Path of Exile Builds Taking Infernal Blow Hollow Palm to its absolute limits - 1.9K Dexterity, amazing clear, max Attack Block + Spell Suppression, and ~40M all-in DPS using CRITS

Taking Infernal Blow Hollow Palm to its absolute limits - 1.9K Dexterity, amazing clear, max Attack Block + Spell Suppression, and ~40M all-in DPS using CRITS
3.16 Odif's Newbie Necro League Start Summoner: The Guide DESIGNED For Newbies.
So what happened to the guy who said he would make Death's Oath + Righteous Fire build?
[3.16] HANK THE TANK IS BACK! - The Ol' Reliable: Shield Crush Champion ft. The Formed and Co. (Details in Comments)
I bought this before, any 20ex budget build ideas with it?
Any ignite or fire spell build recommendation for Atlas Invasion?
Melee (preferably Slams) melee build for Atlas Invasion
Charge stacking reverse chill poison reap
How do people go about making builds?
How do you comfortably sustain RF on an ES based build?
Ranger class build Mageblood build for Simulacrum wave 30 farming
Starter PoB/guide for Forbidden CoC?
Which is the stronger boss killer for SSF, sab trapper or vd/dd ele/necro?
Looking for a really good and fast bosser on budget
Best meme build i can make for 40ex/build that can map and kill at least maven?
Death oath build
[3.16] Self Poison/Reverse Chill Scourge Arrow Pathfinder WIP
Trying to min-max my Zombie-Baron
Considering between trapper vs Vd/dd necro/ele for Atlas invasion, which playstyle is smoother for the next 10 days for SC?
Where to go with this Cold DOT Occultist
DD Ignite for for Invasion event. Necro vs Elementalist?
Cracking Lance build?
Lightning strike raider
Icicle Miner or Poisonous Concoction Pathfinder
Trying to find alkazier CWC blade flurry

Taking Infernal Blow Hollow Palm to its absolute limits - 1.9K Dexterity, amazing clear, max Attack Block + Spell Suppression, and ~40M all-in DPS using CRITS

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 01:58 PM PST

TL;DR - Highly specialized Infernal Blow Hollow Palm build utilizing Brittle/Scorch to hit crit cap and shore up Infernal Blow's single target weakness. Built to be extremely well rounded - max 40M Full DPS with totems active, ~27M Infernal Blow DPS by itself. PoB pastebin link, and link to poe.ninja character. Estimated 400ex and my sanity dumped into the build.

EDIT: Video of quick T16 UGS clear, without HH. Sorry for bad quality - don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to video capture D: and of course I roll 40% reduced extra dmg from crit strikes during a showcase lmao

EDIT 2: Video of Maven fight, I'm a little rusty lol

Hi everyone! For some strange reason, I've had a fascination with the Hollow Palm Technique archetype for quite some time now, starting way back when it was introduced in Delirium League. Hollow Palm has had its fair share of changes over time, and it got some fun new toys this league, so I wanted to try something "new" with it.

WARNING: THIS BUILD IS HIGHLY SPECIALIZED AND VERY EXPENSIVE. This was an aspirational project for myself and was not meant to be replicated. Many of the pieces of gear are self-crafted and required weeks of farming to gather materials/currency for.

What is Hollow Palm?

For those unaware, Hollow Palm Technique gives a bunch of bonuses while unencumbered (no weapons or gloves):

You count as Dual Wielding
40% more attack speed with melee skills
Adds 14 to 20 Attack Physical Damage to melee skills per 10 Dexterity

Naturally, you want to stack as much Dexterity as possible.

How does this league shake up the Hollow Palm meta?

With the new tree rework, Hollow Palm got some fun new toys to work with:

Magebane provides +1% Spell Suppression per 15 Dexterity, which completely takes care of spell defense for our build. This comes at the cost of removing evasion bonuses from Dex, however.
Skill Tree Masteries make some otherwise painful nodes more accessible, like effect of non-damaging ailments, mana reservation efficiency, and strike skill QoL.
The mana reservation changes allow for Hollow Palm to fit in a third strong aura if necessary, which we utilize in this setup.

