Link to the mobalyticss can be found here: mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/dee73cb0-b036-4541-a167-fc00d11f9016/builds/95bcf850-0947-4e6c-b231-9160bf1cc5b0
@@nerofiddles8798 he's a typical streamer/youtuber. Says one thing but do another thing. I guess this method helps them to maintain the view retentions in YT. Another difference I would like to point out Herald of Ice in the video he said Lightning Infusion but in the planner is Lightning Exposure. After that I just stopped watching him.
@@nerofiddles8798 He uses both. Tempest was his main ability. In the video he shows the new skill of storm wave for easy mapping. Tempest is still used for bossing. If you watched the video he shows the skill crystals used for both.
Hey Travic, heres a tip, instead of manually swapping your gems, you could instead keep a unset ring in your inventory, and have your skill gems and support gems inside your skill tab. Whenever you need to swap to your bossing setup, you just equip the unset ring and swap the order of your skills that you dont need to the lowest, and then just equip your main ring on again. Also, thanks for the update on the build, altough i dont know if i will change from the ring just yet, as im missing a lot of spirit since ive changed into grand regalia armor.
Hey travic, just a thought. I noticed in the tree that 3 points are used for freeze build up. Just below chaos inoculation you can pick up 3 nodes that will give you 40% freeze buildup(5% more) 10 % cold dameage(5%more) and 50% damage to frozen enemies... cheers.
I tried it and it sounded good at the beginning but overtime I realized that its bad for mapping as the skill meditate gets interrupted buy mobs when hit during that 2 seconds. It might be a good tech for bossing though.
Innervate and ice bite would also be a nice indicator and damage boost to the herald setup (innervate on hoi and ice bite on hoT), giving you around 70% more damage
Hey Trav, thank you for the video! The faster mediate is great and I switched to the new herald tech but since I dont have a second ring I kept the unique ring and the explosions feel better with the new setup.
I dropped charge infusion long time ago and picked up Grim Feast , you just walk forward and get 2-3k ES per second. You will never die in a breach again.
Want a tech? Put Supercritical + Ambush on Tempest Bell. For some reason bell seems to count as a full life enemy so you get 100% crit chance (100% more) AND 100% increased critical damage bonus.
@@andyeban Yeah. It's probably immune to all damage so it's always on full health. And implementing it as 'enemy' was probably the easiest way to make it targetable by player.
btw people seeing this. For the swap tree, you want to try to avoid nodes that increase you overall energy shield because it would then take longer to meditate to full.
@@1LotusNoirit makes sense. Say with wand and focus you get to 13k max. But once you swap back to staff you only get 10k max ES. The extra 3K ES is wasted anyways, so it makes zero sense to charge up to 13K ES in the first place.
they are actually not one divine they are 30ex. the trade site is bugged and counts one divine to be worth 4ex and that's why they show up first. set price to only show exalted to see what things actually cost. ALWAYS do a quick check to see prices in exalted first.
@@isoldmymumforrp5371 If I'm not mistaken, it's not bugged, it's just that the trade site is still using the old conversion rate, when the div was still worth only few exalts. Players/market raised its price, but the site didn't get updated with the new values (which are changing fast every day anyways).
@@Travic_ Playing IceStrike since first minute of PoE2 launch, 5k hours in PoE1. I would like to share builds probably with you if you want to do these kind of stuffs.
HEY man been watching your videos and getting lots of tips, i literally spent the last day setting this up and i found what is so much funner is ditching the focus for a shield for shield charge, the rate recharge is just a bit slower but you can warp around the map with shield charge it's soooo satisfying. Thanks for the videos been enjoying them as a casual! P.S. ambush is a must support gem for storm wave if that is your main clear if you have 50% base crit it doubles it so it's always a gauranteed crit for everthing thats on full life.
That is not how Crit is calculated. Doubling your crit from 50% to 100% does not make it a guaranteed Crit, it simply adds 100% more of the base Crit value. So if your staff has 10% then you get 100% Crit; you now have 20% Crit.
I think Charged Staff is a bit "extra", IDK, I can't decide. I'm running Charge Infusion though, and the attack (skill) speed feels very good. Sometimes I even swap to Ice Strike because of it.
How embarassing! It didnt save in the description thank you for pointing this out - here you go I fixed it ! mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/dee73cb0-b036-4541-a167-fc00d11f9016/builds/95bcf850-0947-4e6c-b231-9160bf1cc5b0
Have you tried going Eternal Youth? Poebota was using it and i also started using it last 2 days and i rarely die since i can always press that life flask that regens my ES. About the ring nerf, i would rather be afraid of them nerfing Heralds interaction since i don't think they wanted them to chain of each other.
I was running Don's Setup without Polcirkeln with Ice Strike. Not sure how much of this is interchangeable, but I remember getting good "Pops" without Polcrikeln until I switched over to your CI tree. DIFFERENCES: +40% Freeze build up from the notables just under the CI node on the tree. -Coming Calamity nodes also helped Heralds do more damage, but hard to fit into CI tree unless you grab the Controlled Metamorphosis jewel to shave off the small passives (but then I have resistance issues) -Ice Strike + I am the Thunder vs. Tempest Flurry + I am the Blizzard: -H.O Ice: Innervate vs. Cold Mastery -H.O. Thunder: Lightning Mastery, Ambush, Long Shot vs. Cold Infusion + Neural Overload + Electrocute (Maybe Don or other creators have evolved their Herald Supports to what you're showing- hard to know how people are landing on these Supports due to how hard everyone is hitting- difficult to test) I was also stacking a couple "Herald Skills deal 25% more Damage" jewels, but the CI version really want Sapphires for ES. Bottom line; there are a lot of little edges that are adding up to make this work in CI and Polcrikeln alleviates a lot of those pressures (not having good ingenuity + breach rings, premium gloves, perfect resistances)
Whenever i try to use mediate with wand and focus equipped on weapon set 2 it switches back to weapon set 1 and does it with the quarterstaff, how did you get around this?
Since you have so much energy shield adding “% of maximum energy shield added to stun threshold” would make you essentially never get stunned. This I believe is only on sapphire jewels.
