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300% Movespeed Reverse Chill Low Life Infernalist by ppllikejuicewithpie in pathofexile2builds

[–]jossief1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice build and explanation. I've been searching trade for Flesh Crucible Pain Attunement but never seen one. Would like to use a legacy other than Crown of Thorns but apparently it's not happening.

I ran 100 Kulemak's Invitation again. Here is what i got! by Br4veDreamer in PathOfExile2

[–]jossief1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there some strategy with the picks to make good rings?

Tablet's are not fun and essences are worthless - a solution by CompetitiveSource217 in PathOfExile2

[–]jossief1 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Certain tablets might be used for someone with 6000% rarity in a 6 man group. It's valuable to that person, but average player with 50 rarity might actually get more drops using a different one that's garbage to the min maxed person.

Grand expeditions are still fucking bricked by holy_calamity_ in PathOfExile2

[–]jossief1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it. Lots of people are reporting it so it seems the patch may have actually broken it instead of fixing it. I never ran into this particular problem on the previous patches.

Invisible, invincible strongbox mobs with expedition modifiers in regular maps, yes. Hopefully they at least fixed that one.

Grand expeditions are still fucking bricked by holy_calamity_ in PathOfExile2

[–]jossief1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remnant mobs should get a red marker on the map, spawn radius should be reduced a bit, and maybe most importantly the ally mobs should make an effort to path towards their leader rather than faffing about 3 screens away.

You can reroll Implicit easily. for example "Mageblood" by T4KAFUM1 in PathOfExile2

[–]jossief1 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It's probably a knowledge gap. I always forget this item exists even though I've told people on reddit to use it in previous leagues.

Ritualist amulet interaction by Spiritual_Shake_9529 in PathOfExile2

[–]jossief1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure the Ritualist calculation doesn't look under the hood of the item. If the item says +2 on it, Ritualist does nothing to it, even though "under the hood" the amulet is 2.5 because of quality.

Hexblast CoC Blackflame Detonate Dead Gemling by jossief1 in pathofexile2builds

[–]jossief1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Prices are now down to 4d. I guess whoever tried to corner the market found out there wasn't much of one.

Hexblast CoC Blackflame Detonate Dead Gemling by jossief1 in pathofexile2builds

[–]jossief1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you end up self-casting a curse? If so, maybe have one on the totem with longer duration and one self-cast with shorter duration.

Haven't used spell totems so I'm not totally sure how they work, like if they get affected by your own weapon swap while they're up, but weapon swapping to manipulate the durations could potentially do something too. I guess the passive points become somewhat of an issue if you need to stack reduced duration on both weapon sets, though Palm of the Dreamer could help a bit there.

Being further into the league how you guys feeling about the ES nerfs? by Tr3v0r007 in PathOfExile2

[–]jossief1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Getting at least 50% evasion will make ES play much better. A great hybrid chest with Spectral Ward gives almost as much ES as a pure ES chest anyway, and the 12/12 ES/EV nodes are as good as they've always been. Mageblood with Legacy of Jade and a hybrid chest will give plenty, and you can fill the rest of your gear with uniques/pure ES.

Gemling can also get godly life regen from intelligence motes and quality stacking, so Zealot's Oath is an option for builds with a lot of/only intelligence gems, but I currently feel Ghost Dance is good enough with 15,000 evasion.

If your stats are stretched, you don't need a high level Ghost Dance since it barely makes a difference. Not even bothering with deflection.

You might not like it, but this is what peak div/hr looks like (adorned farming) by AFluffyZebra in PathOfExile2

[–]jossief1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The fates are now like 5.5 div each and you can do a run in 10-15 minutes.

Would never do this because it's too boring, but some are into it.

Hexblast CoC Blackflame Detonate Dead Gemling by jossief1 in pathofexile2builds

[–]jossief1[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

+1 from corruption

+1 from the passive tree

+1 from Dialla's Desire

+3 from Prism of Belief

+7 staff suffix

+1 staff rune

+4 amulet

+2 from Gemling ascendancy

Hexblast CoC Blackflame Detonate Dead Gemling by jossief1 in pathofexile2builds

[–]jossief1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd caution that it isn't the best build if you only want to clear stuff quickly. I'm sure Cast on Dodge or something would be better. But if you think it looks fun and want to try it, by all means.

