Oh yeah great idea, can't believe I didn't think of it! I really need to add another few link slots to bell in general (think mine's just a 4link right now) - but as you say you only need it for bosses so I've not been investing too much into it (yet) as they all melt in one stun/freeze anyway. There's also the tech ds_lily recently showed where you can get mulltiple bells (but that is clearly unintended I feel and will get hot fixed most likely?)
@@madokamagika8313 This is a good point too. Maybe you second wind it as well? So you get an even bigger CD but 2 charges you can rotate through every 7.5 seconds
Thanks for the insight, i was theorycrafting for a melee gemling (because i already have a ranged mage and i dont like the two melee options offered) this is great help I hope they aint gonna nerf the ascendency too much
Yeah, hopefully not but I have a feeling they might :( It seems way overtuned right now - but maybe that's just due to the weapon (so maybe that gets nerfed instead)
@@Evilewokz i think its a good ascend to try off meta builds and the node that add more stats is still kinda good. But yeah it all lies in the weapon pretty much
Thanks for delivering. I can tell you just wanted to make sure you got it all right. appreciate you, gonna mix and match with empowering herald of ice for clear
TYSM for sharing man, will be sharing your video as well , now that I have all the currency I need I will TRY THAT chest with 5 sockets, I'll be waiting for your diabolical UPDATE, hope you add the build TO MAXROLL planner that builder its clean af
This video actually got me thinking about an armor break warbringer build using quarterstaff and that glove that lets you use any melee weapon and skills. Been theorycrafting all day and the more i think about it the more hilarious it keeps sounding lol.
Another point for me not having an original thought but glad to see my guess on Pillar being good on Gemling was correct, I was beginning to have second guesses and was considering rolling a new character.
I run leverage with supercritical on the bell and rage as a third link, leverage gives 50% crit chance when an enemy is stunned or frozen which is going to be all the time it adds a crazy amount of bell dps
You'll map a lot faster if you change your palm skill to Freezing Palm. Freezes big groups to pop Herald of Ice and lets you jump in. Also a good way to put exposure onto bosses.
So i'm planning your exact build with one change, there is a chest that has 5 sockets, and one of the modifier is: 5% all stat for each rune socketed, i think this could skyrocket your build too. Can thank me later
Already seen it. Need to update the guide! Moiror. It can also give 5% more max life too per socket. (It has 4 by default but can corrupt to 5). That + HOWA + astramentis would top 10k hp I think!
I leveled using it. It's the smoothest leveling ever. I'll make a leveling guide/video soon. I listed some of the uniques in my guide! Everyone who has leveled with those uniques has DM'ed me saying how fun it's made the game (you level so fast, so safe!)
Just started watching the video but the gemling’s far right talent tree in the ascendancy and the +3 skill sockets makes me think they could hybrid lol I’m intrigued to watch this now
Have you considered completely dropping crit, going resolute technique, and using the extra points to go to the staff cluster for 70% increased freeze/daze buildup, 30% increased stun buildup, 30% global defenses, 11% attack speed, and another gem slot? This will also have 3 free points to put into whatever.
I think we get enough accuracy from dex with merc we can keep the crit. Going crit is a great way to boost our damage as it's another multi ontop of what we have and we have high base crit (10%) on the staff!
Thank you for the build. I've been looking for a melee merc since I've always played Duelist in PoE. Just a question for the skill gems, are the upgrades in the mobalytics page arranged in order of priority? ie. the left most links are the most important
noob question what have you socketed in your weapon? Also as you are using ice-strike which converts all phys damage to cold would it be better to get phys damage on weapon instead of cold or am i missing something?
I have a weapon with flat cold corruption and then my 2 runes were ele pen. Early on you want to put flat damage runes in not pen though. Later on (towards endgame maps) the ele pen will likely outscale the flat from runes!
@@talerystories Pillar I used flat lightning or cold early, and late game you want a corrupt with 2 ele pen ones (by late maps). Early on/campaign just run flat damage runes (lightning or cold, doesn't really matter!)
I wish there was a way to make a pseudo titan or Giants Blood character via gemling but i feel like the unique weapon is making the only reason it works and something like giants is just much better on a warrior cause of the 50% passive boost node, am i wrong in thining this? I am new to poe and kind of a newb still
I think Morior's will yield more damage overall especially if you get the 5 socket version when you have HOWA. Res can't go negative in POE2 so if you have ele pen on weapon (30%) and some from tree (I might shuffle things) and sapphire gems with pen for a pinnacle bossing setup, that should be much stronger I think. It's also way tankier whilst mapping!
@@Liggles1234 I believe they said that only pen cannot got past 0 resistance, but other things such as lowering the enemy res with curses or other means still works by going below zero. I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure that is the case. Morior is still way more tanky and probably more damage with enough attributes though, especially considering all of the things that lower resistance lower all of them and it is much harder to cap resistances than in PoE 1, which makes it harder to gear around the -res.
@@jameswedmore6168 Yeah possibly the case - I haven't delved into it too much! And yeah, I think Morior is just *too* good - both offensively and defensively - and you don't have the HUGE downside of no lightning res. We don't have enough armour at all to compensate for the loss of res I feel. (it also could make it harder to gear cold/fire somewhat as you can't then run all res or get prism gaurd as you don't want to up your lightning)
Subscribed. I played PoE 1 as melee since January 2013 (apart from affliction). I am gemling and I just miss the bonk so this is very welcome. I'm only half way through the video but can't help myself. How many Ex do I need to get going?
