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@@ZHALION108 quarterstaff worked great for me and you can get a ton of stats with a few uniques. You can level with bows sure but I like playing the endgame skills while leveling.

Meta chasing will always be worse it's a design feature of poe 2. It's literally an if-then statement. If the average person can't figure out a build to clear t18 map to finish progressing an atlas then they will all meta chase. Gemling is just pure ignorance. If they come out and say they're removing gemling it wouldn't surprise me one bit. It's not healthy for the game.

Death penalty is really strong in poe1 hc ssf ruthless

I need like triple droprate on exalted orbs even at 96% rarity I go through them instantly. I have 2 amulets, a pair of boots and body armour that i want to slam to attempt upgrades on to get good enough gear to go into t13+ comfortably. SSF is not the target audience unfortunately, if they did something similar to LE for SSF enjoyers I think it would be more fun. I don't care if it means I can't migrate personally. All that does is down the road prevent me from resetting ssf progression during a league.

@ I wish I could get behind trade, because I love the theory that goes into all the items in the game and combining uniques and enabling new interacts and yada yada you know; I wouldn’t say I’m “new to PoE” but I played PoE 1 very little and so I carried next to no game knowledge over. Glad I found your channel, you seem to fit the same kind of style I prefer in the game. I found Smokie through you too thanks to algorithm (I think), so thanks!

Either into the breach, and see if you like picking up flames for regen while leveling if you don't like it just respec the ascendancy nodes for Reality Rending. I recommend getting some chaos res on gear even just a good amethyst ring with chaos res implicit and then pick up chayula's gift second no matter what. That node is crazy good for some of the incoming chaos damage, since we're hybrid life/es thats a very vulnerable aspect of the playstyle. Into the breach can be situationally very good but it's mostly qol for mana sustain early on before getting gear or even after getting gear. Or if you take chaos damage and don't have 30%+ res in a map the red flames will heal up your hp a bit if flasks run out. Edit: And put wither on hit on bell for reality rending, it can be super strong with charged staff up on bosses and the rng chaos damage.

ty @@ExiledVessel for your for your explanation, i play HC and i think i should go more def with (Into the breach), right?

@@wojter322ify the buff to combat frenzy opens up more charge consumption supports. Falling thunder is in a really strong spot right now with the change too.

@@hypegamer347 into the breach while being a side quest at all times its much better than mana leech instant imo

Don't believe you can perhaps I am wrong.

@@ExiledVessel ah fuckin shucks i'm leveling a chaos melee chayula atm

I'm in t8 maps now, I think if I were in trade I would fly through to t15's in another session. Gearing in SSF is kinda pain, I currently don't have runes in 2 pieces of gear cause my accessories are still not up to endgame mapping status whatsoever. I don't know what resists i can put in them cause accessory rng seems bad. I also need to do my 3rd ascendancy, my tooltip damage is double of what it was in this video so I can probably do the t3 one. I got plenty of attempts from mapping. Even with 50+ chaos res I have been one shotted by the volatile chaos mod that leaves the aoe chaos bombs on death. Super scary mod, hopefully going up to 85% chaos res (eventually) will make it easier! GL on your chayula.

Melee definitely feels kind of "jank" sometimes. Targeting monsters behind the monster you're trying to hit, randomly hitting the bell instead of a boss, etc. I can see a light at the end of the tunnel due to no name's build dps. I definitely think a lot of these ascendancies are really potent in the most pinnacle content/gearing just the curve is rough and has missed the mark.

that's my thoughts but uncertain since i haven't been able to do it myself lol

I have seen a MOM EB build I can't remember their clear skill but it looked tanky. Does darkness protect life after MOM? Or do you not know? Stay strong and stay safe :)

@ExiledVessel Have not tested it yet. It should since it only protects life and ES, but you never know. Would make sense since the tree gives you bonus chaos damage for not having any darkness reserved. I'll keep strong hoping I crack some hidden tech. Lol

Thank you for the feedback. I know I am very critical of the game state but I at least think the criticisms while vulgar at times is valid. Theres some really cool monk poison stuff out there that I genuinely think is the more "optimal" way to play acolyte of chayula.