So I've been using "Grip Of Winter Girm Bracers" unique for a while now since i never got the unique you have. It has: Increased Invasion Rating Adds cold damage to attacks 40% freeze buildup 27% increased magnitude of chill you inflict I'm assuming id be good with these? Are your gloves THAT great to get?
I've been experimenting with dropping shattering palm for glacial cascade + tempest flurry and adding elemental conflux Not sure how efficient it is but its alot of fun gives me close range and distance along with the explosions
Honestly, I would drop charge infusion for it. The defense it provides is excellent, and the bump that charge infusion gives you isn't worth constantly losing those charges. If it provided that bonus per charge, I would 100% take it, but it doesn't matter if you have one (1) or one hundred (100) charges; you get the same bonus. When running between areas or backtracking, it is nice to reserve those charges for powering up charged staff and losing charges that quickly suck... :) Thanks again for listening.
yea thinking the same. An extra ring is great but im running out of skill slots not ring slots tbh. the only reason he was even remotely struggling on the breaches was because he didnt have grim feast.
@@NidaGsuswell he could drop the blink to use grim feast to be honest. Blink is great for bossing, but general mapping, Grim feast is too good to pass up.
@xjackietranx blink is mandatory for me, depends on your build/damage but I do by far enough damage so just need survivability. Blink away from mass explosions into a meditate when in danger is clutch. I do have hands of wisdom and action though so maybe you need the extra herald damage - all gear dependant on the person.
I think this tech will be really good if they nerf heralds of ice so it can't chill which would be the way they would likely nerf it to not synergies with the ring
To the best of my knowledge, even when you allocate points to a weapon set, it still seems to draw from your skill points. From my perspective, I don’t see a clear advantage in assigning points directly to weapons 1 or 2, especially when you can assign them as skill points and have them available all the time. Could you help me understand why assigning points to weapons is preferred in this case?
I've been running Arctic Armour and it synergizes extremely well with Polcirkeln the unique ring. When a mob hits you, you damage it with cold damage and it triggers the cold explotion from the herald, entire mob pack goes boom. Also using this i saved some passive skill points cause i didn't feel the need to spend points in increased stun threshold. Beware of ranged mobs tho, those can still stun lock you.
I don't know why my Meditate does not work. I researched a bit and made sure I don't have Eternal Youth, but still when I casted Meditate it does the animation but my shield just doesn't increase a bit.
hi travic, why my monk cant equip wand like you did? i already check all my status is eligible and supposed able to equip it. The 2nd equipment slot change color to red when I pick up the wand to put it
Question: Would this herald build would work better if you add Herald of Ash to the mix? I think there is a passive clump up top that boosts all 3 + I think bell does more damage the more ailments it has applied to it. Given it will be another skill with 5 supp skill slots, this opens up even more options...
Everything is fully explained in the mobalytics if you have questions about the jewels in more depth stop by the stream or ask in the discord help channels.
I'm sorry, can you explain about Controlled Metamorphisis? in trade website, it just show small ring, large ring, ... I don't know what I should choose to get like you. Thank you.
Hello thanks for the nice update video ! Your gems support setup might be improved a little bit. (rage support one) Using a crimson jewel with rage on it seems to be more efficient and work with all of monk attack skills (bell , tempest flurry, both heralds, charged staff) If you have room for 1 jewel swap you should try it out see how it feels :)
Me-pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my ES wasnt over capping....... Future me- turned off Eternal Youth. thank you for the guide bro so glad to not have to be a gemling
Are we acually forced to allocated passive skills for the different weapon sets? i thought passives would apply for both when not selecting a specific set?
Great video. Quick question, when I try to meditate my energy shield doesnt move at all. Even when its not full. Is it bugged or what am I doing wrong?
The es increase is not coming from your weapons, it's coming from the shield overcap mechanic that doubles your es on overcharging. He's using the weapon swap to increase es charge speed from meditate.
You only care to have your energy shield doubled. Your not doing it for the EXTRA BOOST from the weapon swap your doing it to increase the speed it happens. You maintain max 100% overcap when you swap back of whatever your base energy shield is at the time. Exmaple if you have 5k in your main hand you goto 10k, if you have 6k in offhand you goto 12, when you overcap at 6k to 12k and swap back you go to 10k its the same shield matching a 100% of your main. You only do the weapon swap so that time it takes to go from 5k->10k is 1.5-2 seconds vs 5-6 seconds
Ethernal Youth Passive Skill is a must have for pure energy shield build. so you don't need to run way and can use Life Flask to immediately up your shield instead of life
When do you swap to your second set up and why? You cant attack whilst the wand is out, just switches to staff. If I meditate with wand setup the shield values go back to that of the staff..Love the set up though!
The wand is used to cut the mediate time in half not give you more energy shield. Just makes meditate go from ~5 seconds to 2. Then you just press your attack button and it auto swaps back
You have to hold the button down that’s usually something people miss. If that doesn’t do it you need to upload to character to maxroll or mobalytics so we can look at what’s wrong
A lot of talking in this one. Appreciate the video, I’m wondering if I missed it, did you mention how much freeze build up we should be getting? I feel like that’s an important detail if anyone could share your current stats that would be lovely.
What would you say is best for maximum damage on a quarterstaff? I'm seeing some people say % increased elemental damage isn't that good, and some with their straight up physical damage quarterstaff hits way harder. I've been searching in the market for some with: % increased physical damage % increased crit damage bonus % increased crit chance Add _ to _ cold damage % increased elemental damage to attacks Is cold required on the quarterstaff? Should Ibtry getting a bunch of physical to it instead? I don't know if this sounds dumb or what. I just see people in comments on other videos saying elemental damage is trash and to go with a lot of physical on the weapon.
