hey, cloak of flame with overcapped fire res is genuinely good on Warriors. made my Corrupting Cry Warbringer basically un-1-shottable. damage still sucked though womp womp
Sure it does. Answer: magic. It's a common fantasy element to have lighter material that's as durable if not more so than heavy metal. Elven chain in lotr for example.
Devs got some work to do when they get back to the office. If the best way to use armor is to have it fuel ES, same with Life for that matter, theres some sweeping changes need to be made lol.
@@bobbobb5759 it is the best way. i checked out that titan build youre refrencing and yes its good, but es is still better defensively which is the topic here.
@@sweetbabyrayso5262 erm, 7.3k life with 83 all res and hitting for 2.5mil hits, is miles better than this for quality of life. This thing prolly couldnt kill a Difficulty 4 boss When u actually play tita n for a while, you realize elemental hits kill you, not physical telegraphed attacks less u stand still and are dumb. I seen this build on stream - it died more than my 5k lifer does doing easier content LOL
@@bobbobb5759 Pretty sure the only real way you can hit that much life is either with severe strength stacking that will reduce your damage significantly, or strength stack more efficiently on gemling leg (which is much more expensive to build).
I absolutely hate that mechanic. My other characters are SO much faster than my titan. This game is already pretty slow, why do we need extra slow and even more slow when you choose to play armor? T_T
This is cool that it's possible to create builds like this. But I want my beefy armor stacked warrior that can get deep in the fray without relying on some lame spellcaster shield. They need to correct how Armor works and they also need to add alot more accessible physical damage reduction via passives, gear or class inherited perks.
Those are significant issues for sure, but the movement speed penalties on armor gear are almost worse 😭 Why would I make a melee Strength character after finding out this information?!
@@bobbobb5759 Elaborate please. White mobs who do plain ol' physical damage hit for absurd amounts of HP. My warrior feels about as tough as a 500% MF stacked Sorc build in D2. Y'know? When if you accidentally tele stomp into a mob of death lords and panic spam rejuvs praying to god you can break the hit stun lock. Yah, warrior feels like that and its retarded. If 6 or 7 trash mob enemies surround me in the middle of a wind up animation I'm forced to bail out with a dodge roll a lot of the time and hit a potion to heal up. I don't want to feel like a glass cannon with a damn MELEE class. I picked it cause its fun to be up close and take some damage. I want to be able to tank more then 10 trash mob hits without having to run away and stall. God forbid if there's a blood pool or poison or frost effect on the ground, especially if the mob is a ranged enemy. Even with decent resistance like 2k HP just drops off in 1.5 seconds. The Warriors survivability doesn't feel good at ALL right now and a large majority of the players are in agreement on this. The class is still so much fun but I'd like to be able to run a scattered map and be able to fuckin chill out a bit and not dodge and jump all over the place with EVERY encounter.
well im stacking int on my deadeye but the bow has 212 dex req and i dont need more than 175dex for auras/heralds so i could just get more int if i had a bow with reduced req
Its funny how Mace mele builds, are basically a near perfect rolled 2h mele with giga phys and lower requirements with a shield, or you play something else.
The gear stat requirements are absurd. Imagine trying to go crit with these 2h/shield builds while maintaining rare find. I took the node that doesn't crit but always hits because fuck that.
@@Mytelefe the prefixes are nothing to scoff at. im not sure if it's the same with maces but ele dmg on weapons is a local mod so if it works like other classes, 200 inc phys and 50 wed is not quite perfect but very close to it. especially with this being an ssf build
This is the crazy tech I've wanted to see! Would love to see how many other whacky builds people have made on the ladder. Sort of like Kripp interviewing the player while they showcase their build ! Love the vid
@@tiberiocamargo well monk has actual melee abilities, flicker is at least melee, the frost attack with the staff is another, and they are actually used by monk at least, meanwhile mace abilities are just... not really melee at least not the usable ones, they are just essentially aoe slams, or more closely resemble ice nova in its damage than any actual MELEE attack.
Got my default titean to level 90, already was thinking about rerolling but gotta try that one Edit - didnt like the build at all. Yes i got alot more EHP (from 4k life to 1.4 life + 8.5 ES and from 65 to 75 block), but i lost alot of damage (not 1shotting blue packs on 15 maps anymore), ALOT less aoe (from 2+ screens to nothing) and all my stun threshhold so now any pack of archers stops all my animations of stampede and HoG, so it feels ZDPS clunky nightmare, more tanky for sure tho.
people fail to understand that armour's effectiveness vs small hits is what prevents so much stun buildup during maps, which is what will get you killed more often if those stuns get paired with anything dangerous
I can confirm this as well, i dont have bad gear by any means and i still get interrupted a lot every time i do a stampede and its hard to even cast HotG without getting interrupted, dont think this build really works. Its definetley tanky, but you are giving up a lot
Thank you confirming... I was skeptical of this strategy. I just use a charm to prevent stuns and that allows me to invest more in block or dmg or aoe.
Speaking of weapon swap techs, if you have room for 1 more skill you can weapon swap to a sceptre and blink over gaps then switch back. I use shield charge, blink, shield charge to travel long distances on my ranger.
You could run this as a gemling legionnaire for the double passive nodes (strength will be twice as good to stack for the HP conversion from Ghostwrithe and the stat req.) You also then get the ascendency passive allowing you to use strength for other gems, allowing you to possibly run this as many different hybrid variations. There are also jewels that make local strength nodes scale for 2% ES rather than HP - may be worth taking long term depending on scaling. Also curious to know if the Titans ascendency works on charge nodes, i.e. the "x% life recovered when you consume an endurance charge" or the % crit multi bonus. Could be some super wacky Red Flare Conduit/Resonance Life regen shenanigans stacking life recovery nodes.
You'd have to path a lot farther to get to the armor-to-ES-reg and the ES% nodes though, and you'd miss out on a lot of damage from the Titan ascendancy that Kripp mentioned. All in all if you're attribute stacking idk if this is the build to go. I might try it out with just Ghostwrithe and Strength stacking though and see if it's any good.
