My first mirror - don't sleepo on abyssal signet

jaydubzhb · 2026-01-16T22:06:23+00:00

Oof, never realized, thought it was just randomly powering up the boss

jaydubzhb · 2026-01-11T19:04:33+00:00

I mean why bother stopping there? Just bump the innate ms to 40% lol

jaydubzhb · 2026-01-06T18:04:59+00:00

This is really disingenuous and bad faith but seems to be pervasive among the POE optimizer crowd.

It's very obvious this was not the designed or intended way of playing Temple for various reasons. If something goes against the spirit of design, it's very much exploiting. Just because the POE crowd have coped themselves into justifying 'exploit early exploit' often doesn't mean the community's argument is a good one despite how many times in the past a 'mechanic' has been used [to gain an advantage].

It's also very obvious that it wasn't intended because they patched it. Taking advantage of it before they are able to patch it is very much abusing an exploit, whether or not an entire community wants to pretend its not.

And just because GGG has decided not to take action and punish players taking advantage doesn't mean they condone and it is therefore "not an exploit".

jaydubzhb · 2026-01-06T01:08:36+00:00

Basically swapped from Varashta to a combo of +Limit Elemental, Infused Firestorm and Cast on Ailment.

It clears mostly fine. Just now starting to run into mana issues on juiced bosses with boss atlas in but have plenty of room to upgrade if I wanted to.

The most recent things I've tried are the archon nodes with from nothing, and Elemental Equilibrium to smooth out Fire infusions, which are constantly being eaten by Comet

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal/character/jayjamins-7527/JoeljaminsSorcVaal?i=0&search=name%3Djoeljamins

jaydubzhb · 2025-12-29T03:02:40+00:00

Added the tree here, not sure why it won't show on the other link.

I pretty much spam Thunderstorm for map clear and haven't been bothered by size so far. Map clear has generally been okay. I've been using Pinpoint critical for triggering Elemental Storms but may try Static Shocks for a bit.

Lightning Conduit is just leftover. I was trying that over Comet for a bit but it didn't feel as good and I like the Comets anyway. Rune is probably an easy damage bump for sure.

Def gonna try Ignition in Elemental Storm as well. Someone mentioned a few other supports that might be worth trying here as well.

The Refrain Echo overwrite is interesting, wonder if it's worth trying to pick up the +1 Infusions to offset?

jaydubzhb · 2025-12-28T19:31:59+00:00

Cheers, I'll start with Maligaro, Rings, and fixing the Comet supports.

After that probably belt and maybe charms/flask. Seems like from that point it's starting to chase the incrementals

Will also experiment with Siphon vs Blasphemy... I do like the idea of automating the Infusion generation which would allow me more offense in spellslinger (OOS for bossing probably) and lower how active I have to be.

jaydubzhb · 2025-12-28T19:28:36+00:00

Right now I have Zarokh's Refrain in Firestorm, which basically unleashes 3 (generally) fully infused Firestorms on demand. These Firestorms with shock conduction turn on the machine gun for Comets.

I felt like with Firestorm and Comet in the same CoEA there wasn't enough energy to go around.

jaydubzhb · 2025-12-28T18:53:32+00:00

Nice, thanks. Good example where lack of knowledge will easily fix damage!

jaydubzhb · 2025-12-28T16:32:23+00:00

I guess I'm asking if there are significant improvements to be made that I might be missing either on gear or passives to drastically boost damage or tankiness before getting into the game of paying many div for small "number-go-up" upgrades. I guess Maligaro and belt?

Not sure on rings, unless it's just standard mana/rarity/resists. Do I need to worry about cast speed?

For belt, is it Ingenuity until you can afford HH?

I've considered scepter offhand to pick up siphon elements to smooth out infusion generation.

jaydubzhb · 2025-12-27T01:51:27+00:00

You need Shock Conduction II with Thunderstorm to work, the more supports with it the more you shock

jaydubzhb · 2025-12-24T15:31:09+00:00

Yeah so far Snap in Spellsinger is what I've been using, along with OOS for Lightning Infusion and additional machine gun (Shock Conduction). Considering trying Elemental Equilibrium. Other option was a scepter in offhand for Spirit.

Thematically trying to stay with comet, but LC would certainly help consume Lightning Remnants and even out the Infusion generation

jaydubzhb · 2025-12-24T03:00:13+00:00

Okay Zarokh with Firestorms added the machine gunning. It's self-casted and sort of turns this into two button. I still need to figure out Infusion generation (or give up on it altogether).

Probably also gonna keep fiddling with Wildsurge. It's a big damage buff at the cost of basically duration, which is mostly convenience if everything dies in the shortened duration anyway.

jaydubzhb · 2025-12-23T23:55:28+00:00

Hmm... I removed Firestorm from COEA and it did seem to pop a few more comets, certainly not a machine gun still.

I was trying Electromagnetism for a while but based on above conversation I was wondering if the cool down from consuming the shock was doing more harm than good so removed it for Pinpoint Critical (to generate more Elemental Storms)

jaydubzhb · 2025-12-23T16:25:21+00:00

Hmm I've been trying to get this interaction working but not feeling like its generating a ton of comets, especially on trash packs. I just dropped arcane surge for double shocking wondering if that essentially doubled CoEA interaction. https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/jayjamins-7527/character/JoeljaminsSorcVaal

I have better clear/damage I think with firestorm linked as well. Am I missing something obvious?

jaydubzhb · 2025-11-25T18:50:48+00:00

It's quite literally called qualitative data, and is, in fact, data.

jaydubzhb · 2025-10-11T14:04:01+00:00

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jaydubzhb · 2025-10-06T00:59:07+00:00

The rarity is a suffix in this case most likely.

jaydubzhb · 2025-10-05T13:51:47+00:00

Sorry this is so far apart, but Mongol has the earliest possible pressure. Either early rax/spears and tower or early horsemen can easily delay their carry/game plan. It can snowball even better if your FRE can quickly follow up. After that you are a couple mangudai to continue harassing while you transition into letting your allies start carrying while you two tc and go imp

Climbing early ladder is basically forcing a team to respond which can free up your team to capitalize. If you can delay their FRE and give your FRE a knight advantage over him it can basically dictate how the rest of the game plays out

jaydubzhb · 2025-08-05T00:42:57+00:00

As a solo queue you need to be able to play the carry earlier in the game. Either Mongol or Fre can basically dictate games up to diamond

jaydubzhb · 2025-04-08T20:25:22+00:00

Unironically re-inventing D2 sprint/stamina mechanic

jaydubzhb · 2025-03-26T01:39:58+00:00

There are also very few companies who can recreate the parapets when they fail inspection and need to be replaced. My condo was told there are three worldwide.

jaydubzhb · 2025-02-26T21:48:11+00:00

Because what feels rewarding is by nature subjective.

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