I think what you’re searching is the best bang for your buck with the current information we have. I think flat lightning is better than flat cold tho. But you have the right idea. We’ll have a real answer about weapons soon enough. Just need to wait for path of building in a few more days. In path of exile 1 , pure phys was king. In path of exile 2, I don’t think that’s the case anymore. We’ll see tho
@Travic_ By going off your build, would rolling freeze buildup on anything make it easier to make the explosions? Or is there a more efficient modifier to help me out? I only see explosions about every few hits, sometimes more. I mean, I am only 82, about to be level 83, so my passive points aren't as far as yours. I also made a mistake. I bought a crackling quarterstaff with all those stats I mentioned before, but it also has +6 to melee skills. I can't maintain my mana. Lol. It even has mana leach on this staff. Inspiration gem barely helps. 😂 I may need to find another staff without + to melee skills. I'm seeing nicer jewels with 20% increased maximum energy and 10+ crit chance. I'm just wondering if I should get them with those modifiers and freeze buildup since I'm trying to make these explosions always happen.
Just watched again, so my answer is already done for me. Lol. You said in this video, when making the swap to breach rings, I'll need to add more damage, and more cold damage. Got me a new staff that is way better than the one with +6 to melee skills and I maintain my mana good again. The extra damage on this staff has helped with explosions, as well as upgrading the quality of my heralds to get more size to it. I still need more though. So the hunt continues.
I want to say crit damage but we don’t know for sure until pob comes out. Crit damage is so good if you have good crit chance it’s pretty bad if your Crit is way low
@@Travic_ my crit chance is 60% with 418% crit damage, that's without the crit damage soul cores in my staff. My physical I rolled on my staff is only 74% where my last staff was 131%.
and 4, this is very useful for us mad lads in SSF that just can't get the ring to drop lol. So is the TLDR make HoI shock and make HoT freeze so they proc each other?
I'm also running the unique chest but with the +10% rarity, and +5% attributes, for each socketed rune/soul core. I then proceeded to socket in 4x +10% item rarity soul cores into the chest. Yes, I am that greedy.
@Travic_ Love your videos mate, they've been a big help. But how do you get so much ES. My base (from boots, helm, gloves, and body) is about 700 which i think is great. I also get about double that for Evasion. But my total ES is only 2300
Glad you enjoy the videos. so when you have the passive tree set up to match mine and you have all the energy shield notes it scales the flat energy shield on all of your gear pretty much to the moon so a really good example is my helmet has 375 energy shield that 375 gives me about 2000 life. My gloves giving me about 30 energy shield gives me about 300 life give or take a little bit, but that’s roughly the ballpark so if your gear has bad flat energy shield, it won’t scale at all. A really good example is my body armor with 1000 evasion and a roughly 400 energy shield gives me a couple thousand health so the higher you scale the flat energy shield on your gear the more base energy shield you’ll get
@@Travic_ Thanks for the prompt response. Mine isnt exactly like yours, as I am only level 86 and it seems you've assigned way more assigned passive points than me. I must be missing a key ES buff. I'll take a closer look at your mobalytics page. thanks
@@andyeban I am level 93, just skip all the stun for freeze threshhold. But missing those key levels means you are either sacrificing damage or survivability. Keep something in mind too if your gear is a 100 or so points in Energy Shield off of mine you will be losing major health
@@Travic_ I think the jewels must be making a bit of a difference. Also trying to farm distilled suffering, which will give me subtlefuge mask, and then fork out a few divine for a 400es helm, that should bring me to around 6000 i think. I am doing okay in tier 15 maps if i play it cautiously, but got one shotted by first pinnacle boss i encountered, and now trying to find another. This game is ridiculous, half the time i die i dont even know who what why or how But keep up the great videos. Thanks
If Ice strike has better single target damage and better Freeze,but worse clear wouldn't it be good to use now since the Heralds help do the AOE and clearing for you?
yes. i think ice strike is the optimal skill for this herald tech. I've also stacked 100% increased herald damage with jewels and maxed crit in the tree and ice strike herald chain is absolutely filthy. currently wiping pt t14 maps with 215% rarity at level 80
I would disagree about the worse clear speed due to one build. Ice strike buffed by charged staff is really bonkers. I avoided electricity for so long but after testing it today there's no going back. It is blowing up every mob around the map so fast that it looks like I'm using flicker strike. Although I do have tons of attack speed/skill speed, HOI and pol ring makes it clear super fast. I never noticed that charged staff could be used with any staff ability. You basically get a super ice strike with it
Ya i panicked and didn’t know what to do in the heat of the moment. If meditate was a quick swap versus a manual swap I wonder if the outcome would of been different
@@NoblesseOblige-17 Just run high lvl grim feast with eternal youth with instant pots. It's just as strong of not stronger than meditate. Meditate only really wins when fighting pinnacle bosses.
@@Travic_ My immediate thought was to think attribute was more dmg, but after seeing how much lightning added rings can reach, did some math and you need like 40% increased int to get the same number, though that doesn't take into account the atkspd from dex and now I'm super brain fried to figure it out xD
@Travic_ like they have waves of electricity popping around them while mine/other youtubers' are blue spheres. maybe something to do with different graphic settings?
Hey, I have a question regarding Controlled Metamorphosis Diamond - which circle version will cover Pure Power, Lightning Quick, Drenched, Eldritch Will? Massive or Very Large?
Hey travic, I was curious about something, when I used the chaos inoculation I did a map and it was going great then I just insta died but still had my shield. What causes this to happen? Sorry I know it's a dumb question but I have no idea
Theres a stun node in the controlled metamorphisis jewel that helps. Theres also a stun wheel called mortification i think its called. You can run that until you get stun protection elsewhere
If i dont have the divines to buy a ingeuity belt.. and i plan on sticking with the plreiken ring build, what 4th support gems should i use for the herald of ice and thunder? Should i still change the gems for the same one as this build?
@Travic_ I'll have to see when I get back on. I only took off Polcirkeln, which has strength on it. It's my Storm Wave skill that stopped working, and it's a dex and int requirement, I believe. Not sure what that strength from that unique ring might have done, so I'll have to check when I get back on
@Travic_ I do have another question, though. When you were around level 75, we're you one-tap exploding enemies given the amount of passive points you have at that lower level?
@ awesome I’ve been running the herald tech and the ring just wasn’t sure if having the heralds set with there normal elements and just running the ring was more dps. Thank you love the vids
For my gemling brothers and sisters that want to experience this tech with even better explosion: Step 1: Grab a Pillar with cold damage corrupt and/or 2 cold damage rune in both socket Step 2: Stack strength Step 3: Put cold infusion in Herald of thunder Bonus step: grab an Against the darkness jewel with strength % and/or lightning/cold damage as extra damage You can use storm wave for even more clear.
