Random transfigured build

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Nlckname#5587 wrote:

Not sure if there's a way to get shaper influence on it without shaper exalted orb, so i'll try to get a shaper kill before crafting.

If you only need the influence and don't need to hit a shaper exalt slam for a particular mod, you can randomize an item's influence with harvest. So any of the influence exalts will get there.

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SunsetVista#4840 wrote:

If you only need the influence and don't need to hit a shaper exalt slam for a particular mod, you can randomize an item's influence with harvest. So any of the influence exalts will get there.

Well, seems like i have a lot to learn about crafting. I'm playing on trade league, but i thought it becomes very boring when i buy whatever i need from the trade. Moreover, i managed to defeat Shaper, but in six portals. I guess i have to practice it a bit if i want one-portal run.

Now about the helmet: i've got a ilvl 82 crown from the ritual and bought shaper's exalt and a bunch of corrupted essences.



There's another method i thought about. It's more effective, but requires expensive fossils i don't have currency for (don't try it, suff. cannot be changed - reforge crit on 2-suffix shaper helmet will always add +#% crit chance so you can use essences as before):



Now i think about crafting a +2 dagger for myself. Crafting method is the same as described here.
However, i don't need any "damage over time", therefore i'll get other fractured mod and final multicraft.

I've made the knife:



Interesting fact: I found out, that in the trade league elder guardian maps cost about 6c (chaos orbs) and drop you a fragment that cost about 16c. Free money, right? I also managed to do a maven invitation with these guards. That's how i get all the currency i needed to make this knife.

Now let's get back to the challenge:

Incarnation of Neglect: This fight is the best one i had in this challenge. Boss could easily destroy me with his default attack (three accelerating projectiles) and i had to avoid them as much as i could. As a result, i was dashing around, occasionally throwing some traps into him. And he was also dashing around, occasionally attacking me. We were two duelists fighting each other to the death. Just like the game was trying to say: "You should forget any neglectance. Show your respect."

Incarnation of Fear: For some reason i couldn't see dangerous fireballs that deal huge fire DoT. I died a couple of times because of it. The rest of the battle was simple enough. Incarnation of Fear is slow and my fire resistance was good enough to survive his attacks.

Incarnation of Dread: I couldn't record the end of the questline properly. My OBS was lagging very hard, therefore the whole fight was nothing but a slideshow. This recording seems to be much better. Well, the whole fight is as easy as Incarnation of Fear fight.

Final PoB: https://pobb.in/Yom1wXuU3V45. I've taken this from poe.ninja and changed configuration a bit:
- I'm always on low life because of my RF
- I always have maximum endurance charges because of low life and my graft
- Wave of Conviction applies fire exposure. I can cast it twice and always hit the fire exposure in the game.
- Enemy is on brittle ground, generated by my boots. What i have to do is to run through the enemy and it'll have this effect.
- I'm in sand stance, just like in the game itself.

I will continue with this build. It's strong enough and can tank some damage. My goal is to increase life pool (3k total life is too low) and get some protection from chaos damage. Chaos inoculation will remove about half of my damage, but will grant immunity to chaos damage. I guess i'll take it and find (buy from trade) Aegis Aurora for insane damage mitigation.

Exarch was certainly an adventure. The first attempt ended in startling failure. Fortunately, losing this fight only requires you to do another t16 map with influence to get the invitation again.

Failed Quest Exarch:
https://youtu.be/66lKQHaCtJ0

I took a small step back to evaluate my life choices, er, build decisions, and think through a solution. I ran a bunch of labs to get quality on the warcries.

Maybe one or two days passed before I was ready to attempt again.

There are several important differences from before. I have Unwavering Stance from the start and manually curse with Elemental Weakness while he's above half life and switch to Punishment when he goes below half. I swapped pantheons to Solaris for the chance to avoid area damage from hits to help with his Annihilation barrage. I took off the Herald of Purity + Rallying Cry setup for Purity of Fire. Instead of auto Battlemage's Cry, I put Infernal Cry on Autoexertion and did a manual Enduring Cry.

Success! Quest Exarch down!
https://youtu.be/FV6XEGqWTJA

PoB:
https://pobb.in/h8PhurEiZKIJ

@Nlckname#5587

Thanks for showing the crafting steps! Grats on the sweet gear!

And wow, grats on the victories, too!

