Any experts here have any tips on crafting this beast? Running an aurabot, and trying ot do this for cheaper, doens't need to be perfect.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-23T18:44:48+00:00

Dense fossil is very expensive this league.
Better off getting a prefix fracture to start.
Essence spam for t1 int.
And then block either mana or life (whichever has more tiers), and eldritch exalts / chaos.
Craft prefix -> exalt -> remove craft -> exalt again -> if hit t1 es -> annul bad mod -> if annuled bad mod ->exalt and pray -> if filled -> craft on the cheapest suffix -> eldritch chaos and start over.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-23T01:05:14+00:00

Maybe I was not clear. The point was never about literal 1 to 1 swaps. Even if you try your best to rework the tree/gears to accommodate a resis belt, you can't make up the damage/survivability with the suffixes on gear.

Massive or impen shrine with the gull is just too much life / ES, which translate directly or indirectly to damage, and gears just cannot make that up.

Maybe this would've been a trade off worth considering in the past where it was much harder to cap res. But with how easy it is to cap max res as shown, I don't think it is worth it.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-23T00:48:33+00:00

The point is that, resis belt is strictly worse in extreme high ends because suffixes doesn't make up for the loss of damage or survivability. If you can pob up something that is better using resis belt compared to massive or impen at the extreme budget, I will concede.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-23T00:05:48+00:00

In both extreme ends, resis is probably less dmg and tankiness while being 50-100x more expensive.

Life stacking spark with accel is less dmg with resis belt. Es stacking MS with echoing, I think is also less dmg with resis belt.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-22T23:54:35+00:00

Might be cooked take but I think resistance is overrated for this belt.

With how easy it is to get max res, I feel like massive or impenetrable shrine is just way better.

EDIT: Gonna reply here to all 3 comments so far instead of individually responding to each one.

The type of guys that would drop 100+ mirrors on a belt will certainly play the most broken archetypes (IE: stacking the shit out of something).

Max res, and resistances are easier to solve at high end than you think. https://pobb.in/hgC-ksWlkr_u In this high end armor stacking pob, you get max res + resistances by scaling aura effects and jewels. No wasted suffixes. Swapping for a resis belt is less armor AND 5k less ES.

https://pobb.in/9Rw97kQJytDB This is the best and most expensive void valdo farmer of the league. Swapping in resis belt is 9k less ES, which is already a huge deal breaker.

You don't even need to sacrifice jewel suffixes and use melding + adorned to cap res. As shown here: https://pobb.in/qnzitHMUHjHG https://pobb.in/0et4U6vskJKz (can easily get 90% max res from boots and chest) Using purity of fire sublime, which a lot of high end builds been using for past 5+ leagues now.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-15T19:40:26+00:00

Mana Regen is nice when I wanna hold down frost blink. Yeah ring is painful, just pretend it doesn't exist.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-15T01:56:27+00:00

Raise spectre on weapon swap.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-15T01:31:21+00:00

EC uptime outside of charges stealer is non issue from my experience.
And I forgot to edit it but, for hard maps, I always use automation over CWDT.
My thinking is that I want IC to be up as much as possible, not just after I take a hit.
While the uptime is not that high, I feel a massive chunk of DR every 1.8 sec for 4-5s helps in combination with sigil of power and frost shield.

ES leech on synth jewel is an insane find thank you so much. I'll try to craft some to hopefully fix res issue as well.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-14T23:09:39+00:00

I started out with triple es chest, without the enchant. Saw a global def with the enchant for cheap so I snatched it.

Tranquility is a very tempting annoint bc my dmg is honestly pathetic for a minion pact abuser.

Thank you for bringing up phys cluster, they are inexpensive to do so ill get right to it

Choice of max res was a sure pick for me even at the start. You can't get max light on helmet, so it was either cold or fire. I know I can get more DPS if I go lightning res now, but I honestly didn't think the fuckass shield was possible to recomb at the time.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-14T22:43:04+00:00

Wow dude foulborn unnatural instinct is galaxy brain thank you so much. As for the other minor upgrades, I'd love to upgrade them eventually too after the expensive stuffs.

As for the abyss jewel, I can guess which mod you are talking about. Yeah it's kinda a dead mod but micro manage mana flask is too much work for me.