How much ES should I gather on items (without the passiv points) before considering to switch? I dont want to pay the respec just to find me lacking on ES to make use of meditation
Link to the mobalyticss can be found here: mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/dee73cb0-b036-4541-a167-fc00d11f9016/builds/95bcf850-0947-4e6c-b231-9160bf1cc5b0
Your build in mobalytics doesn't show storm wave as a skill, but the video shows you using it.
@@nerofiddles8798 he's a typical streamer/youtuber. Says one thing but do another thing. I guess this method helps them to maintain the view retentions in YT. Another difference I would like to point out Herald of Ice in the video he said Lightning Infusion but in the planner is Lightning Exposure. After that I just stopped watching him.
@@nerofiddles8798 He uses both. Tempest was his main ability. In the video he shows the new skill of storm wave for easy mapping. Tempest is still used for bossing.
If you watched the video he shows the skill crystals used for both.
@Travic_ thanks dude, you explained it in live stream last night. I see the difference now, thanks man.
@@nerofiddles8798 do you know why on my pc the mobalytics of streamers never shows? it shows only error something went wrong lol thanks
Hey Travic, heres a tip, instead of manually swapping your gems, you could instead keep a unset ring in your inventory, and have your skill gems and support gems inside your skill tab. Whenever you need to swap to your bossing setup, you just equip the unset ring and swap the order of your skills that you dont need to the lowest, and then just equip your main ring on again.
Also, thanks for the update on the build, altough i dont know if i will change from the ring just yet, as im missing a lot of spirit since ive changed into grand regalia armor.
I told you about this herald tech 7 days ago. choosing to use the ring over this was crazy, but Im glad u updated the build.
I WASNT A BELIEVER I AM REFORMED! I do admit I should of tried this sooner and everyone who was like I TOLD YOU SO was right.
idk man seems like all mobs are one shot no matter what you do
@amnopp how to trigger echoing flames in this build without herald of ash?
@@domfli7108 add fire to attack modifier
,unbound avatar,any extra fire damage, party member
Hey travic, just a thought. I noticed in the tree that 3 points are used for freeze build up. Just below chaos inoculation you can pick up 3 nodes that will give you 40% freeze buildup(5% more) 10 % cold dameage(5%more) and 50% damage to frozen enemies... cheers.
cheers
I tried it and it sounded good at the beginning but overtime I realized that its bad for mapping as the skill meditate gets interrupted buy mobs when hit during that 2 seconds. It might be a good tech for bossing though.
Yeah meditate helps since grim feast doesn't work on bosses like mobs
Innervate and ice bite would also be a nice indicator and damage boost to the herald setup (innervate on hoi and ice bite on hoT), giving you around 70% more damage
Why is he not doing this ?
@@rjrulz327 usuality, they sit on other skills in the setup as well.
Probably just forgot idk? There's room if he 6 links also
Yeah I'm running cold/lightning infusion, freeze/shock, +1/+1, ice bite/innervate, ambush/magnified effect, respectively on the Thunder/Ice heralds. It's insane.
@@joedillianwhat support skill is freeze/shock?
Hey Trav, thank you for the video! The faster mediate is great and I switched to the new herald tech but since I dont have a second ring I kept the unique ring and the explosions feel better with the new setup.
I dropped charge infusion long time ago and picked up Grim Feast , you just walk forward and get 2-3k ES per second. You will never die in a breach again.
HOw are you getting that much from the remnants? Mine are at 90 each, and thats with high int
how big should be the ring in Controlled Metamorphisis? Please add that to your guide as well
It’s on there, it’s also in the video, the ring is massive size
@Travic_ Thanks a lot for helping out❤️
Want a tech? Put Supercritical + Ambush on Tempest Bell. For some reason bell seems to count as a full life enemy so you get 100% crit chance (100% more) AND 100% increased critical damage bonus.
Woah on each hit?
@@andyeban Yeah. It's probably immune to all damage so it's always on full health. And implementing it as 'enemy' was probably the easiest way to make it targetable by player.
Grandmaster I thank you for this tech
How do you know this works?
btw people seeing this. For the swap tree, you want to try to avoid nodes that increase you overall energy shield because it would then take longer to meditate to full.
What kind of backwards logic is that ?
@1LotusNoir if your max ES is 10k then you swap and your max is 13k it will take you longer to get to 13k just to swap back and have 10k overshield.
@@1LotusNoirit makes sense. Say with wand and focus you get to 13k max. But once you swap back to staff you only get 10k max ES. The extra 3K ES is wasted anyways, so it makes zero sense to charge up to 13K ES in the first place.
@@budless5352 Now I get it, you were speaking only for the swap tree I've missed that, and yes you're right, have a good day.
@@xjackietranx Yeah I misunderstood that's my bad.
they are actually not one divine they are 30ex. the trade site is bugged and counts one divine to be worth 4ex and that's why they show up first. set price to only show exalted to see what things actually cost. ALWAYS do a quick check to see prices in exalted first.
DID I GET BAITED TOO I SWORE I CHECKED IN EXALTS BEFORE I DID THIS VIDEO -_- thanks for double checking for me
@@Travic_ I have trade filters with ex by default, its bugged everywhere
@@isoldmymumforrp5371 If I'm not mistaken, it's not bugged, it's just that the trade site is still using the old conversion rate, when the div was still worth only few exalts. Players/market raised its price, but the site didn't get updated with the new values (which are changing fast every day anyways).
OOF
It's crazy how many things this is affecting. I got a staff that doubled my damage for 30 ex and the ones for 1 Div were worse!
I have to admit, I really enjoy following both your builds and Milky's. You both excel at Invoker builds.
Ya he’s doing a wonderful job! Also thank you!!
You make really good content my monk brother.
Thanks fam!!
@@Travic_ Playing IceStrike since first minute of PoE2 launch, 5k hours in PoE1. I would like to share builds probably with you if you want to do these kind of stuffs.
