Hi,
Im pretty new to the game and i dont really know what im doing. On https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/wigger-0553/character/Jiqhui it says my lightning spear dps is 92k, while others achieve 1m+. What makes the huge difference? Im a bit lost. thanks for any help!
Following to also understand big numbers.
I have 27k on my ninja sheet and can clear 90% of endgame without problem. Although I use other skill for bosses. But still I too want to understand what causes some big numbers, at least on ninja.
If you're talking about your dps tooltip on poe ninja or path of building then rakiatas flow will multiply it several times over(but wont change it in game)
Your current tree is a bit too focused on energy shield for what you're getting from it. Dropping the nodes in the mage area and adding in a from nothing diamond(dance with the dead) and a controlled metamorphosis(massive) then using the extra skillpoints on the damage nodes the metamorphosis diamond opens up and the other crit nodes you're not using like careful assassin/throatseeker. If you need extra defence then spectral ward is a good node to path to.
After that a +3 projectile amulet should boost your dps a decent amount aswell as a higher dps spear.
I think that it is a couple of things not really going well for you. One of the more obvious ones is your spear, it's dps are pretty low and, more importantly, it's only got 5% crit chance. Lightning Spear is a crit build, we scale crit damage and use Garukhan's Resolve. Getting your Crit Chance to 50% is a relly big damage boost. On your tree you're missing a couple of important crit chance and crit damage nodes as well (which you could get easily by speccing out of the relatively bad companion damage nodes).
Another BIG ninja damage booster is Rakiata's Flow. I don't really feel it when mapping, but against bosses and for your PoB/poe.ninja stats it is insane.
I imported your build in PoB, added 5% crit to your Weapon, added Rakiata's Flow and specced into a few crit chance nodes to get crit chance capped and violla: 350k dps.
Here's my build for reference, it's not perfect but pretty good I think:
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/BundesHeinz-7437/character/WantedForTaxEvasion
PS: I can't imagine this mix of ES and Evasion you're going for is any good.
Have you started using path of building? Helps a lot. Like how these nodes would be better with your body amour and save 2 skill points: https://imgur.com/a/COIKvFy
You can also use Trade Item Exporter to export items from the trade site into PoB and see how much dps you'd gain.
From there you can find a decent looking build and try to piece together what's missing. Lots of people using controlled metamorphosis and from nothing jewels to skip small passives, heart of the well for extra damage, better weapons, better trees, end game corruptions, more skill levels on amulets. That sort of thing.
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Kill%20Gudda-6242/character/theGrindDontStop
Gonna need linear gems late game with crit, add me and I might have some drip for you, gotta check the vault after work.
Wow thanks everyone for the amazing inputs, you guys are amazing!
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