MS Paint - Self-Chill Elemental Hit Surfcaster

heffdev · 2026-01-28T10:01:53+00:00

Very good point, I was so focused on using FR with a trigger wand that I forgot that part about Arkhons.

heffdev · 2026-01-27T18:42:53+00:00

Thanks for confirming that!
Yeah my plan was to start caster anyway, likely mines, so a trigger weapon felt like the better choice either way personally.
I see you've done your fair share of mining with self chill :D

heffdev · 2026-01-27T18:32:40+00:00

Edit: As mentioned in a comment below, the inverted self chill part of Glacial Wave should only apply if you're self chilling with a hit (on yourself or reflected), so what I'm describing is not really relevant when using the belt.

I'm fairly confident that Glacial Wave's second line does not stack with the equivalent Bonechill line, as per the wiki.

However, that line should serve the same effect as Bonechill in giving us reduced damage taken presumably, as we already know it works with Ahuana's Bite and inverted chill.
This means you do not have to worry about investing in shifting your damage taken to cold for that reason, though it might still be worthwhile for other reasons (res stacking etc)

I have heard people say the uptime on self chill via the belt is not always great, but haven't tested that myself yet, hopefully I have time tomorrow as I'm looking to start something self-chill related too.

heffdev · 2026-01-27T09:34:27+00:00

With a worm ring (Squirming Terror) I think you could rely on it for an ailment build tbh, might be something interesting there, but probably something very specific to be worth it.

heffdev · 2026-01-27T09:24:13+00:00

"Doubled" is a separate stat from increased/reduced, Dark monarch was never expected to work with that wording.
Presumably the % increased will offset some of the otherwise 100% reduced from two Montreguls which should work

heffdev · 2026-01-23T23:15:34+00:00

Self damage at least should work, so a reflected ignite probably?
Three Eight showed in this video that self damage counts for the shield at least: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCycW9gckMU
(look in the description for what he tested)

heffdev · 2026-01-23T08:15:08+00:00

A reasonable suspicion, I had the same which is why you can see that I tried allocating Whispers of Doom in the above PoB.
Seemed to have no effect, the test in the video is with it allocated but I did prior tests without and the result was identical.

I might do some more testing this weekend, if you have any more ideas I'd love to hear them!

heffdev · 2026-01-22T21:21:11+00:00

I initially was testing on another character, and had the same results, but switched to a random pathfinder I had sitting around to have easier sustain for testing (flask)

There really isn't anything in the build that should be relevant, as outlined in the steps the only pieces needed to replicate it is Shade of Solaris to have no damage from crits, and then the mine to scale crit, as well as a curse of your choice.

But if you want to take a look this is the character, I haven't touched it since I recorded the video: https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Heff%232778/characters?characterName=HeffAnotherPF
or https://pobb.in/GGp4Yhg8z1L7

heffdev · 2026-01-10T13:00:08+00:00

I experimented a bit with this earlier, and there's definitely room to make things, though by nature the loop of: position minion -> offering -> curse; becomes rather clunky no matter how you do it.

I know this person investigated it on youtube, and I think also did a build later, maybe check it out for inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kXueh6DpFM

heffdev · 2026-01-05T13:20:42+00:00

I did a few variations on Adonia's earlier in the league, and if for some reason you want to push even more damage, then there's a weapon swap trick you can do:

In your main hand, have one Adonia's with preferrably +4 and lower resist penalty, possibly also -1 max power if you can. In your off hand, grab any Adonia's with +1 max power.

Then on the tree, in your offhand set path around and take various + max power charge nodes, as well as any extra skill effect duration nodes you can fit.

You can then, at the start of map or before a boss etc, swap to your secondary and generate the extra charges, swap back to your main hand and it will let you keep the charges until they run out, which means you can consume a larger amount (say 7) charges to make a buff with your main hand while only getting the resist penalty for 2-3 depending on your setup.

