So I know most builds could be adapted to run as much rarity as possible especially at the top end. But I'm wondering what the community would build if rarity was the goal for SOLO play!
What build could still hit the proper resistances and yet be able to solo things like t3 Xesht? Aiming for 200 out more rarity ideally.
Thanks all. There's almost 2 months left in my first league so I'd like to do some experimenting.
PS I have about 150divs to play with.
Firstly, if ur maxing rarity, kinda have to go ritualist with that extra ring slot.
Secondly, the less uniquies u need to make ur build work, the more rarity u can squeeze onto ur gear. Yes builds have mandatory stats u need to make them work, but u can generally sacrifice one suffixes for rarity.
Rings and amulet are easy go to options to build rarity, but if you are trying to get to 200 then u need to get it on boots/gloves/helmet, and then if you have unique requirements there u will have a hard time to get to 200.
Also, the rite of passage charm is a good rarity add, but the cheapest one is like 400 div last I checked
Ice shot ritualist
150 div for an optimized build plus 200 rarity seems unlikely. But might be possible?Everything late-league is so flippin’ expensive.
I'm sitting at 284 right now on my ritualist ice shot build. Still trying to build my temple so I'm not sure if it can handle a full tempo run or not yet. But it handles everything else with ease
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Phacesmasha-9243/character/Trickzees
This league it would be hard to hit 200 rarity on a not garbage build with your budget. On a positive side most mechanics (abyss, ritual, etc.) pay very well you so could quadruple your budget in a day or two.
Cheapest way would be gold amulet and ring w/ 2 rarity rolls with Kalandra's touch + Ingenuity. That alone can get you above 180 with decent rolls. Add a golden charm and u would be at 200 without needing any other gear.
I play CoC Oracle with 170ish rarity, that i could push close to 200 if i bothered to reallocate my resistances but after 150 its diminishing returns so not really worth it tbh. Here is a good guide explaining how rarity works currently
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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