3.11 - Stress-Free PoE! RF HAPPY: No Required Items! 1-Button Play! SSF League Start-End!

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StandardFiend wrote:

I should also like to point out that Call to Arms is decidedly NOT a waste of two passive points. Being able to instantly refill your health without breaking stride with Cyclone or whatever else is very good.

Ah right, I didn't think of that, good point.

So I managed to take down Drox with 2 stones but it was painful - I only died once when I missed a heal but it took 27 minutes for me to kill him. NO joke that took forever.. I still need to level my gems so hoping it will get better..

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Hellzwraith wrote:

So I managed to take down Drox with 2 stones but it was painful - I only died once when I missed a heal but it took 27 minutes for me to kill him. NO joke that took forever.. I still need to level my gems so hoping it will get better..

Sadly, the Chieftain ascendancy that you are missing makes a pretty big impact, so without that I don't think the build will ever work well.

But if next league you go for this build properly, and get the Chieftain as intended, you will find it will work much better. Drox with 2 stones is no-sweat for me right now, using this build.

Well looking through my characters I found a lvl 69 Hc Chieftain from a few leagues ago.. Ill go suicide him and play him for a few weeks until the new league.. Haha !!

So after thinking about how to change up this build I realized something: The Ball lightning link is pretty inefficient. We are using an entire 4L to do just 2 things: Apply a curse, and do non-fire damage. The second can be done in many ways, including by Cylcone and lightning/cold dmg to attacks.

Cursing through Cyclone would be ideal since its range is larger than RF so anything would get cursed before getting inside RF. And there are a few ways to go about this.

1; We could drop the Fortify gem, and move Cyclone to a 4L with Inspiration, Curse on hit and Flammability. To retain fortify I've found two options that feel realistic:
- Shaper influenced 2H swords can have "Melee Movement Skills have [30-50]% chance to Fortify on Hit".
- Elder influenced 2H weapons can have "Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 1 Fortify"
- Elder influenced boots can have "Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 20 Fortify"
This leaves us with an empty 3L we can use.


Also, we could get our 6L RF from an Elder helmet that has "Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 20 Burning Damage" + "Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 20 Concentrated Effect"


Going further, this could be a starting point for a Kaom's Heart build. How about this:


Kaom's Heart chest (preferably with a good corruption, like -6% Fire damage taken)

Elder boots
* "Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 20 Fortify"
- Cyclone
- Inspiration
- Curse on Hit
- Flammability

Elder helmet "6L"
* "Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 20 Burning Damage"
* "Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 20 Concentrated Effect"
- RF
- Inspiration
- Elemental focus
- Efficacy

6L 2H weapon
- CwDT
- | Wave of Conviction
- | Purifying Flame
- | Combustion
- | Stone Golem [Supported by Combustion!]
- | Holy Relic [Supported by Combustion!]

Any gloves (ideally with corruption: +# to Level of Socketed Gems/Aura Gems. "Hands of the High Templar" could be fun.)
- CwDT
- | Immortal Call
- Malevolence
- Purity of Fire

Unset ring
- Flame Dash (or movement skill of choice)

Unset ring
- Enduring Cry
& Any belt
-- OR --
Elder belt
* Grants Level 22 Enduring Cry Skill
& Any ring

Any amulet


The above build requires to get very specific gear in almost all slots, but in return retains all of the gems (or their effects) from the original.

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StormHUN wrote:

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Hey Wrecker, thank you for looking into my build! :)

My biggest issue I think is that sometimes I get abysmal lag and freezeups, so I can't use my Life flasks if I get a big burst in the face...

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When the game decides to run smoothly I have great FPS and no issues (apart from logging into the game for the first time that day taking 15-30 minutes, and loading screens on average taking 5-10 minutes...).

But every now and then the game decides that every time something new appears on the screen I get freezes ranging from 1-2 sec to 15-20 sec, and FPS ranging from 3-4 to less than 1. :( Eg. when I get the Syndicate intervention ambush, the game is a slideshow until they die.

I also bought a cluster jewel with "Corrupted blood cannot be applied to you", and run a ring with "Cannot be frozen" so I won't die from not being able to use my flask because of unresponsive game.

But if I get a heavy burst when lagging/freezing and can't use the flask because of it, I die. I've completely wasted 2 Blighted maps and several blight encounters thanks to insane lag and freezeups.

This is actually one of the reasons I play tank builds only, and the reason I love this one so much because RF does its thing even if my game is unresponsive or heavily lagging.

So I wonder if there is anything I can do to mitigate these bursts? Immortal Call does help but it isn't always ready when needed.

I could free up gem slots if there is any gem that would help. Eg. the CwDT + Ball lightning + Curse on hit + Flammability could be replaced with Flamm + Blasphemy support, giving 2 extra slots (tho I guess that means I need to move an aura into an Essence Worm, or use an Aul's Uprising with "Purity of Fire/Malevolance reserves no mana") or use a Heretic's Veil Unique helmet with:
+1 to Level of Socketed Curse Gems
Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 22 Blasphemy
Socketed Curse Gems have 12% reduced Mana Reservation
And have the remaining 3 slots for whatever. (The ele dmg for equilibrium is taken care of by my weapon which adds both Lightning and Cold dmg, and I hit with Cyclone)

Maybe adding Enfeeble, and something that increases curse limit? But that only helps with physical. Or maybe I really should just go Kaom's Heart.

