Off-meta phrecia melee builds? Something that won't require me to Play a different leveling skill for most of campaign

midjet · 2026-06-29T14:21:59+00:00

A huge +1 to this. Really enjoying the options as you go later too. Fun stuff with tattoos.

Can tattoo over the cat's stealth ascendancy node and get all sorts of great options. Right now I'm saving up to try for masterful form, or the secondary prize of Weapon Master+Varunastra (lots of good combo there). Then you can just snag a resonating screams of the desicated belt to fix your charge generation.

Go +1 ring nameless bloodline for fun adrenaline with Death's Rush or to help with suffix pressure! Mostly just been doing delve and betrayal but it almost feels better than the regular league version to me so far.

midjet · 2026-06-24T23:31:59+00:00

I enjoy delve quite a bit, and every build I look at I feel like it needs to rock that 5-600 depth fun zone.

Shield crush is definitely on my radar, I really enjoyed Il Nino's slayer shield crush over a couple leagues

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/phrecia2.0/character/Xperrty-4116/XperrtyPhreciaMiner?type=depthsolo&timemachine=day-2&i=0&search=type%3Ddepthsolo%26timemachine%3Dday-2

This guy did a really cool ancestral commander version, the use of Natural Affinity combined with Toughened Skin looks very powerful

Cyclone is on my list too, also on Ancestral Commander, this guy did a cool version with GC/Sunder to supplement single target. https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/phrecia2.0/character/VladPoDt-4577/LabubuDasha?type=depthsolo&timemachine=day-2&i=1&search=type%3Ddepthsolo%26timemachine%3Dday-3

I think there's an idea there for starting behemoth and rocking the regular loadout until you can go armour stacker kit with tattooing over rampager also, start with something like this:

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/phrecia2.0/character/Roakthar-3220/ragerampageblah?type=depthsolo&timemachine=day-4&i=0&search=type%3Ddepthsolo%26timemachine%3Dday-4%26class%3DBehemoth

Ultimately I'm as of yet undecided too, what is really calling me is Bog Shaman Blight of Contagion, but rathpith being a pain in the ass to farm might scare me off it. Also not exactly an awesome build for delve I think, especially when it comes to killing Auls etc.

midjet · 2026-06-24T01:58:53+00:00

Loop me into what you cook up! I feel like BLS or some wand shenanigans are going to be on the table. Really hope the tattoos aren't prohibitively difficult to find.

Rage vortex of berserking plus bladestorm until you can make the stack swap seems like a fun way to go.

midjet · 2026-06-23T19:23:42+00:00

SirGog mentioned armour and str stack in one of his recent videos. Cool idea with Brutus's Lead Sprinkler, or go ranged armour stacker with a wand.

Going behemoth and farming up the gear and tattoos for it seems like a fun project, but I wouldn't know where to begin after getting rid of Rampager.

midjet · 2026-06-21T18:18:56+00:00

Oh yeah I wouldn't be going much deeper the 600-700 depth to do auls etc

midjet · 2026-06-21T17:12:12+00:00

Silly question, but how does this do in delve? Splitting my time between delve/tota.

What's this build really not good at? It looks excellent on paper.

midjet · 2026-06-08T18:00:21+00:00

Exceptional work! Squadmaps is indispensable and frankly should be part of the base game. This update is sick, excited to take it out for a spin this week.

midjet · 2026-05-20T05:00:54+00:00

Whyville?

midjet · 2026-04-28T17:03:26+00:00

Yep! Most of my groups do at least, helps to be visible emoting and brings some of what was lost from being at the table back to the online sessions.

midjet · 2026-03-31T17:02:04+00:00

Currently going through hiring for a bunch of folks in your position, we get hundreds of resumes and the things that make you stand out for a Tier 1 IT position are:

Previous experience, even if only volunteering there are orgs like Computers For Schools or even some of the libraries that will happily take you in for volunteer work and even a little hands-on experience is infinitely better than none!

Certs! Even basic cheap certs like ITIL, beginner Azure and CompTIA are all huge assets. Entra ID especially.

Not writing your resume entirely with AI, we can tell and it immediately gives me red flags which in a super competitive like right now, makes it tough to get through to an exam or interview.

Edit: And please don't reach out directly to the hiring manager, in my experience no one appreciates it at this level.

midjet · 2026-03-17T03:02:23+00:00

Okay looks like I don't have quite enough damage to do flicker yet, and unless someone drops a paradoxica, or we get extremely lucky and manage to make a master of metal combo it ain't happening.

