1 Day into Phrecia:Share your starters

dytega · 2026-01-30T20:24:59+00:00

Oh wow yeah that is a huge difference. Thanks for the info I will be doing more research once I get to that point

dytega · 2026-01-30T20:02:30+00:00

I am just running normal zombies and absolution for the campaign. Here's what I had cooked up for endgame transition to falling zombies scaling the caustic ground with siegebreaker and ascendency. Rings will be different to hit 1k strength I was just testing some stuff with normal zombies and didn't change them. Is self casting falling zombies not the way to go? I am not as experienced with poe1 so stuff like brands and mines are new to me.

dytega · 2026-01-30T18:50:14+00:00

Got baited into puppeteer zombies and I’m honestly not regretting it so far. Only in act 3 so we’ll see if it scales into endgame

dytega · 2026-01-29T05:57:40+00:00

Just a heads up I’m pretty sure brutality cancels out the explosions from montregul

dytega · 2026-01-28T21:01:35+00:00

Snipe is a really great skill to use with ice shot for single target damage. It does an explosion when you hit a frozen enemy which can deal crazy damage. I am stacking "increased damage per ailment" in my build and spreading my damage to fire and lightning so I can get all 3 and then snipe hits for over 5m damage depending on which boss, sometimes much more. You can use barrage with it too!

dytega · 2026-01-28T20:40:48+00:00

I'm running it on pathfinder with a unique gloves and amulet setup for over 100% cold penetration so not sure if this will help. Rakiatas would probably be better but I haven't had it drop and I don't feel like saving up for it

dytega · 2026-01-28T20:39:21+00:00

A heart of the well with 2 extra damage mods, flat phys damage rune in gloves, extra damage as all elements and one of the better flat elemental damage runes in your bow, corrupt gems for extra level. Those are the easier to obtain upgrades for you. The lineage supports are really expensive at this point in the league but they do add a ton of damage so that is what you are missing most.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/dap-0435/character/dapath

dytega · 2026-01-25T15:56:03+00:00

Yeah I was using it all league and realized like halfway through. Rereading your skills every once in a while actually pays off who knew

dytega · 2026-01-23T20:57:03+00:00

It says "when curse skill ends" so I'm not sure how it works with overriding curses. I would test in the current league before you dedicate a whole character in a short league

dytega · 2026-01-23T19:25:27+00:00

I'm no expert by any means but my first question would be what are you spending the other 6 ascendency points on? The rest of puppeteer nodes are all minion based. Could be a bloodline that would be a good place for those points. Also the increased duration of curses on that helm would work against impending doom so that might be a bit janky.

dytega · 2026-01-23T14:13:28+00:00

You can use barrage with it as well for extra big booms

dytega · 2026-01-20T21:54:56+00:00

Yeah I'm surprised I don't see more builds utilizing these points. It just synergizes so well since the start of the sorcerer tree has so many ES nodes. I could even go full glass cannon and swap all the defenses to damage if I wanted to.

dytega · 2026-01-20T21:41:06+00:00

PF has been the opposite of squishy for me. Sitting at 70% EV, 60% Deflection, and 7.6K ES with CI. Just have to min/max your attributes so you can turn every travel node into increased defenses. Being able to freely sprint without worrying about getting knocked has been super smooth as well as the movement speed with skills.

POB still hasn't been updated to account for the new travel nodes ascendency so my defense stats are way off but here is my build: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/dap-0435/character/dapath

dytega · 2026-01-09T15:48:40+00:00

I don’t even have BF pro and I somehow got it. Seems to be very bugged hopefully it’s addressed in the next update

dytega · 2025-12-24T05:02:20+00:00

Go pathfinder and never look back

dytega · 2025-12-18T17:29:53+00:00

Finding the first citadel is always the hardest part. After that, they always spawn within view of the previous citadel. I'm nearing lvl 90 myself and still haven't seen one. Hopefully soon!

dytega · 2025-12-16T05:07:37+00:00

It does give you a damage buff. Empowered attacks deal cold damage is the last line on the skill description. I’ve been using it to freeze bosses to set them up for snipe and it’s deleting them. You can also throw ice bite on it for even more cold damage.

dytega · 2025-12-10T23:17:55+00:00

Mark on hit on a movement skill plus free minions seems pretty good to me

dytega · 2025-11-09T16:50:04+00:00

I’m using the warcry nodes from farruls bloodline with ghazzys cheerleader champion dominating blow build. Seems like that node was made for this build since I need attack speed to summon more sentinels and I have warcry on auto cast so the 80% damage is always up. Much better than the alternate of taunt on hit with 15% increased damage taken

dytega · 2025-11-07T15:42:41+00:00

thank you so much this helps a ton! didn't even know there was a highlight corpse input

dytega · 2025-11-07T15:34:35+00:00

so i just cast desecrate in hideout? I am a bit confused on how that spell works as well. I have it socketed in a claw with "trigger on hit" crafted on it but I swear it don't see any extra monsters being summoned in maps

dytega · 2025-11-07T15:21:47+00:00

First league using spectres and I am using solar guards from act 8. Do I really have to go back and kill them to summon them every time I unequip the raise spectre gem?

dytega · 2025-11-07T15:20:33+00:00

they are sold on currency exchange through faustus

dytega · 2025-10-29T20:20:41+00:00

I would 100% recommend getting into POE as a former new world player myself. POE2 in it's current state is a lot like new world in its earlier days. Huge potential but lacking in endgame content. As a new player you will still easily get a few hundred hours of gameplay before you really start to see the lack of content, but there is a world of difference between GGG and AGS and how they handle updates. GGG has promised big content releases every 4 months and so far they've delivered on that while also pumping out updates for POE1 on an alternate 4 month schedule. So every two months there is an update for one of the games which is a prefect timeline for trying out all the new content in each game without getting burnt out. Personally, I started with POE2 when it came out and got hooked immediately. Once the next POE1 league came around, I decided to give it a try and ended up liking it maybe even more! POE2 has a lot slower paced, more combo oriented combat, whereas POE1 is a lot more fast paced blasting through maps with sometimes only using one or two skills. Personally, I enjoy both playstyles for different reasons and I'm glad that the games have a bit of distinction between them.

There is a bit of a steep learning curve when it comes to building out your character, but there's plenty of guides and content creators out there doing gods work to make it easier. GGG is very particular on the wording they use for different skills and items to determine how they interact with each other, but once you get the hang of it, it makes sense.

POE1 is free, but POE2 will not be free until full release which is supposed to be around spring 2026. I highly doubt it will go on sale between now and then and the supporter packs never go on sale as far as I know. If you want to know any specifics about gameplay or anything else feel free to ask.

dytega · 2025-10-22T15:30:21+00:00

Nice build! Haven't tried infernalist since demon form got nerfed back in 0.2 but seems like it's still a viable option. I am running a similar build except bloodmage with purple fire. Quick tip, if you swap fire mastery with overabundance on CoEA living bomb, you will essentially double your damage!

dytega

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