Path of Exile Questions Thread - March 07, 2019

Questions Thread - March 07, 2019
Soulrend LITERALLY Unplayable Without This Change
ES Leech Vs Life leech support gem.
You covet the strength of your peers, mortal?
*breathing intensifies*
I mostly play melee builds and am pretty hyped for 3.7 but I can appreciate devs work for 3.6 so here's some meme
Dirt Cheap Starter Builds
Summoners - rejoice!
Rory: 20 comments about Divine Ire. Openarl: "Hold MY beer"
Melee in 3.6
I was digging for tax paperwork and found this blast from the past
League Start Birthday Cake
Waiting for league launch as an adult feels like I'm a kid waiting to open Christmas presents.
Quin69 This Game is a Joke when ranged
#ThrowbackThursday: When finding a gem you needed in your inventory was a mini-game on its own. No unique art, no search, no vendor.
So you've decided to play a Summoner in Synthesis
[Fluff] What you get when you mirror an Unleash Support
Click here if you are new/want build recommendations/help
With less than two days to go, post a picture of your league launch toilet!
What is life?
[LNB] 5 Amazing Starter Builds For Synthesis League
New duelist ascendancy classes updated version
Me tomorrow when levelling Righteous Fire as a league starter
How is this balanced?
Hmmm.....

Questions Thread - March 07, 2019

Posted: 06 Mar 2019 04:07 PM PST

Questions Thread - March 07, 2019

This is a general question thread on March 07, 2019. You can find the previous threads here.

Remember to check the Wiki first.

You can also ask questions in the #any-question channel in our official Discord.

The idea is for anyone to be able to ask anything related to PoE:

New player questions
Mechanics
Build Advice
League related questions
Trading
Endgame
Etc.

No question is too big or too small!

We encourage experienced players to sort this thread by new. We'd like to thank those who answered questions in the last thread! You guys are the best.

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Soulrend LITERALLY Unplayable Without This Change

Posted: 07 Mar 2019 12:39 PM PST

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ES Leech Vs Life leech support gem.

Posted: 07 Mar 2019 05:29 AM PST

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You covet the strength of your peers, mortal?

Posted: 07 Mar 2019 12:53 PM PST

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*breathing intensifies*

Posted: 07 Mar 2019 12:02 PM PST

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I mostly play melee builds and am pretty hyped for 3.7 but I can appreciate devs work for 3.6 so here's some meme

Posted: 07 Mar 2019 05:38 AM PST

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Dirt Cheap Starter Builds

Posted: 07 Mar 2019 10:14 AM PST

Here are some extremely budget starter builds for Synthesis league. These builds are designed to function with just a tabula and some inexpensive uniques.

To view the builds, you'll need to download Path of Building. Each build has 4 trees to give you a suggested path to take while leveling. You can switch between the trees with the drop-down menu in the bottom bar (just to the left of the reset and import buttons). Keep in mind that PoB does not yet have the updated damage values from the patch for many skills.

Essence Drain Trickster

Essence Drain gets a buff for the second league in a row, receiving a substantial damage increase. Trickster can now sustain charges during boss fights by channeling Blight. This build is a great choice if you want to try out the new Soulrend skill. If Witchfire Brew ends up being expensive this league, you can always run Blasphemy Despair instead (or possibly Bane Despair).

Storm Brand Elementalist

Storm Brand emerged as the premier skill for racing in Betrayal and shows no sign of slowing down despite a nerf to damage. Elementalist's proliferation spreads shocks and freezes for a smooth mapping experience. Controlled Destruction support can now lower your crit chance below 5%, so it can be trickier to proc Elemental Overload. You may wish to use a different support or find a creative method of dealing crits (Orb of Storms, Consecrated Ground, power charges etc.).

Molten Strike Juggernaut

Molten Strike Jugg is looking as thicc as ever. Great for safely farming lab thanks to Juggernaut's amazing physical damage reduction. You can use any melee weapon with good physical dps.

Blade Vortex Elementalist

The best thing about this build is how many of the new physical spells can be swapped in with very few tweaks. Switching to Wave of Conviction requires no changes to the tree. Grab the Lucidity channeling cluster and you're playing Storm Burst. For a Divine Ire build, keep Lucidity but drop Potency of Will.

Frost Blades Raider

A nimble ranger that uses dual Touch of Anguish claws to chain icy blades all over the screen. Although the Hatred change slightly nerfed many melee builds, it's actually a buff for full cold conversion builds such as Frost Blades. Pathfinder version

Summon Raging Spirits + Skeletons Necromancer

A basic summoner that uses Summon Raging Spirits for clear and skeletons for single target. The summoned spirits now have increased accuracy, resulting in better damage. You can transition to a Soulwrest or spectre build later with no major changes to the tree.

Glacial Cascade Mines Saboteur

A classic build with high single target damage. The Hatred buff mostly compensates for the GC nerf, although the Hatred aura will reserve half of your mana pool unless you farm up the currency for an Essence Worm ring. Even without Hatred the damage should be more than enough.

