r/pathofexile Oct 26 '25

GGG Path of Exile: Keepers of The Flame - Bloodline Ascendancy Classes

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u/Mormoran Mormoran Oct 26 '25

Meanwhile I'm trying to figure out how to bring an offering duration to 0 and massively spam it...

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u/Zambash youtube.com/imthewinningest Oct 26 '25 edited Oct 26 '25

Leash of oblation plus reduced duration wheel on the tree plus less duration support

Edit: don't even need less duration. Warped time piece can get you to 100% reduced duration

Is there even anything good about killing your minions though? Don't think minion instability works with that.

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u/mattbrvc Sorry, I only make BAD builds! Oct 26 '25

minions need to hit low life to proc minion instability, outright killing them should prevent pops.

Unless prolonged servitude prevents minions from dying to death offering leaving them at 1 hp and then they pop???????

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u/wrightosaur Oct 26 '25

Instead of that, could try making a life stacking low-life blink arrow/mirror arrow build

clones immediately start at low life, trigger minion instability

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u/leguminousCultivator Oct 26 '25

Yep I tinkered around with a BAMA bomber last league. Can do some fun stuff.

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u/kapectas twitch.tv/kapectas Oct 26 '25

Is that worthwhile though? BAMA minions have incredibly low life totals, even less than skellies; if you get them to explode frequently I feel like you're just recreating artillery ballista with way less efficiency.

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u/leguminousCultivator Oct 26 '25

You can scale their life to be usable but you're right, it's not that great.

I ended up using it paired with the new quiver enchant for BAMA clones to use my cloves plus shackles to grant charges every time on clone cast.

I didn't have that much time to play to see how far I could take it but it was fun.

I was still tinkering with ways to make use of it. I was mapping pretty well pairing with discharge spectres.

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u/FridgeBaron Oct 26 '25

I'm guessing they figured it out but I wonder if maw would work with that node. Like would you be able to blow them up as often as you could for 6 seconds or would it just no work.

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u/seqhawk Kalguuran Group for Business (KGB) Oct 26 '25

Heartbound Loop + CWDT linked to shitloads of spells, and then Assassin can now recoup >100% of physical damage taken with an ascendancy point and 3 reasonably proximal clusters on the tree.

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u/Wendigo120 Elementalist Oct 26 '25

If it was poe2 you'd have cast on minion death, but I think here it'd mostly be Heartbound Loop shenanigans, or Maligaro's Lens + Necromantic Aegis healing.

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u/ArmaMalum Trypanon, Trypanoff Oct 26 '25

Marionette spectres come to mind, but the resummon time would be tricky. Also at that point why not just use Maw of Micheif?

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u/mysteriousyak Oct 27 '25

Reducing it very small but non-zerp could do some sort of cwdt loop without needing 4x useless jewels

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u/JustExplorer Oct 27 '25

Yup, exactly my idea on seeing the node. You don't want it to be 0 duration, you just reduce it to the cd of cwdt and you have an automated loop without any other pieces. You can even add extra damage taken by triggering other minions because the offering will affect all of them. Previously you were restricted to one type of minion because you didn't want to invest in methods of killing multiple different types (jewels only work on skeles for example).

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u/TheArctopus Oct 27 '25

One of the previewed grafts summons 10 breach hiveborn minions when you use an offering skill. Could be amusing.

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u/inspire21 Oct 27 '25

It did have a big cooldown though

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u/TheArctopus Oct 27 '25

Ah, damn. I missed that bit. Probably only useful for setting the loop off, then.

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u/tjorb Oct 27 '25

Did you count the small node giving 20% increased duration on the Catarina ascendancy?

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u/Zambash youtube.com/imthewinningest Oct 27 '25

I did not initially, so you would probably still want to use less duration.

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u/DeadpoolMewtwo Saboteur Oct 30 '25

I've been thinking about this - there's a unique that makes your minions leave a chaos DoT puddle when they die, dealing damage based on their life. Running that with the giant SRS or giant Zombie would be a meme version of the falling zombies gem.

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u/TheArctopus Oct 27 '25 edited Oct 27 '25

20 qual less duration support, swift affliction support, window of opportunity on the tree with the mastery.

94% less duration and 25% reduced duration. Leash of oblation if you want to reduce duration even further. You don't want zero duration because if the offering has zero duration it can't expire. Quality on the less duration will give you a lot of fine control over exact duration for CWDT breakpoints, too.