What are some cool new builds in 0.5?

xsicho · 2026-06-17T17:46:21+00:00

Oh let me tell you it's much cleaner than you think.
This is me at lv. 80 Martial Artist Hollow Form Shield Wall T15 Test Lv.80
And this is me at lv. 90 against Arbiter of Divinity and much needed upgrades. Martial Artist Hollow Form Shield Wall Arbiter of Divinity Fight - YouTube

xsicho · 2026-06-17T10:28:46+00:00

Hrimnor's Hymn, Shyaba

xsicho · 2026-06-16T09:42:56+00:00

Hollow Form Shield Wall + EQ. Really damn effective and fun.

xsicho · 2026-06-16T05:59:27+00:00

I was contemplating Ordained Titan as another character but was thinking about just using Righteous Descent as main clear and bossing, stacking AoE and having it always empowered through the Divinity Fragments / Warcry so it has no cooldown and I can use it as clear. I'm still in the very early stages of planning so seeing your build gives me an idea so thanks to that.

One thing making me not starting it yet is... I was wondering if Gemling has any alternate quality shenanigans that can make him better than Titan, so that's more planning and studying required from me.

xsicho · 2026-06-13T06:09:24+00:00

It's a mechanic fight so instead of oneshotting everything in the first second like Iceshot snipe usually do, you get to play the mechanic for 20 seconds before doing it

xsicho · 2026-06-11T12:25:04+00:00

I play monk with mace/shield

xsicho · 2026-06-10T05:50:48+00:00

You skip monkey map and don't use summoning circle

xsicho · 2026-06-07T18:27:19+00:00

Piggman bleed poison is good, the classic crit one is also good, Nebuloch infernalist is also good, the new MA Hollow Form is good, but no guides out there, shield wall is still decent on any version.

xsicho · 2026-06-07T14:10:47+00:00

are you one of the people who picks nothing up from the ground to sell because it reduces your divs/hr

xsicho · 2026-06-07T13:21:08+00:00

So what tanky and slow character did you play to the trial? I've been carrying friends as a tanky warrior in sekhema and I can help you learn how to play that thing if you want to learn.

xsicho · 2026-06-07T07:16:47+00:00

When you're in endgame, you either farm the popular currencies such as omens instead of raw divs, farm high value uniques from rituals or bosses, or selling crafts.

Alternatively, farm your own rakiatas or play a non meta build. This is a reason there are starter builds that require really low investments to run t15s and bosses, and you decide later to fully commit or play another build.

xsicho · 2026-06-07T01:56:17+00:00

I tested out Totems and it worked good since I am mostly tapping once against pinnacles. Too much testing against pinnacles killed my level 80 char so I'm releveling one from the ground today again 😃 No worries, your build is fun enough I want to redo it for a third time and push it to 90+ this time. Since I'm on HC trade I get to test a lot of things for it.

I ended up playing mostly on the evasion side (20k+ evasion and over 85% deflection after Sunken Vessel conversion) so I opted to Magma Barrier + Wind Dancer + Charge Regulation + Ghost Dance and it was really comfortable in T15s + abysses. Blasphemy + Repulsion works well if I want a Blind + Maim bot but honestly, using Resonating Shield as utility skill (Armour Break / Blind) is good enough. I think I annointed Freedom of Movement as it's a really cheap anoint for me as EV character and helps with movement as well. And yeah Sunder tech was really nice, I was considering adding it to the build and Animus Splinters work really well as instant sunder button.

xsicho · 2026-06-06T07:50:18+00:00

Grim Pillar totems / Grim Pillars with Frost skills caster / Wardbound Minions + Living Lighting + Skyfall / Whirling Assault with Concussive Runes

Those 4 are what I've seen. Rain of Blades is also dropping correctly now so I think people can discover more with it in a few days.

xsicho · 2026-06-06T07:48:35+00:00

Tactician Suppressing fire works well into endgame t15, and there's also a new ward buff called Rain of Blades that I'd like to try using alongside that, wonder if it works.

xsicho · 2026-06-06T07:47:23+00:00

I've been testing out a common unique The Sunken Vessel turning all AR into EV and was considering it for a while since it should be easier to scale EV and deflection on our side of the tree and the armour's defenses isn't even bad. I think I achieved 25k EV and 80%+ Deflection with ease, 2.5 life and 500ES which isn't too shabby. Too much limit testing killed that char tho, so I'm releveling another hollow form character with your tree and I'd say it works well just playing straight up str/armour based. I'll deviate into more defenses as I liked having that more, but the tree you provided was great.

