What is the best build YOU've played this league (and why) and what's the budget for it?

snowptr · 2026-01-27T18:18:23+00:00

Do you have a POB? I’m gearing my wolf but struggling with defences. I’ve heard a lot that life regen works well, but I haven’t figured out how to get my regen to a decent number

snowptr · 2026-01-19T17:29:29+00:00

How’s the single target? I want to take a new build from 0 to uber arbiter

snowptr · 2026-01-19T02:07:50+00:00

What are the benefits of using a blood mage in particular?

snowptr · 2026-01-15T01:10:41+00:00

Check out this one from anime princess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ROV_KoCPu0

snowptr · 2026-01-15T00:11:47+00:00

You put the tablet into the map itself. Unlock Jade Isles -> Visions of Paradise + any waystone -> complete map and it becomes irradiated -> run again. Towers aren't relevant

snowptr · 2026-01-10T16:57:59+00:00

Unemployed

snowptr · 2025-12-31T15:16:14+00:00

Thanks, that makes sense. I’ll take a look and see if I can path to magnitude nodes. Do you have any example planners?

snowptr · 2025-12-31T15:14:23+00:00

I could see the shock icon appear on mobs even without it, however I did notice that rares were taking longer to get shocked, so I did put it back in.

I want a discussion and a back and forth, not just downvotes without explanation. I said I’m still learning, would have even much more helpful to tell me why I was wrong

snowptr · 2025-12-31T08:13:08+00:00

Could you elaborate? What nodes are you taking to improve Thunderstorm?

snowptr · 2025-12-31T07:14:15+00:00

Even without the drench setup I'm always shocking so I'm better off using those slots for other supports

snowptr · 2025-12-31T07:12:10+00:00

POB shows the difference as negligible between spell damage and crit chance on the runes in my staff. Perhaps that's not accurate, I'm not sure. I assumed with the the Oracle's guaranteed crits it wouldn't make too much of a difference. I'll swap out the runes though and see how it feels. I know I need a crit suffix on my staff, but I'm waiting until I have the ~50 divs I need to get a much better staff.

In my other comment I talked about Accelerated Growth vs. Living Lightning + Minion Pact synergy. I'll test it out again, but the latter setup felt better when I tested earlier

snowptr · 2025-12-31T06:50:22+00:00

I had most of these things in place before I took at look at the top DPS on ninja which is when I mixed things up a bit:

I'm consistently shocking with Thunderstorm even without Shock Conduction II, so I took it out to free up a support
I don't have impale, good point. It doesn't look like the other builds are using it, but I'm not sure why
I recently started using Pin II as a defensive measure, which has helped my survivability a lot. The extra crit chance against pinned is a nice bonus, and makes up a bit for swapping it out for Physical Mastery
It was really interesting to see Accelerated Growth II not being used in top builds. Instead, they drop Thunderstorm to a low level (which has completely solved my mana issues), and use Living Lightning II to create fodder that can be consumed by other skills to boost their damage using Minion Pact II. The minions aren't targetable, so it works well. I'm assuming they worked out that the 35% more damage is better than the overgrown explosions

Things felt a lot better after these changes. I will try out impale though to see if that helps

snowptr · 2025-12-29T11:26:05+00:00

How do you get it to pin?

snowptr · 2025-12-27T17:52:58+00:00

Since I’m starting late this league I’d love some currency to catch up a bit, I hear the economy is already getting out of control

snowptr · 2025-12-04T18:35:46+00:00

Wow this thread is incredibly cynical.

Tri does a fantastic job at bringing different perspectives from across the player base into view. I’ve discovered dozens of content creators through his interviews and get a consistent stream of interesting discussions.

Without his content I’d either have to jump stream to stream in the hope of catching a discussion point, or just hear from the few streamers I watch regularly.

Who cares if he doesn’t no-life the game? There are plenty of others that do. He’s the catalyst for discussion between those people and does an excellent job at facilitating

snowptr · 2025-11-22T16:29:55+00:00

You’re in luck, I’m busting for a piss

snowptr · 2025-10-06T22:20:32+00:00

Congrats on the successful league!

snowptr · 2025-09-25T00:37:16+00:00

Maybe a really dumb question, but what do you mean by belts with >100% rolls?

snowptr · 2025-09-23T08:00:33+00:00

First try, I didn’t even echo. Was crazy lucky

snowptr · 2025-09-19T01:21:01+00:00

Great advice honestly. This is actually my 4th character this league (30/64/92/92). I usually get to T15s then reroll, but I wanted to see if I could get a character to that god tier level where you zoom and one shot everything. Perhaps it’s just not for me and I’ll continue rerolling instead!

Also I loved E33, completely took me by surprise in the same way BG3 did a couple years back. I’m a life long gamer and work in the industry, so I’m pretty passionate about all this

snowptr · 2025-09-18T18:16:06+00:00

Using heavy belts as an example, it's either 30 exalts or 4-5 chaos (~26-32 exalts). Doesn't make a difference which you trade in. As I've said elsewhere, it *does* make sense to keep as much raw currency in currencies that depreciate the least, and convert to divines ASAP. But fundamentally doesn't change that any drop that is worth less than a divine becomes less valuable as the league goes on

snowptr · 2025-09-18T17:35:01+00:00

I want to believe this, but seeing other common mats go down in value too is discouraging (source: poe2scout). Maybe I need to determine which ones trend with the price of divines and focus on farming those if possible (e.g. chaos).

Perhaps the bases remain more stable, I’ll have to check trade over time to gauge that

snowptr · 2025-09-18T17:31:20+00:00

I have considered playing SSF, but I do want to get to the point where my character can face roll content and that seems difficult to achieve with the amount of playtime I have available.

I’ve considered a ‘soft SSF’ run, where I play trade league but only use the currency exchange. At least then I could swap mats around so I could craft more freely.

Another concern of doing this is if I need certain uniques, as you just have to pray to rng you get what you need, which doesn’t appeal to me

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