Watching the videos now.

edit 1, commenting on Neglect:



edit 2, commenting on Fear:



edit 3, commenting on Dread:


the final PoB you posted doesn't seem to have the right gear? I don't see the Dragonfang's anyway. Did you already replace it? Seems odd.

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Nlckname#5587 wrote:

I will continue with this build. It's strong enough and can tank some damage. My goal is to increase life pool (3k total life is too low) and get some protection from chaos damage. Chaos inoculation will remove about half of my damage, but will grant immunity to chaos damage. I guess i'll take it and find (buy from trade) Aegis Aurora for insane damage mitigation.

Sounds good! Congrats on the challenge victory! Which boss dies next?

Good job with the exarch.

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SunsetVista#4840 wrote:

I took off the Herald of Purity + Rallying Cry setup for Purity of Fire

Looks like you have alot of expirience in this fight: dodging during the ball phase is way better than what i can normaly get. I'm not sure purity of elements do much (except capping your fire resistance), but PoB says it helps you survive two hits at once, which should be good.

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SunsetVista#4840 wrote:

I took a small step back to evaluate my life choices, er, build decisions

By the way, there's a good question about our life choices:

We're playing off-meta builds, that don't have insane damage numbers (well, fire trap of blasting is litteraly blasting if you play as saboteur / elementalist), require intense thinking and, probably, way slower than meta-builds. There's no reason to do this in the leaguestart (in a trade league, where your goal is to become as rich as possible). You can clearly see this, because no one else left any message here (or i somehow missed it). I guess this might change in the next month, when people will search for some interesting ideas they can do while waiting for the next update.

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SunsetVista#4840 wrote:

Sounds good! Congrats on the challenge victory! Which boss dies next?

*Died. It was the Elder. Very unfair boss: he can stun my character and apply a strong degen. I had to drink almost all of my tomato juice (a.k.a. life flask) to survive this. However, after a portal phase starts it's almost a 100% victory. I think i'll upload this in a couple of days)

I guess these bosses left:
- shaper (i still want a single portal run, but it requires practice)
- cortex (and his guardians, they are much more dangeorus for me)
- sirus (haven't tried this one yet, but must be possible)
- maven (very hard for me right now)
- breachlords

Right now I want to make some crafts for my armour, because i need more evasion, physical damage mitigation, supress chance and a bit more chaos resistance. I'll lose some elemental resistances on my gear, but it seems like i should handle this by using flasks.

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Nlckname#5587 wrote:

Looks like you have alot of expirience in this fight: dodging during the ball phase is way better than what i can normaly get. I'm not sure purity of elements do much (except capping your fire resistance), but PoB says it helps you survive two hits at once, which should be good.

Thank you! I feel I've gotten a lot more practice with the ball phase and all the bosses in general because of this challenge. In regular play it makes sense to overwhelm the fights as fast as possible with high dps to avoid the dangerous mechanics. But here, with less powerful builds, we can't really count on doing that. Purity of Fire is for the max fire res. Even the lvl19 +3 max leads to a lot less damage taken. Lvl 20 gives +4 max but I was impatient.

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Nlckname#5587 wrote:

I guess this might change in the next month, when people will search for some interesting ideas they can do while waiting for the next update.

I hope so! It'd be a lot of fun to see more peoples' runs too!

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Nlckname#5587 wrote:

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SunsetVista#4840 wrote:

Sounds good! Congrats on the challenge victory! Which boss dies next?

*Died. It was the Elder. Very unfair boss: he can stun my character and apply a strong degen. I had to drink almost all of my tomato juice (a.k.a. life flask) to survive this. However, after a portal phase starts it's almost a 100% victory. I think i'll upload this in a couple of days)

I guess these bosses left:
- shaper (i still want a single portal run, but it requires practice)
- cortex (and his guardians, they are much more dangeorus for me)
- sirus (haven't tried this one yet, but must be possible)
- maven (very hard for me right now)
- breachlords

Right now I want to make some crafts for my armour, because i need more evasion, physical damage mitigation, supress chance and a bit more chaos resistance. I'll lose some elemental resistances on my gear, but it seems like i should handle this by using flasks.

For Elder I like to make a long duration Sapphire Flask (+5 max cold res, his slow/freeze/drain move deals cold damage) and craft life regen on it. And maybe a sulphur flask too, to make consecrated ground for more regen. The consecrated ground can also heal Shaper during the binding/portal phase.

Maven's almost always the hardest for me. And now Sirus is part of The Feared, so that'll be fun.