Zerphis Infamy on Pounce - Druid

Winding down until 0.5 - what is your "you have to try this" build of the league?

Your opinion and all opinions are valid. What is your take on the defacto must play build for this league? (And why, of course) Could be damage output, mechanic interactions, ease of play, fun - you name it.

Why hasn't anyone with a really good Adorned tried 400% extra Blind effect? It should give 95% evasion and 100% deflection (and also crash the instance with divide by zero error if player has 0 Deflect or Evasion)

Chance to evade = ( 1 - ( attack_accuracy * 1.25 ) / (attack accuracy + defender evasion rating * 0.3 ) * 100 Chance to deflect = (1 - ( attack_accuracy * 0.9 ) / ( attack accuracy + defender deflect rating * 0.2 ) * 100 Unless there is a hard cap on blind effect, even reaching +300% blind effect (80% reduced enemy accuracy) gives 5x MORE evasion/deflection multiplier (against blinded targets ofcourse). Can't test this personally since even a terrible ~10% jewel effect Adorned costs 100+ divines (can't understand why though).

Siege Cascade/Hailstorm Rounds seems to be good this league

I've always looked down on siege cascade for how shitty and clunky the skill is, so I decided to try it out this league and to my surprise I'm coping it. **So how does it work?** Siege Cascade does extra 100%base(146% fully corrupt) against Immobilised enemies, hence the use of the skill Freezing mark and Hailstorm rounds for 2nd swap to freeze the enemy. It also works wonder with the spirit skill Mirage Archer shooting more Siege Cascade making the damage even bigger PoE Ninja: [https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/AEgliid-0254/character/RottenVagigi](https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/AEgliid-0254/character/RottenVagigi)

What to do with crossbow dps 2,300+

What to do with Crossbow dps 2,300+

/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1rpqexw/what_to_do_with_crossbow_dps_2300/

Shield Wall Infernalist – Nebuloch - 2500% Crit Damage

Hello everyone, I’ve been experimenting with a Shield Wall Infernalist setup and ended up finding a pretty fun interaction using Nebuloch that allows the build to reach around 2500% critical damage. The core idea is Nebuloch allows our attacks to consume an Endurance Charge to guarantee a critical strike. To generate Endurance Charges consistently, the build uses Redflare Conduit with the corrupted mod: “Gain a Power Charge every second if you haven't lost Power Charges recently.” Resonance converts Power Charge gain into Endurance Charge gain instead. Interestingly, this conversion does not count as losing Power Charges, so the condition is never broken. In practice, this means the build generates Endurance Charges automatically every second. Once the crit is guaranteed, the next step is stacking as much critical damage as possible from the passive tree. One interesting class choice here is Infernalist. The Grinning Immolation node gives 50% more Critical Damage Bonus. Since this is a “more” modifier, it multiplies the total critical damage rather than just adding to it, which scales extremely well. Another big damage boost comes from Garukhan’s Resolve. It allows our hits to critical strike twice. The downside is that it reduces your maximum critical strike chance to 50%. However, since Nebuloch guarantees our attacks will crit anyway, that downside effectively doesn’t matter. So the build ends up stacking massive crit damage while bypassing the usual crit chance limitations. I tested it mainly as a boss killer and the damage felt surprisingly strong for a relatively budget setup. PoB: [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a3f0](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a3f0) Would love to hear if anyone has ideas to push this interaction even further.