Hey StormHUN!

I'm really sorry for the late response! I forgot to post on my guides that I was going away for over a week. I'm sorry to make you wait.

There's only so much that can be done around surviving lag. It's a hard circumstance to be in. Pure defence of offence, like you said, is a huge help, but it does take the damage out of the game for the non-laggy moments...which are more frequent. Adding Enfeeble instead of Flammability would be a huge step. Especially if you got rid of Malevolence for it. It'd even give you the space for Artic Armour if you wanted. The items you listed would be a big help obviously. Lag is a hard thing to plan around.

You obviously know what you're doing...but I think the hard answer is the sacrifice of damage. I'll keep replying to the other posts and see what you've come up with.

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mastermacros wrote:

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I love you builds and love your item filters. It has helped me enjoy the game so much more. May I please ask for direction to an easy bow build?

Hey mastermacros!

I'm really sorry for the late response! I forgot to post on my guides that I was going away for over a week. I'm sorry to make you wait.

Thanks for taking the time to be so kind :). I'm glad to hear you like the filters. They dont' have an official place for feedback so it's nice to hear. Thank you.

I don't have a build for bows but for easy one-button playing, Caustic Arrow is really good with either an Occultist or Trickster. Ballista Totem Support is really cool for non-DOT bow skills too...or a DOT that can have multiple applications to it (like poison). BUT if you go with a "self-casting" DOT like Caustic Arrow, you don't even have to focus on accuracy. So if you're new to bow builds, it's a good introduction. I love Elemental Hit with Ballista Totems...but it's hard to choose which type of damage to focus on (Crit, Ailments, general damage, etc). But EH would be great with the Raider.

I know the response is late, but maybe that gets your mind jogging? Sorry I don't have a guide ready for you.

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StandardFiend wrote:

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Many thanks, Wrecker! I appreciate it. Thankfully, no harm was done and although they are still working on the fire, my community seems to be out of danger for the time being.

Taking a break from PC PoE, I've been doing a "lore-through" on the PS4 edition (naturally building this RF guy again lol). Man oh man, I don't know how you do it, Wrecker. The PS4 edition is borderline unplayable... It crashed every. Single. Time. I play. Without fail. And picking up items is an absolute nightmare.

And yet I still bought PS4 stash tabs this weekend...

Anyway, I've been sticking to your setup 100% this time, using Cyclone and all that. Haven't put in Inspiration yet, because I'm lacking a good Unset ring for my movement skill, but other than that. And overall I see the downsides of my chosen path on my PC guy more clearly now, and I may be tempted to switch over. I just love my Shaper Kamehameha SR so much haha

Hey StandardFiend!

I'm really sorry for the late response! I forgot to post on my guides that I was going away for over a week. I'm sorry to make you wait.

I'm glad all is well. Hope is an amazing thing. I hope it proves true and that "normal" returns soon. I'll be praying for you (seriously). (In my little pocket of the world people say that apathetically.)

A lore playthrough! Good for you! I've always wanted to do one! I really wish I had gotten around to it earlier on as each character has such cool dialogue through the campaign.

PS4 does seem to have more issues that Xbox in terms of crashes. I don't have a PS4, but a lot of the issues that people mention to me when they play my builds on console, don't seem to happen to me while I play. Though, this game is so complex behind the scenes, who knows what the issue could be. That being said, I have my fair share amount of "rubberbanding" and minute-long lags. Cyclone in Delve? Yikes. Blight with lots of minions? Also yikes.

My filters revolve around my gameplay on console. Console life is the main reason I take filters so seriously. I want to pick everything up so that I don't have to flick that right-analog stick. It takes getting used to for sure.

It's kind cool though playing a different way, even when it's the "same" build. It's amazing how much we learn about the game even with small changes. Good for you trying it out.

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StormHUN wrote:

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Meh... ever since I'm doing red maps, I keep dying A LOT.

And I literally couldn't win a single Blight encounter out of the last 10, I die every single time. Even if I don't lag, the lanes just do so much damage that even with my health flasks I simply can't keep up.

And I do watch map mods. :(

Blight is hard for builds that don't have big AoE's or that are defence-first. Most people leave their Blighted maps Normal (white). The quantity of the map doesn't change the Blight chests' outcome. Maybe try that?

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Hansen_Haryono wrote:

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Lv 92, 5800k HP, trying Sirus for the first time. Lost at the last sequence where all the laser thing compiling around the screen. Back to red mapping then..

Hey Hansen_Haryono!

I'm really sorry for the late response! I forgot to post on my guides that I was going away for over a week. I'm sorry to make you wait.

The Sirus fight takes a lot of getting used to. A LOT. It's poorly done and takes forever to get back there. Hang in there. Hopefully one day they'll change it.