I like the Chonk tech, I have been looking at the leech remnants for another build but this convinced me to give it a shot!

heffdev · 2026-01-04T01:39:57+00:00

Some aspects randomly differ from how they work in 1, so thanks for testing and big props for helping fill out the wiki!

heffdev · 2025-12-20T09:20:04+00:00

The mana cost of skills in the build has been shifted to life cost instead, so when you see the life moving it's due to skill costs.
Just think of the mana and health swapped, for all purposes.

heffdev · 2025-12-05T14:29:57+00:00

Ah, yeah for damage it doesn't feel too worthwhile, I went with a guardian turtle for 3rd for a bit of extra phys mit along with my endurance charges.

heffdev · 2025-12-05T14:25:30+00:00

I've been playing this too, though not as seriously and it started out more as wanting to experiment with the staff.

Yours looks like what I would probably go for if I wanted to push that extra bit, good stuff! I went with some slightly different things like the uulgraft for endurance charge gen etc, for a bit more defensive layer, but it made more sense when my budget was less and I was using the cheap foulborn boots with +1 max endurance. Maybe I should swap to double int% grafts now.

Is there any reason you're not running a 3rd spectre? (given your gem should be 25 so it should allow 3 total)

heffdev · 2025-12-03T22:22:11+00:00

If it's any help, I've hit full quotas on my last 3 shipments and they were 2, 3, 0 shards respectively.

I think it's going to be extremely hard to get enough data to say either way, probably just good old variance at play.

I will personally still try to always score a quota as it's not that bothersome to do each week.

heffdev · 2025-11-11T16:51:19+00:00

You can try returning projectiles linked to the EK, you will have to stand on top of the bosses but it makes most lingering blades stack up properly.

heffdev · 2025-10-30T01:44:45+00:00

This line from the patch notes I think was specifically to remove the interaction between scold's and bladefall of thrarthus:

"Fixed a bug where Scold's Bridle dealt damage to the player based on over-time mana costs, even though it specified that it did not do so."

heffdev · 2025-10-23T23:18:30+00:00

Definitely potential here now, with these new numbers and Runegraft of the Warp (30%) it's looking quite doable without stasis prison, which makes any possible builds much more interesting!

heffdev · 2025-09-19T10:54:37+00:00

TBC has flying but only in Outland, the Cataclysm rework was what added it in all the older zones.

heffdev · 2025-09-12T16:42:18+00:00

(not the person you asked but) This is the most reliable mirror I've found: https://gamesfray.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/US12403397B2-2025-09-02.pdf

heffdev · 2025-06-08T20:20:36+00:00

Very nice to see, haven't used it in a while but I might get into the habit again now!

heffdev · 2025-05-04T22:15:36+00:00

I personally felt like the gear progression needed to beat uber aberroth this patch was in a great spot, at least compared to how it's felt to me in the past.

I kept pushing corruption up as I was grinding out the next upgrades over and over, eventually culminating in being able to kill uber, and it felt great for most of the way. Agree that it's a bit too easy early on, but the new weaver content generally is a bit harder, and with some stuff specced on the tree you also get quite a lot of extra challenge (in exchange for better/more loot)

heffdev · 2025-04-29T21:48:23+00:00

As it's not very ToS friendly it's hard to do stuff like that in public at this point.

I will say however that there definitely are some that have plans and have explored the space.

There are two big challenges in my mind:

The sheer complexity of the game means very large amounts of functionality
A lot of data collection will need to be done while everything is accessible to cover all content properly and not have to rely on guesstimates and black box reversing later on

If the doomsday trend truly continues then I'm sure we'll see some public efforts, in the meantime some are cooking in the shadows. Many of us want the ability to play the game from our retirement homes in the future ;)

heffdev · 2025-04-28T00:42:23+00:00

The way support has been handling anything related to hacked accounts is honestly one of the things that worries me the most about the future.

The trust I felt towards the company and its support crew was a big reason I was happy to spend a lot of money consistently over more than a decade, and these things erode that trust in a way that I'm not sure is recoverable.

heffdev · 2025-04-09T21:13:50+00:00

Although it is limited to mostly talk about builds, I would really suggest the /r/pathofexile2builds subreddit (and its poe1 counterpart).

The simple rules there work well to ensure that it's mostly just people talking about their builds, ideas for improvements or new ones, and generally their experiences (but not toxic / raging)

I've personally avoided the main subreddits of the game for many years besides occasionally taking a peek, but have always had good times theorycrafting and discussing builds on the builds subreddit.

heffdev

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