@@thesecondislander Really comes down to preference of damage source, stat stacking would allow you to path there pretty effectively if you want to run a PotCG/HoWA combo; I'm running an EV/ES strength stacking hybrid gemling and my EHP is well over 10k without Grim Feast; its about 3.5k Health and 8k ES just from stacking strength into Ghostwreathe and getting half of the ES nodes Kripp has gotten. It may not seem efficient but if you throw in an Atziris Disdain the HP:ES conversion far favors the Strength Stacking simply due to how effective it is to stack Strength on Armor/ES pieces and still come out with tons of DPS
Am I the only one who feels really sad about the fact that even on a WARRIOR you have to play ES build ? Get ES nodes and use a stupid overpower unique armor ? Please Kripparian tell us that this build is a joke and should not be good on a warrior. I know it IS good. But it should not. Give us more + to max life on Warrior skill tree, and a little bit more value on armor rating. Thats what I want on my warrior. Hit points and armor. Not this shitty and overpower shit that Energy shield is. I've been Top 13th HC ladder Titan, died lvl 87. While I sold my soul to get 4200Hp, energy shield build was already stacking 23K ES. GGG needs to fix that ! :) Sorry I was a little angry xD Keep it up man !
You're going to get your wish because this is actually the best thing that Kripp could have done to improve the max life + armor build. When GGG watches this video this is absolutely 100% going to push them over the edge of changing/buffing life and armor if they hadn't already decided to do it. The fact that armor's one and only way to be good is to make energy shield good can't be allowed to be in the game and GGG knows it.
Ya but don't forget, it's early access. This is exactly why we needed early access, the devs are finding out that defenses like armor, ES, life, etc are not balanced. They will fix it. No worries.
You don;t? The best /top warriors aren't running ES..lmao. Also you're right, this isn't a good warrior build - 0 damage..0 aoe..all to path to ES for a gimmick.
Try similar build but with shield charge and magma barier. Only thing you really need is shield with high block and armor and thats it and you can drop strengh and all requirements for 2H weapon and put nodes to get more ES or more dmg. With few nodes on AOE and breaking armor with stun + gem to explode broken armor it clears whole screen with one shot in split of second coss block is instant. And best thing is, that every time you "attack" you block at the same time.
I've been out of it for a while, just started playing POE2 figuring it out. It's just so nice to have a new Kripp video on POE2 where he demonstrates his carefree adaptive thinking. It's so simple and soothing. I was having some trouble getting Merc trough ACT 2 normal because for some bizarre reason 0% fire ressistance is dropped so far, that's just the RNG fun part of the game. I already figured, I'm just gonna start leveling every class at once, swap out the geardrops between char, just simply see what works and what doesn't and eventualy when the gist of it is figured out and toppled build up the hardcore base from there. These Kripp videos just op it off, just have fun, take your time to enjoy the game, spark that curiousity tingle. I'm stil gonna try a spork totem templer aswel, just to see if it can become viable again once more for the sage of it.. xD Love your videos Kripp, thanks for sharing.
Hey just wanting to point out a misconception that I also had when I began my warrior. Aftershock is not a small Ground AoE. That's shockwave or jagged ground. Aftershock "If not otherwise stated, will do the same damage as the initial impact in the same area" IE it recasts the spell in the same area. Which in the realm of Sunder can mean numerous waves of damage or with Hammer of the Gods a one shot rare/boss mechanic.
@@a33262 meanwhile me with 200+ hours and 4 chars in endgame (no one is 80 so far): that's not low. But its always the same, either you are pro or noob, low or high. Only extremes and no space for the shades between. Everything that hits ENDgame can't be discribed as "low". Call it at least "mid" level. For real, what is considered "high"? Everything above 90? That's close to max and should be "very high"
@Valnuss few things; 90 to 91 is the same xp as 80-89 & the maps don't go above 16 (low level 80s) So yeah, 80 is low endgame at the most. Mid to high 80s Might come into mid endgame... Not imo tho Also, less than 200 hrs for me and I have a 91 & 88. They are mid endgame (at most) This game has layers & what I said has nothing to do with elitism or pretention. It's a fact. That is a low level for end game. Imaging saying that someone knows more about the endgame and where people are at then one of the major streamers... Sheesh guys
@@Valnuss Actually, usually you are around 70 when you reach endgame, aka low. 80-89 is mid. 90+ is high, as that is when you both have almost all of your build points but also take a massive nosedive in xp if you die. My personal best is 96 in poe1 at which point i just gave up lol. In poe2 i have a single char which is currently 88 (so late-mid), but at this point i consider it pretty much "done" with the current poe2 content. Only a few things remain to do on that char (citadels, league mechanic boss encounters if i could be bothered to farm for them).
What I've discovered is if you do +3 rage support and get 2 rage on hit jewels, you can then use rageforged with it. And aftershocks (as well as steps runnig up) have a nice timing so you can get 15 rage per use, realistically 10 tho
Not sure if you've already considered this but there's a time lost jewel that transforms the strength's bonus to energy shield instead of life, might be good
I don't think that will mix well with the Ghostwrithe. Because Ghostwrithe converts life to energy shield at an insane ratio, you want the highest life value you can find. But it could work like Chaos Innoculation where the conversion is applied before taking down the life to 1.
I finally had to cave in and follow a guide (instead of sleeping) thank you this one really saved my warrior from doing nothing, to now doing everything :D
Thank you so much for this! I bricked my brain for hours on how to get ES instead of Armor going. I swapped to this in a manner of moments and i'm having a blast playing this.
I started something similar but with infernalist. You reserve life to get es so you can use cloak of flame to make 60% phys as fire so armor is much more useful anyway. I'm fully investing into fire res to have 90% res and take the critical damage node. I reserve life so I'm always low life so I can use pain attunement for more damage.
fwiw, attack speed does effect the wind-up at the start of stampede and then MS scales the walking portion. It may effect the slam part, not sure. Still you can pretty much dump attack speed for a full stampede build
Just hit maps with my titan, i'll definetly try this. Stampede already crushes most things in T10 maps at level 68. Cant wait to see this get online later with more levels.