I appreciate the critical thoughts. Because the more I play the more I hate some of the decisions. Skills in general drive me crazy that they are built to basically work one way and one way only. It's so anti POE

I am aware of call of the brotherhood, I am in SSF so getting the rings is kinda impossible. What my plan is to use an elemental staff or a phys staff with lightning and apply all elemental ailments because there are nodes like harness the elements, heavy frost, thin ice to name a few that will scale generic damage including the chaos very high. Thanks for the thoughts I appreciate others brainstorming :^) this builds gonna be weird but It's shaping up nicely I look forward to getting more time because of the weekend to play the game.

@@ExiledVessel Also i wana tell to you another REALY intresting item. Doryani's Prototype Scale Mail . its for you Lighning Chayula build ,cuz another Specialization have penetrations from crits. and can be combined with Brotherhood ring what convert frost to ligning ) But defenetly need more armor on items for this ) Pray your nefative Resistance !

@@tecton1c I put out a leveling guide from playing a second monk, I personally wouldn't recommend doing this tree as i have learned a lot more about the passive tree over the last couple of days.

@@thebiglebowski6965 I'm going to be putting out a couple more videos later this week most likely one maybe even two tonight. I am making another acolyte because of how messed up the tree on this character has become. I put my poe 1 dented brain to work over the last couple days. I think into the breach needs a pretty big buff I'd like if the flames auto absorb or move towards you while within the breach radius. It would play into his fantasy of being an acolyte imo.

@@ExiledVessel They just have to make the buff duration expandable. So that after you put some points into skill effect duration, the buff could reach maybe 15-20 seconds. And Mantra of Destruction needs to be adjusted heavily. It is utterly useless. If that skill would actually deal damage and be able to execute you could hold the buff duration and the build would be playable. You could farm for money and refund the skill points. I think it would actually take less time than starting a new monk. Except you want to go for new skills and new gear aswell. I am considering the same.

@@JuanGerpe-w8f the black bars is just the way I recorded and didn't edit it

I did the same thing with a respawn at checkpoint strat in act 3 cruel. I view darkness as situational flat life. The only type of build I think it might be good on is a MoM build but I don't even know how it would interact and if you go MoM you're probably archmage spellcaster... so idk. I assume acolyte of chayula must have been busted on another weapon type so that is why it's in its current state. My guess is dagger or caster acolyte was too op

@@lucagenovese7207 for me with my physical staff it is. There are also a pair of gloves that travic on TH-cam used to cause all lightning damage to electrocute. I'm playing in ssf so that unique is out of my price range.

@@ExiledVessel hmm i saw that but i dont like the fact to rely on an unique, at least for now. If you say that what you are doing is enough i m definitely going to try this soon, currently missing a couple of levels for this switch. thanks tho! i m having a blast with my monk so far, i love its animations!

@@axo4383 invoker monk does a lot more damage than acolyte due to them not needing to invest passives and supports into penetration. There's a lot of op builds currently. I'd argue ignite is the strongest bossing in the game.

@@ExiledVessel Blood Mage, Gemling and Chayula need heavy reworks, Chronomancer needs more buffs and adjustements.

*Watches my friend as a merc, explode the entire screen with no effort* Chrono if built right is OMEGA strong, and blood mage could use some love is also pretty strong with bonestorm/reap.

@@mnemolyst5251 SSF.

Nope, completely experimental just a thought process and honestly may not go mana focused at all after some additional testing with mana leech on elemental skills after unallocating the breach stuff so I could vacuum test mana leech of elemental skills that do not fully convert phys to elemental. Will most likely forego all of the leech stuff, I think the only plausible way to mana leech is to use physical attacks but they wouldn't scale the chaos damage potential as much as elemental skills do.

yep invoker is the better ascendancy

The ascendancy says "gain %of damage from hits as chaos", so lightning works.

