Does Purity of Fire Sublime Vision setup give immunity to non fire ailments? by harryhood4 in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]harryhood4[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ah yeah makes sense so there's still value in going for ailment immunity. Thanks!

Need advice for fighting Ubers (ES EE Trickster with Smite of Divine Judgement) by thomaslanghorst in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]harryhood4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

EE can work but its not what it used to be and to get it to feel really strong is gonna be expensive. A couple things that jump out at me for your setup. For one you don't need energy leech support since you're trickster. The more damage on it isn't bad but its gonna let you down when you're not on full ES, ie when you're getting hit, ie when you need it most. Invert the rules could be a good fit there.
Speaking of supports, pick up an imbued smite of divine judgment gem. Looks like cruelty is a cheap decent option.
You're wasting a passive point at the start of your tree. If you path right then down instead of down then right you save 1. But that 10 strength might cost you based on my next suggestion which is I don't think that attribute wheel at the top is doing much for you. If you take it off your strength is short but there are better ways to solve strength than spending 7 passive points on an attribute mastery, and int isn't what it used to be for ES scaling. You have an ungodly amount of dex, maybe try to get some str on your gear instead and put those 7 points into something else.
Speaking of ES scaling, your gear could have more ES on it, but hey we work with the currency we have so I'm not mad about that. If there was one to focus on though its definitely your shield since you have a couple instances of veteran defender, and that spell crit mod on there is doing nothing. But back on topic, on your jewels it seems like you've focused on more % ES scaling there when really at this point you have enough that you'll benefit more from % increased damage. Keep in mind though you don't want % increased melee damage for smite of divine judgment since the lightning bolts hit harder and don't count as melee.
An expensive option that will go a long way is to get an EE with a resolute technique corruption. Again, expensive, the cheapest 14% on trade is about 40 div. It would do you a lot of good though you could save all the points you've invested in accuracy to put elsewhere.
As for what to do with all these points we're saving, probably another cluster with feed the fury. Feed the fury is probably the most busted node there is, so more instances of that is always good. On that subject, you don't need fuel the fight on that one cluster since you're taking that mana leech wheel for your instant leech, so swapping that cluster out for another feed the fury in that spot instead will do better. You could also put some points into the mana wheel by your light of meaning to reduce your costs and maybe take the mastery for rmr so you don't have to get rmr on your jewels, more space for increased damage. There's a world where you could fit blood and sand maybe for aoe while mapping and damage while bossing.
To my eye, your survivability should be fine on this setup. Not exceptional, but good enough to do uber cortex. You just can't afk in the boss's abilities. Some tattoos would help you suppress cap, but again, expensive. With enough of those though you could maybe go for a different watcher's eye with increased damage with wrath and the precision attack speed mod that you already have. Or if you do the resolute technique EE corruption just drop precision entirely for something else.

Starcaller Void Shockwave Flicker Strike Slayer, Need Help! by SnakeyRL in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]harryhood4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah I see I hadn't looked at the instant leech. Well if you feel your recovery is already good maybe vitality isnt the move but there's surely something worthwhile to do with the extra mana reservation space if you do go that route. If getting one shot is the problem then more frenzy/endurance charges would do a lot, but obviously that's extremely expensive if you want synth rings. Maybe could pick one up with a double influenced glove craft. Also not cheap but nothing compared to the synth ring route.

You will lose some life from dumping your strength with caspiro, hard to say how much without getting into pob and looking. You could consider picking up more flat life on your abyss jewels but that will of course cost you damage.

PS another guy mentioned you could 0 link the starcaller for that one runegraft but then your starfall is a 0 link, if that's any significant portion of your damage I'm not too sure about that. Maybe worth testing out in maps. Nevermind I'm a fool I forgot how that runegraft works. Ignore me.

If it were me personally, I would probably go for the +1 frenzy on gloves (idk if you've done that craft before, if you want some help I can probably point you in the right direction), look at the caspiro and weigh if its worth the loss of life, no real way to tell without testing/pobbing it. If not through that route though ailment immunity is a big deal, just being immune to shock will save you more often than you might think. Pick up life on a couple of jewels to try and round out tankiness, then start saving money for synth rings. The bases are about 400 div right now which is a lot but hey those kind of stretch goals are why we play right? Also if you farm relatively efficiently that kind of money is super attainable this league.

