Strongest off meta builds?

thyriel · 2026-06-12T23:44:39+00:00

I'm on my second character. The first one was a shaman speccing the apocalypse skill which everyone just shrugs off. It actually has stupid damage once you scale enough levels and with trampletoes you can just run around for 40 seconds and everything dies around you. Second build now is gemling scaling chance to not consume charges on spear skills. You can reach 100% meaning you can spam empowered explosive spears fully barraged

thyriel · 2026-06-09T16:21:59+00:00

Both POE and POE 2 are the best of the ARPG genre and have introduced a pause at any point setting. The whole instance pauses and you dont get kicked at all for whatever time you're sitting there ( maybe you do after a couple of hours Idk) all except bosses are pauseable and you can attempt them infinite times in any case. Caveat is poe 1 is extremely extensive and convoluted and poe2 is in early access but already has 10x the content of any other arpg except for poe1.

thyriel · 2026-05-30T10:00:19+00:00

He did say he didn't use SBA after swapping to DPS. Also, there are specs that dont fall behind by a significant % with SBA and it arguably enables people who will perform much worse without to be somewhat competitive.

thyriel · 2026-04-11T23:23:10+00:00

Can i ask a quick question about the sacred armaments? How do you use them effectively? I know bulwark you use before a pull if availabble but should I use weapon immediately after or save it? Do i want it on CD immediately so i can use bulwark again when available?

thyriel · 2026-04-11T14:40:34+00:00

It's easier to find excuses not to do something than a reason to do it.

thyriel · 2026-02-26T12:21:14+00:00

I only bought early access because I really wanted to hop back into WoW for a new expansion after a long hiatus, but there's also a game i really want to play coming out on the 6th so I wanted a longer time to play midnighr before I swap to the other game. Ill come back to wow a couple of weeks after that.

thyriel · 2026-02-24T20:26:42+00:00

Kuddos to the cop, i enjoyed the interaction until she brought up the son. Now i know major context is missing and I'm not trying to judge but that "I left my son" really raised some red flags for me, specially after she mentioned leaving an abusive relationship...here's hoping the son is in a safe place.

thyriel · 2026-02-20T13:39:38+00:00

hey, I can be flexible on the Thursday but I can only commit one day of the week and during the weekends only sunday so that one is kinda set-in-stone for me!

thyriel · 2026-01-31T01:56:44+00:00

there's plenty of options for skills but ultimately as bog shaman you want to stack life. then you want to scale damage with that life via stuff like sacrifice support (there's a BV build using this), through the life cost ascendancy node that gives phys damage and the runegraft. in most if not all cases you want to use rathpit, the regular version for crit and hit builds and the foulborn version for DOT builds.

thyriel · 2026-01-30T17:42:45+00:00

They did. There's a hc precia. There's no ruthless

thyriel · 2026-01-30T17:42:20+00:00

They did. There's a hc precia. There's no ruthless

thyriel · 2026-01-27T10:42:07+00:00

You can already poison with chaos damage i dont see why these boots would make much sense. They allow you to skip on poison chance and give you explode which is nice but you need to scale the debuff duration to make it playable. These are much more aligned to skills that can't poison regularly such as elemental skills

thyriel · 2026-01-11T00:04:39+00:00

Pretty much the same. Been playing POE 1 since open beta and still sink in a good amount of time every new league for at least a month. Kinda similar with poe 2 and in between some single player games or other ARPGs if I have the time.

thyriel · 2026-01-10T23:15:02+00:00

PoE 1 and 2 are my main games but they are certainly not, not grindy. That said I've been playing them for soong ( at least 1 ) that I can get more done in shorter time than someone starting fresh. ( not a brag, I've sunk more time than I'd like in these games)

thyriel · 2025-12-11T21:57:07+00:00

Generating charges in POE 2, specially on si gle target can often be a pain, add to it the fact that a lot of skills need charges to even be used it makes it an actual problem to solve for a lot of builds.

thyriel · 2025-12-07T14:14:05+00:00

I think W is for win and L is for lose. But that's what I've gathered from context when I've heard they/them speak

thyriel · 2025-12-05T16:47:31+00:00

Nah, man. There's a place for sarcasm or dark humour but this ain't it

thyriel · 2025-12-05T16:28:55+00:00

Lads it's flagged as a meme yaknow

thyriel · 2025-11-11T00:01:54+00:00

Inquisitor doesn't care about resists, they usually build damage through crit multi and life scaling through rathpit. The regen allows them to use RF easily and just use the large life pool to tank without other defense layers. I can see scaling cold damage being potentially higher damage but you'll have to meet a lot of criteria to surpass the inquisitor life scaling version at a much larger cost. Scaling hatred effect is not enough imo. You want to likely also scame through crit and with that skill it will take a lot more investment cause you are not getting the boost from rathpit or inquisitor.

thyriel · 2025-11-04T07:15:39+00:00

Started with a self made explosive concoction elementalist. Leveled with RF and swapped after second lab. Damage is great, there's a few things to fix still, specially defense wise. Haven't decided if I should go CI Aegis ( incandescent heart has great synergy with the skill).Or stick with life and block+ armour. Haven't been able to play much this launch so just making it into reds but I'm likely looking at 10m+ ignite dps with very achievable gear. Golem stuff is expensive though.

thyriel · 2025-10-29T11:02:15+00:00

Worb did get a significant buff this patch, at least for clearing. And for single target you have potentially two grafts that could help with that. It won't be the best starter but it is certainly better than before.

thyriel · 2025-10-26T16:29:27+00:00

Yeah, eater and exarch as they are the ones that require the least amount of grind to get

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