The drawback of no weapons or gloves along with other build restrictions still make it difficult to be relatively tanky, have good clear, and have good bossing capabilities. For unarmed skills, the two most popular are Infernal Blow and Ice Crash. Infernal Blow is notorious for having excellent clear but lackluster single target, while Ice Crash has amazing single target and terrible map clear. Since Ice Crash feels mechanically clunky with the delay effect, I decided to try and fix some of the shortcomings of Infernal Blow by introducing crits to the build.

How are you critting while unarmed (0% Base Crit to start)?

Unarmed attacks have a natural 0% base crit, so where do we start? We could use the Rigwald's Curse amulet to add +7% base crit to our attacks, but our amulet slot is incredibly important for DPS, and using it just to enable our archetype feelsbadman. What can we do to work around this?

Use Assassin's Mark on hit from rings (+1.5%)
Use Hatred Watcher's Eye for additional base crit (+1.8%)
Use Elevated Hunter Chest (+2%, more on this chest later)

5.3% base crit is nice, but that only gets us to about 20% crit chance (27% with bottled faith) with our current setup. This is where Brittle comes into play.

The Interrogation small cluster jewel removes our ability to freeze, chill, shock, or ignite, but allows us to inflict Brittle, Scorch, or Sap on crit. Brittle increases our crit chance against the afflicted enemy by up to +15%, which perfectly caps out our crit chance. We can apply capped Brittle through a combination of things:

Converting 40% of phys damage to cold damage through the cold mastery cluster (Winter Spirit)
Further scaling cold damage with Hatred aura
Scaling the effect of Brittle/Scorch using 40% increased effect of non-damaging ailments (Elemental Mastery from Forces of Nature cluster)

The only thing we need to worry about is hitting the initial crit so we can apply Brittle. Once we do, our damage ramps SUBSTANTIALLY by effectively quadrupling crit chance. We further scale crit chance/damage through 2 double crit multi jewels, Deadly Repartee on 2 large cluster jewels, and crit clusters+masteries. For reference, I can usually kill A9 Sirus's final phase before he teleports away to do his first 'special' attack.

When we land our first crit, we can consistently cap Brittle and Scorch on any enemy, even A9 Sirus (look under Boss health bar for ailment info: -30%/+15%/-20%)

This version of Infernal Blow uses Trinity and Elemental Weakness for additional elemental penetration - Scorch applies an additional -30% ele pen, which is a very nice byproduct from the Secrets of Suffering mechanic. We use Awakened Added Fire Damage Support in order for our Cold and Fire damage to be relatively equivalent and enable Trinity. There are plenty of guides out there explaining Trinity's mechanics if you need them :)

Aren't most Hollow Palm builds incredibly squishy?

Most are, yes. Especially the PoB Warrior builds that you might see on poe.ninja. Dex stacking builds miss out on easy health resources, unlike its strength and intelligence stacking counterparts. A majority of Hollow Palm builds must take Garukhan's Flight, which gives +2 Maximum Life per 10 Dexterity, to patch up this weakness. That's not where the difficulties end either - limited gear slots make it difficult to acquire capped resistances and enough evasion/armour to feel solid. What do we do to remedy this?

Take Magebane, which naturally caps out our Spell Suppression and takes care of defense against spells in one passive point. Although we could convert SS to 75% Spell Dodge with how much SS we have, the consistency of SS wins in my book, and we save the passive point.
Add in Attack Block to our build. This is relatively difficult to cap, but we can do so by taking 4 block clusters, 2 Deadly Repartee nodes on large clusters, 9% block unveil on our chest, and 12% from the Rumi's Concoction flask. We can also use Unnatural Instinct in the bottom scion jewel slot to get an additional 9%, but you lose out on a crit multi jewel that way.
Convert all evasion to armour using Iron Reflexes. The downside of this node is the same as Magebane, so there technically is no downside. ~21K armour provides much more staying power alongside attack block, and avoids random physical one-shots when rolling the Evasion dice.
Take the Charisma mana reservation cluster/mastery plus Enlighten 4 for Hatred, Purity of Elements, and Grace. Grace scales our evasion-based gear harder than Determination would, and provides more total armour after Iron Reflexes. Purity of Elements gives us ailment immunity plus some much needed elemental resistance. This is even more important since we're running Ascendant instead of Raider, and ailment immunity would cost too many passive points otherwise.
Free fortify from Ascendant's Champion node.
Reflect Immune with the newly buffed Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks Support gem.
Get +48% Chaos Resistance While Affected By Purity of Elements on Watcher's Eye to get chaos res to a passible -9%.

