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@@phoebius_game ultrawide. Cannot recommend enough for PoE

@@exiled1gaming oh it still works for attack skills like LA. +Levels are still good for attacks they are just much better for spells. +1 level is usually around 15-20% more damage for spells and about 5-8% more for attacks

@@poopbutts Thanks for the info

@@danzdor yeah pretty much has to be something right side of the tree for enough evasion. Shame the other reduced duration cluster is so far away. Earthquake or grenades have the most synergy with this but the pathing on that would be near impossible

@poopbutts i guess megalomaniac and amulet annulment should help, no small passives tho but still

I had an int stacking gemling with howas (original I know) and lightning infused molten blast with that mace. It was good but you do so much less damage if you’re not in the forking range and the forced movement constantly makes you break your dps or lower it by continuing to move forward

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I have one pconc if that is what you mean th-cam.com/video/JwCDvG-i6Gs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=LJ0DpRWQKjypn2m0 The video description has all the links and what not but here is the mobalytics link mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/83cf34d0-1f0b-452a-85e6-7150ee791812

@@carlostrevisan1980 yeah I was thinking that could be an option for something like an archmage build since you tend to stack int snyway. Giving up your gloves is steep but HoI is so good it could be worth it

Molten blast is seriously fun. I will say the ice wall tech did not go as well as planned. Around when I got to t15s I just kept blowing them up way to fast (I even annointed ice walls for more life on it). I could see it being better to trigger with Cast on shock or something You can use tempest bell for the same use case it is just more annoying since you need to strike 3-4 times first with your off hand

Nah, my crit chance was super high. Before this patch went out I would trigger multiple comets on every white pack. The issue was the energy changes with that patch made it so the damage of the hit mattered for how much energy you got which made skills like eye of winter really bad for enabling CoC since it is a bunch of low damage hits. This kind of setup doesn't really work anymore outside of boss fights (since you get like 20 energy pet hit there). You need your CoC enabler to actually hit reasonably hard if you want to trigger it on white mobs.

Unfortunately they squashed that bug

Why would it be unintended? Voltaic & Freezing Marks are spells but they do their own attack damage (which triggers heralds). If these marks are socketed into Meta gems, it shouldn't matter what ends up triggering those Meta gems, be it spell or attack. It's hard to scale heralds' damage if going for spells anyway, but the marks' novas can be a supplemental clear tech for builds using spells (since they use their own attack damage and not your weapon damage).

@@KirbyzaGamer I'm not a dev, I can't answer, but I am betting on it being changed in the near future. If not then cool. I don't really care I just felt like making others aware of that (likely) possibility.

@@Primaeva lol I wish! Like I said in the description idk how practical this is currently since we don't have many martial weapons that can function as good attack weapons and good spell weapons (maybe just widowhail) Mostly just something cool to keep in mind if we do get something like battlemage or just weapon mods that work for attacks and spells etc.

​@@poopbuttswhat about Stormweaver using the +5 elemental skill staff

Lol sorry it was a super short video I literally explained nothing. spell shocks enemy -> spell triggers voltaxic mark which is an attack -> you kill the enemy that was marked which triggers the nova effect on voltaxic mark -> voltaxic mark kills something and shatters it -> triggers herald of ice

@@short9435 same! I think it is probably one of if not my leave favorite change. It seems like even things like traps/mines are going to be weapon restricted based on them having their own weapon type. Only hope is that they will walk back some of the weapons restrictions or just that it gets more tolerable with more weapon types

This is seriously the sweetest comment. I was supppppper down earlier about the poe 1 news we got today. Seriously thank you so much that means a lot to me. If we ever do get a 3.26 league I'll be uploading plenty of league start runs

Quite literally one of the archetypes in the worst spot lol. It stinks. Next balance patch can't come soon enough

@@InnerExile_92 awesome I'll check it out

@@poopbutts th-cam.com/video/0wBaz7zKgKQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=FnH6iSlbFoDHPp7w

@@InnerExile_92 God that is disgusting. He's literally immortal to non 1 shots

@@poopbutts It's so good, I figured it would be too but seeing it is truly a wtf moment lol

I haven't but I dont think it would. Seems like it doesn't let you curse the wall or apply ailments. I've also tried shattering palming the wall and it doesn't attach the ice crystals

@@hamiltonburratto4245 if you are actually going crit it is going to be hard to beat crit damage runes since they are multiplicative with your crit bonus