SSF Changes:

ED Trickster: Rare gloves and 4L Blight > Allelopathy. Blasphemy or Bane + Despair > Witchfire Brew. Only 1 Spreading Rot unless you level another character to Act 5.

Storm Brand Elementalist: No Voideye, but the slightly longer Brand Recall cooldowns aren't a big deal.

MS Jugg: No changes.

BV Elementalist: Curse on Hit + Warlord's Mark + Herald of Thunder > Mark of Submission. Crafted conversion gloves > Hrimsorrow (although Hrim and Stormcharger are both very common drops).

Frost Blades Ranger: It's possible to use rare claws and Chain support instead of Touch of Anguish, but there are probably better build choices for SSF. Only 1 Fight for Survival.

SRS Necromancer: No changes.

GC Saboteur: Can path to Winter Spirit for full cold conversion or use crafted gloves for partial conversion. Rare caster weapon.

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Summoners - rejoice!

Posted: 07 Mar 2019 03:07 AM PST

https://i.redd.it/0vg8a65qiok21.jpg

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Rory: 20 comments about Divine Ire. Openarl: "Hold MY beer"

Posted: 07 Mar 2019 07:53 AM PST

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Melee in 3.6

Posted: 07 Mar 2019 09:12 AM PST

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I was digging for tax paperwork and found this blast from the past

Posted: 06 Mar 2019 06:19 PM PST

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League Start Birthday Cake

Posted: 07 Mar 2019 12:20 AM PST

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Waiting for league launch as an adult feels like I'm a kid waiting to open Christmas presents.

Posted: 06 Mar 2019 11:35 PM PST

Just like then, the real grownups (GGG) are in control and we have to wait and eat and bla bla before we can open the presents.

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Quin69 This Game is a Joke when ranged

Posted: 07 Mar 2019 12:14 PM PST

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#ThrowbackThursday: When finding a gem you needed in your inventory was a mini-game on its own. No unique art, no search, no vendor.

Posted: 07 Mar 2019 11:49 AM PST

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So you've decided to play a Summoner in Synthesis

Posted: 07 Mar 2019 08:28 AM PST

Hello.

For starters, if you want to be part of the Summoner community we have a dedicated discord. This is a great place to ask questions and discuss builds.

https://discord.gg/mAwVwR5

I'm a long-time summoner player and have made quite a lot of builds on the forum in the past. I really like digging in depth into the builds I create and usually go very hard with crafting very specific gear to suit my needs.

My PoE Profile: https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/allana/characters

Since a new league is upon us I've taken to it and created a lot of build templates and finished builds for a variety of summoner/minion builds, so if you're thinking about joining the undead legion, I hope you'll find some inspiration here.

I played most of these builds in Betrayal league. The rankings are arbitrary and should not be compared to other builds - especially not completely different archetypes. It's simply how I differ between the builds I've presented here. The way I have graded them is based on their ability to do different things in the game and then with the speed at which they do them. For example, I have two builds that I list with S, one is S+. The big difference between them is that Occultist simply has such a large health pool that in those rare instances where you're bombared with a lot of damage that might kill the golemancer, the occultist will likely survive.

Build name	PoB Pastebin	Difficulty	Build Tier
Necromancer Life Summon Raging Spirits	https://pastebin.com/9JAvSnDm	Low	C (estimated)
Necromancer Life Spectres	https://pastebin.com/E5rb5yj5	Low	B+
Necromancer Life Soulwrest/Skeletons	https://pastebin.com/bgvUjvAS	Medium	A
Necromancer Lowlife Spectres	https://pastebin.com/BCbTAETC	Medium	A-
Necromancer Life Skeletons/Zombies	https://pastebin.com/rDWahpH2	Medium	A
Juggernaut Life Herald of Agony	https://pastebin.com/BindHEDg	Medium	A-
Elementalist Life Ice Golems	https://pastebin.com/knSsdufK	High	S
Occultist CI Herald of Agony	https://pastebin.com/dHnK6zRE	High	S+

NOTE Read the notes in each guide they include complementary information

Some of these guides are more indepth than others. The two S builds include ways to craft their specific endgame arsenal. Builds where less things are set in stone are to be used more as a general template and not a "follow this to the letter". Most of the builds include several different leveling trees, divided between the different ascendancy points (labs).

If you have any questions, criticisms or other things feel free to post here or contact me on the Summoner discord (name there is allana/kitsune)

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[Fluff] What you get when you mirror an Unleash Support

Posted: 07 Mar 2019 02:40 AM PST

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Click here if you are new/want build recommendations/help

Posted: 07 Mar 2019 08:41 AM PST

As usual I've been seeing a lot of questions about what league starter builds people should go with. Here are some links to streamers that typically make league starter build recommendations, not all of them have released compilations yet, but most of them usually do. There are of course others and I am happy to edit in more links if people have suggestions.

I put Engineering Eternity first because he also has tons of mechanics videos that are helpful.

Engineering Eternity