Hello. I'm looking for some advice on how to improve my Plants Oracle build. Feels like I'm hitting a wall at Tier 4-5 maps and I don't think that should be the case since I'm level 78.
Any help/advice/suggestions are greatly appreciated!
You need +2 spell levels on your focus and your wand needs more spell and spell phys damage if you’re gonna stick with the wand + focus setup. I’m pretty sure staff is meta rn for plants. Your current stats pretty low rolled.
You need more +lvl of spells for damage. You can get a decent focus with +2 and vertex +2/3 for cheapish amount of currency if you have it. You can also add diallas desire to entangle for +1. Then get your ES and resistances up.
One thing that jumps out immediately are your rings. Everything looks alright except the physical/lightning damage to attacks.
Entangle and Thrashing vines are spells and need just the plain "# to # lightning/physical damage"
The "# to # lightning/physical damage to attacks" is for melee/bows, anything with a martial weapon.
I actually use a single wand and a shield because my dmg can run juiced t15 and t16 without the need for more dmg.
You should be able to pick up almost all the dmg you need from your skill tree if running oracle druid. Just take all spell and physical dmg modifiers. I also nabbed a lot of duration nodes to counteract the duration reductions you get from the tree. I also grabbed a lot of mana regen. With so much +increase to damage the add extra as dmg seems to go really far, so don’t shy from taking the add extra as chaos from the oracle added nodes or similar from your wand. You also don’t need the physical support that conflicts against that.
Use CoC on crushing vines. Manually cast entangle and tstorm.
I use pin on entangle too, but use very basic support. Extra fissures, faster cast, pin
You will still be melting bosses at t15 and t16 maps
There are a couple of things wrong. Your passive tree is pathed looking like you’ve got all your ascendancy points, but you don’t have your 3rd and 4th yet. You should do your third ASAP after fixing your tree and getting a +2 focus like others have suggested.
As for the tree. Unspec elemental equilibrium, and Blackflame covenant and instead grab Cut to the Bone. You have two extra passive points above wild surge incantation since you grabbed that energy shield wheel. Also move that one passive point (on way to Mind Eraser) to Arcane Nature so you get a big DPS boost from the arcane surge you’re getting from Aspiring Genius.
Hope this helps!
This is the one I'm working on as food for thought: https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1907a
You should knock out your 3rd ascendancy and then your 4th when you get to T15s (for a comfortable time). After that, I would play with life vs. mana.
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