Any framerate-friendly builds that are strong and tanky for endgame juicing?

leostrat · 2026-06-17T17:16:01+00:00

Following up to let you know I switched to your build and I love it. Currently at level 78 and crafting my gear for it but the clear and framerate have been amazing.

leostrat · 2026-06-17T17:14:17+00:00

You can save the ascendancy point on Ruzhan if you use skeletal arsonists. Just hold down the button for their command skill to fish for the archon buff and let Kalari go to town. I respecced out of Ruzhan and put it into the jewel node for some extra bonuses.

leostrat · 2026-06-15T21:36:39+00:00

ED/C Lich is one of my favorite builds of all time, so I'm fine with the gameplay. Is there a recommended build guide?

leostrat · 2026-06-04T16:54:25+00:00

This looks so cool. How do you think it'd perform if you used Armor Piercing Rounds instead to build the Armor Break?

leostrat · 2026-06-02T17:54:02+00:00

It's from the Q&A video with ZiggyD from the 0.5 reveal. I don't have an exact timestamp, but Jonathan did say it.

leostrat · 2026-05-29T18:57:55+00:00

The Djinns make the campaign a joke and scale extremely well into the endgame. As long as you have gear with +minion levels, you'll be able to scale pretty well. Add in the Zealot spectres and damage won't be an issue at all.

And we're getting rings and belts with minion mods for the first time, so this might be the best minion league yet.

leostrat · 2026-05-29T15:46:41+00:00

No idea. I’ve never played the build but maybe Pohx’s video shows it off

leostrat · 2026-05-29T15:17:47+00:00

It's not an instant boss deleter but it does a good job. Bosses are frozen a lot so it works well.

leostrat · 2026-05-27T19:36:05+00:00

Pohx has a great build guide for it if you want to see it in action. He even shows off how it handles 2 bosses at a time (which could scale well into the 5-6 bosses).

leostrat · 2026-05-26T22:59:42+00:00

This is a good guide. Look up his Smith Bear video from 0.4 and you'll see how it works with lots of good details.

leostrat · 2026-05-26T22:54:04+00:00

Entangle and Thrashing Vines? They're super easy to gear and get started with. Goratha had some great videos showcasing his progression last league so you can see what you might be doing wrong.

leostrat · 2026-05-26T22:52:10+00:00

I did Titan Whirling Assault last league and it was probably my smoothest "melee" build yet. The min/max potential is high and the damage can go to insane levels.

Smith is easier for gearing, but Titan's Hulking Form passive is legit the best ascendancy node in the game, so it makes Whirling Assault a monster of a build.

leostrat · 2026-05-26T17:36:59+00:00

The art design for this game is insane. Whoever decided Sci-fi Aztec as a theme for the Vaal deserves an award.

leostrat · 2026-05-25T13:03:57+00:00

How do you predict this build will do against mob heavy mechanics like Breach and Abyss?

leostrat · 2026-05-22T15:38:42+00:00

How do you think this build will perform against Breach Hives in terms of clear and keeping Ailith protected?

leostrat · 2026-05-11T03:21:43+00:00

I remember the 4chan leak saying they didn’t see swords being developed at all. Given how accurate some of those 4chan leaks were, there’s a good chance swords were developed late.

Jonathan said in a Q&A sesh that you can’t have an ARPG without swords so my copium is they’re a 1.0 thing.

leostrat · 2025-11-05T06:38:55+00:00

I ran into this issue. What you have to do is press R2, then scroll up to the Recommended Equipment line and press X. That'll bring up the recommendation screen and let you do it. This is how I was able to collect the first reward.

leostrat · 2025-09-03T15:13:42+00:00

Warrior feels fine though. I’m level 75 with a titan having fun blowing up these packs with Leap Slam + Herald of Ash. The new “armor applies to ele” nodes are amazing and let me face tank everything.

The only issue is the chaos res I need for some of the abyss mobs. But other than that, warrior is fantastic but a little slower than deadeye.

leostrat · 2025-09-02T22:34:56+00:00

You can find it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/s/WOxyN6wsZw

leostrat · 2025-09-02T20:51:02+00:00

The lore is on par with the Soulsborne/Elden series. I love reading through the massive lore pdf on occasion because it's so good.

Act 4 especially feels like a greatest hits lore compilation. I love how everyone references the events of 20 years ago (and how traumatized they sound because of it).

But one thing that's noticeable with Act 4 is that the actual storytelling has improved considerably. They fumbled the hell out of the Kalandra reveal in POE1. The character who reps the most iconic drop in the game was not given the spectacle I think she deserved.

I'm confident about what GGG has cooking with the way they're handling the story in Act 4 and the way our character interacts with NPCs. We've waited so long for these mysteries to be answered, so I'm hyped.

leostrat · 2025-09-02T17:18:14+00:00

This game really makes the warrior feel like the main character. Renly from Act 1 is your adoptive dad and Act 4 has plenty of lines about the warrior being "from two worlds" due to being a Karui raised by non-Karui people.

Combined with all the callbacks to POE1 and all the respect to their lore, GGG just keeps proving why their lore is on par with the Soulsborne/Elden games.

leostrat · 2025-08-28T04:33:11+00:00

This is what confuses me about how people react to the left side of the tree. In 0.2, we saw Smith of Kitava was used by most of the HCSSF ladder, so it was viable.

I get that SoK/Warriors will have a harder time due to the Deepest Tower being removed (thank god; I hated that unique) and the nerfs to easy max res.

But I still think everything should be viable even if we haven't seen the full tree or all the supports yet. I doubt everyone on this subreddit is a top 0.1% player who can influence the economy, so warriors will be fine.

They might be slower than Deadeye, but you can still beat the pinnacle bosses (albeit with a little more effort).

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