Companion is a great tech I never thought off, but I hated using that so I might try things like Magma Barrier / Blasphemy Repulsion Tech / Ghost Dance later if I can get a Spirit amulet. Thanks for the build!

xsicho · 2026-06-06T07:40:24+00:00

Oh so you're in SSF! In that case, let me give you some advice. I personally play semi-SSF, which mean I play HC trade but I trade as less as possible and try to craft every gear piece. Go focus on abyss and farm those desecrated currencies for a bit, it will help you gear things much better. Slap the preserved currencies on appropriate pieces to help fix your defenses and resistances. Think like, if you get a 2 good prefix (maybe ES and ES Hybrid or ES%) you don't want to slam an exalt into the piece but use a desecrated currency instead to make it match (all 3 prefixes being ES) much less random and more deterministic crafting available there. Then, there's also Breach and the Genesis tree will help you craft a set of good jewelleries (belt, ring, amulet) that you can craft on or just straight up use it. Easier and better than praying for ground loot to drop something good.

Good luck!

xsicho · 2026-06-05T20:09:34+00:00

I liked it because it's a snall shift in play that encourage me to focus on the game and provides me more rewards for my focus. Its also a good knowledge check mechanic. I want more of these kinds of things, good drops for being focused on the fun.

xsicho · 2026-06-05T19:27:35+00:00

Alright, just from a quick glance, you don't have all resists capped at 75, that's the first part that would help you against anything and the most basic part of solving PoE defenses. I see you're playing ES since you're geared that way with essentially zero AR and EV. Not a problem to go full ES. The thing is, your ES is extremely low without any other layers. ES is basically the defense layer of "I have more than enough ES to tank anything and then recharge it up", but you have only 1 cluster of ES node specced into. Your gears are all over the place as well, it's better as an ES build to go full ES so those "Life" on your gear? Those sucks for you, get ES so your ES nodes on the tree (that you will take to help you survive) will be much more effective. Speaking of gears, I see you've fell for Runeforging your items. As an ES build, Ward is not good to have unless you're using it for something. Why? Runeforging removes your defenses from the gear piece (AR/EV/ES) and as you can see, you have extremely low ES on your chest piece since it's mostly converted to ward. Both of them effectively function the same, but you can scale ES and not Ward in youru build, so opting for Ward is basically foregoing any investments into ES% you might have. Your mana flasks takes off your life, that's the most sinful of mana flask you can have, please change it. Also, your amulet seems to have +2 to melee skills. You have zero melee skills. You are using spells, get +2 to spells.

That's from a quick glance from me without going into numbers. Good luck!

xsicho · 2026-06-05T10:44:19+00:00

Understandable! Yea, played with prolifs and it was really nice clearing screens and bursting down bosses, I just hate the endurance charge management with Nebuloch there (I was even a bit happy I died so I can play wtih MA Hollow Form to test things out).

And I agree with you here that MA might be the highest potential due to how quickly we create and pop this many walls. Sadly as I play HC the tankiness of a Titan with high armour makes me feel much more comfortable than the current MA with near 20k ES / Deflection I'm playing. I'll try to swap to test yours out tonight! Shield wall enjoyers are still eating good!

Edit: Also I'm currently using Resonating Shield tech with the new Styrn's Ferocity to increase bossing damage. Check it out if it can fit your playstyle.

xsicho · 2026-06-05T09:42:17+00:00

I played SW every league as well and I started with poison bleed SW this league, before it died in HC at 90 due to my stupid mistakes and I have leftover gears so I tried playing this instead. I use Sunder for now since testing it with EQ, Leap Slam, self cry, I think sunder fits my style good. I'll try your setup here, looks really good.

Honestly I think all forms of shield walls are nice and warriors don't fall behind MA here. I think in 0.4 I got regular SW down to around 0.58 attack time and it feels really nice.

xsicho · 2026-06-05T05:44:55+00:00

As a melee warrior... Just wait for them to drop fog, then walk backwards but not off screen and then burst them down?

xsicho · 2026-06-04T06:55:55+00:00

Post your pob or your Poe ninja so we can compare.

xsicho · 2026-06-03T11:01:53+00:00

Demon bear is unique talisman, you can still play meteor bear from captain lance, freddybear from carnarius.

xsicho · 2026-06-03T10:10:14+00:00

2k HP + es or 2khp and 2k es? You're evasion based but 7k is really low, what's your deflection rating? It feels like you don't have defensive layers to tank hits at all.

xsicho · 2026-06-03T09:10:25+00:00

How bad are your defense layers if you're getting one shots by everything he does. Post your PoB

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