Although I enjoy my warrior they really need to rethink melee a bit. AGAIN. we are penalised way to much for wanting to put ourselves in danger and fight close while investing in armor gear. Armor of course needs to be fixed and even with alot of investment in strength and life on all my gear it's really hard to scape 3k HP so although block is very powerful when I do actually get hit with anything significant I'm usually dead. I don't know what they can do about this but putting better life scaling on strength nodes might be a start, dunno
I honestly really wanted to play a melee titan but was incredibly turned off by having to scale hp/armour, since recovery on it felt awful with leech and pots, your version is exactly what i've been looking for, as usual great outside of the box thinking.
Hey Kripparian, been following your recent vids, and you had very nice defence discussions. And i was wondering what should i do myself. I am playing a crossbow witch hunter on ssf, and i'd like to be tanky, but i'm not, i have hybrid armor evasion and sorc ward. But i am seeing people get tons of ES and it works even better it seems, i don't know if i should do that too? it's just so far away, not sure if worth it to spend so many points. Or maybe i should just wait for cloak of flame to drop.. I'm wondering what would you do as merc on ssf?
While the build is amazing, having a mele heavy-armored class forced to use energy shield is beyond humilliating... Hopefully when Templar and Marauder arrives armor could have been fixed. Currently energy shields is like in Last Epoch: makes evasion and armor mechanics comparatively useless and invalids most of the builds in the game.
Evasion isn't useless, just not busted like ES. P4wnyhof made a guide on a point blank ranger that uses evasion. I'm currently leveling it and so far its a blast.
@@StriderIK I mean, I don't chose a heavy armored character to wear a tunic. If someone wants to play mele and wield a shield and a heavy armor, shouldn't that gameplay have a place, even if is a niche? Currently the best builds in PoE II are all energy shield based, and with range AoE which cleans the screen in half a second... Is the same as in LE: you can either play a mage or just be crap... I don't ever understand why they bothered to make mele classes if armnor and blocks suck so much...
@@Gromitz101 The key word is "comparatively". If a mechanic (ES) is so dominant that the meta will turn entirely towards it it will be very bad for build variety. I'm waiting for the Templar, and meanwhile entirely ditched Warrior due how fast progressed with the later just after 30 minutes of trying both...
There's no need to path down to gemling for the - attribute requirements. My warbringer at 86 has 640 strength, 636 is needed for the 212 stre maces. And I didn't use those nodes. Did take Titanic though.
World's only HC pre nerf inferno diablo killer on the melee class considered "bad" says 'melee is just not for me' in the game that "fixed melee". As the vision wills, this is the way.
@@ShadowAraun yeah so it's not melee, it's armour. Which is a numbers tweak. But the actual movement, skills and feel of melee is sooooo much better. The animations are so clean, every weapon has its own unique skills. Just wait for all weapons released and some numeric tweaks on armour and melee will feel good across the board, not just monk.
just wanted to add a correction since I spent time testing it specifically - blocking (both active and passive) does NOT count as being hit to generate rage. it was very disappointing to find out 😢
"Adamant Recovery" should only aply to %Increased Armour on the tree and only at 40% value. The Recharge does not acually comes from the amount of Armour or stats on gear. If I calculated correctly, you get 57,6% Increased Energy Shield Recharge Rate out of this from the tree used. I am not saying it is bad, I am actually very interested in building around this, but can't you get more value out of just focusing directly on Energy Shield Recharge Rate? As a comparison, "Essence Infusion" gives 40% increased Energy Shield Recharge Rate, just from one single node. Then 57,6% ectra seems not worth the pathing to me. Or is there something that I am missing here or something that I do not understand, that makes this scale better?
The ES nodes that you picked are worse than the ones on the edge north. You lose jewel slots as well. Im doing a similar thing for my totem warbringer and with +14 to melee skills casting the totems with mana is not a thing, so i made them cost hp and i slotted MoM with gear that has both life and mana. The nodes on the edge north give massive ES gains and you still have access to good secondary nodes.
I was trying out a melee bloodmage although its still in early levels with maces and a sceptre to summon minions I might try this out parts of this build later if I ever get to endgame.
I was about to quit warrior due to low survivability, but thanks to your build imma stick for now. The only problem now is clear speed. I think I'll put points on the area of effects for clearing faster.
Why don't you use Chaos Inoculation, if your shield is always up (CI applies after Ghostwrithe in PoE2)? That would free up some unneeded chaos res modfiers.
You should take Shattering Blow on the passive tree instead of using Devastate support gem. Armour break is tripled against normal and doubled against magic enemies, so you will fully armour break both of them on stun.
Excellent video, starting my first SSF build and believe it will be this one. Only issue is getting a ghot chest, probably wont happen but I can wear some light/cloth chest piece. Thanks again.
Nice video! Followed your advice with Ghostwrithe and repathed my warbringer to go all in on ES. So good. Can facetank everything now. Had to buy a lot of stun threshold though. Just did a level 16 map with the Monkey Bonk boss and took a hit from his bonker 2 times without dying. Impressive. With armour i would have lost that map. BTW i use The Vertex helmet to lower mace requirements by 50% for Giant's blood.
Great tech. Ill use some of this with my chrono warrior. You can also use the vertex unique helm to use GB until you get a decent weapon with lower requirements.
Hey Krip, got an ideia, heroic tragedy, one of them converts your bonus dex to inc armour, maybe tri stacking, with ghostwire to get tons of energy shield, strength doubled by geemling so more life, inc armour with dex, could generate billions of energy shield, no?
Dreamcore just dropped a video about using Veil of Night to Life stack and play with no ele resistance. He had like 10k life. Would you post an update with how much ES and ES regen you can get with something similar? Or not worth it to go above 8k ES for the downside of no ele resistance?
I am actually playing Carn's version and love it. But the pure fact that character has faster move speed, stampede speed and dodge roll, is enough for me to try this out. I play trade so getting dw maces will not be an issue. Cheers!
"Lvl 81 maps with burning ground, and i literally didn't really notice the burning ground". That's pretty massive. Chilled ground, no issues. Shocked ground, no issues. Caustic ground, some issues. Burning ground at top tier can hurt preeeetty badly. So if you hardly notice that, well, that says something about the build right there!
