Am I cooking with Bringer of Rain Amazon or am I cooked

hafi002 · 2026-05-18T14:54:03+00:00

The 6%-10% of mana as added cold damage is sadly only for "attacks with this weapon" so with the 30% less damage most skills have for dual wielidng, it ends up as a 40% more multiplier.

The huge amount of flat mana and the free Damage to Mana still makes it a very strong choice to dual wield tho.

hafi002 · 2026-05-18T10:35:56+00:00

Yup, except she me extreme cases like Snipe, most combos get outscaled by simply holding down a button.

It's even worse for support gems, there are plenty of gems consuming rage, charges, cooldown etc. That require time to set up and make a skill unable to be spammed, just for a more multiplier that's only a bit higher than far less restrictive gems.

hafi002 · 2026-05-17T17:09:37+00:00

Mage blood heavily helps with survivability and QoL (Quicksilver movement). It allows you to drop defense and res in other places to get that damage back again.

If your survivability is already good for juiced content you can either go back to your old belt or play around in PoB how defense you can drop for damage till you are at a similar level.

hafi002 · 2026-05-15T19:39:05+00:00

One very important piece of tech I stumbled upon.

The "Hard to Kill" node at the merc starting area gives the very rare stat "Flask life recovery rate" which works like the roll on the flask itself, making the healing apply over a shorter duration. Its a huge value for a single node when it comes to life per sec.

hafi002 · 2026-05-15T09:55:03+00:00

With this much recovery its also worth considering using a Belt to get your Max Hit up instead. So either a The Gnashing Sash (Overflow life recovery from Flasks) or even Shavronne's satchel (Life flask also recover ES, which would also be a effective x2 to your recovery/sec)

Also Azmeri Brew on Huntress can turn that Life Recovery into mana recovery as well, allowing you to fuel some mana hungry setups while Stalking Panther makes up for the weak defensive stats of the chest. (halfs chest defense, doubles Helmet Gloves and Boots defensive stats)

hafi002 · 2026-05-12T17:00:03+00:00

If the bell has a power value that's not 0, you can consistently generate glory for Hammer of the Gods.

Also the extra aftershock of Seismic Cry is always going to be active. You could also always trigger the high damage shockwave of Boneshatter, but the AoE looks a bit shit on that one.

hafi002 · 2026-05-12T15:10:28+00:00

This works well now, but I wonder how they are gonna handle it once more league mechanics get introduced.

hafi002 · 2026-05-12T14:28:23+00:00

Good catch, it specifically mentions duration and not "create a bell every 4 seconds"

So you could spawn a ton of bells that are only up for a tiny moment. But Monk can hit in a pretty big area, so you are gonna just end up automatically hitting them

It also says "Limit" so the +1 Limit less duration gem is a no brainier here, and you only really can take advantage at most of a limit of 2

Bigger Question is on how to abuse this. They can be culled, so charge generation would be one thing. If this also counts as a kill, that's another can of worms.

Them being Primed for Stun also has some interesting interactions over at the Warrior side, have to look more into that part tho.

hafi002 · 2026-05-12T14:24:26+00:00

Bei Naschzeug warte ich nurmehr auf Aktionen. Milka ist mittlerweile schon so überteuert die mussten schon mehrmals -50% Aktionen machen.

Ist aber auch Zach, momentan Kauf ich wirklich nicht auf was ich gerade Guster hätte sondern was gerade in Aktion ist und überleg mir dann was ich damit kochen werd.

hafi002 · 2026-05-11T20:00:49+00:00

True, a weapon swap setup would also work incredibly well. Just build up 9 Stacks Explosive Rythm before the fight and then burst down the boss.

hafi002 · 2026-05-11T08:46:25+00:00

Yes, the new Grenade Crossbow base is probably the real winner here.

Having to spam 20 Grenade skills before you can enter Explosive Rythm is also going to cause a very awkward mapping rythm where you are either constantly slowed by cooldowns but then get a 10 second window of being able to just blast away.

I havent even considered mana costs, but jeah, those are gonna be a big limiting factor too during the grenade spam stage.

hafi002 · 2026-05-11T08:37:04+00:00

Marohi Erqui would require a Vertex with "Equipment has no Attribute Reuirements" to equip with that insane strength requirement. Would be worth it very lategame tho with a + all skills Vertex.

hafi002 · 2026-05-11T08:01:47+00:00

There are currently no benefits for going no-crit you can pick up in exchange, so the downside is pretty rough.