@@timhowe4341 Totally fair but you'll see that a lot on my channel since a lot of the time I just like sharing cool interactions or packages that people can use to create builds. I'll let other people do build guides or showcases since that is less my style

@@grimooar4712 widowhail can be used for a few different things but it is going to be best with the concoction skills which you have to be a pathfinder for. Like I played poisonous concoction pathfinder with it which was very strong and if you would be interested in that my video after this one is about that

yeahhhhhhh. Wish I didn't agree with you but yeah. Right there with you, building your character is by far my favorite part of PoE 1 so it is kind of rough in 2. The unique design is seriously weak. I was excited when I saw they were buffing a bunch of them with the last patch but then after looking at them idk why they bothered with most of them tbh

@@TheGAMEBOY765 thanks for the mahuxtol's tip! But yeah that is kind of where I landed on it, idk how to make it better then the easier ways of automation. I was actually finally using this for utility on my mace strike cultist hammer gemling to make my frost wall instant cast. I had two reaper's with the first being frost wall and the second apply sniper's mark, eye of winter and a curse. Eventually the frost wall was just going to go on a cast on crit/shock/freeze Still unsure of how if at all to actually use it as a main source of a build. If you are a melee build that wants to automate frost wall like I was doing then it works for that but that is supppppper niche

​@@poopbuttsmy main issue with the setup is that it just seems like bad QOL as a primary damage source, and if you're running it on a proper melee build damage scaling seems pretty impossible. Maybe just use it as a cheeky DD enabler?

@TheGAMEBOY765 agree its a clunker. I would be more into it if you could press one button and trigger all your invocations

@@ditchrat6597 it is a super common unique so not much unless they are near 250%.

@@poopbutts Gotcha. The highest I have is 240%. Thanks!

I wish I could say I disagree with anything you said but I don't. I'm just kind of hoping over time the game opens up and they walk back some of the build design restricting decisions they've added since idk how much love/effort they are actually going to put into PoE 1 going forward. I would say boss design is much cooler in PoE 2 and I do love wasd. But honestly 99% of what I care about is build design/depth so.... yeah.

@@The_MooseWhisperer coc is still pretty dead outside of bossing after the nerfs. I did see a pretty cool idea here though but unsure of how it maps th-cam.com/video/shVqPKxokDI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ZNHZ5jjzvoW-Uehs

@@csac1979 it does more damage than a rare if you can quickly cap that flat lightning value on the mace. An enemy can be hit by more than one projectile if you attack from far enough away (they explode on hitting the ground). They can also be hit by more than one at any range if you create a object for them to explode on like frost wall/tempest bell Area does not seem to be necessary from my testing

@@poopbutts What do you mean with "if you can quickly cap that flat lightning value"??

@@aeggeska1 tldr is it was okay but not great. It was extremely difficult to keep the frost walls alive even with investment into wall life which means the shotgunning was super difficult to consistently do. You could use tempest bell to make it more consistent but it is more annoying to setup. I ended up having two +5 maces on my weapon swap and took both of the +1 max totem nodes on my second weapon set skill tree to use that for single target instead I could fix the damage by putting on howa but tbh I am sick of that solution so I just started over in ssf lol

@@Hwanbright yep! I was messing around with that too and it is probably the route to go. I also think it might be worth exploring just using all projectiles spells and scaling fire spell levels to juice a flame wall

Oh this build definitely did not die. I think now you just value sources of increased damage higher where previously I was avoiding them like the plague since you got it all from your quiver. Getting an increased damage corruption on your quiver would be ideal but honestly probably not at the cost of good suffixes/implicits on it like attack speed/crit chance/crit bonus. It certainly will be worth saving up for though, especially if you are already using quiver effect jewels. For single target you would lose damage damage by switching from snakebites to plaguefinger's (even with a triple flat quiver) but it would certainly help your clearing dps since you are rarely attacking more than a couple times per pack. Maybe add on a ming's heart if you didn't already previously. Try to get generic sources of attack/chaos/projectile damage on things like jewels and rings. Damage wheels like dark entries and pure chaos get better if you weren't already taking those. But honestly all in all this setup is extremely high damage for the investment it takes and this nerf doesn't change that.

@@poopbutts I checked on "POB", Ming Heart on Vacuum gave +40% full DPS, the only ring that comes close and even surpasses is the original Sin with Insane Rolls with Elemental Flat on the Quiver, which I think is practically impossible to get, because you need the good rolls on the suffix and the corruption of Increased Damage doubled my damage on the POB, i.e. Ming Hearts is really insane