What up Exiles,
From what I've read, this Ascendancy Point offers nothing if you don't invest in armour. I'm at 62% PDR of 0 armour. My defense is 100% ES with CI. I see a lot of pure ES builds taking this, and want to understand if I'm missing something?
Maybe taking a Djinn / Command would be better?
It for sure works without armour, what would be the point of the node otherwise? It would just add armour to your current? How much armor do you need to activate it?
I'm 98 in hardcore as disciple and I run into packs and get sprint stunned and take very little damage. The node definitely works with no armor.
Damn now I need to go check. Im at like 63% Armour but didn't actually see if I had any dmg reduction
It should work without armour. I know there are other abilities that have a limit based on your armour but that one doesn't mention any.
Absolutely wrong. It covers one of ES’s weaknesses which is a bunch of small hits.
AFAIK picking up % increased armour nodes actually does nothing for that ascendancy point. As a CI pure ES char, you technically have 0 armour so X% increase on 0 is still 0.
It might help if you say where you have read that, because either your source is incorrect or you have misinterpreted it. The node definitely works without having armour.
Armour is a flat number that is used to calculate damage reduction of physical hits. I think the problem here maybe comes from understanding that or your character sheet. The percentage it shows on your sheet is an approximation of how much damage reduction you will be getting from armour.
So with 0 armour the sheet will say 0%. When you take that node you will still have 0 armour, but that percentage will rocket up to, for example, 62% and now you will be reducing the average physical hits by 62%, clearly a massive increase. The calculation to arrive at that percentage went from using just armour (0) to using armour + 60% of es (0+6,000 for example).
Hopefully that makes sense!
You guys think this stacks well with Mutable Star, and if it’s a good idea?
I was able to survive some crazy shit with that lol.
On top of having a decent life pool.
I got bored at this stage in the league and decided to spend many of my hard earned divines on a small project. Wouldn't it be funny to stack Energy shield for a min-level char? [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a027](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a027) Tabula rasa has relevant jewel mods noted on it in POB so the math actually works out since it doesn't seem to work properly in POB. second screenshot is with a lvl 29 discipline aura with 36% increased aura magnitude - I didn't wanna spend another several thousand divines on a support character, I just wanted to see how well it would work theoretically >3000 ES without aurabot is possible, however, its basically impossible in practice. As of now, there are \*18\* 2 socket uncorrupted crown of thorns left on trade - on average it takes \~11 to hit a 30% and then another 1 in 3 to get a 3 socket one. Hitting a double corrupt on said 3 socket would be better then my current one, but that's not plausible sadly. Same for the boots. Hitting a better double corrupt on the gloves and focus would likely be plausible, but I couldn't buy more bases from Finn. Grip of Kulemak 59% ES \*should\* be possible, but it already took me over 40 attempts to hit 57% so I think I'll just leave it as is. Belt I didn't find any other way besides the 25% corrupt to get ES without a level requirement - if anyone has any idea tell me. Amulet could sanctify for 19/19 but again, would require silly amounts of currency (each try is \~30 div as is with annoint + sanctify + quality). I \*think\* patient barrier should be best annoint, but correct me if I'm wrong. Total investment into this character so far is about 3000 divines, probably a bit more. further thoughts \- maximum technically possible is 3112 ES at level 2 unless I'm missing something important. POB [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a02a](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a02a) \- doubting this but: is it possible to get an ascendency at this low level by skipping straight to geonor with a helper? In which case it might be possible that xp penalties kicking it would allow me to ascend at lvl 2? This would allow +20% +20% (ascendency) +60% (jewel) ES, which would get me to 3218 ES (actual build) / 3732 ES (max technically possible) Did I miss anything?
I made an elemental crossbow varashta sorc this season as my starting build (goal was to exploit yoke of suffering's full potential, you can find poe ninja below, don't be fooled by the dmg tooltip, it kill ubers before they can move) and so since I was in the intel side of the tree I used my weapon swap to maximize exposure (with whispering ice) and curse magnitude. Here with some non-optimized gear I'm reaching a total of -338% res (that's -169% on bosses), meaning it's better than rakiata's. I use cursed ground support to apply the curse and icestorm (which comes with the staff) with prolonged duration and potent exposure to make the exposure last longer. This tech doesn't require much investment apart from your weapon swap and a few sockets at most so it can be plugged into many elemental builds. As it is now, it requires you to cast the spells with your weapon swap, so I use it mostly for bosses, but i might cast icestorm on bulky rares in juiced maps once in a while. If you have a skill dedicated for mapping, it'll propably better to use rakiata on it, and remove it or use another skill for bosses. Here's the poeninja: [https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala](https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala) I might make a build showcase if people are interested, it's a fun league starter build. With yoke and the electrocution node on the tree, enemies have 120% damage taken, more if they're cursed, on top of the giant res drop, plus you benefit from a lot of the "damage against enemies with ailments nodes" so that's why the tooltip is low (explosive grenades indicate 60k in game but they hit bosses for like 2M) at first I was playing with permafrost bolt with frost nexus + navira's fracture + fragmentation rounds, it was a fun combo and really strong for leveling but I couldn't scale navira's fracture damage in late game (I had command + minion nodes on my second weapon instead of the curse/exposure at the time) Hope this inspires some of you!
The Oracle Death Star is fully operational- only took 30 days of playtime. GGGs https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/L0L-breh-1628/character/ShapesofWrath