I leveled to maps and just hit 70 with ED/Contagion but I don’t really like the play style nor the boss dmg.
Any interesting builds out there that better utilize the ascendancy? It has tons of AOE and utility for a lot of different things.
So far I’ve seen spark, wyvern, cursed ground (forgot the lineage gem name), twister and CoC Comet…
I have about 500 spirit btw
Abyssal Lich plants. Fun and hella tanky
Take a look at 787prada twister lich
Wyvern breath of fire / oil
It's not far from your starting position in the tree with rattling scepter for attack dmg and arsonist for aoe
Boss damage ? the effigy should just demolish them ?
I only play HC but all my best uber arbiter killing builds are low life lich. I did it with: Wolf/wyvern/ Burning Minion/ Punch only no hollow palm/ And leap slam/sunder + earthshatter warrior build (as lowlife lich) - prob no better satisfying clear build tbh
The abyssal I just used for massive amounts of ES
I league started a pain attunement lich with bone cage and bone storm. more than 10k max phys hit taken so very tanky, fast es recovery, crits that one shot most content. was running the overkill boots to 1 shot the whole screen, finishes maps very quickly. just lacking in movement speed but could run blink if I invested in spirit. had over 600% crit damage.
90% of POE2 guides are more in the early concept stage than actual full-fledged guides.
Even if it looks cool at first glance, you're probably just not seeing the significant list of weaknesses and the huge potential for improvement.
What makes it even worse is that many people can't afford to follow a guide strictly (slightly worse gear, cheaper crafts, ignoring gems, etc.).
In the end, you don't get a build to be proud of—you get a knockoff of a knockoff.
I haven't seen your build, but I can assume you don't fully understand how damage scales in builds like ED/C. ED/C is a simple and straightforward concept. But if you're only pressing those two buttons and not layering mechanics, the magic might never happen.
A month ago, my ED/C Infernalist killed Uber Arbiter in 22 seconds (including animation time between phases). I think that can easily compete with most meta mirror-tier builds.
I think with Lich combined with Umbral Well + Sigil of Power + Archmage + Mana Tempest and a proper build/gear, you can also achieve massive boss damage. But I'm not sure about the balance with defensive mechanics there—that needs testing.
I'm building one, just reached interludes. I saw an aoe stacker using frost nova which looked interesting
I struggled with damage on ED/C this league up until I started to use focus for +1 totem. With dark effigy and chaos scaling I was able to melt any boss within 3-23 seconds. Look up the trade site for +1 to totems focus and deadrabbit's low life lich. Damage is insane
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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