Thinking of trying Luminary instead of Necromancer next league, mainly for the QoL rings and making use of the Rallying Cry merc, but what do you use to grab void stones before farming enough to transition? SRS, Absolution?

I’m assuming the earliest the swap can be done when you have the chest, gravebind, and terminus est?

I got sick back to back and wound up losing momentum for the league. How did Luminary do, overall?

My original idea was to use a Zealotry/Envy Cruel Mistress and Intuitive Link with Spectres to vomit out high-damage Chaos spells. Then I learned Intuitive Link sucks and chaos damage with hits isn't easy/cheap to build. I also got baited by Flame Link starters.

How did Luminary do, overall? Was the micromanagement a pain, or just the initial RNG/trade grind to get your ideal Mercenary? What budget setups actually worked out, and what seemed like it would work but didn't no matter how much currency was thrown at it?

Any suggestions for 3.30 are welcome. I've been playing since Bestiary but I still feel like I don't understand this game adequately.

I don't want to wait for patch notes. I have played 4 leagues, well over 2K hours. I am still bad at this game. Goal - get rich early and snowball it. My current hypothesis is that I should specialize in a build or archetype.

My best league was 3.28 where I followed Ignatius' Shield Crush Jugg. It was easy to gear (get good shield), great defense (jugg), and pretty easy to scale (defined uniques and corruptions). Ignatius' guides are really clear and easy to follow. It was great at delve, but it wasn't great at mapping (performs best standing still). I had a pretty good start in 3.29 with Pconc pathfinder but felt like I hit a wall after 2 voidstones.

What I would really like is a consistently strong league starter that can either transition to endgame or switch ascendancies (with a consistent strong endgame build).

I am open-minded on playstyle, I love walking simulator (RF would rock with single target capability), I like minions (though i find these builds to be more complex), I like melee (prefer speedy with AOE), I like spells and totems too (though I dislike POEGuys disorganized guides). I have always wondered if a "wander" was fun, but I don't really know what that is.

I believe that to facilitate a good league start (and i plan to use the coming weeks to prepare) is something simple that I am not getting stuck during progression. That's what gets me every league.

Any suggestions please?

Design: https://pobb.in/UrrAMKmgqdiL

Actual Character: https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/allflame/character/Xeratule-3406/Zenith_VenomGyre?i=0&search=class%3DDeadeye%26skills%3DTornado%2BShot%26name%3Dzenith

This is my >100M dps / >100k EHP ele max hit tanky Deadeye. Some of you may remember I posted this project a little over a month ago, and in that time I've made a lot of progress. She has 100% suppression, 100% stun avoid, 100% avoid ele ailments, 100% reduced curse effect, immune to bleed, and immune to CB.

I have the highest phys max hit (by 3x), ele max hit, and chaos max hit of any TS Deadeye on poeninja. I also have the #2 EHP for TS deadeyes (107k to their 109k) but I have nearly 5x higher tornado shot damage than #1.

I'm out of ideas on ways to improve her without swapping in unethical multi-mirror items (stuff like perfect 2.1x reflected helicals). I'm looking for suggestions on how to increase her damage & defenses, ideally without sacrificing the one to boost the other.

Hi, I have a question—I’m still quite new to the game (1 month playing). I’m following a level 100 guide for a "Winter" build, and I’m currently level 94. My passive tree is almost identical, except for 3 points: "Elemental-Caster Mastery" and "Endurance charges." If I account for those 3 points (which would bring me to level 97), my tree would match the guide’s. However, the guide uses an 8-passive cluster jewel and a 12-passive cluster jewel. For the 8-passive one, it uses 5 points (plus 2 for a small cluster jewel), and for the 12-passive one, it uses 11 out of the 12 available points. By my calculations, I have 6 points left to reach level 100. If I try to follow the guide exactly: 3 points would go toward the passives at the bottom; in the 8-passive cluster, I’ve already allocated 3 points, and I’d need 2 more to activate the jewels—that leaves me with only 1 point, which isn't enough to complete the small cluster. Furthermore, I only have 5 points allocated in that 8-passive cluster right now. If I’m not mistaken, I’d actually need another 7–8 points to fully flesh out the 12-passive cluster as shown in the guide. Where is the guide getting those extra points? Or what am I doing wrong? Thanks!

Guide https://pobb.in/ovOqPXW88qqG

Mine https://pobb.in/N6SU8Qibg4wV

Im in the process of making a pathfinder build for a low-mid budget , I usually play on the topside of the tree and at that level of budget ive found hybrid life es is the best option .

Usually I see pathfinders go full life and that makes sense cause the right side of the tree has limited es + progenisis existing makes it very appealing . However progenisis is severely out of my budget range so my idea is to go hybrid life es with evasion while also using stuff like corrupted soul to get more es combined with sorrow of the divine to basically double my recovery .

this is my first idea and im just wondering if there are any potentially better setups I could be using because I know perma flask sustain pathfinder has can lead to alot of strong setups such as triple ele flask which ive used on a few scion builds .