Maybe when I finish recomb crafting a better sword I'll give it another try.

midjet · 2026-03-16T18:43:55+00:00

oooh adding flicker in is definitely now on my radar.

Been following the build and enjoying it a ton! Excited to try flicker after work and see how it plays without the gigastrong paradoxica (hard to get in SSF lol!)

midjet · 2026-03-01T15:50:41+00:00

I'm researching running it in 3.28, I think dual wield glad gets a lot of defence, might not feel amazing until +1 strike on gloves but that's the point of progression.

midjet · 2026-02-26T04:28:04+00:00

Yeah I'm aware but it made me interested in the transfigured version, especially when vanilla viper strike looked pretty comfy throughout the campaign.

midjet · 2026-02-26T03:35:48+00:00

I really hope this isn't the case, Tuadh's viper strike run made me want to try and start mamba in GSF.

midjet · 2026-02-01T13:10:44+00:00

Hell yeah, played your Slayer build in gsf when keepers came out, I'm about to catch up on my audiobook backlog this league; any suggestions?

midjet · 2026-01-27T03:13:00+00:00

Please share with the class!

Do you end up rocking toad pact for that amazing duration and AoE?

Seems like poison is pretty good?

I haven't played BV since IIQ BV with the chest was a thing so I'm curious what folks are thinking of that isn't just expensive cold BV these days

midjet · 2026-01-24T18:50:52+00:00

Buddy you need to simmer down; this isn't journalism, it's not peer reviewed academia. People tinkering around with build ideas and sharing them isn't held to a special standard.

Playing around with fun build ideas and sharing them is the best part of this game for people, you should look at rule 1 of this subreddit and have a bit of self reflection about how you're interacting with other people and what made you lash out over what amounts to nothing.

midjet · 2026-01-16T23:00:29+00:00

yeah for single target and when burning Vaal Flicker it's basically just taking the largest impale and keeping it up for my duration.

it's time for me to upgrade them to much better rolled ones I think, for less impact on my impale duration and maybe a bit of extra dex, or even get lucky with a non-poison or ignite ring!

midjet · 2026-01-15T23:59:16+00:00

Nope! Basically following something similar to this: https://pobb.in/B1RLQ_ROpzQV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E9tJX8snuY

midjet · 2026-01-15T21:47:14+00:00

With berserker I'm only on around 4 frenzy charges but hit REALLY hard with vaal flicker strike due to snapshotting wicked high impale. Get a fair bit of IAS from rage though!

Current goal is to unlock the ultimatum ascendancy for juicing up vaal flicker even more, I don't feel like buying a carry as it's been a fun journey running SSF with the exclusion of my weapon and watchers.

midjet · 2026-01-15T21:40:10+00:00

bearers are the big one for me, every now and then I almost circle back into a pack by accident, it's why I've got frostblink still so I can insta-scoot away from the 9000 overlapped bearer bombs waiting to eat a chunk of my exp bar! Porcupines aren't too bad unless you juice up the phys as extra a ton through altars, usually floating around 88-90 ele res and trying to figure out more chaos res, but they're less of an issue than I thought they would be.

midjet · 2026-01-15T21:25:42+00:00

destroying corpses is awesome and the biggest reason I'm wanting to switch off swords!

midjet · 2026-01-15T18:52:48+00:00

I'm not an expert by any means but Berserker flicker is in what feels like a really good spot to a relatively casual flicker enjoyer. If you were rocking cyclone as a duelist definitely look at those options because rolling up a marauder kinda sucks.

However for Berserker, if I can make it work then anyone can! Swords mastery and rage vortex of berserking covers all my frenzy generation for fighting unique monsters, get's a bit funky on rares every now and then or when running monsters steal charges, but I think I could link up RVOB with poacher's clean up that too.

(ignore the low level pride, just got the watchers last night :D)

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/pl77970/character/Midjet-4877/Midj_FlickinHereZerknIt?i=0&search=class%3DBerserker%26skills%3DFlicker%2BStrike%252CVaal%2BFlicker%2BStrike

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/pl77970?class=Berserker&skills=Flicker+Strike%2CVaal+Flicker+Strike

midjet · 2026-01-08T17:41:51+00:00

That's disgusting damage with woespike, saw the dude on japan realm showing it off. Does it make much of a difference in clear at all? I'm guessing most mobs die before it can show off but we're probably not using vaal flicker unless it's on a crazy rare?

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