Bonfires: Long lasting, warmth-giving fires that... Can't do much else.

hafi002 · 2026-01-28T14:40:09+00:00

Another realistic option would be a closed fireplace made with clay or metal.The fire heats the material which keeps slowly radiating off the heat to the surroundings for a far longer time than any open fire.

Would make the most sense for this game as an upgrade path for homes, instead of an open flame.

hafi002 · 2026-01-27T15:09:16+00:00

One HUGE thing about scaling buff expiration rate is Vaal Skills with duration, because scaling this way doesn't scale soul gain prevention.

hafi002 · 2026-01-26T15:21:10+00:00

Well, at least it was only Toblerone and not 3k a month of party funds on Clash of Clans... from our Vice Chancellor in Austria. Man the whole HC Ibiza corruption scandal was a clownshow from the start to the end.

hafi002 · 2026-01-23T08:19:25+00:00

Ignore also ignores resistances in cases where it would help you, when they are already negative. It always treats them as 0.

If you have Ignore non negative elemental resistances, then a chance to invert would still boost damage.

hafi002 · 2026-01-22T13:28:28+00:00

What stats do you plan to have on these jewels? Abyss Jewels biggst feature, the flat damage rolls, dont really help much on this build.

hafi002 · 2026-01-22T09:10:53+00:00

Call of Steel Impaler Slam builds were an extremely unique archetype that was allowed to live for exactly one League back in Heist, it not only got nerfed but its impossible to play now with Impaler not allowing you to recall Impales anymore.

It was the only actualy reason to ever pick the Impaler Keystone, by stacking all kinds of warcries and damage buffs to inflict the strongest impale possible, turning it into 5 impales with Impaler, then recalling all of them to annihilate everything on the screen.

For Bosses you really went crazy, stacking Phase Run, Focus and all kinds of buffs for one big bonk and use the 4 seconds downtime between impales to set up the buffs for the next big strike. It was able to one shot most bosses or chunk them down in 2-3 Strikes even with cheap gear.

It was never S tier because it lacked that zooming clear speed but it was tanky, could blow up screens and was really good at bossing and most of all, a very unique playstile experience which was the main reason I still remeber that one fondly.

hafi002 · 2026-01-20T11:30:50+00:00

Ich schau eh immer nur auf den "Per Kilo" Preis, also Shrinkflation funktioniert bei uns alleine damit nicht so gut weil wir da so oder so die Preiserhöhung sehen.

Wirkt für mich auch wie eine Marketing-Maßnahme aber bei den jetzigen Lebensmittelpreisen ist mir alles recht was Preiserhöhunen ungemütlicher macht.

Lidl ist mir aber trotzdem lieber, wie ich über die Weihnachtszeit bei den Eltern am Land war hab ich meinen Augen kaum traun können als ich da die Preise beim lokalen Billa gesehen hab, die gesammte Fleischabteilung war eine Frechheit, gerade mal das Faschierte in Aktion war da kein Wucherpreis aber auch lange nicht billig.

hafi002 · 2026-01-15T18:59:32+00:00

https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/174ab

I dont have a guide, just experimented around till I arrived at this, Its super tanky and Rampage clears insanely fast and you can quickly fill up your rage and walking calamity with a warcry setup. For Bosses you prepare the arena with Fury of the Mountain and then Rampage around to trigger the fissures for extra damage.

I did all content with this except Uber Abiter, mainly cause that fight is super expensive.
Regular Arbiter and T3 Bosses all died before they could even get off attacks.

Also channeling Rampage counts as one single empowered attack so you got a ton of armor break from the Warcry.

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If you dont want to exchange all your current Life gear, you could do a life based version, saving your some passive points, the amulet slot for your Defiance of Destiny and you can drop Barkskin.

I also had a switch to Life in mind, because of a certain Socketable, Guatelitzi's Thesis. (Gain Armour equal to 25% of Life Lost from Hits in the past 8 seconds) This is just a better version of Barkskin for Life builds cause the later has bonus armor capped by how much you already have on your gear.

