Continue Wolf?

I’ve played this build Oracle Ice Wolf from the beginning of this league and I’ve enjoyed it quite a bit. I’m at the point now where the Temple at about 40 rooms isn’t feeling … great. Throw in a friend and it’s rough. I’d like to be able to clear and build the rest of the temple faster and it feels like Ice Wolf is falling behind.

During mapping and temple runs, I can reach 900k-1m dps on Lunar Assualt and about 2.5mil on shred. Like I said though, it still feels weakish.

Heavily contemplating changing builds. I need some advice though. I feel like it’s a big decision to abandon my character that I’ve put so much effort into at this point and try something else. I would have to sell off a good amount of gear to get another build up to speed. I’m all ears. Please let me know what you think.

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Top-Power-6284•5 months ago•1

Are you using coc comet wolf? Damage felt insane on that

ZealousidealAd8253•5 months ago•1

I got baited into melee wolf druid at the start then at lvl89 I realized that it’s dogshit when I have to 4 button combo just to kill a white mob in temple. Talismans were popular so it was expensive to upgrade. Swapped to range and having the time of my life.

EhrenISnuts•5 months ago•1

https://youtu.be/fNAZBI6cdhg?si=M1kf5BsA_vOKa7Qu

Pivot to this build, it's very easy as Oracle. 

Insane clear, I do a 55 room temple no problem, can leech no problem with 12k energy shield. The only time I've died on the way to 100 is getting hit with the Blink bug and getting stunlocked while surrounded. 

Zealousideal_Doubt81•5 months ago•1

I was playing ICE wolf most of the league and was at point where I was done (getting bored plus the inflated economy sucks for how i play) respec'd to a plant druid with thunderstorm and corpse detonate on my cast on Crit and im having so much fun with it. Definitely recommend it!

False_Bus7162•5 months ago•1

this pretty much clears anything in the game, dont die much. https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/zZooterZz-6933/character/BurntPP

a 70 room temple full of people is still majorly rough mostly because lag

quickest way to up your damage is up your critical hit chance, i use from nothing diamond that allocates passives near resonance for crit specifically

ashcroftt•5 months ago•1

That's kinda odd. I've been saving up for a 1200dps tali and with my current 650dps one I have ~800k-1M buffed Shred tooltip and I absolutely destroy my 56 room temple. Takes about 8min to do the full snake and died only twice during my lvl99 - both times to the stupid 1st sekhema map boss version initial blasts.

You might wanna tweak your build a bit, tooltip dps is not always the best indicator of actual clearspeed.

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