Actually the small passives on the way to hulking form adding 4% strength each makes it the best ascendancy in the game even when having to take colossal capacity first. Using a top level 2-hander in one hand and NOT getting the polymathy wheel is something only the titan can do without breaking the bank. I'd go as far as saying that even if they do add a downside to hulking form itself it will still be the best if left at 50%. Edit: hold up! You're not getting those "increased defense from equipped shield" nodes?? they are massive! (or at least they are if the shield is good)
Hey Kripp, do you think with access to much stronger one hand maces on trade you could not use Giant's Blood? Looks good, might respec my warrior into it to try!
Nice vid, would be cool if you ended it out by showing the build against a pinnacle boss. While seeing the build can clear a tower map is cool and all, a big demonstration after explaining the fundamentals of the build would be appreciated.
Cool build! I would scrap the 4 points of Essence infusion and instead pick up Covering Ward for the +20 ES on Block, considering you're already block capped its just extra value.
If you are just trying to have different passives for weapon swap then you do not need a 2nd weapon, you can just swap your main weapon to weapon slot 2, I have my first weapon slot set up for AOE and my 2nd slot set up for bosses with none of the AOE nodes.
It's fun and all, but I just get the sinking feeling that they're going to fix armor up anyways. I get this is something cool you can do because we're basically having to do it cuz armor sucks....... I just rather make a whole different character and let my warrior sit until they spruce it up a bit
First you tell me to get cloak of flame, now a ghostwire dress? My big stronk warrior sure feels knightly wearing this flimsy fabric
hey, cloak of flame with overcapped fire res is genuinely good on Warriors. made my Corrupting Cry Warbringer basically un-1-shottable. damage still sucked though womp womp
Yes, f-ing BS! We have to wear a dress now?
@PuppetPal_Clem my gripe is it doesn't make thematic sense that a piece of cloth provides more protection than heavy armor.
Sure it does. Answer: magic. It's a common fantasy element to have lighter material that's as durable if not more so than heavy metal. Elven chain in lotr for example.
@@Vilemk0 yes but can we not use MaGiC on heavy armor too to make it more durable than mAgIc underwear?
For anyone unfamiliar, in POE "melee" refers to hitting things anywhere on your screen and "ranged" means anything off your screen.
- and minion meaning usually combination of the above, without you hitting anything yourself =D
A melee attack is when you fly across the galaxy to slam the sun.
LOOOOOL - this is the best poe comment ive ever seen
Devs got some work to do when they get back to the office. If the best way to use armor is to have it fuel ES, same with Life for that matter, theres some sweeping changes need to be made lol.
It's not the best way, this build is pretty bad. Check out Carnarius' Titan, compared to this, get back to me lol
Thats why i invest for armour since its super cheap and will eventually be fixed
@@bobbobb5759 it is the best way. i checked out that titan build youre refrencing and yes its good, but es is still better defensively which is the topic here.
@@sweetbabyrayso5262 erm, 7.3k life with 83 all res and hitting for 2.5mil hits, is miles better than this for quality of life. This thing prolly couldnt kill a Difficulty 4 boss When u actually play tita n for a while, you realize elemental hits kill you, not physical telegraphed attacks less u stand still and are dumb. I seen this build on stream - it died more than my 5k lifer does doing easier content LOL
@@bobbobb5759 Pretty sure the only real way you can hit that much life is either with severe strength stacking that will reduce your damage significantly, or strength stack more efficiently on gemling leg (which is much more expensive to build).
Before Early Access, Giant's Blood was x2 STR requirement. X3 just seems excessive.
If it’s x2 it would just be an auto include for any 2-hander build
Thanks for pointing out the movement speed reductions by armor!
Armor really is the worst at this point..
I absolutely hate that mechanic. My other characters are SO much faster than my titan. This game is already pretty slow, why do we need extra slow and even more slow when you choose to play armor? T_T
@ and some of the passives for extra damage slow you even more 🫠
Fix it using shield charge
Wow the best way to use armor is to not use armor and use energy shield instead nice!
Also the best way to melee is to never actually physically hit anything
@@AndreiGeorgescu-j9p Fact.
Armor is useless in this game
Not really, you can get away with 8-10k armour - the real damage is from elemental damage.
@@elderwiz3165 nope its not
Looks cool Armor is great
Kripp not playing card games but coming back to some proper arpg meltdown is simply amazing
This is cool that it's possible to create builds like this. But I want my beefy armor stacked warrior that can get deep in the fray without relying on some lame spellcaster shield. They need to correct how Armor works and they also need to add alot more accessible physical damage reduction via passives, gear or class inherited perks.
You can do that.....
@@bobbobb5759 explain
@@bobbobb5759how? I’m getting eviscerated in t12+ with 75 armor, 55 block, and full res.
Those are significant issues for sure, but the movement speed penalties on armor gear are almost worse 😭 Why would I make a melee Strength character after finding out this information?!
@@bobbobb5759 Elaborate please. White mobs who do plain ol' physical damage hit for absurd amounts of HP. My warrior feels about as tough as a 500% MF stacked Sorc build in D2. Y'know? When if you accidentally tele stomp into a mob of death lords and panic spam rejuvs praying to god you can break the hit stun lock. Yah, warrior feels like that and its retarded.
If 6 or 7 trash mob enemies surround me in the middle of a wind up animation I'm forced to bail out with a dodge roll a lot of the time and hit a potion to heal up. I don't want to feel like a glass cannon with a damn MELEE class. I picked it cause its fun to be up close and take some damage. I want to be able to tank more then 10 trash mob hits without having to run away and stall. God forbid if there's a blood pool or poison or frost effect on the ground, especially if the mob is a ranged enemy. Even with decent resistance like 2k HP just drops off in 1.5 seconds. The Warriors survivability doesn't feel good at ALL right now and a large majority of the players are in agreement on this. The class is still so much fun but I'd like to be able to run a scattered map and be able to fuckin chill out a bit and not dodge and jump all over the place with EVERY encounter.
