Your videos explaining crucial mechanics and inside information are a big improvement to the whole poe2 community and all the new players who never played poe1 before. Thank you.
I am glad I watched this. I tested out the 18,000+ armour you were explaining. Went from 9.2k to 18.3k from switching out passives and am level 89. I have absolutely felt a difference. I do not have the best gear and only 17% chaos res w/ max cap on elemental. So I am still working on that part. Point is, outside of chaos res, I can survive quite easily on normal t15 with some modifications but nothing too crazy. Great content.
I understand that you are not looking into posting more videos on your Mace Strike Titan, but I would appreciate it sooo much if you could Update your guide so we can look at your Gem Setup in your current set up. Love your Build and am looking forward to seeing what you are coming up with next
I've only just realised that your written guide has 3 different Gem Setups😅 Thanks for your reply and your content, will definitely be looking into increasing my max resistance after your explanation on its effect
On my momma I checked the channel like 10 times today to see if there is some new uploads, I play a warrior, my main is warbringer but I also have titan and this channel is by far the best out there, cant wait for the next video about how you gonna build your warbringer
great vid bro, tested as much as possible warrior-related builds and ways to play, you just compiled all the gameplay we have to deal with. Now imagine how warrior SSF looks like
For maximum tanky build that beats armor stacking, I believe running Cloak of Flame Silk Robe and Infernoclasp Plate belt allows you to hit 90% fire resistance. You could run +2max fire resistance jewels if you want to run a different belt.
My Titan is indeed replacing armour with the funny flame dress. Grabbing the int also makes it easier to get Rarity gear by opening up the ability to peek at Armour/ES bases
How do you like it? I'm at like 28k armor, w a 2700bp, but despite that, in my head, the dress is better. Especially w the max fire res overcap and 25% armor to fire dmg.
On Deadeye it's very trivial to reach ~10k evasion + Acrobatics keystone because of tailwind, wind dancer, and how easy it is to scale evasion on the tree. I currently have 9.2k (with gloves that have 94 evasion rating..) and acrobatics allows you to evade all hits. IMO very strong for something on the tree when the ability to block all hits is exclusive to the Warbringer ascendancy. I can't see Acrobatics staying on the tree unless they also make that Warbringer node a keystone as well. If they don't, very unfair for evasion builds, evasion is very strong in the current state.
@@nocturne3455 That's the tradeoff and kind of always has been for rangers. You stack high evasion and you playstyle is don't get hit and have giga damage to kill everything before it hits you. You can use some hybrid ES/evasion bases, use Atziri's Disdain to get some extra ES and spec into some ES stuff on the tree with Grim Feast to be tankier but ranger is always going to be prone to getting 1 shot (even more so in PoE2 where 1 shots are pretty much every death). My titan with 4.5k health and capped block chance also gets 1 shot sometimes too.
@@DrMVG94 Yep, as long you can live long enough to kill everything on sight, the fact you can be one-shot is worth it. Even in poe2 boss fights, you can see the attacks on bosses and dodge out of them or if you do get hit, you will most likely evade the few times it happens. In poe1, scaling both armour and evasion was awesome for HC leagues.
I felt like I was playing a different game from everyone complaining about armour and life, but you explain it well lol What I found out was you should just take Glancing Blows on Warbringer. All damage in this game is chip damage except one shots, and halving the one shots is good enough. You get no investment max block with two of the strongest offensive nodes on the tree (the two 1% increase ALL damage per block nodes).
First time coming to your channel. Excellently explained. I'm not a Uber gamer but everything you said makes sense. I'm playing a Warbringer and this really clarified things for me to look for. Subscribed. Thank you.
Great video, for evasion, I believe you should have mentioned acrobatics and the ES notes for evasion (and vice versa) around the monk/ranger. Those are absolutely insane defences as the evasion and block are really good, but still you need a one-shot protection.
I went from 10k armour down to 6k on favour of max res, more STR and more AoE and my warrior feels way better and more tanks. Thanks for the max res tips
I really enjoy your builds, I feel like you were one of the first to touch on molten blast and strike stuff for Poe 2. It’s just rough that you need against the darkness to make life viable. Ghostwrithe is 1-3 ex. And ATD is 1-10 div. Effective health is low on warrior for now. Also a cloak of flame provides almost the same mitigation as 20-30k amour and that’s also cheap. Hopefully they give you some buffs soon mate because armor is in a bad spot
This was an awesome video I have been under estimating block. Looking forward to your energy shield video. I’m currently doing a mace/flameblast bloodmage and I think switching to one hand mace and shield is going to be a lot better. Because it super squishy atm. I’m calling it Ironclad Phoenix definitely not meta build but fun and solves melee aoe issue.
Passive nodes or unique effects, for damage taken from mana pool. These are basically cheap % dmg reduction to add on top of whatever you are going with.
Appreciate you. Playing a pathfinder on hardcore in maps and I'm rocking full armor/evasion gear and I'm scared to push much higher than I am till they fix armor for non-titan or add lightning coil into the game 😂
I appreciated your perspective but I think you're missing the point of Kripp's video, he had a SSF perspective and not a trade league perspective. 7k life and 90 max res isn't achievable until a VERY long time in SSF, compared to energy shield which is extremely easy to get, and there's multiple mechanics to recover or overflow it. Also you can evade AOE and Boss Slams with Acrobatics.
I'd personally place evasion a bit higher then block for some classes who can take Acrobatics. With that you CAN evade ALL Hits, which is crazy. Great and informative video tho, thanks for it!
Love the video, but I really wish you did more research on Evasion, especially with acrobatics. What it means to min/max it and how "Accuracy" of enemies works.
I'll tell you the one boss I've found that spams their slam over and over, at least on me it does. The damn gorilla boss Silverfist, or whatever his name is. That son of a bitch does nothing but power slam.