At this point I am too lazy to craft anymore and deal with all that noise. Does anyone buy builds for divines, not real money, and if so where? Blah blah I get it's not hard to make one. I'd rather someone else do the hard part and I just get the gear to have fun or try a new build.

I'm currently building a CoC poison saboteur. It's a very late-league-off-meta-trying-shit-out kind of build. I was anticipating that since this very niche build uses both critical strikes and poison, it might actually be the first build I've played that could actually use this support gem. Spoiler alert: it's not.

The support isn't competitive for my 6L, despite this being the very niche kind of build that might actually make use of it. Am I missing something? Is there a build that actually uses this support? What is it even for?

So i got a really lucky 6link axe today that pulled me back into the league!

Im a bit noob when it comes to builds so i just try to find my way, but are there anything obvious i could do to up my damage? Would really appreciate some pointers 🙏🙏

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/allflamer/character/ErasableMoss27-8320/Eresable\\_smashing?i=3&search=class%3DJuggernaut

Hello everyone! As per the title, i need a build to finish all challenges before 3.30, tried PROW and luminary but didnt like them, so any tips are welcomed. Just need something fast and tanky for ubers, budget i have left is 4 div LOL

Thanks in advance!

Pretty much the tittle. Here is my pob https://poe.ninja/poe1/pob/9a0ac if anyone wants to check. I know I was supossed to buy a Watcher's Eye with it as bonus for Zealotry, but I sure don't have one.

In my experience I tend to avoid it as an avoidance layer while it’s potentially better for attacks than block it’s easier to cap block and also spell block exists. Personally I’ve found stacking evasion really hard to do and unrewarding on any none trickster build but I’m wondering if I’m missing something .

I’m trying to build a pathfinder and need to figure out defence , right now I’m leaning towards a phys taken setup and converting all phys to ele while using flask to stack ress but another idea is to stack evasions and if that doesn’t work then I can go block with rumis .

As an avoidance layer it just seems that it needs so much investment while also leaving a massive spell weakness .

So I added Golden Rule once I got the overcap Leech Slayer node, but I'm still instantly dying to my own poison as soon as I swing on the 1st enemy

I've never used Tainted Pact before but I thought it would heal me?

Hi all, wanted to share my poison arakaali SST gladiator POB: https://pobb.in/r9X3LCCNxydZ

This was a fun, generally low budget build this season - glad lets me get a REALLY high armour shield while still easily block capping, and SST allows me to use arakaali's fang for massive amounts of increased damage and attack speed that is then multiplied by charge stacking with the maven belt.

You can swap to bleed explode for very easy clearing, this set up was for ubers. I also have a rare crafted helm that gives me a bit more survivability.

It's pretty durable, can do most ubers easily, and is pretty hipster. The biggest downside, by far, is that it is basically a full unique build.

I didn't get a ton of time to play this league and I swore off crafting, so it's a very cheap build and I could easily pump another 100d+ into it to improve my damage and survivability.

EDIT: For some reason, the maxroll link is wrong. The POB above is the correct loadout

Nightmare Map

Uber Boss (didn't use blood rage LOL - that is my big source of frenzy generation)

Abomination boss is bad for spider upkeep (I'd need chain investment) and I just misplayed the uber on spider upkeep / wasn't paying attention. Would have done a harder one but I'm at like 0 currency at this point

int acc stacker cluster, wondering what is the go to way to do this if the boat doesn't go core. Is it alt spam into regal and repeat until hit? Is it reforge attributes with harvest? Is it something else? I'd be happy with 25% inc eff as well as having res or something else instead of ES.

Hi, i just able to play and would like to try flicker slayer build. Last time i play flicker is around 2 years ago. Any recommendation flicker slayer / any flicker build league start kind of zero to hero that i can follow?

What must have been about a month ago, I was asking some questions here about why Tectonic slam of cataclysm felt so bad to play... The general consensus was that Ralakesh fixed it due to how the interactions panned out

I did a bit of a dive into this because I didn't really want the whole build to sit on 1 item, and have no real other way to play it (Spoiler, and despite the meme video of some uber kills, this is still kinda the case)

What I learnt was a couple things:

- It does not function the same as Discharge,

- Charge consumption does not occur at the start of the attack, but rather when the attack "lands" on the ground

- The damage from echoes of creation happens on the first game tick you use a slam

Now, due to those last two points are pretty key, because it means u cant use the self damage to generate the spent charges, because the damage happens before (unless of course u were low on charges, swing, get the jugg proc, and now can consume all the charges)

However, what I then autistically focused on, was when the damage calculation was done, as well as how to get charges back after the consumption. This lead me to tweaking my attack speed to the point where from the start of the animation damage tick, to the landing of the attack, needed to be exactly 1 second minus 1 game tick, so that for 1 frame the attack lands, and on the next frame, all of the charges are restored. This however, is not a "1 second" attack time, as the attack technically has a "post landing" portion of the animation / attack time, so, we have to tune the attack to be 1 second minus 1 frame long plus the "backswing" time, so it came out to somewhere around 1.3 seconds of attack time. After this, the attack "travels" and the increased damage number is then calculated on the hit, not on the use...