Yeah same, i have 2 cold runes, some flat damage on gloves and rings, but damage nowhere near oneshotting everything in a3 normal. And i have about 250 str atm.
Melee. Same build from level 1! I have listed some of the giga leveling uniques with trade links in the written guide. You can play this from level 14 (level 1-14 you just use falling thunder instead of ice strike)
Chaos! 5 attributes would be the bis choice I guess in like ... multi mirror gear where you can get your chaos res from suffixes and the 10% from the vial is 'wasted'. But for 99.9999999% of players (myself included) chaos is the better choice!
It's a relic of leveling falling thunder 1-14 haha. I just stuck it there. You could add charged staff which is actually a huge buff if you can bother to maintain it! (I'm too lazy)
I put it in the guide. Essentially just go for all stat, stre, all res and then whatever else really (max life is great for example or another res) and then adapative catalyst to boost the attributes
@@michaelwitty1276 early on you’d probably be fine but dex has good scaling on the attack speed and eventually you’ll get HOWA and you’ll get insane scaling from int too. Also life regen is comfy. That being said early it’s likely one of the best items if you don’t mind pressing life flask every so often!
Hm, Im wondering, if the flat dmg corrupt is rly better than somehting like 50% ele dmg wth attacks or have one of its stats improved, like 11% wpn dmg per 5 str on the wpn. These seems rly strong compared to the small flat dmg number, but I didnt do any testing yet.
Probably not when you get HOWA/enough flat elsewhere. I think at that point either attack speed is the best corrupt you can get or as you say, 11% per 5 stre.
Playing ice strike monk and rerolled to gemling Yesterday for ranged build, because I died often in T15 to ele dmg feom rares. This could actually solve deaths and build would be same haha. Need to try. Max res from ascendancy not Worth it?
I don't think so. It's a great choice but the others are just marginally betterr. I'm at 76% all res anyway with such a huge hp pool (7,800 now without astramentis or the GG against the darkness jewel) that I don't think it's worth the investment/oppurtunity cost at this point!
Nah I don't think you need to! You just have ice strike do cold + lightning. Freeze and shock. I think ultra dps you would pivot full lightning but ice strike is really comfy with the mini flicker and makes for safe mapping and bossing with freeze. Ideally I'd run charged staff and weave in a way to generate power charges (we could already with killing palm etc) but that's clunky gameplay imo. At the end of the day - "why use many button when one button do trick"!
Leveled like this from the start as it's a level 1 weapon. If you get the suggested uniques from the written guide you'll blitz the campaign. Literally one-tapping the early bosses (like literally one hit dead heh for me)
PotCG says it gets 10% increased weapon damage per 10 strength. do you know if that's a local mod or if it's a global mod? ie does it scale the base damage of the staff or increase all damage done with the weapon?
All damage done. So for example it scales the lightning damage from HOWA (once you get it) - prior to HOWA (I didn't have HOWA in clips for reference) - I just had sources of phys and lightning on my gloves (and rings). But yeah this is what is making it so nutty!
@@Liggles1234 Hi, are you sure about this? Because this would easily X3 or X4 your dmg. Which seems unreasonable. I wonder how did you test this? An easy way I could think of here is to use a pillar with 1-40 lightening dmg on its own and a non ele pillar with 1-40 lightening dmg on a ring, then you compare the dps. Also because this is a local mod in poe1, I don't think ggg will change it to global in poe2 (even if it is global, it is highly likely to be fixed soon). Anyway, thank you so much for this build. I am saving my currency for the gears now. LOL
At 32 if you grab the staff with 2 runes (and ideally a corrupt flat ele damage or ASPD corrupt) and then the belt I list in the guide + black sun crest or horns of bryden helm + the level 27 chest I listed and then whack on some sensible gear in the off pieces you'll melt the campaign like it's a joke. Total cost should be around 5 ex for that (might have changed since I last checked). But yeah - staff + belt + helm probably the only requirements to absolutely demolish the campaign - staff only would still be fine as it's just nuts alone.
Charged staff is incredible. I might have another build variation coming soon (slight change to tree) to make it easier to weave in. Right now it's worth using (killing palm/siphoning strike) if you are prepared to press the extra buttons. Everything melts for me *anyway* so I'm just too lazy. Why use many button when one button do trick??
I was using life regen + rage on hit/max rage rubies and there's also crit/lightning damage/quarter staff damage emeralds. Also, by red maps, you want corrupted ones with resists
@@tylerj3855 I didn't have the gloves in *any* of the clips in this video - staff is obviously mandatory but it's super cheap!. I have since and they've really improved my DPS so I'll do another one soon!
Oh, right. I had them in the thumbnail but yeah - currently at 1050. Was around 850 in most of the clips and around 800 maybe in the T15 @ 77 speed clear. I think with astramentis I'll get another 80 or so!
This seems like a really attractive and cool build. But I have a few questions.. 1. Currently I am 75lv, is this build possible for me? 2. Do I need a lot of exiles for this build? Thank you!
