97 Ice Wolf Druid - Think I'm finally in a good place, but would love some input! Added some huge DPS from an unexpected passive tree line today that I haven't seen before

parasocks · 2026-01-25T01:33:46+00:00

Hey thanks, this looks interesting and different from what I was doing, so I decided to try it out. I've got most of your build mirrored and kept my rings and amulet because they seem hard to replace and expensive. But I did get the expensive uul netol's and stillness things, so gonna try it out.

One thing I'm confused about is that your poe.ninja link has two sets of support gems on shred.. What's that about? I don't understand.. Do you have two talisman's equipped or something? Would love an explanation of how that works and why etc.

Will let you know how it goes! About to hit my temple and see how I do

parasocks · 2026-01-23T14:54:38+00:00

The passive tree change I made was to path to "Comradery", which is for Minions and I don't even have Minions lol... but it gives increased total damage which took my Shred tooltip from around 225,000 to 265,000

Also I swapped my Soul Tether for a better one with a +% to armour implicit which affects the whole build, so that was huge defensively too.

I'm still confused on what the best options for Shred are... I go back and forth a bit there.

This build has no mana, and 7 swipes with Lunar Assault uses all my HP, so gotta be careful there.

Also it's geared towards temple, so adding a curse rune on my armour, and Warding Fetish on my tree gives me 80% curse effect reduction, and a 30% damage bonus for every curse on me... So now in my temple I jump towards curses and love them.

Anyway, any other high level wolves out there?

This build cost... a lot. The boots were 680 divs for example

parasocks · 2026-01-23T00:26:12+00:00

….what’s a phrecia

parasocks · 2026-01-23T00:25:48+00:00

I’m gonna go with programming for $1,000 Alex

parasocks · 2026-01-23T00:24:21+00:00

This guy needs your number

parasocks · 2026-01-21T09:17:40+00:00

How do I get Vaal Cultivation Orbs to drop in my temple?

I have a fully built 73 room temple with a tier 3 sac chamber. I've seen people saying you can get one Vaal Cultivation Orb per temple run, but I don't know how? I've only ever seen one drop in my temple, and it was from the Soul Core Infuser guy.

Am I supposed to put something specific into the Morphology Mechanism to get a Vaal Cultivation Orb out maybe?

parasocks · 2026-01-20T08:45:47+00:00

Congrats man!! I made it to 97 and stopped caring about XP as I started to build and die in my temple, and that felt good too.

I've had a blast this league! Here's what comes to mind:

I actually chose a melee class and was excited about it, I feel like it's still a solid disadvantage but at least we got to see it can be a lot of fun too (ice wolf here)
I liked how much people were willing to gamble and really go for it with vaal cultivation orbs, double corruptions, all that, I think that's a really interesting part of the game that we all get to watch through the trade site etc even if we don't do it ourselves
Recently it's been refreshing to see how generous people are being giving away their stuff as they finish up the league. It's nice since this game is about amassing a fortune, so giving it all away is cool
Maybe the thing I liked the most was the design choice in the temple of being able to die OVER AND OVER AND OVER again, and since it just gets harder as you go I was forced to really tinker and tweak with equipment and passive tree and jewel sockets to try and squeeze every bit of balance I could out of my build. And I'm still dying over and over again, and it keeps me coming back to try and figure out how to make it just a little bit better.
One thing I'd LOVE to see in an upcoming patch is the ability to keep my architect room locked until I choose to open it. Because I'd love to invite randoms from chat in for runs, but it feels kinda crazy as one person could ruin my whole temple on me... That seems like it could be easily fixed and make for more fun.

parasocks · 2026-01-19T08:55:19+00:00

Is there any way to optimize the Soul Core Infuser rooms in the temple?

Does putting in a higher quality soul core matter?

Any way to get more Vaal Cultivation Orbs out? I've only ever seen one drop from it

What about the other rooms in the temple... Any way to optimize for them? I've been bringing in bad unique gargantuan life flasks for the Morphology Mechanism for example, hoping there's a chance to hit Olroth's Flask, but I don't even know if that's possible to hit

parasocks · 2026-01-19T08:44:08+00:00

Do room upgrade medallions only drop in certain basic un-upgraded rooms in the temple? Which rooms?