I just finished campaign while wearing Hollow Mask (15% phys reduction) and Cloak of Flame at 75% fire res. Basically I took multiple slams to the face. No worries in sight. Cruel Silverfist one big hit I took 1k hit but smaller ones 4-500. Its funny how many mistakes I made during whole campaign which in my first playthrough would die constantly. Now understanding later, how to build with defences. That makes the game so much more enjoyable and discovering it all is part of the fun.
Oh yeah that guy is basically dark souls simulator. He was the first boss that killed me in 1 hit and sat there looking at the screen for 10 seconds wondering what happened
Great video. So maybe a specific 3 Node branch on the tree that lets armor negate 20%, 20%, and 40% overpower effects. Or each node lets 8,000 armor reduce 20% overpower with a final node that does 40% when armor is 20,000.
People talk about heatproofing and using cloak of flames to help make you tanky. I tried it, it was okay. Two days later I found an item called blackbraid. It has terrible stats minus one: Armour also applies to elemental damage. I saw that and went "oh so its a better transcendence?!" I'm at like 64% phys damage reduction with it, max block, 3700 life so far, res from left to right 89 85 85 60 (I recently lost some chaos res). I think big phys damage can be hurtful sometimes but mapping has been a breeze usually. Every time I get an armor upgrade I get so much tankier to everything. I think I can get to 75% phys reduction with some better gear and some levels, possibly 80%. The trade off is you're tankier to all ele damage which is really rough in this game it seems, less tanky to phys, but you also save 4 points on the tree because you don't need heatproofing. I compared both chests by standing next to elemental rares and their mobs in maps and watching my health bar. Everything minus fire I felt tankier and phys felt fine. I don't know exactly how it all works and whats most efficient but im having fun using blackbraid.
I think you missed "Acrobatics" while talking about evasion, it can evade AoE hits just like warbringer on block, but some people say it's too punishing to lose 70% of your evasion rating. I would say you need to have like 70% evasion with Acrobatics on to give it a proper use. After playing a ranger I feel you get so much evasion really easily, I managed to use Acrobatics just entering maps, if you invest in better gear you can get to the 90% evasion cap and evade AoE hits as well, I feel it's really broken
Thanks for the guide mate! Been following some POE2 guides on YT and by far yours is the best! Just a quick question: where do you get that ability to heal %life per enemy killed? I can only seem to find "heal flat hp per enemy kiled", not % hp
there is a conversion on doryani's armour that changes lightning damage to use armour reduction instead of lightning res. but being a chestpiece, it feels backwards.
Unique’s like that exist because in POE one they were meant for gimmicky builds that basically just allowed you to steamroll with lightning builds. They are not meant for long-term, hardest tier content.
yeah max resistances is so much easier to get here. there are several uniques which give up to +5 max specific resistance. you can corrupt helmets and get upwards of +3 max cold resistance. you can socket runes to get +1 max resistance per rune, and you can have 5 base runes on gear.
I'm using mind over matter, with a lot of mana regen and damage recouped as mana, feels good as a chronomancer I have one button go back to full mana button lol.
@@Carnarius_v2 sure but using cloak will double how good your armor is specially against larger hits. and since the 25%armor applys to fire damage is overpowerd with cloak and alot of fire res you will get way less damage. its just better trust me. the 40%damage taken as fire will be reduced by your res, its pretty easy to get like 80-85%res so lets say u get a 1k hit 400of that goes against 80%res so there is only 80 left than your armor will reduce that (since 25%works against fire damage) so u end up with idk .. 0-20 damage ? and the 60% u take as phys is only 600 so your armor is really good vs that because its only 60%of the original hit. having just armor will make u take less damage, but cloak will basicly "absorb" alot of damage u take to basicly zero. the higher the hit is the better "taken as fire" will be because the res dosnt care if its a 10k hit or a 1k hit its still -80% but if u get a big hit on just armor it does next to nothing, also there is mobs that have like ignore 30%physical res or armor break etc. (cloak and res dosnt care about that too) try it, also there is a helmet witch has 15%physical reduction (that stat is better than armor since it dosnt care about how big the hit is) there is prolly other gear pieces too where u can get this stat.
@@lolleonlolable The thing is, with 20k armour physical damage doesn't do that much to me and i don't care about physical damage from bosses either with the amount of hp i have. If i die or have a close call, it's always elemental damage - namely cold and/or lightning
i'd say cloak of flame negates the lack of armor because of the physical damage mitigation it gives, but the problem is the other stats. you can't get several res, you can't get an insane amount of life like you can an armor chest on my titan however i did make the swap to cloak of flame corrupted with 5% additional physical damage reduction enchant, and i noticeably felt the difference in being way way more tanky. i also don't have my 4th ascendancy, so no 50% more armor for me (right now) i lost about 300 hp/regen, about 600 hp, and went from 65% armor phys dmg reduc down to 48%. but i gained 40% phys taken as fire and with a current 88% max fire res i basically don't take damage while mapping. currently on t13s i can still get overwhelmed by mobs and eventually die because i can't move, but thats more of a damage issue because i can't kill them fast enough (like in tight hallway breaches)
@@Carnarius_v2 whats ur maxres ? try 90%res and cloak, maybe there is more sources of "ele daken as" you can add to that. 20k armor is really not alot if its like poe1 u can reduce a 2k hit by 50%, but if its like a 4k hit ur already only at idk .. 25% if you tryd it and more armor is better for your build sure, but cloak is pretty goated.
The true value of damage taken conversion a la Cloak of Flames & Lightning coil is the multiple layers of mitigation the damage has to go through now with the conversion. Since armor performs proportionally and exponentially better with smaller hits, splitting up the damage taken and ALSO mitigating it again with armor. almost triples the value of the defense layer invested. With Heatproofing and respectable armor for the tier in question, Physical damage becomes a very low threat. What Kripp meant was that with Cloak of Flames AND some armor, the combination and small amount invested for the returns is neigh unbeatable. And I agree. I also agree with your point of PoE2 introducing 1k+ ES chest bases which makes ES characters better off just investing in a big ES chest. I think thats why Kripp said Cloak of Flames is pretty much BiS for Armor and life based characters
Ive invested nothing in armor on my Titan and I am just avoiding situations where I get swarmed. So far I'm doing ok. I die sometimes, but it depends on the monster type and I have not considered not running a map modifier. The only issue I have is that the slow attack speeds mean I get interrupted a lot. It gets bad very fast when you cant kill due to attack interruptions. IMO thats one of the biggest drawbacks of being a warrior and I doubt there is any additional/substantial dps benefit compared to other classes.