At 75 for a full pivot I'd say you need 10-30 exalts to swap over. You don't need much to run red maps, but if you want to one shot ubers/pinnacles and have 8K + life at the same time it's expensive. But that's the beauty of this imo. It's works for cheap from level 1 and scales to infinity basically.
SSF no, starter not really unless you had pillar + meginords girdle unique. I think attr stacking is hard as a starter. It doesn't take much to get going luckily though (around 5-8 ex would blitz the entire campaign for example)
Hi, wondering about the POTCG, this means we're looking to find a corrupted one with "Adds # to # Cold/Lightning" dmg, with 2 open rune slots? Could you please assist in the poe trade filters for that? Also wondering if you can still slot in runes and/or slam artificer's for additional sockets on a corrupted item. Thanks in advance for the write-up and breakdowns!
Right now they seem to drop like candy (I get around 2-3 per maps per average.) Then selling items + currency exchanging things like divines, gemcutters, lesser/greater jewellers, artificers, soul-cores etc.
No, if anything buffed! A lot of the hard part for us was/is getting the resistances due to suffix pressure as we're using a lot of uniques without resistances - especially so if you go for the ultra endgame setup eventually with morior, astramentis, howa, etc which is where I'm saving towards. Now they've removed the -10% at yellow and -10% at red maps too we get a free +20% all res basically!
all resistance most likely. But interestingly the new patch is removing the yellow/red map -10% penalty at each which is a huge buff to us. One of the hardest things with using uniques is suffix pressure getting your resistances in! And now we've effectively got a 'free' 20% all res!
@@Liggles1234 I'm really thinking about trying this build. How much investment u think I would need? I have a perfect Pillar already, but only that. And I'm a new player so I have only like 30 exalt (yes im poor lol)
@@bboy458 I’m not at my PC atm so can’t check but by the sounds of it is this the 3% chance on generating rage to generate max rage? If so it’s a really good node - yeah - but I think getting 3-5 jewels with rage on hit caps you fast enough anyway you can save the points!
Nah. Wont get nerfed. Its getting played as wanted. Your interacting with the game. The builds that got nerfed were ALL autobomber builds. Something they strictly stated they want to avoid. Now that said. Some items will get tweaks this one in particular which is carrying many builds currently. Also defenses will 100% get reworked. They dont work well currently. But their is no saying how they will change that. Could he the stats themselves. Could be enemy damage ect.
@@olaoberg4165 Yeah I listed one the weaknesses that it's hard for a fresh char as you need the unique ofc! Without the corrupt you'd still demolish everything with a 2 rune staff with flat cold/lightning. I bought mine with 20% qual and the corrupt for 3ex though so it's not hugely pricey.
@@Liggles1234 Im new to PoE overall, but if i got things right when you corrupt things the items get locked and you cant do anything else with it right? So you have to get 2 sockets and quality before trying? But if a non corrupted 2 socket cold/lightning slaps alright then its cheap. 1 Exhalted and you can farm away in early endgame before trying to get a "perfect" one. A decent helmet before looking for a beter and your fairly good to go. Neck can wait.
There are ranged builds that oneshot the entire map + boss in the time melee moves from one pack to another. Nothing about this is OP in comparison lol Also having endgame gear should feel like this, that's the whole point of it.
damn one thing missing in this video is just stat show i think i'm missing something about it got 800 str and 50% armour and my dmg is like 18k in skills
Not to be a party pooper but I've definitely seen stronger both quarterstaff and mace builds, although this build might have an insanely high damage ceiling with more and more perfect gear
Yeah, I've since gained a few levels and added HoWA and my damage has tripled. Can't wait for astramentis. That's what is nice about this, it's great on a budget and scales insanely both offensively and defensively. I think with HOWA, Astra + Moiror, nothing would compare overall in terms of the mix of damage, clear, tankiness
@Liggles1234 you would probably need to do at at least like 1 million dps, if not multiple millions of dps, to actually be able to claim anything like that, like killing pinnacles in seconds, but I don't think it's impossible
@@cordenhuman I think the pinnacles have around 6 million hp? I think im doing 500k DPS now I have HOWA. With astramentis that should go up almost double too I suspect as my int is low (relatively) at the moment so i'll get a massive amount of (relative) added flat. I think < 10 seconds for pinnacle and dead in the first stun/freeze is doable! If I really wanted I could scale back defenses/life regen and go more glass-cannon one shot style too I think
@@Liggles1234 Cool! I'll look forward to future videos to see how far you're able to push it, especially vs pinnacles, although those ofc take time to reach every time. And yeah naturally you want to find the perfect balance between incredibly tanky and insane dps and amazing map clear speed, which is hard, but I can definitely see the massive potential here.
@@cordenhuman So I had around 100k buffed tooltip in the video clips. Now I'm at 260k and an extra 1000 hp! With astramentis it'll go even crazier! At the end of the week (busy week IRL for me sadly upcoming) I'll upload another of some pinnacles :)
@@JaguarGames1337 possibly from the videos in my clips there are higher dps monks - BUT - they’re not as tanky and it won’t scale nearly as high as this can/will. Since Ive added HOWA and Morior I’ve tripled my damage from the clips and I’ve still got the biggest upgrade to come in astramentis and I’m sitting at 7330 hp at the moment too without astramentis! I could swap all my regen jewels out for crit and pen, too. I reckon 5 million + dps is achievable if you sacrificed some tankiness but I like being able to press one button whilst watching Netflix so this is too comfy for me ha
another pato youtuber calling shh "strongerst". Maybe grow up and be more responsible and stop using words like "Strongerst" ? Very weak mind of yours. And literaly.. you are using darkpsychology manipulation and this build is not even half sstrong like other melee builds.
