Disciple of Varashta build help
I’m looking for help on my build. I’m not sure where to go from here or what to upgrade. I’m not rich only about 100 div.
https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/19036
I’m looking for help on my build. I’m not sure where to go from here or what to upgrade. I’m not rich only about 100 div.
https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/19036
I'n not rich only about 100 div
Y'all know you can just go do Trial of Chaos and sell the fragment for 18-20d right now, right? Unid'd Adorned literally sells for a mirror these days,
For reference: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/monik390-5560/character/Monik_Kelari
Omen sceptre. Forget about rattling on Varashta. You want max stacks of crit weakness more than anything else. Even for clearing w/o Kelari's Brutality, it helps way more than another muster fodder.
Baryanic Leylines instead of Ruzhan. It is the strongest ascendancy node in the entire Varashta ascendancy. A good crit timeless jewel is what you need the most:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Fate%20of%20the%20Vaal/Mdy6XGzLiJ
Paired with this from nothing: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Fate%20of%20the%20Vaal/eY9Yz0WhL
Bones of Ullr. Yes, you become slower, but can fit more zealots. Yes, it's worth it. My build had 7 of them.
More ES from body/helmet/focus. Well, idk about prices on ES gear now, but probably out of your budget, besides the helmet:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Fate%20of%20the%20Vaal/5g25Ykefa
Passive tree, yes. The entire Relentless Fallen ring with those life/revive nodes is a huge waste. Get that from nothing and pick just notables.
Despair Curse is useless in your setup, you barely doing any chaos damage. It is required after getting any breachloreds lineage support gem + Kurgal's leash. Check my kelari setup, it does 80% of extra chaos, which actually benefits from despair and withered.
You don't utilize -ele res properly. Fit Elemental Weakness instead of despair, and utilize secondary weapon set for exposure from frost bomb. Here is an example: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/monik390-5560/character/Monik_Ruzhan
Check green passives. With this setup i was able to reduce boss ele res by -120%.
Fit 1 Skeletal Brute. His command skill increases damage taken by 10%. It is strong.
Probably smth else, just use my builds for reference.
If you struggle with clear, use naviras fracturing. If you struggle with single target, juice your spirit and summon a spectre.
I also started with a Varashta, but I moved from the summoner build to the plant build. Used Goratha's guide. Helped me clear all content.
Then moved to a stormweaver adonia's ego for juiced temple content, got to lvl 100.
Maybe you could try swapping ascendancies. The summoner build lacks a lot of firepower for later content. It'll get you through the basic content with some investment.
You need more ignite power on your razhan I got kurgal leash and xophs pyre on him. Fracture is the best clear for this ascendancy. You have long fuse on orb I chose to go exposure rather than crit that’s just me and I did all the content. At least 5 zealots and one garg flier just to give you time to setup. I feel like this ascendancy is all about setting up. more ES it’s expensive rn but I’m comfortable at 14k along with defense asc nodes

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