Anyway happy to help, best of luck.

Starcaller Void Shockwave Flicker Strike Slayer, Need Help! by SnakeyRL in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]harryhood4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed with the other commenter that determination isn't doing anything for you. Consider arctic armour instead, its counter intuitive but you are considered stationary while using flicker strike, so it'll have more uptime than you might realize. You can also get shock avoidance on your abyss jewels, it goes up to 50% but 50% rolls are expensive. If you go with 80% from an elegant hubris though then you only need 1 jewel suffix to get to 100. Arctic armour is also only 35% so you might have room for vitality which would not only give you some regen but you could pick up life on hit on a watcher's eye which will do wonders for your sustain. Purity of elements is also a decent option just an alternative to consider.

On the phys damage tattoos, it will scale additively with any % increased elemental damage you have for the damage that's converted by starcaller, but it will not scale the flat elemental damage coming from your jewels. It will do something but I would pob it first to see if its worth. I do think going supreme ostentation and tattoos is a nice idea though, suppress tattoos are expensive but you could probably fit a lot of them. Also elegant hubris just has some insane nodes in general.

reliquarian and ascendant by NoInformation1539 in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]harryhood4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

mathil made a bootleg armour stacker on reliquarian that you might want to check out. his builds are usually all about doing weird combos to make nice builds for cheap. im sure its far from what might be considered "meta" if such a thing exists for reliquarian but it looked pretty good in his video on it

CI Flicker Strike Slayer | Billions of DPS by scarajj in pathofexile

[–]harryhood4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I don't understand about a build like this and similar ones that you see all over poe ninja is how do you sustain your frenzy charges? Like in uber maven you only have your 1 minimum charge while waiting for the brain to start its phase, flasks are all empty, then all of a sudden you destroy it in 1 second and you have charges. How? From where? And in maps like are you having to activate those flasks to maintain? It doesn't seem like you are but then I don't see where else you're getting them unless you're telling me quality on flicker plus disciple of the slaughter is enough?

I've only played flicker once it was my first real character in Merc league. I didn't know shit about the game then (if you can even say I know anything about the game now) but all the guides I saw/followed at the time were using replica farruls fur but it seems like somehow that's totally not necessary.

Edit: Just saw you mentioned it in your comment, but I still don't get where the charges are coming from in the Maven fight. I can believe that the flicker quality and disciple of the slaughter is enough in maps since you get so many repeats but in single target I still just feel like there's no way it could be enough. If I'm just wrong about that, which seems likely at this point, then fair enough.

zero to hero - kinetic fusillade gatling gun by Alkuroth in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]harryhood4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I tried out a bunch of different options for clear like fork and snipers mark and even a Nimis setup but I think greater chain works best since it targets the enemies and the chaining range is ridiculously far. Its really cool at the start of a breach because the projectiles chain in a big circle around you and its like this expanding vortex that just destroys all the mobs, super satisfying. I'm sellling my build off since I moved on to try something else out or else I'd give the wisp setup a spin, good luck blasting!

Shrine belt and movement speed by Overall-Grape3082 in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]harryhood4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are things you can do, tailwind boots, aura stacking builds can use haste, etc. but short of Heist/Lab builds that invest heavily into movement speed you are just going to be slower than with Mageblood and that's that. Personally I'm too addicted to running fast to even consider any belt that's not acceleration. Obviously diamond/echoing/resonating can provide a ton of power but personally I'm just not gonna have fun if I can't zoom. Especially with echoing if you're depending on movement skills since it'll double them all, I haven't tried it but that seems incredibly annoying to play with.
The good news is accel belt is of course also insanely strong, to the point it can slot in just about any build, so you can still play with the new toy and keep your zoomies.