Hollow Palm builds are incredibly difficult to build tanky enough, but this combination of effects feels rather good compared to my historical HP builds. I could get a Mageblood to solve a lot of these problems, but that is a bit too rich for my blood. :)

Why Ascendant and not Raider?

The answer is simple: we are incredibly passive point starved if we want to achieve a well-rounded build. Raider gets 5 less passive points and usually requires more points to invest in Frenzy charges (3 +1 nodes and Disciple of the Slaughter). While we do miss Raider's Exposure, taking the Ascendant Champion node more than outweighs the benefits. We can opt for a better support gem instead of fortify (since we get it for free), and enemies take more damage from being taunted plus a more consistent method of applying intimidate.

Does the clear feel good?

Absolutely. For mapping, I swap out Awakened Melee Physical Damage for Awakened Ancestral Call, and the dex stacking belt for Headhunter. Headhunter is 100% not required to make this build feel good while clearing, but it does add some additional zoom zoom which is nice.

Anomalous Infernal Blow applies a debuff to enemies, causing them to explode on death. This alongside our strike skill targeting 4 additional nearby enemies (3 from Woke Ancestral Call, 1 from Tribal Fury anoint) makes screens absolutely melt with 1/2 punches. We also take a bunch of +melee strike range nodes on the tree (+11, and Strike Skills which target additional enemies can do so from 30% farther away). This allows us to hit mobs about halfway to the edge of the screen.

Infernal Blow already has the reputation of being a great mapping skill, and it feels absolutely amazing with all of the pieces of the puzzle put together.

Which pieces of gear are the stars of the build?

Elevated Crit Grasping Mail, which provides the build with a bonkers amount of attack speed through the Esh mod. This chest provides a bunch of crucial stats in order for the build to function - 2% base crit, 9% attack block, additional curse (so ele weakness can be run alongside assassin's mark), all with the dex stacking package.
Dex stacking amulet that made me feel good about replacing Rigwald's Curse. Replacing a 7% dex scourged Rigwald's with this amulet still bumped up the DPS of the build by a massive 54%. Also, the phys as lightning damage mod allows me to consistently apply Sap to enemies I crit, which is another layer of defense I wasn't intending on including.
2 Split Personality Jewels (Dex/Str and Dex/Int) to provide a massive amount of dex and shore up my other attribute needs. I built the tree with these in mind, trying to utilize clusters as pathing options when I can.
An absolutely insane Brutal Restraint jewel that opened up so many possibilities with other gear pieces. This jewel provides 20% increased dex, 40% cold resistance (huge), and Onslaught for 8 seconds on kill. I was able to nab this for 25ex on the TFT discord.

Here is the link to the PoB, and here is the link to my in-game character on poe.ninja. Because I have wands/gloves slotted on my character that I do not meet the attribute requirements for, poe.ninja doesn't accurately calculate the DPS (since it doesn't take Hollow Palm into account), nor does it take into account the Brutal Restraint mods. FYI, you can still level gems in these unusable gear slots :)

This is a project I've been working all league on. If there are any questions or critiques of the build, I'd be happy to discuss in the comments. Cheers!

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3.16 Odif's Newbie Necro League Start Summoner: The Guide DESIGNED For Newbies.

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 11:09 PM PST

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3223145

This is a minion build, with Absolution and Slave Driver spectres for dps.

This build is designed for newbies.

It contains detailed instructions for newbies on exactly what to do to get going.

Experienced players can use it to league start too.

