Path of Exile 2 Builds - POE 2 ✧ Lahkesis Queen of Chaos ✧ "Essence Drain " (Lich Chaos Ascendancy 0.2.2) Coming soon - Forum

Im close to finish act 1 and i having a good time. But im wondering what gem setup are you running through the acts?	Posted by Rasmussen52#3533 on Apr 5, 2025, 3:58:17 AM Quote this Post
You can check at poe2 ninja: https://poe2.ninja/builds/ From my experience last patch, I'd say unleash on contagion is the must, other is up to preference. Most popular setup is magnified effect on contagion, swift afliction/zenith for ED, I believe. Chain on ED is also very popular, as it helps for clearing (not required if you have nleash on contagion, though). And I still hardly see any reason to use >lvl 1 contagion. Even though it contradicts philosophy of GGG as they told they want us to want to level up gems, as long as contagion level up is just damage, it's really hard to justify increase in mana cost. Last edited by adavydow#2566 on Apr 5, 2025, 7:29:05 AM	Posted by adavydow#2566 on Apr 5, 2025, 6:30:48 AM Quote this Post
GGG really needs an option to look at poe2 characters on people's accts, unless I'm just missing it, tried a minion build, hated it, want to try this so I guess I'm just gonna go in blind until more info is out there, but thanks @jack3dm#0444 for the passive tree Edit, I'm liking the build and everything seems alright, except my single target dps seems super low, hoping it gets better, just got to a2 normal Edit 2 - I'm in a3 now and the single target dps is kinda low still, but there's a couple things I'm getting soon that should help, but looking at what everyone's recommending for ascended points Price of Power should be one, but I'm not seeing where the power charge generation is coming from to support it. Last edited by bobmcbob124#6339 on Apr 6, 2025, 2:59:50 AM	Posted by bobmcbob124#6339 on Apr 5, 2025, 7:24:15 AM Quote this Post
" adavydow#2566 wrote: Going to leaguestart ED again, and as everybody I'm looking at lih ascendancy (25 and 30% more damage nodes are too juicy to ignore). However, I'm having slight concerns about defenses. Has anybody tried Soulless Form already? In particular, I'm interested the following interactions: 1. MOM - do we still lose mana if hit while we have ES (I assume yes)? 2. Eternal youth or ES recoup: in this case we always have ES. I assume that if it is depleted in one hit damage is taken on life? And no way to regen life in this case? 3. Event Horizon life loss. Is it ignored while we have ES? 4. How does it interact with Heavy Buffer and uniques like Aziri's helmet? Reading the description looks like bypassed damage is just ignored, but it sounds too good to be true as we would be able to stack about 50% global damage reduction this way. 5. Is damage taken still registesed (ex. for recoup or ailment calculation) even if life is not changed? Overall, how annoying is life recovery with SF (I don't see any reasonable way other than instant lifeflask each time life is dropping down)? Will test it myself, but I'll be away from home today, so will be starting tomorrow, would really appreciate if somebody already has answers to these questions. 1. Yes. 2. Yes. 3. Yes. 4. Damage that is bypassing is ignored. You are also ignoring bleed and poison if you have ES. 5. Recoup is being registered even when ignored. If you have even 1 ES there is no way to change life. So to heal from low HP and full ES the only way is to remove all ES gear.	Posted by Imm3k#0816 on Apr 6, 2025, 4:11:02 PM Quote this Post