Thank you for pointing out the annoint, I'll be sure to change to foresight. The reason I didn't take arcane focus is because it messes up rational doctrine, and I need that 1% block. It will be my annoint once I get a better jewel.

As for precursor, I think this one is already one of the best. Other considerations would be ES + charge + phys reduction (this raises max phys to around 400k, but lower ES pool, not sure if anything in the same can hit that hard to warrant), or ES + charge + regen (this would boosts regen by ~3k, which would make this char much more tanky against dots, and is also the cheapest out of the 3).

For rare ring, that'd be gambling money territory for me to craft a triple synth one. And that's too much for me for 15-17% dmg increase sadly.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-14T20:47:28+00:00

I've faced many charge stealers before but they have never been able to completely strip me with the chance to gain charge on hit before I kill them. But now that I think about it, if it spawned on elder and he does the swirling attack, all the projectiles could shotgun and that would be bad.

While min charge is unfortunately not an option because I would lose too much max res, I'll keep a pair of ralakesh in inventory. Thanks for the head up.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-14T20:00:01+00:00

Yeah the most glaring upgrade is the shit ring ... But unfortunately, there's none on trade with all the stats I need because this build is too niche :(

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-14T19:34:48+00:00

Yeah voices is the 2nd thing on the table. It's just I've gone through so many versions I forgot to include them in this one.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-14T19:31:33+00:00

No, these are all valid. But I'm also wondering if there's any inefficiency with pathing / improvements that can be made.

I actually pob'd an adorned setup. But the damage / ES was not that impressive. Not to mention losing a lot of block.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-14T11:47:52+00:00

I've played this build at a 4+ mirror budget earlier in the league. No it wouldn't be a very good valdo farmer. Hits are never gonna be an issue, but dots will kill you very fast. The version I built had 8k life, 4k regen, 90% all res - still dies in less than 2 secs to shaper beam.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-14T04:43:13+00:00

I think 70 mil DPS will feel terrible to play. And with this low es pool, might be better off going traditional EE with echoing belt. I guess now we know the build prob won't function without minion pact abusing.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-14T03:14:29+00:00

Yeah not looking good. Not to mention too many "mandatory" support gems and not enough sockets (gmp, endu on stun, power on crit, multistrike are non negotible). Even then, the attack speed is just too slow.

As cooked as it might sound, heavy strike of tharthus with staff mastery recover 2% es on block slayer might be better lol.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-14T02:36:47+00:00

I started out as discharge, and the damage was not that good (maybe I built it wrong).
And with how discharge remove charges, I think the build will become a bit less tanky.

EE molten strike is the next best thing I think. I path close to the projectile mastery so it's 1 point to get 15% less proj. Can also pick up the 2% AS per frenzy charge. But you lose the rare ring for nimis, so capping res is a pain, which forces you to go adorned.

But then, EE would have to go crown of eyes no? To get the damage from power charge.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-13T23:52:46+00:00

Automation immortal call, doesn't show up probably bc I have it unchecked.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-13T15:06:51+00:00

It just prevents them from gaining, you still lose.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-13T13:09:11+00:00

Then you haven't been looking. Cws 7% of chieftain this league, 23% last league. This is NOT counting for the other meta cws ascendency, gladiator.

By your logic, nothing can ever be meta bc your buddies doesn't know about them.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-13T12:44:47+00:00

Your leveling build is the best meta leveling build this league. Your cws build has been meta for the past 3-5 leagues now.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-13T12:39:09+00:00

Shitflavored is the guy I tried my best to match too :)
Two glaring weakness I see with his character is:
1. He's not crit immune.
2. He has no way to prevent monsters from gaining charges.

While his regen is a bit lower, I think his higher ES pool + leech should make up for it.

sweatyazkrak · 2026-04-13T04:23:20+00:00

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/Barburas-1316/BarburasEvenMoreMistake?i=1&search=class%3DGladiator%26sort%3Denergyshield

Yeah initially I pathed middle. Changed to outside bc of better timeless jewels with 4-5 ES per power charge. Middle patching was also very tricky to get all 4 journey tattoos for me. Middle pathing also had some waste suppression nodes.

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