@@y_rnd lighting is chaos damage?

How does lighting work? It's elemental damage, not chaos damage. Would you explain me more, or I'll misunderstand.

@@kingarthur2251 from my understanding, the chaos comes from an extra percentage of "damage dealt" to enemies. Whatever the source. It comes from an ascendancy point + purple flames of chayula.

Maybe try that Instant Mana Leech node first. I've seen ppl claiming it's bugged currently and doesn't work. I can relate to your situation cause I took Acolyte as well and compared to, from what I've seen, Invoker can do the difference is massive. Wish there would be a way for ele dmg to leech mana. Maybe that would make instant leech+overleech as es combo more viable.

It's kind of obvious that Invoker is supposed to be for elemental monks. It would be nice if acolyte monks could become chaos monks and basically be a chaos melee. However, we only have access to **two** chaos spells with the quarterstaff with one being Hand of Chayula (just debuffs) & Mantra of Destruction (which is literally just usable one time after a 10 combo and the damage you get from it is not even compensating the casting time and extra damage). I hope that the next two spells that are labeled "Coming soon" in the quarterstaff section are chaos spells because otherwise this ascendency is literally useless compared to Invoker. For now if you want to play chaos monk (& want to play with mainly chaos spells), you are forced to play with the wand since it has many chaos spells but why not play witch then? However, if you want to play melee, you are basically forced to go freeze/lightning and at that point you should just choose Invoker. This ascendency is underdeveloped in my opinion.

@@wojter322ify Even with the instant leech node, we still need to find good sources for leech. Leech needs to be phys dmg so the best source atm is the bell, but will that be enought to maintiain mana/es on higher levels of gameplay?

@@ArrakOfNorway does bell count as our damage? I assumed it did not similar to like a totem.

It is not exactly like a totem because if you link rage support with bell you get the rage if the bell hits enemies with the aoe

You need a single ability that can kill a large amount of mobs else it does nothing. It's a much worse version of Unbound Avatar.

@@ExiledVessel So basically use it before Storm Wave? Thanks

@@Zaby1775 Maybe Flickering Strike?

Sadly it doesn't work with shock, but electrocute... that's why I am not using it atm.

@y_rnd you're right! It's freeze but freeze can typically be applied with shattering palm

isn't it once every 5 seconds or something? on combat frenzy

@@Felixuwuowo I think it's 6? but thats shorter than charged staff's duration and the support that gives a chance to gain extra charge works well. It's 100% up time as long as you can reliably freeze

Profane ritual and Siphon strike best way to get power charges also that passive node does allow you to consume extra charges my charged staff has an uptime of about 35 seconds

@@Kaienowaty ultra wide monitor.

I understand it the same way. Would be really cool if it upped for 8 seconds tho :)

@@WOMFT I know how to edit for TH-cam uploads just addicted to game don't want to waste time editing 🤣

@@surprize7632 mantra of destruction gives added damage as chaos, the purple flames give damage as extra chaos too. Chayula is a bad ascendancy in comparison to invoker for this style of a build.

@@андрейкупиров I agree. I am making different build later 😂

@@ExiledVessel Это разработчик намудрил с этими огоньками. Я считаю нужно давать полноценный баф персонажа а не бегать и ловить эти огоньки.

@@Bazihar didn't know that was a modifier, I'm playing SSF 😂

@@ExiledVessel btw, what nodes are you planing to get with next 4 ascension points?

@@leonardopelizzon1196 I say the same thing when Diablo players say seasons for poe or poe players call Diablo seasons leagues.

@@MrLorenzo808 yes I have realized this after changing my build with electrocute stuff to generate power charges.

Siphoning strike a mob that is shocked

@@thomaspapamargaritis5945 there's some new tech I've figured out to generate power charges using lightning damage.

@@ExiledVessel looking forward to this ^^