[0.2] The Fartmaster (poison spear Ritualist, all content viable)

So i made this build as challenge after reading some post threat full of complains. I used "useless mechanic" - posion and based build on 2 "useless uniques" - Splinter of Loratta - lvl 1 weapon with 1ex pricetag and Plaguefinger, another lvl 1 unique for 1 ex that no1 use. The result is... suprisingly good.

The core of build is rather simple:

1/ Splinter of Loratta - grants unlimited stack of poison (default is just 1) with 100% poison on hit as nice bonus. Downside is the damage that match lvl 1 weapon.

2/ To fight nonexistent damage i have chosen to run ritualist as rings are the best source of flat damage.

3/ Plaguefinger - by default, poison is calculated from phys+chaos, but my damage comes from rings (and 2 weapon runes) which comes with alot of elemental damage. Plaguefinger enables all elemental damage as poison base


Along with skill tree focused on boosting poison, it creates TONS of deadly poison. So much that i can use plague nova (huge fart) after every attack. Game play of standard T16 map is usualy just run into enemies while altering attack and fart while everything just keeps dying. Infront of me, all around me and tougher enemies behind me.

Rotations are pretty easy. Mapping is just Lightning spear and big fart, boss is storm lance and big fart. Just 3 buttons. Unfortunately dont have space for curse, but herald of plague is not realy needed for bosses, so it can be changed for chaos resist curse.

T16 map
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szUB_5mdoVI

T18 damage/survivability check
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySVj0KhiLv0

T4 Olroth, probably hardest boss for this build as he just kept running out of storm lances, too mobile, alot of fast attacks, slows and freeze... Hate this boss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szSrFGmPU3c

T4 Xesht
old - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGyTk1W_yAc
new - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj-0uoE__88

T4 King in da Mists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbZxPpJXx4k

T4 Simulacrum (last wave)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxPBIxTK-O4

"Uber" Zaroth (full "Against the Darkness" sanctum run with Desperate Alliance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEBRA8NVOR8

Build:
https://poe2.ninja/profile/character/103maonoggb01/DwaneDibbley-4615/DwaneDibbley_poison

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/83f31ae6-9af7-4fca-b4d3-cdac3403a5c4/builds/9aab5ce9-d9bf-4653-8948-9fc5e08df47e

Added T4 King vid

Hey there,

Just came across your build and looks pretty good, just wondering, is it possible to level up as the build or need to switch at any stage?

Just seeking some guidance on it.

Thanks

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Khorne_The_Hungerer#6611 wrote:

Hey there,

Just came across your build and looks pretty good, just wondering, is it possible to level up as the build or need to switch at any stage?

Just seeking some guidance on it.

Thanks

I lvled as this. Kinda. It was creative/learning process with alot of experimenting. I grabbed weapon and gloves at lvl 1 (or 2) and never changed it. So its possible to lvl as this, but might be not "the most optimal".

You will just need to cast mark on bosses manualy and it will probably feel clunky due to low crit chance before you get crit nodes/gear, so single target damage will be inconsistent.

Another question is how well you will fill farts. I rly "discovered" its power later thru campaign as my early stages were focused mostly on ways of poison distribution/stacking (twisters were interesting, but i needed scattershot on lance). Campaign maps has lower monster density, so im not sure how effective will LS with volt/gambleshot be in early stages.

It was fun leveling as this altho not as fast as tangletongue meta.

Nice, much appreciated.

Will see how it goes, looking forward to it.

T4 simulacrum cleared (added clip of last wave). Sceptre with discipline instead of malice might be better choice for high tier simulacrum, might test it if i get one but im saving for rings now.

Also optimised skilltree pathing, getting 2 extra points in process.

This is probably my last update in 0.2. I have reached lvl 95 and lvling further is imho not worth it. Got solid gear and further upgrades (like better attack rings or prism of belief with +3 fart) are rather expensive. So i will probably conserve this build till 0.3 (or maybe 0.2.1 if it brings some interesting unique). Moving to another build i wanted to make for awhile now.

Updating Xesht run with current setup (most notable changes are better rings, +2 projectiles amulet and spear with rage corruption)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj-0uoE__88

Nice

Well... I got abit lucky on my new main and got Desperate Alliance while doing sanctum for ascending. So i decided to make one more clip with "uber" Zarokh. Actually recorded whole run as alot of players find it somehow hard just to demonstrate its rather chilling experience. Unfortunately had to take "merchant has only one offer" so it wasnt that good, still managed to pretty much faceroll boss while eating his lightning attacks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEBRA8NVOR8

Added Mobalytics link

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/83f31ae6-9af7-4fca-b4d3-cdac3403a5c4/builds/9aab5ce9-d9bf-4653-8948-9fc5e08df47e


Also, new Palm of the Dreamer might be great addition to the build, but its superexpensive, so not tested.