HEY man been watching your videos and getting lots of tips, i literally spent the last day setting this up and i found what is so much funner is ditching the focus for a shield for shield charge, the rate recharge is just a bit slower but you can warp around the map with shield charge it's soooo satisfying. Thanks for the videos been enjoying them as a casual! P.S. ambush is a must support gem for storm wave if that is your main clear if you have 50% base crit it doubles it so it's always a gauranteed crit for everthing thats on full life.
OH THATS SMART!
That is not how Crit is calculated. Doubling your crit from 50% to 100% does not make it a guaranteed Crit, it simply adds 100% more of the base Crit value. So if your staff has 10% then you get 100% Crit; you now have 20% Crit.
so the lightning infusion doesnt nerf the cold damage? im confused seems like your net loosing 25% damage
3:24 that caught me off guard xD
Bro my first time too I was like woah
The ring remove a mechanic from the game, that's corpse explosion, even on Trial of chaos. No corpse = no insta kill. CI = No chaos, Poison bleed.
Actually the scattering is really awesome to avoid most of on-death stuffs. But I blink out of the zone after the kill anyways, still very very good.
I think Charged Staff is a bit "extra", IDK, I can't decide. I'm running Charge Infusion though, and the attack (skill) speed feels very good. Sometimes I even swap to Ice Strike because of it.
Where is the mobalytics link for the weapon 2 passive nodes?
How embarassing! It didnt save in the description thank you for pointing this out - here you go I fixed it ! mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/dee73cb0-b036-4541-a167-fc00d11f9016/builds/95bcf850-0947-4e6c-b231-9160bf1cc5b0
Have you tried going Eternal Youth? Poebota was using it and i also started using it last 2 days and i rarely die since i can always press that life flask that regens my ES.
About the ring nerf, i would rather be afraid of them nerfing Heralds interaction since i don't think they wanted them to chain of each other.
Cant use meditate with it :(
@@Travic_ Oh yea i forgot about the other part of it. Im using Grim Feast and Unbound Avatar for now.
I was running Don's Setup without Polcirkeln with Ice Strike. Not sure how much of this is interchangeable, but I remember getting good "Pops" without Polcrikeln until I switched over to your CI tree.
DIFFERENCES:
+40% Freeze build up from the notables just under the CI node on the tree.
-Coming Calamity nodes also helped Heralds do more damage, but hard to fit into CI tree unless you grab the Controlled Metamorphosis jewel to shave off the small passives (but then I have resistance issues)
-Ice Strike + I am the Thunder vs. Tempest Flurry + I am the Blizzard:
-H.O Ice: Innervate vs. Cold Mastery
-H.O. Thunder: Lightning Mastery, Ambush, Long Shot vs. Cold Infusion + Neural Overload + Electrocute
(Maybe Don or other creators have evolved their Herald Supports to what you're showing- hard to know how people are landing on these Supports due to how hard everyone is hitting- difficult to test)
I was also stacking a couple "Herald Skills deal 25% more Damage" jewels, but the CI version really want Sapphires for ES.
Bottom line; there are a lot of little edges that are adding up to make this work in CI and Polcrikeln alleviates a lot of those pressures (not having good ingenuity + breach rings, premium gloves, perfect resistances)
so which build do you prefer out of the two?
Hey Travic, amazing content again. I was wondering which range the metamorphosis jewel should be to get these skills. Happy holiday.
Massive jewel size. Happy Holidays!
Whenever i try to use mediate with wand and focus equipped on weapon set 2 it switches back to weapon set 1 and does it with the quarterstaff, how did you get around this?
i have the same issue as well. anyone know a fix for this please
Since you have so much energy shield adding “% of maximum energy shield added to stun threshold” would make you essentially never get stunned. This I believe is only on sapphire jewels.
Ya the goal is to upgrade to these jewels
So I've been using "Grip Of Winter Girm Bracers" unique for a while now since i never got the unique you have. It has:
Increased Invasion Rating
Adds cold damage to attacks
40% freeze buildup
27% increased magnitude of chill you inflict
I'm assuming id be good with these? Are your gloves THAT great to get?
I've been experimenting with dropping shattering palm for glacial cascade + tempest flurry and adding elemental conflux
Not sure how efficient it is but its alot of fun gives me close range and distance along with the explosions
Thnank you but somehow doesn't increase my shield at all. Do I need a special talent or so?
The progression of the build. Starting with Ice Strike and cold conversion band , to lightning and crit, to tri ele has been amazing.
It’s been such a fun ride! Thank you for enjoying the journey too
Have you thought about running Grim Feast? It really helps with survivability and does not require as much meditation.
If I can get a nice unset ring I can do it!
Honestly, I would drop charge infusion for it. The defense it provides is excellent, and the bump that charge infusion gives you isn't worth constantly losing those charges. If it provided that bonus per charge, I would 100% take it, but it doesn't matter if you have one (1) or one hundred (100) charges; you get the same bonus. When running between areas or backtracking, it is nice to reserve those charges for powering up charged staff and losing charges that quickly suck... :) Thanks again for listening.
Do you drop meditation as well? Or you still running it?
@@pila9914 I still run Meditation on my build...
What supports you running on grim feast? Thanks!
Honestly, I still prefer porc ring. I can drop herald of thunder and take grim feast instead which just helps keep me up as I'm permanently at full ES
yea thinking the same.
An extra ring is great but im running out of skill slots not ring slots tbh.
the only reason he was even remotely struggling on the breaches was because he didnt have grim feast.
@@NidaGsuswell he could drop the blink to use grim feast to be honest.
Blink is great for bossing, but general mapping, Grim feast is too good to pass up.
@xjackietranx blink is mandatory for me, depends on your build/damage but I do by far enough damage so just need survivability. Blink away from mass explosions into a meditate when in danger is clutch. I do have hands of wisdom and action though so maybe you need the extra herald damage - all gear dependant on the person.
I think this tech will be really good if they nerf heralds of ice so it can't chill which would be the way they would likely nerf it to not synergies with the ring
To the best of my knowledge, even when you allocate points to a weapon set, it still seems to draw from your skill points. From my perspective, I don’t see a clear advantage in assigning points directly to weapons 1 or 2, especially when you can assign them as skill points and have them available all the time. Could you help me understand why assigning points to weapons is preferred in this case?