I think PoE is hard for new players, and far too many build guides assume knowledge that newbies don't have yet.

So I made this guide to help newbies get going in PoE.

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So what happened to the guy who said he would make Death's Oath + Righteous Fire build?

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 05:03 PM PST

did it work?

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[3.16] HANK THE TANK IS BACK! - The Ol' Reliable: Shield Crush Champion ft. The Formed and Co. (Details in Comments)

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 04:54 AM PST

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I bought this before, any 20ex budget build ideas with it?

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 10:29 AM PST

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Any ignite or fire spell build recommendation for Atlas Invasion?

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 09:55 PM PST

Hi guys,

I'm looking for suggestion for ignite or fire spell builds. I'm thinking about Fire BV Chieftain and ignite Discharge Elementalist. I appreciate any of your suggestions and some reviews from people who have done these 2 particular builds will be very welcomed too.

Thanks and Merry Christmas to you all!

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Melee (preferably Slams) melee build for Atlas Invasion

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 12:03 PM PST

I've never "league started" a Melee build (I've tried some with high budget), so I'd like to use this event to try one. Doesn't have to be specifically tailored for Atlas Invasion, I just put it in the title so people know it's not on trade league with the current economy.

I've always thought a slam build to be hella boring but I played some Last Epoch and werebear maul really grew on me, made me want to try a slam build in PoE. But by all means, if anyone knows of a non-slam melee build, throw it my way!

I'm a somewhat experienced player so just throwing a PoB or even a poe.ninja link my way should be fine, but since I just want to go "brain off" into this event something with a written or video guide would be preferable.

Thanks!

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Charge stacking reverse chill poison reap

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 01:15 PM PST

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How do people go about making builds?

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 07:09 PM PST

In this league, my major goal was to learn how to craft and I did that making a good amount of items with 20+ exalts and 2 items worth 80+ exalts. So I now have a better understanding of that. Next league, I want to learn how to make builds. Like for example if I wanted to make a lancing steel CoC Ice spear build. I know how to take a semi-complete build and make it complete or better than it was. But if I wanted to start a build from scratch I have no idea where I would start.

So yea that is my question how do people make builds?

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How do you comfortably sustain RF on an ES based build?

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 07:42 PM PST

How do builds generally go about that? ES regen isn't as prevalent as life, on the tree at least.

I am a relatively new player so there could be an interaction or an item I am not aware of.

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Ranger class build Mageblood build for Simulacrum wave 30 farming

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 10:15 PM PST

any idea?

Except for any kind of Raider FS/LS build. Already trying that

budget 400ex & mageblood

or u can sell me a Ranger class build to save time for me

thank you

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Starter PoB/guide for Forbidden CoC?

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 11:47 AM PST

I've accumulated around 50ex liquid and thinking about rolling this build.

However I have few questions I hoped someone would be able too help with:

Can this build AFK in lvl83 Heists (excluding robots after alarm I guess - these fuckers can kill even my CWDT build).
Where do I find a good PoB/Guide for starter(ish) version? I realize its more expensive than 50ex and that by itself will just just get me a Graspin Mail with basic setup.
Will 50ex be even enough to start it?
Can I incorporate ILs to substitute HH for the time being?
Is the Clear good on this build? Can it map effectively?

I generally want to play something zoomy, fun and extremely tanky and will probably end the league with this build.

Right now I'm farming heists with CWDT Inq but its so zDPS it just painful to play and I definitely don't want to sink 40-50ex on a Kaom's for it.

Seems Tenkiei posted a guide just recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWuew6NcZGo

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Which is the stronger boss killer for SSF, sab trapper or vd/dd ele/necro?

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 09:14 PM PST

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Looking for a really good and fast bosser on budget

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 12:00 PM PST

I just want a character to be able to do feared or other bosses. Clear speed of maps is completely irrelevant because I made something rhat clears decently.

People say : GenCry shield crush DD ignite

Are good on budget what do you think? I currently have 2 ex at max can farm 5 6 more in 7 8 hours.

Should I invest in mapping or go for bossing I don't know. What would you guys recommend. Since şeague is mostly dead I don't know

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Best meme build i can make for 40ex/build that can map and kill at least maven?

