Path of Exile

I'm sure there's some user error involved, I only do UE once per league because the fight is financially not worth the long effort, so I was a bit rusty. I was concentrating on avoiding shit myself, deathmarking targets and they would die while I was focusing on that.

Anyone planned an ignite build in PoB this patch? I can't figure out a few things:

Where the fuck is it storing damage of time multipliers? The calc page doesn't seem to directly mention them anywhere.

I was planning a Divine Ire Ignite prolif build(only way to play Divine Ire IMO) and I do not understand why taking "increased fire damage" nodes lowers my ignite dps.


Would love a 3.8 guide for a crit-based ignite character. There aren't a whole lot of builds to copycat on poe.ninja. Dead league is dead.

Yeah, I'm already on my "finish challenges" build. Going to try a divine ire ignite prolif build. Bit worried about sustain, bit worried about boss damage. It's only ~2M shaper dps.

Taken.

VD poet's pen looks slow as shit.

And big disagree on Slave Drivers being faster than old WOrb. It's true that I've gotten my best BA times on this build, tied with static strike, that map is tailor made for Slave Drivers. Any map with walls, twists and turns, or an open layout, and they suffer noticeably where an old WOrb build with pops chugged right along. Not to say they aren't great for overall clearing, they are, but I wouldn't put them top tier.

Great for bossing, dps specifically. I think this was the first time I've prevented Chimera from doing any of his smoke phase. However, minions still gonna minion. They mitigated the retarded ai with boosts to minion movement speed and targeting range("aggressive") but they are still retarded minions. I hate that feeling like you're dragging your idiot dog on walk but he has to stop and smell every car. Slave Driver AI is worse because they have skittish AI.

Minion builds suffer from not feeling like you're projecting your power. So even though my Slave Driver Mana Guardian was pretty well geared, only need a Clarity Watcher's Eye, I'm probably going to switch a Divine Ire Ignite Elementalist. A quarter of the dps but perhaps much more fun! Or maybe I'll switch him to Baron Zombies, idk. Wicked Ward did not turn out as reliable as I'd hoped. It was still hard as hell to kill my guardian, but those time where I knew I wasn't getting any sustain was clenchy.

Didn't the VD build rely on pathfinder flask immunity that's been nerfed?

I'm not seeing how Mistress of Sacrifice is that big a deal. It's just some extra attack and move speed for you, right? Approximately equal to Onslaught?

I'm close to being done with a league once I pick a map to elder and farm, so map variety is important to me.

I have trouble trust the slave drivers kill everything in my wake, I guess. I'm a bit picky about being able to see everything die instead of trust it to die offscreen in the time it takes me to shield charge and leash them again.

I'm really surprised at the range of responses on spectres. Dropped like flies or died not at all. Like those times you're dealing with shaper immune and an elder donut. How do you prevent them from eating shaper beams or balls?

Yeah, my mana guardian is at 162% move speed. I couldn't fit the links for shield charge though, too much other shit. I'm not sure I want it anyway, the pathing on that skill is fucking horrible.

I'm sure I could mitigate spectres dieing on Uber Elder with some practice, I just don't care. I don't do the fight enough and on principle, you shouldn't crippled on a fight due to dumb AI.

There are probably a few people in this thread with HHs rotting in standard that they will likely just give you, if not let you borrow.