You don't need to, no. It's more when you reach red maps a nice way of res capping (and having massive life regen). If you want to drop the life regen you can run sapphires with crit and pen too!
Put hourglass on the bell for more damage but cool down. You only need the bell for bosses anyway so it'll melt them
Oh yeah great idea, can't believe I didn't think of it! I really need to add another few link slots to bell in general (think mine's just a 4link right now) - but as you say you only need it for bosses so I've not been investing too much into it (yet) as they all melt in one stun/freeze anyway. There's also the tech ds_lily recently showed where you can get mulltiple bells (but that is clearly unintended I feel and will get hot fixed most likely?)
I tried it and it feels really awful if boss wanna move. Do not recommend adding any CD to bell, since damage already massive
@@madokamagika8313 This is a good point too. Maybe you second wind it as well? So you get an even bigger CD but 2 charges you can rotate through every 7.5 seconds
@@madokamagika8313 it lasts the cd lasts about the full duration of the bell (for me) it's just free dmg
if anything I'd say you always want overabundance for 100% uptime on bosses.
Thanks for the insight, i was theorycrafting for a melee gemling (because i already have a ranged mage and i dont like the two melee options offered) this is great help
I hope they aint gonna nerf the ascendency too much
Yeah, hopefully not but I have a feeling they might :( It seems way overtuned right now - but maybe that's just due to the weapon (so maybe that gets nerfed instead)
Nerf it? It's mid af lol. It covers generalities but not much more.
@Liggles1234 it's the weapon and the weapon will get a tweak.
The ascend is mid
@@Evilewokz i think its a good ascend to try off meta builds and the node that add more stats is still kinda good.
But yeah it all lies in the weapon pretty much
@@Evilewokz Ur trollin
I can’t believe I sold my pillar of the caged god for 1000 gold on SSF last night, I wish I saw this first. Great build! Keep us posted.
Thanks for delivering. I can tell you just wanted to make sure you got it all right. appreciate you, gonna mix and match with empowering herald of ice for clear
TYSM for sharing man, will be sharing your video as well , now that I have all the currency I need I will TRY THAT chest with 5 sockets, I'll be waiting for your diabolical UPDATE, hope you add the build TO MAXROLL planner that builder its clean af
I can copy one over to maxroll too!
This video actually got me thinking about an armor break warbringer build using quarterstaff and that glove that lets you use any melee weapon and skills. Been theorycrafting all day and the more i think about it the more hilarious it keeps sounding lol.
What gloves are those? The closest thing I can find is the Jarngreipr.
Another point for me not having an original thought but glad to see my guess on Pillar being good on Gemling was correct, I was beginning to have second guesses and was considering rolling a new character.
I run leverage with supercritical on the bell and rage as a third link, leverage gives 50% crit chance when an enemy is stunned or frozen which is going to be all the time it adds a crazy amount of bell dps
You'll map a lot faster if you change your palm skill to Freezing Palm. Freezes big groups to pop Herald of Ice and lets you jump in. Also a good way to put exposure onto bosses.
Shattering Palm but yeah, the ice pops go crazy with it. Feels great.
damn bro, im trusting in you.. respected.. used up all my monies... thanks for the dope build, i hope u keep us updated!!!
Let me know how it is man! If you get those leveling uniques you'll see the power ha
@@Liggles1234 hey brother, looking at some Moriors. i have major questions, whats your disc? would be great if i can get some help!!
So i'm planning your exact build with one change, there is a chest that has 5 sockets, and one of the modifier is: 5% all stat for each rune socketed, i think this could skyrocket your build too. Can thank me later
Already seen it. Need to update the guide! Moiror. It can also give 5% more max life too per socket. (It has 4 by default but can corrupt to 5). That + HOWA + astramentis would top 10k hp I think!
Whats the name of the chest?
@@Liggles1234 brother what???????????
Morior Invictus. It can get extremely expensive depending on the random "... Per socketed rune or soul core" rolls that it can drop with
Thank you for this video this very interesting build for me my next build for sure!!!
I found one of those pillar staff thingies. Can I level a merc using it? or is this a end game build only?
I leveled using it. It's the smoothest leveling ever. I'll make a leveling guide/video soon. I listed some of the uniques in my guide! Everyone who has leveled with those uniques has DM'ed me saying how fun it's made the game (you level so fast, so safe!)
Just started watching the video but the gemling’s far right talent tree in the ascendancy and the +3 skill sockets makes me think they could hybrid lol I’m intrigued to watch this now
Have you considered completely dropping crit, going resolute technique, and using the extra points to go to the staff cluster for 70% increased freeze/daze buildup, 30% increased stun buildup, 30% global defenses, 11% attack speed, and another gem slot? This will also have 3 free points to put into whatever.
Also, in the maxroll guide, I am confused about what you use power charges for
@@sparkz6381 I don't really. But if you were to use them - Charged Staff. Also looks amazing!