I've been running Arctic Armour and it synergizes extremely well with Polcirkeln the unique ring. When a mob hits you, you damage it with cold damage and it triggers the cold explotion from the herald, entire mob pack goes boom. Also using this i saved some passive skill points cause i didn't feel the need to spend points in increased stun threshold.
Beware of ranged mobs tho, those can still stun lock you.
Getting hit? In this economy??
You're not shattering a mob and procing Herald with Arctic Armor lol.
Love this tech. Thanks for sharing.
Welcome!
you need chaos imulation for this?
I don't know why my Meditate does not work. I researched a bit and made sure I don't have Eternal Youth, but still when I casted Meditate it does the animation but my shield just doesn't increase a bit.
OK, found the reason. Had to hold down the button!
Glad you found the solution
how is ES overcharging w/ meditate?
What would the six link for the heralds be?
hi travic, why my monk cant equip wand like you did? i already check all my status is eligible and supposed able to equip it. The 2nd equipment slot change color to red when I pick up the wand to put it
You are missing int requirements more then likely
Question: Would this herald build would work better if you add Herald of Ash to the mix? I think there is a passive clump up top that boosts all 3 + I think bell does more damage the more ailments it has applied to it. Given it will be another skill with 5 supp skill slots, this opens up even more options...
Thank you and I have a question, what should be the 5th link in storm wave?
Could do +1 level of lightning skills, rage, heft, something else for more damage or you can do inspiration if mana drives you nuts
can you show the jewels u used and where to put them ? in skill tree exactly
Everything is fully explained in the mobalytics if you have questions about the jewels in more depth stop by the stream or ask in the discord help channels.
I'm sorry, can you explain about Controlled Metamorphisis? in trade website, it just show small ring, large ring, ... I don't know what I should choose to get like you. Thank you.
Massive size
Hello thanks for the nice update video !
Your gems support setup might be improved a little bit. (rage support one)
Using a crimson jewel with rage on it seems to be more efficient and work with all of monk attack skills (bell , tempest flurry, both heralds, charged staff)
If you have room for 1 jewel swap you should try it out see how it feels :)
Me-pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my ES wasnt over capping.......
Future me- turned off Eternal Youth.
thank you for the guide bro so glad to not have to be a gemling
Welcome!!!! You see why I’m bald now ;)
Also can you use Thin Ice instead of Essence of the Mountain? It is a short walk on the tree.
I’ll check it out next time I log in
There is unique gloves with 50rarity really cheap. Works great for swaps between maps and bosses
Ohhh I’ll have to look into this!
Makes me curious, could we do a whole other similar build in the second swap??
Theres a lot of possibilities
Are we acually forced to allocated passive skills for the different weapon sets? i thought passives would apply for both when not selecting a specific set?
You have to unspec a bunch of nodes then select the 24 points for the weapon set.
@@Travic_ true but i thought that the bonuses from the passives would apply regardless, even if we don't select them for a weapon set
@@FzzyTingz bit confused on this as well, seems pointless to only assign faster regen on weps 2 when both could benefit from it
Great video. Quick question, when I try to meditate my energy shield doesnt move at all. Even when its not full. Is it bugged or what am I doing wrong?
Remove eternal youth, if you dont have this node make sure you are channeling meditate, it is a press and hold skill
u cant assing the meditate to use with 2 set right? u have to swap it manually?
Yes you have to do it manually
hi. the meditate in my case doesnt have a weapon II on it just I. pls adv
You have to manually swap
So I'm confused. You change weapon slots to use meditate, but when you change back to your DMG set, doesn't that remove the es from Meditate?
The es increase is not coming from your weapons, it's coming from the shield overcap mechanic that doubles your es on overcharging. He's using the weapon swap to increase es charge speed from meditate.
You only care to have your energy shield doubled. Your not doing it for the EXTRA BOOST from the weapon swap your doing it to increase the speed it happens. You maintain max 100% overcap when you swap back of whatever your base energy shield is at the time. Exmaple if you have 5k in your main hand you goto 10k, if you have 6k in offhand you goto 12, when you overcap at 6k to 12k and swap back you go to 10k its the same shield matching a 100% of your main. You only do the weapon swap so that time it takes to go from 5k->10k is 1.5-2 seconds vs 5-6 seconds
what are those circles in your passive skill tree?
Hi Travis, what loot filter are you using?
A slightly modified version of neversinks
Ethernal Youth Passive Skill is a must have for pure energy shield build. so you don't need to run way and can use Life Flask to immediately up your shield instead of life
You can’t use mediate with eternal youth
@@Travic_ oh okay nerver know that XD
When do you swap to your second set up and why? You cant attack whilst the wand is out, just switches to staff. If I meditate with wand setup the shield values go back to that of the staff..Love the set up though!
The wand is used to cut the mediate time in half not give you more energy shield. Just makes meditate go from ~5 seconds to 2. Then you just press your attack button and it auto swaps back
I am wondering if there is a reason why you use the echoing flames in your passive, dont you need fire damage for that?
Theres fire damage on my ring
I do NOT have Eternal Youth node, and for whatever reason, Meditate is not overcharging my energy shield. It just does nothing. What am I missing?
You have to hold the button down that’s usually something people miss. If that doesn’t do it you need to upload to character to maxroll or mobalytics so we can look at what’s wrong
Bruuuuh, you're amazing and I am... Not smart lol. Thank you, this was it!
Wondering what would scale better on the weapon sockets. Critical DMG or Increase elemental dmg with attacks.
Well know in a few days when path of building is out!!! But in my opinion its critical damage but well know for sure soon
A lot of talking in this one. Appreciate the video, I’m wondering if I missed it, did you mention how much freeze build up we should be getting? I feel like that’s an important detail if anyone could share your current stats that would be lovely.
You cant look up total % freeze without manually calculating it. I also show you the freeze nodes you need in this video.
@ ok, thank you!
Im on colesole. I dont how to set up the switch method for meditatw
Check the controller settings and see if there is a keybind for it
Do heralds ever work on bosses? Since you need to either shatter or kill a shocked enemy for them to proc.