Finally a good use for "Reduced stats requirement" beyond alts.
If you have the level requirements, you should have the stat.
Its mainly for swapping to weapons outside of your class.
Finally? It's been a Godsend for me
I have been using 2h (and the node that allows you to use them in one hand) pretty much since day 1. Nothing new.
well im stacking int on my deadeye but the bow has 212 dex req and i dont need more than 175dex for auras/heralds so i could just get more int if i had a bow with reduced req
i mean this has been a thing since day 1, warriors always take that keystone
Its funny how Mace mele builds, are basically a near perfect rolled 2h mele with giga phys and lower requirements with a shield, or you play something else.
The gear stat requirements are absurd. Imagine trying to go crit with these 2h/shield builds while maintaining rare find. I took the node that doesn't crit but always hits because fuck that.
It aint close to perfect roll. Stop the cope.
@@Mytelefe 200+ hours , and investing all currency, haven't seen a 200%+ phys roll on a 2h with such a huge req roll.
GGG have no clue.
@@filipfenixIt has no flat phys stop yapping
@@Mytelefe the prefixes are nothing to scoff at. im not sure if it's the same with maces but ele dmg on weapons is a local mod so if it works like other classes, 200 inc phys and 50 wed is not quite perfect but very close to it. especially with this being an ssf build
He did it again! Who else remembers the energy shield sweep marauder way back in poe1. Before ascendencies were even an idea.
This is the crazy tech I've wanted to see! Would love to see how many other whacky builds people have made on the ladder. Sort of like Kripp interviewing the player while they showcase their build ! Love the vid
You should see @theopenforum teleport titan, cool as shit too. Crazy builds happening, for lack of armour usefulness but still cool.
and when we say "melee" in PoE, we mean someone with a huge radius of AoE around them, and not actually melee hitting anything
In all fairness, that's melee in pretty much every single ARPG
@@csafko1 is it? i am 101% sure it is not lol do many melee builds have a huge aoe ability? sure, but that is here and there, not their core gameplay
@@csafko1 not in the good ones
What else is there? Only flicker means melee to you?
@@tiberiocamargo well monk has actual melee abilities, flicker is at least melee, the frost attack with the staff is another, and they are actually used by monk at least, meanwhile mace abilities are just... not really melee at least not the usable ones, they are just essentially aoe slams, or more closely resemble ice nova in its damage than any actual MELEE attack.
Very cool build man. This is the Kripp content I love. Nice to have you back.
Got my default titean to level 90, already was thinking about rerolling but gotta try that one
Edit - didnt like the build at all. Yes i got alot more EHP (from 4k life to 1.4 life + 8.5 ES and from 65 to 75 block), but i lost alot of damage (not 1shotting blue packs on 15 maps anymore), ALOT less aoe (from 2+ screens to nothing) and all my stun threshhold so now any pack of archers stops all my animations of stampede and HoG, so it feels ZDPS clunky nightmare, more tanky for sure tho.
thanks for clarify that, I have my doubts on this build for he not showing any showcase on mobbing and bossing. You saved me a few divines😂
people fail to understand that armour's effectiveness vs small hits is what prevents so much stun buildup during maps, which is what will get you killed more often if those stuns get paired with anything dangerous
I can confirm this as well, i dont have bad gear by any means and i still get interrupted a lot every time i do a stampede and its hard to even cast HotG without getting interrupted, dont think this build really works. Its definetley tanky, but you are giving up a lot
this is probably one of the worst feeling builds I've tried lol. Had decent hopes for it but was just trash tbh.
Thank you confirming... I was skeptical of this strategy. I just use a charm to prevent stuns and that allows me to invest more in block or dmg or aoe.
so basically armor is so bad even warriors are going energy shield LUL
It's ass...
Imagine being so severely under socialized you unironically say “LUL”. WTF? 🤨🤨
Oh I just remembered people dont like armor in Dark Souls either because it makes you "fat roll" so GGG did a pretty good job copying that
Nonsense, fashion is the most important stat in Dark Souls.
Never heard of Havel the dragon slayer ? Well, well, well... bold move for someone who need to gitgud.
Giant Dad was a whole ass thing, Anon.
At armor in Dark Souls actually WORKS...
Speaking of weapon swap techs, if you have room for 1 more skill you can weapon swap to a sceptre and blink over gaps then switch back. I use shield charge, blink, shield charge to travel long distances on my ranger.
i dont think warriors have enough INT for blink tech
Damn, Kripp finally stops playing Minions for a second and makes a super interesting build.
Kripp did not make this build, KingKongor, did. This just replaced chest armour with the most popular unique in the game atm.
GGG next patch: "Nerfed attribute stacking. Nerfed Energy Shield. Nerfed every build in the game. Good luck, suckers"
You could run this as a gemling legionnaire for the double passive nodes (strength will be twice as good to stack for the HP conversion from Ghostwrithe and the stat req.)
You also then get the ascendency passive allowing you to use strength for other gems, allowing you to possibly run this as many different hybrid variations. There are also jewels that make local strength nodes scale for 2% ES rather than HP - may be worth taking long term depending on scaling.
Also curious to know if the Titans ascendency works on charge nodes, i.e. the "x% life recovered when you consume an endurance charge" or the % crit multi bonus. Could be some super wacky Red Flare Conduit/Resonance Life regen shenanigans stacking life recovery nodes.
You'd have to path a lot farther to get to the armor-to-ES-reg and the ES% nodes though, and you'd miss out on a lot of damage from the Titan ascendancy that Kripp mentioned. All in all if you're attribute stacking idk if this is the build to go. I might try it out with just Ghostwrithe and Strength stacking though and see if it's any good.
@@thesecondislander Really comes down to preference of damage source, stat stacking would allow you to path there pretty effectively if you want to run a PotCG/HoWA combo; I'm running an EV/ES strength stacking hybrid gemling and my EHP is well over 10k without Grim Feast; its about 3.5k Health and 8k ES just from stacking strength into Ghostwreathe and getting half of the ES nodes Kripp has gotten.
