analyse build

As a rather new player to the genre and someone who prefers learning by doing, I would appreciate some inputs. Mainly about damage.

My starting point was the quarterstaff and a stormweaver character laying around.

Defense
As I never used it before, I gave CI and cloak of flame a chance. Quickly I realised where the issues were with the lack of regaining ES.
Also for some reason I thought poison would do phy dmg, thats why I specced into immunity for no reason. Anyway, I basically had to flee from the map due to the lack of defense.
But thats not the main topic.

Damage
The overall plan was "freeze and big bonk on frozen enemies".
But I was honestly surpised how bad I did damage wise.
My hidout DPS is over 100k, what I think is not great, but not too shabby.

I am aware there is no Herald for better clear. Or no charged Staff. I kind of assumed I would be somewhat fine.
But man, was I surprised how bad I did on even white mobs. Barely any one-shots and no reliable freeze.

Any hints on what I should pay more attention to when creating a build?
Thank you in advance.
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/JaroTheCat-0157/character/Tschinnnn

Comments

PoE_Acronym_Bot•4 months ago•1

I noticed some Path of Exile keywords in this post:

CI - Chaos Inoculation keystone passive skill (Wiki)
ES - Energy Shield (Wiki)
DPS - Damage per Second

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ammenz•4 months ago•1

You are missing a quest reward. You are not using any weapon swap tree points: this is like giving up 24 free passive points that could be used for things like curses, marks, mobility, QoL, single target... You picked an ascendancy that doesn't seem to provide much to the skills you've chosen and you're also missing your final ascendancy point.

TimmyJimmerson•4 months ago•1

I’m only on my phone so it’s hard to look through the whole build. But a physical oriented staff should do more, since ice strike converts physical damage to ice and then your tree further scales that ice damage after the conversion

False-Let-4517•4 months ago•1

damage wise, first of all, you need better gear. you lack flat rampage sources. second of all, the passive tree massively lacks attack speed/damage increase nodes. thirdly, you don’t need eternal rage. you can either slot in the rage support gem or have rage on hit augment in gloves. also slot in shattering palm with bhatairs vengeance support gem which will give you ~50% as extra cold.

defense wise, with the freed up spirit you will be able to run wind dancer/convalescence which will improve your defenses by a lot. drop that body armour for atziris body armour with any es/evasion rolls OR a mixed evasion/es piece. drop the immune to poison cluster on the tree as CI already makes you immune to poison. equip the vertex with at least +3 to all skills which should be not that expensive. spec into mixed es/eva clusters.

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