Pinned Post! Any Updates to the PoB will be catalogued here so you can stay informed about changes. Update 1: added a small notes section about crafting a piledriver. Thanks to Scroapy for explaining it. This should be a quick guide to crafting your own base type. Reccomend for those who can wrap their head around crafting (not me). Update 2: PoB updated with new numbers. also added +33% crit chance on the config menu since PoB doesn't calculate crit every 3rd hit currently. should give a "closer" estimate to dps. also added stun immunity. If using a staff, crushing fist is a good 4 link for gamble burst (not optimal, just fun) Update 3: added rage to pob. At max rage we are doing 5mil with leaguestart gear and still under calculated pob math. Rage is your main scaler. Should mana cost be an issue, either slot in a lifetap, or grab blood magic an only use hatred and vitality. We want max life, so I do not reccomend petrified blood on this build TH-cam also asked me to passively aggressively tell you to subscribe. I'm not your dad so do what you want. Pirate my build or something be a rebel
Just a heads up, inc. elemental ailment effect does not benefit freeze, only chill. You need inc. elemental ailment duration for freeze (not that glacial hammer really needs that IMO).
what sort of dmg do u think this will actually achieve? is uber viable? I don't have as much time as I used to so kinda a 1 build and done kinda guy, but I did follow ur glacial hammer a year or so ago and it was super fun! loved it even!
appreciate it man! was hitting 6-9 mil dps beforehand in 3.23, so with the celestial brace and the overall melee damage buff, I estimate about 15 mil with my usual budget of like, 10-15 divs (assuming winds of fate prices don't skyrocket). Not gotta lie to you about uber viability, I'm unsure. 100% pinnacle viable, but ubers it might not be defensive enough to handle it. Especially with PoB not calculating the damage correctly right now. If uber's are your goal, your best bet is too follow a build creator that has that as their main goal like jungroan. I don't usually account for it since my stuff leans experimental and less optimized.
updates will be through the pinned comment. Not gonna make another video unless something major changes in my plan (i.e., required uniques, new mechanics). don't want to flood my channel with one-and-done videos.
Looking into something like this for SSF, damage numbers look absolutely abysmal but having seen what Glacial Hammer can do I just choose to hope it will work out. I doubt I'll ever get the Sanctum staff in SSF but I'm considering a Frostbreath version instead.
@@wolvie90 PoB doesn’t calculate the actual dps of the skill correctly right now. I wouldn’t be too worried about the damage given it’s only been bugged since last league Also! If you’re ssf then please do try and craft a staff or a piledriver instead. Winds of fate isn’t mandatory and if you got the brain for crafting you can absolutely make something just as good
@@TuskDeluxe Do you know if you can get "double hits" by overlapping Glacial Hammer splash and "strikes targets additional nearby enemy" like you can with Lightning Strike?
thoughts on playing this on the new glad with the giga block nodes and a shield + frostbreath? seems like it would be giga tank but obviously significantly less dam than your setup
glad has hella defenses but really no damage for our type of build. frostbreath trauma stacking could work, but the lack of juggs phys to life and the massive ramp up time due to attack speed reductions would make it take way longer.
@@TuskDeluxe yeah i think you're right, do you think the attack speed were getting from new berserker will be enough to make trauma feel good? i assume not because you dont use it yourself, but maybe with frostbreath being a one hander with higher attack speed than staffs, it could work out?
