Path of Exile Builds Weekly Question + Free Talk Thread – May 26, 2022

One of my primary goals this league was to complete all 7 Ubers on my own, and after completing it, I figured I would post my build for the community as it performed almost exactly as I had hoped. Feel free to ask any question about the build and I'm happy to answer.

Background: I consider myself a slightly above average player. I can do basic boss mechanics and take someone else's builds to adjust to my style, but my 40 something year old brain can't match the top tier players of POE. Consider me tier C when it comes to mechanics. Early in the league I was doing some Maven farming and decided to try out Uber Maven just to get a feel for the fight. I was using a typical mapper that could do all the typical end game content but was pretty glass cannon. Needless to say, Uber Maven just ran me over and I couldn't even phase her. That is where I realized, if i was truly going to be able to complete 7/7 myself, I would need a build that 1) Has very high DPS so that any difficult mechanics are kept to a minimum, 2) Enough defenses so that I can take a few hits, and 3) not cost mirrors.

How did I end up on Rage Vortex: While looking for some higher DPS builds, I came across Mathil's Rage Vortex from last league, where in his video he notes it had some of the most insane single target DPS he has played with. If I could take that DPS and add just enough defense without crippling the build, I think it would work. In reviewing his POB, I realized I could drop enough DPS on the gear to get positive chaos resist and either Melding or Spell Suppression. After tinkering more, I realized Melding was giving up too much where Spell Suppression was giving up just enough to still be competitive. I also realized his POBs didnt take into account that every exerted rage vortex would deal double damage through the entire storm, so the build really did have ludicrous damage.

Rage Vortex Final Form:

Level 95 POB when I started bossing: https://pastebin.com/ca0QxkHc . 29M DPS. This POB assumes each vortex is exerted (which it usually is) and does not have flasks active. I also feel like 29M is an accurate representation based on the time it took to kill Uber Eater and Uber Cortex. Ultimately this felt like sufficient damage to complete the fights quickly enough to avoid extra phases.
Map Clear 2/10 - It really is that bad. I hated mapping on this build. I ended up leveling 70-90 through delve as launching the vortex down a hallway was pretty nice, and then finished 90-95 through rotas.
Bossing 8/10 overall, 10/10 based on budget - I'm sure there are better bossers out there (skeles, Fang, etc), but at a 40ex price, I think its great. You only need to attack once every ~3 seconds, which is nice to then focus on moving/dodging/positioning. Feel free to read my reply to this post talking about each Uber and how it went, but overall it was great.

Cost of the Build: I did a review of all gear for the key stats I needed on each piece through the trade site again yesterday, and as of the posting of this, I could purchase all pieces for 31 ex. This leaves me 9 ex for rolling implicits, gems, flasks, and anything else I might have missed that cost some currency. If people find it valuable for a piece by piece breakdown, I'm happy to post

Bossing Video: So I did record all kills, but unfortunately my potato PC can't run PoE AND get a clear OBS recording. I went ahead and provided the link, but understand that when things got crazy on the screen, OBS would crap out and record like 1 frame a second (however gameplay was not impacted). I put my notes in a post below regarding each fight which I think you will get more out of, but if you really want to see a shitty computer try to record boss fights, here you go

Final Comments: The build was a complete success. 7/7 down with a reasonable budget. I do wish leveling from 70-95 wasn't just horrid, but the end result makes it worth it. I'll be keeping this guy around to do all the bossing challenges as my next goal is to get 38 challenges with minimal/no help. Already got the harvest boss and 7 crops, so I'm hoping the big RNG ones are past me. I'll be around this week to answer any questions people post here, but note its a holiday and I have 2 kiddos that will take up my time so there may be some time delay in responding. Good luck out there exiles!

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[Guide] Crafting a poison claw to surpass The Wasp Nest.