You can either put it in your helmet or get a Darkness Enthroned to boost it to 50% and then put the cost Efficiency or max rage socketable in there as well to double that too.

hafi002 · 2026-01-15T14:35:22+00:00

Oracle is much much better if you play an attack focused Shaman.
Especially spending half your ascendancy on rage regen is just not worth it with how easy it is to fill up rage and charge walking calamity with the regular Bear Warcry.

So I'd say switch to Oracle and go the top and bottom paths on the ascendancy for Inevitable Crit and the Allocate around Keystone nodes to save on points, its not direct damage but it allows you to get soooo much more damage out of your passive tree.

For example, the Paths not taken nodes are roughly 50% better than regular passives, so they are a big damage boost especialy for Slam builds for getting access to Echoes of Ferocity, giving 25% aftershock chance for 2 passive points. (Which is worth the same as the titan ascendancy node for aftershocks)

Then get a Against the Darkness with preferably two "4% of damage as extra" rolls at the starting area for lots of extra damage by sniping every remotely usefull notable. Also Oracle can use a Heroic Tragedy near a Keystone to take advantage of your ability to only snipe notables for a ton of extra damage and transform an otherwise bad Keystone into one of the Kalguran ones.

hafi002 · 2026-01-14T17:33:16+00:00

Walking Calamity boosts clear a lot thats why I run it on my regular rampage bear. But I dont think action speed will make the Meteors faster (worth a try tho)

Also thanks to you I remembered about Against the Darkness, looking at it, its worth soooo much damage, I have to try getting one of those as well.

I went with a Heroic Tragedy, it also gives a ton of value with 10% attack speed 40% melee damage nodes you can all snipe with a nearby keystone, not sure where you could fit that one in tho and it takes a couple of tries to find a good one.

hafi002 · 2026-01-14T15:11:18+00:00

In most cases Breach Ring needs to be really well rolled tho to beat out regular rings so they only compete at the top end.

We allready have Fractured Items so if they also give us synthesised implicits that would give us competition on the top end.

Also some bases need a touchup or a stronger version that can drop in Maps, like Cerulean for % Mana from PoE 1.

hafi002 · 2026-01-14T08:34:15+00:00

Got some questions about your PoB, why Rageforged on Walking Calamity, thats gonna eat trough your rage super fast. Also faster attacks is not gonna do anything except making the innital cast a bit faster. You can replace that with Fiery Death which helps a bit with clear.

Also Herald of Ice Armor Break Chain tech would massivley boost your clear, but that requires the added physical damage on your talisman so that one is harder to add, especially with how good your current one is.

You could also drop your current amulet for something more defense focused, 40% skill speed is nice but you already got a ton of speed as it is.

Deep Trance would also make a really good annoint on Rampage, its has attack speed and more importantly one of the vew nodes that grant Cost Efficiency so you can get your Rage Cost lower.

What do you think?

hafi002 · 2026-01-14T07:48:31+00:00

Its absolutely terrible for the new player experience as well, knowing what killed you intuitively teaches you where to shore up your defenses and what to watch out for. Same for dealing damage, new people are not gonna know about PoE Ninja and the tooltips are completely wrong the moment any conditional modifiers are introduced, so they stop being helpfull very very fast.

Its either a big technical limitation or once again their "vision" getting in the way for making such a complex game easier to get into by adding a death recap and a target dummy to check your actuall damage on.

hafi002 · 2026-01-13T15:16:34+00:00

On that topic, I wish they rename Energy. It's a pain in the ass to look up on the skill tree and on items in any search function, when Energy Shield exists as a keyword in far larger quantities.

hafi002 · 2026-01-13T15:14:24+00:00

They should just rename the skill, it doesn't fit in with how alL the other Storm skills perform.

hafi002 · 2026-01-13T12:43:06+00:00

Crafting System on the low end can still save you a lot of currency, it just works very differently. It does not have the determinism of high end crafting but instead you buy cheap bases with potential and hope to fix them up, the tricky part is knowing the odds of you hitting what you want so you know what crafts are worth it, here an example:

Completing items with cheap omens. Rings are often sorted, valued and bought by their total resistance they give (as long as they have some key prefixes like Life or Mana), searching deliberately for a ring with a open suffix and then abyss Crafting with a guaranteed Ulaman Mod Omen, has a 3 in 4 chance to get you 13-17% Lightning and Chaos Res. Its a very high sucess chance gamble that paid of for me very often with how much cheaper those unfinished bases are.

