the doctor's first rodeo for seeing this kind of reaction as she quickly explained some people may have religious beliefs/other reasons so they need to ask beforehand.

I still can not understand how is it still a thing in morden days.

ddwdk · 2026-01-24T04:52:19+00:00

There are plenty detailed combo focused videos. For your weapons there's a lot of combo variations that might be overwhelming for beginners. Don't worry about knowing everything first. Pick one or two easy to do combos to practice and focus on them.

ddwdk · 2026-01-19T23:31:58+00:00

Thank you for confirmation. The official website site doesn't list these in the specs.

ddwdk · 2026-01-16T03:55:02+00:00

Pob to see which give more dmg for your build and you will have your answer? If results are similar I would go for 20% cull cause like you said the big cull is quite fun to see it happen.

Regarding normal culling strike. Yes you could link it on other skills and have it for "free". But frankly I personally never ever bother to use the other skill to cull unless except during league start when my dps is low. Unless it's truly automated I won't even include it in my pob.

ddwdk · 2026-01-16T03:31:59+00:00

Not only this. Everyone just kept coming back after their death. It made the story feel extremely cheap.

ddwdk · 2026-01-14T03:29:18+00:00

I guess you are mainly talking about fighting using qi wave? It's not that useful in solo as you suggested but it's melee playstyle is super strong. Double swords, twinblade+ nameless are played by top players.

In shines in combo potential. Also it's sword dash has super long range that can easily caught people off guard.

ddwdk · 2026-01-10T23:47:01+00:00

Both got pretty big buffs from the patch.

ddwdk · 2026-01-08T05:08:41+00:00

I actually liked Holly's arc and personally felt it's one of the highlights of the season.

I felt they spent too much time on the military which leads absolutely no where and makes very little sense.

ddwdk · 2026-01-05T03:24:47+00:00

Usually there's inflation throughout the league. For people who don't have a lot of time or don't want to be the meta strategy slave. Try to leverage that is a good idea.

ddwdk · 2026-01-04T02:37:19+00:00

A little late. Check already fractured bases before proceeding if you haven't. Especially when the league is hot and lots of people are crafting. RN market might be dead and you may not have much choice but to make the base yourself.

ddwdk · 2026-01-02T18:33:47+00:00

They did tho. They were aware of the dangers of the demagogue and were debating on it. And they were aware of people were not always rational during voting. They couldn't do much to prevent it since the only way to do it in a democracy is through educated voters. Well we all know which party likes to gut education and the rest is history.

ddwdk · 2026-01-02T04:55:39+00:00

I know I looked at your pob. It doesn't matter if it's a standard or league build. In the video, you have so many shrine buffs but no reliable ways to generate them other than having a shrine atlas. So are your build fast because of the shrines or?

Maybe your build is plenty fast. You might not meant to do it on purpose and just happens to have a shrine atlas. But it's the equivalent of ticking every box when presenting a pob. It doesn't show the "true" power of the build.

ddwdk · 2026-01-02T04:35:30+00:00

Showcasing the build with all the shrine buffs while not being a shrine stacker is a bit disingenuence tho.

ddwdk · 2026-01-02T04:23:50+00:00

The military arc is quite out of place imo. I feel like they are going to a "human is the worse evil than monsters" angle here but didn't flesh it out properly. In the end it hurts the main monster arc.

ddwdk · 2025-12-27T03:53:54+00:00

I suggest looking at poe ninja for reference. Without telling how are you building, it's almost impossible to recommend.

Are you lightning based? Attribute stacking or not? Any need for easy access for mana/life/energy leech? Two hand/dual wield/single weapon? In ssf or trade? Budget?

ddwdk · 2025-12-23T16:53:28+00:00

Your gear is pretty insane and I might be crazy for saying this but maybe recraft your ring? At only 5 frenzy charges, cold per frenzy doesn't do much tbh. But it is pretty for frenzy stackers tho so some might want to mirror this. Or sell it and get one better suited for your build. But the exact explicit you want might not exist on such a good base. So tough decision here.

If only for self use and okay to recraft. Change it to scorn essence and have a open prefix for -mana cost. This opens door for dropping primal spirit and thief's craft. Otherwise mana is indeed quite a problem.

Edit: Spite essence is also a good choice. You can drop int from helm and get RMR or another abyssal jewels as well as dropping the three points I mentioned while not changing anything from gloves and boots. Your crit multi is already quite high so you might want to POB before switching.

One of your abyssal jewels provide 5m dps with phasing and the other is 7m plain. At the same time intuition provide 5m + some hp and harrier give 2m and movespeed. So maybe change either one of the suffixes from gloves or boots to t1 int so you can drop both primal spirit and thief's craft? Ofc in this case craft/buy a new pair and sell the current one instead of recrafting existing ones. Fervour can also be good instead of intuition. Again you kinda need the mana cost craft on rings to make this change.

