I am not very good at making builds in general so I always follow a guide, that being said I don't understand how the content creator is doing so much more damage. Can someone please help me? The first photo is the content creator's lightning spear damage, while mine follows after with all my gear.
Do you have the pob for the build you’re following? Constricting command unique helm has been slightly nerfed from update 0.3. Right now in 0.4, you need to have at least one enemy within your vicinity to be considered surrounded. You’re considered surrounded when an enemy within three meters of you. The “surrounded” effect can go lower than 1 as it did last season. This means most of your damage will come from being within this 3 meters. If you’re lucky you can find a cultivated constricting command that can extend the “surrounded” range wider than 3 meters.
Hard to know without seeing yalls builds directly. Typically it comes down to your weapon and the jewels you use. Those two things can get very expensive.
Please take note on how the helmet works, just in case this is a reason. You wont be surrounded unless your near enemies. The passives wont apply unless your in a map and surrounded; this could be a factor on your DPS numbers.
First thing that comes to mind is crit. Base crit on your spear is very very important for crit builds. Get more of that, get more bam.
Your helmet should roll 5 fewer enemies for the tooltip to actually show a DPS increase. With 4, you’re not always considered surrounded, so the bonus won’t consistently apply.
You should look for a better amulet with added crit chance if you plan to keep the bracers as they are.
Your rings are pretty bad right now. I’d prioritize getting more added damage instead of stacking resistances, at least until you have enough currency to afford actually strong ones. It’s especially funny considering you’re playing Ritualist.
That belt is rough. I’d personally run a well-rolled Ingenuity and dump most of my currency into fixing the rings, or even go for a Headhunter for the QoL and mapping damage.
The weapon isn’t terrible, but your next big upgrade should be one with higher base crit chance while keeping similar DPS / +levels. Base crit on the weapon is HUGE for crit builds because it’s what everything else scales from. If you go from 5% to 10%, you’re basically doubling your effective crit chance.
Also, you might have forgotten to add quality to your skills, happens more often than people think.
I see in the comments that you already solved the issues with crits and improve your damage, when you get more currency and get better spear, your next step is trying to play with your passives tree, there are some jewels that let you connect skills in the tree without the need to connect all points in the path. Like From nothing diamond and controlled metamorphosis diamond.
That way you can free some skill points to allocate for more crit or elemental damage, that's when the fun part of buildcrafting starts xD and before allocating something press alt to see what abilities are affected. It takes time but once you experiment with passives and jewels you make the build you copy your own, good luck
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