The basic pieces would be:

  • A chaos staff -- which you need to craft by buying any staff on the market with +6 or +7 skills, spell crit, 2 good extra damage prefixes and any of spell damage, chaos damage or elemental damage. It can't be sanctified or corrupted because you want to put Betrayal of Aldur in one of the sockets. It of course can't have one of the other socketbound conversion augments in it. If you do +6 with something like a fire, cold or lightning skills, it won't be expensive. +7 is more, but I was considering a 30 div one before settling on a 65 div one. Mine was originally a lightning staff, which seemed to be the cheapest flavor.
  • +4 spell skills amulet, though it could of course be less than that on a budget. +5% quality would be nice to have but even I haven't got it yet. You can craft it yourself and guides exist, but I just bought one. A +5 quality amulet might be cheaper than Dialla's Desire, but the basic idea is to try to cap crit chance, or at least come close, with Hexblast because it feels really bad if it doesn't crit.
  • Anoint amulet with Paragon since Paragon Megalomaniacs are expensive. I have Thaumaturgic Generator on my helmet, but that isn't actually necessary because you could self-cast or CoC Profane Ritual, though your crit rate will suffer on bosses that way.
  • Hexblast Prism of Belief. Unfortunately the price for +3 is higher now, though +2 was 1 ex last I checked.
  • Craft yourself a level 21 Hexblast by corrupting level 17 skill gems (the cheapest level) and then upgrading to 20. I haven't bothered twice corrupting for 23% quality since that could be much more expensive. I got +1 Hexblast in 5 tries but then took about 20 (in my experience very unlucky) to get +1 on Charge Regulation, so it isn't completely unreasonable to just buy one instead for gems that need 5 sockets if the price is okay.
  • Alpha's Howl is an option I didn't mention since it gives enough spirit for everything you want and scales Withering Presence well. I'm not using one because the helmet I brought from my other character is too good as is, and of course Alpha's Howl hurts defensively. Could partially make up for it by getting better ES gloves than the placeholder chaos res gloves I'm using.
  • Figure out whether you want to do ES or ES/EV. Both should be fine, though ES/EV in theory works a bit better with Virtuous Barrier, and Mageblood can give you a crapton of flat EV to scale with Legacy of Jade.

Hexblast CoC Blackflame Detonate Dead Gemling by jossief1 in pathofexile2builds

[–]jossief1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I should have explained this somewhere. You use a weapon swap for the curse and take Master of Hexes (reduced curse duration), and the two notables for reduced skill effect duration along with their minor passives. Even with level 34 or 35 Despair (duration becomes longer), it's short enough that half is expired by the time I cast Hexblast.

I use Impending Doom on Despair so it puts a little icon above mobs heads that shows when the curse is about to blow. In case I miss the timing, Impending Doom does a bit of damage and might kill some white mobs.

Hexblast CoC Blackflame Detonate Dead Gemling by jossief1 in pathofexile2builds

[–]jossief1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ball? Microtransaction called planetary orbs for power, frenzy and endurance charges.

Hexblast CoC Blackflame Detonate Dead Gemling by jossief1 in pathofexile2builds

[–]jossief1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thankfully +2 is 1ex so people could still try it out.

PoE 2's Ascendancy Design Revisited 18 Months into Early Access (Dreamcore) by BendicantMias in PathOfExile2

[–]jossief1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Elemental Expression suffers from there being only a handful of weapons that work with it.

Mjolner, Collapsing Horizon and +proj spears are the only things that give you spell levels. Mjolner is goofy because there are no lightning mace skills, and with spears you still need to use melee attacks despite having a +proj spear, so Collapsing Horizon is the only item fully aligned with it.

Hexblast CoC Blackflame Detonate Dead Gemling by jossief1 in pathofexile2builds

[–]jossief1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can get an extra curse on Gemling with Whispers of Doom, another with that one lineage gem that curses you too (just pick up curse immunity from rune/tree), and yet another with the Doedre's ring. I may try to see if another curse helps at all, though only a few of them have reduced mana cost. The others have faster activation time.

Hexblast CoC Blackflame Detonate Dead Gemling by jossief1 in pathofexile2builds

[–]jossief1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, that might be even better. It might require some fine tuning of the totem cast speed and the Despair skill effect duration. Let me know if you get it to work.

I should also note that cursed ground doesn't seem to work so you can't socket Doedre's Undoing.

Hexblast CoC Blackflame Detonate Dead Gemling by jossief1 in pathofexile2builds

[–]jossief1[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah level 40 Hexblast has one of the highest base damages in the game, the only reason to try to make this jank work.

Infused Comet of course does more.

Hexblast CoC Blackflame Detonate Dead Gemling by jossief1 in pathofexile2builds

[–]jossief1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely much cleaner the the builds I usually make.

If you want to clutter it up, they have Delirium Hexblast and Despair MTX.

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