I think we get enough accuracy from dex with merc we can keep the crit. Going crit is a great way to boost our damage as it's another multi ontop of what we have and we have high base crit (10%) on the staff!
Looking forward for more videos!
Thank you for the build. I've been looking for a melee merc since I've always played Duelist in PoE. Just a question for the skill gems, are the upgrades in the mobalytics page arranged in order of priority? ie. the left most links are the most important
oh might roll to this from glacial merc, seems a lot smoother
How do you search trade for specific corruptions? And specific unique jewels? Thanks!
Anyone else can't get access to mobaanalytics? Seems displaying Error.
noob question what have you socketed in your weapon? Also as you are using ice-strike which converts all phys damage to cold would it be better to get phys damage on weapon instead of cold or am i missing something?
I have a weapon with flat cold corruption and then my 2 runes were ele pen. Early on you want to put flat damage runes in not pen though. Later on (towards endgame maps) the ele pen will likely outscale the flat from runes!
How did you do your leveling, I'm in act 3 with a similar build and suffering
Tried this today, so impressive!
Thanks! The leveling is so smooth right!
@@Liggles1234 which one runes should put into pillar and head?
@@talerystories did you get the staff corrupted or standard first?
@@olaoberg4165 Standard, then bought a corrupt
@@talerystories Pillar I used flat lightning or cold early, and late game you want a corrupt with 2 ele pen ones (by late maps). Early on/campaign just run flat damage runes (lightning or cold, doesn't really matter!)
I wish there was a way to make a pseudo titan or Giants Blood character via gemling but i feel like the unique weapon is making the only reason it works and something like giants is just much better on a warrior cause of the 50% passive boost node, am i wrong in thining this?
I am new to poe and kind of a newb still
Yeah, this is all based around the weapon which sadly can't run giant's blood as it's a staff (giant's blood only works with maces, swords, and axes!)
I figured, thanks a lot for the clarification
Emiracles has a block-based variation with Giant's Blood and a 2H mace
Morior seems very good but isn't Doryani's prototype even better ?
Less res to cap so you can pick more attributes and minus res for mobs
I think Morior's will yield more damage overall especially if you get the 5 socket version when you have HOWA. Res can't go negative in POE2 so if you have ele pen on weapon (30%) and some from tree (I might shuffle things) and sapphire gems with pen for a pinnacle bossing setup, that should be much stronger I think. It's also way tankier whilst mapping!
@@Liggles1234 I believe they said that only pen cannot got past 0 resistance, but other things such as lowering the enemy res with curses or other means still works by going below zero. I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure that is the case. Morior is still way more tanky and probably more damage with enough attributes though, especially considering all of the things that lower resistance lower all of them and it is much harder to cap resistances than in PoE 1, which makes it harder to gear around the -res.
@@jameswedmore6168 Yeah possibly the case - I haven't delved into it too much! And yeah, I think Morior is just *too* good - both offensively and defensively - and you don't have the HUGE downside of no lightning res. We don't have enough armour at all to compensate for the loss of res I feel. (it also could make it harder to gear cold/fire somewhat as you can't then run all res or get prism gaurd as you don't want to up your lightning)
Have you noticed if "melee strike range" increases the range at which ice strike does its distance closing lunge?
I've not actually - something to test!
Subscribed. I played PoE 1 as melee since January 2013 (apart from affliction). I am gemling and I just miss the bonk so this is very welcome. I'm only half way through the video but can't help myself. How many Ex do I need to get going?
To get going? Just 5 Would make the campaign a complete joke!
Would you go through the character panel? thanks
I'm still deciding which way to go now that I'm ascending, are you able to get the most difficult of maps with this build?
@@kbbusiness24 I was doing t15s at level 74 so yeah!
How are you getting flat damage to scale with pillar? A3 normal atm with 2 flat cold runes in my pillar and damage is starting to fall off.
With strength????? Did u watch the video????
Yeah same, i have 2 cold runes, some flat damage on gloves and rings, but damage nowhere near oneshotting everything in a3 normal. And i have about 250 str atm.
Hey hey, what did you level this character as? Ranged or melee?
Melee. Same build from level 1! I have listed some of the giga leveling uniques with trade links in the written guide. You can play this from level 14 (level 1-14 you just use falling thunder instead of ice strike)
Would the Jarngreipr Ringmail Gauntlets work with this?
in cruel act three did you take +5 all attributes or +10 chaos res? build is feeling good in the campaign so far!
Chaos! 5 attributes would be the bis choice I guess in like ... multi mirror gear where you can get your chaos res from suffixes and the 10% from the vial is 'wasted'. But for 99.9999999% of players (myself included) chaos is the better choice!
What are the charges for since you use profusion on killing palm? Or just a habit from PoE 1? Charges don't do anything innately anymore.
It's a relic of leveling falling thunder 1-14 haha. I just stuck it there. You could add charged staff which is actually a huge buff if you can bother to maintain it! (I'm too lazy)
What amulet can we put cause astra is 80d 😅
I put it in the guide. Essentially just go for all stat, stre, all res and then whatever else really (max life is great for example or another res) and then adapative catalyst to boost the attributes
@Liggles1234 ok thanks 👌
Do you think titanrot cataphract maraketh cuirass would add further benefit to the build? Unsure how life regen impacts it
@@michaelwitty1276 early on you’d probably be fine but dex has good scaling on the attack speed and eventually you’ll get HOWA and you’ll get insane scaling from int too. Also life regen is comfy. That being said early it’s likely one of the best items if you don’t mind pressing life flask every so often!
