Path of Exile

As mentioned in chat last night: Presenting the Arn's Hurry Up and Wait Slayer build!
I also thought about calling it the '6-pack of Stones' build, but I don't think that's as catchy.

It's not perfected due to items being a mix of what I have (cheap) and what I could reasonably expect to get (cheap), but it's the basic gist of what I'm working towards. I started out trying to go crit but it was just too annoying to gear and felt totally gimped on conquerors/bosses if you didn't crit them for half their health so I'm now working towards this RT + impale build.

The playstyle is the selling point IMO. You get off a ~1sec sunder and then dash follow the wave which goes 1.5 - 2 screens worth of destruction as long as seismic cry is giving you increased area. For bosses you take a few secs to power up a few warcries for charges and then go in. Also check out the pob defensive numbers with Vaal Grace up, lol. I haven't tested vaal grace yet, but it looks to make the build almost immortal for 10 secs. Though I'm sure I'll find a way to break that assumption


I've also been experimenting with getting sunder to have permanent huge knockback. It's kind of a bitch tho due to only having KB distance from the fending nodes on the tree and from the KB support gem. I've got 88% chance to KB on exerted attacks from divergent seismic cry so that solves a past issue with %chance, but getting the max distance from those 2 things really seems like it's not worth it for this build. Maybe a crimson dance bleed build that can stack max bleeds with 1 sunder button press? Dunno, but that's a lot different than this one since with Arn's it's all about triple damage hits.


Anyway, what do we think? Lots of room for improvement from the GG crafters we have here, but I'm not one of those

Does anyone know how much HP/life the various bosses have? Specifically conquerors and Sirus. I seem to recall one of the streamers saying Shaper had 40M hp but I can't seem to find a list of stats for this on a search just yet.

Reason I ask is that I plugged Earthshatter into my build and it's saying that if you hit a boss with 15 spikes it's like 40M damage... unless I'm reading it wrong.

Deathwing said:

Sirus is around 70-75M HP, so is Shaper. Not sure on Maven or Conquerors.

Very unlikely for all spikes in one set to hit a humanoid target. There's overlap for sure, just not sure what the average count is.

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Ya I seem to remember that was one of the nerfs recently, to make it so ES couldn't overlap all 5 spikes per hit like it could originally.

Still though, that might be an option for the tough bosses to just wreck them faster: swap in ES. It's not necessary for map bosses though IMO.

Deathwing said:

Sunder that good for clear? I'll admit I haven't even tried it once since they remade it.

I can't say with any certainty that Earthshatter reliably hit with all 5 spikes before 3.13. Just that they made it less reliable. Even then, if you get 3 spikes, it's something silly like 400% weapon damage per use, when factoring in skill attack speed modifiers.

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Well, I have the max reduced wave delay you can get without doing quality shenanigans (helm enchant + anomalous gem) and I've set it up for it to basically kill everything in one wave which you can follow. For open maps, it's kind of meh and it's also a little annoying on maps that have twists and turns because the skill 'dead ends' for lack of a better term if you don't aim it quite right. Where it shines is corridor style maps and delving. With enough damage per hit you can really get going fast and you're clearing 1.5 - 2 screens at a time per sunder. Tap sunder - dash follow the wave and keep warcries up.

The advanced technique for tougher stuff in open maps is to tap - follow one direction then repeat back the opposite direction to clear anything you might have missed that's following you. Likely this wouldn't be necessary with an explode chest but I don't have that. The other idea I've had in this regard is to do something like a 'box pattern' clear for open maps. That being tap - follow right -> tap - follow down -> tap - follow left -> tap - follow up. I need more play testing but this should clear an area of a map equivalent to almost 3 screens on a side. I like that there's techniques that might be thought up for this to make it work rather than just throwing money and gear at it. At least IMO.


Is any of this as good as something like the HH BV stuff I've seen? Not really since you're very directional so stuff can 'get behind you' for lack of a better term and you attack slowly so fast moving enemies can be annoying. I've found that using shockwave support with decent AOE helps fix this since the shockwave will kill any small enemies near you if you hit an enemy point blank. That's why I tried to make it really tanky via the evasion/dodge route which I've never done before. I also don't actually have most of the stuff to make this work yet. I need a vulnerability ring, a different amulet, I need to six link my chest still, I need an overlord cluster jewel and a mob mentality jewel which are all necessary to transition from what I have now which is kind of half-assed compared to what I linked above.

Also, I don't play this game for max clear or max farming or anything. I watch those youtube vids about how to 'farm uber monies!' and they always start with 1-15 ex on watchstones... WTF? If I could afford to spend multiple EX on fucking watchstones and sextants I wouldn't need to watch the fucking vid! Sigh. I don't have the playtime to even approach something like that. Though I will say this league is nice with valdo's rest harbinger farming. That's really nice for guys like me who have a tough time going from league starter type farming to anything more.


So, yeah, rant aside just be aware that what I think is good is probably night and day from what you or Aladain or Kythik would think is good. No hate, it's just what it is All I'll say with much confidence is that Sunder is better for clear than Earthshatter in most situations from what I've found.