It may not seem efficient but if you throw in an Atziris Disdain the HP:ES conversion far favors the Strength Stacking simply due to how effective it is to stack Strength on Armor/ES pieces and still come out with tons of DPS
Am I the only one who feels really sad about the fact that even on a WARRIOR you have to play ES build ? Get ES nodes and use a stupid overpower unique armor ? Please Kripparian tell us that this build is a joke and should not be good on a warrior. I know it IS good. But it should not. Give us more + to max life on Warrior skill tree, and a little bit more value on armor rating. Thats what I want on my warrior. Hit points and armor. Not this shitty and overpower shit that Energy shield is. I've been Top 13th HC ladder Titan, died lvl 87. While I sold my soul to get 4200Hp, energy shield build was already stacking 23K ES. GGG needs to fix that ! :) Sorry I was a little angry xD Keep it up man !
You're going to get your wish because this is actually the best thing that Kripp could have done to improve the max life + armor build. When GGG watches this video this is absolutely 100% going to push them over the edge of changing/buffing life and armor if they hadn't already decided to do it. The fact that armor's one and only way to be good is to make energy shield good can't be allowed to be in the game and GGG knows it.
It's less ES that needs to be fixed and more that armor just needs to not be terrible.
Ya but don't forget, it's early access. This is exactly why we needed early access, the devs are finding out that defenses like armor, ES, life, etc are not balanced. They will fix it. No worries.
You don;t? The best /top warriors aren't running ES..lmao. Also you're right, this isn't a good warrior build - 0 damage..0 aoe..all to path to ES for a gimmick.
What class the 23k es stacker played?
There is a z axis, for ranged skills, try hitting small mobs with bone lance and you'll see.
Same with Shield Charge and large flying mobs.
Try similar build but with shield charge and magma barier. Only thing you really need is shield with high block and armor and thats it and you can drop strengh and all requirements for 2H weapon and put nodes to get more ES or more dmg. With few nodes on AOE and breaking armor with stun + gem to explode broken armor it clears whole screen with one shot in split of second coss block is instant. And best thing is, that every time you "attack" you block at the same time.
Little pieces actually helped me . Thank you,Kripp!
It's very impressive how the spikes cast shadows in the environment.
I've been out of it for a while, just started playing POE2 figuring it out. It's just so nice to have a new Kripp video on POE2 where he demonstrates his carefree adaptive thinking.
It's so simple and soothing. I was having some trouble getting Merc trough ACT 2 normal because for some bizarre reason 0% fire ressistance is dropped so far, that's just the RNG fun part of the game. I already figured, I'm just gonna start leveling every class at once, swap out the geardrops between char, just simply see what works and what doesn't and eventualy when the gist of it is figured out and toppled build up the hardcore base from there. These Kripp videos just op it off, just have fun, take your time to enjoy the game, spark that curiousity tingle. I'm stil gonna try a spork totem templer aswel, just to see if it can become viable again once more for the sage of it.. xD
Love your videos Kripp, thanks for sharing.
Hey just wanting to point out a misconception that I also had when I began my warrior. Aftershock is not a small Ground AoE. That's shockwave or jagged ground. Aftershock "If not otherwise stated, will do the same damage as the initial impact in the same area" IE it recasts the spell in the same area. Which in the realm of Sunder can mean numerous waves of damage or with Hammer of the Gods a one shot rare/boss mechanic.
After you made that armour video I'm actually trying a build like this in SSF but was completly oblivious about move speed penalties. Thank you!
He said low level 88 87
That is low to most endgamers
@@a33262 meanwhile me with 200+ hours and 4 chars in endgame (no one is 80 so far): that's not low.
But its always the same, either you are pro or noob, low or high. Only extremes and no space for the shades between. Everything that hits ENDgame can't be discribed as "low". Call it at least "mid" level. For real, what is considered "high"? Everything above 90? That's close to max and should be "very high"
Agreed, a bit more sympathy for games that do not make a living of streaming or playing 19h a day
@Valnuss few things;
90 to 91 is the same xp as 80-89 & the maps don't go above 16 (low level 80s) So yeah, 80 is low endgame at the most. Mid to high 80s Might come into mid endgame... Not imo tho
Also, less than 200 hrs for me and I have a 91 & 88. They are mid endgame (at most)
This game has layers & what I said has nothing to do with elitism or pretention. It's a fact. That is a low level for end game.
Imaging saying that someone knows more about the endgame and where people are at then one of the major streamers... Sheesh guys
@@Valnuss Actually, usually you are around 70 when you reach endgame, aka low. 80-89 is mid. 90+ is high, as that is when you both have almost all of your build points but also take a massive nosedive in xp if you die. My personal best is 96 in poe1 at which point i just gave up lol. In poe2 i have a single char which is currently 88 (so late-mid), but at this point i consider it pretty much "done" with the current poe2 content. Only a few things remain to do on that char (citadels, league mechanic boss encounters if i could be bothered to farm for them).
What I've discovered is if you do +3 rage support and get 2 rage on hit jewels, you can then use rageforged with it. And aftershocks (as well as steps runnig up) have a nice timing so you can get 15 rage per use, realistically 10 tho
thanks krippi, your vid helped me a lot! :) keep it up
Tons of fantastic info in this video. Lots of subtlety to the warrior I hadn't discovered
Not sure if you've already considered this but there's a time lost jewel that transforms the strength's bonus to energy shield instead of life, might be good
I don't think that will mix well with the Ghostwrithe. Because Ghostwrithe converts life to energy shield at an insane ratio, you want the highest life value you can find. But it could work like Chaos Innoculation where the conversion is applied before taking down the life to 1.
I finally had to cave in and follow a guide (instead of sleeping)
thank you this one really saved my warrior from doing nothing, to now doing everything :D
ive only been playing your builds man, thank you very much
Thank you so much for this! I bricked my brain for hours on how to get ES instead of Armor going. I swapped to this in a manner of moments and i'm having a blast playing this.
That uni chest works for a lot of builds. Using it on my reaver minion as well, works like a charm :)
The master brings another crazy build... I am glad you are on PoE2 Kripp, hope you stick for the long run and keep finding wild shit for us to try!