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 05:54 PM PST

I played a bit during this league, and well, i got bored. Now i have like 40ex sitting in stash and i want something that is meme-ish but that can at least kill maven and also clear some maps. Wave 30 sim would be cool too.

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Death oath build

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 04:25 AM PST

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[3.16] Self Poison/Reverse Chill Scourge Arrow Pathfinder WIP

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 06:13 AM PST

Hey guys Inco here, bringing the self poison/reverse chill SA build up to 3.16 changes. Currently still a work in progress and I have time stamps for everything, once I'm happy with the build I will have a full run down of everything, I also talk about upgrades in the video if you're interested.

The build is amazing for mapping and all general content, but ramping can be rough against some end game bosses. Also to maximize your DPS you always want to be infecting with your plague bearer and using focus with totems, which I forget a lot lol. Thanks for checking it out and let me know if you guys have any questions!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9H5PFP4XSE

PoB: https://pastebin.com/EEBqHdB2

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Trying to min-max my Zombie-Baron

Posted: 22 Dec 2021 09:36 PM PST

TL;DR : trying to push a lil more dps and huge improvements to defenses.

Hi guys, a couple of weeks ago I made a post on this sub reddit asking for help with my build; A Zombie Baron with roughly 700k dps. After reading all your comments and recommendations, I managed to reach 8.8 M dps ! The build now feels amazing and I can do a large portion of the content of PoE, so thanks to anyone that helped me on that time!

That aside, I feel like I'm a little squishy; my current setup gives me:● Immune to Chaos Damage (CI)● 7.1k E.S.● 9% attack block chance (21% with flask)● 44% Phys damage reduction (60% with flask)● 10 Fortify● All res capped● Bone Armour ... and I think that's everything...

For the dps: I think it's good enough, tomorrow I'll buy a lvl 4 Empower, so the actual dps should be 9.5M, other than that, only remains buying awakened multistrike and added phys, it's not a big dps boost, so I don't think I'll do buy them.

Here is the PoB: https://pastebin.com/UdKjVqWeI have around 30 EX to spend on any recommendation.

EDIT: Yes, I know I have 2 Granite flask, but I don't know what to use instead.

EDIT 2: Wow, just... wow
Now I feel like 5 times more tankier! Without mentioning the lil boost to dps ;). Now I actually feel that I can play without dying so often, maybe reach 100!
Thanks everyone for your help, you are awesome !

Good Luck and stay sane, Exiles

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Considering between trapper vs Vd/dd necro/ele for Atlas invasion, which playstyle is smoother for the next 10 days for SC?

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 08:11 PM PST

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Where to go with this Cold DOT Occultist

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 10:24 AM PST

Hey hey! So I leveled an early league abandoned occultist and brought her to maps using some cold DOT shenanigans. I'm in yellows and want to transition into a stronger build as this build was just thrown together items I had. I know CoC Ice Spear is the hot ticket but I simply don't like cyclone. I have a bunch of gear ready for a DO build but I also really like Cold skills (shattering monsters feels great).

I know I can respec into that DO build but would like to keep doing fun cold stuff. The skills/build ideas don't have to be meta at all, just fun and be able to do t16 mapping. Any direction would be great!

https://pastebin.com/462MjNYy

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DD Ignite for for Invasion event. Necro vs Elementalist?

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 10:22 AM PST

DD Ignite for for Invasion event. Necro vs Elementalist, what are the pros and cons for each? Why so many people suggest Elementalist, when the Necro has a huge 50% increased life of spawned corpses?

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Cracking Lance build?

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 01:23 PM PST

Anyone know or have a good crackling lance build? was thinking of trying it out because it seems like a dope skill, but not seeing many use it.

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Lightning strike raider

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 08:54 AM PST

Can someone tell me the difference between LS shacko+paradoxica vs blizzard crown+rare claw?

Which one is better overall? in terms of the budget and performance-wise.

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Icicle Miner or Poisonous Concoction Pathfinder

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 05:20 AM PST