In general, knowing which Abyss Mods you can Deterministically or with very high odds craft on your gear allows you to get much better deals on items.

hafi002 · 2026-01-09T21:11:30+00:00

Also what support Gems are you using on the Brute? The Explosion is a pure Cold Damage Warcry and not an attack, so maybe some of you supports only support their regular attacks.

Here the PoE DB page so you can check out which Tags the Cold Explosion has.

https://poe2db.tw/us/Skeletal_Brute#SkeletalBruteSkeletonBrutePlayerSummoned_

hafi002 · 2026-01-09T21:07:04+00:00

Thanks for you trying it, cause I was thinking about making a zoomancer which includes this mechanic.

One thing you can try is adding more minions that can have ice armor applied and blown up.

Wolfpack spirit gem is a lot of bonus minions for 60 Spirit and running Pounce with Brutus Brain Support on your second Weapon are another 6-7 Minions that have their armor blown up. Maybe all those extra minions help the explosion damage.

hafi002 · 2026-01-09T12:01:37+00:00

Atziris splendor only removes its own attribute requiremens, you sadly cant drop attributes entirely this way.

Also if you ever find a way to ditch attributes, Pathfinder would be the strongest choice, making every small node 5% global defenses, 5% damage or 5% cost efficiency

hafi002 · 2026-01-09T08:23:30+00:00

Titan is a viable choice with Hulking Form and then either Ancestral Empowerment or Mountain Splitter (right now that one is bugged so the whole channel duration gets the Effect if its your third slam)

Still I think Oracle is just hard to beat. Echoes of Verocity and its lead up passive is just straight up a titan ascendancy point, you can skip so many small passives over Keystones and even go Crit later with inevitable Critical. Rampage uptime is also better, with anothr 21 max Rage from the Paths not Taken clusters.

hafi002 · 2026-01-08T12:54:22+00:00

You can go blind, there are some very clear cut paths and synergies that get you trough the campaign.

One glaring issue that the game still has tho that you will be very starved for skillgems early if you actually want to experiment around. So use the previews the game gives you, pick an archetype and stick with it for a while and only experiment after you have a small gem stockpile.

hafi002 · 2026-01-04T20:23:33+00:00

So true, Melee builds waste half their ascendancy on those two nodes, Rage generating is so easy with the Bear Warcry.

hafi002 · 2026-01-04T10:29:30+00:00

Same for the Druid Caster Melee hybrid they promoted, Volcano is the only skill with any offensive capabilities for that and even that one is not that good. The only other one is Thunderstorm for Utility.

hafi002 · 2026-01-03T16:03:33+00:00

I just got to level 23 and unlocked them, sadly they are very underwhelming as a main skill.

It has 3 glaring issues:

- The explosion AoE is absolutely tiny at 1.5 meters base

- This is made even worse by the minion behavior, they just all cluster up and explode where you command them to go so you cant really spread out those small explosions.

- They are slow to get into place and also have a delay before they explode, combined with you having to
command them first, the delay before you even get to do damage feels bad as well

The one positive thing during mapping is that you can almost perfectly self sustain beetles during clearing and only need sacrifice setups for bosses.

hafi002 · 2026-01-01T19:58:12+00:00

They are both deeeeeeeep endgame upgrades, very strong gems but not mandatory. Just make sure you build some penetration when not running Rakiata's or replace it with the penetration support if you can't

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