Posted: 29 May 2022 06:00 PM PDT

Picture of finished budget version

A lot of people seem to accept that there's no improving The Wasp Nest so I figured I'd share a craft me and a friend have used a few times now. Using the most budget version with an average crafting cost of ~3-5ex (depending on luck) as a baseline and including steps for making the more juicy version.

1) Acquire an item level 83 or higher Void Fangs base. It drops from Heist blueprints and absolutely must be ilvl 83 for this craft to work. A lower ilvl can be gamble-raised with recombinators.
2) Spam Deafening (or Shrieking) Essence of Zeal until you see a tier 2 or higher %increased critical strike chance. Alternatively, you can use essences of loathing and try to hit tier 1 "%increased attack speed modifier. The goal is to have a high tier attack speed and critical strike chance together. Next steps depend on your last suffix
3a) On desireable suffix (DoT multiplier, t1 crit multiplier, poison chance/damage, high accuracy) skip to step 4
3b) On a bad suffix, decide if getting a good third suffix is worth the extra cost to remedy. If not, skip to step 4. If it is, either try to remove it with Orb or Annullment and/or start over from step 2
3c) On an empty suffix, craft Suffixes can't be changed and use harvest craft "Reforge an item with a chaos modifier with a higher chance of more chaos modifiers." This will usually add either a chaos resistance or a poison chance + poison damage suffix, with the latter being more desireable. If you hit chaos resistance, act in accordance to to step 3b. We use "more likely" craft because there is a chance of it also adding chaos damage prefix and saving us 2ex. Alternate steps suggested by /u/sirgog: Craft can have up to 3 crafted modifiers and suffixes can't be changed and use harvest craft "Reforge an item with a chaos modifier." This is more expensive (but somewhat more reliable) and will let you move on to step 5 with a craftable suffix for later.
4) If your claw doesn't have 'Malicious' chaos damage prefix, craft Suffixes can't be changed and use harvest craft Reforge item with a chaos modifier. This will guarantee the Malicious prefix if your suffixes are full
5) If you got unlucky and your prefixes are full, you will either have to find or buy a harvest craft Reforge an item, keeping all suffixes and redo step 4/5 or try to use an Orb of Annullment, but there's a high chance you'll have to start over if it eats your suffixes
6a) Bench craft "%increased chaos damage + increased skill effect duration"

Those steps get you a claw that should easily surpass The Wasp Nest (assuming you have good accuracy without). Following steps are for if you want to craft a better claw for a much higher cost

6b) If you have an extra prefix, craft Suffixes can't be changed and use Orb of Annullment. If you lose your chaos damage, redo step 4. If you lose your crafted mod, redo this step
7) Craft Suffixes can't be changed and use Aisling tier 4 craft in Mastermind's Lair. If it eats your Malicious prefix, go back to step 4. If it eats your crafted mod, proceed to unveiling
8) Use all your skill to try to unveil the "%increased chaos damage/%increased skill effect duration." You could, in theory, settle for the physical damage mods and later craft flat phys prefix, but in my experience the former mod is far superior, especially for Viper Strike. If you can't get a good veiled mod, treat it as an extra prefix and go back to step 6b
9) Finish your claw by bench crafting last prefix (%increased damage over time or physical damage, depending). If you somehow still have an empty suffix, you could also go for crafted DoT multiplier
x) Use harvest craft to change quality effect to attack speed
xx) Use Hillock betrayal craft to increase quality to 24% or higher

Even the budget version of this should net you a claw with 400+ chaos DPS (460+ total dps) and at least one damage increasing mod. As long as your accuracy is good, it should be a significant upgrade over The Wasp Nest. Unfortunately I don't have a screenshot of the finished non-budget claw as my friend deleted the character that had it.

The obvious downside of the Void Fangs base is losing life/mana on hit properties from other claw bases, so you will have to consider other recovery options. For skills like Viper Strike this isn't as much of a problem for life sustain as you won't be constantly hitting enemies anyway (so you would need to get life sustain from elsewhere anyway) but you'll need to find alternative means of mana sustain. My suggestions are either to get Claw life+mana on hit Mastery together with a -mana cost ring, or give up Deadly Ailments gem for another support and use normal leech from a source like Thief's Craft notable.

