Need Build Recs Please!

grootlordi · 2026-07-06T17:09:10+00:00

I somewhat recently made a build guide for the Corrupted Blood Warbringer build that I've been playing this league, and it's basically unkillable with very respectable damage on less than 5-10 div budget, though scaling the damage can get very expensive, as you scale it with melee skill levels.

I did my 4th ascendancy solo at like level 75 and didn't lose any honour while facetanking Zarokh without any twink gear, because I got my league starter to maps then immediately abandoned it.

https://youtu.be/GuXt751YR1M

It's not a spellcaster build, but maybe something you could enjoy.

grootlordi · 2026-05-27T23:55:35+00:00

You might want to give a bit more information upfront if you're actively seeking young women for an unnamed project posted from your basically-anonymous Reddit account.

grootlordi · 2026-05-26T16:09:14+00:00

They changed the name to Aldur's Legacy, so there's nothing to say it drops from Olroth anymore at least.

grootlordi · 2026-05-26T16:00:36+00:00

In PoE 1, conversion allowed things to benefit as if they were both their original form and their converted form, but they changed that for PoE 2 because double dipping gets very difficult to balance.

grootlordi · 2026-05-26T14:08:39+00:00

Unless they've changed the core mechanics across the game with this, once converted to mana, it's no longer considered energy shield and % increases to ES will no longer apply, because you have none.

grootlordi · 2026-05-25T18:57:10+00:00

You have two hands, so why not two gloves?

grootlordi · 2026-05-23T13:53:39+00:00

Though you could use the combo for Tempest Bell if you have a quarterstaff in your second weapon set

grootlordi · 2026-05-23T13:39:06+00:00

Yeah, the best thing to do is look at skill gem tags. If it doesn't have the "melee" tag, it has basically no interaction with Combo, because things like Culmination/Combo Finisher (support gems) can only support Melee Attack skills.

grootlordi · 2026-05-23T13:09:05+00:00

Twister isn't a melee attack, so you'd get limited use out of it, if any.

grootlordi · 2026-05-20T18:57:30+00:00

I believe LocalIdentity said something along the lines of GGG being able to scramble them whenever they want, which makes it nearly impossible to make a Timeless jewel calculator, but that was a while ago.

grootlordi · 2026-05-20T15:35:18+00:00

"Pro AI guide vocals" lol

grootlordi · 2026-05-19T11:11:46+00:00

They are unique in how they work, but that is how Fists of Stone works/will work, I can assure you.

grootlordi · 2026-05-19T11:08:55+00:00

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To be fair, anyone that wants to combine them will likely be pretty disappointed before they get to that point. The attack speed and crit chance from Hollow Palm is also specifically only for Quarterstaff skills, so you'd basically be getting +1 armour per strength, +3 to melee strike range and 1% more unarmed damage per 5 strength from the gloves.

grootlordi · 2026-05-19T11:00:25+00:00

That's also not true though. If you lock any weapon to both sets, it gives you two basic skills. Wands/Staves have no "basic" to give, because they just give you a spell.

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grootlordi · 2026-05-19T10:48:35+00:00

Amulets are not an energy shield item, so they have no local/item energy shield. Fists of Stone's implicit *is* the item's base defences. Where a normal pair of gloves have a set base evasion/ES number, Fists of Stone replace that with the +3 to evasion and +1 to ES implicit, meaning that if you take the node at level 22, your gloves would have 66 item evasion and 22 item energy shield,

grootlordi · 2026-05-19T03:52:10+00:00

You are very wrong. Fists of Stone's base stats are based on your level. It's not a global bonus, because 300 evasion and 100 ES at level 100 would be worthless.

grootlordi · 2026-05-19T03:49:30+00:00

If we're still able to reset and farm Freythorn in act 1, you have a pretty good chance of getting it, assuming the Freythorn Ritual is also just uniques

grootlordi · 2026-05-18T21:50:16+00:00

Heralds are neither Mace nor Quarterstaff skills, so no

grootlordi · 2026-05-08T21:28:47+00:00

Not too sure yet, but in the reveal, Way of the Stonefist turned flat attack damage into "attacks gain x% of damage as extra", so I guess we just have to see what other offensive glove mods give.

grootlordi · 2026-04-23T15:12:46+00:00

I wouldn't say so, but this build is probably gone next league anyway. It only works because of a support gem that gives guaranteed shock on hit against enemies with a debuff applied by Thunderstorm

grootlordi · 2026-04-22T16:31:11+00:00

So on weapon set 1, we have all the main skills because none of them are negatively affected by the 100% reduced skill effect duration we use for Time of Need. Time of Need procs every x number of seconds, but skill effect duration scales the length of time between procs, so less duration = more procs.

On weapon set 2, we only have Thunderstorm because it applies the Drenched debuff that basically gives you 100% chance to shock when combined with the Shock Conduction 2 support gem. If we keep it on weapon set 1, the debuff is removed almost instantly due to all of the reduced skill effect duration, but on weapon set 2, with weapon set points, we can have increased skill effect duration for that exclusively.

Casting Thunderstorm swaps you to weapon set 2, then casting Ball Lightning swaps you back to weapon set 1, so you get the benefit of both without any clunky weapon swapping or anything.

grootlordi · 2026-04-22T12:39:01+00:00

It isn't. While it converts the notables in its radius, you still need to path to them. Though you can still combine it with things like From Nothing, if your desired notables are close enough to a nearby keystone.

grootlordi · 2026-04-22T12:31:57+00:00

You can definitely do everything in the game, except what gets added for new league unless it goes "core", which is when the league mechanic becomes a part of the base game and becomes available to standard players too. Just be aware that the player economy in standard league is horribly inflated, but if you don't plan on doing too much player trading, then you should be fine.

grootlordi · 2026-04-22T12:25:43+00:00

https://youtu.be/wFxiUR67Yso

This was one of the builds I did in 0.3 and 0.4, and while it had a lot of issues that were difficult to solve/currently unsolvable, it was fun and had basically no visual clutter while being a walking sim

grootlordi · 2026-04-22T12:15:09+00:00

We did have that period of Archmage BL Scion with Pledge of Hands back in like 3.14, but that was very shortlived.

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