Thank you for the simple explanations. One thing I am struggling with, is actually finding rare jewels with the "Max res" mods on, I dont know if the trade filter is broken currently but nothing shows up no matter how I filter
Great video as always. Would appreciate if you tell me, what is the name of your 2nd jewel with small radius effect ? One is Against the Darkness but cant see other one. ty
@Carnarius, Regarding bosses having cooldowns on their oneshot abilities, that is not true for Silverfist, who can constantly spam oneshots his patterns are random, and all it takes is for you to misplay once. Bosses like Silverfist are my biggest worry as someone who plays Hardcore mode as a warrior and has no faith in current life builds. Mitigating small hits is not as important as mitigating big hits in Hardcore. How do I survive? ES is just better in Hardcore currently. I would rather have 8k ES than 4k life in Hardcore. Getting 7K life is not that easy in Hardcore as high rolls may not even exist on the market, if they include a couple other useful mods.
This vid gives hope that investing in armour can be improved in future Currently running a Lvl89 titan with : 77% all Elemental res 75% Chaos res 69% Armor 70% Block 3500+ HP 500+ MP So far can run T15 maps comfortably except when there are negative suffix on the map Can get better stat if i drop all the Rarity Stat on gears with better stats
was waiting for this vid! very helpful. Im still curious if Cloak of flame is still best in slot for even Titan and save all those points on tree + save ascendancy points
One more question, what are your thoughts on the Morior Invictus chest piece? 3 div can get you 5 slots. Obviously you lose a fair bit of armor but can stack hp even higher.
I just run T16 map upped to T18 with a Bleach that had atk spd 34, increased dmg and elemental penetration, I only did so bc I just hit 89lvl and wanted to see where my character is at, 4,6k hp, 17k Armour that gets boosted to 24k I think when hit recenty, 78% fire, 78 light% 82% cold and 55% chaos res. I finished it with few closed calls where I had to jump out bc my dps is shit (weapon 450 dps I think) but I survived that Breach, worst atm for me are Beyond Deamons that I need to prioritize asap as I see them. I tried first Breach boss, my dps was rly lacking had to tp out to refill flasks. Next upgrade is definitely some nasty 2h with at least 1.3 atk speed and second one with +lvl to melee cos I haven't made my weapon swap tree yet🤭
I hit mapping and I struggled so much more than my other friends. I found your videos and they helped immensely, I passed my friends and now im 91 and clearing T16+ easily and beat 1st Xesht no problem. Since lvl 89 I have only died twice, both times to being frozen on lost towers. 100% avoidable if I was focused and dodge rolled properly. Do you know how freeze works and have suggestions to deal with this? I do have the anti freeze charm but I honestly think it doesnt work sometimes. Thank you for your videos
Lost towers have shit rewards. Always toss a T1 in and get it over with. The real reward is the tablet at the end. And that doesn't care what tier the tower was done at. Spares the awful map layout needing to be played.
Hello I am playing HOTG ignite titan I did some testing and it seems like cloak of flame with 85 max fire res gives around the same damage reduction as 18k armour. Not sure I agree with your point that cloak of flames is overrated based on my experience up to lvl 92. It saves over a dozen points on the tree + an ascendency point to not invest in armour and you are left with the same reduction % against fire as well. Warrior also has access to max res on the tree easier than others. Ill keep testing thanks for the vid ^ ^
Once again, it will give you better reduction against bigger hits and worse reduction against smaller hits. Is it worth it to sacrifice body armour for that? Imo it's not
@ ah this makes sense- thanks. I am 75% block and have the surrender haha. So not really feeling the small hits. Thanks for the reply- went and found you on twitch + followed. Love the detail in your vids keep it up
I still think that a big portion of the gap beyond shitty calculation is leveling uniques (even if i stand on the idea that such a thing shouldnt even exist, uniqes should be start to end viable or build arounds) with the best Armour build armor pieces being the treestump flower bee helmet without armor and with -10 all rez as it just gives 15% real phys DR and for non-titans the to fire conversion robes instead of the 2k+ armor doomstacks and far more important to the topic the gap in Plating (and Banners) vs Wind Dancer(+Ghost Dance) and Grim Feast. Plating takes the levels to be truly efficient and build dedication + its secondary is meh. Wind Dancer is designed just right, but is extremely efficient from when you get it on with just slapping quality and has a secondary that actually helps. Grim Feast has a bit of bad design in that its a "Win More" effect, but it works off something you do 90% of the time (killing smaller mobs), covers one of the main weaknesses of energy shield by giving you a regen factor even if its recharge is being interrupted and uses Overflow which is so powerful that (outside of the unique which makes life overflow from leech which has the -25~14 max hp downside) they made it the starting mandatory ascend of Blood Witch, makes the character explicitly worse for the next 15~ levels till the next mastery is picked up unless already crit capped to be able to actually use it in boss fights. The defense banner too is actually nice, but its ironically better for evasion builds or building block+evasion and suffers from aoe spam where mobility is more EHP compared to the DR options.