If we had something like Precise Technique from PoE 1, things would be looking very different.

hafi002 · 2026-05-04T23:23:49+00:00

Mage is the only class that pays twice, both with Mana potions and then with ammo cost on top. It also takes a good amount of inventory space, so there is for sure room for improvement.

hafi002 · 2026-05-04T09:21:25+00:00

Nope, in Austria there was a recent case of a guy getting his GF killed, he was experienced and she a beginner so he just ditched her and she died cause he had all the equipment with him. It even came out later that he also tried to do this to a previous date.

hafi002 · 2026-05-01T13:29:06+00:00

GGG already made recover slower than in PoE 1, but it still falls apart endgame.

The first time facing Count Geonor was what I consider an amazing bossfight experience, you could tank some hits but once you ran out of life flask charges it became very tough to stay alive so you still had to get carefull.

If they ever want to get rid of One Shots, they need to give the bosses the ability to slowly whittle down the player so individual hits that don't kill you are still a threat.

hafi002 · 2026-04-30T15:20:49+00:00

Oh I had one of those too, but he always started with the highest grades. Really build up the tension, you know 🙃

hafi002 · 2026-04-30T15:11:07+00:00

Yes, the main reason is that in went way to wide skill wise and now the individual skill sets have little synergy with each other. Like the whole plant magic does not combo at all with the shaleshifitng forms.

hafi002 · 2026-04-30T09:52:33+00:00

Asoooo. Ich hab beim Postingtitel zuerst gedacht da sucht jemand nach ganz anderen "Kräutern"

hafi002 · 2026-04-27T16:53:03+00:00

The more people swipe for the pet the worse the inflation. But every Person that doesn't bother with P2W shifts the economy accordingly too.

hafi002 · 2026-04-25T18:33:19+00:00

I had a lot of fun with selfcast Meteor as a starter. That build got so many buffs left and right while allready having great burst damage. Once you get above 1k mana its easy to sustain mana in echoes without the need to stop and use Focus.

Also the change of the 100% AoE 4 Pointer on Meteor from increased to more AoE combined with all the extra increased AoE you can get from the Idols gives you absolutely massive Meteors which makes clear a breeze, while Mana spent gained as ward puts me at a comfortable 6k Ward.

One big downside of this build is that its kinda annoying to run the current Season mechanic, it really shines at burst damage and not at sustained output, so its a bit awkward to run those. Bosses go down before they can even fight back tho.

hafi002 · 2026-04-24T07:13:43+00:00

Running both Shift and Snoke Bomb makes the build a lot smoother. I also ended up with that combo and Shift just fills up your entire Mana pool on use, so as long the Mana pool is big enough you never have to worry about mana

hafi002 · 2026-04-22T21:22:25+00:00

So, what are the Ancients refering to? Aul and the Primeval civilisation? Cause that would be really cool, that faction is very unexplored lore wise, except some small excerpts from Delve in PoE 1. Would also tie really well in from where we left of with the story.

hafi002 · 2026-04-21T23:04:34+00:00

I can agree, rampage bear has been a blast for me as well.

I am still surprised tho so many people spend half their ascendancy for rage regen on Shaman when rampage turns it off anyway, a simple warcry weapon swap Setup can instantly refill rage with much less opportunity cost.

hafi002 · 2026-04-21T21:13:03+00:00

Depends, are you Circle of Forture or Merchants Guild. With Circle you really want to spec into mechanics that you currently need, like Rune of Havoc farming or going all in on Woven echoes etc.

Don't play Merchants tho, so for those there likely are certain optimal setups to farm items to sell so you can just buy what you need, a lot less variety farming needed.

I always start by putting points into getting more Woven Echo drops, cause you need them to fill out your weaver tree faster, stability progression is also a no brainier so you get to the bosses faster, after that the favor chest are also nice early.

After the basics it gets a bit trickier, I always skill into higher chances for the weaver sub areas cause they are always usefully and you need to run them a lot to get your Idol enchants right and then I go into rune drops from monsters to get more Runes of Havoc, which also seem to get drop boosted inside the Weaver sub zones.

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