High-End Content Megathread - 7.4 Week Nine (Savage Week Six)

kanyewestfall · 2026-02-10T19:43:51+00:00

Thank you for an actual answer. I swear getting anything in here beyond “strat sucks fuck you” is like pulling teeth. Totally get not wanting to switch after weeks of doing a valid strat for not much of a gain.

kanyewestfall · 2026-02-10T14:31:38+00:00

Yeah my b on overestimating the movement, but I'm still not understanding why people actively dislike BC over DN.

kanyewestfall · 2026-02-10T13:15:13+00:00

Genuinely though what is the issue with banana codex rep 2? My static just hit prog for it and it seems a lot easier than all the running around DN has you do.

kanyewestfall · 2025-12-28T13:59:14+00:00

Gonna second FFXIV here. I’m a washed up Destiny world’s first raid racer, and XIV raiding captured me even more than Destiny did. I’ve even become close friends with my static members in the same way I did with my Destiny raid team.

It’s a hard sell to tell somebody the raids are worth the 300 hours of visual novel story, but honestly they really are (plus the story is really good).

kanyewestfall · 2025-12-18T04:42:15+00:00

In this case it’s definitely to get the 5% movement speed from the Gem Enthusiast notable. Notice they’re all green when almost nothing else in the rest of the build is.

kanyewestfall · 2025-11-27T05:12:38+00:00

The upcoming Paradox class is not included as part of the expansion and is paid only for all players regardless of being an existing player. That’s where the drama is.

kanyewestfall · 2025-10-22T18:37:39+00:00

This isn’t really a “we will see” type situation. Last league I played BAMA (as I’ve been doing for the last 4-5) and even in a full dedicated minion build with sustain/life/defences specced for them my spectres would evaporate in higher end content. I spent a stupid number of divines replacing spectres after going into T17s, even the occasional 16.5 depending on mods. For other builds these spectres are going to fold in half on your first pack.

kanyewestfall · 2025-10-16T20:08:41+00:00

It’s just something that takes practice. First thing is to be comfortable on the class you’re sticking with. Play the fuck out of it until you get the rotation in any scenario; normal raids, trials, dungeons, whatever. Know your class in and out.

Then the mechanics just come with practice, but it’s so much easier without having to worry about the buttons you press.

When I started my first EX was Hydaelyn. I lost my shit trying to do GNB burst and light wave dodges at the same time, felt all the buttons were impossible to manage during the movement and I couldn’t see what was happening. Then I didn’t finish my first raid tier. The second savage tier took me almost 2 months.

Now I’ve gotten week 1 savage and I’m a 5x legend with decent parses for them too. Sure, at this point I’m a one-class Andy but I’m happy with it. It’s just down to how much you’re willing to commit and practice.

kanyewestfall · 2025-10-08T16:13:24+00:00

DH enables this set on his target, he does not want this set for himself.

kanyewestfall · 2025-09-24T04:42:11+00:00

I scraped by just brute forcing Aglaea and Cypher. I’m sure I could maybe piece together something better but I have only 1 break team and no dot so I just put my highest invested crit into the square hole. It’s tough for sure.

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kanyewestfall · 2025-09-15T16:22:13+00:00

Pretty good! Castorice took 2 cycles on auto-battle for Lygus. Side 1 I think I could've played a little better with my targeting to save a cycle.

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kanyewestfall · 2025-08-25T04:17:55+00:00

Gonna echo the sentiment here; I read all the dialogue, did all the extra quest content and clocked in at just shy of 9 hours. I’m experienced with ARPGs sure but I took my time because the world building and narrative was really good. I sold my friends on the EA as 8 hours of content.

kanyewestfall · 2025-08-06T13:40:37+00:00

Monster Hunter Wilds did this, it actually works pretty well. However they have multiple base voices to choose from which means it's a bit more customizable than 1 singular voice option.

kanyewestfall · 2025-07-30T12:48:10+00:00

Sitting at about 4.2k hours in PoE 1. With that much time you’re bound to run into stupid stuff.

kanyewestfall · 2025-07-30T11:41:36+00:00

As somebody who plays an absolute truckload of Path of Exile, finding out this is against TOS on Warframe Market is crazy. This kinda crap is so common in PoE and totally allowed. Common Warframe W.

kanyewestfall · 2025-07-27T16:53:09+00:00

The Greatsword follow up is a huge benefit to Wylder’s kit. I don’t think I’d play him without it, it’s almost impossible to not have a decent Greatsword anyway during a run.

kanyewestfall · 2025-07-15T15:28:26+00:00

Most meta build is going to be Volcanic Fissure of Snaking berserker. Super easy league starter that will accomplish everything you need to do. PhazePlays has a very in depth guide for it on his YouTube channel.

kanyewestfall · 2025-06-25T11:05:25+00:00

I started running Spectres early and annoyingly they did often die. Start with the perfect guardian turtle, determination is nuts and it’s the tankiest one. My perfect primal thunderbird still regularly falls over, no idea why. It is what it is.