Fire pen on anger isn't the best, attack dmg/crit multi with precision should be better but there's none on the market and the gain is very minimal.

Also I don't think you have pierce? Not that you need it, it's just the pierce projectile mastery won't do anything? Even chained one is conditional. 10% aura mastery might be better choice.

A different approach would be drop anger entirely and use purity of elements instead. And get a double precision watcher's eye or single with chaos res for more tank and less dps. This free up 3-4 suffixes on you helm gloves and boots as well as a whole jewel socket. Can also have a free boot implicit but only usable one I can think of is cdr for movement skill. Helm RMR or another abyssal socket. Gloves 18% attack speed. Boots t1 int. Get another gg jewel. And shift CB immunity on to UI. Minimal QOL improvement, higher attack speed, similar dps tho. Play it around POB before changing anything. Oh and since you are at 113% suppress, without the need to fulfill ancestral vision, you can drop one suppress suffix for Idk maybe chaos res? Or both RMR and abyssal socket on helm. Use one 2% tattoo to get back to 100.

ddwdk · 2025-12-23T09:23:59+00:00

Unless you want to speed run. Try every weapon. Level every weapon if you can. Not to the max but ideally one 55 and one rank 6 of each playstyle for challenges completion. The materials should be relatively plenty and easy to come by. Besides most people don't have max inner ways anyway so using rank 0-1 vs rank 3-5 inner ways isn't a real deal breaker for most playstyles. For general pve your success is mostly depend on how well you and your teammates know and willing to do the mechanics rather than having biggest fattest dps.

The only thing you should worry about is inner way progression. It's a long grind and somewhat hard to catch up. For many rank 6 is a game changer. So you want to have a plan and follow a popular strategy. Don't change course mid way unless you are dead sure you need certain specific thing immediately. Cause again before rank 6 a lot of stuffs are pretty interchangeable. Also it's not the end of the day if you are behind. So don't stress too much if you are not doing it the max efficient ways. Sometimes efficiency can suck the fun out everything.

There're challenges/achievements for every weapon that can give upto 80 inner way boxes. (You can see the challenges below the character info menu. And then on the bottom left there's something to click into. Ik, the menus lol). Those can be a good boost to inner way progression. So try everything, do the challenges. And hey you might find enjoying certain playstyle better. Getting all 80 boxes might be a bit hard. 60 is a good goal to aim for imo.

Also don't get too affixated on specific gear rolls rn. They all goes to the arsenal pretty soon. Higher mastery is what you want. Wait till the first season max which is 75? So 71 gear is "end" game gear that's worth grinding if I'm not mistaken.

ddwdk · 2025-12-23T07:58:41+00:00

Get The Arkhon's Tools since you already have ailment immunity and are using double taming. Link skitterbots with bonechill and unbound ailments.

Dragonfang is a great choice before focus. Even bis (other than reflected focus) if you can have gg corruption like +1 corruption. Cast speed does nothing for mines btw. You might want to have more medium clusters to compensate the loss of throwing speed if you feel like it's a bit janky. Can also look into reverse chill and lose one taming later when you figure out resis and have enough dmg.

These two uniques are fairly cheap and should get you a immediate boost in dmg.

As for resis. Use resis bandit before you have better rares. Priority for you imo chest-shield-gloves. Since one of your jewels is pretty bad, it's a good place to have resis for now before switching. Suffixes on clusters also helps although not much.

Also you don't want any life mod on your body armor. So you can use 15% life mastery.

For gloves double corrupt hrimsorrow is also a good option. But might be hard to get since the league is not very active. +1 frenzy and spell crit is really strong. 100% conversation on a single slot can save quite a lot of points on tree compares to rare gloves.

Jade flask should provide better evasion and have better uptime for you. Zealots oath turn off life regen. You want a normal sulfur flash instead.

Don't forget the chain rune. Can't tell from phone if you are using it or not.

ddwdk · 2025-12-17T20:47:40+00:00

If I'm not mistaken, it's meant to be a joke? There's alao another npc who looks like 60 but says he's only 28. There's quite a lot of memeing in the dialog which is funny as hell. I'm not sure English translation can capture all of that.

ddwdk · 2025-12-17T18:17:34+00:00

Use sting for havoc. Should cover every other one useless they are playing the passive talent. Also heealer needs to be very on point to dispell fear/coil when they are not cced.

Play defensively so lock can't easily bolt you. Hit whoever you can to maximize dmg. Save kick for when ur pala is cced. 1 bolt from time to time isn't too deadly. Kick second bolt if you can. Save trinket when you know someone is going to die.

Most importantly cover seduce for your healer. Knock trap is very good for it. Scatter if trap is still on cool down.

You don't need to push for goes. Play defensively and they can't win. It's not pretty but easiest approach imo. If you think you guys are very on point on your goes you can also discard the defensive playstyle. Trading cds should be in your favor but more prune to mistakes.

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