Sorry, what is HOWA? Im new 😅@@Liggles1234
So do I add 2x glacial runes to the caged god?? I see you did penetrate elemental resists.
2 x glacial is better early, pen will be better late (in maps)! They're so cheap you can probably get both heh
Hm, Im wondering, if the flat dmg corrupt is rly better than somehting like 50% ele dmg wth attacks or have one of its stats improved, like 11% wpn dmg per 5 str on the wpn. These seems rly strong compared to the small flat dmg number, but I didnt do any testing yet.
Probably not when you get HOWA/enough flat elsewhere. I think at that point either attack speed is the best corrupt you can get or as you say, 11% per 5 stre.
@@Liggles1234 Just a heads up you can corrupt up to 20% increased of a mod on a unique. Currently rocking a 12% per str staff
i looked all ur videos but u just didnt show ur character panel.. are u res capped? how much strength do you have in total
Res capped (and now chaos) and currently just over 1000. In the clips in this video around 800-950 ish depending on when I recorded
Playing ice strike monk and rerolled to gemling Yesterday for ranged build, because I died often in T15 to ele dmg feom rares. This could actually solve deaths and build would be same haha. Need to try. Max res from ascendancy not Worth it?
I don't think so. It's a great choice but the others are just marginally betterr. I'm at 76% all res anyway with such a huge hp pool (7,800 now without astramentis or the GG against the darkness jewel) that I don't think it's worth the investment/oppurtunity cost at this point!
I assume you'll be swapping to a lightning attack when you start stacking some INT?
Nah I don't think you need to! You just have ice strike do cold + lightning. Freeze and shock. I think ultra dps you would pivot full lightning but ice strike is really comfy with the mini flicker and makes for safe mapping and bossing with freeze. Ideally I'd run charged staff and weave in a way to generate power charges (we could already with killing palm etc) but that's clunky gameplay imo. At the end of the day - "why use many button when one button do trick"!
Very interesting. How did you level? As melee?
Leveled like this from the start as it's a level 1 weapon. If you get the suggested uniques from the written guide you'll blitz the campaign. Literally one-tapping the early bosses (like literally one hit dead heh for me)
@@Liggles1234 Ahh didn't see the link in description. My bad. Looks great, I might try this out soon. Thanks!
PotCG says it gets 10% increased weapon damage per 10 strength. do you know if that's a local mod or if it's a global mod? ie does it scale the base damage of the staff or increase all damage done with the weapon?
All damage done. So for example it scales the lightning damage from HOWA (once you get it) - prior to HOWA (I didn't have HOWA in clips for reference) - I just had sources of phys and lightning on my gloves (and rings). But yeah this is what is making it so nutty!
@Liggles1234 that's wild! not how it works in poe 1 but im here for it
@@Liggles1234 Hi, are you sure about this? Because this would easily X3 or X4 your dmg. Which seems unreasonable. I wonder how did you test this? An easy way I could think of here is to use a pillar with 1-40 lightening dmg on its own and a non ele pillar with 1-40 lightening dmg on a ring, then you compare the dps. Also because this is a local mod in poe1, I don't think ggg will change it to global in poe2 (even if it is global, it is highly likely to be fixed soon). Anyway, thank you so much for this build. I am saving my currency for the gears now. LOL
I think you would get much more clear speed especially in breatch ect. if you swap out killing palm for shattering palm
Thanks for the great video
holyyyy molyyyy you absolute wizard
Is POCG The minimum piece of gear you need to switch from a different spec or would you recommend needing more than that? I'm level 32
At 32 if you grab the staff with 2 runes (and ideally a corrupt flat ele damage or ASPD corrupt) and then the belt I list in the guide + black sun crest or horns of bryden helm + the level 27 chest I listed and then whack on some sensible gear in the off pieces you'll melt the campaign like it's a joke. Total cost should be around 5 ex for that (might have changed since I last checked). But yeah - staff + belt + helm probably the only requirements to absolutely demolish the campaign - staff only would still be fine as it's just nuts alone.
Oh man that looks sick. Too bad they'll just nerf it though, enjoy it while it lasts!
Whats about charged staff and call of brotherhood ring?
Charged staff is incredible. I might have another build variation coming soon (slight change to tree) to make it easier to weave in. Right now it's worth using (killing palm/siphoning strike) if you are prepared to press the extra buttons. Everything melts for me *anyway* so I'm just too lazy. Why use many button when one button do trick??
I went ice strike Witch Hunter as my melee merc >.< wasnt thinking ahead about uniques
yeah 5 hours ago somebody leaked bulid that I was upgrading 40 hours... just why? To rise prices on already giga expensive things?
Haha im so sorry :(
what links for falling thunder though for leveling
martial tempo, lightning infusion I used. I swapped to ice strike at 14!
What jewels do you use in passive skill sockets?
