I am wanting to upgrade my BM CoC I am just unsure what I should focus next? Let me start by saying that I want to remain above 150% rarity as I do most of my stuff solo (dad gamer) and play when I can. I am sitting on 4 mirrors. Should I save for an adorned (rare or magic let me know your preference)? +4 amulet? +5 wand? Let me know your thoughts! Thank you!
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Get a rathpith and transition to omnistack
Switching to mana stacker is an option. This will require a mana Rath (around 1M last I checked), a new spirit/mana amulet, mana ring , spirit ATD, and spirit Vertex [the exact amount of spirit will depend on which variant you run, so you may not need all of them]. All these add up, so you may be looking at about 4M in switch costs (can be cheaper if you craft the rares yourself, but mana amulets aren’t worth crafting right now IMO, if going for all T1).
+5 wands and +4 amulets are basically massive gambles (especially now with locks at around 2,000D). You can craft the bases yourself for under 1M each (assuming 18-19 spellslinger wand), but you may get wrecked on the sanctification relative to market costs. Or you may get extremely lucky and hit in 1 lock. Anything ‘cheap’ on trade will usually come with under-rolls. Wands are a bit more reasonable and easier to hit the +5 on. Amulets are much harder.
Magic Adorned (assuming 140%+) is okay, but it’s not a huge DPS boost vs. well-rolled rare jewels. It’s biggest value is filling out resists, IMO. Much more of a min-max item. Remember that with any Adorned setup you automatically have one less jewel to fit in the Adorned itself (if doing any comparison).
Rare Adorned is a much bigger DPS boost than magic but also costs a ton and the jewels are painful & expensive to make. A good setup with a high-rolled one (50%+) can cost 10M+.
Rathpith was one of the biggest source of dps increase for me, and find a way to slot in Archmage.
Time lost jewel with double crit damage per notable and mana on the top right of the tree in combination with from nothing conduit will given you 100-200 more crit damage.
So i have tried the rathpith mana strat and i just didn't care for it. The damage was great but I felt the sacrifice for rarity wasnt worth it when I fly through maxed out 77 room temple as it is.
Get +5 sanc’d wand
Get mana amulet and rings
Get giga rathpith
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