I started something similar but with infernalist. You reserve life to get es so you can use cloak of flame to make 60% phys as fire so armor is much more useful anyway.
I'm fully investing into fire res to have 90% res and take the critical damage node. I reserve life so I'm always low life so I can use pain attunement for more damage.
Great info and well delivered. Will check this build out. Got my sub.
fwiw, attack speed does effect the wind-up at the start of stampede and then MS scales the walking portion. It may effect the slam part, not sure. Still you can pretty much dump attack speed for a full stampede build
As someone who has struggling with PoE2 with my own builds, this has been very insightful with how the mechanics work.
Love the builds Kripp, and the poe content.
So it works like in cosplaying, were a bikini warrior is tankier than a full plate armor carapare over chain mail...
Just hit maps with my titan, i'll definetly try this. Stampede already crushes most things in T10 maps at level 68. Cant wait to see this get online later with more levels.
Although I enjoy my warrior they really need to rethink melee a bit. AGAIN. we are penalised way to much for wanting to put ourselves in danger and fight close while investing in armor gear. Armor of course needs to be fixed and even with alot of investment in strength and life on all my gear it's really hard to scape 3k HP so although block is very powerful when I do actually get hit with anything significant I'm usually dead. I don't know what they can do about this but putting better life scaling on strength nodes might be a start, dunno
I honestly really wanted to play a melee titan but was incredibly turned off by having to scale hp/armour, since recovery on it felt awful with leech and pots, your version is exactly what i've been looking for, as usual great outside of the box thinking.
Hey Kripparian, been following your recent vids, and you had very nice defence discussions. And i was wondering what should i do myself. I am playing a crossbow witch hunter on ssf, and i'd like to be tanky, but i'm not, i have hybrid armor evasion and sorc ward. But i am seeing people get tons of ES and it works even better it seems, i don't know if i should do that too? it's just so far away, not sure if worth it to spend so many points.
Or maybe i should just wait for cloak of flame to drop..
I'm wondering what would you do as merc on ssf?
try getting some ES in the monk area maybe? Yeah cloak of flames will be great to pair with the setup you got going.
While the build is amazing, having a mele heavy-armored class forced to use energy shield is beyond humilliating...
Hopefully when Templar and Marauder arrives armor could have been fixed. Currently energy shields is like in Last Epoch: makes evasion and armor mechanics comparatively useless and invalids most of the builds in the game.
I would be shocked if armour is not fixed by next few weeks
Humiliating 😂😂😂
Bro forgot he playing a game
Evasion isn't useless, just not busted like ES. P4wnyhof made a guide on a point blank ranger that uses evasion. I'm currently leveling it and so far its a blast.
@@StriderIK I mean, I don't chose a heavy armored character to wear a tunic.
If someone wants to play mele and wield a shield and a heavy armor, shouldn't that gameplay have a place, even if is a niche? Currently the best builds in PoE II are all energy shield based, and with range AoE which cleans the screen in half a second... Is the same as in LE: you can either play a mage or just be crap... I don't ever understand why they bothered to make mele classes if armnor and blocks suck so much...
@@Gromitz101 The key word is "comparatively". If a mechanic (ES) is so dominant that the meta will turn entirely towards it it will be very bad for build variety. I'm waiting for the Templar, and meanwhile entirely ditched Warrior due how fast progressed with the later just after 30 minutes of trying both...
There's no need to path down to gemling for the - attribute requirements.
My warbringer at 86 has 640 strength, 636 is needed for the 212 stre maces. And I didn't use those nodes. Did take Titanic though.
I‘m new to Poe and try to get my Warrior online, stuck in T10. Seeing your videos is impressive. But my brain is also starts burning 🔥
Warrior is the worst class in the game as it stands currently. I would explore the other classes as they are more reasonable till GGG patches warrior.
@@Gromitz101 its not warrior, its mace skills. As soon as you play warrior as something else that doesnt use mace, its acthally pretty good.
Love seeing more Poe videos on this channel. Takes me back on Poe 1 days
World's only HC pre nerf inferno diablo killer on the melee class considered "bad" says 'melee is just not for me' in the game that "fixed melee". As the vision wills, this is the way.
Melee on monk is quite fine.
@@philippfischer717 cause es and evasion > armor.
@@ShadowAraun yeah so it's not melee, it's armour. Which is a numbers tweak.
But the actual movement, skills and feel of melee is sooooo much better. The animations are so clean, every weapon has its own unique skills. Just wait for all weapons released and some numeric tweaks on armour and melee will feel good across the board, not just monk.
@@philippfischer717 Monk isn't melee. Monk is Monk. lol
@@lokhaxz803 staff attacks then. They feel wonderful. Monk can be a caster as well, you're right.
just wanted to add a correction since I spent time testing it specifically - blocking (both active and passive) does NOT count as being hit to generate rage. it was very disappointing to find out 😢
sad another handicap in the bag lol
Fyi attack speed does impact stampede starting charge-up and movement speed impacts speed of steps during skill. I invested in both and happy
I was just about start planning a titan build abusing the small node effectiveness. Great insight and ideas for me to absorb
"Adamant Recovery" should only aply to %Increased Armour on the tree and only at 40% value. The Recharge does not acually comes from the amount of Armour or stats on gear. If I calculated correctly, you get 57,6% Increased Energy Shield Recharge Rate out of this from the tree used.
I am not saying it is bad, I am actually very interested in building around this, but can't you get more value out of just focusing directly on Energy Shield Recharge Rate?
As a comparison, "Essence Infusion" gives 40% increased Energy Shield Recharge Rate, just from one single node. Then 57,6% ectra seems not worth the pathing to me.
Or is there something that I am missing here or something that I do not understand, that makes this scale better?
most of the nodes give lots of % energy shield aswell as recharge rate
Great video! Learned a bunch!
thanks for the guide. WIll be good to try out later o n.
I've been debating on figuring out a way to get energy shield on my titan, this is great!
Kripp, 2 passives from the 28 strength node is rage on hit, very good as passive
Active block for energy shield recharge is kind of cool. Not quite Vaal Discipline, but still very strong defensively.