I disagree on some points "from a SSF Player Perspective": without heavy invest into % max life "jewels"/"Amu" and Strength you cant stack enough life, not even close, "and is is overall only a Warrior thing "or you are a Attribute stacker" Max resist cluster is bottom only "you have 1% on the top side. but this isnt enough"
If only there are some ways to capitalize armour to damage or maybe all other resistances so we can finally enter MF meta 🗿. Having node to convert shield armour to damage is not enough, easier to take other nodes which have better utility.
is warbringer or titan tankier overall? i'm new to poe and it seems like warbringer with turtle charm and max resists would be the way to go, but not completely sure
Lvl 84 Titan here. Quick question. For leveling on a T14 map what is the benefit of having modifiers on the map? Do I get more xp because it’s more difficult vs the increased risk of dying (no completion/ xp loss) thanks - great video btw 😊
There is 1 node which converts 5% physical into a random element. I had a chest on my monk with 1750 evasion and it brought me to 82% in the tooltips. But sadly it had no hp and only 1 resistance so if something hit then it hurt and you can't react fast enough if even. I would rather have 1000 smaller hit than 1 dangerous one. I found a shield with a prefix 7% physical damage reduction. Would that be the same as armor or actually 7% reduction?
How did you get so much freaking health? My chrono warrior can't even sniff 3K with at least T9 max on all applicable parts. Is it just the titan nodes buffing up the effects of the strength nodes on the tree?
Sir I have a question on how to obtain 3x212 strength so that I could use a 2h mace with giant's blood. I am completely lost on that one. Level 83 at the moment.
one problem is how we roll maps. its so random what mods you'll see or not, i hate it personally i wish we had a crafting bench. not for gear but for maps. and you could pick and choose whatever mod you want to have on the map. each mod would have an associated cost, probably in exalts, and its bonus would be rarity and/or quantity. and that should be the ONLY source of rarity/quantity. it should be removed from gear totally (except MAYBE some specific uniques that if you use, you're gimping your build HARD) i hate having maps, regal it and get a ridiculous mod. its fine when you've established a map pool already, but until you do it feels terrible. i want to be able to pick and choose my map mods. the rng of it all just sucks probably just start running all my maps as magic maps
@@dreadmoon991 I'm kind of doing it already. got all of the big strength nodes. a little bit on equipment. But sill, I wonder should I focus on equipment now? Should every equipment possible have % life increase? The difference between me and some warriors I saw (5k hp +) is hugeee.
Yea, the problem is, you can't be tanky enough to do high map mod effect and clear breach fast and have 200+ rarity on any mace build. Unless you already have like 2 mirrors worth of gear i guess. But still where will you get enough move speed to clear everything i have no idea.
You could run totems, much easier to scale dmg. For movement speed you can Anoint movement speed on block on your amulet, with a high block build you will be flying
you forgot to talk about one critical mod and thats CRIT and what about this? "Hits against you have xx% reduced Critical Damage Bonus" available on runes + shield + Passive tree
How do you get so much HP ? I can't get past 4K hp on my titan with modest gear, let alone have enough rarity of items found on top of the hp stacking.
Make sure you have the 2 hp passive buffs from candlemass boss in campaign. Titan ascendancy gives max hp. Xophs blood amulet, you can find it with 18% max hp cheap. Against the darkness unique jewel gives 1% max hp per small passive node in the area (2-3 divine), max life on all your gear, soul cores give 2% max hp, and finally grand spectrum jewels can give 2% max hp
Hey bro ! Can you explain how u get this amount of life plz ? Got jewel maximum life / all part with a high roll of strenght and life but I get only 5k8 Life. I dont understand how u get 1k life over me
thanks for all the info but I dont understand the whole life number. I have 2600 life and I have life on many gear pieces. How the h. you got 7K idk :D
damn, so grateful for Matt Damon explain things I need for more survival
Your videos explaining crucial mechanics and inside information are a big improvement to the whole poe2 community and all the new players who never played poe1 before. Thank you.
I am glad I watched this. I tested out the 18,000+ armour you were explaining. Went from 9.2k to 18.3k from switching out passives and am level 89. I have absolutely felt a difference. I do not have the best gear and only 17% chaos res w/ max cap on elemental. So I am still working on that part. Point is, outside of chaos res, I can survive quite easily on normal t15 with some modifications but nothing too crazy. Great content.
I understand that you are not looking into posting more videos on your Mace Strike Titan, but I would appreciate it sooo much if you could Update your guide so we can look at your Gem Setup in your current set up. Love your Build and am looking forward to seeing what you are coming up with next
My written guide is a 100% up to date
I've only just realised that your written guide has 3 different Gem Setups😅 Thanks for your reply and your content, will definitely be looking into increasing my max resistance after your explanation on its effect
On my momma I checked the channel like 10 times today to see if there is some new uploads, I play a warrior, my main is warbringer but I also have titan and this channel is by far the best out there, cant wait for the next video about how you gonna build your warbringer
great vid bro, tested as much as possible warrior-related builds and ways to play, you just compiled all the gameplay we have to deal with. Now imagine how warrior SSF looks like
For maximum tanky build that beats armor stacking, I believe running Cloak of Flame Silk Robe and Infernoclasp Plate belt allows you to hit 90% fire resistance. You could run +2max fire resistance jewels if you want to run a different belt.
I dont play warrior but i play hc and you have the best info on defense
My Titan is indeed replacing armour with the funny flame dress. Grabbing the int also makes it easier to get Rarity gear by opening up the ability to peek at Armour/ES bases
How do you like it? I'm at like 28k armor, w a 2700bp, but despite that, in my head, the dress is better. Especially w the max fire res overcap and 25% armor to fire dmg.
On Deadeye it's very trivial to reach ~10k evasion + Acrobatics keystone because of tailwind, wind dancer, and how easy it is to scale evasion on the tree. I currently have 9.2k (with gloves that have 94 evasion rating..) and acrobatics allows you to evade all hits. IMO very strong for something on the tree when the ability to block all hits is exclusive to the Warbringer ascendancy. I can't see Acrobatics staying on the tree unless they also make that Warbringer node a keystone as well. If they don't, very unfair for evasion builds, evasion is very strong in the current state.
How do you get enough life to not get 1 shot when you eventually get caught?