Anyway, this is a fairly reliable craft to upgrade from unique claws. You won't have problems with physical reflect with it and as you'll get good value out of any additional sources of 'added chaos damage' thanks to the high attack speed. Bonus credit to my friend IceyDevil for helping me figure out this craft.

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Ignite Ice Crash Elementalist vs Feared with 3c weapon

Posted: 29 May 2022 10:07 PM PDT

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LS Champ build help please - Uber Bosses

Posted: 30 May 2022 08:41 AM PDT

Hi there!

Thanks for taking the time to read this thread. I am looking for advice on what to do.

I am wanting to kill the uber bosses for the challenges in this league. Ideally doing them comfortably.

Here is my current POB: https://pastebin.com/MVQiEt5k

Is there any low-hanging fruit for upgrades to my build that will let me kill uber's well?

If not, what build would you recommend that can get online for 20ex or less and do them comfortably, i.e. not be amazing at mechanics and get them down with a portal or two to spare. I have an Omni on the current build I can move over.

Thanks for your help and advice exiles.

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SSF choice LS zerker or champ

Posted: 30 May 2022 04:59 AM PDT

I have Omni, galesight, perseverance, brass dome, which version of said build I should do in SSF?

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Never played SSF before; what build should I try?

Posted: 30 May 2022 03:43 AM PDT

Title. I'm a bit burnt out by the trade cycle and items just being $$$ and not actual items so I want to give SSF a try to both appreciate gear and understand the game better. What are some good/the best builds you guys would recommend for a first time SSF player?

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My build sucks. Need a new one, starting budget around 50ex

Posted: 30 May 2022 05:40 AM PDT

Basically, title. I started league as BV cold occultist, and my current iteration of build looks like that: PoB pastebin

Around 7m dps, 4350life+700es, 40k armour, 25k evasion.

The problem is that there is almost no way to scale defences. I know how I can improve DPS - one more cluster, few jewels for crit multi, etc. But since I'm stuck at 2x wands, my whole defence layer comes only from auras(+increased effect of them) and from gear. I can't really get myself block, can't increase max res, theoretically I can get around 50% spell supression, but from my experience with the build it doesn't seem like it will actually help. I can imagine that swapping one wand for some good shield, getting +max power charges ring, swapping helmet for something else can bump up defences without loosing too much of DPS, but idk, I don't feel like this build worth pushing further.

Currently, build can die even in just T14 without DMG mods in delirium mirror if I'm not careful enough, and that considering buffs from HH(and gull shrines) which easily bump raw HP+ES to 7-9k.

So I want some build which is fast, capable of clearing deli maps without much effort, maybe even simulacrum, all that end-game things. My current budget will be around 50-70ex(+ I already have HH), what are my options? Preferably occultist (or other witch ascendancy, but not minions please), but that's not mandatory, I can make a new char.

I know that RF is quite meta, but it doesn't scale with HH, right? Also, dps looks like to be on the lower side, and crafting helm for RF will be a pain in the ass...Any other tanky + fast options in that budget, or at least which can start working at that budget?

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Carry build advice

Posted: 30 May 2022 05:32 AM PDT

Hello. I've been looking for a carry build for some duo play with an aurabot. I've seen a few suggestions and my favourite one was phys->lightning->cold double nebulis BV build, but I can't find a good source of information on such a build. Could you give me some advice or point me to a place I can learn about the build a bit?

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Death's Oath Occultist

Posted: 30 May 2022 09:17 AM PDT

hello i got stuck at progressing my character i know its not best build out there but i rly like gameplay of this build im dying quite a lot in red maps. how should i continue progressing this build

Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/U8Ka2S2Q

it shows fire res 68% but im caped at 80% idk how to fix that

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Duo playing LS Champ dealing EXTREM low damage on Acts

Posted: 30 May 2022 09:11 AM PDT

Usually i breeze through Acts and never die, no matter my build.