Nope we can swap them out for damage
What would you say is best for maximum damage on a quarterstaff? I'm seeing some people say % increased elemental damage isn't that good, and some with their straight up physical damage quarterstaff hits way harder.
I've been searching in the market for some with:
% increased physical damage
% increased crit damage bonus
% increased crit chance
Add _ to _ cold damage
% increased elemental damage to attacks
Is cold required on the quarterstaff? Should Ibtry getting a bunch of physical to it instead? I don't know if this sounds dumb or what. I just see people in comments on other videos saying elemental damage is trash and to go with a lot of physical on the weapon.
I think what you’re searching is the best bang for your buck with the current information we have. I think flat lightning is better than flat cold tho. But you have the right idea.
We’ll have a real answer about weapons soon enough. Just need to wait for path of building in a few more days.
In path of exile 1 , pure phys was king. In path of exile 2, I don’t think that’s the case anymore. We’ll see tho
@Travic_ By going off your build, would rolling freeze buildup on anything make it easier to make the explosions? Or is there a more efficient modifier to help me out? I only see explosions about every few hits, sometimes more. I mean, I am only 82, about to be level 83, so my passive points aren't as far as yours.
I also made a mistake. I bought a crackling quarterstaff with all those stats I mentioned before, but it also has +6 to melee skills. I can't maintain my mana. Lol. It even has mana leach on this staff. Inspiration gem barely helps. 😂 I may need to find another staff without + to melee skills.
I'm seeing nicer jewels with 20% increased maximum energy and 10+ crit chance. I'm just wondering if I should get them with those modifiers and freeze buildup since I'm trying to make these explosions always happen.
Just watched again, so my answer is already done for me. Lol. You said in this video, when making the swap to breach rings, I'll need to add more damage, and more cold damage. Got me a new staff that is way better than the one with +6 to melee skills and I maintain my mana good again. The extra damage on this staff has helped with explosions, as well as upgrading the quality of my heralds to get more size to it. I still need more though. So the hunt continues.
Wait so could your grim feast on the main weapon set and then meditate on the other?
If you have an unset ring you can just run both
What gives you more damage in the staff overall? crit damage soul cores or iron runes for increased physical damage.
I want to say crit damage but we don’t know for sure until pob comes out. Crit damage is so good if you have good crit chance it’s pretty bad if your Crit is way low
@@Travic_ my crit chance is 60% with 418% crit damage, that's without the crit damage soul cores in my staff. My physical I rolled on my staff is only 74% where my last staff was 131%.
and 4, this is very useful for us mad lads in SSF that just can't get the ring to drop lol. So is the TLDR make HoI shock and make HoT freeze so they proc each other?
Yup! You got it
I'm also running the unique chest but with the +10% rarity, and +5% attributes, for each socketed rune/soul core. I then proceeded to socket in 4x +10% item rarity soul cores into the chest. Yes, I am that greedy.
WE STAN RARITY WOOOOOOOOO
@Travic_ Love your videos mate, they've been a big help. But how do you get so much ES. My base (from boots, helm, gloves, and body) is about 700 which i think is great. I also get about double that for Evasion. But my total ES is only 2300
Glad you enjoy the videos. so when you have the passive tree set up to match mine and you have all the energy shield notes it scales the flat energy shield on all of your gear pretty much to the moon so a really good example is my helmet has 375 energy shield that 375 gives me about 2000 life. My gloves giving me about 30 energy shield gives me about 300 life give or take a little bit, but that’s roughly the ballpark so if your gear has bad flat energy shield, it won’t scale at all. A really good example is my body armor with 1000 evasion and a roughly 400 energy shield gives me a couple thousand health so the higher you scale the flat energy shield on your gear the more base energy shield you’ll get
@@Travic_ Thanks for the prompt response. Mine isnt exactly like yours, as I am only level 86 and it seems you've assigned way more assigned passive points than me. I must be missing a key ES buff. I'll take a closer look at your mobalytics page. thanks
@@andyeban I am level 93, just skip all the stun for freeze threshhold. But missing those key levels means you are either sacrificing damage or survivability. Keep something in mind too if your gear is a 100 or so points in Energy Shield off of mine you will be losing major health
@@Travic_ I think the jewels must be making a bit of a difference. Also trying to farm distilled suffering, which will give me subtlefuge mask, and then fork out a few divine for a 400es helm, that should bring me to around 6000 i think. I am doing okay in tier 15 maps if i play it cautiously, but got one shotted by first pinnacle boss i encountered, and now trying to find another. This game is ridiculous, half the time i die i dont even know who what why or how
But keep up the great videos. Thanks
Any ideas why my meditate isn't doing basically anything ? No recharge, no double shield xd
Make sure you dont have eternal youth specced. If you do remove it, then once you do that hold down the meditate button to charge it.
How do you have that circle thing on the top sir?
Which circle thing
@@Travic_hes saying the jewel ring on the skill tree.
I answer that to @ludwigwagner4885 see his coment.
If Ice strike has better single target damage and better Freeze,but worse clear wouldn't it be good to use now since the Heralds help do the AOE and clearing for you?
yes. i think ice strike is the optimal skill for this herald tech. I've also stacked 100% increased herald damage with jewels and maxed crit in the tree and ice strike herald chain is absolutely filthy. currently wiping pt t14 maps with 215% rarity at level 80
@@deerlow1851that's good to hear because I find ice strike more comfy. Plus you can blink around and feel faster.
I would disagree about the worse clear speed due to one build. Ice strike buffed by charged staff is really bonkers. I avoided electricity for so long but after testing it today there's no going back. It is blowing up every mob around the map so fast that it looks like I'm using flicker strike. Although I do have tons of attack speed/skill speed, HOI and pol ring makes it clear super fast. I never noticed that charged staff could be used with any staff ability. You basically get a super ice strike with it
@@deerlow1851good to hear. I really like the herald tech. Will swap out the ring but dont want to use those lightning skills lol. Ice strike is king
18:40 I was this close to believing you might not need Grim Feast with Meditate 😂
Ya i panicked and didn’t know what to do in the heat of the moment. If meditate was a quick swap versus a manual swap I wonder if the outcome would of been different
@@Travic_ Yeah, Meditate is cool, but it's a pity it doesn't work with Eternal Youth. I don't think I can give up my potions.