@@nocturne3455 That's the tradeoff and kind of always has been for rangers. You stack high evasion and you playstyle is don't get hit and have giga damage to kill everything before it hits you. You can use some hybrid ES/evasion bases, use Atziri's Disdain to get some extra ES and spec into some ES stuff on the tree with Grim Feast to be tankier but ranger is always going to be prone to getting 1 shot (even more so in PoE2 where 1 shots are pretty much every death). My titan with 4.5k health and capped block chance also gets 1 shot sometimes too.
@@DrMVG94 Yep, as long you can live long enough to kill everything on sight, the fact you can be one-shot is worth it. Even in poe2 boss fights, you can see the attacks on bosses and dodge out of them or if you do get hit, you will most likely evade the few times it happens. In poe1, scaling both armour and evasion was awesome for HC leagues.
@@nocturne3455my 4k es absorbs the hit 😂
@@UreksatheJade exactly. So life is still ass unless you have sick gear and are a warrior.
I felt like I was playing a different game from everyone complaining about armour and life, but you explain it well lol
What I found out was you should just take Glancing Blows on Warbringer. All damage in this game is chip damage except one shots, and halving the one shots is good enough. You get no investment max block with two of the strongest offensive nodes on the tree (the two 1% increase ALL damage per block nodes).
Your channel is an underrated gem brother
First time coming to your channel. Excellently explained. I'm not a Uber gamer but everything you said makes sense. I'm playing a Warbringer and this really clarified things for me to look for. Subscribed. Thank you.
Great video, for evasion, I believe you should have mentioned acrobatics and the ES notes for evasion (and vice versa) around the monk/ranger. Those are absolutely insane defences as the evasion and block are really good, but still you need a one-shot protection.
I went from 10k armour down to 6k on favour of max res, more STR and more AoE and my warrior feels way better and more tanks.
Thanks for the max res tips
These are good to hear as someone who is now playing warriors.
hope you can dive into HCSSF for tips & tricks on warriors.
I really enjoy your builds, I feel like you were one of the first to touch on molten blast and strike stuff for Poe 2. It’s just rough that you need against the darkness to make life viable. Ghostwrithe is 1-3 ex. And ATD is 1-10 div. Effective health is low on warrior for now. Also a cloak of flame provides almost the same mitigation as 20-30k amour and that’s also cheap. Hopefully they give you some buffs soon mate because armor is in a bad spot
glad i watched this before i switched to ES
Thanks for the content man, it slaps ❤ playing your molten warrior and it's really effective
This was an awesome video I have been under estimating block. Looking forward to your energy shield video. I’m currently doing a mace/flameblast bloodmage and I think switching to one hand mace and shield is going to be a lot better. Because it super squishy atm. I’m calling it Ironclad Phoenix definitely not meta build but fun and solves melee aoe issue.
Passive nodes or unique effects, for damage taken from mana pool. These are basically cheap % dmg reduction to add on top of whatever you are going with.
Appreciate you. Playing a pathfinder on hardcore in maps and I'm rocking full armor/evasion gear and I'm scared to push much higher than I am till they fix armor for non-titan or add lightning coil into the game 😂
It should get buffed so Invokers can get "and protect me from harm".
This was great!
Thank you great video
I appreciated your perspective but I think you're missing the point of Kripp's video, he had a SSF perspective and not a trade league perspective. 7k life and 90 max res isn't achievable until a VERY long time in SSF, compared to energy shield which is extremely easy to get, and there's multiple mechanics to recover or overflow it.
Also you can evade AOE and Boss Slams with Acrobatics.
I'd personally place evasion a bit higher then block for some classes who can take Acrobatics. With that you CAN evade ALL Hits, which is crazy. Great and informative video tho, thanks for it!
True
Love the video, but I really wish you did more research on Evasion, especially with acrobatics. What it means to min/max it and how "Accuracy" of enemies works.
good stuff ty
I'll tell you the one boss I've found that spams their slam over and over, at least on me it does. The damn gorilla boss Silverfist, or whatever his name is. That son of a bitch does nothing but power slam.
I just finished campaign while wearing Hollow Mask (15% phys reduction) and Cloak of Flame at 75% fire res. Basically I took multiple slams to the face.
No worries in sight. Cruel Silverfist one big hit I took 1k hit but smaller ones 4-500.
Its funny how many mistakes I made during whole campaign which in my first playthrough would die constantly. Now understanding later, how to build with defences. That makes the game so much more enjoyable and discovering it all is part of the fun.
Oh yeah that guy is basically dark souls simulator. He was the first boss that killed me in 1 hit and sat there looking at the screen for 10 seconds wondering what happened
You can cheese him by hiding behind the fallen pillar next to the checkpoint, It blocks the slam
Great video. So maybe a specific 3 Node branch on the tree that lets armor negate 20%, 20%, and 40% overpower effects. Or each node lets 8,000 armor reduce 20% overpower with a final node that does 40% when armor is 20,000.
People talk about heatproofing and using cloak of flames to help make you tanky. I tried it, it was okay. Two days later I found an item called blackbraid. It has terrible stats minus one: Armour also applies to elemental damage. I saw that and went "oh so its a better transcendence?!" I'm at like 64% phys damage reduction with it, max block, 3700 life so far, res from left to right 89 85 85 60 (I recently lost some chaos res). I think big phys damage can be hurtful sometimes but mapping has been a breeze usually. Every time I get an armor upgrade I get so much tankier to everything. I think I can get to 75% phys reduction with some better gear and some levels, possibly 80%. The trade off is you're tankier to all ele damage which is really rough in this game it seems, less tanky to phys, but you also save 4 points on the tree because you don't need heatproofing. I compared both chests by standing next to elemental rares and their mobs in maps and watching my health bar. Everything minus fire I felt tankier and phys felt fine. I don't know exactly how it all works and whats most efficient but im having fun using blackbraid.
I think you missed "Acrobatics" while talking about evasion, it can evade AoE hits just like warbringer on block, but some people say it's too punishing to lose 70% of your evasion rating. I would say you need to have like 70% evasion with Acrobatics on to give it a proper use. After playing a ranger I feel you get so much evasion really easily, I managed to use Acrobatics just entering maps, if you invest in better gear you can get to the 90% evasion cap and evade AoE hits as well, I feel it's really broken
Thanks for the guide mate! Been following some POE2 guides on YT and by far yours is the best!
