Help with searing exarch please?

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onomastikon#6270 wrote:

I had no idea depth did not matter in delve.

I dont know if depth matters for Fossils in Ruthless but Fossils can be farmed right from the start of the mine.

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onomastikon#6270 wrote:

I've got a couple of fossils, but nothing really of use.

They can be rerolled with Harvest. Also read up on the wiki about zones and the Fossils which they can contain. https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Fossil

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onomastikon#6270 wrote:

I suppose I never understood delve crafting much and so in trade league just sold my fossils. I'll try to look it up.

When I still played Ruthless the "more xyz modifiers" didnt work though. The blockers did work. In some cases that made Fossils better, in others worse. Dont know if they changed that.

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onomastikon#6270 wrote:

(Also, because I've died twice on maps with weird mods to assassinations.)

Tier and map mods dont matter for most reward things. So Betrayal is one of those that can be used for burning low tier maps.

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onomastikon#6270 wrote:

If I may ask two more questions: With limited currency, how would you go about trying to roll Cluster Jewels (something I've basically never used and always sold in trade league)?

No simple answer. You need to know what you want and understand if its feasible or not. https://www.craftofexile.com/ can be very useful for this.
Example: If your whole goal is Exarch then you may want to get +maximum fire resist. In Ruthless Cluster is probably the cheapest Jewel way to achieve that. So you see in craftofexile 2.2% chance for "Molten One's Mark' on a lvl 70 cluster. Expected cost is thus ~50 Alts and some Augs. Whether this is feasible for you I dont know.
Also: If "**Gambling with Jewel Properties**" works on Clusters (no idea) it would be another option.

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onomastikon#6270 wrote:

Also, while I believe MoM has saved me from death on multiple occasions, I realize almost nobody uses it, and I might be better off trying to squeeze Haste in and dropping it,

MoM in principle can be good if you do Eternal Blessing + Important Aura. But whether this fits your build is another question. And you need Eternal Blessing which you may not have.

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onomastikon#6270 wrote:

Any tips that would not require me to respec entirely or to play another build (I am actually happy not playing an entirely cookie-cutter copy-and-paste poison SRS build) beyond what you have already said, which is very helpful indeed so far, appreciated.

Cant give proper build advice. One little thing I noticed is that you are not using "Withering Touch" in your main link. This may be a DPS upgrade and give additional Withering. Dont know if this is viable though as you need to have it and its green.

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onomastikon#6270 wrote:

Spoiler

PS.

So I am sort of looking at this:
https://pobb.in/1p8OE6MKklhy

I would need some time to gather oils to annoint Charisma, which I would need to be able to run it. I have no idea how it feels to run this. I traded MoM for more max ele resists and life, I am not sure that is a trap. Going to hold of respeccing into it until I can afford a bit more and re-re-spec ;)
(And remember that the Ascendencies for Ruthless are not accurate in PoB.)

EDIT:
Ugh, nevermind, I don't think I will be able to afford a Charisma annoint by league end, so this:
https://pobb.in/voZwQBjzSFXy
is the best I can do, which feels poor -- more max res for slightly less life and haste. I could take an 18% DPS dump and ditch Flesh Offering for Bone and cut even more corners somehow for Block, but that won't help me beat Exarch. That just doesn't sound good to me, but obviously I'm strange.

If Exarch is your goal then dumping MoM for 3 max fire resist seems questionable.

Guff might be an option for cluster jewels. I know a lot of people don't like the guff mechanic, but I think it is potential useful if you are trying to roll cluster jewels and have limited currency.

In normal delve the depth does mater for fossils, I think it is the same for ruthless. Once it starts getting too rough just go sideways though, you should still get decent rewards. I think you want to be going into the dark looking for them. I mainly stay on path delving, but people I talked to who were getting lots of fossils in ruthless were going off road to find them. One bloke had well over a 100 fossils and had not gone that deep, so it is possible to get them.

I do agree with the advice on trying to roll your chest amour, seems like it is a bit behind your other items. lvl 72 is probably good enough to hit something better if you can get enough materials to have a fair few goes at it and not end up with something worse. Whether that will make much difference over all on your build, im not sure. It get's hard to improve your build where you are upto, thats the kind of thing you need to be looking for.

If you are completely focused on doing exarch and think you are close to doing it, I don't think the tolerance wheel is helping you at all for that fight. Might be hard to respec if you want that back later, but that is 5 points that I don't think are helping you at all for that fight.