Why the staff and not a crafted piledriver? you get almost the same damage per hit and can have 40~% multi, but without the downside of missing almost all non-3rd hits. Piledriver would also have another huge benefit of 1.7+ attack speed. It would still be able to use overlord in cluster. Biggest benefit would be smoothness of mapping.
oh are you talking about the crafted staff? Because if you're talking about winds of fate I don't think I've seen a piledriver with 1000 pdps that wasn't pushing mirror tier on the market. before winds of fate if you find/make a mace that's stronger than a staff then go for it. we don't get any weapon type specific nodes in the tree till mapping anyways.
you can make 850 pds piledriver with double damage super easily - buy hybrid phys/acc fracture(3month old offer for t1 is 1div) hit with contempt until you hit attack speed, annul so you have flat phys, fractured hybrid and attack speed. multi mod - double damage while focused and increased phys damage. You will have weapon which should technically be better almost in every aspect for 5-7~div. If you want even better one, you would have to keep spamming essences further to force perfect prefixes(which is hard and very pricy, but would put you over 950pdps). Don't forget each node is basically 3-3.5% more dmg, so if you go maces, you dont have to waste many travel points and even with slightly worse(debatable 30% chance to deal double dmg while focused is super strong) weapon get way better overall dps and no 0 dmg hits.
@@Scroapy You mind If I just quote this in the PoB guide lmao. Crafting is my biggest weakness in PoE so it never occured to me that this was an option. Will cite you as Scroapy
@@TuskDeluxe feel free to do so 👍fractured maces in general are super cheap compared to other weapon types, because majority of builds are not restricted by skill gem, so they go axes/staves. I would expect exactly the same scenario for the upcomming league.
@@Kayakiox it’s inconsistent with multi strike. With mutistrike it will cause every 3rd MULTISTRIKE hit to do more damage. And since you only use the 3rd hit, you lose the ruthless bonus on the first two hits of that rush. You’re better off making every 3 hits do more damage for mapping, but for bossing there is an argument to push in ruthless. Multistrike just gives that massive attack speed bonus which is better
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Pinned Post! Any Updates to the PoB will be catalogued here so you can stay informed about changes.
Update 1: added a small notes section about crafting a piledriver. Thanks to Scroapy for explaining it. This should be a quick guide to crafting your own base type. Reccomend for those who can wrap their head around crafting (not me).
Update 2: PoB updated with new numbers. also added +33% crit chance on the config menu since PoB doesn't calculate crit every 3rd hit currently. should give a "closer" estimate to dps. also added stun immunity. If using a staff, crushing fist is a good 4 link for gamble burst (not optimal, just fun)
Update 3: added rage to pob. At max rage we are doing 5mil with leaguestart gear and still under calculated pob math. Rage is your main scaler. Should mana cost be an issue, either slot in a lifetap, or grab blood magic an only use hatred and vitality. We want max life, so I do not reccomend petrified blood on this build
TH-cam also asked me to passively aggressively tell you to subscribe. I'm not your dad so do what you want. Pirate my build or something be a rebel
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Starting this. much love.
This is going on my short list, thankyou for the great vid!
Looks dope man thanks for sharing
Just a heads up, inc. elemental ailment effect does not benefit freeze, only chill.
You need inc. elemental ailment duration for freeze (not that glacial hammer really needs that IMO).
what sort of dmg do u think this will actually achieve? is uber viable? I don't have as much time as I used to so kinda a 1 build and done kinda guy, but I did follow ur glacial hammer a year or so ago and it was super fun! loved it even!
appreciate it man!
was hitting 6-9 mil dps beforehand in 3.23, so with the celestial brace and the overall melee damage buff, I estimate about 15 mil with my usual budget of like, 10-15 divs (assuming winds of fate prices don't skyrocket).
Not gotta lie to you about uber viability, I'm unsure. 100% pinnacle viable, but ubers it might not be defensive enough to handle it. Especially with PoB not calculating the damage correctly right now.
If uber's are your goal, your best bet is too follow a build creator that has that as their main goal like jungroan. I don't usually account for it since my stuff leans experimental and less optimized.
@@TuskDeluxe thanks mate!
Any eta on you uploading that update video you mentioned now that pob has the new numbers?
updates will be through the pinned comment. Not gonna make another video unless something major changes in my plan (i.e., required uniques, new mechanics).
don't want to flood my channel with one-and-done videos.