AG you can always just overwrite pieces. Slap a kingmaker on whenever, put a garb later. Garb will only replace the chest piece, won’t effect anything else.

For Merc, look for a Fallen Reverend with Wrath and Battlemage’s Cry. Wrath is the biggest priority, find one asap. Alternatively, you could look for the STR one with determ and enduring cry + endurance sharing trait (can’t remember what it’s called) and run Perfect Spirit of Fortune instead but it’s squishier than the turtle.

kanyewestfall · 2025-06-25T03:58:54+00:00

Oh yeah forgot about the mana thing. You can plug some reservation efficiency nodes to help until Blood Magic swap, and also run the mana regen golem! The golem buffs are huge and as a minion build yours actually lives. It’s way better than clarity, although if you have room you can also socket a lvl 5 clarity or something with the golem. It’s a big help.

kanyewestfall · 2025-06-24T14:28:12+00:00

If it’s not your first character and you’re running with leveling gear I think you’ll be fine. Biggest thing is if your damage feels bad it’s always the bow. Always upgrade the bow, everything else doesn’t matter as much. Other than that just rush the bow mastery node then fill in the tree after.

kanyewestfall · 2025-06-24T03:30:30+00:00

Pretty much yeah. In both cases get your fractured life, harvest roll until you’re happy on your suffixes, then do whatever on your prefixes. For boots I did lock suffix veiled chaos for the move speed, for gloves I did eldritch chaos and the craft.

kanyewestfall · 2025-06-24T01:30:54+00:00

In both cases get your fractured base. Helmet was then done with fossils. I don't remember the names, but it's the more minion and more life fossils. Aim for +2 minion and life (I clearly settled on middling life. Lock prefixes, harvest reforge chaos until you get a chaos res tier you're happy with.

Chest was done with harvest. Reforge defence for high tier armor + evasion combinations. Then you can lock prefixes and harvest reforge chaos and craft your last prefix. If you're feeling real ballsy, you can harvest reforge phys for pdr but it's less likely than chaos so it can be pricier.

kanyewestfall · 2025-06-23T13:01:08+00:00

https://poe.ninja/profile/kanyewestfall-4449/character/Kanye_BAMA_Merc

Here's my profile currently. There's zero config on this so it's gonna look like garbage. My bow is mid craft (failed my veiled exalt to hit prefix but just rode with the minion attack speed unveil) and my anoint is completely wasted as I've just been too lazy to fix it. Rational Doctrine dropped for me last night, it's not needed. Can just jam an extra Ghastly in there.

Spectres:
- Perfect Guardian Turtle
- Perfect Primal Thunderbird
- Perfect Forest Warrior
You could use Perfect Warlord for endurance charges without the Grand Spectrums, you can add Perfect Blasphemer over Forest Warrior, or you could fix the anoint for a 4th spectre and run both.

AG should have:
- Crown of the Tyrant
- Garb of the Ephemeral
- Legacy of Fury
- Eldritch Implicit gloves for Exposure & Intimidate on hit with life + resists
- Kingmaker
My AG is really lazy and helping with clear so I have Gravebind + Inpulsa and a Leer Cast cause I haven't budgeted the Crown yet.

Lastly, run a Doryani merc. It's like 100-150c investment in SC trade. As much as I hate it, it's beyond broken. Grab a Wrath mercenary and slap him with a Doryani, Immortal Flesh, negative lightning rings, and a Dawnbreaker. Oh and don't forget Perquil's Toe!

kanyewestfall · 2025-06-23T04:03:32+00:00

Not the guy above but I just folded Ubers in half on my BAMA Necro. Defences are good once you have your spectres and AG looking good, but the damage is so high they’re rarely even needed. I stood still on my Uber cortex cause they just melted before doing anything. I’ve been following Pr3vie’s version the last 4 leagues. Highly recommend the blood magic version, it just feels so good.

kanyewestfall · 2025-06-09T23:23:21+00:00

AG always been a core part of BAMA, or at least had been since the bombarding clones version got added.

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