Just beat the 1st Jamanra encounter but it was way harder than before, ive been using Contagion with Unearth for mobbing and Skeletal Warriors and Skeletal Snipers as my reviving minions. I also use Essence Drain for more DoT, and Ravenous Swarm cause i didnt know what else to get.
My favorite combo on command minion builds is Snipers+Raging Spirits+Any fire spell, and try to path towards the command minion cluster and notable North North West of your leftmost node.
Idea is to ignite the enemy immediately through SRS and Fire Spells.
Snipers: Multishot and any “more” or “gain” damage support on snipers as it is good for auto attacks in mobbing and very strong on command for bossing, as it has a shotgun effect.
FireSpell: Volcano at the start, Ember Fusillade later, Flame wall all the time if you can manage.
More details: spam Volcano, do not channel as you can only summon 2 Raging Spirits per cast. but for damage, stage two channel is actually strong and kinda worth it if you don’t mind the extra mental load. Switch to Ember Fusillade when you can. It has the lowest cast speed of them all, and combined with multishot/gambleshot, you can just channel until Projectile count cap to get a decent amount of RS. If you still have some mental capacity after all of this, Flame wall is omega busted for everything you have right now as it is a fire spell and you have two projectile skills at all times. Support with Flammability stuff.
SRS: just use any of the attack/melee/minion/fire damage supports. There’s many.
If you pair archers with the fire attunement gem. Using gas arrow will melt early game bosses
I play a minion build. Tbh unearth isn’t that good. SRS and living lightning is the move. For spells use living bomb with mana flare and abundance. Arc with living lightning and ember fusillade with cast speed compressed duration wildshards and later, living lightning. Basically path to every single +%minion dmg nodes. Top left notable turns fire infusions into lightning infusions. Now living bomb can fuel arc and fusillade. Once you get to act 4 use a bind spectre on a crossbow type Vaal guard. Vaal guards will automate your sniper command detonations. Take whatever angle you want on dmg but make sure every minion has muster and feeding frenzy.
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