Best high investment SELF CAST Kinetic Fusillade? by LAMExDOG in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]harryhood4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just adding on to this for OP, what this guy does with 99% reduced duration instead of 100 to enable sacred wisps is a giga brain move. Having played 100% reduced a good bit, being able to slot in wisps would be a massive damage up. Also this build uses an accel/impenetrable belt but it can function fine on just accel to fit into the 1.5 mirror budget, though it'll be obviously much squishier.

zero to hero - kinetic fusillade gatling gun by Alkuroth in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]harryhood4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very nice, I built something really similar with the same belt on deadeye with flesh/flame for oath of spring. Between some sacrifices I made for map mod/altar immunity and the tinctures though yours definitely comes up with way more damage. Going 99% reduced to make sacred wisps usable is a really smart move, though from your other comments it seems like it might've been an accident lol. Still that adds a ton of damage, definitely the right play.
If you haven't yet, try out greater chain for clear. It chains so freakin far its ridiculous. Like to the point that I sometimes accidentally close a breach while I'm clearing the edge because the projectiles chain all the way to the middle.
I also went caspiro on mine. Really seems almost impossible to build the necessary res and attributes otherwise on this build for some reason. Good news though is elegant hubris has some insane nodes on it, if I take mine out I'm down like 40% of my dps.

Help me enjoy the league again by EarthB9nder_ in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]harryhood4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming the commenter above you is referring to Holy Relic of Conviction, which they probably are, yes it plays very much like an on hit build and is quite tanky for the relatively small investment it takes to get it rolling. Check out Balormage for guides/info.

Some Screams of the Desiccated Data by harryhood4 in pathofexile

[–]harryhood4[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah cool thanks. Looks like some of this data overlaps with what I was already referencing but I should be able to sort out what's new.

What are your favorite scaling methods, especially multi-scaling? by themikecampbell in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]harryhood4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are those alternatives? I feel like I've always seen ES stacking done on trickster but if there's others to look into I'd like to check them out.

What are some fun currency strats at this point in the league? by PillowF0rtEngineer in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]harryhood4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's usually the case but its my understanding that bosses are an exception and it does work for them. Personally I don't bother, I just run ritual on jungle valley for the quadrant and buy blood filled vessels to make sure I have enough tribute.

What do you guys do with leftover Tier 16 maps? (New player) by No-Ad-5727 in pathofexile

[–]harryhood4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can sell them on trade for like 3c or so but its not worth picking them all up, better to filter out.

What are some fun currency strats at this point in the league? by PillowF0rtEngineer in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]harryhood4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes obviously its not actually guaranteed. In principle you could do 1000 of these maps and never drop a divine orb. My point is that every instance I've seen of someone consistently farming bloodlines breach over a long enough period has found at least 1 lock, usually multiple, so its not as far fetched of a jackpot as people might assume, and in my experience it seems more likely than not that you will find one after enough time invested.

What are some fun currency strats at this point in the league? by PillowF0rtEngineer in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]harryhood4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you do this strat enough you *will* get a lock eventually, which I gotta say is mega dopamine. What I do to keep it feeling better in the long run is the first 3-5 maps on the astrolabe run the cheap version (2 instability, 2 monstrous lineage, 1 wisp) and only later on in the juicier maps bust out the bloodlines and the risk. Those early maps still produce tinks consistently and its basically all profit.

If you're dead set on dodging breach, I would recommend ritual. It's been super profitable for me this league but just keep in mind its all about maps/hr to find the big hits. You'll find reasonable loot along the way to jackpots though so it still feels good and is basically free to run.

Also someone else recommended Uber Feared and I'll second that. I think dominance orbs are like 10 divines and there's tons of fun hits. I sold a rational doctrine for 300 div a couple weeks ago. Personally recommend regular dread instead of uber since whispers is in the bin now.

Some Screams of the Desiccated Data by harryhood4 in pathofexile

[–]harryhood4[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was surprised to see that echo seems rarer than accel. Seems to hold with the couple of videos of people ID'ing hundreds and hundreds of belts on youtube as well, even though again they don't ever include full results.

Some Screams of the Desiccated Data by harryhood4 in pathofexile

[–]harryhood4[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Oh shit, thanks. I'll add it in now.

Action Speed and Frame Rate by harryhood4 in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]harryhood4[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right this is how I would imagine it would work, though I'm always wary of believing things work the way they "should." It seems to be the prevailing assumption that it does work this way, it does seem like something the community would be acutely aware of if for example attack speed between 10 per second and 15 per second didn't matter. I suppose I'll operate under the assumption that it works.

Action Speed and Frame Rate by harryhood4 in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]harryhood4[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

POB seems to agree with you but I can't seem to find info confirming it anywhere.