This time i'm playing with a buddy, we both got a Tabu and six linked Lightning Strike.

First Kitava was basically a corpse run, we died so unbelievably often....

Currently we try to finish Act 7, need to kill Arakaali.

As a duo, we should have sufficient damage, yet we die so often and basically deal zdps on that boss.

I never had issues with Lightning Strike, especially while leveling. We did get lucky tho, found some Vaal Orbs and could both get a Vaal LS.

I went and bought a couple of leveling uniques, and still it is a slog and quite unfun experience to be honest.

We completly stay away from the league mechanic due to the low dps.

The six link is:

VLS, Fortify (till second Lab), LgoH (till second Lab), Multistrike, Elemental Damage, Trinity.

We are currently winging the build and wanted to optimize when hitting Maps.

Is it really now a necessity to be super optimized while leveling Acts?

I was already put off that my first character needed to get optimized gear when running Alch&go white Tier maps....like full stop and needing to trade for gear to be able to start running mpas myself...

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Good Ward Loop Recommendations?

Posted: 30 May 2022 09:05 AM PDT

I tried Raixor's Ward Loop setup, but constantly ran into issues where when I weapon-swapped, the loop would fail to start like 80% of the time and I would need to continuously weapon swap for like twenty seconds to finally get it started, like trying to start an old lawnmower.

I'm interested in trying again, what's the best guide for a wardloop build? I'll probably need more than just a POB, since the build is insanely ridiculous in terms of all the different mechanics you need to stack, so a full guide would be better.

Worst comes to worst, I can just give Raixor's guide another shot.

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SSF RF + Fire Trap. What clusters are the best? [ maybe not the best but which one are ok ] Got 3 big nosed fire damage jewel but doesnt know if it is good one.

Posted: 30 May 2022 08:57 AM PDT

Hey, I randomly got this jewel today. Is it a good jewel?

I saw on poe trade that they are worth only 1 ex so probably not good one https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Sentinel/EbXazDKS5 ]

jewel

I wonder if I should keep it or keep rerolling. If it is a decent/good jewel then can you help me with fitting it in my build? https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/seba11pl/characters/RF_SSF_Razena_____

I know I have garbage items, if I get Mavens boots I would lack a lot of resists. I need to upgrade rings, gloves, and belt. [not counting amulet, i would prefer to have +2 amulet with garbage stats, not counting helmet, it is not rational but I still belive Horror Essence will hit. Atm I am working on armor upgrade, I have a new armor but I can't wear it yeat becuase of not being able to connect it to 6L, wasted over 1000 fusings and I gave up, now I spare all fusings :(.

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What's the best uber bosser on a 100 ex budget with mageblood ?

Posted: 30 May 2022 08:54 AM PDT

Hello,

I've got a cold BV occultist that I use to map and i'm looking for a tanky bossing-only character that could do all uber bosses. Any idea ?

Thanks a lot !

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Three minute uber-maven with phantasmal cremation.

Posted: 30 May 2022 04:58 AM PDT

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Skeleton Mage - Next Investment

Posted: 30 May 2022 08:26 AM PDT

Hi All,

I have been fortunet to have aquired 10ex, what can i upgrade next to recieve the most bang for my buck?

https://pastebin.com/GkqtxQd5

Cheers!

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Late Skeleton Mages progression

Posted: 30 May 2022 02:24 AM PDT

POB: https://pastebin.com/DL15rsNi

I'm a little stuck on where to go from here. I can afford Ashes of the Stars, but I see people drop Alberons for this, and according to POB it's a pretty big dps loss (-2 skellies). My weapon can obviously be improved, but after this I'm not sure. And whats required for CI?

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Is LS a speed clearing build?