Looking into something like this for SSF, damage numbers look absolutely abysmal but having seen what Glacial Hammer can do I just choose to hope it will work out. I doubt I'll ever get the Sanctum staff in SSF but I'm considering a Frostbreath version instead.
@@wolvie90 PoB doesn’t calculate the actual dps of the skill correctly right now. I wouldn’t be too worried about the damage given it’s only been bugged since last league
Also! If you’re ssf then please do try and craft a staff or a piledriver instead. Winds of fate isn’t mandatory and if you got the brain for crafting you can absolutely make something just as good
@@TuskDeluxe Do you know if you can get "double hits" by overlapping Glacial Hammer splash and "strikes targets additional nearby enemy" like you can with Lightning Strike?
@@wolvie90 Should also be possible. I distinctly remember damage being higher in packs
I was thinking about this but as a juggernaut or maybe some Templar !! Although I’ve never done a self build so 😂
thoughts on playing this on the new glad with the giga block nodes and a shield + frostbreath? seems like it would be giga tank but obviously significantly less dam than your setup
glad has hella defenses but really no damage for our type of build. frostbreath trauma stacking could work, but the lack of juggs phys to life and the massive ramp up time due to attack speed reductions would make it take way longer.
@@TuskDeluxe yeah i think you're right, do you think the attack speed were getting from new berserker will be enough to make trauma feel good? i assume not because you dont use it yourself, but maybe with frostbreath being a one hander with higher attack speed than staffs, it could work out?
Why the staff and not a crafted piledriver? you get almost the same damage per hit and can have 40~% multi, but without the downside of missing almost all non-3rd hits. Piledriver would also have another huge benefit of 1.7+ attack speed. It would still be able to use overlord in cluster. Biggest benefit would be smoothness of mapping.
not a hater, I like the tree :)
oh are you talking about the crafted staff? Because if you're talking about winds of fate I don't think I've seen a piledriver with 1000 pdps that wasn't pushing mirror tier on the market.
before winds of fate if you find/make a mace that's stronger than a staff then go for it. we don't get any weapon type specific nodes in the tree till mapping anyways.
you can make 850 pds piledriver with double damage super easily - buy hybrid phys/acc fracture(3month old offer for t1 is 1div) hit with contempt until you hit attack speed, annul so you have flat phys, fractured hybrid and attack speed. multi mod - double damage while focused and increased phys damage. You will have weapon which should technically be better almost in every aspect for 5-7~div. If you want even better one, you would have to keep spamming essences further to force perfect prefixes(which is hard and very pricy, but would put you over 950pdps). Don't forget each node is basically 3-3.5% more dmg, so if you go maces, you dont have to waste many travel points and even with slightly worse(debatable 30% chance to deal double dmg while focused is super strong) weapon get way better overall dps and no 0 dmg hits.
@@Scroapy You mind If I just quote this in the PoB guide lmao. Crafting is my biggest weakness in PoE so it never occured to me that this was an option. Will cite you as Scroapy
@@TuskDeluxe feel free to do so 👍fractured maces in general are super cheap compared to other weapon types, because majority of builds are not restricted by skill gem, so they go axes/staves. I would expect exactly the same scenario for the upcomming league.
there is this helmet that kinda works like a pseudo 5 or 6 link maybe you could use that
why not use ruthless as a support? 100% more on every 3rd hit which is the one that matters should be better than inc crit dmg
@@Kayakiox it’s inconsistent with multi strike. With mutistrike it will cause every 3rd MULTISTRIKE hit to do more damage.
And since you only use the 3rd hit, you lose the ruthless bonus on the first two hits of that rush.
You’re better off making every 3 hits do more damage for mapping, but for bossing there is an argument to push in ruthless. Multistrike just gives that massive attack speed bonus which is better
@@TuskDeluxe but you can desync multistrike and 3rd hit easily while ruthless is more consistent for mapping