Just a quick question: where do you get that ability to heal %life per enemy killed? I can only seem to find "heal flat hp per enemy kiled", not % hp
step 1 to not die is dont leave corpses behind... if you dont you will probably die to random corpse explosions casted from white mobs offscreen^^
Picking up the warcry corpse explosion passive just to get rid of them 😅
(Just kidding but damn it would be nice to just get rid of them)
there is a conversion on doryani's armour that changes lightning damage to use armour reduction instead of lightning res.
but being a chestpiece, it feels backwards.
Unique’s like that exist because in POE one they were meant for gimmicky builds that basically just allowed you to steamroll with lightning builds. They are not meant for long-term, hardest tier content.
yeah max resistances is so much easier to get here. there are several uniques which give up to +5 max specific resistance. you can corrupt helmets and get upwards of +3 max cold resistance. you can socket runes to get +1 max resistance per rune, and you can have 5 base runes on gear.
A lot of work you have to do that other classes do not have to go through. Yes it’s doable . Doable is not the point
@@Zykosisany build does this very basic resistance optimisation laid out by Junk
Happy new years to you too. To good Content in 2025. :)
I'm using mind over matter, with a lot of mana regen and damage recouped as mana, feels good as a chronomancer I have one button go back to full mana button lol.
cloak of flame / block / some armor / 25%armor applys to fire damage node on the tree = win
Here is the problem, body armour will make 60-70% of your total armour on Titan xd
@@Carnarius_v2 sure but using cloak will double how good your armor is specially against larger hits. and since the 25%armor applys to fire damage is overpowerd with cloak and alot of fire res you will get way less damage. its just better trust me. the 40%damage taken as fire will be reduced by your res, its pretty easy to get like 80-85%res so lets say u get a 1k hit 400of that goes against 80%res so there is only 80 left than your armor will reduce that (since 25%works against fire damage) so u end up with idk .. 0-20 damage ? and the 60% u take as phys is only 600 so your armor is really good vs that because its only 60%of the original hit. having just armor will make u take less damage, but cloak will basicly "absorb" alot of damage u take to basicly zero.
the higher the hit is the better "taken as fire" will be because the res dosnt care if its a 10k hit or a 1k hit its still -80% but if u get a big hit on just armor it does next to nothing, also there is mobs that have like ignore 30%physical res or armor break etc. (cloak and res dosnt care about that too)
try it, also there is a helmet witch has 15%physical reduction (that stat is better than armor since it dosnt care about how big the hit is) there is prolly other gear pieces too where u can get this stat.
@@lolleonlolable The thing is, with 20k armour physical damage doesn't do that much to me and i don't care about physical damage from bosses either with the amount of hp i have. If i die or have a close call, it's always elemental damage - namely cold and/or lightning
i'd say cloak of flame negates the lack of armor because of the physical damage mitigation it gives, but the problem is the other stats. you can't get several res, you can't get an insane amount of life like you can an armor chest
on my titan however i did make the swap to cloak of flame corrupted with 5% additional physical damage reduction enchant, and i noticeably felt the difference in being way way more tanky. i also don't have my 4th ascendancy, so no 50% more armor for me (right now)
i lost about 300 hp/regen, about 600 hp, and went from 65% armor phys dmg reduc down to 48%. but i gained 40% phys taken as fire and with a current 88% max fire res i basically don't take damage while mapping. currently on t13s
i can still get overwhelmed by mobs and eventually die because i can't move, but thats more of a damage issue because i can't kill them fast enough (like in tight hallway breaches)
@@Carnarius_v2 whats ur maxres ? try 90%res and cloak, maybe there is more sources of "ele daken as" you can add to that. 20k armor is really not alot if its like poe1 u can reduce a 2k hit by 50%, but if its like a 4k hit ur already only at idk .. 25%
if you tryd it and more armor is better for your build sure, but cloak is pretty goated.
The true value of damage taken conversion a la Cloak of Flames & Lightning coil is the multiple layers of mitigation the damage has to go through now with the conversion.
Since armor performs proportionally and exponentially better with smaller hits, splitting up the damage taken and ALSO mitigating it again with armor. almost triples the value of the defense layer invested. With Heatproofing and respectable armor for the tier in question, Physical damage becomes a very low threat.
What Kripp meant was that with Cloak of Flames AND some armor, the combination and small amount invested for the returns is neigh unbeatable. And I agree. I also agree with your point of PoE2 introducing 1k+ ES chest bases which makes ES characters better off just investing in a big ES chest. I think thats why Kripp said Cloak of Flames is pretty much BiS for Armor and life based characters
true, i have cloak of flame and infernoclasp to get 90% fireresistance and some armor and i can take any hits easily
eastern europe is for deep rpg mechanics what india is for cell phones and programming. sounds unfamiliar, but will explain the best with no bs.
Ive invested nothing in armor on my Titan and I am just avoiding situations where I get swarmed. So far I'm doing ok. I die sometimes, but it depends on the monster type and I have not considered not running a map modifier. The only issue I have is that the slow attack speeds mean I get interrupted a lot. It gets bad very fast when you cant kill due to attack interruptions. IMO thats one of the biggest drawbacks of being a warrior and I doubt there is any additional/substantial dps benefit compared to other classes.
it's such a shame sorcery ward halves your armor/evasion and still expects you to max ele resists
Thank you for the simple explanations. One thing I am struggling with, is actually finding rare jewels with the "Max res" mods on, I dont know if the trade filter is broken currently but nothing shows up no matter how I filter
Works fine for me, try again :D
Great video as always. Would appreciate if you tell me, what is the name of your 2nd jewel with small radius effect ? One is Against the Darkness but cant see other one. ty
@Carnarius,
Regarding bosses having cooldowns on their oneshot abilities, that is not true for Silverfist, who can constantly spam oneshots his patterns are random, and all it takes is for you to misplay once.