Posted: 30 May 2022 08:16 AM PDT

I'm more so wondering if the a good portion of the damage comes from the lighting on the ground of the attack itself, I saw for Bosses it's optimal to position just far enough to hit the boss with both the strike and the projectiles. But I'm looking to play a LS toon to mostly speed clear maps on somewhat of a budget.

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Just another "FR COC wat do" post

Posted: 30 May 2022 08:11 AM PDT

yo!

POB first: https://pastebin.com/v0cQjZPM

last league I hit my first lvl 100, after that I wanted to roll a FR COC for fun with melding / ashes / aegis but never got around to it and ran out of steam.

this league my goal was to farm a mageblood and swap to FR COC, I've only ever played self poison COC and thought this would be fun to do a real COC build.

anyway I've got this put together, i'm a little squishy still (severe lack of ES) but it's more than usable to continue farming.

I know a list of things I need to improve:

higher level gems everywhere
large ele cluster to replace my second chaos cluster
double elevated tailwind/cdr boots to hit next breakpoint
ashes amulet + investing in alt gems
fix auras (currently don't have zealotry running)
fractured grasping mail, maybe skin of the lords in the mean time while i save for that?
maybe get despair on hit ring + ES gloves w/ good eldritch mods
maybe better res on terrible rings/ammys so I can go without a res flask (maybe basalt w/ increased res suffix?)
gg dagger w/ double damage and +1 chaos gems

I think that's about it, but I guess I'm wondering how I should prioritize those upgrades because some of them are cheap (6-12ex) and others are 40-50ex

I was thinking:

ele large cluster
despair on hit ring, high es gloves w/ unnerve and max cold res
fix auras (probably a cheap +1 ammy w/ charisma, level 4 enlighten, discipline reservation mastery)
double elevated boots for next breakpoint

maybe that order is wrong though? I've got about 20ex right now, another 30 if I sell my entire stash.

anyone have any prioritization tips? thanks!

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Finally, I found my main Skill ! bad English) sry.

Posted: 30 May 2022 07:31 AM PDT

Finally, I found my main skill Traps! I found a video on Youtube but i understand is so bad he run to the biggest bosses and kill it but i start it and die from t1 maps 3k hp full res but 0 dmg ... and die instand permanent and is extreme frustrating for me one here to help me to say main stats and what in need for stats on items ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoOEy75SPTo&t=1241s

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Elementalist or Berserker build for newbie

Posted: 30 May 2022 07:30 AM PDT

Budget: 0 I played before and got 45 lvl but my incinerate is bad at clearing now and i want to start again fresh.I want some cool looking skills and nice clear speed for build.I can play necromancer too.

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How do you scale Spider damage?

Posted: 30 May 2022 07:22 AM PDT

Pretty much the title, wondering how you scale spider damage late game?

I have one cluster that does minion damage and attack speed, should I stack more of these?

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Cyclone Slayer struggling with defenses

Posted: 30 May 2022 07:21 AM PDT

Hey guys,

I'm in need of some help and thought it's a good place to ask. I've tried couple builds this league but Cyclone Shockwave Slayer finally caught me. Got to level 91, farming t16s and everything is going good mostly. Invested a decent amount of currency into the builds, mapping is smooth and bosses are doing great.

I do struggle with defenses from time to time tho. I just get randomly one shotted. It's happening more and more lately so I decided to ask if there's anything I can do or sth that I missed while gearing my character.

I know the content is pretty rough this league and Slayer will just get one shotted sometimes, but I feel like it shouldn't happen every time I pop a Sentinel on Expedition or Harbringer. Below is the pob link, I'd appriciate every suggestion.

https://pastebin.com/vHDDKgMe

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Spectral Throw, at its finest | 56M DPS | Uber Ubers and Invitations

Posted: 30 May 2022 01:02 AM PDT

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

A little showcase of all the uber ubers and maven invitations

PoB: https://pastebin.com/d2XwVVCc

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