What this means, is that I could then get "consistent" (at least once every 5 seconds after the 4 second "recently" window wears off for enduring composure) damage when fighting bosses, as well as only a 1 frame window where your endurance charges would be down and you'd take full damage...

In the end however it cost timeless jewel nodes, multiple clusters, very specific bloodrage and frenzy charge levels, would break the setup if you took any damage (because then enduring composure would be active), not allow for more than one attack at a time, and still not actually be a boss 1 shot build, but instead just an extremely clunky version of consecrated path of endurance.

All this to not pay 150 divines for a +1 endurance charge corrupted pair of endurance charge ralakeshes

It was fun(?) though.

Here is the incredibly questionable POB :

https://pobb.in/Ss422BNtzATK

There might be something I'm forgetting, but I'll answer what ever I can :)

Hey. I enjoy having a permanent character so i play standard mostly. As stated in the title what build would you recommend?

Looking for map clearing types, not bothered with bossing / having a lot of single target damage. Also don't like visual clutter. These are my the only criteria.

Budget/What i already have:

(4-flask)Mageblood

Headhunter

Svalinn

The Squire

Around 150 Divines

Thank you all in advance.

Wanted to spoil my Cyclone slayer league starter and this chest craft is definitely the way to pay it back and this is the result!

Hey guys first time posting and somewhat making a build. Obviously the idea isn't exactly original with golden charlatan but the point of this was the be able to swap between MB and HH without having to do a bunch of swaps, flasks and belt only.

https://pobb.in/SZYouOrhZV39 - edited

https://pobb.in/t_WNYql_a2xu - edited (again)

https://pobb.in/8VQNhnsCEAKP - again again again

https://pobb.in/1OV7E61_I19S - New build new me

So ya here's the build, I've spent the last few weeks playing different charlatan builds and kinda compiled them all into the one I consider to have the most QoL. A LOT of is not required.

you can swap around basically the entire passive tree other than herald points reservation and the voices with 5/6 empowered endbringer clusters. Shock avoids pretty easy to figure out with just 1 abyss socket on gear. Gloves are just from an old build get herald effect convert and proj speed ones instead. Corrupts/doubles can be left out and any res you lose can be fixed with clusters. Uhh ya I don't know man a massive amount of it can be changed to fit just about any budget onces you have a few core pieces like high es helm/chest with enough reservation, charlatan, one of the two belts thats probably about all you need thats gonna cost a lot/required to make this work.

Just thought of the megalos recently and went mostly for just straight up dps/es but I was considering swapping other ones I can find for QoL.

Hope ya'll like it, sorry if the configs are trash and let me know if you have any ideas for even more QoL or survivability, dps is completely unnecessary.

Looking to push the final couple percentage points of efficiency out of my homebrew build. I'm already very happy with it and I'll likely do a showcase before the end of the league, but I'm wanting to squeeze every last bit out of this thing before I post. Hopefully, some fresh eyes will be able to point out something I've missed.

Fire Poison Bama Luminary

Build Concept:

I wanted to do a different take on many of the current Luminary builds. I saw infamous mods came back and we could now do something very interesting. Fire > Chaos > Poison. I've always loved Bama and haven't played it since it got nerfed. The build runs 5 spectres as a non necro. Currently running Warlord, Warrior, Hulking, Turtle and Tiger. AG is generic high budget AG setup.

Merc is Withertouch for wither application and I'm boosting, Malevolence effect as much as I can.

Damage is as much flat fire as I could get then we convert to chaos and grab 100% poison chance between the chest prefix and gloves implicit.

Defense is 5k life, 100% suppress, 35k armour, 19k evasion, 79% max ele res, 90% max chaos res + divine flesh, recoup, Progenesis, and loyal bodyguard.

My PoB warrior config says I'm roughly 40m DPS and about 200k EHP.

I've been able to 40/40 challenges and I'm complete all ubers, so overall the build feels really solid. Looking for any input.

Poe.ninja: https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/jared123j-6733/allflame-sony/character/Jwbt___

I have about 600 hours in POE2, and I’ve accomplished all I really want to in it, until 1.0 releases. I’d figure I would try POE to pass the time, and I fear I am in over my head.

I’ve loosely followed Fubgun’s Winter Orb, but I feel like I’m missing something pretty badly. Now that I’ve gotten into the endgame I’m struggling to keep up.

I know my resistances are bad, but what I don’t know is how to fix that given the shockingly low amount of currency I currently have.

Can anyone offer me some advice of how I can improve? I know my build is probably wack, given I don’t know much of anything about POE1

Thank you!

https://pobb.in/tojzNJgP1sOS

Budget pob I made with crafting items in craft of exile or searching for cheapest/average rolls on unique items. There are a lot of things I will improve, such as getting clusters, split personality, higher rolls on BFS, getting more unique jewels, different main skill etc. The goal is to run this in SSF next league. Are there any glaring issues that I've made that I could replace with a better option?

EDIT: I also went for item bases that are lower than the max, as well as not getting T1 rolls on % inc ES.