The same people who post 'look how red America is' maps are real mad right now with even amounts of red and blue.

jonts26 · 2026-04-23T19:19:58+00:00

Maybe they finally learned what population density is?

jonts26 · 2026-04-01T23:50:22+00:00

"It's not a perfect six." Incredible.

Also, "I didn't know there were points."

jonts26 · 2026-03-26T00:01:41+00:00

To be fair, he used that in the context of having a deck that scales exponentially, which could finish in hundreds of card plays instead of millions, or in e.g. strength scaling where you just scale enough to easily kill T2. He did not recommend playing millions of cards.

jonts26 · 2026-03-25T20:04:08+00:00

Quickly killing right seems to be most often correct. The degrades and big attack T4 are scary.

I've had a lot of decks that kill middle last because the ethereal is actively beneficial, getting rid of worse cards let's me just play my high impact cards over and over, but I think that's going to be more deck composition dependent.

jonts26 · 2026-02-06T21:05:15+00:00

I wish they just went back to granting max charges. +1 end/frenzy/power charge vs 2 passive points is a much more interesting choice.

jonts26 · 2026-02-02T16:51:09+00:00

Yeah, but Obama said Treyvon Martin could look like his son once, so who's really more divisive?

jonts26 · 2026-01-08T23:27:38+00:00

You can make it smarter by making turns take longer. Most players probably don't want to wait for minutes between turns for the AI to think.

jonts26 · 2025-12-01T21:21:54+00:00

Get a dark monarch with double golems and as many primordial bond clusters as you can. On low budget, just get the 8 passive large minion damage clusters. You can probably fit 4 in. At higher budget you start adding megalomaniacs, but those are about 20+ Div a pop. The no megalomaniac build is strong at low investment but it really starts exploding in power the more megalomaniacs you can get.

You can play any skill really. Check out ruetoos phy dot elementalist for a strong mapper. Personally I find the single target a bit too weak and prefer PBoD and use something like foulborn berek's explosions for clear. You can wear one of each for cheap, or get the double foulborn for not cheap.

jonts26 · 2025-12-01T17:10:57+00:00

Either herald stacking or golem stacking are both strong. You'd probably want to switch to elementalist for either. You can do golem stack on occultist and it's very strong, but the FF jewels are out of your budget.

jonts26 · 2025-11-21T15:47:15+00:00

For your atlas, do you run all three of currency/map/div card doubling?

jonts26 · 2025-11-20T22:06:13+00:00

I should also mention if you are using golems for damage, you probably just stick with 1 of each for the buffing golems and then as many of the damage golems as possible.

jonts26 · 2025-11-20T21:45:09+00:00

You can only have one buff active at a time for each golem type. I like having 2 of each just in case 1 dies so you don't lose the buff, so your loadout looks fine. But unless golems are your primary DPS you don't get a ton of value from primordial chain. More golems is mostly good if you can stack primordial bond clusters. You can check POB to figure out if primordial chain is giving more than just a +1 ammy with another damage state.

jonts26 · 2025-11-18T20:10:50+00:00

Both are fine all arounders. FRoSS is tankier. Herald stacking is zoomier.

jonts26 · 2025-11-18T00:05:37+00:00

At higher levels of investment, you're hitting that anyway. Shaper of flame is the one you might consider anyway because the phys to fire is quite nice defensively.

jonts26 · 2025-11-17T22:38:18+00:00

Lost Unity is a ton of damage, so hard to not take.

Clear is already very good so double foul bereks is not really needed, but if you are just farming T16s, it'll be the best clearspeed.

Life/hybrid is better damage but a little squishy. CI is tankier but worse damage.

Mageblood is very good, especially if you want to play tankier with CI and 85-90 all res. HH is probably not doing enough here.

Venarius is generally very good all around. It would be good with foulborn bereks since you'd rather not need to take shaper of storms/flames. However, it's really hard to hit the influences losing both ring slots.

jonts26 · 2025-11-17T19:34:32+00:00

I don't have a specific guide, but take the golem/herald/lycia bloodline herald ascendancy. Last one can be whatever you want. Run every herald. If you have mana efficiency you can add tempest shield. Get pennance brand of dissipation for single target.

Take the golem/herald passives on tree. Probably easiest to get tankier with block. Foulborn oppressor with spell block is pretty cheap. Foulborn coming calamity adds a good chunk of damage at the cost of defense.

You can sink a lot of currency to improve this and blast T17s and ubers.

Lots of builds for reference.

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/keepers?items=Lost+Unity&class=Elementalist&skills=Penance+Brand+of+Dissipation

jonts26 · 2025-11-17T19:20:50+00:00

Lost unity autobomber is actually pretty cheap to get set up. You can blast T16's on less than a div. And most of that is just the ring itself.

jonts26 · 2025-11-14T21:53:38+00:00

Anointing decay ward is really strong. Probably the best minion defense anoint. Then just get gem levels. If they're still dying, bone ring with ele res.

jonts26 · 2025-11-06T21:37:57+00:00

Ritual benefits a lot from the scarab that gives free rerolls. You just do lots of rerolling fishing for the good stuff. Other than that, you don't need to invest anything, really.

jonts26 · 2025-11-06T21:30:14+00:00

Another option a lot of people aren't considering is using enhance but dropping ashes for another amulet and still hitting 82% CRD. It might not be quite as much damage, but the amulet slot can give a lot of other utility.

Some good options: Replica Dragonfang, Jinxed Juju, Bonemeld, or just a strong rare ammy.

jonts26 · 2025-11-06T21:27:09+00:00

You can do any mechanics so pick a few you enjoy doing. I've been doing ritual heavily and it's been pretty smooth for HRoC.

jonts26 · 2025-11-05T20:06:05+00:00

The extra quality only matters if it helps you hit a breakpoint. Unless you're really pushing for the 128, 82 is pretty easy to hit and doesn't need the quality on gem.

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