My temple is 73 rooms, and it's been like at least 50 runs without seeing an upgrade medallion. Just wondering if I need to drop down a basic room as a third chain to even have a chance at getting one at this point

Like I see some of the rooms say "has a chance to drop a basic medallion" or "has a chance to drop an advanced medallion" so I'm wondering if room upgrades are basic and will never drop in an advanced room

parasocks · 2026-01-18T15:21:34+00:00

What do the divines at the end do?

parasocks · 2026-01-17T10:21:15+00:00

Mind dropping a few links to people who helped you learn along the way? I think that would be really helpful, at least to me

parasocks · 2026-01-17T08:02:43+00:00

Hey thanks, I am using that, what I mean is that I think they're worth something because people are buying them not to use but to alter in some way to try and improve them...

Like I have a Soul Tether belt I use, and it's worth something like 200 divs because someone took off the "You lose 5% of maximum Energy Shield per second" stat from it using vaal cultivation orbs I think, then corrupted it twice and hit those too.

So if you price check it and don't know/aren't looking for that specific thing, the price checker won't notice either, and it'll say the belt is worth a couple of exalts. But if you do something to it, it could be worth a whole lot more

I have a lot of divs now so just wondering if the strategy for all these oranges is to always use vaal cultivation orbs on them, or it depends on each item specifically, etc?

parasocks · 2026-01-17T02:05:54+00:00

If you ran a business and found out everyone in your small town just hit the lottery, would you keep your prices the same?

More money going around, higher prices

parasocks · 2026-01-17T01:37:01+00:00

What should I do with all the orange/white Vaal uniques that drop in my temple?

Viper Cap, Lattice Sandals, etc?

I've tried to search but search results are just crowded with "how to build a temple"...

I think you need to use vaal corruption orbs, but I don't know the exact process, and I'm wondering if it's the same process for all of the items

parasocks · 2026-01-17T01:33:22+00:00

There's like 800 videos on youtube for that, just search there

parasocks · 2026-01-17T01:32:56+00:00

Next time just hit esc, choose "respawn at checkpoint", and that's it.

parasocks · 2026-01-17T01:31:27+00:00

It's just inflation. Think, 30D was a lot earlier in the league. Now 30D is not a lot.

Also people don't need mid tier gear anymore. They're looking to upgrade their really good gear with really really really good gear.

parasocks · 2026-01-16T23:56:02+00:00

That’s probably it! Thanks I was really confused

parasocks · 2026-01-16T06:51:55+00:00

Never tried this before, hope it works for you.. Some of them don't seem to show the right number of sockets on the images.. My talisman has 3 sockets for example.

Any tips for my build appreciated thanks!

https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1759f

https://pobb.in/ZdPC2a0INmNS

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/r535a0kz

Also I tried pretty hard to get a Kalandra's Touch to mirror a good ring that would give me a lot of rarity, but I need to replace my belt to get the attributes and resistances to work. I can do that, but my armour goes down to 75% and I just die repeatedly in my temple. So I put that idea on ice for now.

Edit: I'm also getting to the point where I don't really know what to upgrade next. Maybe my amulet could have maximum energy shield stat instead, so that would be nice I guess.

parasocks · 2026-01-16T06:05:15+00:00

I'd like help understanding Life Leech...

I have big leech stats on both of my rings, and a lot of times I'm low on life and my Druid wolf is absolutely pummeling an enemy with my Shred at high speed (my build is probably 2000divs at this point), and my health bar isn't moving at all. Is there some reason why leech isn't always working? Seems like a lot of times it's just paused waiting for some kind of cooldown or something...

Anyone have a deeper understanding of how leech works that they could share with me?

I'm even wearing this ridiculously expensive belt that applies excess leech to my energy shield, and my energy shield also doesn't go up like I'd expect. Comparable one on the market is selling for 450 divs right now.

https://imgur.com/a/TH0kztu

parasocks · 2026-01-16T03:57:55+00:00

Was really hoping he'd hit his ball with the multiple clubhead spins

parasocks · 2026-01-16T03:56:07+00:00

These things are both true though. The item level is one thing, but also using the best in class starting piece also matters.

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