Def gonna try respecing my titan into this when i have the gear and get to lvl 90!
The ES nodes that you picked are worse than the ones on the edge north. You lose jewel slots as well.
Im doing a similar thing for my totem warbringer and with +14 to melee skills casting the totems with mana is not a thing, so i made them cost hp and i slotted MoM with gear that has both life and mana.
The nodes on the edge north give massive ES gains and you still have access to good secondary nodes.
I was trying out a melee bloodmage although its still in early levels with maces and a sceptre to summon minions I might try this out parts of this build later if I ever get to endgame.
You have saved my Titan build. THANK YOU
I wonder if GGG employees view a Kripp video as..."aww crap, gotta patch another thing."
I think they're genuinely happy with people really diving deep into these things and turning over the weaknesses or imbalances.
I was about to quit warrior due to low survivability, but thanks to your build imma stick for now. The only problem now is clear speed. I think I'll put points on the area of effects for clearing faster.
Why don't you use Chaos Inoculation, if your shield is always up (CI applies after Ghostwrithe in PoE2)? That would free up some unneeded chaos res modfiers.
bc its on the other side of the map and you're already sacrificing a lot for the energy shields.
@@JoshTheMadLadCan it not go on the amulet?
@@deadeyedun Nah man, only notables (one size smaller)
@@JoshTheMadLad thanks for correction
@@JoshTheMadLad well if that's the case, I stand corrected!
You should take Shattering Blow on the passive tree instead of using Devastate support gem. Armour break is tripled against normal and doubled against magic enemies, so you will fully armour break both of them on stun.
Wow thats cool definitely gonna mess around with that on my build
Thanks krip
Excellent video, starting my first SSF build and believe it will be this one. Only issue is getting a ghot chest, probably wont happen but I can wear some light/cloth chest piece. Thanks again.
I am not sure you want to start a max ES build with ES nodes when you don't have the one Unique 100% required to get you all your ES.
Hi, you think it's possible for infernalist or blood mage to do similar build ?
Makes me want to log into my warrior again to try it out. He was surprisingly fun on controller 🎮
I pray for all controller players
Nice video! Followed your advice with Ghostwrithe and repathed my warbringer to go all in on ES. So good. Can facetank everything now. Had to buy a lot of stun threshold though. Just did a level 16 map with the Monkey Bonk boss and took a hit from his bonker 2 times without dying. Impressive. With armour i would have lost that map. BTW i use The Vertex helmet to lower mace requirements by 50% for Giant's blood.
Vertex helm is a great choice!
Cant wait for proper melee skills, I am waiting for axes and swords before returning to my titan :D
I'm currently building a different warrior that uses Energy shield. It has a different passive tree, but uses the same main passive node
I would like if you could select which items you weapon swap, like just swapping the shield or primary
Great tech. Ill use some of this with my chrono warrior. You can also use the vertex unique helm to use GB until you get a decent weapon with lower requirements.
Hey Krip, got an ideia, heroic tragedy, one of them converts your bonus dex to inc armour, maybe tri stacking, with ghostwire to get tons of energy shield, strength doubled by geemling so more life, inc armour with dex, could generate billions of energy shield, no?
Dreamcore just dropped a video about using Veil of Night to Life stack and play with no ele resistance. He had like 10k life. Would you post an update with how much ES and ES regen you can get with something similar? Or not worth it to go above 8k ES for the downside of no ele resistance?
I am actually playing Carn's version and love it. But the pure fact that character has faster move speed, stampede speed and dodge roll, is enough for me to try this out. I play trade so getting dw maces will not be an issue. Cheers!
Armour should be WAY more effective than it currently is on tanking boss slams. This alone has led me to quit my lvl 90 warbringer
Really good build, good work.
"Lvl 81 maps with burning ground, and i literally didn't really notice the burning ground". That's pretty massive. Chilled ground, no issues. Shocked ground, no issues. Caustic ground, some issues. Burning ground at top tier can hurt preeeetty badly. So if you hardly notice that, well, that says something about the build right there!
Don't intend to do this character but I learned a lot from the vid.
I have been building this on my own incidentally but I did go for brute strength and blood magic instead so far.
Actually the small passives on the way to hulking form adding 4% strength each makes it the best ascendancy in the game even when having to take colossal capacity first. Using a top level 2-hander in one hand and NOT getting the polymathy wheel is something only the titan can do without breaking the bank. I'd go as far as saying that even if they do add a downside to hulking form itself it will still be the best if left at 50%. Edit: hold up! You're not getting those "increased defense from equipped shield" nodes?? they are massive! (or at least they are if the shield is good)
Hey Kripp, do you think with access to much stronger one hand maces on trade you could not use Giant's Blood? Looks good, might respec my warrior into it to try!
Even mediocre 2handed ones are waaaay better than the high level 1handers. The dmg difference is insane.
1h are useless right now at least for warrior.
Nice vid, would be cool if you ended it out by showing the build against a pinnacle boss. While seeing the build can clear a tower map is cool and all, a big demonstration after explaining the fundamentals of the build would be appreciated.
Why no footage of this build in action against mobs?
Cause it performed poorly. lol
Cool build! I would scrap the 4 points of Essence infusion and instead pick up Covering Ward for the +20 ES on Block, considering you're already block capped its just extra value.
A Time lost jewel at that shield hybrid cluster will be amazing
You don't get rage when hit if you block the hit. It's the main reason I rerolled my warrior. It's bs, it should work, it doesn't.
Can't wait for remaining classes to be implemented. Current ones just doesn't do it for me.
Thanks for build, ES is necessary for HC so this will help me.
If you are just trying to have different passives for weapon swap then you do not need a 2nd weapon, you can just swap your main weapon to weapon slot 2, I have my first weapon slot set up for AOE and my 2nd slot set up for bosses with none of the AOE nodes.
It's fun and all, but I just get the sinking feeling that they're going to fix armor up anyways. I get this is something cool you can do because we're basically having to do it cuz armor sucks....... I just rather make a whole different character and let my warrior sit until they spruce it up a bit
I want to play warrior/mace build just for the sounds of all the slams and explosions. it sounds so good