How to scale non crit whirling assault?

Im running Alkaizers pathfinder whirling assault in Hardcore - Pathfinder Whirling Assault - PoE 2 Ranger Build Guide but im lacking damage running temple atm. everything is pretty much the same but im running a majority of my travel nodes as 5% attack instead.

My tooltip for whirling assault is sitting around 37k (48k buffed).
I have room to upgrade my weapon as well but ive failed upwards of 1000 div making a new one at this point so im looking for other possibilities as my damage has really hit a wall in temple where its taking approximately 40+min to clear a full simple built one.

Ive also tried switching to a crit version but it was very difficult to actually get enough crit chance/damage without sacrificing thousands of ES as the build is very point heavy traveling all the way down to Fast Metabolism. Any help would be appreciated!

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Elpenor_the_womble•5 months ago•1

i know this a lich ( https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/not_persephone-9760/character/Astolfo_pregnant ) instead of maximising phys i’m going for as much cold as possible i’ve got 230k tooltip and only need tempest bell for pinnacle and citadel bosses. bhatir vengeance is huge for my damage taking me well over 380k in maps because it scales with berserk giving closer to 80% of damage gained as extra cold. obviously being a lowlife lich gives me over 200% increased damage but you can definitely make up for that especially as a pathfinder

DaryltheRigger•5 months ago•1

I don’t want to bring you down but it seems like everything this build wants to do can be done with a Chayula or Invoker and still enabling crit.

Here is the PoB to my Whirling Assault Chayula

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/blgmike-5184/character/bltchfistV

What I don’t like about the link you provided is that Ancestral Cry absolutely blows any other warcry out of the water for supporting Whirling Assault. Empowering WA with it makes it ancestral boosted for duration making you create 3 spins instead of one. Stacking these with Tribal Fury absolutely deletes temple rooms. I will go into a spymaster and evaporate the screen with one whirl under ancestral cry.

My build out damages, out leeches, out-survives the link you provided and I really think it’s trying to show-horn in too much.

MaskerLVQ•5 months ago•1

You are missing headhunter belt. Either be ritualist ascendency or using headhunter. HH is just too good. I’m running whirling assault ritualist. Clearing temple 2-3 man party is just fine

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