I was using life regen + rage on hit/max rage rubies and there's also crit/lightning damage/quarter staff damage emeralds. Also, by red maps, you want corrupted ones with resists
Great video!
What about meginord girdle in this setup?
I've listed it in the leveling uniques in the guide, it's great! Lasts for ages too! Only issue is the lack of resists at endgame
Hi! How do you res-cap? With jewels, rings, and?
Jewels, rings, belt, boots!
As of this video, the corrupted pillars are now like 70ex, lol.
lmao haha I shoulda bought them up and done some insider trading
@@Liggles1234 I was crushing the campaign, but damage feels like it slowed down a bunch in A3 normal. Any suggestions? Do I need more flat?
So your merc woke up and decided they wanted to dress up as a monk? Cool build.
Might change to this from grenadier legionnaire, hopefully I am able to buy all the basic gear
hopefully you dont count astramentis as basic gear
@ yeah I don’t
Im currently using granades gemling. Is it worth switching to this?
Also using gemling grenade, about lvl60, kind of tired of it lol build looks good but wondering if you need that staff and gloves to make it work
@@tylerj3855 I didn't have the gloves in *any* of the clips in this video - staff is obviously mandatory but it's super cheap!. I have since and they've really improved my DPS so I'll do another one soon!
"Strongest Endgame Melee Build" pog
How much strength do I need for ice strike to feel good?
With the leveling uniques you one shot stuff from 14!
@@Liggles1234 I completely didn't listen to the "needs flat damage to scale" lmao my bad
Would be nice to show your actual strength values as strength stacker
Oh, right. I had them in the thumbnail but yeah - currently at 1050. Was around 850 in most of the clips and around 800 maybe in the T15 @ 77 speed clear. I think with astramentis I'll get another 80 or so!
This seems like a really attractive and cool build. But I have a few questions.. 1. Currently I am 75lv, is this build possible for me? 2. Do I need a lot of exiles for this build? Thank you!
At 75 for a full pivot I'd say you need 10-30 exalts to swap over. You don't need much to run red maps, but if you want to one shot ubers/pinnacles and have 8K + life at the same time it's expensive. But that's the beauty of this imo. It's works for cheap from level 1 and scales to infinity basically.
@@Liggles1234Thank you for your kind and detailed answer! I'll have to try it today~
Would this be good as a starter / ssf build??
SSF no, starter not really unless you had pillar + meginords girdle unique. I think attr stacking is hard as a starter. It doesn't take much to get going luckily though (around 5-8 ex would blitz the entire campaign for example)
@ Awh that’s sad I’ll wait until the wep drops then make the character then! Looking forward to see what other characters you cook !
Hi, wondering about the POTCG, this means we're looking to find a corrupted one with "Adds # to # Cold/Lightning" dmg, with 2 open rune slots? Could you please assist in the poe trade filters for that? Also wondering if you can still slot in runes and/or slam artificer's for additional sockets on a corrupted item. Thanks in advance for the write-up and breakdowns!
Exactly that yeah! You can't slam artificers on corrupted items BUT you can add runes to empty rune sockets on corrupted items.
can i deal any damage without gloves?
I don't have the gloves in any of the clips there!
i'm curious about your strat to make ex
Right now they seem to drop like candy (I get around 2-3 per maps per average.)
Then selling items + currency exchanging things like divines, gemcutters, lesser/greater jewellers, artificers, soul-cores etc.
Did this build get nerfed in the new patch?
No, if anything buffed!
A lot of the hard part for us was/is getting the resistances due to suffix pressure as we're using a lot of uniques without resistances - especially so if you go for the ultra endgame setup eventually with morior, astramentis, howa, etc which is where I'm saving towards.
Now they've removed the -10% at yellow and -10% at red maps too we get a free +20% all res basically!
how did u get cold damage
with elemental penetration
Ice strike converts phys to cold and I have flat cold runes + some flat cold on my ring!
What runes u gonna put on the gloves?
all resistance most likely. But interestingly the new patch is removing the yellow/red map -10% penalty at each which is a huge buff to us. One of the hardest things with using uniques is suffix pressure getting your resistances in! And now we've effectively got a 'free' 20% all res!
@@Liggles1234 I'm really thinking about trying this build. How much investment u think I would need? I have a perfect Pillar already, but only that. And I'm a new player so I have only like 30 exalt (yes im poor lol)
@ haha 30 ex would cruise you to red maps!
Nice I gonna try that build. The idea of stacking a billions stats and beat everyone with a staff really sold me lol. what's a red map btw
@ the map tiers are white (1-5), yellow (6-10), red (11+) - with more dangerous map mods at the higher tiers!
How much strength does your build currently have>
Currently 1k, around 800-950 in the clips (taken over 2 days so leveling + gearing)!
@@Liggles1234 what about dex and int? trying to somewhat map this out
@ hey - around 160/130 or so! With astramentis you’d expect around 300 of each I think with all the % inc attributes etc
Ty alot for share .
What is your str , dex , int ?
In the video clips between 850/160/140 or something and 950/160/140. Around 750-800 stre in the level 77 T15 speed clear iirc
@@Liggles1234 oh!! ty!!
How much strength you stacked now?
In the clips I had around 850. At around 1050 now - still need astramentis!
This is amazing
Is it not worth to take "Sudden Infuriation" near "Beef?"