Bosses like Silverfist are my biggest worry as someone who plays Hardcore mode as a warrior and has no faith in current life builds.
Mitigating small hits is not as important as mitigating big hits in Hardcore. How do I survive? ES is just better in Hardcore currently.
I would rather have 8k ES than 4k life in Hardcore. Getting 7K life is not that easy in Hardcore as high rolls may not even exist on the market, if they include a couple other useful mods.
This vid gives hope that investing in armour can be improved in future
Currently running a Lvl89 titan with :
77% all Elemental res
75% Chaos res
69% Armor
70% Block
3500+ HP
500+ MP
So far can run T15 maps comfortably except when there are negative suffix on the map
Can get better stat if i drop all the Rarity Stat on gears with better stats
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was waiting for this vid! very helpful. Im still curious if Cloak of flame is still best in slot for even Titan and save all those points on tree + save ascendancy points
For Titan most definitely not
Against bosses specifically it is tho if u do the maths but on maps armour is still superior
One more question, what are your thoughts on the Morior Invictus chest piece? 3 div can get you 5 slots. Obviously you lose a fair bit of armor but can stack hp even higher.
It's good, but you need to figure out how to get dexterity and int to wear it
I just run T16 map upped to T18 with a Bleach that had atk spd 34, increased dmg and elemental penetration, I only did so bc I just hit 89lvl and wanted to see where my character is at, 4,6k hp, 17k Armour that gets boosted to 24k I think when hit recenty, 78% fire, 78 light% 82% cold and 55% chaos res. I finished it with few closed calls where I had to jump out bc my dps is shit (weapon 450 dps I think) but I survived that Breach, worst atm for me are Beyond Deamons that I need to prioritize asap as I see them.
I tried first Breach boss, my dps was rly lacking had to tp out to refill flasks. Next upgrade is definitely some nasty 2h with at least 1.3 atk speed and second one with +lvl to melee cos I haven't made my weapon swap tree yet🤭
I hit mapping and I struggled so much more than my other friends. I found your videos and they helped immensely, I passed my friends and now im 91 and clearing T16+ easily and beat 1st Xesht no problem. Since lvl 89 I have only died twice, both times to being frozen on lost towers. 100% avoidable if I was focused and dodge rolled properly. Do you know how freeze works and have suggestions to deal with this? I do have the anti freeze charm but I honestly think it doesnt work sometimes. Thank you for your videos
Lost towers have shit rewards. Always toss a T1 in and get it over with. The real reward is the tablet at the end. And that doesn't care what tier the tower was done at. Spares the awful map layout needing to be played.
Probably out of charges on the charms. The way freeze on player works, you will see it a lot less if you're capping cold res.
Other classes can build armor with iron reflexes
if they remove armor break, armor gets better.. wow
Hello I am playing HOTG ignite titan I did some testing and it seems like cloak of flame with 85 max fire res gives around the same damage reduction as 18k armour. Not sure I agree with your point that cloak of flames is overrated based on my experience up to lvl 92. It saves over a dozen points on the tree + an ascendency point to not invest in armour and you are left with the same reduction % against fire as well. Warrior also has access to max res on the tree easier than others. Ill keep testing thanks for the vid ^ ^
Once again, it will give you better reduction against bigger hits and worse reduction against smaller hits. Is it worth it to sacrifice body armour for that? Imo it's not
@ ah this makes sense- thanks. I am 75% block and have the surrender haha. So not really feeling the small hits. Thanks for the reply- went and found you on twitch + followed. Love the detail in your vids keep it up
I still think that a big portion of the gap beyond shitty calculation is leveling uniques (even if i stand on the idea that such a thing shouldnt even exist, uniqes should be start to end viable or build arounds) with the best Armour build armor pieces being the treestump flower bee helmet without armor and with -10 all rez as it just gives 15% real phys DR and for non-titans the to fire conversion robes instead of the 2k+ armor doomstacks and far more important to the topic the gap in Plating (and Banners) vs Wind Dancer(+Ghost Dance) and Grim Feast.
Plating takes the levels to be truly efficient and build dedication + its secondary is meh.
Wind Dancer is designed just right, but is extremely efficient from when you get it on with just slapping quality and has a secondary that actually helps.
Grim Feast has a bit of bad design in that its a "Win More" effect, but it works off something you do 90% of the time (killing smaller mobs), covers one of the main weaknesses of energy shield by giving you a regen factor even if its recharge is being interrupted and uses Overflow which is so powerful that (outside of the unique which makes life overflow from leech which has the -25~14 max hp downside) they made it the starting mandatory ascend of Blood Witch, makes the character explicitly worse for the next 15~ levels till the next mastery is picked up unless already crit capped to be able to actually use it in boss fights.
The defense banner too is actually nice, but its ironically better for evasion builds or building block+evasion and suffers from aoe spam where mobility is more EHP compared to the DR options.
I disagree on some points "from a SSF Player Perspective": without heavy invest into % max life "jewels"/"Amu" and Strength you cant stack enough life, not even close, "and is is overall only a Warrior thing "or you are a Attribute stacker" Max resist cluster is bottom only "you have 1% on the top side. but this isnt enough"
True, for SSF life is definitely worse
Two words. LIFE REGEN.
Can you talk about sorcery ward or acrobatics?
If only there are some ways to capitalize armour to damage or maybe all other resistances so we can finally enter MF meta 🗿.
Having node to convert shield armour to damage is not enough, easier to take other nodes which have better utility.
is warbringer or titan tankier overall? i'm new to poe and it seems like warbringer with turtle charm and max resists would be the way to go, but not completely sure
What would you think about stacking armour for sorcery ward on witchhunter?
Lvl 84 Titan here. Quick question. For leveling on a T14 map what is the benefit of having modifiers on the map? Do I get more xp because it’s more difficult vs the increased risk of dying (no completion/ xp loss) thanks - great video btw 😊
Modifiers that make your maps harder give you more map drops - that's it.