@@NoblesseOblige-17 Just run high lvl grim feast with eternal youth with instant pots. It's just as strong of not stronger than meditate. Meditate only really wins when fighting pinnacle bosses.
ah yes, our 70 div build dying to a lil patch of fire on the ground in 3 seconds 🥰
Did you consider using dex/int rings? does lightnign quality just give you more dps?
It’s on my list!
@@Travic_ My immediate thought was to think attribute was more dmg, but after seeing how much lightning added rings can reach, did some math and you need like 40% increased int to get the same number, though that doesn't take into account the atkspd from dex and now I'm super brain fried to figure it out xD
What is the full rare name of your time-lost sapphire?
You can’t search time-lost jewels they are broken on trade. I can get you the full name later when I’m back on pc
@ baaahhh early access stuff strikes again. Oh well, thanks big dawg.
random question but why do your power charges look different
Look different?
@Travic_ like they have waves of electricity popping around them while mine/other youtubers' are blue spheres. maybe something to do with different graphic settings?
why dont you use grim fest? its the best survivability spell for mapping by far
I use meditate instead
Hey, I have a question regarding Controlled Metamorphosis Diamond - which circle version will cover Pure Power, Lightning Quick, Drenched, Eldritch Will? Massive or Very Large?
Its a massive one. In one of his earlier video he showed it
Massive, I believe it also says it in the mobalytics if not I’ll get it updated
@@Travic_ It is not obvious in Mobalytics, thanks for clarification!
Does he ever show what jewels hes running. Theres a small section on mobalytics but doesnt quite make sense to me just reading it
Yes
how to improve quality of meditate?
This currently cannot be achieved
How are you handling freeze and stun with this setup? I know charms exists but the rarity charm is too op
Ya they are strong but I use a node for stuns fn a charm for freeze. Theres a good freeze based on es wheel I have been tryin to fit in as well
@@Travic_ you have lighting exposure in instead of lighting mastery in the mobo for herald of ice.
Just one simple question... How do you get 77% crit chance ? I have roughly 37% with charge infusion active.
My weapon has a ton of base Crit plus some gear has it and I have it all over my tree
You need a weapon with a lot of crit base chance, i run a 15.7% one and managed to get to 92% crit chance
any reason for not using grim feast? Trying to not include it since it will likely to be nerfed or something?
No room to fit it honestly
Couldnt you sacrifice a Breach ring for an Unset ring for the added skill slot? @Travic_
Have a look at Doomsayer as anoint for neck
not able to trigger freeze for herald of ice consistently..
You need flat cold damage on your gear and freeze buildup, the top half of the quarterstaff passive tree gives a significant amount of freeze
@@Shadowsparrow70 Yeah these nodes make a huge difference
is there a way to make the herald tech work while still running ice strike? and or without the crazy gloves or belt?
It should work fine with ice strike. I would say try it if you have everything else setup
I cant get shock siphon to work, how do i shock if they die straight away with freeze/explosions? I could really do with this ES on kill
Hey travic, I was curious about something, when I used the chaos inoculation I did a map and it was going great then I just insta died but still had my shield. What causes this to happen? Sorry I know it's a dumb question but I have no idea
Check your flask! A lot of people have this issue, you have a flask mod thats using life :)
@@phillipkoch5751 you took life damage. Probably from a mana flask that removes some life to give extra recovery.
@Travic_ oh shit thanks man, I've been going over all my passive skills for days trying to figure this out!! Cheers 🍻
@Travic_ man thanks for that advice again, I had recover life on my mana flask. Works awesome. Now I just need to get some more shield.
I do love your build but the problem is because we have low hp im getting stunn locked all the time by monsters what are you doing abiut this
Theres a stun node in the controlled metamorphisis jewel that helps. Theres also a stun wheel called mortification i think its called. You can run that until you get stun protection elsewhere
If i dont have the divines to buy a ingeuity belt.. and i plan on sticking with the plreiken ring build, what 4th support gems should i use for the herald of ice and thunder? Should i still change the gems for the same one as this build?
@Travic_ I think I'm missing something, meditate isn't overcapping for me, any idea what that could be?
so if anyone else is running in to the same issue, it's probably because you've picked "Eternal Youth"
I came here to say eternal youth, but I saw you figured it out. Glad you got it figured out.
Any reason why wearing 2 breach rings makes my attack not work?
Check your stat requirements you probably lost some when you changed rings
@Travic_ I'll have to see when I get back on. I only took off Polcirkeln, which has strength on it. It's my Storm Wave skill that stopped working, and it's a dex and int requirement, I believe. Not sure what that strength from that unique ring might have done, so I'll have to check when I get back on
Figured it out. Support gems required str as well, and the amount I lost from Polcirkeln being unequiped made Storm Wave no longer work.
@Travic_ I do have another question, though. When you were around level 75, we're you one-tap exploding enemies given the amount of passive points you have at that lower level?
Great videos. Keep it up
Thank you!!
how are you getting the spirit requirement
Monk ascendancy nodes
Anybody else like the ring version better? I already have soo much damage there’s no need to switch things up 👌
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it! That’s my motto. Keep cruising brother
You forget in max roll about pick storm wave gem? I see you use this in map case
I’ll get them added thank you for letting me know!!!
if i have the polcirk ring do i still need the herald tech?
If you want you can still do it, it’s a lot more damage but you can run both easily
@ awesome I’ve been running the herald tech and the ring just wasn’t sure if having the heralds set with there normal elements and just running the ring was more dps. Thank you love the vids
For my gemling brothers and sisters that want to experience this tech with even better explosion:
Step 1: Grab a Pillar with cold damage corrupt and/or 2 cold damage rune in both socket
Step 2: Stack strength
Step 3: Put cold infusion in Herald of thunder
Bonus step: grab an Against the darkness jewel with strength % and/or lightning/cold damage as extra damage
You can use storm wave for even more clear.
Where do u get the electrocute from?
Support gem
How much ES should I gather on items (without the passiv points) before considering to switch? I dont want to pay the respec just to find me lacking on ES to make use of meditation
I was ci from about 3k ES. Worked fine but more ES is always better