@@bboy458 I’m not at my PC atm so can’t check but by the sounds of it is this the 3% chance on generating rage to generate max rage? If so it’s a really good node - yeah - but I think getting 3-5 jewels with rage on hit caps you fast enough anyway you can save the points!
@Liggles1234 correct that's the node, 3 points for 2 rage on hit and the 3%. Thanks for the reply
This what im using lol. I thought it was a secret smh
ur the man!
Nah. Wont get nerfed. Its getting played as wanted. Your interacting with the game.
The builds that got nerfed were ALL autobomber builds. Something they strictly stated they want to avoid.
Now that said. Some items will get tweaks this one in particular which is carrying many builds currently. Also defenses will 100% get reworked. They dont work well currently. But their is no saying how they will change that. Could he the stats themselves. Could be enemy damage ect.
@@Evilewokz yeah this is actually what I think. Maybe they tweak things eg make this per 10 stre like PoE 1 and likewise tweak defenses as you say.
Would u level with this?
Yup, you start with it level 1. In the written guide I give a full leveling setup for 5ex ish that will one tap most campaign bosses
@ much appreciated
@@Liggles1234 How far would a non corrupted staff get you? Super material intense for a "new" player to try to get sockets and elemental on there.
@@olaoberg4165 Yeah I listed one the weaknesses that it's hard for a fresh char as you need the unique ofc! Without the corrupt you'd still demolish everything with a 2 rune staff with flat cold/lightning. I bought mine with 20% qual and the corrupt for 3ex though so it's not hugely pricey.
@@Liggles1234 Im new to PoE overall, but if i got things right when you corrupt things the items get locked and you cant do anything else with it right? So you have to get 2 sockets and quality before trying?
But if a non corrupted 2 socket cold/lightning slaps alright then its cheap. 1 Exhalted and you can farm away in early endgame before trying to get a "perfect" one.
A decent helmet before looking for a beter and your fairly good to go. Neck can wait.
NICE!!!
Merc is a better Monk than Monk is.
There are ranged builds that oneshot the entire map + boss in the time melee moves from one pack to another.
Nothing about this is OP in comparison lol
Also having endgame gear should feel like this, that's the whole point of it.
so tankier than a warrior? lol
One swing with the warrior equals this whole video
damn one thing missing in this video is just stat show i think i'm missing something about it got 800 str and 50% armour and my dmg is like 18k in skills
Not to be a party pooper but I've definitely seen stronger both quarterstaff and mace builds, although this build might have an insanely high damage ceiling with more and more perfect gear
Yeah, I've since gained a few levels and added HoWA and my damage has tripled. Can't wait for astramentis. That's what is nice about this, it's great on a budget and scales insanely both offensively and defensively. I think with HOWA, Astra + Moiror, nothing would compare overall in terms of the mix of damage, clear, tankiness
@Liggles1234 you would probably need to do at at least like 1 million dps, if not multiple millions of dps, to actually be able to claim anything like that, like killing pinnacles in seconds, but I don't think it's impossible
@@cordenhuman I think the pinnacles have around 6 million hp? I think im doing 500k DPS now I have HOWA. With astramentis that should go up almost double too I suspect as my int is low (relatively) at the moment so i'll get a massive amount of (relative) added flat. I think < 10 seconds for pinnacle and dead in the first stun/freeze is doable! If I really wanted I could scale back defenses/life regen and go more glass-cannon one shot style too I think
@@Liggles1234 Cool! I'll look forward to future videos to see how far you're able to push it, especially vs pinnacles, although those ofc take time to reach every time. And yeah naturally you want to find the perfect balance between incredibly tanky and insane dps and amazing map clear speed, which is hard, but I can definitely see the massive potential here.
@@cordenhuman So I had around 100k buffed tooltip in the video clips. Now I'm at 260k and an extra 1000 hp! With astramentis it'll go even crazier! At the end of the week (busy week IRL for me sadly upcoming) I'll upload another of some pinnacles :)
lol no. actual monk does more dps
@@JaguarGames1337 possibly from the videos in my clips there are higher dps monks - BUT - they’re not as tanky and it won’t scale nearly as high as this can/will. Since Ive added HOWA and Morior I’ve tripled my damage from the clips and I’ve still got the biggest upgrade to come in astramentis and I’m sitting at 7330 hp at the moment too without astramentis! I could swap all my regen jewels out for crit and pen, too. I reckon 5 million + dps is achievable if you sacrificed some tankiness but I like being able to press one button whilst watching Netflix so this is too comfy for me ha
@@Liggles1234 ah fair enough, even 2m dps is overkill :) ill keep my eyes open o.o
77 lvl map))))))))))strongest)))))))))))))))))))))1
another pato youtuber calling shh "strongerst". Maybe grow up and be more responsible and stop using words like "Strongerst" ? Very weak mind of yours. And literaly.. you are using darkpsychology manipulation and this build is not even half sstrong like other melee builds.
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Do I need to have all jewel?
You don't need to, no. It's more when you reach red maps a nice way of res capping (and having massive life regen). If you want to drop the life regen you can run sapphires with crit and pen too!
@@Liggles1234 why is my ice strike skill only has 5000ish dps while yours are at 80k? I'm at level 73 and I didn't choose any crit nodes yet
Is it normal?