Can you add jewel to the guide. I'm currently debating using prism of belief and time-lost ruby and against the darkness vs basic jewel with + max res
Isn't block and evasion VASTLY different due to the entropy mechanic? AFAIK it still exists in POE2
what do you use to reach 7k matt damon? is it jewels?
yo if u can show ur prefered jewels sometime in ur builds, would be helpful. i dont think the build site shows them.
Check the written guide, "notes" section
@@Carnarius_v2 oh yeah Ur right I m not sure if it was there before, but, I shoulda checked mbmb
Im doing a gemling legionaire tank build run, was wondering if you thought thar was viable
WHO is saying warrior is not tanky ? ? ? Literally the only class that can reach 90 elemental resistances in the game
Not really, i have 90 fire and 80’s on the others on a chrono
@ML03089 oh nice is it CI as well ? I got 90 on all and 77 chaos
There is 1 node which converts 5% physical into a random element. I had a chest on my monk with 1750 evasion and it brought me to 82% in the tooltips. But sadly it had no hp and only 1 resistance so if something hit then it hurt and you can't react fast enough if even. I would rather have 1000 smaller hit than 1 dangerous one. I found a shield with a prefix 7% physical damage reduction. Would that be the same as armor or actually 7% reduction?
Can't die if you don't play hehe
I swear 75% of waystones l fund either has ele pen or stun treshhold (and l play Boneshatter)😢
How did you get so much freaking health? My chrono warrior can't even sniff 3K with at least T9 max on all applicable parts. Is it just the titan nodes buffing up the effects of the strength nodes on the tree?
Carn how is armour now with this new 15% "increase"?
Anyone have an opinion on the soul core that reduces critical damage bonus on hits against you?
Sir I have a question on how to obtain 3x212 strength so that I could use a 2h mace with giant's blood. I am completely lost on that one. Level 83 at the moment.
I have cloak of flame on my titan and it feels better than when I had armor, am I insane or should I go back to armor? I'm using heat proofing as well
It will be fine to keep cloak of flame, especially if you don't have a good body armour to replace it with
7000 hours at least? The game has not been out for that long yet.
What would you suggest for gemling mercenary atm im stacking str/life but my armour evasion bases suck. Pure evasion? Atziri and grim feast?
one problem is how we roll maps. its so random what mods you'll see or not, i hate it
personally i wish we had a crafting bench. not for gear but for maps. and you could pick and choose whatever mod you want to have on the map. each mod would have an associated cost, probably in exalts, and its bonus would be rarity and/or quantity. and that should be the ONLY source of rarity/quantity. it should be removed from gear totally (except MAYBE some specific uniques that if you use, you're gimping your build HARD)
i hate having maps, regal it and get a ridiculous mod. its fine when you've established a map pool already, but until you do it feels terrible. i want to be able to pick and choose my map mods. the rng of it all just sucks
probably just start running all my maps as magic maps
Bro, can you tell me if I can kill mobs like you do on warbringer if I'm playing with a shield?
Guy I see people mentioning a written guide version of his builds . Can someone point me in its direction ?
My biggest problem is the hitbox on a 4k monitor. Its is atrocious.
I'm a level 84 titan on tier 12 maps. Getting one shotted a lot. I'm kind of struggling on how to rise my HP currently. I have 2800 hp, any tips?
stack strength, a lot. 5 strength = 10 flat life "scales with % increased from amu/tree/story reward"
@@dreadmoon991 I'm kind of doing it already. got all of the big strength nodes. a little bit on equipment. But sill, I wonder should I focus on equipment now? Should every equipment possible have % life increase? The difference between me and some warriors I saw (5k hp +) is hugeee.
Every piece of gear should have life. 100 minimum. Xophs amulet is decent as well. 15% max life ascendancy. 600 strength gives a lot of life as well.
how to get so much HP? I have almost 2700 hp and I would like to reach at least 3500, I'm already trying to have maximum life everywhere ;(
is the couture of crimson chest viable for overlife or do you lose too much armor?
It's horrible, leech is bad and my build can't leech to begin with, we do pure fire damage
Yea, the problem is, you can't be tanky enough to do high map mod effect and clear breach fast and have 200+ rarity on any mace build. Unless you already have like 2 mirrors worth of gear i guess. But still where will you get enough move speed to clear everything i have no idea.
You could run totems, much easier to scale dmg. For movement speed you can Anoint movement speed on block on your amulet, with a high block build you will be flying
you forgot to talk about one critical mod and thats CRIT
and what about this?
"Hits against you have xx% reduced Critical Damage Bonus"
available on runes + shield + Passive tree
True, could have talked about it
Also what about ele weakness curse?
All that life on kill what about bosses, life Regen my dude you get a good amount of it if you make go out of the way for it
Move from other games fully into poe broham
How do you get so much HP ? I can't get past 4K hp on my titan with modest gear, let alone have enough rarity of items found on top of the hp stacking.
Make sure you have the 2 hp passive buffs from candlemass boss in campaign. Titan ascendancy gives max hp. Xophs blood amulet, you can find it with 18% max hp cheap. Against the darkness unique jewel gives 1% max hp per small passive node in the area (2-3 divine), max life on all your gear, soul cores give 2% max hp, and finally grand spectrum jewels can give 2% max hp
Hey bro !
Can you explain how u get this amount of life plz ?
Got jewel maximum life / all part with a high roll of strenght and life but I get only 5k8 Life.
I dont understand how u get 1k life over me
1800 Armour in chest piece.. yeah not that much armour 🤣
just get 12k es and you dont need any of that
thanks for all the info but I dont understand the whole life number. I have 2600 life and I have life on many gear pieces. How the h. you got 7K idk :D
why is your mana 0?
Plate armor from Diablo 1 in a POE 2 video? What a bait thumbnail.
No league Nasus Videos anymore ?
where is a written guide wich is mentioned in the comments? i dont see link anywhere
Previous videos, but i'll link it here maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/9yagj0vn